Applies to Instant Funding accounts only. Speedy and Pro have their own rule sets — see the articles for those programs.

17 practices. Instant Funding has the strictest set: a five-minute news window, and TraderProtect.

The examples show how rules are applied. They are not trading advice and they are not pre-approval of any strategy. Support can explain these rules and submit cases for review, but cannot recommend lot sizes or risk percentages, or confirm in advance that a method is acceptable.

A completed profit target or an all-green Trader Area does not confirm payout approval. The Trader Area tracks objectives and loss limits; it does not run the compliance review.

The Dealing Team reviews your complete trading history in context. A single trade is never assessed in isolation.

A violation may result in: profit adjustment · payout rejection · profit forfeiture · account suspension · account breach · removal from the program.

The rule: You may not use price differences, delays, or technical inefficiencies to gain an execution advantage. This includes latency arbitrage, triangular arbitrage, cross-platform price exploitation and execution-delay manipulation.

Example of a breach. A trader notices the Traderscale feed updates roughly 300ms behind another broker's on XAUUSD. They watch the faster feed and enter on Traderscale whenever it moves, taking 12 trades in an hour, each closing in profit as the price catches up.

Common question — what if the price on another platform was genuinely different? Normal price differences occur between providers all the time. What's prohibited is deliberately trading to exploit a mismatch, delay or infrastructure limitation.

What may be reviewed: execution timing, price-feed differences, platform activity, repeated patterns.

Possible outcome: profit adjustment, payout rejection, or account breach.

The rule: You may not use ultra-fast execution designed to capture very small price movements within milliseconds, whether by algorithm or by hand.

Example of a breach. 40 EURUSD positions in one session, average hold 3 seconds, average result +0.4 pips, each entered within milliseconds of a tick moving.

Common question — is every short trade high frequency trading? No. The Dealing Team reviews speed, frequency, purpose and the full pattern together. The separate two-minute minimum (§11) applies to every position regardless.

What may be reviewed: execution speed, trade count, repeated duration, EA use, overall pattern.

Possible outcome: profit adjustment, payout rejection, or account breach.

This rule is stricter on Instant Funding than on Speedy or Pro.

The rule: You may not open a position within five minutes before or after a high-impact (red-folder) news release. Placing opposing pending orders around price immediately before major news to capture movement in either direction is also prohibited.

This covers:

A position opened outside the window may remain open through the event. The restriction is on opening new trades, not on holding existing ones.

Red-folder events are identified using the official ForexFactory.com economic calendar.

Example of a breach — the window. A red-folder release lands at 13:30. A position opened at 13:27 falls inside the window, as does one opened at 13:34. Both are breaches regardless of how they turn out.

Compliant. A position opened at 09:00 and still open at 13:30 may be held through the release. Opening at 13:36 is also fine — the window has closed.

Example of a breach — bracketing

No directional view was taken.

Common question — is all news trading prohibited? Directional discretionary news trading may be permitted outside the restricted five-minute window. Structured buy-and-sell bracketing is not.

Common question — can a trade opened earlier remain open during news? Yes. A position opened outside the restricted window may remain open through the release. You remain responsible for drawdown and every other rule during the volatility, and spreads widen sharply around red-folder events.

Only the opening time matters. A position opened outside the window may be closed at any time — including inside the window.

What may be reviewed: news-event time, entry and close timestamps, pending-order structure, order direction, and whether the setup was structured to capture either direction.

Possible outcome: affected profit deducted at payout; profits may be adjusted, a payout rejected, or the account affected.

The rule: You may not increase position size or total risk after a loss in order to recover it.

Example of a breach ($100,000 account)

Size doubles after each loss and the sequence stops the moment the losses are recovered.

The compliant version. The same three trades at 1.0 lot throughout, regardless of the previous outcome.

Common question — I increased my size once. Is that automatically martingale? No. The review considers the order of trades, previous losses, timing, exposure, and whether the increase formed part of a recovery pattern.

What may be reviewed: sequence of wins and losses, lot-size changes, amount risked, timing, total exposure.

Possible outcome: profit adjustment, payout rejection, or account breach.

The rule: You may not place multiple layered orders at fixed price intervals without a clear directional basis.

Example of a breach. Eight pending orders on USDJPY at 20-pip intervals — four buy stops above price, four sell stops below — with no directional thesis.

Common question — are multiple entries always prohibited? No. The review looks at spacing, purpose, direction, timing and risk structure. Note that layered entries on one asset are also assessed together under the 2.5% combined risk-per-asset limit.

What may be reviewed: order spacing, layering, direction, timing, total risk.

Possible outcome: profit adjustment, payout rejection, or account breach.

The rule: You may not open additional positions on the same asset while an existing position or sequence is in floating loss. This applies within one account and across all your Traderscale accounts.

You may add to an existing position if either condition is met:

Outside both, adding while the first position is in floating loss is drawdown recovery, regardless of what you intended.

Example of a breach

41 minutes and 50 pips from the original, opened while the first was losing.

The compliant version

Within two minutes and within five pips. Either alone would be sufficient.

Note the interaction with the 2.5% per-asset limit. Even a scaling entry inside the allowance must keep combined risk on that asset within 2.5%. If existing positions carry 1.5% and the new entry adds 1.2%, the combined 2.7% exceeds the limit regardless of timing.

You may not distribute, transfer, or offset risk across multiple Traderscale accounts in a way that circumvents the limits applying to a single account. This includes entering the same or a correlated instrument on another account to recover losses from the first, structuring one account to absorb loss while another benefits, and using multiple accounts to recreate exposure that would not be allowed on one.

Example of a breach

Combined exposure is 6.0 lots — a size that would have breached on one account.

What may be reviewed: open-position P&L, account equity, entry timing, symbol, direction, combined size, activity on your other accounts.

Possible outcome: profit adjustment, payout rejection, or account breach.

The rule: You may not profit from a known or apparent technical issue, pricing error, feed delay, or platform malfunction.

Example of a breach. A trader sees US30 quoted 400 points away from the real market during a feed fault, opens a position, closes it as the price corrects for +$3,200, then repeats.

What to do instead: stop trading the affected instrument and contact Support with a screenshot, the time, the symbol and your account number.

What may be reviewed: platform logs, price feed, execution records, activity after the issue became apparent.

Possible outcome: affected profits removed, with further enforcement possible.

The rule: Every account must be traded manually and independently by the registered trader.

What is permitted: you may trade the same setup by hand across your own Traderscale accounts, placing every entry yourself on each account.

What is prohibited: any copier, bridge, script or tool that replicates trades between accounts automatically, and coordinated execution between different people.

Example of a breach. Three accounts open EURUSD buys at 09:14:02.1, 09:14:02.1 and 09:14:02.2 at identical lot sizes, all closing within the same 200ms window.

Manual mirroring is not unrestricted. It still engages §6 (no same-asset additions while one account is in floating loss) and §12 (no opposing directions).

What may be reviewed: matching symbols, directions, entry times, exits, lot sizes, repeated patterns across accounts.

Possible outcome: profit adjustment, payout rejection, or account breach.

The rule: Repeated unbalanced directional exposure without controlled risk or a consistent rationale may be reviewed as speculative behaviour.

Example of a breach. Three trades across a week, each risking close to the full daily allowance on a single directional bet, no stop-loss discipline, no repeatable method.

Common question — does Traderscale require a specific strategy? No. Trading must show controlled risk and must not rely on reckless or purely chance-based exposure.

What may be reviewed: consistency of risk, repeated directional exposure, the rationale visible from the pattern, overall account behaviour.

Possible outcome: the account or payout may be affected.

The rule: Expert Advisors, bots, scripts, trade copiers and any tool that places, modifies, closes or manages trades automatically are prohibited. All trading must be executed manually.

Example of a breach. Positions open at exactly 15-minute intervals with identical 0.75 lot sizing and stops placed to the tenth of a pip.

Common question — can I use a tool only for trade management? If it places, changes, closes or manages trades automatically, it falls under this rule — including trailing-stop scripts and auto-breakeven tools. Charting, alerts and analysis tools that don't touch orders are fine.

What may be reviewed: platform logs, order timing, repeated execution patterns, software-linked activity.

Possible outcome: the account or payout may be affected.

The rule: Every position must be held for at least two minutes. Profit from positions closed sooner is removed.

Example. Buy US30 2.0 lots at 11:14:20, closed at 11:15:07 for +$300. Held 47 seconds. The $300 is removed.

Where it escalates. If your sub-two-minute profits exceed your payout share, the payout is rejected and the account is reset with a seven-day delay before the next payout window.

Common question — does one short trade breach my account? Not by itself. The profit is removed; the outcome depends on your account terms, trade result, frequency and the complete review.

What may be reviewed: server-side entry and close times, trade result, frequency, repeated duration pattern.

Possible outcome: profit removed and payout rejected; further action depending on the finding.

The rule: You may not hold opposing positions on the same instrument at the same time, including across separate Traderscale accounts, where used to offset exposure or exploit pricing inefficiencies.

Example of a breach

Net exposure is zero. Splitting the hedge across accounts doesn't change the finding.

Common question — the positions were opened minutes apart, not simultaneously. The review considers overlap, purpose, timing, instrument and account activity.

What may be reviewed: direction, entry and close times, overlap, exposure, activity across all your accounts.

Possible outcome: profit adjustment, payout rejection, or account breach.

The rule: You may not deliberately structure a trade or layered sequence to use your full daily loss allowance.

Maximum allowable daily exposure on Instant Funding: 2.5% — deliberately set inside the 3% daily drawdown limit, and matching the per-asset risk cap: the exposure you may structure is smaller than the loss that breaches you.

Example of a breach ($100,000 account)

A single EURUSD position sized so that its stop loss, if hit, costs $2,450 — 2.45% against a 2.5% allowance. The stop sits deliberately just inside the limit.

Common question — staying under the limit means it's fine, doesn't it? No. The review considers whether risk was structured to consume the full allowance, not only whether the final number stayed below it.

What may be reviewed: planned exposure, combined open risk, layered trades, equity movement, repeated behaviour.

Possible outcome: account termination or other enforcement.

The rule: Only the registered trader may access, control and trade the account. Accounts cannot be sold, shared, transferred, or managed by anyone else.

Example of a breach. Logins from two countries within the same hour, on different devices, with trading activity from both.

Common question — can my spouse, friend, mentor or account manager trade for me? No. The registered trader must make and execute every trading decision.

What may be reviewed: login and access records, account activity, device IDs, evidence of third-party control.

Possible outcome: account suspension, breach, or removal from the program.

The rule: Reckless or structurally unsound risk behaviour is prohibited. This covers failure to meet stop-loss requirements and negative risk-to-reward behaviour.

A position is negative risk-to-reward when the pips risked at your stop loss exceed the pips between your entry and your close price.

Every closed position is assessed, winners and losers alike.

Example. Entry EURUSD 1.0850, furthest stop loss 1.0750 → 100 pips risked ($1,000 on 1.0 lot). Closed at 1.0870 → 20 pips gained, +$200. You risked $1,000 to make $200.

The two thresholds

The deduction uses the net P&L across all negative risk-to-reward positions.

Worked example (20 closed positions in the payout period)

Had 13 of the 20 been negative risk-to-reward (65%), the payout would be rejected and the account breached.

Positions must be opened with a stop loss. Without one, the system liquidates the position on execution and issues a soft breach.

If you hold the No Stop Loss on Entry add-on: you may execute without a stop attached, but a stop loss must be applied within five minutes of execution and before the position is closed — whichever comes first.

Example of a breach. Entry at 14:00:00 with no stop loss, closed in profit at 14:04:00. Inside the five-minute window, but the position never had a stop loss.

This position is excluded from the negative risk-to-reward calculation — with no stop loss, there is no risk distance to measure. The two rules are assessed separately, and the exclusion is not a reprieve.

Common question — I used a stop loss. Why was my trade still flagged? A stop loss addresses one part of risk control. The review may still consider the furthest stop distance, entry and close prices, total exposure, drawdown recovery, lot-size changes and the overall sequence.

What may be reviewed: entry price, furthest stop-loss distance, close price, risk-to-reward, exposure, full trade sequence.

Possible outcome: profit reduction, payout rejection, or account breach.

The rule: You may not repeatedly cycle through accounts or rely on random, all-or-nothing outcomes in place of a defined and controlled approach.

Example of a breach. Six accounts purchased in eight weeks, each traded with a small number of maximum-size positions until it either passes or breaches, with no consistent method across any of them.

Common question — can one failed account count as churning? No. The rule concerns the broader pattern across attempts and accounts, not a single normal loss.

What may be reviewed: account history, repeated patterns, risk behaviour, direction changes, activity across multiple accounts.

Possible outcome: payout rejection, profit forfeiture, suspension, breach, or removal from the program.

Instant Funding only. This is a protective closure, not a prohibition.

What it is: an account-level safety feature that automatically closes all open positions across all symbols when total floating loss reaches 2% of the account balance. It's intended to protect your available drawdown by closing the full open book at the trigger level.

Example. On a $100,000 balance, combined open P&L of −$2,000 equals 2%. TraderProtect closes all open positions.

How it escalates

Common question — does TraderProtect guarantee my account cannot breach? No. It's an additional control, not a guarantee of account safety or payout eligibility. It does not change the 3% daily drawdown, the 6% trailing maximum drawdown, the 2.5% risk-per-asset rule, or this prohibited-practices policy.

What may be reviewed: floating P&L, account equity, the trigger event, execution records, and the account state when positions were closed.

Possible outcome: TraderProtect may close all open positions; any resulting account status is determined by the applicable rules and recorded equity.

See also: How reviews work · Requesting a review · Enforcement outcomes explained