GENERAL RULES

News Trading

• News trading is allowed, but trades opened/closed (either manually or automatically, such as via stop loss, take profit, or pending orders) within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news can generate a maximum profit of 1% of the account’s initial balance. Excess profits are removed without penalties. This applies to both challenge and funded phases.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Yes, you can use them as long as the EAs comply with the prohibited trading practices rule. However, you are not allowed to use 3rd party EAs, high-frequency trading (HFT) strategies / systems and/or Gold Arbitrage EA.
• Using an EA or trading bot to pass the Challenge Account and then switching to manual trading in the Funded Account (or vice versa) is strictly prohibited

Copy Trading

• Copy trading of any kind is strictly prohibited. Each account must be traded individually, and traders cannot duplicate trades or trade ideas, whether manually or via EA between accounts at any stage.

Inactivity Rule

• 30 consecutive days, Inactive accounts within this period are breached

Social Media & Public Conduct

• Spreading false information or engaging in negative advertising about Goat Funded Trader on social media or public platforms is strictly prohibited. Violations result in:
  • Account termination
  • Permanent ban
  • Potential legal action

Risk Management & Trading Limits

• Risk limit: GFT may impose a 1% risk limit per trade idea if excessive risk-taking is detected. Non-compliance results in:
  • Immediate account breach
  • No payouts or entitlements

  Note: Restrictions may be lifted with consistent safe trading practices.
  GFT strictly prohibits high-risk, all-or-nothing strategies, including:
  Using over 80% of available margin on a single trade.

Daily Profit Cap

• Funded Traders daily profits are capped at $3,000.

Minimum Trade Hold Time

• Profits from trades held under 2 minutes on funded accounts are not counted, while losses still apply.

Prohibited Trading Practices

• Exploit pricing/platform errors, use insider information, front-run trades, jeopardize broker relationships, create regulatory issues, all-or-nothing trading, risky trading styles, hedging (same or multiple accounts), use third-party/off-the-shelf EAs or strategies, switch strategies between assessment and funded stages, and duplicate trades or trade ideas across accounts, Martingale / Grid Recovery Systems Strategies that increase lot size after losses (Martingale or grid) are strictly prohibited.
• See details: https://help.goatfundedtrader.com/en/articles/10742118-what-are-prohibited-trading-practices

Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading(Crypto)

• Allowed

Weekend Gap Policy

• Weekend holding Allowed but prohibits trading solely to exploit Monday morning market price gaps.
• For funded accounts, any profits generated from trades opened in the last three hours of Friday and closed in the first three hours of Monday will be removed.

The Goat Guard

• Goat Guard is GFT's risk management tool for funded accounts (excluding instant funding), automatically closing all open trades if they reach a 2% loss to prevent excessive drawdowns.
• This "soft breach" allows immediate continued trading, with no ban.
• Triggering it once reduces profit split to 50%; a second time breaches the account fully.

Shared Device Usage

• Traders are strictly prohibited from accessing or operating their account on any shared mobile or desktop device.
• Detection of account activity from a shared device especially one linked to multiple user accounts will result in immediate disqualification from payout eligibility and may lead to account termination.

Goat Blitz & Instant Blitz

• These programs are available for a limited time randomly on two weekends every month, offering traders a quick path to funding.

See details:

• Goat Blitz: https://help.goatfundedtrader.com/en/articles/11111955-goat-blitz-model
• Instant Blitz: https://help.goatfundedtrader.com/en/articles/13484273-instant-blitz-model

1-STEP MODEL & 2-STEP MODELS [STANDARD, GOAT & PRO]

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation & Funded: 3 profitable trading days with at least 0.5% profit of the account balance each day

3-STEP MODEL

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation: None
• Funded: 3 profitable trading days with at least 0.5% profit of the account balance each day

INSTANT FUNDING MODELS [GOAT & PRO]

Minimum Trading Days

• 5 profitable trading days with at least 0.5% profit of the account balance each day

Max Loss Per Trade Rule

• Your account will be permanently closed if floating losses reach -2% of your balance at any time.

Drawdown Reset

• The Maximum Loss Limit resets after each payout.