Whether you're taking on an evaluation challenge or already in a funded account, these rules will help you trade with confidence while staying within the limits.

The trading rules for evaluation and funded accounts are the same. However, funded accounts do not require a profit target.

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.
  • Exceeding Daily Loss Limit
  • Breaching the Maximum Drawdown
  • Inactivity for 30+ days
  • Prohibited trading behavior

🔗 Soft Breach vs. Hard Breach – Full Article

1.1 Daily Loss Limit – 5%

The Daily Max Loss is calculated using the higher of:

End-of-day Balance (closed P&L only), or End-of-day Equity (balance + open/floating P&L)

The higher value becomes the reference for the next day’s Daily Drawdown limit.

🔗How to Calculate Daily Max Loss ?

1.2 Maximum Drawdown (Static)

Maximum Drawdown (static) is a fixed percentage based on your starting balance, regardless of your account's growth. It remains constant throughout the account's lifetime.

Max Drawdown for Forex Evaluation:

• X-1 Step Forex Evaluation: 6% drawdown limit
• X-2 Step Forex Evaluation: 8% drawdown limit

Example: If your starting balance is $100,000 and your max drawdown is 6%, your account cannot drop below $94,000.

Additional Note: The Maximum Drawdown does not reset when you request a withdrawal.

• How Do You Calculate the Max Drawdown?

1.3 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

1.4 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.

2. Account Rules – Allowed vs. Not Allowed

Understand what actions are permitted on your evaluation or funded account.

3. Leverage & Margin Details

We offer competitive leverage options across different asset classes:

• Forex– Up to 50:1
• Metals – Up to 20:1
  
• Indices – Up to 10:1
• Oil – Up to 5:1
• Cryptocurrencies (BTCUSD, BCHUSD, ETHUSD, LTCUSD) – Up to 2:1 (subject to broker availability and changes)

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.

4. Lot Sizes – Trade Smart with the Right Volume

Understand lot sizing to manage exposure properly:

• Forex: 1 lot = $100,000 notional
• Indices: 1 lot = 1 contract (SPX500: 10 contracts, JPN224: 500 contracts)
• Crypto: 1 lot = 1 coin
• Silver: 1 lot = 5,000 ounces
• Gold: 1 lot = 100 ounces
• Oil: 1 lot = 100 barrels

5. Handling Taxes

All traders are treated as independent contractors. You are responsible for declaring and paying your own taxes on trading profits.

6. Eligibility to Trade

Traders we cannot receive:

7. What Happens If I Breach But Have Profits?

If your funded account is breached but you have accumulated profits, those gains are normally forfeited.
However, with the optional Payout Protector add-on, your profits may still be eligible for payout, provided Consistency Rule conditions are met. 
For full details and examples, please refer to: Don’t Lose Your Profits – Payout Protector Explained

8. Trading Hours

Trading hours are generally set by the Liquidity Provider, unless set by our rules. We do not have any control over the trading hours. You can see the trading hours for each product by using the following methods:

• DXtrade – Right click symbol, select “Instrument Info”
• MatchTrader – Click symbol to expand, select “Info”
• cTrader – Navigate to Symbol Window, scroll down to see “Market Hours” for selected symbol

9. 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) = ❌

10. Commission & Fees

Funded accounts at TradeXProp receive the same pricing and commission structure as those applied to self-funded retail accounts by our liquidity providers.

Commissions and Fees:
Commissions or commission-equivalents may apply based on your trading activity.
Rates are determined by the underlying asset class and set by our liquidity providers.
These rates may be adjusted periodically to reflect market conditions.

Overnight Swap Rates:
Positions held overnight may be subject to swap charges.
Swap rates vary by asset class and are also subject to change without prior notice.