Latency arbitrage / price-feed exploitation.
Using delayed quotes, fast/slow feed differences, or any technical advantage to capture risk-free fills (including trading off stale prices).
Hedging to bypass risk rules (internal or external).
Opening offsetting positions (same or correlated instruments) across multiple accounts, platforms, brokers, or firms to neutralize drawdown/risk limits or “lock in” pass conditions.
Copy Trading between different account of another person.
Opening the same trades at the same time & closing at the same time as another trader will result in all parties forfeiting their accounts and any profits made on the account. This is classed as group trading.
Reverse / group hedging (copy trading between accounts to game limits).
Coordinating trades across accounts (your own or others’) where one account takes the opposite side or different sizing to manipulate daily loss, max loss, or evaluation outcomes.
High-frequency “tick scalping” / order flooding.
Ultra-short holding times designed to exploit micro-moves or execution quirks, including excessive order modifications/cancellations, “spam” orders, or behaviour that strains liquidity/execution.
Trade manipulation / abusive execution practices.
Any attempt to manipulate fills or platform behaviour, including quote stuffing, exploiting price spikes caused by illiquid conditions, using prohibited EAs/bots to exploit broker errors, or trading during known outages/glitches.
All or nothing / Margin Rule.
Traders are expected to use margin responsibly. Any trade ideas using 80% or more of available margin, trading close to margin call levels, will be considered high-risk all or nothing behaviour.
To protect account integrity, Evercrest may take action including:
Closing open positions
Reducing leverage
Applying trading restrictions
Adjusting account conditions
Where excessive margin usage or over-leveraging is identified, Evercrest may also reduce or remove rewards, limit account benefits, or suspend/terminate the account.
All decisions relating to margin usage and risk management are final.
*This rule has been in our T&C's Clause 7.3. since launch, and has now been added here for clarification.*