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GENERAL RULES

News Trading Policy

• News trading is strictly prohibited on both Challenge and Funded accounts. No trades, order executions, or account activity (closing trades, executing trades, stop loss hits, take profit hits) are allowed within 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after any high-impact news event (as marked with a red folder on Forex Factory).
• Violations will result in an immediate account breach, termination of the funded agreement, and forfeiture of all profits

Expert Advisor (EAs)

• Allowed with Add-on

Copy Trading

• Traders are allowed to use copy trading between Think Capital accounts. However, traders are not permitted to copy trades from other prop firm accounts or personal accounts. To use copy trading between your other prop firm accounts, you must use your Think Capital account as the master account.
• As an exception, traders can use the PF1 tool on Platform 5, offered via Prop Firm Match. With this tool, traders can copy their trades between Platform 5 accounts with the option to make their ThinkCapital account the master or slave account. For more Details about PF1, please visit: https://propfirmone.com
• To use copy trading, you must purchase the challenge with the EA Add-On.

Inactivity Rule

• You must place at least one trade every 30 days to keep your account active. Failure to do so will result in account termination with no refund for challenge accounts and no payouts for funded accounts.

Gambling & Reckless Trading Policy

• ThinkCapital strictly prohibit any trading behavior that resembles gambling or reckless betting. Trading must be approached professionally, with sound risk management and consistency.
• Gambling behavior includes overleveraging, all-in trades, doubling down after losses (Martingale), overexposure to correlated assets, excessive high-frequency scalping, punting (placing a few high-risk trades hoping for quick wins), “coinflip” trading patterns, and account rolling.
• Accounts showing such behavior may receive warnings, profit deductions, resets, suspension, or permanent termination sometimes without prior notice if risk is extreme. See Details: https://www.thinkcapital.com/faqs/general-faqs/what-are-thinkcapitals-guidelines-regarding-gambling-or-reckless-trading-behavior-on-the-platform/

Prohibited Trading practices/strategies

• Copy trading (between accounts not owned by the same person), Grid trading, Hedging or group hedging across multiple accounts, Collusion between users, Account sharing/account management/account sale, Latency arbitrage, High-frequency trading (HFT), Abuse of a delayed data feed, Abuse of the simulated environment, Trading on delayed charts, Unauthorized use of Expert Advisors (EAs), Challenge passing services, Martingale trading, Use of guarantee of compliance with limit orders, Trading in sanctioned countries, Exploiting platform or data freezing due to technical errors, News trading (within restricted window), Order layering, Gambling/punting. See details: https://www.thinkcapital.com/faqs/general-faqs/guidelines-regarding-trading-strategies-contrary-to-thinkcapitals-terms-of-use-policy/

• Think Capital Penalties: https://www.thinkcapital.com/faqs/penalties-faq-section/penalties-faq-section/

VPN/VPS Policy

• VPN use is generally prohibited, except for connections from Forex VPS, which are allowed for running algos and EAs continuously. Multiple users on one account or unapproved automation are strictly forbidden. VPN/VPS use during KYC/AML verification is not allowed and may lead to account denial or breach.

LIGHTNING (1-STEP)

• Minimum Trading Days

  • Evaluation: None

  • Funded: 3 profitable days, each with at least 0.5% profit based on the starting balance of that day, and the overall account balance must remain above the initial starting balance.

• Impact on Payouts

  • To qualify for a payout at each interval, you must meet the Minimum Profitable Trading Days requirement.

DUAL STEP (2-STEP)

• Minimum Trading Days
  • Evaluation: 3 profitable days with at least 0.5% profit based on your starting balance for that day, and your overall account balance is above the initial starting balance.
  • Funded: 3 profitable days with at least 0.5% profit based on your starting balance for that day, and your overall account balance is above the initial starting balance.
• Impact on Payouts
  • For every payout interval, you must meet the Minimum Profitable Trading Days requirement to qualify for payout.

NEXUS (3-STEP)

• Minimum Trading Days
  • Evaluation: None
  • Funded: 3 profitable days with at least 0.5% profit based on your starting balance for that day, and your overall account balance is above the initial starting balance.
• Impact on Payouts
  • For every payout interval, you must meet the Minimum Profitable Trading Days requirement to qualify for payout.

Payouts:

• Available every 14 days (unless purchased with the Weekly Payouts add-on).

Minimum Balance for Payout:

• $100 profit required to request a payout.

Scaling Plan

• Eligibility:
  1. Achieve 10% profit over 3 months (≈3.33% per month).
  2. Complete 3 withdrawals within the review cycle.

Scaling Increase:

• Each scaling event increases the account by 20% of the original starting balance.

Review Cycle:

• Conducted every 3 months.