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Copy trading

• Copy trading is only allowed between challenge accounts and between instant accounts.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• EAs are only available as an add-on.
• EAs are allowed, only works on MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5.
• EA must be customized to suit your trading style.
• Identical trades across accounts are not allowed.
• Switching between EA and manual trading is not allowed.
• There is a maximum allocation limit of $300,000 for each EA or trading bot's strategy.

News Trading

• Allowed without restriction during evaluation stage
• Allowed with restriction on funded stage and instant accounts (Trades executed 5 minutes before and after a High Impact News event are subject to a 40% news profit split rule.)

Inactivity Rule

To avoid the account inactivity period, traders can simply login to their account at least once or execute a single trade within a period of 30 consecutive days.

Drawdown Adjustment Rule for Instant accounts

If your 6% trailing Max Drawdown resets to the initial balance after reaching a 6% or more profit, maintain a profit buffer to keep trading. Withdrawing all profits will result in account closure.

Maximum Risk at a Time | Funded Accounts Only

• Funded accounts are expected to follow a 3% risk-per-trade guideline, where risk is the maximum potential loss on a trade based on stop loss placement (no stop-loss within 3 minutes counts as 100% risk).
• Breaking the guideline leads to profit reductions (50% on first violation, 100% on second) and eventually placement into the Disciplined Trader Program on the third violation.

Key rules

• You must use the same trading strategy and method (manual or EA) during both the Challenge and Funded Account. Switching between them is not allowed.
• Utilizing specific asset classes, symbol categories, specific margin or risk usages to pass the evaluation phase and then switching to entirely different asset classes or symbol categories and significantly increasing the margin utilization or risk usages in the FundedNext Account, is prohibited.
• Account rolling is strictly prohibited, buying multiple evaluations to sacrifice some while passing others is considered a high-risk, luck-based tactic that violates FundedNext's principles of skill and responsible trading. Violations may lead to restrictions on new purchases or lifetime allocation limits.
• One-Sided Betting: One-Sided Betting is a gambling-like trading behavior where a trader takes concentrated directional exposure, opens multiple trades in the same direction, or enters reactive positions without sufficient consideration of market conditions, fundamental news, or technical analysis
• Grid Trading: Grid trading is a strategy where a trader places multiple buy and sell orders at different price levels above and below the current market price. The goal is to profit from price fluctuations as the market moves up and down, hitting various price points.
• Other prohibited trading strategies: https://help.fundednext.com/en/articles/8020351-what-are-the-restricted-prohibited-trading-strategies?q=risk