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# Trading rules overview

Tradeify FX trading rules in one place: risk limits by plan, prohibited conduct, news trading, martingale and HFT policy, excessive activity review, hedging, EAs, VPN/VPS and inactivity.

Written by Michael McSperrin
Updated yesterday

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[Risk limits by plan](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16976076-trading-rules-overview#h_686597083b)[Conduct rules — all plans](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16976076-trading-rules-overview#h_51ad0c7a3c)[Partial closes and how trading days are counted](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16976076-trading-rules-overview#h_e5859a6420)[Monitoring and enforcement](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16976076-trading-rules-overview#h_e9d730b46a)[News trading — restricted window](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16976076-trading-rules-overview#h_f9bcdc3cd1)[News trading, martingale and HFT — summary](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16976076-trading-rules-overview#h_29b689b7b9)[Excessive trading and account activity](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16976076-trading-rules-overview#h_f21763f657)[Other account rules](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16976076-trading-rules-overview#h_608f93aebd)

This article summarises the risk rules across all Tradeify FX plans and the conduct rules that apply to every account.

## **Risk limits by plan**

| | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Rule** | **Daily** | **Classic** | **Direct** |
| Daily loss limit | None | 3% | 3% |
| Max loss | 5% trailing (closed balance) | 10% static | 6% trailing with lock |
| Consistency | 40% max single day (evaluation stage only) | None | 20% |
| Leverage (FX) | 1:100 | 1:100 | 1:100 |

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| --- |
| **⚠️ Breaches are final**<br>Reaching or exceeding a risk limit breaches the account. A breached account is closed, cannot be reopened or reset, is not eligible for any payout, and any profit remaining in it is forfeited. |

## **Conduct rules — all plans**

Trading activity must reflect independent decision-making, legitimate speculative intent, responsible risk management and fair, commercially reasonable market conduct. The following behaviours are prohibited on all Tradeify FX accounts:

- Gap trading — strategies designed to exploit abnormal market gaps, pricing irregularities or market-open inefficiencies in an abusive or commercially unreasonable way.

- High-frequency trading — ultra-high-speed automated strategies exploiting execution infrastructure, pricing latency or server limitations.

- Server spamming — excessive or abusive order placement, modification or cancellation that places unreasonable load on platform infrastructure.

- Latency arbitrage — exploiting delays in price feeds, execution timing differences, stale quotes or infrastructure latency.

- Toxic trading flow — behaviour identified as harmful to liquidity providers, execution infrastructure or platform operations.

- Hedging and long-short arbitrage across accounts — maintaining opposing directional exposure across accounts, platforms or related entities to reduce risk, exploit evaluation rules or generate artificial performance.

- Opposite account trading and reverse arbitrage — coordinated opposing positions intended to manipulate evaluation outcomes, payout eligibility or platform risk exposure.

- Tick scalping — strategies exploiting minimal tick-by-tick fluctuations, execution timing or quote inefficiencies in a manner deemed abusive.

- Execution exploitation — any attempt to exploit platform execution behaviour, infrastructure weaknesses, execution delays or system errors.

- Churning and burning — excessive activity intended solely to generate volume, rapidly pass evaluations through reckless exposure or abuse promotional structures.

- Copy trading between unrelated users, coordinated trading groups and signal mirroring intended to circumvent rules or artificially generate performance. Trade copiers between your own Tradeify FX accounts are permitted.

- Third-party account management — passing services or external vendors trading an account on a trader's behalf. All trading must be conducted solely by the verified account holder.

Hedging within a single account — holding long and short positions on the same instrument in one account — is allowed, as MT5 supports natively. Hedging between different accounts, or coordinated with other users, is strictly prohibited and covered by the cross-account rules above.

## **Partial closes and how trading days are counted**

Partial closes are allowed. However, they may not be used to artificially increase your number of trading days, or to satisfy consistency requirements. For a trading day to be counted, the entire position must be fully closed — a position is treated as active until all remaining volume has been closed.

- Example: you open a 1.0 lot position on Monday, close 0.5 lots before the 22:00 UTC reset and the remaining 0.5 lots after it. This counts as ONE trading day, not two — the position is a single trade that stayed active across both periods and only became fully realised when the last volume was closed.

- Two separate, fully closed trades — one before the reset and one after — count as two trading days.

- Overnight positions: holding a position overnight is allowed, including a position you have partly closed. You can carry the full position, or the remaining part after a partial close, into the next trading day. The restriction is on purpose, not on holding: partial closes may not be used to add trading days or to satisfy consistency requirements. Realised profit counts on the day it is realised, and a trading day still counts only once the entire position is fully closed. Example: you close 0.5 lots of a 1.0 lot position before the 22:00 UTC reset and carry the remaining 0.5 lots overnight. That is allowed; the profit from the 0.5 lots counts on the day it was closed, and the position counts as one trading day once the last volume is closed.

Why: this keeps the Daily 40% and Direct 20% consistency calculations reflecting genuine trading activity. Any attempt to manipulate trading-day calculations through partial position management may result in the affected profits being excluded from eligibility calculations, or other corrective action at Tradeify's discretion.

## **Monitoring and enforcement**

Tradeify FX monitors trading behaviour and execution patterns, device and IP activity, account linkage indicators, trade similarity metrics and payout activity. Accounts engaging in prohibited behaviour may face manual review, additional verification, payout delays or denials, account restrictions, termination or permanent bans. Confirmed fair-play bans are final and permanent — see the Trader check-ins, KYT and fair play article.

## **News trading — restricted window**

On funded and Live accounts, trading is restricted for 10 minutes around high-impact news: from 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after the scheduled release of a high-impact (red-folder) economic event. High-impact events are identified using the economic calendar in the trader dashboard. The restriction covers major releases such as CPI, PPI, NFP, FOMC rate decisions, statements and minutes, employment reports, and any other event classified as high-impact. The window follows the scheduled release time (times are anchored to UTC).

### **Where it applies**

The restriction applies on all plans once an account is funded — Daily, Classic, Direct and Pro — and on Live Program accounts. It does not apply to evaluation accounts, so you can trade through news during an evaluation phase.

### **Which instruments are restricted**

The window applies to instruments tied to the currency or country of the event. If it is GBP news, GBP instruments are restricted, including the UK index (UK100); if it is USD news, USD instruments are restricted — which includes USD pairs, gold and silver, US indices, oil and crypto (BTC and ETH), as these are tied to the dollar. Instruments with no link to the event's currency or country are not restricted.

### **What you cannot do during the window**

- Open a new position or create a new order.

- Close an existing position, manually or by market order.

- Modify an existing position or order, including moving its stop loss or take profit.

- Place or execute a new pending order (Buy Stop, Sell Stop, Buy Limit or Sell Limit).

- Intentionally trigger or enter a position through any order type.

### **Positions and orders that span the window**

- Opened before the window, closed after it: counts normally.

- Held through the window: allowed, but the position cannot be closed or modified while the window is open.

- Closed or triggered during the window (by take profit, stop loss or a pending order): any profit is deducted and any loss remains on the account.

- Pending orders: an order that executes during the window is treated as a news trade, regardless of when it was placed.

- Margin stop-out: not a violation. It is triggered automatically by the platform.

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| **⚠ Before the window opens**<br>Close your open positions and cancel any pending orders before the restricted window starts. Because you cannot close or modify positions during the window, a position held through it cannot be exited or have its stop moved, and the account's risk limits and live-equity breach checks still apply. |

### **Consequences of a violation**

News-trading violations are subject to Risk/Compliance review. Any profit made during the restricted window is deducted; any loss remains on the account. Depending on the circumstances, further action may include a warning, account restriction, and — for serious violations — account breach or termination. If a trader repeatedly breaks the rule, Tradeify FX reserves the right to close their account and ban them from both Tradeify FX and Tradeify 247.

## **News trading, martingale and HFT — summary**

| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Strategy** | **Status** | **Summary** |
| News trading | Restricted (funded and Live) | Not permitted from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact (red-folder) news releases, on instruments tied to the event currency. Evaluation accounts are not restricted. See the restricted window above. |
| Martingale | Allowed | Allowed within account risk limits; must not be abusive or unsustainable. |
| High-frequency trading | Prohibited | Strategies exploiting execution infrastructure, latency, delayed quotes or server limitations are not allowed. |

## **Excessive trading and account activity**

Purchasing multiple accounts and trading across them is permitted within the applicable allocation limits. However, where the overall pattern of account purchases and trading activity appears primarily focused on generating account volume rather than a genuine trading strategy, the Risk Team may review the activity. A review can result in a cooldown period, an interview to understand the strategy, or — where activity is determined to be inconsistent with genuine trading — account rejection or, in serious or repeated cases, a ban. The Risk Team assesses the overall scale and pattern of activity case by case, not individual purchases or trades in isolation. This policy is not intended to restrict legitimate traders or legitimate account purchases.

## **Other account rules**

- Account sharing — prohibited. Only the verified account holder may trade the account.

- Check-ins (KYT) — Tradeify FX may invite a trader whose account meets review thresholds to a check-in at any stage, run as an AI-guided session or a video call with a member of the risk team, at Tradeify FX's discretion. Attendance is mandatory. Payouts are paused and funded activation waits until it is completed, but trading continues under the normal rules, including inactivity; if not completed within 30 days, the account is closed and remaining profits are forfeited. See the Trader check-ins, KYT and fair play article.

- Expert Advisors — trade manager EAs (tools that help you size, place and manage trades you decide to take (for example position sizing, break-even, trailing stops or partial closes) and never open a position on their own) are allowed, including ones bought elsewhere and the Tradeify FX Trade Pilot (see the Tradeify FX Trade Pilot article). Automated (algo) EAs are allowed only if you created them yourself; the source file and an explanation of the strategy behind the EA may be requested at any time. Off-the-shelf algo EAs, shared bots and third-party signal execution are not permitted. Trade copiers between your own accounts are permitted.

- VPN/VPS — allowed, and can help with connection stability and execution speed. Your account must remain personal at all times: VPN/VPS may not be used to mask account sharing or group trading. If multiple logins from different IP addresses or shared IP usage with other users is detected, additional verification may be requested — proof of your VPN/VPS setup, a short verification interview, or other ownership checks.

- Inactivity — 30 consecutive days without placing a trade breaches the account. A warning email is sent at 28 days giving you 48 hours to place at least one trade. An inactivity breach closes the account like any other breach.

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- [Tradeify FX FAQ](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16975746-tradeify-fx-faq)
- [Glossary of key terms](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16975756-glossary-of-key-terms)
- [Allowed and prohibited instruments](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16976463-allowed-and-prohibited-instruments)
- [MT5 platform guide](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/16976472-mt5-platform-guide)
- [Tradeify FX Trade Pilot](https://help.tradeifyfx.co/en/articles/17242070-tradeify-fx-trade-pilot)

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# Trading rules overview

Tradeify FX trading rules in one place: risk limits by plan, prohibited conduct, news trading, martingale and HFT policy, excessive activity review, hedging, EAs, VPN/VPS and inactivity.

Written by Michael McSperrin
Updated today