Prohibited Trading Strategies

Elites Funding allows traders to use their own strategies and trading styles. However, all trading activity must reflect realistic market behavior, independent decision-making, and fair use of the platform.

We welcome disciplined and independent traders who apply their own judgment and manage risk responsibly. The purpose of our programs is to assess genuine trading ability, not automation, coordination, platform exploitation, or artificial performance.

Our evaluation model is designed to identify traders whose performance could reasonably be replicated under real-market conditions. For that reason, any behavior that is unrealistic, non-sustainable, abusive, or inconsistent with genuine trading may be restricted or disqualified.

Traders are expected to demonstrate consistency, control, and reasonable risk management throughout the evaluation and funded stages. Isolated winning trades are not enough if the overall behavior indicates gambling, unstable risk exposure, or unsustainable execution.

Irregular, extreme, or highly erratic behavior, including sudden oversized positions, inconsistent lot sizing, account-swinging behavior, or all-in style execution, is not considered professional trading and may result in account review, restriction, suspension, or termination.

The objective is not only to generate profits, but to do so in a manner that demonstrates a repeatable and risk-aware approach. Elites Funding reserves the right to assess whether a trader’s overall behavior reflects consistency and sound risk management.

Minimum trading days exist to assess consistency over time. Any attempt to artificially satisfy this requirement without meaningful market participation will be considered a violation.

Opening minimal positions, including but not limited to 0.01 lots, executing non-meaningful trades, opening trades with no genuine market rationale, or placing trades solely to register activity for the day is strictly prohibited.

Trading days must reflect real participation in the market. The use of symbolic, artificial, or low-quality trades to bypass the intent of the rule may result in account suspension, breach, or termination.

Any strategy, pattern, or conduct that exploits the simulated environment, technical limitations, price delivery, execution logic, or account rules in a way that could not reasonably be replicated in live-market conditions is strictly prohibited.

This includes any conduct that creates artificial or near risk-free outcomes, any use of technical loopholes, and any behavior aimed at bypassing the true purpose of the evaluation. All accounts must be treated as if they were trading real capital under real execution conditions.

Any attempt to abuse the system, directly or indirectly, may result in immediate action, including account breach, payout cancellation, account closure, or permanent ban.

Accounts must be operated exclusively by the registered user. The trader who purchased the account must be the same person making trading decisions and executing trades.

The use of third-party services, including “pass your challenge” providers, account management services, remote operators, signal operators, or any form of external control, is strictly prohibited and will result in immediate account termination and permanent ban.

Any verified indication that an account is being traded, influenced, coordinated, or controlled by someone other than the account holder may result in the closure of all related accounts and forfeiture of any profits.

We allow a wide range of trading styles. However, any behavior that suggests automation, coordination, abuse, artificial execution, or unrealistic performance will be considered a violation.

The following practices are strictly prohibited:

• Copy Trading / Signal Following: Copying trades from other users, signal groups, external providers, social channels, communities, or trade copiers is not allowed. All traders must act independently and trade based on their own judgment.

• Automated Trading / Bot Behavior: The use of trading bots, algorithms, scripts, execution tools, or any behavior that appears automated is prohibited. This includes repetitive identical trade structures, repeated timing patterns, one-direction repetitive execution, single-instrument looping, or any behavior that reasonably suggests non-human trading activity.

• Cross-Account Hedging / Collusion: Opening opposing positions across multiple accounts, coordinating trades between users, or using multiple accounts to offset risk is strictly forbidden. Any detected correlation, mirrored behavior, inverse behavior, or coordinated account structure may result in closure of all related accounts.

• Grid / Martingale / Averaging Strategies: Strategies that systematically increase risk or exposure after losses, rely on repeated averaging, or build layered positions without appropriate risk control are considered non-sustainable and prohibited.

• Tick Scalping / Ultra-Short Trading: Repeated execution of trades held for very short durations is not considered valid trading behavior. Any pattern of consecutive trades with a duration of up to approximately 30 minutes, especially when used to generate quick profits or artificially meet requirements, will be treated as system abuse. A limited number of short-duration trades may be acceptable in context, but repeated or structured patterns will result in account review and potential termination.

• Minimum Trading Day Abuse: Opening small or insignificant trades, including but not limited to 0.01 lots, purely to mark trading activity or satisfy minimum day requirements is strictly prohibited.

• Unrealistic Risk or Gambling Behavior: Sudden large position sizing, inconsistent lot size jumps, oversized exposure relative to account size, or all-in style execution may lead to account suspension or termination.

• Account Inactivity: All accounts, including evaluation and funded accounts, are expected to maintain reasonable and consistent trading activity. Accounts that remain inactive, meaning no positions are opened, for a continuous period of 30 days may be considered abandoned and may be automatically suspended, reset, or permanently closed without prior notice. Extended inactivity is inconsistent with the purpose of trader evaluation and capital allocation, and may result in loss of account status, progress, or eligibility for payouts.

• Exploiting Platform Errors: Taking advantage of execution delays, quote issues, data freezes, price discrepancies, technical faults, or platform inefficiencies is strictly prohibited.

• Delayed Data / Chart Manipulation: Using delayed feeds, manipulated charts, lagging tools, or external sources designed to create unfair execution advantage is not permitted.

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT): Strategies relying on infrastructure advantage, ultra-fast execution, arbitrage conditions, micro-latency exploitation, or execution intensity inconsistent with normal discretionary trading are not allowed.

• Restricted Jurisdictions: Accessing or trading from sanctioned, embargoed, or otherwise restricted jurisdictions is prohibited.

All trading activity is subject to review. Elites Funding reserves the right to investigate behavior, compare accounts, examine execution patterns, and take action where patterns suggest abuse, even if the exact conduct is not explicitly listed above.

The absence of a specific example in this section does not mean that a strategy or behavior is permitted. If a trading pattern is determined by Elites Funding to be exploitative, artificial, abusive, deceptive, non-independent, or inconsistent with the purpose of the evaluation, the account may be restricted, breached, or terminated at our sole discretion.

Certain behaviors may initially result in warnings, manual review, or closer monitoring, but may escalate to account suspension, breach, or permanent termination if repeated, intensified, or combined with other concerning patterns:

• Minor irregular trading patterns
• Suspicious but inconclusive behavioral signals
• Temporary inactivity or inconsistency
• Low-quality or non-meaningful trading activity
• Non-material rule-circumvention attempts
• Behavior that on its own may be borderline acceptable, but in pattern form indicates abuse

Elites Funding reserves the right to escalate any case at its sole discretion if broader patterns of abuse, manipulation, non-independence, unrealistic execution, or low-quality participation become evident.