FundingPips

**Firm Rules** **Temporary Risk Management Rules Updates** - **Effective:** 29 January 2026 at 23:59 Server Time (UTC+2) - **Details:** Risk management rules for all Funded accounts now prohibit weekend holding and include automatic closure of open trades on Friday at market close **Leverage Update** - **Effective:** 16 March 2026 at 23:59 Server Time (UTC+3) - **Temporary Dynamic Leverage:** Applied to metals, indices and energies on Master Accounts - **0.00 - 0.05 lots:** 1:50 - **0.05 - 0.10 lots:** 1:30 - **0.10 - 0.15 lots:** 1:25 - **0.15 - 0.25 lots:** 1:20 - **0.25 - 0.50 lots:** 1:10 - **0.50 and above lots:** 1:5 **Copy Trading** - You can copy trades between your own FundingPips accounts (i.e., accounts registered under the same individual) - For external copy trading, a FundingPips account may only act as a master to an external slave account - **FundingPips Partnership with PropFirm One:** PF1 allows traders to seamlessly copy trades across different proprietary firm accounts within a single platform, offering increased flexibility and a broader range of opportunities. In addition to FundingPips' internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching FundingPips' core rules - For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit [PropFirmOne.com](https://PropFirmOne.com) **Expert Advisor (EA)** - Full automation is allowed only with a personal EA developed by the trader, subject to proof of ownership (e.g. source code, version history, or development evidence). A compiled file alone is not accepted as proof - Third-party EAs are permitted only as trade or risk managers — any other use results in denial of the evaluation/reward and account closure **Inactivity Rule** - You must open and close at least one trade within 30 consecutive days **Max Lot Limit Per Click** - **Crypto trades:** Capped at a maximum of 1 lot per click (subject to available margin) - **All other instruments:** Platform-wide limit of 20 lots per click **Risk Per Trade Idea (Funded only)** - The max loss allowed on a single trade idea on your Master Account, including both realized and unrealized losses across all related positions - **Zero** - **Accounts below $50K ($5K, $10K, $25K):** 3% of the initial account size - **Accounts $50K and above ($50K, $100K, $200K):** 2% of the initial account size - **2-Step Flex & 2-Step Standard** - **$25K accounts:** 3% of the Master Account Size - **Accounts above $25K:** 2% of the Master Account Size - **Accounts below $25K:** No Risk Per Trade Idea Limit - **1-Step Flex & 2-Step Pro:** None - **Additional Rules:** - Splitting up a trade into multiple positions will be counted as one single trade - Opening a new position in the same direction within 10 minutes after closing a losing trade is considered part of the same trade - Violation is a Hard Breach **60% Profit-Target Concentration** - If one trade idea exceeds 60% of the profit target in any phase, 4 minimum profitable days of 0.5% profit each day will be applied on the Master account - This policy applies only to accounts purchased or created after 28/06/2026 **Forbidden Strategies** - Gap trading, high frequency trading, server spamming, latency arbitrage, hedging, long-short arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, server execution, toxic trading flow, tick scalping, churning & burning and opposite account trading are prohibited - **Violations may result in:** - Reducing leverage - Limiting the number of trades per day - Lot size limit per day - Lower daily/maximum loss limit (limiting risk per trade) - Imposing a 1% risk limit rule - Being banned from the firm - **Forbidden strategies explained:** [https://help.fundingpips.com/en/articles/8536000-what-are-the-forbidden-strategies](https://help.fundingpips.com/en/articles/8536000-what-are-the-forbidden-strategies) **IP / VPN / VPS / ISP & Multiple Devices Policy** - VPN/VPS connections are prohibited on any trading account - Your IP region for purchasing, logging in, and trading must remain consistent to avoid account flags - **See Details:** [https://help.fundingpips.com/en/articles/8535886-what-is-the-ip-rule](https://help.fundingpips.com/en/articles/8535886-what-is-the-ip-rule) **FundingPips Zero** **Minimum Profitable Days** - 7 profitable days of at least 0.25% profit each day by the end of each 30-day period which resets at the end of each cycle or after a payout is processed - Failure to meet this requirement by the end of any 30days period will result in a rule violation **Biggest Loss Cannot Exceed Biggest Win** - Your biggest loss on the account must not exceed your biggest win. Keep trading until your biggest loss no longer exceeds your biggest win **Maximum Risk Limit** - Floating profit and loss (PnL) must not exceed -1% of the account size - Violation is a Hard Breach **News Trading** - Trading (Holding / Opening trades) 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after high-impact news event and speeches on the affected currency is Strictly prohibited - Violation is a Hard breach **Weekend Holding | Crypto Trading on Weekends** - Not Allowed **1-Step Flex, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro & 2-Step Flex** **Minimum Trading Days** - **1-Step Flex** - **Evaluation & Funded:** None - **2-Step Standard** - **Evaluation Only:** 3 trading days - **2-Step Pro** - **Evaluation only:** 1 trading day - **2-Step Flex** - **Evaluation & Funded:** None with 85% split | 3 Profitable days(≥ 0.5% each) with 95% split **News Trading** - **Evaluation** - Allowed - **Funded** - Executing orders 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high impact news events and Speeches is prohibited. Any profits made within this window will be voided - Trades Opened More Than 5 Hours Before the News: Profits will count if closed within the 10-minute window before the event - Purposely trading news is prohibited and will lead to account termination **Crypto Trading on Weekends** - Not Allowed **1.2% Risk Guideline for 2-Step Standard (8% | 5% profit target) Funded Account Only - Striking Rule** - **≤ 25k:** Not applicable - **> 25k:** A warning is recorded each time a trade idea's floating loss reaches 1.2% of the account size - **1st violation:** Warning - **2nd violation:** Reward split drops by half - **3rd violation:** Reward split drops to 20% - **4th violation:** Account breach - Any profit from trade ideas that received a warning is deducted from the account **1% Risk guideline for 1-Step Flex Funded Account Only - Striking Rule** - Applies to all account sizes: A warning is recorded each time a trade idea's floating loss reaches 1% of the account size. - 1st violation: Warning - 2nd violation: Reward split drops by half - 3rd violation: Reward split drops to 20% - 4th violation: Account breach - Any profit from trade ideas that received a warning is deducted from the account. **Trade Idea Definition** - A trade idea is a single trade, or multiple positions on the same instrument in the same direction, including any new position opened within 10 minutes of closing a losing trade. All of these positions are counted as a single trade idea.