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What counts as "Gambling" or Prohibited Strategies?

🚫 Hedging, One-Sided Bets, and HFT are strictly banned.

Updated over 2 months ago

Prohibited Strategies

To maintain a fair trading environment, the following activities are banned. Detecting these will lead to immediate account termination.

Please note: This list represents common violations but is not limited to only these examples. Our Risk Team reserves the right to review any suspicious trading behavior.

The "Red List"

1. Hedging

You cannot hold a Long and Short position on the same asset simultaneously.

  • Specific Violation: This includes cross-contract hedging. For example, holding a Long position on a Mini contract (e.g., NQ) while simultaneously holding a Short position on the Micro equivalent (e.g., MNQ) is a strict violation.

2. One-Sided Bets

Using max leverage on a single trade idea without technical justification.

  • One-Sided Trading

    This includes consistently across many accounts taking advantage of one single market direction to keep placing one-sided trades. We understand this behavior as intentional one-sided trading rather than legitimate strategy.

3. Gaming the System

Any attempt to manipulate the platform or trade in an exploitative manner.

  • Bulk Account Exploitation

    Buying many accounts to trade in an exploitative manner.

  • Arbitrage

    Exploiting platform freezes, data delays, or price feed errors.

4. HFT (High-Frequency Trading)

  • Strategies that enter and exit positions in sub-second intervals to exploit server latency.

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