Prop Firm Rules

Firm Rules

Temporary Risk Management Rules Updates

• Effective: 29 January 2026 at 23:59 Server Time (UTC+2)
• Details: Risk management rules for all Funded accounts now prohibit weekend holding and include automatic closure of open trades on Friday at market close

Leverage Update

• Effective: 16 March 2026 at 23:59 Server Time (UTC+3)
• Temporary Dynamic Leverage: Applied to metals, indices and energies on Master Accounts
  • 0.00 - 0.05 lots: 1:50
  • 0.05 - 0.10 lots: 1:30
  • 0.10 - 0.15 lots: 1:25
  • 0.15 - 0.25 lots: 1:20
  • 0.25 - 0.50 lots: 1:10
  • 0.50 and above lots: 1:5

Copy Trading

• You can copy trades between your own FundingPips accounts (i.e., accounts registered under the same individual)
• For external copy trading, a FundingPips account may only act as a master to an external slave account
• FundingPips Partnership with PropFirm One: PF1 allows traders to seamlessly copy trades across different proprietary firm accounts within a single platform, offering increased flexibility and a broader range of opportunities. In addition to FundingPips' internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching FundingPips' core rules
  • For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com

Expert Advisor (EA)

• Full automation is allowed only with a personal EA developed by the trader, subject to proof of ownership (e.g. source code, version history, or development evidence). A compiled file alone is not accepted as proof
• Third-party EAs are permitted only as trade or risk managers — any other use results in denial of the evaluation/reward and account closure

Inactivity Rule

• You must open and close at least one trade within 30 consecutive days

Max Lot Limit Per Click

• Crypto trades: Capped at a maximum of 1 lot per click (subject to available margin)
• All other instruments: Platform-wide limit of 20 lots per click

Risk Per Trade Idea (Funded only)

• The max loss allowed on a single trade idea on your Master Account, including both realized and unrealized losses across all related positions
• Zero & 1-Step
  • Accounts below $50K ($5K, $10K, $25K): 3% of the initial account size
  • Accounts $50K and above ($50K, $100K, $200K): 2% of the initial account size
• 2-Step Flex & 2-Step Standard
  • $25K accounts: 3% of the Master Account Size
  • Accounts above $25K: 2% of the Master Account Size
  • Accounts below $25K: No Risk Per Trade Idea Limit
• 2-Step Pro: None
• Additional Rules:
  • Splitting up a trade into multiple positions will be counted as one single trade
  • Opening a new position in the same direction within 10 minutes after closing a losing trade is considered part of the same trade
  • Violation is a Hard Breach

60% Profit-Target Concentration

• If one trade idea exceeds 60% of the profit target in any phase, 4 minimum profitable days of 0.5% profit each day will be applied on the Master account
• This policy applies only to accounts purchased or created after 28/06/2026

Forbidden Strategies

• Gap trading, high frequency trading, server spamming, latency arbitrage, hedging, long-short arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, server execution, toxic trading flow, tick scalping, churning & burning and opposite account trading are prohibited
• Violations may result in:
  • Reducing leverage
  • Limiting the number of trades per day
  • Lot size limit per day
  • Lower daily/maximum loss limit (limiting risk per trade)
  • Imposing a 1% risk limit rule
  • Being banned from the firm
• Forbidden strategies explained: https://help.fundingpips.com/en/articles/8536000-what-are-the-forbidden-strategies

IP / VPN / VPS / ISP & Multiple Devices Policy

• VPN/VPS connections are prohibited on any trading account
• Your IP region for purchasing, logging in, and trading must remain consistent to avoid account flags
• See Details: https://help.fundingpips.com/en/articles/8535886-what-is-the-ip-rule

FundingPips Zero

Minimum Profitable Days

• 7 profitable days of at least 0.25% profit each day by the end of each 30-day period which resets at the end of each cycle or after a payout is processed
• Failure to meet this requirement by the end of any 30days period will result in a rule violation

Biggest Loss Cannot Exceed Biggest Win

• Your biggest loss on the account must not exceed your biggest win. Keep trading until your biggest loss no longer exceeds your biggest win

Maximum Risk Limit

• Floating profit and loss (PnL) must not exceed -1% of the account size
• Violation is a Hard Breach

News Trading

• Trading (Holding / Opening trades) 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after high-impact news event and speeches on the affected currency is Strictly prohibited
• Violation is a Hard breach

Weekend Holding | Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Not Allowed

1-Step, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro & 2-Step Flex

Minimum Trading Days

• 1-Step & 2-Step Standard
  • Evaluation Only: 3 trading days
• 2-Step Pro
  • Evaluation only: 1 trading day
• 2-Step Flex
  • Evaluation & Funded: None with 85% split | 3 Profitable days(≥ 0.5% each) with 95% split

News Trading

• Evaluation
  • Allowed
• Funded
  • Executing orders 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high impact news events and Speeches is prohibited. Any profits made within this window will be voided
  • Trades Opened More Than 5 Hours Before the News: Profits will count if closed within the 10-minute window before the event
  • Purposely trading news is prohibited and will lead to account termination

Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Not Allowed

1.2% Risk Guideline for 2-Step Standard (8% | 5% profit target) Funded Account Only

• ≤ 25k: Not applicable
• > 25k: A warning is recorded each time a trade idea's floating loss reaches 1.2% of the account size
  • 1st violation: Warning
  • 2nd violation: Reward split drops by half
  • 3rd violation: Reward split drops to 20%
  • 4th violation: Account breach
  • Any profit from trade ideas that received a warning is deducted from the account

Copy trading

• Copy trading is only allowed between challenge accounts and between instant accounts.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• EAs are only available as an add-on.

• EAs are allowed, only works on MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5.

• EA must be customized to suit your trading style.

• Identical trades across accounts are not allowed.

• Using an EA or trading bot to pass the Challenge Account and then switching to manual trading in the FundedNext Account (or vice versa) is not allowed.

• There is a maximum allocation limit of $300,000 for each EA or trading bot's strategy.

News Trading

• Allowed without restriction during evaluation stage
• Allowed with restriction on funded stage and instant accounts (Trades executed 5 minutes before and after a High Impact News event are subject to a 40% news profit split rule.)

Inactivity Rule

• Challenge Accounts on FundedNext expire after 60 days of inactivity. In order to keep the account active, traders must place a trade on the account within a consecutive 60 calendar days timeframe.

Drawdown Adjustment Rule for Instant accounts

• If your 6% trailing Max Drawdown resets to the initial balance after reaching a 6% or more profit, maintain a profit buffer to keep trading. Withdrawing all profits will result in account closure.

Maximum Risk at a Time | Funded Accounts Only

• Funded accounts are expected to follow a 3% risk-per-trade guideline, where risk is the maximum potenial loss on a trade based on stop loss placement, the maximum realized and unrealized (Floating) losses across all trades, calculated against the initial account balance.
• Breaking the guideline leads to 100% deduction of profit from those violating trades, second violation leads to 100% deduction of the profit generated from the violating trades. The account is then permanently reclassified to the following adjusted parameter, effective at the end of the trading day on which the violation is identified: Allowable cumulative risk is reduced to 1% at a given time.

Key rules

• Quike strike: The FundedNext Quick Strike Parameter is a rule targeting rapid-duration trades closed in under 30 seconds; it is violated when these positions account for 30% or more of your total profits, resulting in a progression freeze for Challenge accounts, or 100% profit forfeiture and potential account termination for Funded accounts.

• You must use the same trading strategy and method (manual or EA) during both the Challenge and Funded Account. Switching between them is not allowed.

• Utilizing specific asset classes, symbol categories, specific margin or risk usages to pass the evaluation phase and then switching to entirely different asset classes or symbol categories and significantly increasing the margin utilization or risk usages in the FundedNext Account, is prohibited.

• Account rolling is strictly prohibited, buying multiple evaluations to sacrifice some while passing others is considered a high-risk, luck-based tactic that violates FundedNext’s principles of skill and responsible trading. Violations may lead to restrictions on new purchases or lifetime allocation limits.

• One-sided Betting: One-Sided Betting is a gambling-like trading behavior where a trader takes concentrated directional exposure, opens multiple trades in the same direction, or enters reactive positions without sufficient consideration of market conditions, fundamental news, or technical analysis

• Grid Trading: Grid trading is a strategy where a trader places multiple buy and sell orders at different price levels above and below the current market price. The goal is to profit from price fluctuations as the market moves up and down, hitting various price points.

• Other prohibited trading strategies: https://help.fundednext.com/en/articles/8020351-what-are-the-restricted-prohibited-trading-strategies?q=risk

News Trading for Hyper-Growth and Bootcamp

• News trading is allowed except for bracket strategies around news
• For high stakes: Executing orders 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news is prohibited

Copy Trading

• Allowed for: High Stakes and Hyper-Growth with Limitation
• Limitation: Once a trader has more than $500K under management, taking the same trades across accounts will no longer be possible
• External account copy trading: Allowed under the condition that the account belongs to the same traders; third-party copy trading is not allowed
• Bootcamp accounts: Copy trading is not allowed between two Bootcamp accounts

Expert Advisors

• Expert Advisors are allowed, as long as it's aligned with terms and conditions
• Required conditions:
  • The EA must set a Stop Loss (SL) order on every position
• Prohibited EA functions:
  • Copy trades from other persons' signals
  • Perform tick scalping
  • Perform latency arbitrage trading
  • Perform reverse arbitrage trading
  • Perform hedge arbitrage trading
  • Use emulators
• Enforcement: Any accounts found using EAs that violate these rules will be canceled, banned, and not refunded
• Applies to: All programs including Bootcamp and Instant Funding (Hyper Growth)

High Stakes Program

• Minimum of 3 profitable days required
• Profitable day definition: A day on which the closed positions made a positive profit of at least 0.5% of the initial balance

Bootcamp Rules

• Stop-loss requirement: Mandatory for all positions and orders and must be set within 3 minutes of placement
• Risk limit: The SL in any position must not risk more than 2% of the account balance
• Daily pause: 3% daily pause "soft breach" during funded stage
• Risk violations: Opening a position without an SL order, or risking more than 2% of the account balance in a single position, will be considered a risk violation
• Account termination: 5 risk violations will lead to automatic account termination

Prohibited Practices

• One-sided bets: A trading strategy where the user takes consistent positions in one single direction without considering market conditions or conducting proper analysis
• Arbitrage: Use exploitation of price discrepancies or glitches within different markets of similar or identical assets
• Bracket strategy: Trading bracketing strategy by opening pending orders around high-impact news. It consists of opening buy and sell stops close to the price before the news
• System exploitation: Intentionally or unintentionally employ trading strategies that take advantage of errors within the system, such as inaccuracies in price display or delays in updating
• Overleveraging: Overleveraging or overexposure to a single instrument or correlated instruments in a manner inconsistent with market-standard risk management practices that a reasonable person would apply when trading with their own capital
• Position sizing inconsistency: Opening position sizes or a number of positions that are substantially larger or smaller than your typical trading activity, whether compared across your own accounts or between your evaluation and funded account stages; or repeatedly concentrating risk in a single instrument or group of correlated instruments in a way that builds cumulative overexposure beyond what market-standard risk management would permit
• Other prohibited practices: https://help.the5ers.com/prohibited-trading-practices/?__cf_chl_f_tk=DAJirx6wO8YgiVwW463w0OToN_T6jMtrEdsFNAcIww0-1782985607-1.0.1.1-ojhvBa.gkCBvqt5LICHeY97.zWFIdTdrKe0zN1cCN8Y

Inactivity Rule

• Expiration: Accounts without new orders for more than 30 consecutive calendar days will expire

Max Position Size

• 50 lots per order for FX and indices
• 20 lots per order for XAUUSD

Independent Evaluation

• Each trading evaluation must be completed independently.

Server Request Limitation

• There is a limit of 100 orders you can enter at a time, 2000 modifications of TP/SL and orders per day.
• The maximum position limit per day is also 2000.

Risk Management

• Risking your entire daily drawdown on a single trade is not permitted.
• Engaging in prohibited trading practices will result in termination from our program and a refund of the fee paid from the account where this rule was broken.

Hedging

• Hedging across multiple accounts, even those belonging to the same trader, is strictly prohibited.

Trade Duration

• You cannot hold more than 50% of your trades for under one minute.

Risk Exposure Limitation

• E8 reserves the right to de-risk trading strategies by limiting risk exposure to no more than 1% per trade idea or time horizon if prohibited practices are detected.

E8 Trader Stage Account Exceeds Profit Threshold

• If your account's profits surpass the Dynamic Drawdown value, you can request a payout of all profits earned. However, you should leave a drawdown buffer in the account to continue trading. If you withdraw all your profits, it will result in the closure of the account.

E8 Pro

• 2% Daily Profit cap: In each day, the maximum profit you can make is 2%. If you make more, only 2% will be counted towards your profit target.
• Static Drawdown: The drawdown does not trail upward and remains fixed at your starting balance until your first payout is requested. Once the first payout is processed, the drawdown is locked at the initial balance level. For every payout request, 50% of the profits are paid out to you, while the remaining 50% stays in the account as a buffer to help maintain the drawdown threshold.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is not allowed between E8 evaluation accounts, as each evaluation must be traded independently; however, you may copy trades between your own personal account, E8 Trader accounts, or between a funded and evaluation account, provided the trades originate from your own accounts.

EAs (Expert Advisors)

• Allowed: You can also use any EA (Expert Advisor) as long as we don't see multiple users executing the same trades/strategy. We limit one strategy per user, so if we see multiple users utilize the same EA, it may lead to the termination of your account. So even though the use of third-party EA is allowed, we recommend that each user use their own programmed EA. 

News Trading

• Allowed in evaluation stages and E8 Signature Funded stage, not allowed in E8 One Funded stage 5 minutes before or after high-impact news.

E8 Signature:

• Overnight and weekend trading is not allowed.

Inactivity

• After 60 days of inactivity, the account is disabled and there is no entitlement to a refund.

GENERAL RULES

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation: 5 days in each phase | To count as a trading day, the trade must remain open for at least 1 minute | No minimum trading days with add-on
• Funded: None

News Trading

• Evaluation Accounts: No Restriction
• Funded Accounts: No trading (opening or closing a market position, or executing a pending order, including stop loss and take profit orders) is allowed within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news. Profits made during this 10-minute window will be deducted (this is a soft breach).
• Profits from trades opened 48 Hours before high impact news and closed within the 10 minutes window won't be deducted.

See details: https://help.brightfunded.com/en/articles/9241694-can-i-trade-news

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed only between accounts you personally own (BrightFunded, other prop firms, retail broker). copying trades between different owners’ accounts is strictly prohibited.

• BrightFunded’s partnership with Prop Firm One enables you to extend your copy trading capabilities even further. PF1 allows traders to seamlessly copy trades across different proprietary firm accounts within a single platform, offering increased flexibility and a broader range of opportunities. This means that, in addition to BrightFunded’s internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching BrightFunded’s core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Allowed but must align with trading conditions and rules
• While EAs are allowed, not all third-party EAs are compatible with BrightFunded's platform environment.
  BrightFunded does not guarantee compatibility or performance of any external EA, and are not responsible for issues caused by non-compatible EAs

30 Days Inactivity Rule

• Must place at least one trade every 30 days or account will be deactivated, and if not reactivated via support within 6 months, it will be permanently closed.
• To count, the trade must remain open for at least 1 minute.

Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading Crypto

• Allowed

Prohibited trading strategies and practices

• Hedging (between two or more different accounts, between Different Prop Firms, Across Different Trading Platforms, Hedging-Copy Trading), Exploiting Service Errors or Platform Delays, Using External or Delayed Data Feeds, Coordinated or Multi-Account Manipulation, Violating Platform or Provider Terms, Use of Automated Software, AI, or High-Speed Trading Tools, Risk-Abusive Trading; Overleveraging, Overexposure, One-Sided Bets, and Account Rolling, Trading During High-Impact News or Events, Abusive Strategy Types; Grid Trading, Arbitrage, Tick Scalping, High-Frequency Trading (HFT).
• See details: https://help.brightfunded.com/en/articles/9241704-which-strategies-are-prohibited-at-brightfunded

IPs/VPN/VPS Rule

• VPNs and different IPs are allowed for travel, but only the account owner may trade (no account sharing).

Max allocation

• Exceeding the maximum capital allocation of $300,000 for 1 and 2 step combined is prohibited.

• Maximum of 3 Instant Program accounts allowed, capped at $30,000 total.

Reverse trading rule

• It is not allowed to create trades in opposite directions with a simultaneous duration equal or higher than 60 seconds. If you enter the market with a SELL, in order to trade in the opposite direction (BUY) you must close all your open trades in SELL.

Gambling rule

• The daily and/or per-trade profit limit is $10,000.

News Trading

• In Break accounts, traders cannot open new trades or increase their risk during high-impact news events or market openings.
• This restriction applies from 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after the event.
• During this time, traders cannot open new positions, add volume to existing positions, or risk more than 2% of the account’s initial balance.
• Breaking this rule may result in account suspension.

Bybit Platform Rules

• Adding extra funds to the assigned Bybit sub-account is not allowed. Any unauthorized deposit, transfer, or addition of funds to the sub-account may result in account suspension.
• Disconnecting, modifying, altering, or interfering with the assigned API connection is strictly prohibited. Any attempt to disconnect or modify the API connection may result in immediate account suspension.
• Spot trading on the Bybit sub-account is strictly prohibited. Any spot trading activity may result in account suspension.
• Only USDT trading pairs are allowed on Bybit accounts. Trades placed on USDC pairs will not be counted toward the account’s simulated profit or evaluation results.

Minimum Trading Days

• 1-Step Prime and 2-Step Pro - Evaluation: 2 days | Funded: None with On-demand Payouts / 3 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Bi-weekly payouts / 7 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Monthly Payouts
• 2-Step Prime - Evaluation: 3 days | Funded: None with On-demand Payouts / 3 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Bi-weekly payouts / 7 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Monthly Payouts
• Direct (Instant Funding) - None

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News Trading

• Evaluation: Allowed with no restrictions

Funded

• 1-Step Prime and 2-Step Prime: Allowed with no restrictions
• 2-Step Pro & Direct(Instant Funding): Trades can be held through news but no orders may be executed (including pending orders, SL & TP) on affected instruments within 5 minutes before or after a high-impact news release.
• For Pro - Profits from trades executed during this window will be reversed, and reckless exploitation of news volatility may result in account termination.
• For Direct - Violation is a direct hard breach

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Expert Advisor

EAs and algorithms are permitted but must be customized to remain distinct from other traders' strategies. Accounts using 3rd party, identical or near-identical EA configurations may be grouped under a combined capital allocation, and Hola Prime may deny, rebalance, or terminate such accounts. The Risk team may request EA source code at any time for review.

Note: EAs are strictly prohibited on Direct Model(Instant Funding) accounts.

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Copy Trading

Copy trading is permitted only between Hola Prime accounts (both challenge and funded) owned by the same individual. Copying from external accounts or between accounts owned by different people is strictly prohibited. Accounts sharing identical trade patterns (open and close price, lot size, symbols, etc.) will be considered a breach and immediately terminated.

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Weekend Holding

• Evaluation: Allowed

Funded

• 1-Step Prime and 2-Step Prime: Allowed
• 2-Step Pro & Direct(Instant Funding): Prohibited
• For Pro - All trades are automatically closed at 15:45 EST on Friday and the account is disabled, contact support to have it re-enabled for trading from Monday onwards.
• For Direct - All trades must be closed before 15:45 EST on Friday, any trades remaining open will be auto-closed and the account permanently terminated (hard breach).

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Inactivity Rule

Accounts inactive for 30 consecutive days are permanently suspended. Only opening a new trade counts as an active trading day.

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2% Risk Rule (Funded & Direct Accounts)

Your risk per trade idea should not exceed 2% of the account size (initial balance). 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.

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Stop Loss Rules For Defining The 2% Risk.

• Stop-loss levels must be set in accordance with the permitted risk limit.
• Traders are required to place a stop-loss within 3 minutes of opening a position or prior to closing the position, whichever occurs earlier.
• Traders must follow sound risk management at all times. Violations of prohibited trading practices may result in the risk limit being reduced to 1%, communicated via official channels.

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Max Exposure Limits (2 Step Pro — Funded only)

• $5K & $10K — No lot limit
• $25K — 10 lots | $50K — 20 lots | $100K — 40 lots | $200K — 80 lots

If breached:

• All open trades auto-closed and account disabled
• Profits from exceeding trades are deducted
• Trader is responsible if deductions trigger Daily or Max Loss Limit breach

Consequences:

• 1st breach: Warning + profit deduction; account can be re-enabled via support
• 2nd breach: Profit deduction + profit split reduced to 30% + account termination

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Daily drawdown breach Payout protection policy

If the Daily Loss Limit is breached but the account is profitable, the trader may still receive 100% of their reward and fee reimbursement provided: no single trade exceeded 1% of the initial balance in profit or loss, and all trades had a stop loss in place. Both conditions must be met. Any breach caused by prohibited trading practices or other rule violations results in full forfeiture of profits and pending payouts.

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Direct Trailing Drawdown Lock

Once a trader reaches 7% profit, the trailing max drawdown locks at the starting balance and no longer trails upward.

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Prohibited strategies

• Gambling / Speculative Trading
• Hyperactivity / Excessive Trading
• Account or Device Sharing
• One-Sided Betting
• Arbitrage Trading
• Tick Scalping / High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Copy Trading Across Different Users
• Group Hedging / Cross-Account Hedging
• Gap Trading
• Trading Without Technical or Fundamentals
• Account Rolling
• Overleveraging / Overexposure
• Exploiting Server Errors / Price Feed Discrepancies
• Quick Strike Methods
• Martingale
• DCA (Platform Exploitation, Dollar-Cost Averaging)

See details: https://holaprime.com/trading-rules-list/trading-rules-prohibited-trading-practices/

Inactivity Rule

• You must place a trade within 30 days to keep your account active and avoid suspension.

1.5% Risk Per Trade Idea (Funded Accounts Only):

• A trade idea consists of the initial position and any positions opened in the same direction within 10 minutes after closing a losing trade, with the combined loss across all such positions not exceeding 1.5% of the initial account balance.
• Applicable to the 1-Step, 2-Step, Instant Lite & Instant Elite programs.

Drawdown Adjustment Rule for Instant accounts

• The Max Drawdown does not reset after a withdrawal. If your max loss is locked and you withdraw most or all profits, your account may be left with little to no buffer.

News Trading

• Traders must not open or close trades 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after high-impact (red folder) news events on both evaluation and earning accounts.
• This restriction applies to trade execution and closure, even if a trade was placed before and the take-profit (TP) gets triggered during the restricted timeframe.
• Stop-Loss Exception: If a position was opened more than 6 hours before the news release and it incurs a stop-loss hit during the News Trading Window, it will be allowed.

Copy Trading

• Allowed, personal accounts only.

• Blueberry Funded’s partnership with Prop Firm One enables you to extend your copy trading capabilities even further. PF1 allows traders to seamlessly copy trades across different proprietary firm accounts within a single platform, offering increased flexibility and a broader range of opportunities. This means that, in addition to Blueberry Funded’s internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching Blueberry Funded’s core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com.

GENERAL RULES

News Trading

• News trading is allowed, but trades opened/closed (either manually or automatically, such as via stop loss, take profit, or pending orders) within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news can generate a maximum profit of 1% of the account’s initial balance. Excess profits are removed without penalties. This applies to both challenge and funded phases.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Yes, you can use them as long as the EAs comply with the prohibited trading practices rule. However, you are not allowed to use 3rd party EAs, high-frequency trading (HFT) strategies / systems and/or Gold Arbitrage EA.

• Using an EA or trading bot to pass the Challenge Account and then switching to manual trading in the Funded Account (or vice versa) is strictly prohibited

Copy Trading

• Copy trading of any kind is strictly prohibited. Each account must be traded individually, and traders cannot duplicate trades or trade ideas, whether manually or via EA between accounts at any stage.

Inactivity Rule

• 30 consecutive days, Inactive accounts within this period are breached

Social Media & Public Conduct

• Spreading false information or engaging in negative advertising about Goat Funded Trader on social media or public platforms is strictly prohibited. Violations result in:
  • Account termination
  • Permanent ban
  • Potential legal action

Risk Management & Trading Limits

• Risk limit: GFT may impose a 1% risk limit per trade idea if excessive risk-taking is detected. Non-compliance results in:

  • Immediate account breach
  • No payouts or entitlements

  Note: Restrictions may be lifted with consistent safe trading practices.
  GFT strictly prohibits high-risk, all-or-nothing strategies, including:
  Using over 80% of available margin on a single trade.

Daily Profit Cap

• Funded Traders daily profits are capped at $3,000.

Minimum Trade Hold Time

• Profits from trades held under 2 minutes on funded accounts are not counted, while losses still apply.

Prohibited Trading Practices

• Exploit pricing/platform errors, use insider information, front-run trades, jeopardize broker relationships, create regulatory issues, all-or-nothing trading, risky trading styles, hedging (same or multiple accounts), use third-party/off-the-shelf EAs or strategies, switch strategies between assessment and funded stages, and duplicate trades or trade ideas across accounts, Martingale / Grid Recovery Systems Strategies that increase lot size after losses (Martingale or grid) are strictly prohibited.

• See details: https://help.goatfundedtrader.com/en/articles/10742118-what-are-prohibited-trading-practices

Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading(Crypto)

• Allowed

Weekend Gap Policy

• Weekend holding Allowed but prohibits trading solely to exploit Monday morning market price gaps.
• For funded accounts, any profits generated from trades opened in the last three hours of Friday and closed in the first three hours of Monday will be removed.

The Goat Guard

• Goat Guard is GFT's risk management tool for funded accounts (excluding instant funding), automatically closing all open trades if they reach a 2% loss to prevent excessive drawdowns.
• This "soft breach" allows immediate continued trading, with no ban.
• Triggering it once reduces profit split to 50%; a second time breaches the account fully.

Shared Device Usage

• Traders are strictly prohibited from accessing or operating their account on any shared mobile or desktop device.
• Detection of account activity from a shared device especially one linked to multiple user accounts will result in immediate disqualification from payout eligibility and may lead to account termination.

IP Address and Account Access Policy Explained

• https://help.goatfundedtrader.com/en/articles/10742103-ip-address-and-

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1-STEP MODEL & 2-STEP MODELS [STANDARD & GOAT]

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation & Funded: 3 profitable trading days with at least 0.5% profit of the account balance each day

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3-STEP MODEL

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation: None
• Funded: 3 profitable trading days with at least 0.5% profit of the account balance each day

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INSTANT FUNDING MODELS [GOAT & PRO]

Minimum Trading Days

• 5 profitable trading days with at least 0.5% profit of the account balance each day

Max Loss Per Trade Rule

• Your account will be permanently closed if floating losses reach -2% of your balance at any time.

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GOAT BLITZ

• Available for a limited time randomly on two weekends every month, offering traders a quick path to funding.

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation & Funded: 5 profitable trading days of at least 0.5% profit each day

Max Loss Per Trade Rule

• Your account will be permanently closed if floating losses reach -2% of your balance at any time.

News Trading

• News trading is not allowed 5 minutes before and after high impact news. Trades that were opened at least two hours prior to the scheduled high-impact news event are allowed to close during the restricted period, including closure triggered by Take Profit or Stop Loss.
• News trading is allowed on the Instant Funding Pro without restriction.

Maximum daily profit (Instant Funding Pro)

• 4%

Max Floating Loss

• 2-Step Funded Accounts and Instant Pro: 3% floating loss on the same symbol
• 1-Step Funded Accounts, Instant Funding, and Phoenix: 2% floating loss on the same symbol

Max Floating Loss

• 2-Step Funded Accounts and Instant Pro: 3% floating loss on the same symbol
• 1-Step Funded Accounts, Instant Funding, and Phoenix: 2% floating loss on the same symbol

Prohibited Practices:

Risk management

• Allocating a substantial or majority portion of the allowable daily loss or available margin to a single trade idea, whether through realized losses, stop-loss exposure, or a set of highly correlated positions, is prohibited.

Martingale

• Martingale is a trading strategy that involves increasing position size after a loss in an attempt to recover previous losses with a single winning trade; the use of martingale strategies is prohibited.
  Grid Trading/ Hedging: Grid Trading or Hedging is a trading approach where opposing buy and sell orders for the same instrument are strategically placed to achieve equivalent or similar risk and is prohibited.

Phoenix Scaling Program

• The Phoenix Program provides a unique opportunity for rewarding traders who consistently exhibit expert performance. Account holders will be automatically progressed to the next phase upon completion of the below detailed Targets for Scaling.

• Traders may begin at Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, or Level 4 of the program.

• Once the 10% profit target for the selected starting level is achieved, that 10% will be converted into withdrawable credit at the next level.

• The credit may be withdrawn at the next payout, provided the 14-day minimum payout interval and the requirement of 3 minimum profitable days are met.

• For example, a trader starting at Level 2 ($5,000 starting balance) who reaches the 10% profit target ($500) will automatically scale to Level 3 ($10,000 starting balance).

• The $500 profit is converted into withdrawable credit.
  At this point, the trader has two options:

Option 1 – Continue scaling

• The trader may continue trading and work toward the Level 3 profit target of 10 ($1,000). Once this target is reached, the account will scale to the next level.

Option 2 – Request a payout

• After the minimum 14-day trading period from the first trade and at least 3 profitable days are met, the trader may request a payout. Any new profits generated on the Level 3 account can be withdrawn together with the $500 credit.

• For example, if the trader earns an additional $200 on the Level 3 account, they may request a payout of $700 ($500 credit + $200 profit), provided the payout conditions are satisfied.

• If the trader chooses to withdraw the $700, they will still need to generate the full Level 3 profit target of 10% ($1,000) in order to scale up to the next level.