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Arbitrage trading - all accounts

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. The profit didn't come from a market view — it came from knowing the price before the platform did.

Common question — what if the price on another platform was genuinely different? Normal price differences occur between providers all the time, and trading on one platform while watching another isn't itself an issue. 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.

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