We assess every strategy on whether it reflects genuine market trading rather than exploiting our simulated environment. Breaching any rule below may result in a warning, profit adjustment, account review, or termination.
1. Market manipulation and deception No fraudulent conduct, price manipulation, spoofing, or anything designed to distort the market or create false trading conditions.
2. Microscalping - EOD, Sprint & Instant accounts: Trades closed within 2 minutes of opening. Not a breach in itself, but any profit from them is deducted from your account.
Flex accounts: There is no automatic deduction on individual trades. However, at each payout request, at least 50% of your closed trades and at least 50% of your net profits in that payout cycle must come from trades held longer than 1 minute. If this requirement is not met, the payout request will be declined and all profits from trades held under 1 minute in that cycle will be deducted from the account. This is not an account breach. (applies to accounts created after July 21st)
3. Exploiting pricing or feed errors No profiting from mispriced quotes, lagging updates, feed latency, or data discrepancies. Using external or slower price sources (broker accounts, third-party feeds) for an edge is also prohibited.
4. High-frequency and algorithmic exploitation No high-frequency systems, AI tools, tick scalping, or bulk order-entry that exploit execution speed or system inefficiencies rather than trade real conditions. Executing 100 or more trades in a single trading day may trigger a risk review, and accounts may be reviewed below this threshold where activity indicates high-frequency behavior.
5. Arbitrage No arbitrage of any kind — latency, hedge, reverse, or rollover/scalping — as it exploits structural inefficiencies rather than genuine speculation.
6. Coordinated trading No coordinating trades to influence outcomes, whether across your own accounts or with other clients. This includes opposing or hedged positions across accounts, group trading, trade signaling, or sharing environments, devices, VPS instances, or IPs to enable linked trading.
7. Copying other users' trades Copying your own trades across your own accounts (GFF or elsewhere) is allowed. Copying other users' trades or signals — manually, via copy/mirror services, or EAs — is not. Someone else may be copying the same source, creating linked positions across unrelated accounts; where detected, all accounts and users involved may be suspended.
8. Gap trading No trading to capture price gaps from market closures and re-openings.
9. Artificial trades to meet requirements No token, undersized, or manipulated trades used to fake active trading days or bypass risk controls.
10. Volume inflation No abnormally high trade counts or oversized positions on negligible price movement to inflate profit.
11. Non-viable strategies No strategy that could not realistically be executed on a live exchange.
12. Responsible risk and position sizing No staking a disproportionate share of contracts on a single position, one-sided all-in bets, or account rolling. Keep sizing consistent with your strategy and balance — erratic, unexplained jumps (e.g., one contract then ten) may be treated as gambling rather than disciplined trading.
13. Profit Concentration & Payout Gaming - No earning the bulk of your profit on a single day, then trading the bare minimum on others solely to reach the minimum profitable trading days required for a payout. This is not a sustainable approach and closely mirrors cross-account hedging, where one leg is offset on a separate account or at another firm and only the winning side is withdrawn. Where detected, the payout may be withheld, the concentrated day's profit voided, and/or the account closed.