Top One Trader strictly prohibits any form of cheating or exploitation of the platform to protect the sustainability of the company and the best interests of the trading community. Any trading styles that violate any of our prohibited strategies will result in a breach of your account and the forfeiture of any gains.

Top One Trader has invested heavily into sophisticated fraud detection technology in collaboration with our technical partners who provide services to many other prop firms.
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High Frequency Trading (HFT) or Tick Scalping

High Frequency Trading is a trading strategy characterized by the use of algorithms to execute an excessive number of trades, often opening and closing trades within seconds. This strategy aims to capitalize on minuscule price fluctuations to exploit market inefficiencies. Tick Scaling, executed through either automated trading or manual trading, holds positions from seconds to 5 minutes. HFT and Tick Scalping are strictly prohibited. Any trades falling into this category will have profits reduced.

Latency Trading, Latency Arbitrage, Arbitrage Trading

Latency trading, latency arbitrage, or arbitrage trading refers to the practice of executing trades based on delayed market data or exploiting delays in the execution of trades to secure profits. Any type of latency or arbitrage trading is considered to be a form of market manipulation and is strictly prohibited.

Copy Trading / Group Trading

Top One Trader allows traders to engage in copy trading from another Top One Trader account, prop firm, or retail broker, provided that the accounts are owned by the same individual. This means that you can copy trades from any account(s) that you own.

However, any form of copy trading between multiple accounts not owned by the same individual, including those of relatives, family members, or friends, or any commercially available program is strictly prohibited. Additionally, following signal programs or trade recommendations where multiple traders are executing similar trades, within similar timeframes, is prohibited. Traders on our platform must be trading with a strategy that is unique to each individual trader.

Hedging or Group Hedging Across Various Accounts

Hedging using multiple accounts is not allowed as it does not reflect a proper trading strategy. For example, if you have two accounts, whether they are both Top One Trader accounts, or an account with another prop firm or broker, you are not allowed to place hedged entries between them. (Note: our risk software identifies hedging data from many other companies.)

News Trading on Funded Accounts

After passing your challenge phase, funded traders are not allowed to execute any new trade or close an existing trade in the window of 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after the release of the high impact news event, unless that trade was opened at least one hour before major news event. Click Here for full details.

Grid Trading

​Grid trading refers to a trading strategy where opposing buy and sell orders for the same financial instrument, with similar risk parameters. Grid trading is prohibited due to its potential for market manipulation, over-leveraging, market instability, and the pursuit of risk-free profits.​

Martingale Strategy

Martingale is a strategy of trading that involves increasing the size of a trade following a loss, or a trade going into a loss, with the aim of covering the losses when a winning trade occurs. The strategy operates under the assumption that losses will not continue indefinitely and that a win will eventually occur, leading to a profit, or that the price will turn around and the trades will ultimately become profitable. However, it is considered high risk because it can lead to significant losses, especially in markets where the price movement can continue in one direction for an extended period, potentially exhausting the trader's capital before a winning trade happens, or the market turns around (in the case of open trades). Martingale is strictly prohibited.

3rd Party Trading or "Pass Your Challenge" Trading

Allowing any third party to trade on your account, whether that is another individual trader, company, any type of "pass your challenge", or "manage your account" program, is strictly prohibited.

Masking of Expert Advisors (EAs) or Commercially Available Automated EAs

You're welcome to utilize an Expert Advisor to optimize your trading strategies. It is, however, important for each trader to ensure that their trading parameters are unique and suited to their individual trading style and account.
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While it is permissible for traders to employ the same Expert Advisor or Indicator as other traders, it is essential to customize the settings and parameters to differentiate their trades from others. The use of hidden EAs, or tools used to mask the EA are prohibited. Any use of commercially available EA's or AI programs with automated trading algorithms are strictly prohibited.

Gambling, Over-Leveraging, YOLO Trading

We have a strict anti-gambling policy. Top One Trader is committed to identifying unique and successful traders who can effectively manage risk and maintain consistency in the financial markets. Prohibited practices includes violating our Max Open Lots Rule on funded accounts, or opening substantially large positions compared to normal trades. (Especially around news events.) This type of "swing for the fences", over-leveraging behavior is not a trading strategy Top One is interested in funding. This type of trading behavior is prohibited and may result in deduction of profits or termination of trader's account.

IP Address Restrictions

If Top One Trader identifies multiple ip addresses on your account, or the same IP address on other accounts not owned by you, it will be considered a violation.

We recommend traders use a singe device with a unique IP address during their trading activities on our platform. We do, however, understand you may place trades from home, on mobile when away from home, etc. which may cause your account to show multiple IP addresses. Should you travel or move to a different country resulting in multiple IP addresses, this is okay but we may request a valid document for verification. Any serious violations of this policy will result in breaching of your account and forfeiture of any profits.

Rolling/Churning of Accounts

Account rolling, also known as churning, refers to the practice of acquiring multiple evaluation accounts within a short amount of time and using various trading strategies to pass one or more accounts, while allowing other accounts to fail. This practice is strictly prohibited.

Special note for traders using the cTrader Platform:
​cTrader strictly prohibits U.S. traders. ANY trader logging into the cTrader platform from a U.S. ip address may have their accounts immediately hard breached.

In Summary

Top One Trader prioritizes the safety, sustainability, and integrity of our platform, ensuring a secure trading environment for everyone. These measures are designed to safeguard our trading community. If you are an honest trader, you will have nothing to worry about. However, those attempting to exploit our trading rules will be detected and globally blacklisted, potentially making it very difficult to do business with other prop firms and brokers. Should you have any inquiries or issues, the Top One Trader Support Team is readily available to assist you.