Engaging in any of the following practices will result in immediate disqualification from the program, account termination, and potential forfeiture of fees/profits:
- Market & Broker Exploitation
- Price manipulation: Exploiting pricing errors, delays, or broker inefficiencies.
- Insider trading: Using non-public information for trading decisions.
- Front-running: Trading in a way that harms the Company’s broker relationships or triggers trade cancellations.
- Regulatory risks: Trading strategies that could create legal/compliance issues for the broker.
- Restricted Strategies
- Third-party strategies: Using externally marketed "pass-only" tactics (e.g., high-frequency scalping, latency arbitrage).
- Earnings manipulation: Holding single-share equity CFDs near earnings announcements (positions must be closed X hours before earnings).
- Overnight gap trading: Entering equity CFD trades at market close to exploit gaps.
- Arbitrage abuse: Cross-account arbitrage (e.g., between evaluations or external accounts).
- One-Side Betting (Gambling Rule Bypass)
- Prohibited: Risking >3% of account balance on a single trade idea/pair (e.g., repeatedly reopening the same losing trade).
- Consequence: Treated as a hard breach—immediate termination.
- Account Integrity Violations
- Group trading: No shared management, copy trading, or collusion.
- Third-party services: Purchasing trades, signals, or pass services is banned.
- Company discretion: The Company reserves the right to prohibit any activity deemed exploitative.