Prop Firm Rules

GENERAL RULES

Inactivity Rule

• 60 Days Inactivity period (must trade at least once in 60 days to keep the account active, violation results to account breach)

EAs Availability

• These are specific for MT5 accounts only.
• Pine Script: This is specific for TradingView.
• For its review, please provide the following details to allow FXIFY to assess it directly:
  • Brief description of the EA
  • Timeframe it trades on
  • Average holding time of open positions
  • Trading pairs used
  • Take profit target (in pips)
  • Whether it uses High-Frequency Trading (HFT): Yes/No
  • Whether it involves Latency Arbitrage: Yes/No

Third party purchase policy

• Accounts obtained through third-party purchases are subject to termination. In limited cases, such as a married couple with a shared bank account, exceptions may apply

Prohibited Trading Practices/Strategies

• High Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Reverse Hedging
• Group Hedging
• Account Management
• Latency Arbitrage
• Use of a Delayed Data Feed
• Trading on Delayed Charts
• Order Book Spamming
• Herd Trading
• Collusion Between Users
• Poor Money Management
• Improper Risk Management
• Gambling Behavior (YOLO strategies, impulsive/emotional trading)
• Exploiting Bugs and Glitches (including arbitrage through glitches)
• High Leverage News Trading (HLNT – if used as gambling without proper risk management)
• Statistical Arbitrage
• See details: https://fxify.com/fxifys-prohibited-strategies/

IP/Device Policy

• Traders can use different IPs and devices — this is allowed and not a violation.
• Multiple accounts using the same IP may trigger a review, as it can suggest prohibited activities like account management.
• FXIFY also checks CID (computer ID). If multiple users share the same CID, this raises concerns about account management or KYC violations.

Performance Protect - Add-on

• FXIFY Performance Protect is a unique feature designed to safeguard funded traders’ accounts in the event of a drawdown breach. Perfomance protect explained: https://fxify.com/faqs/all-faqs/performance-protect/

ONE PHASE, TWO PHASE [PRO, STANDARD (TRAILING) & CLASSIC (STATIC)], THREE PHASE

One Phase, Two Phase Standard & Three Phase Minimum Trading days

• Evaluation & Funded: 5 days for each phase

Two phase Classic Minimum Trading days

• Evaluation & Funded: 4 days for each phase

2-Phase Pro Minimum Trading days

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

News Trading

• Allowed without Restriction

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Allowed upon review by the support team and pre-approval.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed between your own FXIFY accounts and from FXIFY accounts to other accounts.
• Traders can copy trades into your FXIFY accounts from another account, but you must first provide FXIFY with the master account statement of atleast 1 month trading history showing your name in HTML format.
• Copying trades from third parties is strictly prohibited.
• Copy Trading Not Allowed on the 2 Phase Pro

Weekend Holding

• Allowed

2-Phase Pro Daily profit Cap

• $4000 profit in 1 trading day. Once this profit limit is reached, you will be closed out and unable to continue trading till the next trading day.

INSTANT STANDARD & INSTANT LITE

Minimum Trading Days

• Instant Standard: None
• Instant Lite: 5 days

News Trading

• Restricted 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high impact news. Holding through the news is allowed but executing trades (Opening, closing, market orders including stop loss and take profit orders within this 10-minute window is restricted. any profit made within this window is not counted.

Copy Trading

• Prohibited

Weekend Holding

• Not Allowed, Open positions will be automatically closed before market closes on Friday

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Prohibited, the use of EA’s, bots and copy traders is prohibited and can run the risk of account being terminated

LIGHTNING CHALLENGE

Minimum Trading days

• Evaluation & Funded: 3 days

Time Limit

• 7 Days - 5 Trading days

Stop Loss Rule

• Required, 1st & 2nd trades without stop loss automatically closes (soft breach). The 3rd trade without a stop loss is a Hard breach.

News Trading

• Restricted 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high impact news. Holding through the news is allowed but executing trades (Opening, closing, market orders including stop loss and take profit orders within this 10-minute window is restricted. any profit made within this window is not counted.

Night and Weekend Holding

• Allowed

Copy Trading

• Prohibited, Traders must execute their own trades without replicating the trades of others.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Prohibited, the use of EA’s and bots is prohibited and can run the risk of account being terminated

Copy Trading

• CFDs: Copy trading between a trader's owns the TTP accounts is allowed.
• Copying trades between Challenge & Earning accounts is allowed.

Expert Advisors (EAs) are allowed as long as they do not engage in prohibited trading activities:

• Copy signals that are not yours.
• Perform latency/reverse/hedge/arbitrage or High Frequency Trading.
• Use emulators.
• Open trades or have pending orders 2 minutes before or after high-impact news releases ($100,000 and $200,000 CFD Prime Accounts)

News Trading

• CFDs: News trading is allowed for the 5,10,20 and 50K size and is prohibited 2 minutes before and after high-impact news events for the 100k and 200k size

Inactivity Rule

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

Gambling and Inconsistent Trading

• Traders must maintain consistent lot sizes to demonstrate disciplined and strategic trading practices.

Minimum Trading Days

• 3 profitable days for CFD's Prime challenges.

Micro scalping

• Micro-scalping is opening and closing trades within 10–15 seconds to capture very small price movements and is prohibited, Around 40% or more of profitable trades held for 10–15 seconds or less is considered micro-scalping.

Gap Trading

• Opening trades within 2 hours of market close when the market will remain closed for 2 or more hours is not allowed.
• Placing trades ahead of major news, earnings announcements, or global events that are likely to cause price gaps is not allowed.

Grid strategy is prohibited.

Martingale strategy is prohibited.

Overleveraging and Overexposure is prohibited.

Hyperactivity

• Avoid making too many trades in a short time or making decisions impulsively.

One-sided Bets

• Avoid making trades predominantly in one direction without comprehensive market analysis.

Drawdown Lock for 1-Step 100K, 200K & 2-Step 100K

• Max drawdown starts as EOD trailing and trails upward based on end-of-day balance. Once it reaches the starting balance, it locks and becomes static for the remainder of the account.

90-Day Time Limit

• Traders have a 90-day time limit from the subscription date to complete the calibration stage.
• This period may be extended if traders are actively trading.

Copy Trading

• Allowed.

EAs (Expert Advisors)

• Allowed.

News Trading

• Allowed.

Weekend holding

• All trades must be closed by 3:45 PM EST on Fridays. Trades left open will be automatically closed, resulting in a soft breach, but trading can resume when markets reopen.

Daily profit cap (2 million account size)

• The daily profit cap limits your gains to 2.5% of your account balance per day. Any profits above this level won't count toward your objectives

Inactivity

• Traders must place at least one trade every 30 days to avoid being marked inactive. Inactivity will result in an account breach.

Drawdown After Withdrawal

• When a withdrawal is approved, your Maximum Drawdown locks at your starting balance and does not reset thereafter. If you withdraw the full amount of gains in your Funded Account, your balance will return to the starting balance. Since the Maximum Drawdown is locked at that level, this will trigger a Maximum Drawdown breach and result in forfeiture of the Funded Account.

News trading

• Traders are restricted from opening new positions within a 6-minute window 3 minutes before and 3 minutes after the event

Prohibited Practices

• Using one strategy to pass the assessment and another strategy to trade the funded stage is not allowed.
• Utilizing Martingale or any average-down trading strategies, which are often not indicative of consistently profitable trading practices
• All-inning – excessive risk-taking over and over again on one or over the span of multiple accounts
• Utilizing any third-party strategy, off-the-shelf strategy or one marketed to pass challenge accounts

Inactivity Rule

• All accounts will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity.
• To avoid deactivation, log in and maintain an active connection.
• Once deactivated, accounts cannot be restored.

All or Nothing

• All or nothing practices are prohibited.

Average Trade Duration

• Traders must ensure that the average duration of all their trades exceeds 2 minutes.
• At least 50% of the requested profit must come from trades that exceed 2 minutes.

Order Block Spamming

• Entering multiple orders in a short period of time is prohibited.

News Trading on Qualified Analyst Accounts

• Allowed only for Swing accounts.
• If a trade is initiated within 2 minutes before or up to 2 minutes after a news release (a 4-minute window), its duration must exceed 2 minutes for the trade to be valid.
• For Alpha Pro 8/10% accounts, trading around high-impact news is restricted to 2 minutes before or after the news release.
• For Alpha One, Alpha pro 6% and Alpha Three accounts, trading around high-impact news is restricted to 5 minutes before or after the news release. News trading is allowed in all evaluation program without any restriction.

Drawdown Adjustment Rule for Alpha One Accounts

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

Risk Management

• Consistently losing or risking 2% or more in a single trade or sequence of trades closed around the same time is prohibited.

Account rolling

• full risk on assessment or qualified accounts to either pass or fail &/or a large quantity of accounts passing & failing within a short timeframe is prohibited.
• Previous failed accounts are taken into consideration

Qualified Analyst Allocation Rules:

• $300,000 is the MAXIMUM allocation per trading strategy on a Qualified Analyst Account. "strategy" is defined as the assets themselves. ​

Copy Trading

• Allowed, personal accounts only. Proof of ownership is required if Alpha capital account is to be treated as slave. MT5 only

https://help.alphacapitalgroup.uk/en/articles/8786973-is-copy-trading-allowed

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

Maximum lot allowed (Funded)

• Alpha Swing:
  $5k = Max 1.25 lots
  $10k = Max 2.5 lots
  $25k = Max 5 lots
  $50k = Max 10 lots
  $100k = Max 20 lots
  $200k = Max 40 lots
  $300k = Max 60 lots

Alpha One, Alpha Pro 6%, Alpha Pro 8/10% and Alpha Three

• $5k = Max 2.5 lots
• $10k = Max 5 lots
• $25k = Max 10 lots
• $50k = Max 20 lots
• $100k = Max 40 lots
• $200k = Max 80 lots
• $300k = Max 120 lots

QA Alpha firm rules.

Edge Score

• The Edge score is a personalized, numerical metric used to assess your performance in the Axi Select program. It leverages advanced analytics to evaluate key aspects of your trading and identifies areas for improvement, with the ultimate goal of guiding you toward increased funding eligibility as you advance through the program. A higher Edge score translates to more funding opportunities.

How does the Edge score work

• The Edge score is a weighted average of three key trading components: Skill, Consistency, and Risk, which is then multiplied by a discount factor based on your Experience.

Skill

• Measure your ability to generate the profits while effectively managing drawdowns.

Consistency

• Reflect your ability to achieve consistent gains, which showcases your understanding of market dynamics.

Risk

• Evaluate your proficiency in managing risks effectively.

Experience

• Assesses whether you meet minimum criteria for displaying credible trading experience.

• The higher your edge score, the greater your eligibility for funding as you progress in the program.

There are different Edge Score for the different stage available

• Seed stage: Edge score is 50

• Incubation stage: Edge score is 60

• Acceleration stage: Edge score is 70

• Pro stage: Edge score is 90

• Pro 500 stage: Edge score is 90

• Pro M stage: Edge score is 90

Note: When you reach the 14% profit target and the minimum required trades in the Seed Stage, you can skip to the next level (available only in the Seed Stage).

There is a minimum number of total trades you must make within the current stage before you can progress to the next stage, listed below is the trades per stage

• Seed stage: Trades per stage is 20

• Incubation stage: Trades per stage is 40

• Acceleration stage: Trades per stage is 50

• Pro stage: Trades per stage is 50

• Pro 500 stage: Trades per stage is 50

Minimum Equity

• The minimum amount of equity needed to begin the stage. If you withdraw funds from your account, you must ensure you have this minimum equity to stay in the program.

• Seed stage: $500

• Incubation stage: $1,000

• Acceleration stage: $2,000

• Pro stage: $5,000

• Pro 500 stage: $10,000

• Pro M stage: $20,000

Inactivity Rule

• All accounts will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity. To avoid deactivation, log in and maintain an active connection.

Buffer Rule (Instant Lite)

• The first 3% profit generated on the account cannot be requested as a reward. This will act as a safety buffer to protect your account from hitting the 3% daily loss limit when requesting a reward.

Profit Lock Rule

• Requesting a payout locks your max loss at the starting balance. The remaining portion acts as a buffer, while withdrawing the full profit leads to a breach in the Enhanced, Express, and Instant Programs.

Maximum Open Risk

• A maximum open risk of 3% applies to all funded accounts. At any given time, the total potential loss across one or multiple open positions must not exceed 3% of the starting balance.
• For Instant Lite and Instant24 accounts, the maximum open risk is 1%.

Maximum Open Trades (Instant24):

• Only one position may be open at any time. If more than one trade is opened, that trade will be automatically close and this will constitute a Soft Breach.

Trade Idea Restriction (Instant24):

• Opening multiple small trades on the same underlying trade idea in order to artificially improve your consistency score or bypass the maximum open risk rule is prohibited.
• Opening a trade in the same direction and in the same product less than 5 minutes after the previous trade was closed would be classified as the same trade idea. If this behavior is identified, it is considered a Hard Breach.

News Trading

• News trading is allowed during evaluation stages, but not allowed 3 minutes before and after high impact news in funded stages and Instant funding accounts.
• News trading is allowed on Instant24 without restriction.

Expert Advisors

• EAs are not allowed in Instant Funding accounts.

Copy Trading

• Allowed, personal accounts only.

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

Weekend Holding

• Weekend holding is not allowed in the instant funding program

Scalping

• This is defined as trades held for less than 3 minutes in duration. Total scalped profits cannot exceed 30% of total profits.

Overleveraging

• Overleveraging, overexposure, and one-sided bets—defined as continuously adding to losing trades resulting in high margin levels against a single symbol or correlated.

All or Nothing Trading

• Trading behavior that involves risking the entire daily loss limit—or a substantial portion of it—on a single trade or across multiple concurrent trades.

Account Rolling

• This is the practice of aggressively operating multiple accounts in a short period to pass or fail them, with full account history taken into consideration, this practice is strictly prohibited.

Max allocation

• The maximum total allocation is $400,000. Traders may hold one Instant account and up to three Instant24 accounts simultaneously. Instant24 accounts do not count toward the one-account Instant limit.

Minimum Trading Days

• Turbo - Evaluation: None | Funded: 3 days of 0.5% profit each day
• Sprint: None
• Junior, Senior & Executive - Evaluation & Funded: 3 days of 0.5% profit each day

News Trading

• Executing orders (including TP, SL, and limit orders) within 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high-impact news events is prohibited on all account types except Sprint. Any profits made within this window will be removed, as a soft breach.
• Swing Trades Opened More Than 24 Hours Before the News: Profits will not be removed, and existing positions may be held through news events

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• EAs are permitted only if they are risk management tools (stop-loss, take-profit, trailing stop, position sizing), copy trading EAs where you solely manage all linked accounts, or self-developed EAs built and controlled by you that don't fall under prohibited strategies. Commercial EAs — purchased, rented, licensed, or publicly distributed — are strictly prohibited, regardless of modifications.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted across your own accounts, whether held with Leveraged, another prop firm, or a retail broker. Copy trading between accounts owned by different individuals (including family or friends) is strictly prohibited.

Weekend Holding | Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Allowed

2-Minute Holding Rule

• Every trade must remain open for at least 2 minutes from execution. Occasional early closes due to volatility or manual error are generally tolerated, but frequent violations will be flagged by the Risk Team and may result in account termination.

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts inactive for more than 30 days are considered dormant and closed. At least one trade must be opened within every 30-day period to keep the account active.

Prohibited Strategies

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Bracketing Trades
• Grid Trading
• Hedging Between Accounts
• Signal Copying
• Third-Party Account Management
• Latency Trading
• One-Sided Betting, Over-leveraging and Rolling Accounts
• Tick Scalping
• See details: https://faq.getleveraged.com/en/articles/10531026-what-strategies-are-prohibited

Turbo Program Additional Rules

• Partial Closing Manipulation: Partial closes used to artificially influence the consistency score are prohibited. If any part of an overnight position is closed, the remaining volume must be fully closed within the same trading day. An overnight position may be closed in no more than two parts (including all positions on the same pair and direction opened within a 15-minute window). Closing in more than two parts across different trading days voids those profits from payout eligibility.
• Overnight Hedging: Holding hedged positions overnight is not permitted. Breaching this results in account ban and termination, with any profits from overnight hedged positions voided.

Turbo Drawdown Lock

• Once you achieve a 6% gain based on your closed balance, the drawdown locks at your original starting balance and no longer trails

Prohibited Practices

Micro scalping

• Micro scalping refers to a trading tactic where a trader attempts to capture very small price movements using very large size within extremely short time frames, often just a few seconds.
• Accounts may be flagged if more than 50% of profits are generated from trades held for 5 seconds or less. If bad faith activity is confirmed following a manual review, a written warning may be issued.
• Lucid Trading Genuine scalping is permitted as long as it reflects realistic market activity and order execution.

Hedging

• Hedging refers to the use of multiple accounts to take opposing positions on the same trade. This tactic artificially reduces risk by ensuring one account profits regardless of the market's direction and is a form of system manipulation, not genuine trading.
• Lucid Trading strictly prohibits all forms of hedging, including hedging across multiple accounts held by the same user.
• Lucid Trading Traders also cannot go long/short different contracts in separate accounts with correlated assets — for example, going long ES in one account and short NQ in a separate account is strictly prohibited.

High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

• High-frequency trading is a type of automated trading strategy that involves submitting and executing a high volume of trades within extremely short time frames, often measured in seconds or milliseconds. These strategies are typically powered by algorithms and designed to exploit minute price inefficiencies at speed.
• To maintain a reliable and equitable trading environment, HFT is strictly prohibited.
• Lucid Trading uses automated detection and may remove profits, close accounts, and restrict access for repeated offenses.

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts that have not been traded resulting in at least a net profit or loss of 1$ within 30 calendar days will be deemed abandoned and will be permanently deleted from our systems.