The Trading Pit

Opening trades or having pending orders filled within 2 minutes of high-impact news is not allowed on $100,000 and $200,000 CFD accounts or on Futures Classic, while Futures Prime, CFDs Instant and Stocks allow news trading; the terms list news bracketing as prohibited without that scope.

Traders may run EAs they created themselves, but EAs that copy others' signals, use emulators, arbitrage, trade at high frequency or manipulate the system lead to termination.

Copying trades between your own accounts is allowed on CFD Prime and on up to 5 futures accounts, forbidden between CFD Classic accounts and between Futures Prime challenge and earning accounts, and copying other traders is prohibited on every program.

Hedging inside one account for risk management is allowed, but opposite or correlated positions across two accounts and hedging arbitrage are prohibited.

High-frequency trading strategies are not permitted.

The consistency rule is 30% of total profit for CFDs Instant payouts, 40% of the profit target on Futures Prime and Stocks challenges (where exceeding it raises the target), and 50% of positive days' profit for rewards on 1-Phase $100K and $200K CFD accounts created from July 2026.

CFDs Instant allows weekend holding except on commodities, energies, metals and crypto, and Futures Classic positions must be closed by Friday 16:00 CT.

Futures Prime positions still open at 15:55 CT are force-closed, and Stocks positions are liquidated 10 minutes before the market close.

Futures and Stocks challenges need 3 trading days per phase, CFD Classic needs 5, and CFD Prime needs 3 profitable days of at least 0.5% of the initial balance.

The Futures Prime challenge lasts 30 days and can be extended for a fee, while Stocks challenges have no time limit.

Purchases are unlimited, but CFD earning accounts are capped at 4 on the rules page and 8 in the help centre with $400,000 combined, futures at 5 active earning accounts and CFDs Instant at 2 accounts.

On Stocks accounts, a stock cannot be traded unless its average daily volume over the past 14 days is more than 200,000 shares.

Reaching the profit target in a single trade is prohibited on every program.

Trades opened less than 2 hours before a market closes to exploit an expected price gap lead to account termination.

CFDs Instant limits the combined risk of open positions on one symbol to 1% of the starting balance; the first two breaches close the position and the third closes the account.

Stocks trades must stay open at least 1 minute and gain at least $0.10 per share, or their profit is excluded.