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What are the Forbidden Strategies?

Written by OPF Capital Support
Updated over a month ago

OPF Capital gives traders the freedom to trade their own strategies within the defined risk limits, leverage, and trading rules. You are free to trade in a way that matches your skills and experience. However, this freedom comes with strict restrictions to ensure fair and sustainable trading conditions.

The following trading strategies and practices are strictly prohibited:

  • Gap trading

  • High-frequency trading (HFT)

  • Server spamming or order flooding

  • Latency arbitrage

  • Toxic trading flow

  • Hedging strategies

  • Long–short arbitrage

  • Reverse arbitrage

  • Tick scalping

  • Exploiting server execution delays

  • Opposite account trading

  • Any form of coordinated or abusive trading behavior

In addition, the following are not allowed:

  • Copy trading with other traders

  • Account management by a third party

  • Use of trade signals from external providers

Any involvement in these activities may result in immediate account termination, denial of rewards, or closure of the account.


Expert Advisors (EAs)

The use of third-party Expert Advisors (EAs) is allowed only if the EA is strictly used as:

  • A trade management tool

  • A risk management tool

Using any other type of third-party EA (including strategy automation, execution algorithms, or signal-based EAs) is not allowed and may lead to:

  • Evaluation failure

  • Reward denial

  • Account closure


IMPORTANT

Your strategy. Our risk.

OPF Capital is designed to fund skilled traders who can demonstrate discipline, consistency, and proper risk management.
There are no shortcuts to getting funded.

Any attempt to manipulate systems, bypass rules, or abuse trading conditions will result in permanent disqualification.

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