Next Gen accounts: Biggest trading day cannot exceed 25% of total profit to be eligible for payout.

Instant Funding accounts: Biggest trading day cannot exceed 15% of total profit to be eligible for payout.

News trading

Next Gen Models

• Evaluation Accounts; News trading is allowed in the challenge phase, but if more than 50% of profits come from news events, the account will be subjected to
• Funded Accounts; News trading is Restricted — no opening, closing, or holding trades 5 minutes before or after medium/high-impact news. Profits from this window are deducted, and if this deduction exceeds drawdown limits, Account is immediately terminated

Pro Models

• Evaluation Accounts: No Restrictions
• Funded Accounts: News trading is not allowed within 2 minutes of high impact news in the funded stage, over 30% of profits cannot come from trades influenced by high impact news events.

Instant Funding: News trading is not allowed 5 minutes before and after high-impact news—violating this leads to immediate account termination

Copy trading

Allowed

• Using copy trading software to copy trades between Funding Traders accounts is allowed.
• Using copy trading software to copy trades from your accounts on other brokers/firms into one FT account is allowed.

Not Allowed

• Copying trades from accounts owned by other traders.
• Sharing signals with other traders.

EAs

• Only Risk management or trade management EA are allowed.

Minimum Volume Weighted Average Holding Time (VWHT):

• Average trade duration should exceed 2 minutes, failure to adhere will lead to account termination

Inactivity Period:

• 30 days inactivity rule for both challenge and funded stage, begins on the day the account is purchased—not from the date of last activity.

Grid Trading:

• Grid trading is a strategy where traders place multiple buy and sell orders at various price levels above and below the current market price, this strategy is prohibited.

Prohibited Strategies:

• Overleveraging, Overexposure One-sided Trading, Account Rolling/Stacking is prohibited and HFT on Funded accounts

Instant Funding Risk Rules

• Max lot limit: 20 lot limit per trade, Violation leads to immediate account Termination

• Maximum risk: Maximum risk is 1%, Your floating PnL must not fall below -1% of your initial account balance relative to your current balance.

• 3% Safety Cushion: The first 3% profit in the account is not withdrawable, as it serves as an allowance for your daily loss limit. This 3% allowance is calculated relative to the total account size, not just your current profits.

• Your Biggest loss must not exceed your biggest win, else the payout will be delayed till your biggest win exceeds your biggest loss

• Weekend holding is prohibited; all trades (including crypto) must be closed at least 1 hour before Friday market close. Violation leads to Account termination

Rules for accounts Flagged under Risk Management Group

• Funding Traders will monitor account activity to identify risk heavy behaviors and place account flagged under risk management group. Here are the key behavior that may trigger risk reviews

• Risking 2% or more per trade idea or group of trades closed around the same time

• “All or nothing” approaches – risking too much in a short period or trying to pass/fail quickly

• Excessive leverage or max lot size usage relative to account size

• Speculative news trading without a clear strategy

• Extreme scalping or inconsistent trade durations

• Account rolling: Full risk on assessment or qualified accounts to either pass or fail and/or a large quantity of accounts passing & failing within a short timeframe. Previous failed accounts are taken into consideration

Account under the risk management group will have a reduce leverage of up to 1:30 depending on the asset class and also the maximum risk per trade idea will be 1%.

Accounts will be returned to standard leverage and normal trading conditions after 2 successful payouts, given these conditions:

• The account is at its original starting balance

• No open positions at the time of request

Requests can be made via our Risk Team, which you can contact at accounts@fundingtraders.com

You can read more here: https://help.fundingtraders.com/en/articles/11927126-risk-management-at-fundingtraders

• Instant Funding: 90%, Biweekly (100% with add-on)
• Pro and Next Gen: 80% Biweekly (7 Days payout and 90% or 100% with Add-ons)