Prohibited practices include: executing Martingale strategies (aggressive volume doubling after losses to recover quickly), High-Frequency Trading (HFT), latency arbitrage, One-Side Betting, Coordinated opposite trading, and intentionally exploiting technical feed malfunctions. We evaluate your actual trading skills under conditions that closely simulate the live market.
One-side betting
Trading without market analysis — building positions in one direction only and holding them until the market turns, instead of managing risk — is prohibited.
Directional trading is not a breach in itself. A payout cycle in which 80% or more of closed positions are opened in the same direction (buy or sell), with a minimum of 10 closed positions, triggers a review of the account by our risk team.
In that review we look for trading logic behind the positions: whether stop-losses are used, whether the trader responds when the market turns, whether entry points and position sizes vary, and whether opposite-direction trades appear when the trend changes. If the trading is systematic, no action is taken and the account continues as normal.
A breach is recorded when the review shows that positions were opened without analysis and held at a loss until the price reversed.
Consequences: first breach — the account's profit split is reduced to 50%. The reduction is permanent and does not reset after a payout. Second breach — the account is closed and the challenge fee is not refunded.
Copying trades in the same direction across your own accounts is permitted and does not constitute a breach.
Coordinated opposite trading
Coordinating trades with accounts of other traders — opening opposite positions on the same instrument in order to lock in a guaranteed profit on one account at the expense of a loss on another — is prohibited.
A review of the account by our risk team is triggered by an episode in which opposite positions on the same instrument, held on accounts of different users, meet all three conditions: a volume match of 65% or more; opened within 5 minutes of each other; closed within 5 minutes of each other.
In that review we establish whether the coordination was actual or whether it is explained by ordinary market circumstances.
Where coordination is confirmed, the account is closed and the challenge fee is not refunded. The decision applies to all accounts of both participants.