Prohibited Activities
The following activities and behaviors are prohibited in evaluation and performance accounts. Traders engaging in these may forfeit their accounts and all associated balances.
Prohibited
- Trading Without Risk Management: All trades must have stop losses and a well-defined risk management strategy.
- High-Risk Strategies: Small profit targets with disproportionately large risk (e.g. 5-tick target, 150-tick stop) are not allowed.
- Using the Trailing Threshold as a Stop Loss: Prohibited.
- Stockpiling Evaluation Accounts: Intentionally cycling through accounts is not permitted.
- Unsustainable Strategies: Any approach that does not demonstrate consistent, responsible trading is prohibited.
- Deviating from Professional Standards: Strategies must be consistent with a personally funded account at a registered broker.
- Manipulation / HFT: Manipulation or exploitation of the simulation environment, including HFT, is strictly prohibited.
- Unauthorized Users: Only the registered owner may access or verify the account.
- Account and Resource Sharing: Sharing MAC addresses, computers, IPs, credit cards, or trade copying is forbidden.
- Multiple Account Creation: Prohibited and bannable.
- Trade Strategy: We may ask for your trade strategy.
- CFTC Registrants: Registration status with the CFTC/NFA may affect eligibility.
Traders engaging in these prohibited activities will forfeit their accounts and all associated balances. Edmond reserves the right to audit accounts for compliance.