All trading strategies are permitted, provided they comply with our risk management rules and trading policies.
However, the following practices are strictly prohibited:
Exploiting Errors or Latency in Pricing/Platform
Explanation: Taking advantage of delays, pricing errors, or platform malfunctions to generate profit.
Example: Exploiting incorrect currency pair pricing caused by a platform glitch.
Utilizing Non-Public and/or Insider Information
Explanation: Trading based on confidential or non-public information.
Example: Using knowledge of a private merger announcement to profit in the market before the information becomes public.
Front-Running of Trades Placed Elsewhere
Explanation: Placing trades based on advance knowledge of large market-moving orders placed by others.
Example: Entering a trade before a large institutional order is executed in anticipation of the resulting price movement.
Jeopardizing Broker Relationships or Trade Cancellation
Explanation: Engaging in trading activity that may damage the company’s broker relationships or result in trades being voided.
Example: Repeatedly placing abnormal or disruptive trades that trigger broker risk management systems.
Creating Regulatory Issues for the Broker
Explanation: Trading in ways that may violate financial regulations or create compliance concerns.
Example: Trading restricted instruments or markets without the appropriate permissions or licenses.
Using Third-Party, Off-the-Shelf, or Marketed Strategies
Explanation: Using publicly sold or commercially marketed strategies, particularly those designed specifically to pass challenge accounts.
Example: Using a widely distributed Expert Advisor (EA) marketed as a “prop firm pass strategy.”
Changing Strategies After Account Funding
Explanation: Using one strategy during evaluation and switching to a materially different strategy after becoming funded.
Example: Using a conservative strategy to pass the evaluation phase and then switching to aggressive high-risk scalping once funded.
Utilizing Martingale or Average-Down Strategies
Explanation: Increasing position sizes or adding to losing trades in an attempt to recover losses.
Example: Doubling trade size after each losing trade to recover previous losses quickly.
Arbitrage Between Accounts
Explanation: Exploiting pricing differences between accounts, whether within the same company or across multiple firms.
Example: Simultaneously buying an asset in one account while selling it in another to profit from pricing discrepancies.
“All-In” Trading or Excessive Risk-Taking
Explanation: Repeatedly placing excessively high-risk trades that place the account at significant risk.
Example: Using the entire available margin on a single trade, effectively risking the full account balance on one market movement.