We review every account before every payout. Trading that breaks these rules is not paid, even when the account met every plan rule.
How we review
We look at your fills, positions, trade times and prices, logins, devices, payment details and identity records. We also compare your trades with every other trader's trades at the same moment.
A trade is one position in one market, from the moment you open it until you are flat again. Contracts you add while the position is open are part of the same trade.
A mini and its micro count as the same market: NQ and MNQ, ES and MES, YM and MYM, RTY and M2K, GC and MGC, CL and MCL, SI and SIL.
Your accounts includes accounts on your profile and accounts on other profiles that our review establishes you own or control. We may use identity, login, device, payment and trading records to establish these connections. Separate account-sharing and household limits also apply.
When we hold a payout, we tell you the rule, the account and the dates or trades. See How We Review Payouts.
What is not allowed
1. Hedging across accounts
Holding a long position in one account and a short position in another at the same time, in the same market. This includes:
two of your own accounts
an Evaluation account against a Funded account
your account against another trader's account
a mini against its micro, for example long NQ in one account and short MNQ in another
two markets that move together, for example long ES in one account and short NQ in another, when it is used to cancel out risk
Any overlap of opposing positions prohibited by this rule counts, regardless of duration.
What happens: once confirmed, every account involved is closed without prior warning, and affected payouts are denied.
2. Coordinated trading
Trading with another person so your trades match theirs, or so one of you takes the opposite side of the other, to pass evaluations or protect funded accounts. This includes signal groups that place the same trades at the same second, and trade copiers connected to someone else's account.
Allowed: copying trades between your own accounts.
What happens: every account involved is closed and is not paid.
3. Sacrificial accounts
Using one account to take a loss so another account can make money. Example: one of your accounts fails on the same day it held the opposite side of another of your accounts.
What happens: every account involved is closed and is not paid.
4. All-or-nothing trading and account rolling
An isolated all-or-nothing trade or account loss does not, by itself, establish account rolling. Repeated all-or-nothing trading or account rolling across accounts may be referred to our Compliance team for review. Enforcement is based on the overall pattern and supporting records, rather than a fixed number or proportion of accounts lost. If your activity is flagged for review, our Compliance team will contact you. See All-or-Nothing Trading and Account Rolling.
What happens: every account affected by account rolling is closed and is not paid. See that article.
5. High-frequency trading
Very large numbers of orders in very short windows, where the profit comes from speed and order count, not from where the market goes. Example: 10 or more separate orders filled in the same second. The Micro-scalping Policy also applies.
What happens: affected trades are removed. The account may be closed on the first occurrence or for repeated conduct, without prior warning.
6. Latency arbitrage
Trading the delay between our price and a faster outside price. Example: very short trades that win most of the time because another price feed has already moved.
What happens: those trades are removed and the account is closed.
7. Stale or wrong prices
Knowingly trading a price that is frozen, delayed or clearly wrong, including fills well away from where the market was trading at that moment. If you see a wrong price, tell support right away.
What happens: affected trades are removed, including wins and losses. Intentional or repeated prohibited conduct results in account closure without prior warning.
8. Execution exploits
Gaming how fills, slippage, the loss limit or other platform rules are calculated, instead of trading the market. Examples:
limit orders that fill at prices the market never traded
trading on a platform delay at the open, the close or a data outage
trading on a gap in how the loss limit or balance is updated
What happens: those trades are removed. If it was on purpose, the account is closed.
9. Quote stuffing
Flooding the platform with orders, changes or cancels.
What happens: the account is closed.
10. Spoofing and layering
Placing orders you do not mean to fill, to make it look like there is buying or selling interest.
What happens: the account is closed.
11. Wash trading
Trading against yourself, directly or through someone else. Example: one of your accounts buys and another sells the same contract, same size, at the same price and the same moment.
What happens: those trades are removed and the accounts are closed.
12. Risk-free setups
Any setup built so you win no matter what the market does, across accounts, markets or promotions. Examples:
opposite positions across accounts so one of them passes
buying discounted accounts in other people's names
using a promotion more times than it allows
What happens: the accounts are closed and not paid. Promotion value is reversed.
13. Bugs and loopholes
Making money from an error instead of reporting it. Examples: a balance that went up without a trade, a payout amount that is wrong, a price glitch.
What happens: the amount is removed. If it was used on purpose, the account is closed. If you report the error before you use it, nothing happens to your account.
14. Account sharing
Anyone other than you trading your account or logging in to your dashboard or platform. This includes paid passing services, sharing a trading device with another trader, and buying in someone else's name.
What happens: see the table below.
15. Bots and automated trading
Bots, algorithms, expert advisors and any automated order entry are not allowed. See Bots/Algorithmic Trading Policy.
What happens: the account is closed.
Rules that already apply
These are unchanged and still apply:
Micro-scalping: more than 50% of your trades and more than 50% of your profit must come from trades held longer than 10 seconds. See Micro-scalping Policy.
News trading: allowed, but straddles, strangles and news-only gambles are not. See News Trading Policy.
CME price limits: no trading within 2% of a contract's CME price limit.
Idle accounts: at least one trade held 10 seconds or more every week. See Maximum Account Idle Time.
Proxy and bot hosts are not allowed. A personal VPN/VPS is allowed.
Restricted countries: see Rules: Restricted Countries / Regions.
What happens, rule by rule
Any confirmed violation of this policy may result in account closure and denial of affected payouts, including on a first occurrence and without prior warning. Depending on the nature, severity and pattern of the conduct, FFF may instead issue a warning, remove affected trades, adjust balances or restrict account access. A warning or lesser action is not guaranteed.
Rule | What happens |
Hedging across accounts | Accounts closed, not paid |
Coordinated trading, or copying another trader | Accounts closed, not paid |
Sacrificial accounts | Accounts closed, not paid |
Repeated all-or-nothing trading or account rolling confirmed through Compliance review | Affected accounts closed without prior warning; affected payouts denied |
High-frequency trading | Trades removed; closure may apply on the first occurrence or for repeated conduct, without prior warning |
Latency arbitrage | Trades removed, account closed |
Stale or wrong prices | Trades removed; intentional or repeated prohibited conduct closes the account |
Execution exploits | Trades removed; on purpose closes the account |
Quote stuffing | Account closed |
Spoofing and layering | Account closed |
Wash trading | Trades removed, accounts closed |
Risk-free setups | Accounts closed, not paid |
Bugs and loopholes | Amount removed; on purpose closes the account |
Someone else trading your account, or a passing service | Accounts closed, not paid |
Sharing a trading device | Accounts closed, not paid |
Bots or automated trading | Account closed |
VPS, proxy or bot host | Balance reverted; account restrictions or closure may also apply without prior warning. |
Buying in someone else's name | Balance reverted; involved accounts may also be closed and affected payouts denied without prior warning. |
More than one profile in your name | Warning, account restrictions or closure; no prior warning is required. |
Too many accounts in one household | Warning, account restrictions or closure of accounts exceeding or used to circumvent the household limit; no prior warning is required. |
"Trades removed" means the trade's result is taken out of the account, win or loss. The balance, profit target, winning days, consistency and payout amount are worked out again without it. An evaluation that passed only because of a removed trade is not passed.
Fees for closed or failed accounts are not refunded.
Not sure?
Ask support before you trade. Report any price or platform error the moment you see it.