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Trading Rules

Effective Date: August 3, 2026 · Last Updated: August 3, 2026

These Trading Rules explain how an FFUNDED account is measured, what is not allowed, and what happens when a rule is broken. They apply to every evaluation account, Instant account and simulated funded account, alongside the Terms of Service and the terms of the plan you bought.

All FFUNDED accounts trade simulated capital in a demo environment. No real client money is placed at market risk. Words like profit, loss, balance and equity describe simulated results used to measure trading skill.

The page has three parts. Trading Rules are the numbers your account is measured against. Compliance and Fair Trading covers conduct that is not allowed. Enforcement Policy explains exactly what happens when either kind of rule is broken.

Every rule on this page is published with the value that applies to it. Where a rule is measured against a number, that number is written out below, per plan where it differs by plan.

1Trading Rules

These are the rules your account is measured against while you trade. Every limit is published here in full, and the same figures are shown live on your dashboard with your own numbers on them. Where a plan term and this page differ, the plan term controls for that account.

What it isThe most your account may lose inside a single trading day. It is measured from the higher of the day's starting balance or starting equity, and it counts open floating losses as well as closed ones. The trading day runs from 17:00 New York time to 16:59 the next day, and the limit resets at that rollover.

The limitMeasured as a percentage of the day's starting figure:

  • Instant 3%
  • 1 Step 4%
  • 2 Step Standard 4%
  • 2 Step Pro 4%
  • 3 Step 4%

How it affects youYour daily limit, how much of it is used and how much is left, sits on your dashboard while you trade. An open position that is deep in loss counts against you before you close it, so equity is what matters, not just realised results.

If it is breachedThis is a hard risk rule. Open positions are closed, trading is disabled immediately, and the account stage ends. Simulated profit recorded on an account that has reached a loss limit is void and carries no entitlement to a payout.

What it isThe most your account may lose over its whole life. Depending on the plan it is measured from your starting balance, or it follows your highest recorded equity upwards. Like the daily limit, it includes floating losses on open positions.

The limitMeasured as a percentage of your starting balance, static or trailing by plan:

  • Instant 6%, trailing
  • 1 Step 6%, trailing
  • 2 Step Standard 8%, static
  • 2 Step Pro 10%, trailing
  • 3 Step 8%, static

How it affects youThis is the single line that ends the account rather than the stage. On a plan where the level trails your equity, profit you have already made becomes part of what you are protecting, so the level rises as your account grows.

If it is breachedThis is a hard risk rule. Open positions are closed, trading is disabled immediately, and the account ends. Where a reset or recovery option is available for your plan, it is offered to you in your dashboard.

What it isA cap on the unrealised loss that any single open position may carry. It looks at one trade at a time rather than at the account total.

The limitMeasured per instrument as a percentage of your starting balance, counting everything you hold open on that instrument together:

  • Instant 1.5%
  • Every other plan 2%

Reaching the figure is the event, so a position sitting exactly at 2% of your starting balance in unrealised loss has reached the limit.

How it affects youIt exists so that one position cannot be held far past the point where it should have been closed. Every open trade is listed against the limit on your dashboard while it runs.

If it is breachedThe first crossing is a formal warning and the account keeps trading. A second crossing breaches the account.

What it isA cap on the combined face value of everything you hold open at once, measured against your account balance. It is a limit on how much market you are exposed to at any moment, not a limit on losses. The cap comes with your account size, and the smaller the account the higher the multiple it is allowed.

The limitBy account size, on every plan:

  • $5,000 4000% of balance, $200,000 of exposure
  • $10,000 3000%, $300,000
  • $25,000 2500%, $625,000
  • $50,000 2000%, $1,000,000
  • $100,000 1250%, $1,250,000
  • $200,000 and above 1000%, so $2,000,000 at $200,000, $3,000,000 at $300,000 and $4,000,000 at $400,000

How it affects youYour current exposure and the maximum for your account size sit together in Account Health on your dashboard while you trade, so you can see how much of the limit is in use before you add to a position. Staying exactly at the limit is compliant; only going past it counts. Leverage and the margin your positions require still apply on top of this, and whichever binds first is what stops the next order.

If it is breachedThe first crossing is a formal warning and the account keeps trading. A second crossing breaches the account.

What it isA cap on how much of your equity may sit tied up as margin on open positions. It measures the same thing an exposure limit does from the other side: how little room the account has left if the market moves against it.

The limitUsed margin at or above 90% of equity, held there for 5 minutes or more without a break. A brief spike over the figure that comes back down inside five minutes is not counted.

How it affects youYour used margin, your free margin and your equity are shown together in Account Health while you trade. Staying below the figure, or crossing it briefly, is compliant.

If it is breachedThe first occurrence is a formal warning and the account keeps trading. A second occurrence breaches the account. The count clears after 30 days without an occurrence.

What it isThe profit a challenge account must reach to complete an evaluation step. It applies to challenge accounts only. Instant accounts have no profit target and no evaluation to pass.

The targetMeasured as a percentage of the balance the step started with:

  • Instant none, the account is funded from day one
  • 1 Step 10%
  • 2 Step Standard 8% in Step 1, then 4% in Step 2
  • 2 Step Pro 10% in Step 1, then 4% in Step 2
  • 3 Step 6% in each of the three steps

How it affects youThere is no time limit and no deadline to reach it. Once the target is reached and the other objectives for the step are met, the account moves to the next step or to a simulated funded account.

If it is breachedThere is nothing to breach. Falling short of a target simply means you keep trading until you reach it.

What it isSome plans require a number of genuine profitable trading days. A profitable day is a New York trading day whose closed profit reaches 0.5% of your starting balance, so $500 on a $100,000 account. A day that closes in profit below that figure is a green day, but it does not count towards this requirement.

How manyBy plan:

  • Instant 5 days, counted again in each payout cycle
  • 1 Step 5 days
  • 2 Step Standard 5 days
  • 2 Step Pro none
  • 3 Step 5 days in each step

How it affects youThe days are counted for you on your dashboard. They must come from real trading activity, so opening token positions purely to register a day does not satisfy the requirement.

If it is breachedThere is nothing to breach. Falling short affects progression and payout eligibility only. The account stays open and you keep trading.

What it isHow often you can request your profit share. It is the same on every plan, Instant included: an Instant account is funded from day one, but it is not paid on demand.

The cycle14 days on every plan. Your first payout is available 14 days after your first trade, and after that the cycle runs from your last approved payout. The Weekly Payouts upgrade shortens it to 7 days and can be added to any plan at checkout.

What a request also needsAlongside the cycle:

  • Minimum withdrawal 1% of your account size, with a $50 floor
  • Minimum profitable days complete for your plan, counted again in each cycle
  • Identity verification (KYC) completed and approved
  • A payout destination saved on your Payout page, from the methods offered there

How it affects youYour position in the cycle, the days you still need and the amount available are on your Payout page with your own figures. Requests are reviewed within 24 hours, and approved payouts are normally sent within 1 to 2 business days. You keep 85% of the profit, 90% with the split upgrade, and up to 95% through scaling.

If it is breachedThere is nothing to breach. Requesting early is not possible rather than penalised: the request simply is not available until the cycle and the checks above are met.

What it isYour position size should stay in line with the way you normally trade. This rule compares the size of your latest closed trade against your own recent average, so one oversized trade cannot carry an account that was otherwise traded small.

The valueThe average is taken from the 20 closed trades before your latest one, and your latest trade must stay below a 100% increase on it. If your average is 0.50 lots, the line is 1.00 lots. The rule opens after 5 closed trades and is not measured at all on your first day of trading, so a new account finding its size is never judged on it. It applies to every plan.

How to calculate itIncrease = (your latest closed trade ÷ the average of your previous 20 closed trades − 1) × 100. The result must stay below 100%, which is the same as saying your latest trade must stay below double your average.

Your average size, last 20 tradesLargest next trade inside the rule
0.20 lotsbelow 0.40 lots
0.50 lotsbelow 1.00 lots
1.00 lotsbelow 2.00 lots
2.50 lotsbelow 5.00 lots

A worked exampleYour last 20 closed trades average 0.50 lots. You close a 0.80 lot trade: 0.80 ÷ 0.50 is a 60% increase, inside the rule. A 1.20 lot trade instead would be a 140% increase, over the line, and that sizing is recorded for your next payout review.

How it affects youYour current size, your average and the room you have left are on your dashboard, updating as you close trades. Sizing up gradually as your balance grows is normal and is not what this rule is looking for.

If it is breachedIt is not a hard risk rule. It does not close your account and it does not end your step. It is a payout rule, so your sizing is recorded with a payout request and looked at alongside it.

What it isHow much you trade should stay in line with your own routine, rather than a quiet period followed by a single heavy day.

The valueWe count your closed trades per New York trading day and take the average across the days you actually traded in the last 30 days. Your band is half that average at the low end and double it at the high end, so an average of 6 trades a day gives a band of 3 to 12. The rule opens after 10 closed trades and applies to Instant and 2 Step Pro accounts. Days you did not trade never count against you, and the day in progress is never flagged for being quiet.

How to calculate itAverage = closed trades ÷ the number of days you actually traded, over the last 30 days. The floor is half that average and the ceiling is double it, both rounded in your favour, and the floor is never below 1 trade.

Your average trades per active dayYour daily band
21 to 4 trades
42 to 8 trades
63 to 12 trades
94 to 18 trades

A worked exampleIn the last 30 days you closed 60 trades across 10 active days: 60 ÷ 10 is an average of 6, so your band is 3 to 12 trades a day. A 10 trade day sits inside it. A 15 trade day is over the ceiling and is recorded. A finished day with only 1 trade is under the floor and is recorded, but a rest day with no trades at all never counts against you.

How it affects youThe band is built from your own activity and moves with it, so it is not a fixed number of trades we ask you for. Your week and your band are on your dashboard.

If it is breachedIt is not a hard risk rule. It does not close your account and it does not end your step. It is a payout rule, so your activity is recorded with a payout request and looked at alongside it.

What it isYour profit should be built across your trading days rather than carried by one outsized day. This rule looks at your best profitable day as a share of all the profit you have made, so steady trading reads the same whether your account is large or small. It applies to Instant and 1-Step accounts only: 2-Step accounts have no consistency rule, during the evaluation or once funded.

The valueTake your most profitable New York trading day and divide it by the total profit across all your profitable days: that share must be 50% or less — the 50% Best Day Rule — and the rule exists on Instant and 1-Step accounts only. If you have made $2,000 in total across your profitable days, your best day should be $1,000 or less. The rule opens once you have at least 2 trading days, and the measurement starts fresh after each approved payout.

The limit, plan by planChecked when you request a payout, never during an evaluation:

PlanDuring the evaluationOnce fundedOn $2,000 of total profit, your best day stays at or below
InstantFunded from day one50% or less$1,000
1 StepNot checked — no payouts in evaluation50% or less$1,000
2 Step StandardNo consistency ruleNo consistency ruleNo limit
2 Step ProNo consistency ruleNo consistency ruleNo limit
3 StepNo consistency ruleNo consistency ruleNo limit

How to calculate itBest-day share = your most profitable day ÷ the total profit across all your profitable days × 100. On Instant and 1-Step accounts that share must be 50% or less; 2-Step plans are never checked.

A worked exampleOn an Instant or 1-Step account you have three profitable days of $500, $700 and $800, so $2,000 in total. Your best day is $800, and $800 ÷ $2,000 is 40%, within the 50% limit, so your payout is available. If your best day were instead $1,200 of a $2,000 total, that is 60% and the payout request is paused. One more profitable day of $400 takes the total to $2,400 and the share to exactly 50% — at the limit is allowed — and your payout is available again. On a 2-Step plan those same days carry no consistency check at all.

How it affects youYour highest profit day, your total profit and your current share are on your dashboard, updating as you trade. More trading days naturally bring the share down, so the rule rewards exactly what it asks for: showing up consistently.

If it is breachedNothing is closed and nothing is taken away. Going over the limit never breaches your account, never ends your step and never removes a cent of profit, no matter how many times it happens. It only pauses your payout: while your best day is over 50% of your total profit, a payout request is temporarily unavailable. Keep trading, and as your total profit grows the share falls; the moment it is back at 50% or below you can request your payout.

What it isYour overall result should be built from repeatable trading, not carried by one outsized winner. This rule compares your largest winning closed trade against your total net realised profit, so an account whose profit rests on a single trade is flagged before that dependency decides an evaluation or a payout. It applies to every plan.

The valueYour largest winning closed trade must stay at or below 60% of your total net realised profit. Profit is measured net, after commission and swap, across every closed trade in the current cycle of your stage — deposits, refunds, credits and adjustments are never counted, and the measurement is not made at all while your net profit is zero or negative. The rule opens once you have 10 closed trades and net profit of at least 2% of your starting balance, so a new account is never judged on its first fills — but it is always checked when you reach an evaluation target, request a payout or request scaling, whatever your trade count, so completing an account in a handful of trades never sidesteps it.

How to calculate itShare = your largest winning trade ÷ your total net realised profit × 100. At or below 60% is within the rule.

Largest winning tradeTotal net profitShareWithin the rule?
$450$1,50030%Yes
$600$1,00060%Yes — exactly at the limit is allowed
$600$80075%No — more net profit is needed

A worked exampleYour best trade made $600 and your total net profit is $800, so the share is 75%. For $600 to be 60% of the total, the total needs to reach $600 ÷ 0.60 = $1,000 — so a further $200 of net profit brings the account back within the rule. That exact figure is recalculated after every closed trade and is what your warning shows you.

How it affects youNothing is deducted and your trading is never interrupted. If the share is above 60% when you reach an evaluation target, the step is not failed — it simply waits, and it completes on its own the moment the share is back at 60% or below. A payout request works the same way: the request is temporarily unavailable, you are told exactly how much more net profit clears it, and the very next request goes through once it does.

If it is breachedThe first confirmed episode is a formal warning: you are notified with the exact figures and your account keeps trading. A continuous period over the limit counts as that one episode, however many trades close during it, and the episode resolves the moment the share returns to 60% or below. Building the same dependency again after recovering is a second, separate episode, and that breaches the account.

What it isA rule about direction, never about instrument choice. Trading a single symbol — only gold, only EURUSD — is completely allowed and is not what this measures. What it measures, per symbol, is whether nearly all of your trades and nearly all of your exposure sit on the same side of the market, which turns a trading strategy into a single all-or-nothing directional bet. It applies to every plan.

The valueEach symbol is measured on its own once it has 10 closed trades in the current cycle. Two shares are taken: the share of that symbol's closed trades on its dominant side, and the share of its exposure on that side, where exposure follows position size and entry price. Each must stay at or below 70%. Concentration is confirmed only when both shares are above 70% in the same direction — one measurement over the line on its own is watched, and is never a warning.

How to calculate itTrade share = closed trades on the dominant side ÷ all closed trades on the symbol × 100. Exposure share = exposure on that side ÷ the symbol's total exposure × 100. Both at or below 70% is within the rule.

Closed trades on the symbolOn the dominant sideTrade shareExposure share, same sideStanding
87Not yet measured — under 10 trades
127 buys58%61%Within the rule
1210 buys83%62%Watched — one measurement over
1210 buys83%85%Confirmed concentration

A worked exampleYou have 12 closed XAUUSD trades and 10 of them are buys: that is an 83% trade share. Those buys also carry 85% of your XAUUSD exposure, so both measurements are above 70% in the same direction and the concentration is confirmed — a formal warning, with the figures, and a rebalancing window of your next 5 closed trades on XAUUSD. Two sells later, the trade share is 71% and falling and the exposure share is back under 70%: the episode is resolved and your account simply carries on.

How it affects youSymbols are measured separately, so concentration on one never colours another, and a symbol under 10 closed trades is not measured at all. You can trade one instrument exclusively forever without this rule noticing you — it only speaks up when direction, on both measurements at once, tips past the ceiling.

If it is breachedThe first confirmed detection is a formal warning, and a rebalancing window follows: your next 5 closed trades on that symbol, with no second warning during them. If, after those trades, both shares still sit above 70% in the same direction, the account is breached. If you rebalanced, the episode is resolved — and a fresh confirmed detection after that is a second detection, which breaches the account.

What it isThe maximum leverage available on your account, set per asset class, so forex, indices, commodities and cryptocurrencies each have their own ceiling.

The ceilingsForex, then indices and commodities, then cryptocurrencies:

  • Instant 1:30, 1:10, 1:2
  • 1 Step 1:100, 1:20, 1:2 during the evaluation, then 1:50, 1:10, 1:2 once funded
  • 2 Step Standard 1:50, 1:10, 1:2
  • 2 Step Pro 1:50, 1:10, 1:2
  • 3 Step 1:100, 1:20, 1:2 during the evaluation, then 1:50, 1:10, 1:2 once funded

How it affects youLeverage decides how much size you can open, not how much you are allowed to lose. Available margin can stop an order before the leverage ceiling does, which is most noticeable on cryptocurrencies. Some plans run lower leverage once the account is funded than during the evaluation.

If it is breachedYou cannot breach it. An order that needs more margin than the account has available is simply rejected by the platform.

What it isThe most simulated capital one trader may hold at any one time, counted across every account they own.

The cap$600,000 across all of your accounts together, on every plan.

How it affects youThe cap belongs to you rather than to a single account, so your accounts are added together. If a purchase would take you over it, the extra accounts are reserved on your paid order and issued when capacity frees up. Nothing you paid for is lost.

If it is breachedIt is not a trading breach. Accounts above the cap are held in reserve, never refused.

What it isHolding positions through the weekend close is allowed on every plan, at no extra cost and with no add-on to buy.

How it affects youMarkets can reopen away from where they closed on Friday. Both loss limits are measured on the first prices of the new week, so a weekend gap can move your account against the limits before you can act on it. Because this hold is free, the Friday 17:00 New York close is not treated as an overnight rollover either, so an account without Swap-Free keeps its Friday positions and takes no warning for them.

If it is breachedThere is nothing to breach. Weekend holding is free on every FFUNDED plan.

What it isNews trading is restricted on Instant Funding accounts and on funded accounts. During the challenge phase it is allowed: on every evaluation step of 1 Step, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Pro and 3 Step you may trade high-impact news freely. The only figure to keep in mind during an evaluation is a profit-quality one: no more than 20% of your total profit should come from high-impact windows, and going over never ends the account. On Instant accounts news trading is not allowed at all, because an Instant account is funded from its first day.

The windowA high-impact release opens a window of 15 minutes on each side of it. A tier-one macro release, meaning an interest rate decision, non-farm payrolls, CPI, GDP or PCE, opens a window of 30 minutes on each side. Placing opposing or hedged positions on the same or a correlated instrument inside that window, to catch the move in either direction rather than to trade a view, is straddling and is prohibited on every plan.

Where it applies when fundedOnce funded, news trading is not allowed on Instant, 1 Step, 2 Step Standard or 2 Step Pro. On 3 Step it stays allowed when funded. During the challenge phase of every plan it stays allowed.

How it affects youDuring an evaluation you can keep trading news as normal; the 20% figure is a profit-quality rule, not an account-ending one. On an Instant or funded account, plan to be flat before a window opens: do not open or add to a position inside it, and do not hold a position through the release itself. Closing or reducing a position before the release is always allowed. The Economic Calendar in your dashboard marks every high-impact release with its exact restricted window.

If it is breachedOn an Instant or funded account, the first confirmed violation inside a high-impact window brings a formal warning; a further violation breaches the account. On an evaluation account nothing ends: profit above the 20% figure is recorded against the account and taken into account when a payout is decided.

What it isSwap-Free is an optional add-on bought with the account. It is what allows positions to be carried past the daily rollover at 17:00 New York time.

How it affects youWith Swap-Free you can hold a position overnight and keep a longer-term trade running. Without it, a position still open at a weeknight rollover is closed automatically and the account takes a formal warning for overnight holding. The rule runs on the Monday to Thursday rollovers only. The Friday 17:00 New York close is the weekend close, and weekend holding is free on every plan, so a position carried into the weekend is neither closed nor warned.

If it is breachedThe first time positions are closed at the rollover, the account takes a formal warning and keeps trading. Holding overnight again on another day breaches the account. Every position open at the same rollover counts as one occurrence, not one each.

What it isYou may trade whenever the market for that instrument is open. FFUNDED does not impose a trading window of its own. Sessions, holidays and the daily rollover follow the market and the platform.

How it affects youInstruments have different sessions, and spreads widen and liquidity thins around session changes and holidays. Without the Swap-Free add-on, open positions are closed at the daily rollover.

If it is breachedNo breach attaches to trading hours by themselves. Trading in deliberately thin conditions to take advantage of pricing is covered by Liquidity Abuse in the next section.

2Compliance and Fair Trading

FFUNDED uses automated systems to keep the trading environment fair for everyone on it. The rules below exist so that results come from trading skill rather than from the limits of a simulated environment. Each one is published with the value that triggers it, so you can see exactly where the line sits before you go near it.

Strategies that target the execution or the price feed rather than the market are prohibited. That includes latency and tick arbitrage, quote manipulation, and high-frequency patterns that rely on how a simulated environment fills orders and would not be executable in live market conditions. Expert advisors and automated strategies are allowed on our plans. What is not allowed is using them to exploit execution.

The valuesThree patterns are measured, and each is judged on its own:

  • 5 or more positions opened inside any 10 minute window
  • 3 or more positions opened inside any 12 second window
  • any trade closed in under 60 seconds

Each pattern that fires costs one formal warning. Two patterns, whether they fire together or weeks apart, breach the account.

Related volume limitsSustained order volume is measured on the same rule: 20 orders inside 5 minutes, 500 orders inside 1 hour, or an average trade duration under 3 seconds across 50 or more trades.

Execution arbitrageTrading against stale, delayed or absent prices is reviewed where 30% or more of your trades show negative slippage, or 30% or more of your realised profit, or an amount equal to 0.5% of your starting balance, is made while prices were delayed or missing.

Building results in deliberately thin markets is prohibited. This covers trading in conditions where fills at prices that would not be available in a real market do the work instead of the strategy.

The value20% or more of your realised profit coming from trades that were both opened and closed inside a low-liquidity window.

The windowMonday to Thursday, 22:00 to 00:00 UTC, the trough between the US close and the Asian open. There is no window on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, and no separate window per instrument.

Copying trades between your own FFUNDED accounts is allowed. What is prohibited is copying between accounts belonging to different traders, mirroring a signal service or a third-party account into your account, and group or coordinated trading arranged to reproduce the same result across many accounts.

The valueCoordinated or mirrored trading is taken as present where more than 80% of buy and sell exposure on the same instrument overlaps with another trader's account, sustained across 5 or more trades.

Using more than one identity is prohibited. That includes opening or operating an account under another person's identity, creating additional identities to obtain extra accounts, promotions, discounts or resets, and splitting one strategy across accounts to work around a limit that applies to a single account, including opposing positions held across accounts.

The valueHolding several accounts is allowed up to the $600,000 allocation cap, and copying your own trades between your own accounts is allowed. The same 80% overlap across 5 or more trades applies where the accounts belong to different traders, and hedged or offsetting positions held across accounts are prohibited at any size.

Position sizing built around recovering losses is prohibited. That covers escalating size after a losing trade to trade the loss back, and grid or recovery systems whose survival depends on each trade being larger than the last. Sizing should reflect risk management, not the size of the last loss.

The valueAfter you close a position, or a group of positions, on one instrument at a realised loss, that volume becomes the reference. Your next position on the same instrument must stay below a 100% increase on it. A 1.00 lot loss means the next entry on that instrument must stay under 2.00 lots, counting entries together. The direction and the result of the next trade make no difference, and the sequence resets at the 17:00 New York rollover each day.

Your account should be traded by the same person, in the same way, from the evaluation through to payout. Replacing the strategy on a passed account, or handing it to someone who trades it differently, is prohibited.

The valueYour first 20 closed trades build the profile. It is compared against your next 20 closed trades, and the rule fires where 3 or more measures move by 70% or more, across instruments traded, session, average duration, position size and the balance of long against short. The rule cannot be judged at all below 40 closed trades.

Your account must be traded by you. Sharing, selling, renting or transferring an account is prohibited, as is trading an account on someone else's behalf and any managed-account arrangement. The person who passes the evaluation must be the person who trades the account and the person who is paid.

Using a fault, delay, pricing error or any other weakness to produce a result that trading did not is prohibited. This applies to the trading platform, the price feed, the dashboard, the checkout, promotions, referrals and payouts alike, and it includes strategies that depend on the account being simulated.

Your account must be identifiable as yours. Sharing your login is prohibited, as is signing in through tools used to disguise who is trading or where they are trading from, including VPN or similar services used to hide location or to trade from a restricted jurisdiction, and any attempt to interfere with sign-in and verification. Sign-in activity is monitored. Where it suggests an account is being used by more than one person, or from somewhere it should not be, we may ask you to verify your identity again before you continue trading.

VPN and proxy useThe first detection is recorded, the second issues a formal warning and the third breaches the account. Two sightings less than 60 minutes apart count as one detection, and the count clears after 30 days without one.

Sign-in patterns that pause the accountSigning in from 3 or more distinct devices inside 24 hours, or from 2 countries inside 2 hours, locks the account for security until you verify yourself. That lock is never a breach on its own.

Identity verification when askedWhere enhanced verification is requested, it must be completed within 72 hours.

3Enforcement Policy

Two things can happen when a rule is broken, and which one it is depends only on the type of rule. Enforcement is automated and runs through FFUNDED's compliance system.

Daily Loss and Maximum Loss are hard risk rules. They act on their own, in real time, and there is no warning step before them.

Breaching a hard risk rule breaches the account immediately. Open positions are closed, trading is disabled, and the stage or the account ends according to the rule that was reached.

There is no warning before a hard risk rule because the limit itself is the warning. It is on your dashboard with your own figures, updating every second you have a position open.

Maximum Floating Loss per Trade, Maximum Total Exposure, Margin Usage, Single-Trade Profit Dependency and One-Sided Position Concentration are also enforced automatically, but they are not all-or-nothing. Each allows one formal warning before a breach: the first confirmed violation warns and the account keeps trading, and only a second violation of that same rule — a second crossing, a second confirmed episode, or a rebalancing window that passes unused — breaches it. No compliance officer is involved at any point, and every warning arrives with the exact figures it was measured on.

Warnings are recorded against the account and carry over. A Challenge Reset restarts your progress, never your record, so a warning already taken still counts afterwards.

Every rule in Compliance and Fair Trading follows an automated Warning then Breach process.

  • First confirmed violation. The account receives a Warning and keeps trading.
  • Repeated confirmed violation. The account is breached.

Confirmed is doing the work in both lines. A single ambiguous event is not treated as a violation, and no account is breached for one mistake.

Where a rule measures more than one pattern, as HFT does, each pattern counts on its own. One pattern is the warning, a second pattern is the breach, whether the two fire in the same moment or weeks apart.

Serious abuse is the exception. Fraud, identity abuse and coordinated activity across accounts can end an account, and any account connected to it, immediately and without a warning step.

Open positions are closed, trading is disabled and the account stops. You are told which rule was broken, by name, on your dashboard, in a notification and by email.

Simulated profit recorded on a breached account is void and carries no entitlement to a payout. Where a reset or a recovery option is available for your plan, it is offered to you in your dashboard.

We publish every rule, what it means for you, and the value it is measured against. The thresholds, windows and counts on this page are the ones the system actually uses, and they are the same figures shown on your dashboard against your own trading.

If a decision is taken on your account, you are always told which rule it relates to, by name, along with the figure that was reached.

Appeals are handled through the Complaints Policy. Include your account number and the trades or the period you are asking us to look at, and the recorded activity for that account is reviewed against the rule that was applied.

4General Terms

The numbers for each product, such as profit targets, loss limits and minimum trading requirements, are published per plan in Section 1 above, defined in the terms for the plan you purchased, and shown on your dashboard for the account you are trading.

  • CFDs evaluations are governed by the CFDs Challenge Terms.
  • Futures evaluations are governed by the Futures Challenge Terms.
  • Instant accounts are governed by the Instant Account Terms.

Where a plan-specific term and these Rules differ, the plan-specific term controls for that account.

Identity verification (KYC) must be completed before any payout is released. We may request additional verification or documentation at any time where we have reasonable grounds to suspect fraud, impersonation or misuse of an account, and we may withhold a payout until that verification is complete.

Each trader may hold accounts in their own name only, and the maximum allocation applies across every account you hold. Opening or operating accounts under another person's identity, and allowing another person to trade your account, are covered by Multi-Account Abuse and Third-Party Trading above.

An account with no trading activity for 28 consecutive days is closed. You are emailed first, at 10 days, at 18 days, and again at 24 days as a final notice, so the account is never closed without warning. Any trade you place resets the count.

Inactivity is not a trading breach and does not affect your standing on any other account.

Accounts may be refreshed or reset in the circumstances described in the applicable Challenge Terms. Passing an evaluation step does not create any entitlement other than progression to the next step or to a simulated funded account, as described in those terms. Simulated funding, scaling and payouts are governed by the Payout Policy and the relevant Challenge Terms.

FFUNDED may update these Rules from time to time to reflect operational, security or compliance requirements. Material changes are published on the FFUNDED website with notice to account holders, and the current version always governs live accounts. It is your responsibility to review the Rules that apply to your account.

If you have any questions about these Trading Rules, contact FFUNDED through the contact page at https://www.ffunded.com/contact.

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85%
Profit Paid to Traders
180+
Countries Supported
Weekly
Payout Cycle
$3M
Max. Allocation