Trading Rules
Copy trading across accounts you own is allowed. Copy trading, coordinated trading, and account sharing across accounts belonging to different people are prohibited and are grounds for disqualification and forfeiture. Hedging is prohibited everywhere, including across your own accounts.
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Across your own accounts: yes. You may run the same strategy — including with trade-copying tools — across the simulated accounts you personally own. With up to $1,000,000 in combined active accounts allowed per person, trading your strategy across your own accounts is a normal way to scale.
Across different people's accounts: no. Copy trading and coordinated trading across accounts belonging to different people are prohibited:
- Trade-copying software mirroring trades between different people's accounts.
- Coordinated manual trading — identical or near-identical strategies run across accounts owned by different individuals.
- Syndicates that share signals across multiple people's accounts.
- Account sharing — only the registered account holder may trade an account. You may not share your password, log in for someone else, or let anyone else place trades on your account.
One important boundary on your own accounts: hedging is prohibited everywhere. Holding opposing positions in the same or correlated instruments — within one account, across your own accounts, or in coordination with anyone else — is a violation. Copying your own strategy in the same direction is fine; offsetting yourself is not.
Why the line is drawn there
Your own accounts rise and fall on your own skill — copying yourself doesn't take anything from anyone. Coordinated trading across different people converts individual performance into a group arbitrage at other traders' expense, and in Trade League it corrupts the ranking itself.
Consequences
Cross-user copy trading, coordinated trading, and account sharing are grounds for disqualification: forfeiture of payouts on the affected accounts plus their entry and reset fees, and possible suspension or permanent ban.
What about trading the same public strategy as someone else?
Independently trading a widely known setup isn't the issue — coordination is. The prohibition targets copying software, signal-sharing arrangements, and accounts acting in concert.
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