Trading Rules

Basic Rules

To pass an account and proceed to the next phase/level, your Account Balance must reach the requested Profit Target and you must be flat on positions.
In this program, Daily pause indicates the maximum amount you can lose throughout a single day, before we liquidate any open positions and pause your trading until the next day. Your new Daily Pause limit is visible and updated on your Dashboard every day at 16:00CT when the markets close. For more information and examples check our FAQ’s.
The Maximum Drawdown rule indicates the maximum amount you can lose across the lifetime of your account. Your Max Drawdown limit is visible and updated on your Dashboard for easy access. If your account equity drops below your Max Drawdown limit, your account will be breached and automatically closed. To ensure consistency across our Challenge and Earning Accounts, in both types of accounts the Max Drawdown is trailing on EOD Balance, but will only trail up until your starting balance level. For more information and examples check our FAQ’s
To evaluate your consistency in the Challenge phase, we cap your daily profits to 40% of the overall Profit target. Making more than 40% of the overall profit target in one day will not lead to a breach of your account, rather any excess profit you make will be added to your profit target. This essentially means you can pass the Challenge in 3 days.
If you do not place a trade for 21 days, the account will be breached.
Each trader is limited to five active earning accounts.  If you have five active Earning accounts and happen to pass another Challenge, we will queue your upgrade, and you can request it to be fulfilled after your existing Earning Account is terminated.
Holding overnight positions is considered a risky trading strategy which we want to avoid, therefore any positions that are still open 5 minutes before the new trading day (15:55CT) on Futures Prime accounts will be force-closed by our Risk Managers.

Prohibited Trading Practices

(a)  You are allowed to copy trades manually or automatically in up to 5 of your accounts, however, if you copy the same strategy in more than 5 accounts, then we reserve the right to deny the upgrade to the additional accounts.
(b) You are allowed to copy trades from an external account that is yours. However, it is prohibited to copy trades from other traders or sources that are not your own.
(c) Copying trades between your Challenge & Earning accounts is prohibited.
News Trading is allowed for the Futures Prime products, both in the challenge and in the earning accounts.

However, it's important to be aware of the significant risks involved, such as heightened volatility and potential for large, unpredictable price swings.
Entering positions in opposite directions (long & short) on two separate accounts is strictly prohibited.
Achieving the profit target through a single trade is strictly prohibited. We ask to see consistent trading from our partner traders who adhere to the correct Risk Management practices and aren’t seeking to reach the target with one big, risky trade.

The consistency target is calculated by factoring in your best day’s profit and your account’s profit target. The current consistency rule sits at 40% of the profit target, please also see: What is Futures Prime Consistency Rule? | TheTradingPit .
In simple terms, we ask that you stay consistent in your strategy and adhere to Standard Market Risk Management, avoiding substantial deviations in position sizes and the number of positions relative to your usual trading patterns.
We ask our partner traders to maintain consistent lot sizes in their trades to align which demonstrates disciplined and strategic trading practice.
An example of breaching this rule would be if you complete your 3 minimum trading days by entering a trade of 10 standard contracts for the first 2 days and then for the final day you place 1 micro lot trade.
Trading strategies that exploit system errors or trade on external/slow data feeds are prohibited. Furthermore, engaging in activities attempting to manipulate the market or to apply any type of Arbitrage trading will lead to the termination of your account.

Also, although we allow E.A.’s that are created by you, using software or EAs that aim to manipulate or misuse the system will lead to the termination of your account.
Trades being executed in anticipation of major global news, macroeconomic events, or corporate earnings reports specifically when such events are likely to impact the prices of financial instruments in the relevant market, may lead to a Gap in the pricing feed of the broker. Trades opened less than 2 hours before the closing of a financial market with the target of exploiting expected price gaps upon market reopening will be considered a malicious practice and will lead to termination of your account with no compensation.

Basic Rules

To pass an account and proceed to the next phase/level, your Account Balance must reach the requested Profit Target, and you must be flat on positions.
The Daily Drawdown indicates the maximum amount you can lose daily. Once you reach the daily drawdown limit, your account will be breached and automatically closed. We update your new Daily Drawdown limit on your Dashboard every day at 16:00CT when the markets close. For more information and examples, check our FAQs.
The Maximum Drawdown rule indicates the maximum amount you can lose across the lifetime of your account. Once you reach the maximum drawdown limit, your account will be breached and automatically closed. For more information and examples, check our FAQs
We ask you to trade for a required number of trading days to ensure consistency in your risk management and trading. For an account to be registered as passed, you must place a trade for a minimum of 3 unique trading days for each phase.

Holding an overnight position will not be considered a new trading day.
If you do not place a trade for 21 days, the account will be breached.
Each trader is limited to five active earning accounts.  If you have five active Earning accounts and happen to pass another Challenge, we will queue your upgrade, and you can request it to be fulfilled after your existing Earning Account is terminated.
We allow you to hold positions open overnight, but you must close any open positions by Friday at Market closing at 16:00CT. We consider holding positions over the weekend in high-risk trading to protect our traders. If you leave positions open over the weekend, this will be regarded as a breach of our rules.

Prohibited Trading Practices

(a) You can copy trades manually or automatically in up to 5 accounts; however, if you copy the same strategy in more than 5 accounts, we reserve the right to deny the upgrade to the additional accounts.

(b) You can copy trades from an external account that is yours. However, copying trades from other traders or sources that are not your own is prohibited.
Trading is prohibited 2 minutes before and after high-impact news events.

Please note that the placement of new pending orders during this period is not allowed. However, pending orders that were set before this defined timeframe are allowed to be executed if they are triggered during the news event. Additionally, any trades opened before the announcement can be closed at any point, including during the news release.
Entering positions in opposite directions (long & short) on two separate accounts is strictly prohibited.
Achieving the profit target through a single trade is strictly prohibited. We ask to see consistent trading from our partner traders who adhere to the correct Risk Management practices and aren’t seeking to reach the target with one big, risky trade.

The consistency target is calculated by factoring in your best day’s profit and your account’s profit target. The current consistency rule sits at 40% of the profit target, please also see: What is Futures Prime Consistency Rule? | TheTradingPit.
In simple terms, we ask that you stay consistent in your strategy and adhere to Standard Market Risk Management, avoiding substantial deviations in position sizes and the number of positions relative to your usual trading patterns.
We ask our partner traders to maintain consistent lot sizes in their trades to align, demonstrating disciplined and strategic trading practices.
An example of breaching this rule would be if you complete your 3 minimum trading days by entering a 5 contract position on day 1, and then for the remaining 2 trading days, you place 1 micro lot trades.

To see a detailed breakdown of what we consider gambling, click here.
Trading strategies that exploit system errors or trade on external/slow data feeds are prohibited. Furthermore, engaging in activities attempting to manipulate the market or applying any arbitrage trading will lead to the termination of your account.

Also, although we allow EAs created by you, using software or EAs that aim to manipulate or misuse the system will lead to the termination of your account.
Trades being executed in anticipation of major global news, macroeconomic events, or corporate earnings reports, specifically when such events are likely to impact the prices of financial instruments in the relevant market, may lead to a Gap in the pricing feed of the broker. Trades opened less than 2 hours before the closing of a financial market with the target of exploiting expected price gaps upon market reopening will be considered a malicious practice and will lead to termination of your account with no compensation.
Note:

You have the freedom to trade as you prefer, including using EAs, holding positions through news events, overnight, or over weekends, and leveraging your account within set limits. However, if your trading strategy proves does not comply with any of our above-mentioned rules, we reserve the right to investigate and take action, including potential account suspension.

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