Challenges & rules
Everything you need to know, with worked examples.
Pick a challenge to see its objectives and worked scenarios, then read every trading rule — all generated from the same configuration the engine enforces.
Instant Funded
A funded account from the first trade, with an initial 80% reward split scaling to 90%.
Full objectives
Worked examples
Every scenario assumes a $100,000 account.
Reward target
None — you can trade a funded account indefinitely. Rewards are split 80%–90% in your favour; there is no minimum profit to "complete" the challenge.
Max daily loss (3%)
You start the day at $100,000. If equity falls to $97,000 (−$3,000) in a single day, trading is disabled for the rest of the day. Positions are closed automatically.
Max total loss (6%)
If equity drops to $94,000 at any point during the account's life, the account fails ($6,000 ≈ 6% from $100,000).
Min trading days (7)
A payout needs at least 7 distinct trading days on the funded account. A day counts only when your balance moves at least 0.25% from the 2 AM UTC start (above $100,250 or below $99,750 at the next snapshot).
Stability rule (20%)
No single profitable day and no single profitable trade may exceed 20% of your total accumulated rewards. Over $5,000 of rewards, one $1,000 day is exactly at the cap; a $1,200 day or trade breaches it. Checked only at payout — keep trading to dilute the ratio.
Leverage
Caps by asset class: forex 1:30, commodities 1:10, crypto 1:1. On $100,000 at 1:1, that bounds the notional you can carry per position.
Trading rules
What's allowed, restricted, and what fails an account.
Allowed
2 rules
News trading
Allowed during evaluation. On funded accounts, rewards from trades opened or closed within 3 minutes of high-impact news do not count unless the position was opened at least 5 hours before the event.
Show examples (1)
- Scalping the CPI print on a funded account → that trade's reward is excluded, but the account is fine.
Expert Advisors (EAs)
EAs for trade and risk management are allowed. Bots built to farm evaluations, and copy-trading services, are not.
Show examples (1)
- A trailing-stop EA is fine; a 'challenge-passing' bot is not.
Restricted
5 rules
High-frequency trading — two-strike rule
More than 3 filled orders in the same direction on the same asset within any 3-minute window is classed as HFT. The first violation is a warning that flags the account; a second fails it.
Show examples (2)
- 5 BTCUSDT buys in 90 seconds → HFT flag and a warning email.
- A second such burst any time later → the account is failed, no appeal.
Sub-1-minute trades — payout block
Payouts are blocked when more than 15% of your trades close in under a minute, or more than 15% of your profit comes from sub-1-minute trades. The account stays active — trade more to bring the ratio back down.
Show examples (2)
- 22% of your closed trades lasted under a minute → payout blocked until it drops below 15%.
- Only 8% of trades but 30% of profit from sub-minute scalps → also blocked.
Max risk per trade — 3% rule (funded)
In the funded stage you cannot risk 3% or more of your capital in one trade. Unrealized losses count, and trades on the same pair within one trading day (2 AM–2 AM UTC) are grouped — winners on that pair do not offset the losers.
Show examples (2)
- An open EUR/USD position with a $3,500 unrealized loss on $100k breaches the rule before you even close.
- Two GBP/USD trades the same day losing $1,500 and $1,800 = $3,300 → breach, even if a third GBP/USD trade won.
Copy trading
Third-party copy-trading services, or having someone else manage your account, are not allowed.
Show examples (1)
- Mirroring another account's fills via a copier → the account is failed.
Payout schedule
Payout requests are submitted in the weekly payout window and settle on-chain, typically within a couple of hours. Requests outside the window are not accepted.
Show examples (1)
- A request made mid-week waits for the next window to open.
Prohibited
5 rules
Hedging (same account)
Opening opposite positions on the same instrument within one account is prohibited. Closing to flat and then opening the other way is allowed.
Show examples (2)
- Long and short BTCUSDT at the same time → the flip fails the account.
- Closing your long, then going short → allowed.
Hedging across accounts
Opposite positions on the same instrument across multiple accounts or firms are strictly prohibited and result in termination.
Show examples (1)
- Long BTCUSDT here and short BTCUSDT on another account → both terminated.
Latency arbitrage & feed exploitation
Exploiting platform delays or price-feed lag is prohibited and results in immediate termination.
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- Systematically picking off stale quotes → termination.
Tick scalping
Sustained tick-scalping — opening and closing purely to capture sub-pip moves — is not allowed.
Show examples (1)
- Hundreds of one-tick round-trips a day → flagged and reviewed.
Account sharing
One account per challenge level. Sharing credentials or trading on someone else's behalf is prohibited.
Show examples (1)
- Two people trading one funded account → terminated.
Questions