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What Trading Styles are Prohibited in Futures Accounts?

Updated over a month ago

Prohibited Trading Styles

At FTUK, we are looking for measured, profitable traders who understand their strategies and trading techniques. These traders will be paid a fair reward, and we are committed to supporting them throughout their trading journey. Our program is designed to accommodate a wide range of trading strategies. However, certain trading practices that exploit our system and programs are strictly prohibited and violate our Terms and Conditions. This applies to both our evaluation phases and funded accounts as soon as they are identified. If your account has been found abusing the system and violating the trading rules, the contract will be terminated immediately without notice, and you will be permanently banned from FTUK, with no refund policy.

Trading Style That Violate Our Rules‍:

  • High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

  • Tick-Scalping Strategies

  • Ultra-Fast Scalping

  • News Scalping EAs

  • Hedge Arbitrage Trading

  • Normal Hedging

  • Martingale

  • Reverse Arbitrage Trading

  • All scenarios related to EA's/Bots trading

  • Copy Trading

  • Latency Arbitrage Across Platforms or Exchanges.

  • Funded Account Pass Services or any third parties.

  • Using multiple IP addresses from many countries or masking IPs.

  • Group hedging

  • Group hedging involves multiple traders coordinating their positions to collectively hedge risk across their accounts.


Trading strategies that exploit system errors such as inaccuracies in price display or delays in updating, are prohibited. This happens when a trader spots a technical glitch on the trading platform that shows incorrect price quotes for an asset, and places trade to profit from these inaccuracies before the error is corrected.

During the funded stages, any profits gained from these strategies might be adjusted and account status could be reassessed. Also, they will be reviewed for potential adjustments or to prevent scaling to the next level.

These are the most common strategies used by people to exploit demo accounts, but this list does not cover all potential strategies that would violate our trading rules. If we observe any account using unfair strategies or an unrealistic trading style, they will not qualify to be a Funded Trader. Any Accounts found to have used these methods will be rejected, and individuals will face a permanent ban from all FTUK services.


IP Address Rules

In FTUK Futures, trading platforms monitor all account IP addresses for security and institutional oversight reasons. The use of multiple IP addresses with a single trading account is not permitted to prevent unauthorized use by multiple individuals or automated systems. You are also not permitted to use IPs from banned countries in your trading account.

However, this rule does not apply to traders traveling for work or vacation. If you will be away from your usual location, you should contact customer support to register your new IP address as a legal change to your file.

Do you allow VPSs or VPNs?

You are allowed to use a fixed VPS or VPN as long as the trades originate from the same IP address.

Should we detect a pattern of utilizing numerous diverse IP addresses from various countries at the same time for trade placement or attempting to conceal IP addresses.

Such behavior will result in account termination.

It is a violation of our terms and conditions to use a VPN or VPS too cloak your identity or hide your country of residence in order to purchase a program from a restricted country .


Disclaimer

At FTUK Futures, we pride ourselves on having an open and inclusive trading environment for all who abide by our Terms of Use. We value and respect all traders, However, it must be noted that any form of cheating, fraud, or abuse of the simulated trading environment is unacceptable and violates the FTUK Terms of Use. Such behaviors may result in warnings, account suspensions, or limitations of scaling and even account termination. Any form of cheating and abuse of the simulated environment is strongly prohibited and goes directly against the FTUK T&Cs that all traders agree to when signing up for our services.

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