Quick answer: All trading must be executed manually by you. Expert Advisors, bots, scripts and trade copiers are prohibited on every account type and size.
What's prohibited
Fully automated trading systems
Semi-automated trading bots
Trade copying software
Signal services that execute trades automatically
Any software that places, manages or closes trades without your direct manual execution
Applies to evaluation accounts, funded accounts, and all account types and sizes.
What's permitted
Charting tools, alerts, analysis software and anything else that doesn't touch orders.
You may also manually trade the same setup across your own Traderscale accounts, placing every entry yourself on each one — see Prohibited practices §8, which also covers the rules that still apply when you do.
The line
If it places, changes, closes or manages trades automatically, it's prohibited. That includes trailing-stop scripts and auto-breakeven tools, even though they only manage existing positions.
Why
To maintain fair trading conditions, prevent system exploitation, protect the risk model, and keep trading behaviour consistent and attributable to the registered trader.
How it's detected
Traderscale monitors for patterns consistent with automated execution — order timing regularity, sub-second reaction speeds, identical sizing and stop placement to a fraction of a pip, and repeated execution patterns.
Example: positions opening at exactly 15-minute intervals, identical 0.75 lot sizing, stops placed to the tenth of a pip. That regularity isn't achievable by hand.
Outcomes
Accounts found using prohibited software may be suspended, terminated, or disqualified from payout eligibility.
See also: Prohibited practices §10
