Prop Firm Rules

Inactivity Rule

• All accounts will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity.
• Once deactivated, accounts cannot be restored.

Maximum Loss Per Trade Policy

• (Instant Funding, AquaMan and Pay After Pass model): If your floating PnL (profit and loss) reaches or exceeds a loss of -2% (or -1% for the $300,000 and $400,000 accounts) of the account balance, the account will be permanently closed.

News Trading

• News trading is allowed. Profits on trades opened or closed 5 minutes before/after high-impact news is capped at 0.5% per cycle.
• News trading is allowed in all evaluation program without any restriction.

Wave stop

• If your open trades incur a 2% loss of your account balance, Wave Stop will usually auto-close all open positions across all symbols. This is a soft breach, so you can resume trading right away. This is only applicable for funded accounts; instant funding is not included.
• Note: 1st breach – Profit split reduced to 50%, 2nd breach – Account is breached.

All or Nothing

• All or nothing practices are prohibited.

Margin Limit

• Using more than 80% of available margin on a single trade is prohibited.

• Excessive risk taking in terms of the % of an account risked in a single simulated-trade.

• Excessive cumulative risk taking in terms of the % of an account risked in a series of overlapping simulated-trades.

Choice of strategy

• Traders are not allowed to use one strategy to pass an assessment and then switch to a different strategy in a funded account.

Copy Trading

• Allowed between personal accounts only.

• The following copy trading is allowed:

  • Copy trading between AquaFunded accounts.
  • Copy trading from Funded to Evaluation accounts and vice versa.
  • Copy trading between AquaFunded account and external accounts.

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

Maximum Lot Sizes

• https://instantfunding.com/help/maximum-lot-sizes/

Minimum hold time

• Trades held for 60 seconds or less are regarded as high frequency trades and are prohibited

Smart Drawdown (Instant Funding, Instant Funding Go and Instant Funding Clarity)

• It starts at -10% and automatically adjusts to -5% once you achieve a 5% gain on your account balance. After that point, the drawdown remains fixed at -5% of your starting balance, even if your profits grow.

News Trading

• One-Phase and Two-Phase (challenge phase only): No news restrictions
• IF Micro, IF1, One-Phase Micro, Two-Phase Micro, One Phase Clarity and IF Micro Clarity: No news restrictions
• Instant Funding, Instant Funding Go, One-Phase, Two-Phase (funded accounts) and Instant Funding Clarity: News trading is not allowed 4 minutes before and after high impact news. Allowed with Add-on.

Weekend Holding

• One-Phase, and Two-Phase, (challenge phase only): Allowed
• IF Micro, IF1, One-Phase Micro, Two-Phase Micro, One Phase Clarity and IF Micro Clarity: Allowed
• Instant Funding, Instant Funding Go, One-Phase, Two-Phase (funded accounts) and Instant Funding Clarity: Allowed with Add-on

Inactivity

• If no trades are placed within 60 days of your account purchase or after the last trade, your account will be automatically closed.

Risk per Trading Instrument

• Instant Funding: You may not risk more than 3% of your starting account balance at any time on a single trade idea.
• Instant Funding GO: You may not risk more than 2% of your starting account balance at any time on a single trade idea.
• IF Micro and IF1: You may not risk more than 1% of your starting account balance at any time in one trade idea
• One Phase, One Phase Micro and Two Phase: You may not risk more than 50% of your daily drawdown at any time in one trade idea.
• Two Phase Micro: You may not risk more than 2% of your starting account balance on any single trade idea for Two-Phase Micro accounts of $50,000 and below, and no more than 1.5% for accounts of $100,000 and above.
• Closing and reopening a position in the same direction on the same instrument within 10 minutes is treated as the same trade idea and does not reset the limit. Exceeding this limit will result in a hard breach.

Account Drawdown (Clarity)

• If the unrealized loss on your open positions exceeds 2% of the starting balance on a One-Phase Clarity account or 1.5% on an IF Clarity account and 2.5% on an Instant Funding Clarity account, the system closes everything automatically. First time, your account moves to a 50% profit split and stays active — your second chance. A second breach closes the account permanently.

Prohibited Practice and strategies

• Account Churning (Rolling): Opening multiple funded or challenge accounts in quick succession is prohibited

• High-frequency trading (HFT): HFT involves holding trades for 60 seconds or less.

• One-Sided Bets: Taking positions in a single direction without proper analysis or consideration of market trends, often leading to excessive exposure.

• Grid Trading: Placing buy and sell orders at fixed intervals, relying solely on price fluctuations rather than informed analysis. This strategy disregards market conditions and often leads to uncontrolled losses.

• Overleveraging: Exceeding the allowable lot size limit for your account type on a single trade idea. This creates excessive risk and significantly increases the chances of an account wipeout.

• Gambling: Engaging in trades that resemble betting rather than strategy, such as placing random positions without analysis or risking large portions of the account on a single trade idea.

• Martingale: Increasing positional notional volume after each trade, aiming to recover previous losses or amplify winnings on subsequent trades. This involves doubling down after a losing trade. Martingale trading is allowed for all challenges and IF Micro accounts (including funded stage). For Instant Funding accounts, traders can add to losing positions but must avoid continuously doubling lot sizes after losses.

• Improper Day Padding: If a minimum trading day requirement applies to your account, each trading day should reflect your normal trading behavior. Opening negligible or artificial trades solely to meet the minimum trading day requirement is not permitted. This includes: Trading significantly smaller lot sizes than usual, Executing low-risk or meaningless trades with no strategic intent. Such behavior is considered inconsistent and does not align with our evaluation of genuine trading skill.

General Trading Rules

High-Frequency Trading (HFT), arbitrage, straddling, latency abuse, or exploiting price feed delays are prohibited.

Notional Volume:

• The Notional Volume Limit controls the maximum permitted open notional exposure for the account. It is separate from platform leverage, margin usage, and buying power. https://help.finotivefunding.com/en/articles/927-what-are-the-notional-volume-limits

Floating Drawdown

• Instant Funding: On Instant Funding accounts, the Floating Drawdown threshold is 1.5% of the Initial Account Balance. A Dashboard or platform reminder may appear at 1.0%. The first confirmed Floating Drawdown breach results in a Formal Warning only. From the second confirmed breach onward, each separate qualifying event results in one Strike and Reward Payment reduction to 10% for the relevant Payout Cycle.

• Challenge and Pro evaluation phases: During Challenge and Pro Challenge phases, the Floating Drawdown threshold is 2.0% of the Initial Account Balance. Reaching the threshold does not result in a real-time alert, email alert, platform notification, soft warning, Strike, Account Reset, Reward Payment reduction, or account closure. Relevant findings may be included in the Challenge Phase Progression Report.

• Challenge and Pro funded phase: Once a Challenge or Pro account reaches Simulated Funded Status, the 2.0% Floating Drawdown threshold is enforced. A reminder may appear at 1.5%. A confirmed breach results in one Strike and Reward Payment reduction to 10% for the relevant Payout Cycle. Only one Strike may be issued per trade and instrument combination. Five cumulative Strikes result in permanent account closure.

Loss-chasing and gambling-style trading behavior is prohibited

• This refers to repeatedly engaging in one-directional or impulsive trading aimed at recovering prior losses, including immediately re-entering positions in the same instrument and direction after a losing trade

Scalping Rule:

• Short-duration trading is not automatically prohibited. Prohibited scalping is identified by Finotive thresholds. A scalping condition is identified where 40% or more of closed trades in a Payout Cycle have a holding time of 120 seconds or less, or 20% or more of total positive realised profit in the Payout Cycle is generated from trades held for 120 seconds or less.

High Frequency Trading:

• The specific High-Frequency Trading rule applies to Instant Funding Standard and Instant Funding Lite only. HFT is prohibited where 30% or more of closed trades have a holding time of less than 60 seconds, with at least 10 closed trades required before assessment, or five or more trades are opened within any 10-second interval.

Excessive One-Sided Position Concentration:

• Excessive One-Sided Position Concentration is identified where the trader has at least 10 closed trades in a Payout Cycle and either 70% or more of closed trades are on the same symbol and in the same direction, or 70% or more of total exposure is on the same symbol and in the same direction.

What is Liquidity Abuse:

• Liquidity Abuse means systematically targeting low-liquidity conditions, widened spreads, or execution inefficiencies. A condition may be identified where at least 20% of total realised profit in a review period or Payout Cycle is generated from trades opened and closed within the applicable low-liquidity window.

Low-liquidity trading and spread exploitation is prohibited

• This refers to the systematic execution of trades during low-liquidity market conditions with the intent to benefit from widened spreads, delayed order execution, or sharp price movements. A breach occurs when trades are consistently opened or closed between 22:00 and 02:00 UTC, and more than 20% of total profit is generated during this time window.

  Use of VPNs, iCloud Private Relay, proxies, remote desktops, anonymisers, IP masking, rapidly changing IPs, or geographically inconsistent connections may lead to failed verification, account closure, Reward Payment rejection, and refund refusal.

Weekend holding: Evaluation based programs

• Allowed | Instant Standard & Instant Lite: Not Allowed without add-on

Hedging

• Hedging between multiple accounts is prohibited.

High-frequency stacking (including correlated instruments)

News straddling is prohibited.

• This means placing straddled, offsetting, or equivalent hedged exposure on the same or correlated instruments within 15 minutes before or after Red or Amber events, earnings events, or geopolitical events where the purpose is to capture volatility rather than express a genuine directional view.

Accounts inactive for 30 consecutive days may be closed without refund

GENERAL RULES

News Trading Rule

• You may hold trades and trade during news events
• Avoid opening, closing or adding to positions within 3 minutes before or after any high impact news release or speech on affected instruments, as that can be identified as excessive risk
• This applies to all programs (Ability Challenge, Ability One, FTP(instant funding))
• Violation is a hard Breach
• All FOMC events such as meetings, statements, press conferences, speeches, and related releases are treated as major news events under this rule, regardless of their impact rating (low, medium or high impact) on any economic calendar

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• EAs are allowed if they follow prohibited-strategy rules and are not sourced from third-party signals

Scalping Rule

• Scalping is allowed
• However, if most or all trades are closed within two minutes or less or those resembling arbitrage are prohibited and may lead to action from the Risk Team

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed between your own accounts within Audacity Capital
• Copying from an external account is allowed only if the account belongs to you
• Third-party copying is not permitted

Inactivity Rule

• Both Ability accounts (all stages) and the Funded Trader Program(Instant Funding) have a 6 month inactivity period
• No trade within this period will result to account breach

Weekend Holding/Trading(crypto)

• Allowed

Max Lot Limit

• There are no overall lot size restrictions on the account, but each individual open position is limited to a maximum of 10 lots as a risk management measure by the provider

VPN/VPS Policy

• VPN use is generally prohibited due to IP tracking and server misuse risks, but may be allowed with valid justification and approval
• VPS use is permitted for running EAs, provided it doesn't cause server abuse

Prohibited Trading Practices

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Tick Scalping
• Hedging Within or Across Accounts
• Martingale / Averaging Down Strategies
• Group Hedging and Coordinated Trading
• Use of Third-Party Expert Advisors (EAs)
• Third-Party Account Management
• Copy Trading and Signal Mirroring
• Grid Trading Strategies
• Pre-News One-Sided Positioning
• Exploitation of Technical or System Vulnerabilities
• Uncritical Directional Trading
• Automated Bulk Trade Execution
• Lot Size Misuse
• Dollar cost Averaging
• Prohibited Trading Practices explained: https://audacity.capital/prohibited-trading-practices/

Tradeable Assets

• https://audacity.capital/symbols/

ABILITY CHALLANGE & ABILITY ONE

• Minimum Trading days
  • Evaluation: 3 days for Ability One (1-step) & 4 days for Ability Challange (2-step)
  • Funded: None

FUNDED TRADER PROGRAM

• Minimum Trading days: 5 Days
• Minimum Profitable Days: 3 out of the 5 trading days

News Trading:

• For BEM One (Funded) and BEM Classic (Evaluation and Funded), opening or closing trades is prohibited from 4 minutes before until 4 minutes after a high-impact news release.
• BEM Classic Swing (Evaluation and Funded) is exempt from this restriction, allowing trades opened at least 8 hours before a high-impact news event to remain open and be managed normally during the news window.
• Cryptocurrency pairs are not subject to any news trading restrictions.
• News trading is allowed in the BEM One Only program without restrictions.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed between your own personal accounts and between multiple BEM Trader funded accounts, provided all trades originate from accounts you own. Copy trading between evaluation accounts is not permitted, and each evaluation account must be traded independently.

Inactivity

• If no trades are placed within 30 days of your account purchase or after the last trade, your account will be automatically closed.

Drawdown Adjustment Rule (BEM - One)

• Before requesting a reward, you must leave a buffer zone in your account so it stays above your trailing drawdown level after the reward is processed. This buffer helps protect your account from being closed due to drawdown rules

Multiple Challenges and Strategy Restrictions:

• You may participate in multiple challenges simultaneously. During the Challenge and Consistency phases, you must not open trades across your own accounts using the same strategy.

Risk Limit

• During the funded stage, the maximum risk on any single trading pair must not exceed 1.2% of the initial account balance. This rule applies to Classic Normal, Classic Swing and One accounts.

Equity Guard

• During the funded stage, the combined risk exposure across all open positions must not exceed 2% of the initial account balance. This rule applies to One accounts only.

Weekend Holding

• Weekend holding is allowed during evaluation, however holding trades over the weekend or through a market rollover period longer than 2 hours is prohibited in the funded stage on all programs except the BEM Classic Swing and BEM One Only programs.

Prohibited Practices:

• Bulk or Mass Trading Activity
  Opening multiple trades simultaneously or in rapid succession in a manner that indicates automated or non-discretionary execution.

• Bracketing Strategies
  Placing pending buy and sell orders around the market price ahead of major news releases to capture volatility spikes.

• Gambling or One-Sided Trading Behavior
  Trading behavior that resembles gambling, such as oversized positions, repeated one-directional exposure, or attempts to pass an evaluation through a small number of high-risk trades.

• Martingale strategies

• Hedging & Opposing Positions
  Opening opposing positions on the same symbol (or highly correlated symbols), either within a single account or across multiple accounts, in a manner intended to manipulate performance metrics or bypass risk limits.

Other Prohibited Practices

• https://bemfunding.com/prohibitedTradingPractices

Minimum Trading Days

• Requirement: None across all programs

Stop Loss Rule

• Requirement: If you fail to place a stop loss at the time of placing an order or executing a trade, the system will automatically close the trade — soft breach
• Add-on Option: Removable with add-on except on DXtrade platform

News Trading

• Allowance: News trading is allowed, but opening large positions around high-impact news events is prohibited and may violate their terms under the All-or-Nothing prohibited trading strategy

Expert Advisor

• Allowance: EA's are allowed, except those that are designed for HFT or arbitrage trading

Copy Trading

Allowed

• Between Lark funded / Instant funding accounts
• Between Lark funded/Instant funding accounts, Other prop firms and personal accounts owned by the same person
• Copy trading from an external account (other propfirm or personal accounts) is allowed, but only to a single evaluation account at a time
• Copy trading from a Lark funded/Instant funding accounts to a single Lark evaluation account is allowed

Not Allowed

• Copy trading between multiple evaluation accounts is not allowed
• Copy trading from accounts not owned by the same person is strictly prohibited

Partnership with PropFirm One

• Lark funding's partnership with PropFirm 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 Lark funding's internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching Lark funding's core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com

Inactivity

• Requirement: Traders must execute at least one trade every 30 days to avoid account inactivity and breach

Gain Limit

• Threshold: Daily and/or per-trade gains exceeding $10,000 (calculated at 5 PM EST) trigger the following actions:
  • Challenge Accounts: One violation results in restarting Phase 1 with no refund but a free evaluation
  • Simulated Funded Accounts: Gains above $10,000 are excluded from payouts. Three violations lead to account breach with no payout
• Trade Calculation: Trades executed at similar times or partially closed count as a single trade
• Multi-Phase: Gains made across multiple phases on a single day will be considered toward the daily gain limit

Recommended Risk Limit

• Maximum Risk: Maximum risk per simulated trade idea is 1.5%
  • Trade Idea Definition: A trade idea refers to similar trades, meaning those placed in the same direction on the same instrument, opened and closed within a short interval of 1 to 2 minutes

Margin Limit

• Overall Requirement: Overall margin utilization must not exceed the following limits:
  • Forex: 50%
  • Metals: 50%
  • Indices: 75%
  • Oils: 75%
  • Crypto: 75%
  • Stocks: 75%

Weekend Holding | Crypto Trading On Weekends

• Allowance: Not allowed except purchased with hold over the weekend add-on
• Crypto Breaks: Crypto temporary break between 5-6 pm EST and a 4-hour break from 9 am-1 pm EST on Saturday mornings

All-or-Nothing Trading

• Prohibition: This refers to a style of trading where a trader could breach or come close to breaching the drawdown limits in a single trade due to the large volume of positions, lots executed or margin utilization, this practice is prohibited

Holding Into Earnings, Dividends, or Other Corporate Actions

• Prohibition: Holding Single Share Equity CFD positions through earnings releases, dividends, or any corporate action is strictly prohibited
• Requirement: All such positions must be closed by 3:50 PM ET on the day of the event (or the prior trading day if the event is pre-market)
• Violation Consequence: Violation results in an immediate hard breach and any gain or loss on the position will be removed

More on Prohibited Trading Strategies

• Prohibited Strategies: All-or-Nothing & Gambling-Based Trading, High-Frequency Trading, Reverse Trading (between different accounts) / Group Hedging, Unauthorized Copy Trading, Holding Into Earnings, Dividends, or Other Corporate Actions
• Details: https://helpdesk.larkfunding.com/en/articles/8243502-prohibited-trading-strategies

VPN/VPS Policy Explained

• https://helpdesk.larkfunding.com/en/articles/7174234-can-i-use-a-vpn

1 - Step Smart Restart Guarantee

• Attempts per Evaluation: Each Evaluation comes with 4 attempts. If your first attempt fails but you traded within the risk parameters, you get a free restart — no cost
• Qualification Requirements:
  • No single trade loss greater than 1% of account balance
  • Overall drawdown stays better than -5%
• How to Use: A "Surrender Account" button appears in your dashboard once eligible. Clicking it surrenders the account and generates a 100% discount code for a new Evaluation
• Key Notes:
  • Can be used up to 3 times per purchased Evaluation
  • If drawdown briefly exceeds -5% but recovers, you may still qualify as long as no single trade exceeded 1%
  • Discount code is valid once per purchased Evaluation

Lark Funding Special Futures Explained

• https://helpdesk.larkfunding.com/en/collections/5518409-special-features

GENERAL RULES

Minimum Trading Days

Lightning, Dual(intraday/swing) & Nexus

• Evaluation: 3 trading days
• Funded: 3 profitable days with at least 0.5% profit based on your starting balance for that day, and your overall account balance is above the initial starting balance.

Bolt(Instant Funding)

• 5 profitable days with at least 0.5% profit based on your starting balance for that day, and your overall account balance is above the initial starting balance.

• Impact on Payouts: For every payout interval, you must meet the Minimum Profitable Trading Days requirement to qualify for payout.

Expert Advisor (EAs)

• ThinkCapital supports automated trading and Expert Advisors on all account types, provided the tools are compatible with the ThinkTrader platform. Users must contact support via email to notify them of third-party software usage, as the platform may require a review of the strategy for compliance.

Copy Trading

• Traders are allowed to use copy trading between Think Capital accounts. To use copy trading between your other prop firm accounts and Personal accounts, you must use your Think Capital account as the master account. However, ThinkTrader does not have the functionality of traditional Expert Advisors (Trade copiers) in the same way as MT5. Trade Copiers compatible with ThinkTrader can be used for copy trading.

Inactivity Rule

• You must place at least one trade every 30 days to keep your account active. Failure to do so will result in account termination with no refund for challenge accounts and no payouts for funded accounts.

Gambling & Reckless Trading Policy

• ThinkCapital strictly prohibit any trading behavior that resembles gambling or reckless betting. Trading must be approached professionally, with sound risk management and consistency.
• Gambling behavior includes overleveraging, all-in trades, doubling down after losses (Martingale), overexposure to correlated assets, excessive high-frequency scalping, punting (placing a few high-risk trades hoping for quick wins), “coinflip” trading patterns, and account rolling.
• Accounts showing such behavior may receive warnings, profit deductions, resets, suspension, or permanent termination sometimes without prior notice if risk is extreme. See Details: https://www.thinkcapital.com/faqs/general-faqs/what-are-thinkcapitals-guidelines-regarding-gambling-or-reckless-trading-behavior-on-the-platform/

Prohibited Trading practices/strategies

• Copy trading (between accounts not owned by the same person), Grid trading, Hedging or group hedging across multiple accounts, Collusion between users, Account sharing/account management/account sale, Latency arbitrage, High-frequency trading (HFT), Abuse of a delayed data feed, Abuse of the simulated environment, Trading on delayed charts, Unauthorized use of Expert Advisors (EAs), Challenge passing services, Martingale trading, Use of guarantee of compliance with limit orders, Trading in sanctioned countries, Exploiting platform or data freezing due to technical errors, News trading (within restricted window), Order layering, Gambling/punting. See details: https://www.thinkcapital.com/faqs/general-faqs/guidelines-regarding-trading-strategies-contrary-to-thinkcapitals-terms-of-use-policy/

• ThinkCapital Penalties: https://www.thinkcapital.com/faqs/penalties-faq-section/penalties-faq-section/

VPN/VPS Policy

• VPN use is generally prohibited. Multiple users on one account or unapproved automation are strictly forbidden. VPN/VPS use during KYC/AML verification is not allowed and may lead to account denial or breach.
• You’re permitted to use a VPS from ForexVPS for running your algos and EAs non-stop without disruption, but it’s crucial to ensure compliance with Terms and Condition.

Dynamic Leverage & News Event Multiplier

• During selected economic events, margin requirements may be multiplied for affected instruments.
• This change applies only to new positions opened during the event window; existing positions keep their original margin requirements
• Leverage automatically returns to normal once the event window ends

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BOLT (Instant Funding)

News Trading

• News trading is strictly prohibited on Bolt accounts. No trading activity (including pending orders, SL, and TP) is allowed within 5 minutes before or after high-impact (Red Folder) news events. Any activity during this window results in immediate account termination and profit forfeiture.

Overnight Holding

• Allowed

Weekend Holding

• Prohibited
• All trades must be closed before Friday 21:00 UTC. Failure to comply may result in permanent account failure.
• Cryptocurrency trading is not available on Bolt accounts. Bolt traders may trade Forex, Commodities, and Indices only.

LIGHTNING (1-STEP & NEXUS (3-STEP) CHALLENGE

• News Trading Policy

  • News trading is strictly prohibited on both Challenge and Funded accounts. No trades, order executions, or account activity (closing trades, executing trades, stop loss hits, take profit hits) are allowed within 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after any high-impact news event (as marked with a red folder on ForexFactory).
  • Violations will result in an immediate account breach, termination of the funded agreement, and forfeiture of all profits
  • Exception: News Trading Add-On

• Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading (Crypto)

  • Allowed

Lightning & Bolt Drawdown Lock

• Overall maximum drawdown locks at initial account balance once it grows by 6%.

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DUAL STEP INTRADAY (2-STEP)

• News Trading Policy

  • News trading is strictly prohibited on both Challenge and Funded accounts. No trades, order executions, or account activity (closing trades, executing trades, stop loss hits, take profit hits) are allowed within 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after any high-impact news event (as marked with a red folder on ForexFactory).
  • Violations will result in an immediate account breach, termination of the funded agreement, and forfeiture of all profits
  • Exception: None

• Overnight Holding

  • Allowed

• Weekend Holding/Trading(Crypto)

• Prohibited

• All trades must be manually closed before Friday 21:00 UTC. Failure to comply may result in permanent account failure.

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DUAL STEP SWING (2-STEP)

• News Trading Policy

  • Allowed With No Restrictions

• Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading (Crypto)

  • Allowed

GENERAL RULES

News Trading

• Allowed without Restrictions

Stop-Loss

• Must be placed within 1 minute of opening a trade (soft breach if missed).
• System automatically closes the trade after 1 minute if no stop loss is placed.
• Any profits made without using a Stop Loss won't count toward your profit target objective.

Copy Trading

• Allowed Copy Trading
  You can copy trades as long as the CTI account used is the Master Account.

✓ CTI Master Account → Personal account with any broker.
✓ CTI Master Account → Other prop firms' accounts.
✓ Between Multiple CTI Accounts: You can copy trades across your CTI accounts with one of the accounts being the Master account.

• Not Allowed in Copy Trading
  CTI does not allow any form of third-party or outsourced trading.

✕ Copying trades from other prop firms into the CTI Account.
✕ Copying trades from the Personal account into the CTI Account.
✕ Copying other traders using social trading tools, platforms, or software.
✕ Using a prop firm challenge pass service to trade on your behalf.
✕ Sharing the same expert advisors (EAs) with other traders.

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

Expert Advisors

• Using a 3rd-party Expert Advisor (EA) that the trader doesn't own the source code is not Allowed
• Using Trade Managers and Calculators is allowed.
• You can use any EA on the 1-Step Challenge, even if you don't own the source code.

Inactivity Rule

• 30 Days inactivity Period, place a trade once in 30 days, violation results to account termination

Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading (Crypto)

• Allowed

Risk Parameters

• Risk department may enforce temporary measures like leverage limits or position size restrictions.
• Applies to: Multiple account blowouts, limited trading history, deviations from trading patterns, frequent risk violations, excessive drawdowns, or high-risk exposure in volatile markets.

Prohibited Trading Practices

• Exploit Price Inefficiencies / Price Feed Errors
• Group Hedging / Hedging / Group Trading / NOT Allowed Copy Trading
• Account Sharing / Reselling of Account / Account Management
• One-Sided Bets
• Gamble to Pass / Over-Leveraging:
• Using extremely high risk on 1 trade idea.
• Risking the entire drawdown limit in one go.
• Risking the whole account on a single trade idea.
• Exceeding a 150% Margin level. (Note: Trades Profit will not be counted)
• Certain EA Types | Using EAs 3rd-Party EAs (Excluding the 1-Step Challenge)
• Bracketing Strategies
• Martingale Trading Style (Excluding the 1-Step Challenge)
• Grid Trading
• See Details: https://helpcenter.citytradersimperium.com/en/articles/12879492-prohibited-trading-methods

IP | VPN | VPS Policies

• VPNs, proxies, and IP-masking services are prohibited.
• Change in IP Address is Allowed. But CTI monitors suspicious patterns using IP, device and behavior data
• A VPS may only be used when trading with an Expert Advisor (EA) or for Copy Trading Purposes.
• Device Limitations:
  • Trading is limited to 2 devices (PC and mobile).
  • Additional device use requires approval with proof via video call.
  • Unauthorized device use results in account termination without a refund.
• IP, VPS, VPN, & Max Number of Devices Explained: https://helpcenter.citytradersimperium.com/en/articles/12879311-ip-vps-vpn-max-number-of-devices-allowed-to-use

Specific Country Restrictions

• Vietnam is restricted for 2-Step Challenge & Instant Funding Pro

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1-STEP & 2-STEP

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation: At least 3 profitable trading days for each phase, each with a minimum of 0.5% profit
• Funding: At least 7 profitable trading days, each with a minimum of 0.5% profit on First Payout only.

INSTANT FUNDING & INSTANT FUNDING PRO

Minimum Trading Days

• At least 5 profitable trading days, each with a minimum of 0.5% profit on first payout only.

Instant Funding Structure

• Level 1: The Instant Funding Program have an Initial Balance (e.g; $5000) which is half the Fully Funded Balance (e.g; $10,000).
• Once you achieve a 10% profit on that Initial Balance, CTI immediately adds the remaining 50% to your account. This "completes" your funding, moving you to the Fully Funded Balance - Level 2

General Rules

Minimum Trading Days

• No minimum trading days

News Trading Rule

• News trading is allowed at all times, including during high-impact events, as long as you do not risk your entire or majority account balance on a single news trade.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading across FT+ accounts is strictly prohibited, including opening the same position on the same market in the same direction within the same time window, violations may result in profit nullification per T&Cs. (Applies only to FTP Account).

• Copy trading between your personal or other prop firm accounts and a Funded Trading Plus account is permitted.

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

Expert Advisors

• EAs, algos, and bots are allowed only on MT5. Abusive strategies like arbitrage, grid trading, or any form of cheating are strictly prohibited.

Inactivity

• Your evaluation & FT+ Trader sim funded account would only expire in the event that there is no simulated trading activity on it within a 30-day period.

Weekend Holding

• Allowed except on Instant Funding where all trades must be closed by 4.30pm (EST) on Friday or will be automatically closed by the system

Crypto Trading On weekends

• Allowed

2-Step Classic 3% Symbol Loss Limit (Hard Breach)

• No single instrument can incur more than a 3% simulated equity loss, calculated based on the prior day's balance.
• Multiple simultaneous trades on the same instrument count as one.

Risk Review Policy

• FT+ performs risk reviews during evaluation passes, scaling, and withdrawal requests to ensure responsible trading and prevent issues early. Reviews focus on margin utilization, with set thresholds that trigger manual checks by the risk team.
• Read Full Policy: FT+ Risk Review Policy

Account Management policy

• Only the account owner may trade, purchase, and manage their FT+ account. Account sharing, third-party management, or using another person’s payment method is strictly prohibited and may cause KYC issues.

Prohibited Trading Strategies

• Excessive Risk Taking (Single Trade)
• Excessive Cumulative Risk Taking
• Boom or Bust (News-Based Risk)
• Trading Contrary to Real Market Practices
• Over-Leveraging / Over-Exposure
• One-Sided Bets
• Arbitrage / Exploiting Pricing Feeds
• Exploiting the Simulated Environment
• Tick Scalping
• Copy Trading Across FT+ Accounts
• Hedging Across Multiple Accounts

See details: https://www.fundedtradingplus.com/terms-conditions

GENERAL RULES

Minimum Trading Days:

• Instant Funding lite, One stage PRO, One-Step, Two-Step and Three-Step: None
• One-Step Lite and Two-Step Lite: Evaluation & Funded: 3 Profitable days of 1%

Weekend Holding/Trading (Crypto):

• Restricted, all trades to be closed by 15:45 EST. Any positions open at this time will be closed automatically, at a potentially unfavorable price, due to thin liquidity at the end of the week.
• Allowed with Add-On.
• Weekend Holding add-on not available on the Instant Funding Lite, One-Step Lite and Two-Step Lite

News Trading

• Holding existing positions through a news event is allowed.
• Opening a new position within 3 minutes before or after a news event is prohibited.
• Violation leads to profit deduction, leverage reduction or account termination after a series of violations.

Evaluation Limits

• You are permitted to purchase and participate in only one evaluation of a specific account size and a specific plan type at a time, regardless of trading platform.

• Example: You can have one 100k One Step Plan and one 100k Two Step Plan active, simultaneously. However, you cannot have one 100k One Step Plan on DXtrade and another 100k One Step Plan, regardless of platform.

Copy Trading Rule

• Allowed only between accounts owned by the same trader. Group trading, signal services, passing services, third-party strategies, or EAs for copy trading are strictly prohibited.

EA's

• EAs are allowed, provided they are personally owned. Third-party or shared EAs are prohibited.

Risk Management Rules

• "All-in" trading is not allowed—using all margin and max lot size on one symbol or correlated symbols is prohibited.
• Exploitative strategies, such as risking full margin in a single trade, are strictly prohibited.
• More Prohibited strategies inlude: high frequency trading, community trading, prop firm passing services, cross account hegding.
• See details: https://nordicfunder.com/prohibited-trading-practices/

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts become inactive after 30 days of no trading activity.
• Instant Funding Lite Inactivity: 14 days