Prohibited Trading Practices
Short-term trading and scalping based on market analysis are allowed. Exploiting speed or loopholes is prohibited.
Prohibited methods and scalping
- Martingale
- Keep increasing lots or total risk to recover losses
- Opposite trades across multiple accounts (offsetting risk)
- Hedging
- Grid
- HFT and tick scalping
- Latency or price-difference arbitrage
- Order spamming and system abuse
- Exploiting demo environment glitches
- One-sided gambling without market analysis
- Trading purely to game the evaluation
- Sharing or selling accounts
Scalping over seconds to minutes is allowed if it's based on market analysis. No holding-time threshold that makes a trade safe or prohibited has been published.
Occasional small averaging down is accepted if overall risk stays controlled. Trading in the same direction isn't prohibited in itself, but the risk team reviews strongly correlated positions and concentrated margin.
EAs and copy trading
Copy trading is allowed only when both the source and the destination are MONETA FUNDED accounts in your own name.
Copying from other prop firm accounts, your own regular broker account or external signals is prohibited. Copying from friends, family or anyone else is prohibited too, including manually.
Commercial EAs, third-party EAs and external signal services are prohibited. Your own EAs are allowed, but automated trading without market judgment is also listed as prohibited, so "anything self-made is fine" isn't true.
EAs can't be used on Sprint or in trading competitions. You may be asked to prove ownership and how you use the EA.
News trading and holding
Phoenix and Instant Pro allow news trading. Everywhere else, trading 5 minutes before and after major releases is prohibited.
It covers high-impact (red folder) releases on ForexFactory. For 5 minutes before and after, opening and closing related symbols is prohibited, including manual, TP and SL. Medium-impact only is not covered.
Positions opened 2+ hours before the release may be closed during the window. Sprint has no such exception — every open and close is prohibited.
Currencies: USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, CAD, CHF, NZD, CNY. It applies to related FX, indices, commodities and crypto.
Net profit from violating trades may be deducted, and repeating it over many days can lead to account restrictions or a breach. One violation isn't an instant breach.
Overnight and weekend holding is basically allowed. Plan-specific bans, like Sprint's gap-trading ban, take priority.