Trading Rules

Clear rules for responsible simulated trading.

Before starting a challenge, make sure you understand the inactivity policy, prohibited trading practices, risk limits, account access rules and compliance requirements.

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Important Notice

Violating the rules can result in a direct ban or account termination.

The Company reserves the right to determine, at its own discretion, whether certain trades, practices, strategies, account access behavior or situations are considered forbidden trading practices. Sharing your TradePanel account access with any third party is strictly prohibited and results in a direct ban.

Inactivity

Account inactivity policy

Your account must remain active during the evaluation period.

No more than 30 calendar days of inactivity

The account cannot be inactive for more than 30 calendar days. Inactive means that no trades have been executed on the account.

Forbidden Practices

Prohibited trading methods

The following trading practices are prohibited during simulated trading.

Restricted strategies

These methods are considered forbidden trading practices and may lead to account violation, service termination, direct ban or declined remuneration.

Gap trading
High-frequency trading
Toxic trading flow
Server spamming
Latency arbitrage
Hedging
Long-short arbitrage
Reverse arbitrage
Tick scalping
Server execution exploits
Opposite account trading
Churning and burning
Third-party copy trading
Third-party account management
Sharing TradePanel account access
Allowing third-party TradePanel access
Copying another trader’s trade idea
Purposely trading news events

Account Access

Your TradePanel account is strictly personal.

Your trading account access may never be shared with any third party. This is a direct ban violation.

No third-party access

Your TradePanel trading account is strictly personal. You are not allowed to share your login details, account access, dashboard access or trading platform access with any third party. If a third party accesses, manages, trades, monitors or controls your account, this is considered a serious violation and will result in a direct ban.

Use your own trade ideas

You must trade using your own trading ideas, strategy and analysis. Copying another trader's trade idea, signals, positions or account activity is strictly prohibited. We respect your own trading decisions and your own trade ideas, not copied ideas from someone else.

Risk Management

Excessive risk-taking and gambling behavior

Traders must trade responsibly and apply market-standard risk management rules.

Over-leveraging

Participating in trades with disproportionately high levels of risk in relation to capital or risk tolerance is prohibited. This includes excessive leverage, overexposure or full margin behavior.

Gambling behavior

Trading driven by emotions instead of rational analysis may resemble gambling. This includes chasing losses, impulsive decisions or addictive trading behavior.

Overtrading

Continuously entering and exiting trades without a clear strategy or rationale is prohibited and may indicate poor trading behavior.

Maximum risk per position

Master accounts of 50K and above have a maximum risk limit of 2% per position.
Merged or scaled accounts with a combined value of 50K or more also follow the 2% maximum risk rule.
Accounts below 50K, including 5K, 10K and 25K accounts, have a maximum risk limit of 3% per position.
A single trade, split positions, or the same trade idea opened within 10 minutes in the same direction are treated as one trade.

Arbitrage

Arbitrage and reverse trading

All forms of arbitrage are considered toxic because they lack a clear underlying trading idea, strategy or rationale.

Hedge Arbitrage

Simultaneously entering opposing positions with different firms is prohibited.

Latency Arbitrage

Exploiting differences in execution times across platforms or venues to profit from small price delays is prohibited.

Reverse Trading

Signs and behaviors such as risking the full daily loss on one trade may indicate reverse trading between different firms.

Behavior

Poor money management and behavioral patterns

Trading behavior must remain consistent, rational and aligned with responsible risk management.

Poor money management

Frequent margin calls due to inadequate funds or risky positions may indicate a lack of risk management and may pose a threat to the trader's accounts or the firm's stability.

Inconsistent behavior

Trading during illiquid market hours to exploit liquidity shortages, consistently disregarding risk management principles or making emotional decisions is prohibited.

Compliance

Risk assessment interviews

The Company may conduct informal risk assessment interviews to protect against prohibited or suspicious activity.

Mandatory review participation

Risk and compliance assessments may occur monthly, weekly or daily. Once a review is initiated, remuneration may be withheld until the assessment is completed satisfactorily. Users may be required to answer questions about their trading strategies and behaviors. Failure to comply may result in remuneration being withheld and services being terminated.

Consequences

Violations and account restrictions

If a customer is suspected of engaging in forbidden trading practices, the Company may take action at its own discretion.

The account may be considered in violation.
Sharing your TradePanel trading account access with any third party results in a direct ban.
Allowing a third party to access, manage, trade or monitor your TradePanel account is strictly prohibited.
The Company may terminate the contract or stop providing services.
Trades may be deducted or restrictions may be added.
Leverage may be decreased on a specific account or on any customer account.
Access to the Dashboard and Trading Platforms may be removed.
The customer may not be entitled to compensation, remuneration or refund of fees paid.

Final Notice

Trade responsibly and follow the program rules.

If a customer engages in forbidden trading practices or shares TradePanel account access with any third party, the Company may prevent access to all Services, including the Dashboard and Trading Platforms, without compensation or remuneration. In such a case, the customer is not entitled to a refund of fees paid.