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Loss limits, trading days, hold times and what's not allowed.Ten questions about loss limits, trading days, hold times and what's allowed.
- 10 questions
- Updated October 2026
- All seven programmes
10 published guides
- How is daily loss calculated?Start hereThe midnight UTC reset, the higher of balance or equity, and the limit on each programme.
- Static vs trailing maximum lossWhere your floor sits, when it moves, and which accounts trail at the simulated funded stage.
- Minimum trading days and qualifying daysA qualifying day means gains of at least 0.5% of the account size — 1% on Instant and the simulated funded stage of Pay After Pass.
- No consistency rule: what still applies?No consistency rule in any evaluation or simulated funded stage: no best-day cap, best-trade cap or consistency gate on rewards.
- Minimum hold time3 minutes, or 30 seconds on Instant, measured from open to close.
- News trading on simulated funded accountsTrade the news on every programme. On simulated funded accounts, mind the 5 minutes either side of a high-impact release.
- Weekend and overnight holdingHold through the night and the weekend. What the midnight UTC reset means for open trades.
- EAs and automated strategiesBring your own EA. The hold time and the prohibited list still apply.
- What's not allowedHigh-frequency bots, latency arbitrage, error exploits, copying between accounts and account sharing.
- Position limits100 lots per trade and 500 lots per day, on every programme.
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