Trading Rules
Two kinds: trading-rule breaches (breaking the max loss closes your account; violating published rules like consistency or position limits can make a payout ineligible) and prohibited conduct under the governing terms (hedging, multi-account schemes, cross-user copy trading, VPS/VPN exploitation, delayed-feed trading, account sharing, fraud, exploiting bugs, automated trading) — which can mean disqualification and forfeiture.
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Rule breaks fall into two buckets with different consequences.
1. Trading-rule breaches
These are breaches of the published rules of your specific challenge or competition:
- Max loss / drawdown breach — closes ("blows") the account immediately.
- Other published-rule violations — consistency-rule violations, position-limit breaches, allowed-symbol violations, trading-hour violations, winning-day shortfalls, and similar. These can make a payout request ineligible or be grounds for denying it; every payout request is reviewed against the rules in force when you traded.
2. Prohibited conduct (governing terms)
Conduct violations apply across all products:
- Hedging — opposing positions in the same or correlated instruments within one account, across your accounts, across household accounts, or with coordinated traders. The most common violation.
- Multi-account schemes — registering accounts under different names, addresses, payment methods, or devices. Every trader holds exactly one user profile, and account exposure is limited to $1,000,000 in combined active simulated accounts per person. (Multiple traders in one household are each welcome to hold their own profiles and accounts — but accounts belonging to different people may not trade in coordination.)
- VPS/VPN exploitation — using a VPS or VPN to gain a trading advantage, most commonly feed-lag or latency arbitrage.
- Copy trading and coordinated trading across different people's accounts — see "Is copy trading allowed?" (copying across your own accounts is permitted).
- Trading from a delayed or non-standard data feed.
- Account sharing — only the registered holder may trade.
- Fraudulent registration — false identity, false documents, unauthorized payment methods.
- Exploiting platform bugs — if you find a bug or pricing error, report it to support; trading it is a violation. Good-faith reporting is welcomed.
- Automated trading — all trading must be manual; see "Can I use trading bots?"
Consequences
Enforcement can be graduated — warning, temporary suspension, then permanent ban — but severe conduct (fraud, multi-account schemes, deliberate exploitation, threats) can go straight to a ban. Disqualification means forfeiting all payouts earned on the affected account plus its entry and reset fees.
If you're disqualified and believe it's a mistake, see "Can I appeal a disqualification?"
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