Traders are expected to act ethically and avoid manipulating order execution or exploiting market conditions in a way that would be impossible in real-world scenarios.
Prohibited Practices
Simultaneous Limit Orders at Same Price
Sending multiple orders at the same level to force fill priority or better queue execution.
Gapped or Illiquid Market Exploitation
Placing trades during low liquidity with the intent of being filled at exaggerated prices.
Bracket Manipulation
Using extremely tight bracket orders to create artificial profitability based on unrealistic fills.
Absence of Slippage Abuse
Simulated environments often don't model slippage. Using this fact to force high-frequency fills that wouldn't occur in live trading is prohibited.
Trading During Tier 1 Economic Events
No new trades may be opened within 5 minutes before and after the release of Tier 1 data.
You may hold trades opened earlier, but you may not modify stop-loss or take-profit levels during the 10-minute blackout window.
Hedging
Hedging — defined as holding offsetting positions in correlated instruments simultaneously (for example, being long in one futures contract while short in another closely correlated contract) — is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, taking opposing positions in highly correlated markets such as:
Long ES (E-mini S&P 500) while short NQ (E-mini Nasdaq 100)
Long CL (Crude Oil) while short QM (Mini Crude Oil)
Long 6E (Euro FX) while short DX (US Dollar Index)
Such activity undermines the integrity of risk management within funded accounts and can create artificial trading behaviors that do not align with the objectives of our program.
Traders found engaging in hedging may face immediate account review, removal from the program, forfeiture of any pending payouts, and disqualification from future participation.
Gambling or Random Trade Behavior
Any trading behavior resembling gambling, random execution, or intentionally reckless decision-making is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to:
Placing trades without a defined strategy, risk management plan, or technical rationale.
Repeatedly opening and closing trades at random intervals to "test luck" or force payout cycles.
Overleveraging or revenge trading with disregard for drawdown limits.
Risking more than 2% of the account balance on a single trade idea, whether through large position sizing, excessive scaling, or pyramiding without justification.
Such actions are considered intentional account abuse and violate the principles of skill-based, consistent trading.
Violations of this policy will lead to immediate account termination and forfeiture of all rewards.
Account Juggling / Cross-Account Layering
This rule applies to all account stages, including Evaluation, Sim-Funded/Funded, Instant, and any other HyperTicks account type.
Copy trading across your own accounts is permitted. However, traders may not use the number of accounts they hold to intentionally take excessive risk, sacrifice certain accounts, or “blow” some accounts in an attempt to pass, preserve, or profit from others.
This includes, but is not limited to:
Closing a trade at a loss on one account and then re-entering the same trade idea on another account at a better price.
Taking excessively aggressive or oversized trades on any account primarily to pass, advance, or generate rewards quickly.
Staggering the same directional trade across multiple accounts at different prices or times in order to improve the chances that some accounts survive, pass, or profit.
Using multiple accounts as interchangeable attempts at the same trade idea, where losses are intentionally absorbed by some accounts while others benefit from a better entry or more favorable market movement.
Copy trading is allowed when accounts are traded consistently and with legitimate risk management. Using account quantity as a way to distribute excessive risk, sacrifice accounts, or game any stage of the HyperTicks program is prohibited and may result in account closure, reward denial, or other action under our Terms & Conditions.
Layering
Continuously adding to an existing position as price moves against you in order to increase exposure or improve your average entry is prohibited.
Adding to a position as part of normal trade management may be allowed, but repeatedly increasing size on a losing trade or trade idea is considered prohibited layering.
Violations of these policies constitute intentional manipulation and will result in account suspension or disqualification from payouts.
If you have any concerns, please contact us via live chat or send an email to support@hyperticks.com