News Trading

During the Test phase:

• Allowed with no restrictions.

On Pro and Pro+

• Restricted to 1 minute before and after the event.

Prohibited News Events (All Products)

• FOMC meeting minutes/announcements. These occur on Wednesdays at 2pm eastern time. (You are allowed to trade through FED speakers.)
• NON-Farm payroll (NFP). (These events occur on Friday’s at 8:30am eastern, once per month.)
• Consumer Price Index – CPI
• In addition to these news events, the following news events are prohibited for specific instruments:
  • News event: crude oil inventories. Prohibited product - crude oil
  • News event: bond auctions. Prohibited products - 10 year note, 30 year bond
• You can check all upcoming news events at forexfactory.com

Expert Advisor

• Not allowed.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted for managing your own accounts only using approved copiers (Tradesyncer, TradeCopia, Affordable Indicators, Replikanto Compliance Edition, and platform-native tools). Coordinating trades across different users, accounts not owned by you, or any form of risk-neutralizing activity is strictly prohibited.

No Counter Positions

• You cannot hold open positions in opposite directions within the same product or closely related products across any accounts under the same beneficial control.
  Violation results to; Automatic liquidation and closure of affected accounts | Forfeiture of profits | Restrictions or permanent bans depending on severity

Inactivity Rule

• In order to keep the PRO Account, you will be required to trade at least one day per calendar week (Sunday-Friday). A “traded day” is defined as a day where at least one round-trip has been executed on any permitted instrument.

Trading Hours

• Trading window: 6 PM Eastern – 5 PM Eastern
• All open positions are automatically closed at 4:55 PM EST — accounts are no longer failed for forgetting to close positions. This applies to all Tradovate accounts automatically, and for Rithmic, it applies to all new accounts created from 6 AM EST May 6 2026 onward.

CME Price Limit

• It is the trader's responsibility to be out of all trades before these limits are hit. If a price limit is hit, and you have not exited your position, this will cost you to lose your pro account. The CME has a list of the price limits for each particular day. They are listed here: CME PRICE LIMITS

Drawdown

• Drawdown is the total amount you can lose on your account. The drawdown is End of Day on test accounts, meaning it updates at the end of the trading day (5PM EST).
• On the PRO accounts, the drawdown is intraday, meaning it trails your unrealized profit in real time.
• In PRO+, the drawdown is End of Day, the same as in the test. The drawdown across all three account types will STOP trailing once it has reached the initial account balance.
• Once traders pass the Test, they have the option to reset the Pro account up to 3 times.

Max Loss Type

• Test & Pro+ Stage: EOD Trailing
• Pro Stage: Intraday Trailing
• Pro Account Reset Option: Once traders pass the Test, they have the option to reset the Pro account up to 3 times.

Live accounts (PRO+ accounts) overview

• Copy trading: Allowed for up to 5 accounts.
• Drawdown type: End-of-day drawdown.
• No payout restrictions, No consistency rule.
• No daily loss limit.
• No buffer zone.
• 90% profit split.

Live accounts (PRO+ accounts) Explained:

• https://takeprofittraderhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15171929948829-Advantages-of-PRO