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Prohibited Trading Practices

Prohibited trading strategies

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Top One Futures Prohibited Trading Strategies & Platform Integrity

At Top One Futures, our mission is to build a sustainable, secure, and trustworthy trading environment for serious traders who value opportunity and integrity. We are deeply committed to maintaining the long-term viability of our firm and the safety of our trading ecosystem.

To uphold these standards, we leverage advanced fraud detection technologies and robust compliance monitoring systems. Any trader found to be violating our rules or exploiting platform vulnerabilities will have their account breached and all associated profits forfeited. Any violations of these rules during the Elite Challenge Phase might result in either a retake challenge being issued or a full breach of the account, depending on the severity of the violation.


🚫 Prohibited Trading Practices

The following activities are strictly forbidden across all Top One Futures accounts, regardless of account type or stage:

1. Exploiting System, Pricing, or Latency Errors

Any attempt to take advantage of errors, delays, mispricings, or lags in the broker's feed, the charting platform, or any associated systems will result in immediate account breach. This includes latency arbitrage and price manipulation.

2. Use of Insider or Non-Public Information

Trading based on information not available to the general public, including insider news or confidential financial disclosures, is prohibited.

3. Front-Running

Placing trades with the intent to benefit from anticipated price movement based on trades executed elsewhere (e.g., in another account or at another firm) is not allowed.

4. Hedging Between Accounts

You may not hedge one account against another, whether within Top One Futures or across other prop firms or brokers. All trades must reflect independent trading strategies without cross-account hedging.

5. Unauthorized Account Access

Only the registered account owner is permitted to trade. Allowing friends, family, or third parties to access or trade on your account violates this policy.

6. Minimum Trade Duration (10-Second Rule)

To protect against ultra-high-frequency scalping and promote responsible trading:

  • All trades must remain open longer than 10 seconds.

    • 10.00 seconds = violation, 10.01 seconds = acceptable.

  • Closing any portion of a trade before 10 seconds violates this rule.

  • Adding to a trade (e.g., scaling in) within 10 seconds is permitted.

Occasional minor violations are tolerable, but if:

  • anywhere close to 50% or more of your total and/or withdrawable profits

  • OR, anywhere close to 50% or more of your individual trades

violate this rule, all profits associated with these trades will be removed.

Examples:

  • Compliant: You open a trade and add more contracts after 5 seconds. You close everything after 15 seconds.

  • Violation: You open 2 contracts, close 1 after 5 seconds, and hold the other. This is considered a violation because part of the position was closed too soon.

7. Trading That Risks Broker Relationships

Trading strategies or behaviors that may harm our broker relationships—such as abnormal flow, slippage targeting, or mass quote stuffing—are grounds for account closure.

8. Trading That May Create Regulatory Concerns

Any activity that could cause regulatory exposure for Top One Futures or our liquidity partners is not tolerated.

9. Externally Marketed Challenge-Passing Strategies

Using any publicly available or purchased system advertised to help traders “pass challenges” is not allowed. All strategies must be developed and executed by the trader.

10. Rolling or Churning of Accounts

Creating multiple evaluation accounts in a short period and using a batch approach (e.g., deliberately letting most accounts fail while focusing on passing one) is strictly prohibited. This is considered manipulative and wasteful behavior.

11. Arbitrage with Other Firms

Attempting to gain an advantage by arbitraging trades across Top One Futures and another firm or platform is prohibited.

12. Automated Trading / Expert Advisors (EAs)

Use of any automated trading system, script, bot, Expert Advisor (EA), or high-frequency execution tool is strictly forbidden. All trades must be entered manually or semi-manually by the trader.

13. Copy Trading or Group Trading

Each trader must operate independently. The following are not allowed:

  • Executing the same trades as another person or account

  • Coordinated trading with relatives or friends

  • Following signal services, Telegram groups, Discord calls, or any shared trade alert system

  • Subscribing to any service that results in mirrored trades across different accounts

Top One Futures expects unique strategies per trader, not correlated or synchronized actions.

14. Intentional Account Breaching

Traders may not attempt to deliberately fail or breach funded accounts to avoid transitioning to live trading, remain on simulated accounts, or game system protections.


📌 Multiple Account Limit – Max 3 Active Accounts

To give traders flexibility while maintaining firm-wide risk controls, Top One Futures permits up to 3 active accounts per trader at any given time.

  • These can be a combination of challenge, verification, and/or funded accounts.

  • Once you have 3 active accounts, you must wait before activating a new one.

IMPORTANT: If you create or activate a 4th account, the oldest of your existing active accounts will be automatically breached and no refunds will be issued for that account. This rule is non-negotiable and enforced automatically by our system to maintain fairness and manage risk.


Our Philosophy – Fairness for Serious Traders

Top One Futures is dedicated to supporting disciplined, honest, and skilled traders. We strive to offer:

  • Transparent rules

  • Rapid support

  • Reliable execution

  • Opportunities to grow and scale responsibly

Honest traders have nothing to worry about. If you trade fairly, follow the rules, and respect our community standards, we will stand behind you 100%.

Those who seek to exploit the system or game the platform, however, will be swiftly detected—and consequences will apply without exception.


💬 Questions or Concerns?

Our Support Team is here to assist you with any clarifications. Please contact us through your dashboard or official communication channels for further assistance.

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