The Trading Pit

In general, news trading is allowed on all CFD accounts up to $50,000.

On the $100,000 and $200,000 accounts, news trading is not allowed during either the challenge or funded stage.
Two minutes before and two minutes after the event.

Payouts every 14 days.
You must complete 3 profitable days, each with at least 0.5% profit.
Payouts are sent within 24 hours.
80% profit split.
The account fee is refunded with the third payout.
Minimum payout: $100.

Overnight and weekend holding is allowed on all accounts.

Copy Trading on CFD Challenges

The Trading Pit allows trades to be copied from a trader's own external master account to the trader's The Trading Pit simulated account.

From 02/06/2025, copy trading on CFD Challenges is allowed under the following guidelines:

Allowed:
• Copying only between accounts owned by the same user.
• Copying across any number of the user's own CFD Challenge accounts.
• Manual or automated strategies may be used.
• There is no limit on the number of Challenge accounts a user may open or trade between, provided all are owned by the same person.

Prohibited:
• Copying between accounts owned by different clients.
• Coordinated or identical trading between different individuals, whether manual or automated.
• Copying from an external account that the trader does not own.

A trader may use a personally owned Expert Advisor provided it does not perform any of the following prohibited activities:
• Copy signals that do not belong to the trader.
• Scalping on Classic CFD accounts; positions must be held for at least 1 minute.
• Latency trading, reverse trading, hedging, arbitrage, or High-Frequency Trading.
• Use emulators.
• Open positions within 2 minutes before or after high-impact news on $100,000 and $200,000 Prime CFD accounts and Classic Futures accounts.
• Leave pending orders that execute during the same restricted news window on those accounts.

Accounts using these prohibited EA functions may lose eligibility for upgrades and payouts, and the Challenge fee will not be refunded.

An IP address changing once every few days because of travel is not normally a problem. However, several IP changes within the same day may raise concerns about prohibited account sharing.

Once all conditions are met, the account balance increases by 25%:
• The account must have been active for at least 2 months.
• The trader must have received at least 2 payouts.
• Total profit must be at least 10% of the initial balance.

Every fourth upgrade is a milestone. The new balance at that stage becomes the basis for the next 25% increases.

Example:
With an initial balance of $100,000, the first four upgrades add $25,000 each. After the account reaches $200,000, upgrades five through eight add $50,000 each. The cycle is designed to provide sustainable growth in line with continued performance.

Important update:
The Trading Pit removed the Risk per Trade Idea and Margin Used per Trade Idea requirements from most accounts. They remain applicable only to $100K and $200K One-Phase accounts.

Risk per Trade Idea:
Combined risk on the same trade idea must not exceed 1.5% of the initial balance. All positions linked to the same idea are grouped, even when opened at different times, split into several entries, or traded with different position sizes.

For example, several Gold positions in the same direction are combined as one idea. Correlated markets such as EURUSD, GBPUSD, and USDCHF may also be grouped when they express the same USD view.

Risk is measured from the stop loss when one is set, or from the worst potential price exposure when no stop loss is present. At 1%, a warning may be issued. Exceeding 1.5% may lead to a warning and position closure; repeated violations may fail the account.

Margin Used per Trade Idea:
Combined margin used on one trade idea must not exceed 40% of the initial balance. Margin is aggregated across all positions linked to the same idea, whether on one instrument or correlated instruments. Splitting one idea into several entries does not reduce the calculated margin.

At 30% margin usage, a warning may be issued. Exceeding 40% may lead to a warning and position closure; repeated violations may fail the account.

Summary:
These rules were removed from most programs but remain on $100K and $200K One-Phase accounts. Where applicable, risk on one trade idea must remain at or below 1.5% and margin used on one trade idea must remain at or below 40% of the initial balance.

An account is permanently closed if no trade is placed for 21 days.

1. Core principle:
The firm promotes disciplined, analysis-based trading. Excessive risk and attempts to chase fast profits through gambling-style behaviour are prohibited.

2. Prohibited gambling behaviour:
• Excessive leverage or very large positions without clear stop-loss protection.
• Excessive concentration in one asset or market instead of balanced exposure.
• One-sided betting without adequate research or market analysis.
• Reckless hyperactivity, including too many trades within a short period.

3. Required risk-management standards:
Risk should be distributed reasonably, position size should reflect market conditions and stop-loss placement, and the strategy should be reviewed and adjusted as conditions change.

4. Monitoring and consequences:
Trading activity is monitored. Violations may lead to removal of profits generated by the breach, reduced leverage, or permanent account termination.

Summary:
Every trade should have a technical rationale and sound risk management. Gambling-style behaviour is not accepted.

Required documents:
• A valid national ID, passport, or driving licence.
• Proof of address.
• A live selfie verification.

Micro-Scalping Policy

1. Definition:
Excessive micro-scalping is strictly prohibited across all account types and instruments. It is defined as repeatedly opening and closing trades within approximately 10 to 15 seconds.

2. Detection threshold:
Trade duration and structure are monitored automatically. An account is considered in violation when 40% or more of profits come from trades held for less than 15 seconds. Closing a losing position at any time is allowed and does not count against this rule.

3. Consequences:
• Challenge accounts: the trader receives a formal warning.
• Earning accounts: the trader receives a warning and all profits generated by excessive micro-scalping are removed.
• Repeated violations may cause payout or upgrade requests to be rejected and may ultimately terminate the account.

4. Staying compliant:
A strategy must not rely on ultra-short 10–15-second trades as its main source of profit. Traders must adjust any such approach to comply with fair-execution and platform-integrity requirements.

Prohibited Practices During Simulated Trading

1. System or price exploitation:
• Exploiting service or system faults, pricing errors, update delays, or execution failures, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
• Using external or delayed data feeds.
• Any form of arbitrage, including cross-market price arbitrage, Latency Arbitrage, Reverse Arbitrage, and Hedge Arbitrage.
• Using emulators or technology that interferes with the platform network or execution process.

2. Manipulation or coordination between accounts:
• Coordinated trading through related accounts or accounts at different firms.
• Simultaneous opposite positions intended to manipulate results.
• Coordinated or copied trading between different traders or accounts.
• Copying another person's signals through an EA or other tool.

3. Software and AI abuse:
• Using software, artificial intelligence, or ultra-fast/bulk data input to gain an unfair advantage.
• Third-party EAs or bots that perform Tick Scalping or overnight scalping.
• Using a third-party EA without owning the source code may fail the Challenge or scaling plan.
• Using the same programmed EA strategy across a group of traders.

4. High-risk or unrealistic trading:
• Achieving the target through a single trade.
• HFT strategies where most trades last only seconds or less.
• Bracketing high-impact news.
• Gap Trading around scheduled major events or during the final two hours before a market closes for at least two hours.
• Unrealistic position sizing, such as extremely large lots closed after only a few points without accounting for slippage.

5. Abnormal risk management:
• Position sizes materially larger than the trader's normal pattern or those used on other accounts.
• A materially different number of trades from the trader's normal approach.
• Excessive or unrealistic daily volume.
• Lot-size manipulation, such as one oversized trade followed by tiny trades only to satisfy trading-day requirements.
• Excessive leverage or exposure.
• One-sided betting.
• Account cycling.
• Overnight scalping arbitrage intended to exploit financing differences.
• Any method that is not normal speculative trading in financial markets.

6. Conduct inconsistent with market practice:
• Trading in breach of the firm's or platform's terms.
• Trading in a way that is inconsistent with recognized market practice.
• Activity that reasonably exposes the firm to financial or operational harm.

Consequences:
A violating simulated account may be cancelled or blocked, fees may be non-refundable, and the user may be prohibited from using the firm's services.

Important:
The list is not exhaustive. The firm may classify other conduct that threatens platform integrity as prohibited. These rules form part of the Terms and Conditions and signal-provider agreement.

Trading style summary:
• Adding to positions is allowed, but not excessively.
• Hedging within the same account is allowed.
• Scalping below 1 minute is prohibited.
• Copy trading is prohibited.
• Martingale is prohibited.
• Achieving the target through one trade is prohibited.
• The account closes after 21 days without trading.
• A stop loss is not required on every trade, but trading most positions without one is prohibited.
• Large, inconsistent changes in lot size are prohibited.