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What trading practices are prohibited during the Breakout Evaluation?

Updated over a week ago

You are prohibited from engaging in any of the following activities:

  1. Exploiting errors or latency in the pricing and/or platform(s).

  2. Utilizing non-public and/or insider information.

  3. Front-running of trades placed elsewhere.

  4. Trading in any way that jeopardizes the relationship Breakout has with a centralized exchange or market maker.

  5. Trading in any way that creates regulatory issues for Breakout, a centralized exchange or market maker.

  6. Utilizing any third-party approach, off-the-shelf approach or one marketed to pass evaluation requirements.

  7. Utilizing one trading approach to pass the Breakout Evaluation and then utilizing a different approach in the funded account as a funded trader.

  8. Attempting to arbitrage your demo account with another account with Breakout or any third-party company.

  9. Using trading approaches that are difficult to replicate in the live market or come at a heightened risk when attempting to do so, including but not limited to, trades that would risk being auto-deleveraged due to margin requirements or trades resulting in exceedingly large fluctuations in unrealized gains/losses.

  10. Executing trade ideas belonging to or inspired by any third-party, including but not limited to, copying other traders’ and analysts’ ideas or copying trading signals from any type of trading community, social media, research report or crowdsourced idea.

  11. Trading more than one Breakout Evaluation at the same time.

  12. Account sharing of any nature, including but not limited to, sharing credentials with other users or trading multiple accounts from the same household, devices or internet protocol address.

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