Prop Firm Rules

EOD (Standard & No Activation) - Trading Rules

Daily Loss Limit (DLL)

• Evaluation: A fixed Daily Loss Limit applies during each trading session. If the DLL is hit, trading is paused for the remainder of that session. The account remains active and resets at the next session open. Touching the EOD drawdown threshold — not the DLL — is what fails or closes the account.
• Daily Loss in the Performance Account is Tier Based.

EOD Drawdown Enforcement

• The drawdown threshold is recalculated once per day at 4:59:59 PM ET using the closing balance. That threshold is then enforced in real time during the following trading session. The threshold trails upward with new highs and never moves down.

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Intraday (Standard & No Activation) — Trading Rules

No Daily Loss Limit (DLL) in Evaluation

• There is no Daily Loss Limit during the Intraday evaluation phase. Risk is controlled entirely by the intraday trailing threshold. In the Performance Account, a tier-based DLL is enforced intraday.

Intraday Trailing Drawdown Enforcement

• The drawdown threshold trails in real time with the peak balance, including unrealized profit. It never moves down. If the threshold is touched at any point during the session — including on open unrealized losses — positions liquidate and the evaluation fails or the PA closes immediately.

When EOD & Intraday Drawdown Stops Trailing

• Performance Accounts (PA): The Threshold stops trailing once it reaches Starting Balance + $100, and remains fixed from that point onward.
• Evaluations on Rithmic & WealthCharts: The Threshold stops trailing once it reaches an amount equal to the Target Profit balance, and remains fixed from that point onward.
• Evaluations on Tradovate: The Threshold trails indefinitely with the peak account balance / EOD account balance.

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General Rules

Inactivity Rule

• Evaluation: None
• Sim Funded
  • Traders must record at least 2 trading days with $50+ new profit within every rolling 30-day period to keep the account active.
  • After 15 days of inactivity the account enters a dormant phase and if 30 consecutive days pass without meeting the threshold, the account is permanently closed with all rewards and payouts eligibility forfeited - no reinstatement.

News Trading

• Trading during news is allowed for your normal trading strategy. Using “news trading” strategies that “chase the market” or place orders on both sides but to be lucky or gamble the outcome of news is not allowed.

Expert Advisors

• All trading must be manually initiated — EAs, bots, scripts, macros, or any system that automates order placement, modification, or cancellation are strictly prohibited. Permitted tools are limited to signal/alert generators, platform-native order types (stop-loss, take-profit) set manually at entry, and charting/analysis software that does not interact with order submission.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed on both Evaluation and Performance Accounts, provided all accounts are under the same Apex user ID and email. Using separate accounts under different emails is not permitted. Third-party copier software is used at the trader's own risk — Apex is not responsible for malfunctions affecting profits, losses, or account liquidation.

No Hedging

• Holding both long and short positions simultaneously on the same or correlated instrument is strictly prohibited.

Contract Scaling Rules

• Traders are subject to tier-based scaling in the Performance Account. Maximum contracts during evaluation are fixed at 4 ($25K), 6 ($50K), 8 ($100K), or 12 ($150K), with tier-based scaling applied in the PA.

Trading With Risk Management

• All trades must have either pending or mental stop losses and a well-defined risk management strategy. Trading without these measures is strictly prohibited.

Using the Trailing Threshold as a Stop Loss

• Traders are prohibited from using the account's full Drawdown threshold as a stop-loss mechanism to absorb large losses, leading to account liquidation.

Evaluation Period

• The evaluation period is 30 calendar days with no extensions. There is no minimum trading days required. Traders may pass in a single day if the profit target is reached without breaching the drawdown rules. After passing, traders have 7 calendar days to activate their Performance Account.

Trading Hours Explained

• https://apextraderfunding.com/help-center/getting-started/futures-trading-times/

Prohibited Activities

• Account Sharing / Credential Sharing
• Third-Party Payments and Payouts
• Bad-Faith Chargebacks and Refund Disputes
• False or Misleading Information / Identity Misrepresentation
• Use of VPNs, Proxies, or Anonymizing Tools (to evade rules, hide violations, or facilitate misconduct)
• System or Documentation Manipulation / Staff Impersonation
• Abusive Use of Company Services / Gaming the Program
• Trading Without Stop Losses or Risk Management
• High-Risk Strategies (disproportionate risk-to-reward, e.g., 5-tick target / 150-tick stop)
• Using the Trailing Threshold as a Stop Loss
• Stockpiling Evaluation Accounts (buying multiple discounted accounts to intentionally blow up)
• Unsustainable Strategies
• Deviating from Professional Standards (strategies a trader wouldn't use on a personally funded broker account)
• Manipulation of the Simulated Trading Environment (includes HFT, erroneous-fill exploitation, non-directional bracket trading)
• Unauthorized Users (anyone other than the registered owner accessing the account)
• Account and Resource Sharing (MAC addresses, computers, IPs, credit cards, trade copying)
• Multiple Account Creation (including household/associated-party accounts to circumvent restrictions)
• Holding Positions Through Market Close
• Automation or Algorithm Usage
• News Trading Abuse (chasing the market or two-sided gambling on news; normal strategy news trades are allowed)
• Hedging (simultaneous long and short on same or correlated instruments)
• See details: https://apextraderfunding.com/help-center/getting-started/prohibited-activities/

Consequences for Rule Violations

• Temporary limitations on contract usage. Payouts restricted to profit earned since the last request. Disqualification of previously accrued windfall profits for withdrawal.

Apex Code of Conducts Explained

• https://apextraderfunding.com/help-center/getting-started/code-of-conduct/

Price Limit Rule:

• Traders are prohibited from trading any product within 2% of a CME price limit

Dollar Cost Averaging:

• DCA is allowed provided it’s not your primary trading strategy.

Account Rolling:

• Purchasing and trading multiple challenge accounts aggressively with the hope of succeeding in at least one is prohibited.

Expert Advisors:

• Fully automated trading using AI or bots is not permitted.

Copy Trading

• Copying trades from other traders’ accounts is prohibited. However, you are allowed to copy trades between your own accounts without any restrictions.

Hedging or Reverse Trading

• Hedging and reverse trading cannot be conducted using different accounts, multiple users, or within the same challenge.

Order Fill Manipulation

• Placing multiple limit orders at the same price to manipulate order fills is strictly forbidden.

News trading

• News trading restrictions apply to Elite funded accounts and Instant Futures Accounts.

Prohibited Activities

• Straddles/strangles or disguised news trades to exploit volatility.

For Tier 1 news

• All trades must be closed at least 2 minutes before the news release.
  Trades can only be reopened no sooner than 2 minutes afterward the news have ended (we also consider 2 minutes of news duration for a total of 6 minutes, 2 before and 4 after the release of the data)

For non-Tier 1 news

• Open trades can remain, but new trades around (just before, during, or immediately after ) the event are discouraged to avoid volatility risks.

Inactivity Rule*

• Standard inactivity rule: Accounts are terminated if no trade is placed for 29 days.

For Instant accounts purchased after November 23, 2025: Must place at least one trade every 7 days, or the account will be breached.

• Accounts remain active with recurring monthly payments, even without trades, but regular activity is encouraged to avoid termination.

• Terminated accounts can be recovered by settling all outstanding payments (requires prior contact for pauses due to special reasons)

Trading Hours

• Futures trading hours: 6:00 PM EST to 5:00 PM EST the next day; daily break from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST for settlement.

Weekend closure

• Market closed from Friday 5:00 PM EST until Sunday 6:00 PM EST; holidays announced in advance.

• No overnight positions: All trades must be closed by 4:59 PM EST daily; open positions are automatically liquidated by the system.

Scalping Rule

• FuturesElite allows microscalping within certain limits:

• Trades executed in less than 10 seconds (Min 11 seconds).

• Trades equal to or less than 1 points on NQ (Nasdaq 100) futures or the equivalent on other instruments.

Evaluation

• If scalping trades exceed 50% of the target, the account will not be eligible for an upgrade to a funded account.

Sim Funded

• Scalping transactions on funded accounts do not trigger a violation.
  Scalping trades are not removed from your payout request, but they will be removed from your leftover profit/buffer chosen by the user. If the scalped amount is higher than the remaining buffer, the account will be breached.

Fair Play and Prohibited Trading Practices Explained https://faq.futureselite.com/en/articles/11949446-what-is-allowed-and-not-allowed-with-us-fair-play-and-prohibited-trading-practices

• If prohibited trading practices are detected at FuturesElite, the account may be immediately terminated without warning, any profits from those practices will be voided, and passed evaluations may be reviewed to prevent progression to the funded phase

Giveaway accounts Rules

• Giveaway accounts follow the same guidelines and rules as all other accounts. The only difference is in the payout cap, which is set at 2%, the profit target at 8% and the days between payouts set at 21, regardless of the plan or account size, and the consistency is set at 50% and set only in the challenge phase of your account.

News Trading

• Not Allowed - All positions are auto-closed 2 minutes before Tier 1 news releases and markets reopen 2 minutes after. No account failure for accidental news trades, but traders found to be ignoring these guidelines and abusing the policy will lose their account. Traders can view the Tier 1 data release calendar, the Investing.com Economic Calendar, and the CME Calendar in the TradeDay Members area.

Copy Trading Rule

• Copy trading is permitted across your own evaluation and funded sim accounts. Trades can also be copied from a personal external account into your TradeDay account. Funded Live and Funded Sim accounts must be traded separately, copy trading between them is not permitted. Copy trading between 2 or 3 Funded Sim accounts only is allowed.

Consistency Rule

• Profits during one single trading day should not exceed 30% of the profit target. There is no consistency objective for funded traders.

Expert Advisors

• Expert advisors are allowed; however, algos and bots purchased from a third party and employed by the trader are forbidden. If multiple users are making the same trades, then all the accounts will be shut down and the users suspended.

Gap Trading

• Entering trades specifically in gapped, illiquid markets to benefit from isolated/stray fills are not allowed.

Hedging prohibited

• Simultaneously going long in one account and short in another account in the same product.

VPN Usage

• Using a VPN or VPS to mask the location of trading is not allowed.

High Frequency Trading (HFT)

• Using automated trading systems designed to scalp at an extremely high frequency is prohibited.

• Strategies that produce more than 200 trades in a day is prohibited.

• Not allowed to use any trading strategy intended to exploit or create errors in the services, such as errors in the display of prices or delays in their updates.

• Trading an excessive or unrealistic number of contracts in the day is not allowed.

Inactivity rule

• TradeDay does not charge inactivity fees or have minimum trading requirements.
• However, Tradovate has its own account inactivity system. If a user does not log into their Tradovate account for more than one calendar month, Tradovate will automatically archive the account. When this happens, the account is removed from the trading platform and cannot be recovered by the firm or reactivated. At this time the account will be considered failed, and a user will need to purchase a reset or buy a new account if they wish to continue trading.

Circuit Breaker Rule

• Funded Traders are not permitted to trade within 2% of a price limit. Traders in breach of this policy will lose their funded account.

Drawdown Lock

• The trailing max drawdown trails upward until it reaches the starting balance, then locks permanently. Applies to evaluations and Funded Sim accounts.

Trading Hours Explained

• https://tradeday.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000018874-what-is-the-permitted-trading-times-guideline-

Prohibited Trade Practices

• More Prohibited Trade Practices can be found via this link: https://tradeday.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000121031-prohibited-trade-practices

Key Rules

• All positions and working orders: Must be closed by 3:50pm CT until 5pm CT

• Daily PnL limit: Over the course of the Evaluation (Challenge phase), no single trading day can exceed 30% or more of your total PnL

• Copy Trading: Not allowed

• EAs: Not allowed

• News Trading: Allowed

• Minimum trading days: None

• Inactivity: 5 consecutive trading days (On funded accounts only)

Prohibited Trading Practices

• Platform manipulation: Employing strategies designed to take advantage of or generate errors within the platform, such as price display errors or delays in price updates

• Disruptive trading practices: Engaging in disruptive trading practices, including spoofing

• Unrealistic contract volume: Executing an unrealistic number of contracts in a single day

• Collaborative manipulation: Collaborating to manipulate or abuse the trading environment, which may include trading between connected accounts, multiple accounts across different parties, or executing trades that hedge or pool risks among unrelated accounts

• Software and automation: Utilizing software, artificial intelligence, or ultra-fast data entry techniques that could potentially manipulate the trading environment or provide an unfair advantage

• Non-market-aligned trading: Trading in a manner that does not align with actual market practices in the relevant futures markets or could potentially cause financial or other types of harm to Earn2Trade

• Technical exploitation: Using tools or strategies that negatively impact the site's functionality or exploit any of its technical flaws

• Bypassing restrictions: Bypassing geographical or other technical restrictions

• Third-party trading: Trading on behalf of others or sharing incentives through any form of business arrangement

News Trading

During the Test phase:

• Allowed with no restrictions.

On Pro and Pro+:

• All PRO/PRO+ Accounts must be out of all open positions and have no open orders one minute before, during and one minute after any prohibited news event.

Prohibited News Events (All Products)

• FOMC meeting minutes/announcements. These occur on Wednesdays at 2pm eastern time. (You are allowed to trade through FED speakers.)

• NON-Farm payroll (NFP). (These events occur on Friday’s at 8:30am eastern, once per month.)

• Consumer Price Index – CPI

• In addition to these news events, the following news events are prohibited for specific instruments:

  • News event: crude oil inventories. Prohibited product - crude oil
  • News event: bond auctions. Prohibited products - 10 year note, 30 year bond

• You can check all upcoming news events at forexfactory.com

Expert Advisor

• Not allowed.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted for managing your own accounts only using approved copiers (Tradesyncer, TradeCopia, Affordable Indicators, Replikanto Compliance Edition, and platform-native tools). Coordinating trades across different users, accounts not owned by you, or any form of risk-neutralizing activity is strictly prohibited.

No Counter Positions

• You cannot hold open positions in opposite directions within the same product or closely related products across any accounts under the same beneficial control.
  Violation results to; Automatic liquidation and closure of affected accounts | Forfeiture of profits | Restrictions or permanent bans depending on severity

Inactivity Rule

• In order to keep the PRO Account, you will be required to trade at least one day per calendar week (Sunday-Friday). A “traded day” is defined as a day where at least one round-trip has been executed on any permitted instrument.

Trading Hours

• Trading window: 6 PM Eastern – 5 PM Eastern

• All open positions are automatically closed at 4:55 PM EST — accounts are no longer failed for forgetting to close positions. This applies to all Tradovate accounts automatically, and for Rithmic, it applies to all new accounts created from 6 AM EST May 6 2026 onward.

• If the market for a specific product closes before 5 PM Eastern and trader cannot exit before the deadline, the account will be liquidated.

• Market hours can change due to holidays. It is the trader’s responsibility to monitor holiday schedules. Missing a holiday-adjusted close time will result in account liquidation.

CME Price Limit

• It is the trader's responsibility to be out of all trades before these limits are hit. If a price limit is hit, and you have not exited your position, this will cost you to lose your pro account. The CME has a list of the price limits for each particular day. They are listed here: CME PRICE LIMITS

Drawdown

• Drawdown is the total amount you can lose on your account. The drawdown is End of Day on test accounts, meaning it updates at the end of the trading day (5PM EST).

• On the PRO accounts, the drawdown is intraday, meaning it trails your unrealized profit in real time.

• In PRO+, the drawdown is End of Day, the same as in the test. The drawdown across all three account types will STOP trailing once it has reached the initial account balance.

• Once traders pass the Test, they have the option to reset the Pro account up to 3 times.

Max Loss Type

• Test & Pro+ Stage: EOD Trailing

• Pro Stage: Intraday Trailing

• Pro Account Reset Option: Once traders pass the Test, they have the option to reset the Pro account up to 3 times.

Live accounts (PRO+ accounts) overview

• Copy trading: Allowed for up to 5 accounts.
• Drawdown type: End-of-day drawdown.
• No payout restrictions, No consistency rule.
• No daily loss limit.
• No buffer zone.
• 90% profit split.

Live accounts (PRO+ accounts) Explained:

• https://takeprofittraderhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15171929948829-Advantages-of-PRO

News Trading

• Evaluation: Allowed
• Funded: Strictly prohibited during red folder news events (ForexFactory). All trades must be closed 2 minutes before and no new trades until 2 minutes after the event. This includes opening, holding, or pending orders. First violation results in profit deduction; further violations may result in account termination.

Expert Advisors

• Fully automated trading (AI, bots, EAs) is strictly prohibited. Semi-automated trading is allowed only if the trader actively monitors and manually manages all trades. Automated scalping systems exceeding 200 trades per day are not permitted.

Copy Trading

• Copy Trading is allowed between your own accounts (including external accounts personally owned). Copying trades from or to another trader's account, using shared EA configurations, third-party copy services, or "Pass Your Challenge" services is not permitted. Violations result in account breach, profit forfeiture, and potential permanent ban.

Trading Hours

• Daily session: 10:00 PM UTC – 8:10 PM UTC the following day (Sunday through Friday). All open trades are auto-closed at market close, this does not count as a violation.
• Holiday hours: May vary. Times may shift seasonally due to daylight savings.

Inactivity Rule

• Evaluation: You are required to place at least one trade within 7 days to avoid your account being marked inactive. Failure to this, your account will be breached due to inactivity and no further action can be done on the account.
• Funded: You are required to place at least one trade within 7 days to avoid your account being marked inactive. Failure to this, your account will be breached due to inactivity and no further action can be done on the account.

Biggest Loss vs. Biggest Win (single trade)

• Your biggest single trade loss cannot exceed your biggest single trade win during the funded stage within each withdrawal cycle. The calculation is applied to net profits (commissions included).
• Trade definition: A trade is defined as one entry and its corresponding exit. Multiple contracts opened and closed in one execution count as one trade. Separately entered or partially closed positions are each counted as individual trades.

2% Price Limit Rule

• Trading within 2% of a CME price limit is prohibited. This protects traders from market halts, extreme price swings, and major slippage.

Drawdown Lock Rule

• The trailing drawdown locks at starting balance + $100 and no longer trails for the remainder of the account's lifetime.

Prohibited Strategies

• Automated Scalping (200+ trades per day)
• Fully Automated Trading (AI, Bots)
• Microscalping
• Order Manipulation / Layering
• Gapped / Illiquid Market Trading
• Slippage / Bracket Exploitation
• Tier 1 Economic Data Trading
• Collaborative / Coordinated Trading
• Tick Scalping
• Details: https://help.aquafutures.io/en/articles/10080185-prohibited-trading-strategies

Trading Without Stops:

• Trading without stop-loss strategies and relying on the Trailing Threshold to close a trade as a means of ""blowing the account"" is not allowed.

Automated Tools:

• AI, bots, and other fully automated trading mechanisms are strictly prohibited across all account types.

All-in Trading:

• Using maximum contract sizes to chase a ""big win"" early in the Funded Account evaluation process, with the hope of overcoming the trailing drawdown, then downsizing later is prohibited.

Price Limit Trading:

• Traders are prohibited from trading any product within 2% of a CME price limit

News Trading:

• Allowed

Inactivity Rule (Evaluation and Funded stage):

• To keep your Funded Account active, you must place at least one trade within each Ten-day period.

Risk to Reward Ratio's:

• Traders are to adhere to a maximum risk-to-reward ratio of 5:1.

Order Placement:

• Placing multiple limit orders at the same price to manipulate order fills is strictly prohibited.
• Micro scalping is prohibited

Trading Hours:

• 8:00-16:10 EST (Eastern Standard Time / NY Time) OR 06:00 PM - 04:10 PM EST (Eastern Standard Time / NY Time)
• Trades will automatically close at 4:10 PM / 16:10 - And it will not result in a breach of the account

Copy Trading:

1. Trade Copiers are allowed and not prohibited(third party is considered as a violation),
2. You cannot copy trades from other traders, you must only copy trades between your personal accounts,
3. We give traders the opportunity to manage multiple accounts. Copy trading is allowed at our client’s disposal and only from personal accounts that are legally bound to the account holder.

What we allow:

• Copy trading between Blue Guardian accounts ;
• Copy trading from Funded to Evaluation accounts and vice versa;
• Copy trading between Blue Guardian account and external accounts.

Read more about the prohibited practices here: https://helpfutures.blueguardian.com/en/articles/14110289-prohibited-trading-strategies

Copy-Trading

• Traders are allowed to copy trades manually or automatically in up to 5 of their accounts.
• Copying trades between Challenge & Earning accounts is prohibited.
• Traders are allowed to copy trades from a personal external account to TTP accounts.
• Copying trades from other traders or sources that are not your own is prohibited.

Expert Advisor (EA)

• Allowed to trade using your own Expert Advisor (EA), as long as it does not perform any prohibited trading activities outlined in the terms and conditions.

News Trading

• Futures Prime: News trading is allowed.

Prohibited Trading Strategies

• Martingale or similar high-risk trading strategies are not allowed.

• Grid trading is not allowed.

• Gap trading is not allowed.

• Overnight holding rule: It is not allowed to keep positions open overnight in Futures Prime accounts

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT) is not permitted on any of our accounts.

Scalping

• Scalping is allowed in all futures accounts.

Inactivity

• If no trade is placed for 21 consecutive days, the account will be considered inactive and will be suspended.

Gambling and Inconsistent Trading

• Traders must maintain consistent lot sizes in their trades, demonstrating disciplined and strategic trading practices.

News Trading

• You may not open any new market or pending orders on the affected asset from 3 minutes before until 3 minutes after a Red Folder (High Impact) news event, but you are allowed to keep open and manually close existing positions at any time as long as they were opened more than 3 minutes prior to the news. Any profits generated from new trades opened during this restricted window will be deducted, and repeated violations may trigger an account review.

Expert Advisors

• Semi-automated tools such as risk management scripts and position sizing calculators are allowed. Fully automated EAs ("set and forget" bots) that trade without manual interaction are restricted.

Copy Trading

• Personal trade copiers are allowed for copying your own trades across your own accounts. You manually place a trade and the copier replicates it across your portfolio. Signal copying from external providers or third-party services is strictly prohibited.

Inactivity Rule

• We don’t have an inactivity period. You have 30 days to pass the evaluation before your subscription renews, unless you cancel it. Your subscription will continue to rebill every 30 days until you either pass or cancel.

DCA - Dollar Cost Averaging (Stacking)

• DCA/position stacking is allowed, but you can only enter the same instrument and direction up to 3 times per trade idea: 1 initial entry + up to 2 additional adds. This 3-entry limit applies to all account sizes and is a behavior rule, separate from the Max Contracts rule. A 4th entry in the same direction on the same instrument is a violation, even if you’re still under your contract cap. You must always respect both: max 3 entries per idea and the Max Contracts limits for your account size.

Micro Scalping

• Manual scalping is allowed, but high-frequency “tick scalping” and HFT-style behavior are not. There is no strict minimum hold time per trade, but the Risk Team actively monitors for patterns where trades are repeatedly opened and closed within a few seconds (0–10s), as this is considered prohibited HFT/arbitrage-style activity. If you are manually entering and exiting based on market structure and your trades last longer than mere feed latency, you are within the intended rules.

Hedging

• You cannot hold a Long and Short position on the same asset simultaneously. This includes cross-contract hedging. For example, holding a Long position on a Mini contract (e.g., NQ) while simultaneously holding a Short position on the Micro equivalent (e.g., MNQ) is a strict violation.

One-Direction Rule

• Using max leverage on a single trade idea without technical justification. This includes consistently across many accounts taking advantage of one single market direction to keep placing one-sided trades. This behavior is understood as intentional one-sided trading rather than legitimate strategy.

Bulk account exploitation:

• Buying many accounts to trade in an exploitative manner is explicitly listed as a prohibited strategy.

High Frequency Trading:

• Strategies that enter and exit positions in sub‑second intervals to exploit server latency are labeled HFT and are strictly prohibited.

Stop‑Loss policy:

• Not required. But strongly recommended.

VPN Usage:

• Use of VPNs, VPSs, or any location-masking tools to bypass "restricted countries" rule is strictly prohibited and may result in account termination and forfeiture of any profits.

More on Prohibited Strategies

• https://help.blueberryfutures.com/en/articles/12921710-what-counts-as-gambling-or-prohibited-strategies

Live Accounts Explained

• https://help.blueberryfutures.com/en/articles/12942982-the-road-to-live-graduating-to-a-live-account

Inactivity period

• 7 consecutive calendar days (Sunday–Friday) - A trading day is only counted when at least one round-trip trade is fully completed

News Trading

• There is no restriction for trading during any news hours, allowing traders to take advantage of market volatility and execute trades without restrictions during high-impact news events. However, such a trading style is not generally recommended due to the increased risks associated with price gaps & potential slippage due to unpredictable price movements.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted between your own accounts under one user profile, including challenge-to-challenge and sim funded-to- sim funded (same environment). The Lead account must have the lowest maximum position size among all linked accounts. Third-party copiers are allowed but any issues must be resolved directly with the provider. Copying between accounts owned by different individuals is not permitted. The Lead Account (where you place the original trades) must have the lowest Maximum Position Size among your accounts.​

Expert Advisors

• Prohibited to employ any kind of semi or fully automated trading like EAs, Bots, AI, etc. on all accounts

Risk Limits and Stop Loss Rules

Risk Per Trade Idea

• Maximum risk per trade idea is 1% of initial balance (DX Futures) and 2% of initial balance (Tradovate & NinjaTrader) on sim funded and Direct accounts. This includes;
• Single Trade Idea
• Layering/Splitting Positions - multiple positions on the same assets, same direction, with overlapping time are collectively treated as one single trade idea.
• The 10-Minute Re-entry Rule - Opening a new position in the same direction on the same asset within 10 minutes of closing counts as the continuation of the same trade idea.
• Breach of this rule will result in a hard breach and termination of the account.

Stop Loss Rule

• A stop loss must be placed within 3 minutes of opening a position or prior to closing the position, whichever occurs earlier to define this risk limits

Trading Hours Explained

• https://holaprime.com/futures/faq/hola-prime-plans/hola-prime-1-step-prime-challenge/

Circuit Breaker Limits

• Traders may NOT place trades within 2% of the price limit. Doing so will result in account closure. Please refer to CME Price Limits to check specific price limits for different asset classes.

Prohibited Strategies

• Gambling / Speculative Trading, Hyperactivity / Excessive Trading, Account or Device Sharing, One-Sided Betting, Arbitrage / Tick Scalping / High-Frequency Trading (HFT), Copy Trading Across Different Users, Hedging between different accounts/ Reverse Trades, Gap Trading, Trading Without Technical or Fundamentals, Trading Behavior Inconsistency, Circuit Breaker Limit Violations, Non-Compliance with CME Group Rules.

• See details: https://holaprime.com/futures/prohibited-trading-practices/