Help CenterWe look for skilled, independent traders who bring their own ideas and strategies to the table. We support and reward genuine trading talent.
These guidelines help ensure that all traders succeed based on real skills and responsible strategies, not by exploiting system loopholes or unfair tactics.
By following them, you help build a stronger, safer trading community for yourself and your fellow traders.
The following prohibited trading methods are not allowed:
Exploit Price Inefficiencies / Price Feed Errors
- EAs that scalp during rollover to exploit price feed around 00:00 server time.
- Gaps or news scalping bots that open and close trades right before or during major news events or significant price gaps.
- Arbitrage to exploit price delays or differences between platforms or brokers.
- Exploiting price feed errors if you encounter an incorrect price, a delayed chart update, or a technical bug on the platform, you can open a trade to profit from that mistake.
- High-Frequency Trading (HFT), Tick-Scalping, Emulators, where most trades are opened and closed within a few minutes or less.
Group Hedging / Hedging / Group Trading / Copy Trading
- When two or more traders work together to take the same or opposite positions on the same symbol using the same or different accounts, either at CTI or across other prop firms.
- Using one or more accounts to place opposite trades on the same symbol at the same time.
- Utilising signal services or copy trading to replicate the trades of other traders.
(Click Here to check Authorised Copy Trading activities) - Group Trading or Coordinating trades with other traders.
Account Sharing / Reselling of Account / Account Management
- Sharing access with 3rd parties,
- Selling your account to another person,
- Using Funded Account Pass Services to trade on your behalf in exchange for a profit split.
One-Sided Bets
- When a trader places trades in only one direction without proper analysis or consideration of market conditions.
- Leaving trades open, hoping they will reach their profit target, without actively managing them.
Gamble to Pass / Over-Leveraging
- Using extremely high risk on 1 trade idea.
- Risking the entire drawdown limit in one go.
- Risking the whole account on a single trade idea.
- Exceeding a 150% Margin level on a single trade idea.
Using EAs 3rd-Party EAs (Excluding the 1-Step Challenge)
- Use a 3rd-party Expert Advisor (EA) that the trader doesn't own the source code.
- Using Trade Managers and Calculators is allowed.
- You can use any EA on the 1-Step Challenge, even if you don't own the source code.
Bracketing Strategies
- Placing both Buy-Stop and Sell-Stop orders above and below the market price triggering one of the trades, while the other is cancelled or quickly closed.
Martingale Trading Style ( Excluding the 1-Step Challenge)
- Adding more positions to losing positions as the market moves against the original trade, and then closing all positions when the price returns to the 1st trade entry.
- Layering (or scaling into a losing position) is allowed when the trade has a clear directional bias.
Grid Trading
- Grid trading is a strategy where traders place multiple buy and sell orders at set price levels above and below the current market price, creating a “grid” of trades.
If any prohibited methods are detected, we’ll do our best to guide you back on track and resolve the issue together. However, misuse can result in losing your funded account, being permanently banned from our programs, or being denied future access.
We truly want every trader to succeed responsibly and enjoy long-term opportunities with CTI.