At Xpert Funding, we believe in empowering traders with full creative control over their trading style while ensuring that every participant trades under fair, transparent, and responsible conditions.
You can trade manually, or automate your strategy but all activity must comply with our risk management and ethical trading standards. Certain manipulative, exploitative, or coordinated practices are strictly prohibited to maintain platform integrity and prevent unfair advantages.
For a detailed explanation of what we consider manipulative or unethical trading behavior, please refer to our dedicated page on Manipulative Trading Behavior.
Prohibited Strategies
The following activities are not permitted under any circumstances across all Xpert Funding models (Evaluation and Funded Accounts):
Gap Trading: Opening or closing trades during illiquid market moments, weekend gaps, or rollovers to exploit artificial price spikes.
High-Frequency Trading (HFT) or Tick Scalping: Executing excessive trades within milliseconds to exploit execution delays or data feed timing.
Server Spamming: Overloading the TradeLocker server with large volumes of automated trade requests or mass cancellations.
Latency / Feed Arbitrage: Exploiting minor price delays between brokers, liquidity providers, or platforms for artificial profits.
Reverse Trading / Cross-Account Hedging: Placing opposite trades across multiple accounts (yours or others) to create risk-free outcomes.
Trade Copying / Signal Mirroring: Replicating trades across other users, firms, or unverified third-party systems.
Long-Short Arbitrage: Opening conflicting positions on correlated pairs or platforms to manipulate account results.
Overexposure Stacking: Circumventing margin or exposure limits by opening multiple correlated trades.
These behaviors are identified by our Risk & Compliance Team through advanced backend monitoring and will result in immediate account termination and profit forfeiture.
💡 For examples of manipulative patterns and how they are detected, see our Manipulative Trading Behavior Policy.
Why These Rules Exist
Our mission is to identify real, skilled traders not to reward artificial strategies.
Prohibited strategies distort trading performance, create unstable results, and damage the trust that powers the entire prop trading industry.
By enforcing these rules, Xpert Funding ensures:
Every trader competes on equal terms
Our analytics remain accurate and transparent
The integrity of payouts and scaling programs is protected
⚡ Trade Smart. Stay Authentic. Build Long-Term Funding.