These apply across both evaluation and funded accounts unless a specific program page states otherwise. Read them once, trade with confidence after.
Account equity may not fall more than the stated daily limit below the higher of the previous day's closing balance or equity, measured at 5PM EST. Breaching this limit closes the account immediately.
Account equity may never fall more than the stated overall limit below the reference point for that program — either the starting balance (static) or your highest recorded balance (trailing). See Program Rules & Drawdown for the exact mechanics.
The combined unrealized (floating) loss across all of your open positions may never exceed 1% of the account's initial balance at any point. This is separate from your daily and overall drawdown — it's checked continuously across your whole open book, not just at day-close, and not on a single-trade basis.
Evaluation phases require reaching a stated percentage gain on the starting balance. There is no time limit to reach the target on standard programs.
On programs where it applies, no single trading day may account for more than the stated share of your total profit at the point you request evaluation completion or a reward. See the worked examples on Program Rules & Drawdown.
Latency exploitation, exploiting quote or feed errors, and coordinating trades across multiple accounts to create a risk-free hedge are the only trading behaviors we treat as violations outright, regardless of drawdown compliance.
Funded accounts that stay profitable and within limits across consecutive reward cycles are reviewed for scaling, up to the maximum allocation stated for that program.
None of the following will ever come back to bite you at reward time. If it's listed here, it's genuinely allowed — not a grey area.
We don't maintain a vague ban on "gambling" or "toxic" trading, because that label means something different to every trader and is nearly impossible to apply fairly.
A rule nobody can define in advance isn't a rule you can trade around with confidence. Instead, the drawdown limits themselves are the safeguard — trade too recklessly and the structure catches it before we'd ever need to make a judgment call.
Any position size your available margin and leverage support is valid. You can size up or down between trades without it being flagged as inconsistent.
Conviction changes trade to trade. Forcing identical position sizes ignores how discretionary trading actually works — if the trade fits inside your margin, it's a valid trade.
Adding to a losing position, or building a position through several smaller entries at different levels, is allowed on a single account.
The drawdown limit already defines how much risk you're permitted to take. How you arrange your entries within that limit is your call — as long as it stays on one account. Running the same approach across multiple accounts to manufacture a risk-free hedge is treated as abuse.
There's no restricted window around economic releases. Profit earned from a position opened or closed during high-impact news is fully counted toward your target and any reward.
Your daily and overall drawdown limits already absorb the extra volatility news events bring. Manage your risk inside those limits and trade the calendar however you like.
We don't apply an additional rule capping the percentage of margin you use across open positions.
Leverage is fixed and known in advance. If your leverage and balance allow a trade at a given size, that trade will never be treated as a surprise violation later.
Adding another position in the same direction on the same symbol — whether the existing position is in profit or in loss — is allowed, with no mandatory cooldown between entries.
Directional conviction is part of trading. As long as your overall risk stays within the drawdown limit for the account, how you build into a view is up to you.
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