Conduct & Prohibited Practices

36. Manual and Compliance Reviews

The Company may initiate a manual, risk, payout, fraud, or compliance review at any time. During review, trading may be frozen, progression paused, payouts delayed, and additional documents requested. Failure to cooperate may result in suspension or termination.

37. Good Faith Trading

All Trading Activity must be conducted honestly and in good faith for the purpose of demonstrating genuine trading skill and risk management. Trading designed principally to exploit technical weaknesses, pricing anomalies, platform behavior, promotions, payout mechanics, or internal risk controls is prohibited even where no single written rule precisely describes the conduct.

38. General Prohibited Conduct

Any conduct that seeks to manipulate, deceive, exploit, circumvent, or obtain an unfair advantage over Company Systems, other participants, pricing, operational processes, payout rules, or risk models is prohibited.

39. Market Manipulation

Artificial price manipulation, wash trading, layering, spoofing, quote stuffing, self-trading intended to distort outcomes, order-book manipulation, and other manipulative practices are prohibited.

40. Platform and Pricing Exploitation

Traders may not knowingly exploit software bugs, pricing errors, delayed or frozen quotes, synchronization issues, execution delays, API behavior, connectivity failures, server instability, or other technical defects. A Trader who becomes aware of a material technical issue must cease exploiting the issue and promptly notify the Company.

41. Latency Arbitrage

Strategies primarily designed to profit from latency, delayed market data, cross-feed differences, or execution-timing disparities are prohibited, including feed arbitrage, cross-feed latency arbitrage, delayed-quote exploitation, and timing manipulation.

42. High-Frequency Trading and Tick Scalping

Unless expressly approved, strategies primarily dependent on excessive order frequency, ultra-short execution timing, quote flooding, or isolated tick capture without meaningful market exposure may be prohibited. The Company may consider average holding time, frequency, execution characteristics, and tick dependency.

43. Hedging and Coordinated Trading

Hedging across multiple Company Accounts, between different participants, through family members, or against external accounts for the purpose of guaranteeing Program outcomes or payouts is prohibited. Coordinated trading intended to split exposure, offset losses, reduce individual risk artificially, or circumvent Program Rules is also prohibited.

44. Mirror Trading and Signals

Unauthorized mirror trading, trade replication between different participants, shared signals used to create substantially identical coordinated outcomes, or external copy services that undermine independent trading assessment are prohibited. Permitted same-size copy trading under Section 30 remains subject to these restrictions.

45. Artificial Intelligence and Automation

AI tools may be used for research, education, coding, journaling, or analysis. Fully autonomous systems, mass-generated identical strategies, automated account farming, or AI systems controlling multiple Accounts in a manner that circumvents Program objectives may be prohibited. Expert Advisors, bots, APIs, and automation may be used only where supported and permitted for the applicable Program and platform.

46. Account Sharing and Third-Party Management

Only the registered Trader may access and control the Account. Shared credentials, remote trading by another person, account management services, selling access, renting Accounts, or third-party discretionary control are prohibited.

47. Device, IP, VPN and Proxy Monitoring

The Company may monitor devices, browsers, operating systems, IP addresses, VPN and proxy usage, geographic information, login history, and access patterns. VPNs or proxies are not prohibited solely by their use, but may not be used to conceal identity, circumvent geographic restrictions, create or manage unauthorized multiple Accounts, or evade fraud controls.

48. Multiple Identities and Geographic Circumvention

Creating Accounts using false names, alternate identities, relatives, friends, employees, business entities used to conceal beneficial control, temporary contact information, or other methods intended to hide the true participant is prohibited.

49. Payment Fraud and Chargebacks

Stolen or unauthorized payment methods, false billing information, identity theft, fraudulent reversals, and bad-faith chargebacks are prohibited. Before initiating a payment dispute, the Trader should make a reasonable effort to resolve the issue with the Company where legally appropriate.

50. Promotional and Referral Abuse

Promotions and referral programs may not be exploited through duplicate registrations, fake referrals, self-referrals where not permitted, identity manipulation, coupon abuse, or promotional farming. Benefits obtained through abuse may be revoked.

51. Payout Farming and Account Farming

Creating or managing Accounts primarily to manufacture repeated payouts through correlated or coordinated behavior, artificial profit locking, shared infrastructure, or risk-neutral structures may constitute payout or account farming and is prohibited.

52. Undefined Loopholes and Circumvention

No Terms document can anticipate every abusive practice. Exploiting omissions, ambiguities, technical limitations, conflicting user-interface states, or operational procedures to obtain an unfair advantage may constitute a violation. Where a rule appears unclear, the Trader should seek clarification rather than exploit the ambiguity.

53. Consequences of Violations

Depending on severity, the Company may issue a warning, pause trading, suspend or reset an Account, cancel Evaluation progress, revoke Funded status, deny or adjust payouts, reverse profits attributable to abusive conduct, close Accounts, permanently ban a Trader, refuse future applications, and report suspected unlawful conduct where required by law.

54. Funded Status and Continuing Compliance

Funded status remains conditional on continuing compliance with all applicable risk, consistency, position, account-limit, payout, and conduct rules. A previously approved payout does not waive later review of separate Trading Activity or future violations.