General Trading Rules

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT), arbitrage, straddling, latency abuse, or exploiting price feed delays are prohibited.
• Notional Volume: It measures the total exposure of your trades — the face value of your positions — regardless of where your stop loss is placed. Consistently breaching notional volume limits will be treated as a gambling violation. This can result in warnings or soft breaches if minor, but repeated or severe violations will be classed as a hard breach and may lead to account closure or progression rejection and payout reductions. Each account size has its own Notional Volume Limit, ensuring fair and scalable risk management across all tiers: https://help.finotivefunding.com/en/articles/60-what-is-notional-volume-and-why-does-it-matter

Instant Funding Drawdown Threshold

• Floating drawdown is the unrealized loss on an open trade. A soft warning applies at 1.0%. Reaching 1.5% drawdown results in a strike, and 5 strikes lead to a breach.

Loss-chasing and gambling-style trading behavior is prohibited

• This refers to repeatedly engaging in one-directional or impulsive trading aimed at recovering prior losses, including immediately re-entering positions in the same instrument and direction after a losing trade

High-frequency scalping and micro-duration trade exploitation (HFT behavior) is prohibited

• This refers to trading activity characterized by rapid entries and exits with minimal holding time, where execution speed plays a dominant role over structured market analysis. A breach occurs when more than 50% of total trades are closed in under 2 minutes, or when more than 30% of total profit is generated from trades held for less than 2 minutes (from entry to exit).

Low-liquidity trading and spread exploitation is prohibited

• This refers to the systematic execution of trades during low-liquidity market conditions with the intent to benefit from widened spreads, delayed order execution, or sharp price movements. A breach occurs when trades are consistently opened or closed between 22:00 and 02:00 UTC, and more than 20% of total profit is generated during this time window.

Weekend holding: Evaluation based programs

• Allowed | Instant Standard & Instant Lite: Not Allowed without add-on

Hedging

• Hedging between multiple accounts is prohibited.

High-frequency stacking (including correlated instruments)

• Piling multiple trades on the same pair or on correlated markets

Abnormal Stop-Loss Usage:

• Using ultra-tight stops just to mask oversized lots, which inflates notional volume and breaks realistic risk management, is prohibited.

Risk management

• If over 50% of your trades show no interaction with stop losses or take profits, your account may be flagged for gambling activity.

Martingale or grid strategies are prohibited.

News straddling

• Opening both buy and sell positions around high-impact news creates unnatural trading conditions and leads to abnormal results that aren’t sustainable, this practice is prohibited.

Accounts inactive for 30 consecutive days may be closed without refund

Continuous strategy (Challenge)

• You are not allowed to make significant changes to your trading strategy once you reach the funded stage.