Prop firm rules

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The5ers

4.8

(815)

News Trading

Allowed with restriction: 5 minutes prior to and after a high-impact news
Allowed in all evaluation programs without any restriction
Allowed in Guardian X and all instant programs without restriction

Inactivity Rule

All accounts will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity

Risk Management

Risking 3–4% on a single trade with excessive margin and no stop-loss is against the rules

All or Nothing

All or nothing practices are prohibited

Drawdown Adjustment Rule

Applies to 1-Step, 2-Step Pro, Guardian X, and Instant accounts
If your X% trailing Max Drawdown resets to the initial balance after reaching an X% profit, maintain a profit buffer of 1% to keep trading
Withdrawing all profits will result in account closure

Consistency Rule

Instant Standard: A 20% Daily Consistency Rule applies. You cannot request a payout until the highest profit trading day falls below 20% of total profits made on that account within that period
2-Step Pro: A 25% consistency rule applies—one trading day cannot equal or exceed 25% of total profits
Guardian X: A 20% consistency rule applies—one trading day cannot equal or exceed 20% of total profits
Instant Starter: A 15% consistency rule applies—one trading day cannot equal or exceed 15% of total profits

Guardian Shield

In the funded stage:
- Instant Accounts and Guardian X: Open trades incurring a 1% loss of initial balance may be auto-closed
- 1-Step, 2-Step, 2-Step Pro, and 3-Step accounts: Auto-close if open trades incur a 2% loss of the initial balance
This is a soft breach
1st breach: Profit split drops to 50%
2nd breach: Account is breached

Boom or Bust Approach

Excessive risk-taking exacerbated by news events is not allowed
Relates to relying on one or a few trades tied to major news events for success

Strategy Switch

Using one strategy to pass an assessment and a different strategy in the funded phase is prohibited

FundingPips

4.5

(815)

Copy Trading

You are allowed to copy trades between your own FundingPips accounts (i.e., accounts registered under the same individual).
You are only allowed to use a FundingPips account as a master account to an external slave account.
Risk management or trade management EAs can be used for all models.
Using any other third-party EA is not allowed for all models (For All Program).

FundingPip Zero

Yes, account will be suspended if it remains inactive for 30 days.
7 minimum trading days (at least 0.25% per day).
No maximum trading days.
News trading is not allowed.
To request a reward on a Zero Master account, your biggest winning day must be 15% of total profits (i.e., maintain a 15% consistency score).
Your floating losses must not exceed 1% of your current account size—breaching this hard limit results in immediate account closure.

FundingPips (1 Step) / FundingPips (2 Step) / FundingPips 2 Step Pro

During Evaluation: News trading and weekend trading are allowed without restriction.
During the Funded Phase: You cannot open or hold positions 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after a news event.
Minimum of 3 trading days.

Key Rules

On master accounts, no single trade loss may exceed 3% of the initial account size—breaching this rule results in account closure.
No single trade can exceed 20 lots per click (applies only on the 1 Step Master Account).
To help swing traders while preventing news gamblers, trades opened 5 hours prior to a high-impact news event are excluded and allowed to close within the prohibited window—profits from these trades will be counted.

Lot Exposure Rule (FundingPips – 2 Step & Pro Master)

Your total open lot size at any time must not exceed the limit for your account size:
- $5K–$10K: No limit
- $25K: Max 10 lots
- $50K: Max 20 lots
- $100K: Max 40 lots
This is not a daily cap. It applies only to open trades. Profits from trades exceeding the limit will be removed.
1st violation results in a warning.
2nd violation results in:
- Profit cut to 30%
- Over-limit trades voided
- Then account closed.

FundedNext

4.4

(476)

Consistency Rule

No Consistency rule for all program

Copy Trading

Copy Trading is allowed between FN challenge accounts only and not on a funded account phase.
Total capital across all copy trading accounts must not exceed $300K.
The use of cloud-based third-party copier services like Social Trader Tools, Traders Connect, and Duplikum is prohibited.
Copy trading is strictly prohibited between FundedNext accounts and any other accounts (prop firms, personal) manual or software-based. Only VPS-based copiers are allowed, and only between your own FundedNext Challenge Accounts.

EA’s

EA’s are allowed, only works on MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5.
EA must be customized to suit your trading style, Identical trades across accounts are not allowed.
Switching Between EA and manual trading is not allowed.

Minimum Trading Days

FundedNext’s minimum trading day requirements vary by challenge type:

Stellar Lite, and Stellar 2-Step Challenges: Require a minimum of 5 trading days.
Stellar 1-Step Challenge: Requires a minimum of 2 trading days.
For FundedNext Accounts, there is no minimum trading day requirement for Stellar Lite, Stellar 1-Step, and Stellar 2-Step challenges.
Stellar Instant: No minimum days.