Whether you're taking on an evaluation challenge or trading a funded account, these rules are essential to help you trade confidently and compliantly.
Note: Evaluation and Funded Account rules are the same—except funded accounts do not require a profit target.
Eligibility: You must be at least 18 years old or meet your country’s legal age requirement to purchase an evaluation.
Breach Types & Key Trading Rules
1.1 Hard Breach vs. Soft Breach – Know the Difference
Soft Breach: Violating a rule may result in:
Your position(s) being closed
Profit/Loss (P&L) removed
Leverage reduced
Continued trading permitted
Example: Trading during a restricted news window.
Hard Breach: A critical rule violation that results in account closure.
Examples:
Breaching the Maximum Drawdown
Inactivity for 30+ days
Prohibited trading behavior
🔗 Soft Breach vs. Hard Breach – Full Article
1.2 Daily Cap Limit – 3% Per Day
Your account is limited to a ±3% movement based on the previous day’s closing equity. This recalculates at 5 PM EST daily.
Example:
If your equity at 5 PM EST was $100,000, the next day’s range is $97,000 to $103,000. Exceeding this cap will result in position closure and account lock until the next day.1.3 Static Maximum Drawdown – Fixed Safety Net
The drawdown does not adjust with gains.
X-1 Step: 6% drawdown
X-2 Step: 9% drawdown
Note: The drawdown does not reset when you request a withdrawal.
Example: You have taken an account from $100,000 to $120,000. You then request a withdrawal of $16,000 where the profit split is 90/10. In this scenario, you will receive $14,400 and we would retain $1,600.
This would also take the balance of the account down to $104,000, and your Maximum Drawdown will remain$94,000. So, you would have $10,000 maximum you could lose on the account before it would violate the Maximum Drawdown rule.
If you take a full withdrawal of the gains in your Funded Account, the Maximum Drawdown will still remain at $94,000.
1.4 Inactivity Rule
If you do not place a single trade for 30 consecutive days, your account will be breached.
Examples of Inactivity:
Purchasing but never trading
Trading and then halting for over 30 days
1.5 News Event Trading – Time Restrictions
Opening trades within 3 minutes before or after major news events is prohibited.
🚨 If violated:
Trade may be closed
P&L may be removed
Leverage may be reduced
Account may be breached
1.6 Prohibited Trading Activities – Play Fair, Win Big
Exploiting Platform Errors: No latency abuse, price manipulation, or software exploits.
Insider Trading & Front-Running: No use of non-public information for trading advantage.
Jeopardizing Broker Relationships: No trades that can result in broker trade cancellations or regulatory issues.
Arbitraging Accounts: No mirroring trades between multiple prop firms or internal accounts.
Using Marketed Strategies: No third-party strategies designed specifically to pass evaluations.
Strategy Switching: No changing strategies between assessment and funded accounts.
News Event Trading: Strictly no trades within 3 minutes before or after a news release.
Gambling Practices: No high-risk, all-in, or excessive leveraging strategies.
Reverse Trading & Group Hedging: No hedging across multiple accounts.
Copy Trading: Only permitted between your own accounts.
View our complete list of Prohibited Uses in our Terms and Conditions.
Important Notice: This is only a summary. Traders must review the full policy to fully understand the rules and avoid potential breaches.
Account Rules – Allowed vs. Not Allowed
Leverage & Margin Details
While our current leverages and margin requirements are fixed, we reserve the right to implement tiered or variable margin requirements at our discretion, and such changes may be made without prior notice.
Handling Taxes
All traders are treated as independent contractors. You are responsible for declaring and paying your own taxes on trading profits.
Eligible Countries – Who Can Trade?
Our program is open to traders from most countries, except those on the OFAC list or otherwise restricted by applicable regulations.
Traders we cannot receive:
PK - Pakistan
RU - Russia
CU - Cuba
SD - Sudan
SO - Somalia
IR - Iran
LB - Lebanon
SY - Syria
LY - Libya
VN - Vietnam
What Happens If I Breach but Have Profits?
Even if you hard breach, you are still entitled to your share of the profit.
Example:
You grow a $100,000 account to $110,000 but violate a hard rule.
Your account closes, but you’ll still receive 80% of the $10,000 profit = $8,000.
Evaluation Fee Refund Policy
All evaluation fees are non-refundable. This policy supports our ability to provide top-tier technology, liquidity, and fair trader assessments.
Trading Hours
Trading hours are determined by the exchange or liquidity provider.
Crypto markets are typically open 24/7, but holidays and system maintenance may affect availability.
Maximum Evaluation Limits
You can only purchase one evaluation per account size and plan type at a time. Limit: Up to $1,000,000 total in active evaluation plans.
Example:
One 100K One-Step Plan + One 100K Two-Step Plan = ✅
Two 100K One-Step Plans (even on different platforms) = ❌
Commission & Fees
Commissions or commission-equivalent charges may apply to your trading activity. These rates vary depending on the asset class and are determined by our liquidity providers. They may be adjusted periodically to reflect market conditions.
Important Note:
Swap rates (overnight holding fees) may apply if you hold positions overnight. These rates differ by instrument and may change without prior notice.
Commissions and fees are automatically applied at the time of trade execution
Cryptocurrency Trading Fees
For all crypto trades, a commission of 0.05% per side is applied, calculated on the total notional trade volume:
USD Notional Amount × 0.0005 = Commission (per side)📌 Example: A $10,000 BTCUSD trade would incur a $5 commission when opened and another $5 when closed.