Prop Firm Rules

News Trading

• Allowed with no restriction; however, please be aware that a stock that is reporting (during earning season) at after-market hours or the next day premarket won’t be available for overnight holdings.

Copy Trading

• You may copy trades between a maximum of two accounts only.
• All trades must be executed directly by the trader. The use of any external or automated third-party copying tools/software is strictly prohibited.
• To ensure balanced risk, accounts must be paired according to the following size requirements:

MAX/FLEX day-trading

• $5k
• $25k
• $50k (Can be paired only with one $25k or one $5k)

MAX/FLEX swing

• $2k
• $10k

Minimum positions:

• Day Trade Max: 20 positions

• Day Trade Flex: 10 positions

• Swing: 5 positions

• Trade Duration: There must be at least a 30-second gap between every buy-sell or sell-buy order.

• Trade Range: All profitable trades must yield at least 10 cents per share in profit.

Example: Buy at $50.10, sell at $50.20 (at least).

• End of Day: 10 minutes before the end of the day, we will fully liquidate your account (open positions and pending orders) in the Day Trade programs.

• Permitted Order Types During Pre-Market, Post-Market, and Overnight Sessions: During pre-market, post-market, and overnight sessions, only limit-based orders are permitted; market orders, stop orders, OCO orders, and stop-loss orders are prohibited.

• Earnings Announcement Liquidation Policy: Trades will be automatically liquidated at 3:50 PM ET on any instrument with a scheduled earnings report that day.

• Halt restrictions: No trading on an effectively halted symbol (including during earnings). After a halt is lifted, wait at least 1 minute before placing opening trades.

• Buffer rule (Funded phase): Once you achieve a profit of 3X the daily pause allowance, the initial max loss is reset to the initial account size. This means that as profits increase, your max loss buffer rises accordingly.

• Volatility restrictions: the volume of any opening trades (opening or adding to a position) must not exceed 5% of the trading volume in the previous one-minute candle for that instrument.

• Inactivity rule (Day Trade): A 14-day inactivity rule will be applied to all FLEX phases (evaluation and funded), and to MAX funded.

• Volume Requirement for Overnight Positions: To hold a position overnight, the stock must have an average daily volume of at least 500,000 shares (last 14 days).

QA Atmos firm rules.

IP Address Policy

• Your IP address for Challenge Phase, and live accounts must match the same geographical region. If it changes, you must provide proof (e.g., plane tickets or live location verification) to justify the change.

Martingale

• Opening 5 simultaneous positions in drawdown on the same pair is allowed.

Gambling is prohibited and includes:

• Excessive Scalping

  • Holding 50%+ of trades for less than a minute.

• Martingale

  • Opening 5 simultaneous positions in drawdown on the same pair.

All-in

• Making a single trade with no stop-loss or risking more than the drawdown limit to pass or fail the challenge. This rule also applies for the funded stage.

Gamifying

• Trading 2 accounts against each other, going long on one and short on the other, with the hope of passing the challenge.

• A trade refers to one or more positions on the same pair with similar timing and lot size. Small-lot or random “gambling” entries don’t qualify and may lead to disqualification.

More on prohibited strategies

• High-Frequency Trading, Toxic Trading Order Flow, Long/Short arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, tick scalping, server execution, Grid/Gap Trading, Reverse/Group Hedging and Hedging

• Violation leads to account termination

• See details: https://maventrading.com/faqs#what-does-maven-classify-as-cheating

News Trading

• Standard programs
  Trades cannot be opened or closed within 2 minutes before or after a red folder news. Violations, including during auto-closure, disqualify evaluation or challenge accounts. Profits from restricted news events are not credited during the challenge or live phase.

• Instant funding & 1-Step BNPL
  News trading is allowed with no restrictions.

• 2-Step Omo
  News trading is fully permitted during Phase 1 and Phase 2 with no restrictions. In the funded stage, news trading is still allowed but any profit made during a news event within a 4-minute window, 2 minutes before and after is capped at 0.50% of your account balance.

Funded Daily Profit Cap

• In the funded stage, if total profits exceed $5,000, no single trade or trading day (measured as the time between two trades, not by calendar day) may account for more than 50% of the total profit. Profits above this threshold are reduced to meet the 50% limit. After surpassing $5,000 in payouts, traders must complete a mandatory risk interview with an analyst. One reschedules is allowed, but failure to attend the rescheduled session will result in the payout being withheld. Traders have two weeks from the invitation date to complete the interview. Random interviews may also be conducted for profits below $5,000, and accounts reset to the starting balance after payout.

Risk Limit

• This rule applies only to a small minority of traders who show poor risk management. It’s intended to help them trade more responsibly and with discipline. Unless notified, you may trade freely without restrictions. However, if you exceed the risk limits stated in your email, your account will be breached.

Buyback

• You can restore a funded account instantly via Buyback by paying a fee, no challenge needed

• The cost of a buyback is:

  • $2,000 Account = $200
  • $5,000 Account = $400
  • $10,000 Account = $750
  • $20,000 Account = $1,400
  • $50,000 Account = $3,500
  • $100,000 Account = $6,000

Expert advisors

• EAs are not permitted under any circumstances across all our platforms.

Copy Trading

• Manual Copy Trading is allowed Between your own Maven trading accounts, other prop firm accounts and broker accounts.
  Trade copiers can't be used on platforms offered and copy other trades is strictly prohibited

Weekend Holding | Crypto Trading on weekends

• Allowed

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts must not be dormant for more than 30 calendar days

Min Trading Days

Instant, 1-Step Standard, 3-step Standard & 1-Step BNPL

• Evaluation & Funded: None

2-Step Standard

• Evaluation & Funded: 3 Profitable days of 0.5% profit each day

2-Step Omo

• Evaluation & Funded: 4 Profitable days of 0.5% profit each day

2-Step Omo Time Limit

• The 2-Step Omo has a combined maximum duration of 180 days across both phase 1 and 2, with no separate deadline per phase.

Minimum Trade Hold Time Rules

1-Step BNPL, 1 Step Standard, 2 Step Standard, 3 Step Standard, and Instant Program

• Evaluation and Funded: 1 Minute - Accounts violating this rule will be terminated during review

2 Step Omo

• Funded Only - Every trade must remain open for a minimum of 150 seconds (2.5 minutes). Trades closed before this threshold will not count toward your progress.

1-Step BNPL & 2-Step Omo M2 Account Saver

• M2 Account Saver Automatically triggers when drawdown reaches 2% of the account balance. First breach closes all open trades and permanently reduces profit split to 50%. Second breach is a hard breach

Instant Funding Rules

• At no point can your account have more than a 1% loss in floating PnL. This is the difference between your balance and equity, if this happens then your account will be breached.

GENERAL RULES

News Trading Rule

• Evaluation: Allowed
• Funded/Instant Funding: Prohobited to execute(pending orders including; market orders, stop loss or take profit orders) or close any trade within 5 minutes before and after high impact news event on affected instruments . Violation results to profit deduction except the trade was open 5 hours prior to the news event and automatically closed within the 10 min window.
• All major U.S. high-impact news events (marked as 'Red Folder') affect all trading instruments
• Repeated violations may result in stricter action, including account termination.
• Instant Prime allows news trading with an add-on.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• EAs are allowed only on the challenge phase of assessment base accounts, not on funded accounts.
• Traders must customize EA settings to match their own style, cannot hide EA usage, and cannot use commercially available automated EAs.

External API Usage Rule:

• Prohibited on all Simulated Funded Accounts.
• All third-party tools, applications, or services requiring API access (including read-only) are disabled such as analytics platforms, journaling tools, automation software, and trade copiers.
• The policy applies universally with no exceptions to ensure fairness and long-term sustainability for the firm and traders.

Copy Trading

• Manual copy trading is allowed between your own TOT accounts and other personally owned prop firm or broker accounts, on both evaluation and funded stages. However, copy trading between TOT accounts is only permitted on evaluation accounts — not on funded or instant funded accounts. Copying between different users is strictly prohibited. If you hold multiple funded accounts, identical trades must be placed at least 30 minutes apart to avoid being flagged. Violations trigger an account review, and if confirmed, the account may be reset or closed depending on the severity.
• See details: https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/8487707-is-copy-trading-allowed-at-top-one-trader

Weekend Trading/Holding:

• Allowed on all assessment based accounts on both evaluation and funded | For Instant Funding & Instant prime, Not Allowed except with the add-on
• Crypto trading is allowed over the weekend, but only if the trades are opened after Friday 8 PM EST.

Inactivity Rule

• There's a 30-day inactivity rule. You must place at least one trade every 30 days (counting from account purchase date, not from first trade date) to avoid an account breach due to inactivity.

Stop Loss Rule

• You must have an active Stop Loss in place at all times when entering a trade.
• Removed with add-on

Soft Breach Limits

• 1-Step Nova & 1-Step Flash — Unlimited

• 2-Step Pro — 8

• Instant Prime — 5

• Instant Funding — 10

• Exceeding these limits results in a hard breach.

Soft Breach Violations

• Violating the 10 minutes news restriction window
• Weekend Holding for restricted accounts
• Opening a trade without a stop-loss unless an Add - on is purchased
• Allowing more than a 2% loss per symbol on open trades or a 2.5% loss on all open trades. Should this happen, Equity Shield will protect your account by automatically closing trades in most cases
• Funded Accounts have a 20% open lot size limit based on the account size, therefore if the total lots placed exceed the max lots, all open trades will be closed. see lot size restrictions details: https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/8318242-are-there-any-lot-size-restrictions

Minimum Hold Time Rule for Trades

• All profitable trades must be held for at least 5 minutes before being closed. Closing a profitable trade in less than 5 minutes whether manually, by take profit, or by a stop loss (if set in profit), violates the rule.

• Consequences:

  • During Challenge Phases: Violations are reviewed by the Risk Team. Depending on severity, traders may be required to retake the challenge or receive a formal warning.
  • On Funded Accounts: Profits from non-compliant trades are deducted, and traders receive a warning. Repeated violations can result in account termination.

Prohibited Trading Practices

• High Frequency Trading (HFT), Tick Scalping, Latency Trading, Latency Arbitrage, Arbitrage Trading, Copy Trading (between accounts not owned by the same person), Group Trading, Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts, News Trading on Funded Accounts, Grid Trading, Martingale Strategy, 3rd Party Trading or ""Pass Your Challenge"" Programs, Masking of Expert Advisors (EAs), Gambling, Over-Leveraging, YOLO Trading, IP Address Sharing or Multiple IP Use Across Accounts, Rolling/Churning of Accounts.
• See Details: https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/9047696-what-are-the-restricted-prohibited-trading-strategies-at-top-one-trader

EquityShield

• Automatic Risk Management Tool: https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/9181278-what-is-the-equityshield

IP / VPN / VPS Policy

• Violations Include:

  • Using multiple IPs for one account.
  • Trading multiple accounts from the same/similar IPs.
  • Copying or hedging trades across different accounts or firms.

• VPS Usage: Allowed — must have a static IP and be used responsibly. Notify support if changing or traveling.

• VPN Usage: Strictly prohibited — using a VPN can trigger security flags and lead to account breaches or suspension.

• cTrader (No longer offered) Restriction: U.S. IP logins are automatically hard breached with no refunds.

• Penalties: Any violations may result in account breach, profit forfeiture, blacklisting, and potential legal action.

• See Details: https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/8733438-are-there-ip-address-restrictions

INSTANT FUNDING & INSTANT PRIME

Minimum Trading days:

• No minimum trading days.

NOVA

• The NOVA Account is a 1-step evaluation with a $7 entry fee and a pay-after-you-pass model. Once passed, traders pay a one-time activation fee to unlock their funded account, with a 30-day window to complete activation.

Minimum Trading Days:

• None

1 STEP FLASH

Minimum Trading Days

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

Daily Profit Cap(Funded Only)

• The maximum daily profit is 3% of the funded starting balance -
• This is neither a soft breach nor a hard breach

2 - STEP PRO

Minimum Trading Days

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

Daily Profit Cap

• (Funded Only): $3,000

Flash, Nova, & Pro Max Open Risk Rule (Equity Shield)

• Max Risk per Symbol: If the floating loss on a single symbol reaches 2% (New accounts – from Mar. 27, 2026 | 1% for existing accounts - before Mar. 27, 2026) of starting balance, all open trades on that symbol will, in most cases, be automatically closed. Applies to one symbol, even if multiple positions are open.

• Max Combined Risk: If combined floating drawdown reaches 2.5% (New accounts – from Mar. 27, 2026 | 1.1% for existing accounts - before Mar. 27, 2026) of starting balance, all open trades across all symbols will, in most cases, be automatically closed. Applies to total floating loss across all symbols.

• These actions are classified as a soft breach

PAYDAY Account

The PAYDAY Account is a short-term, objective-based trading account where traders complete a set number of profitable trades within 8 hours to earn a payout. There is no traditional Phase 1, Phase 2, or Instant Funded structure.

Access PAYDAY accounts: here

How It Works

• Choose an entry stake between $25 and $500 (in $25 increments)
• Select a multiplier (2x, 5x, or 10x) which sets your payout and required profitable trades
• Complete the required profitable trades within 8 hours without breaching the trailing equity loss limit
• Request your payout, after which the account is closed

Account Specifications

• Account Size: $100,000 (fixed, regardless of stake)
• Profit Target: None (objective-based instead)
• Timeframe: 8 hours (timer starts from first trade)
• Max Loss Limit: 1.5% trailing equity - never locks at the starting balance or moves back down
• Leverage: Forex 1:20 | Indices & Metals 1:10 | Crypto 1:2
• Profit Split: 100%
• Inactivity Period: 3 days from purchase to begin trading the account.

Multiplier Options and Payout

• 2x — 3 profitable trades | Payout: Stake x 2
• 5x — 4 profitable trades | Payout: Stake x 5
• 10x — 6 profitable trades | Payout: Stake x 10

Profitable Trade Requirement

• Each qualifying trade must close with at least 1% net profit ($1,000)
• Trades below 1% do not count toward the objective
• Only one trade open at a time — partial closes still count as one trade

Trading Conditions

• News Trading: Allowed (including high-impact events)
• Weekend & Overnight Holding: Allowed if the market is available within the 8-hour window
• Minimum Hold Time: None — profits can be secured instantly
• Stop Loss: Not required

Restrictions

• EAs, bots, trade managers, and automated/semi-automated tools are not allowed — manual trading only
• Copy trading between PAYDAY accounts is prohibited (including manual copying), though multiple accounts can be purchased and traded independently

Payout Eligibility

• A payout can be requested once the required profitable trades are completed within 8 hours, no rule is broken, and the trailing max loss limit is not breached. A linked Rise account and completed KYC/contract are required to withdraw. After payout approval, the account closes and a new one can be purchased.

• Payout Frequency Limit: Maximum of one payout per day per trader

News Trading:

• Allowed with restriction: 5 minutes prior to and after a high-impact (red folder) news event on Instant Standard and Funded accounts.
• News trading is allowed without restriction on Challenge accounts, and Guardian X accounts.

Inactivity rule:

• All accounts, will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity.

Gambling Rule:

• All or nothing or gambling-style behavior is prohibited, gambling is classified as any trading activity where margin usage exceeds 80% in a single trade

Minimum holding time:

• The minimum holding time is 2 minutes. If a trade is closed in under 2 minutes, it may be flagged for tick scalping, which is against the trading rules.

Drawdown Adjustment Rule for 1-step standard, 2-step pro, Guardian X and Instant accounts:

• If your X% trailing Max Drawdown resets to the initial balance after reaching a X% profit, maintain a profit buffer of 1% to keep trading. Withdrawing all profits will result in account closure.

Guardian Shield:

• In the funded stage, if your open trades incur a loss of 1% of the initial balance on Instant Accounts and Guardian X, or 2% on the 1-Step, 2-Step, 2-Step Pro, and 3-Step accounts, Guardian Shield may auto-close them, this is a soft breach; after the 1st breach, profit split drops to 50% and after the 2nd, the account is breached.

Excessive risk taking exacerbated by news events:

• This relates to a “Boom or Bust” approach where the success or failure of the account relies upon one simulated-trade, or a series of simulated-trades connected to a major news event.
  Utilizing one strategy to pass an assessment and then utilizing a different strategy in a funded account.

Copy Trading: Allowed, personal accounts only:

• Blue Guardian’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 Blue Guardian’s internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching Blue Guardian’s core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com."

Minimum Trading Days

1 Step Lite | 1 Step Standard + Free Retry

• Evaluation: 3 profitable days at 1%
• Funded: 3 trading days

2 Step Lite | 2 Step Standard + Free Retry

• Evaluation: 3 profitable days at 0.5%
• Funded: 3 trading days

Flash Activation Challenge

• Evaluation: 1 trading day
• Funded: 3 profitable trading days of 0.5% profit each day

Instant Standard & Instant Elite

• 4 Profitable trading days of 0.5%

All 300K Assessment Accounts have 5 minimum trading days instead of the standard 3 P&L requirements for the single trading day are dictated by the specific account type selected

Allowed Rules

Use of EAs (Expert Advisors)

• Only expert advisor that helps with risk management, graphs, and other trading tools that serve as a base for your trading ideas and strategies are Allowed.

• EAs that trade automatically or rely on automated strategies (e.g., martingale, grid, or public scalping bots like gold scalpers) are not allowed. Your EA must assist your manual trading, not replace it.

• If any unauthorized or hidden EA use is detected, the challenge may be terminated.

Grid Trading

• Placing buy and sell orders above and below a specific price is allowed as long as it is not used for market manipulation, over-leveraging, creating market instability, or pursuing risk-free profits.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted between accounts you own, even across different platforms. To use a trade copier, you must request that EAs be enabled on your account

Martingale

• Allowed as long as it does not involve over-leveraging (risking all your daily loss in a single pair/direction) and is not used by shared EAs.

News Trading

• Allowed, especially for swing traders, but not for high-frequency trading (HFT) or hedging between different accounts for risk-free profits or account passage.

Weekend Holding

• Allowed

Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Not Allowed, except with add-on. Violation is a hard breach

Inactivity Rule

• 29 days inactivity period, make sure you place at least 1 trade in 29 days to keep your account active. You can pay a fee to cover the associated costs and reactivate the account. (20% of the original account's price without any coupons applied).

Strategy Risk Limit (Funded Stage Only)

• You cannot risk more than 50% of your daily loss limit on a single instrument in the same day.

• See details: https://faq.fundedelite.com/en/articles/12682106-strategy-risk-limits

Prohibited Trading strategies

• IP sharing, Strategy Risk Limits, HFT and High-Frequency Scalping, Weekend Trading, Hedging, Account Rolling, Account Sharing/any passing service, Latency Arbitrage, Server Spamming
• See details: https://faq.fundedelite.com/en/collections/16305172-what-is-prohibited-with-us

Soft Breach Violations

• Scalping rule, IP Adress flags and Hedging flags.
• Violation results to:
  • reduction in profit split to 30%.
  • Payout Cycle for refundable fee will be reset.
• Persistent violation will result to account reset and profit forfeited.
• See details: https://faq.fundedelite.com/en/articles/13868489-what-is-considered-a-soft-breach

Minimum Trade Duration Rule

• All trades must be held for at least 3 minutes to prevent high-frequency or prohibited trading behavior.

• Minimum holding times falls to 30 seconds if the scalping addon has been selected when purchasing the account.

• Evaluation

  • Soft Breach: If scalping is an isolated incident and the total profits stay under the scalp limit on the trader's dashboard, the account is simply reset to try again.
  • Hard Breach: If scalping profits exceed the scalp limit on the trader's dashboard or violations are consistent throughout the challenge, the account will be terminated.

• Funded

  • Minor Violation: Any trade held under the minimum hold time (3 mins or 30s with addon), either profitable or in loss, results in a reduced profit split for that payout period.
  • Major Violation: If scalping profits exceed the scalp limit on trader's dashboard, your account is reset, and all current profits are forfeited

• Each case will be evaluated individually by the team.

VPS/VPN Usage Rule

• You may use a VPS or VPN, but you must inform support@fundedelite.com before doing so.

2 Step Standard + FREE RETRY Second chance modifications

• The account in second chance starts again from phase 1 of the challenge and the DLL reduces from 5% to 3%.

• Only in phase 1 second chance, the minimum P&L required to successfully complete a trading day goes from 0,5% to 1%.

• The profit split reduces to 50% for all future payouts.

1 Step Standard + FREE RETRY Second chance modifications

• The account in second chance starts again from phase 1 of the challenge and the MLL reduces from 8% to 6%.

• The profit split reduces to 50% for all future payouts.

Instant Catalyst

• The Catalyst is a single-stage instant funded account with no evaluation phase. Starting at 80% profit split, each approved payout doubles the account size with an increased split, scaling up to $1,000,000 at 95% profit split.

Starting Sizes

• $25,000: Six doublings between you and the top of the ladder.
• $50,000: Five doublings between you and the top.
• Both paths arrive at the same destination ($1M / 95%).
• Each new account is a clean slate: fresh balance, fresh drawdown limits, fresh profit target.

Minimum Profitable Trading Days

• 5 profitable trading days, each with a positive PnL of at least the stage's minimum PnL threshold:
  • 25K — $150
  • 50K — $250
  • 100K — $350
  • 200K — $450
  • 400K — $650
  • 800K — $850
  • 1M — $1,000

Resets (Safety Net)

• One paid reset available per stage, a breach doesn't send you back to the start
• Reset re-provisions the account at the same stage with the original starting balance
• Up to 6 resets across the full ladder starting from $25K, or 5 starting from $50K
• Previous stage wins are preserved
• $25K: NA | $50K: $890 | $100K: $1,290 | $200K: $1,790 | $400K: $2,490 | $800K: $3,390 | $1M: $4,790

GENERAL RULES

News Trading

• Evaluation: Allowed with No Restriction
• Funded / Instant Accounts: You can hold trades during news events, but opening positions within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news is not allowed; profits from such trades will be deducted.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• EAs are allowed only if they assist your personal trading decisions — fully automated or self-trading EAs & bots are strictly prohibited.

Copy Trading

• Allowed between For Traders Accounts and from your For Traders account (acting as the Master account) but copying trades to a For Traders account is strictly prohibited.

Overnight | Weekend Holding

• Allowed

Drawdown Protection - All Funded Accounts Except Instant Pro

• Your Floating loss must not reach -2% of the starting balance (monitored in real-time)
• 1st Violation: All open trades are closed immediately, account remains active, profit split reduced to 50%
• 2nd Violation: All open trades are closed and the account is terminated

Minimum Hold Time Rule

• All trades must remain open for at least 5 seconds before being closed to avoid being flagged for high-frequency trading (HFT).

Forbidden Practices

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT), Arbitrage trading (Reverse arbitrage, Latency arbitrage), Grid trading, Tick scalping, Group trading, Martingale, Hedging, Account rolling, Third-party account operation, Use of Automated Bots, Gambling, Copy Trading to Our Account, Group and Signal Trading, Overleveraging, One-sided Betting.

• Code of conduct; Spreading false or harmful information, Coercion or threats, Sharing private communication, Payment disputes, Harassment or toxicity, Spamming, Persistent begging, System abuse, Impersonation for trader staff.

• See Details: https://help.fortraders.com/en/articles/15343227-what-is-forbidden-with-us

Instant & Instant Pro

Minimum Trading days

• Instant: 7 profitable days with at least 0.5% profit of the starting balance.
• Instant Pro: None

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts with no meaningful trading activity for 7 consecutive days will be terminated, with inactivity counted from the time the last position is closed.

Minimum Trading Days

Pay After Pass, Fast Static, Fast, Classic & Strike

• Evaluation & Funded phase: 3 profitable days with at least 0.5% profit of the starting balance in each phase

Pay After Pass

• Evaluation & Funded: None

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts with no meaningful trading activity for 30 consecutive days will be terminated, with inactivity counted from the time the last position is closed.

• See details here: https://intercom.help/for-traders/en/articles/9259881-do-you-have-any-inactivity-rule

Time Limit on the Three-Step Challenge

• 180 days (60 days for each phase)

Key rules

Australian Traders

• Clients in Australia can use FTMO services which are facilitated via our affiliated VRGK entity as https://ftmo.com/au/

USA Traders

• Clients in the United States of America can use FTMO services facilitated via our affiliated entity at https://ftmo.oanda.com

Minimum Trading Days

2-Step Standard & 2-Step Swing

• 4 days - Evaluation: 4 days | Funded: None

1-Step Standard

• None - 2 days based on 50% Consistency rule

News Trading

• Allowed: Swing accounts (Both funded and evaluation phase), Standard accounts (Evaluation phase only)
• Not allowed: Standard accounts (Funded stage only) within 2 minutes before or after high-impact news.

Weekend Trades

• Holding trades over the weekend and over a market rollover period longer than 2 hours is prohibited for funded traders (Standard accounts). Standard Market hours are available on trading platforms and at: https://ftmo.com/en/symbols/. All changes to standard market hours are announced in the Trading Updates section: https://ftmo.com/en/trading-updates/

Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Allowed on all account types with no restrictions

Capital Allocation Limit

• FTMO Traders; 400k max capital per strategy per person. Accounts with identical trading strategies exceeding $400,000 allocated capital may be suspended. Prime Status; 600k. Supreme Prime Status; 1Million

Third-Party Trading

• Your account must not be traded by any third party.

Position Sizes

• Opening significantly larger position sizes or substantially different numbers of positions compared to other trades is prohibited.

1%–1.5% Risk Guidance Rule

• FTMO recommends risking no more than 1%–1.5% of your initial account balance per trade, helping traders avoid high-risk behavior that may trigger risk monitoring, warnings, or protective restrictions intended to prevent gambling-style trading.

Forbidden Trading Practices

• FTMO reserves the right to determine at its discretion if certain trades, practices, strategies, or situations are considered forbidden trading practices: Overleveraging, Overexposure, One-Sided bets, Account Rolling; https://ftmo.com/en/gambling-is-not-the-right-way-to-make-money/

• Forbidden Trading practices explained: https://ftmo.com/en/forbidden-trading-practices

Multiple Profile Accounts

• Opening multiple profile accounts is prohibited.

Copy Trading

• Allowed, copying other traders is strictly prohibited, you are the only one managing your accounts, and you respect the 400,000 simulated USD maximum capital allocation rule.

EAs

• EAs are allowed. Max 2,000 server requests per day. Popular 3rd party EAs risk exceeding the 400k max capital allocation limit strategy, which may result in denial or suspension of the FTMO account.

Inactivity Rule

• You must open at least one trade every 30 days to prevent account termination due to inactivity. Alternatively, you can request to freeze your account for 7 days to 6 months to avoid termination.

VPN/VPS Policy

• Trading while travelling and the use of VPN/VPS is generally allowed. The only exception: traders must avoid logging into MetaTrader or cTrader from the United States or setting their VPN/VPS geolocation to the US.

Stocks Availability Per Platform

• Stocks are available only on MT5 & MatchTrader.

General Trading Rules

Minimum Trading Days

• Instant Standard & Instant Pro: 4 profitable days of at least 0.5% profit each day
• 1-Step Rapid, 2-Step (Classic & Ultra): Evaluation & Funded: 4 Trading days

News Trading

• News trading is allowed during the Evaluation phase.
• On simulated funded accounts, traders are not allowed to open new trades or close existing trades on affected instruments within the 8-minute red folder news window, which is 4 minutes before and 4 minutes after the news event.
• Any profit generated during this restricted window may be deducted from the account. In rare cases, the account may be reset.
• This rule only applies to instruments affected by the specific event.
• All trades during high-impact news events must include predefined SL and TP.

Expert Advisors / cBots / Indicators

• Expert Advisors, cBots and indicators are allowed as long as they follow a strategy permitted by WSFunded.
• However, EAs and cBots cannot be used on Instant Standard or Instant Pro accounts.

Copy Trading

• Manual copy trading between the trader's own accounts is only allowed when both accounts are in the Evaluation phase and the accounts are not $100,000 accounts.
• Automatic or manual copy trading is not allowed between funded accounts, between a challenge account and a funded account, to $100K accounts, through external copy trading tools, or between accounts belonging to different clients.
• Improper use of copy trading may lead to corrective action, including account termination and removal from the program.

Weekend Holding/Trading

• Weekend Holding/ trading is allowed. Traders may keep and open positions over the weekend.

Inactivity Period

• Duration: 30 days

Mandatory Stop Loss

• All trades must have a Stop Loss added within a maximum of 2 minutes after the position is opened.

Maximum Accounts

• Traders can purchase and operate multiple evaluations simultaneously. Funded accounts can be combined up to a maximum of $400,000.

VPN / VPS

• Using a VPN or VPS is allowed, but it is not recommended because it may affect internal tracking systems.
• VPN or VPS usage is strictly prohibited during the KYC/AML verification process. If a trader completes KYC while connected to a VPN or VPS, the account may not receive funding or may be deactivated.

Trading Idea / Risk Per Trading Idea

• Classic, Ultra and Rapid accounts:
  • Traders may not risk more than 50% of the Daily Drawdown on a single trading idea. A Stop Loss must be added within a maximum of 2 minutes after opening the trade so the risk team can properly calculate the risk.
• Instant Standard and Instant Pro accounts:
  • Traders may not risk more than 1% of the initial account balance per trading idea. A Stop Loss must be added within a maximum of 2 minutes after opening the trade so the risk team can properly calculate the risk.
• Trading Idea Definition:
  • A trading idea refers to one or multiple trades on the same instrument, in the same direction, based on the same analysis or market opportunity. Multiple trades may be considered part of the same trading idea if they are opened on the same asset, in the same direction, and within a maximum interval of 30 minutes between each other.
  • Risk is calculated based on the highest risk defined by the Stop Loss.

Maximum Lot Exposure

• $5K: Forex 3 lots | Commodities/Metals 0.5 lots | Indexes 5 lots
• $10K: Forex 6 lots | Commodities/Metals 1 lot | Indexes 10 lots
• $25K: Forex 10 lots | Commodities/Metals 1.8 lots | Indexes 20 lots
• $50K: Forex 20 lots | Commodities/Metals 4 lots | Indexes 40 lots
• $100K: Forex 35 lots | Commodities/Metals 7 lots | Indexes 70 lots
• Breaching these limits may result in reduced leverage, daily trade limits, lot size caps, stricter daily loss limits, 1% max risk rule, or permanent exclusion.

Soft Breach Policy

• A soft breach is a warning triggered when trading rules are violated. It doesn't immediately disqualify the account, but repeated soft breaches can escalate into a full breach.

• News Soft Breach (Funded Only)
  Triggered when trading during restricted news events. Profits from the affected trade are deducted, but payout eligibility remains.

• Minute Stop Loss Rule
  A stop loss must be placed within 2 minutes of opening a trade. On evaluation, only a warning is issued. On funded accounts, the first violation cancels the current payout cycle.

• 50% Daily Drawdown Risk Rule (Trading Idea)
  Risk per trade idea must not exceed 50% of the daily drawdown (or 1% per idea on Instant accounts). On evaluation, only a warning. On funded accounts, the first violation cancels the payout cycle. Repeated violations result in an account breach.

Forbidden Strategies

• The following strategies are not allowed: High-Frequency Trading, trades lasting less than 60 seconds, grid trading, arbitrage trading, hedge trading, Group Hedging, latency trading, reverse trading, tick scalping, hyperactivity, Account Churning, Gambling/Betting Behavior, Trade Stacking, Overleveraging.
• WSFunded reserves the right to close the account immediately if any prohibited strategy is detected.

Key rules

• Multiple Profiles: Creating multiple profiles is prohibited.

• Opposite trading/hedging across multiple accounts or traders

• Over Leveraging: Placing random large trades without a strategy will be flagged.

• Tick scalping: defined as opening and closing a trade within 10 seconds. If over 10% of your trades are tick scalps, you will receive a warning, and repeated violations will lead to account termination.

• Using a single electronic device for trading between multiple customers is prohibited.

• It is strictly prohibited for anyone to pay for a Fintokei service on behalf of someone else, regardless of the payment method used. We call this practice unauthorized third-party payment.

• It's prohibited to use multiple IP addresses from many countries when connecting to your Fintokei Demo accounts or mask the IP addresses.

• One-sided betting: placing big trades during high volatility or news events without a strategy, hoping for a spike

• Account rolling: pushing the accounts to the limits, then buying another ones

• All-in trading: effectively achieving the Profit Target in one trade (or in a few similar trades on the same instrument)

• Maximum allowed risk: The maximum allowed risk of opened trades is 3%. The risk on open trades is calculated based on stop losses set by the trader (if applicable and visible in the platform) and on the Value at Risk (VaR) analysis over a specific period or trading session, whichever is lower.

• Profit Target: Achieving the profit target in one trade (or a few similar trades in one day) is prohibited.

Consistency Rules: If gambling practices are detected, consistency requirements will be enforced, including:

• Requirement to use Stop Losses.

• Limit on maximum risk per trade, per account, or per day.

• Capping maximum daily profit.

• Capping maximum daily loss.

• Reducing leverage.

• Setting maximum daily lot exposure.

• Restricting trading during news.

• Apply 40% Consistency rule** for the Payout request eligibility

• Apply a Net positive payout policy for the Payout request eligibility

• Apply Dynamic Performance Reward to your virtually funded accounts, as it is defined in the FPP Terms

Inactivity rule

• 30 days

Maximum order size per trade

• See details: https://www.fintokei.com/symbols/