Top One Futures

**Exploiting System, Pricing, or Latency Errors** - Any attempt to take advantage of errors, delays, mispricings, or lags in the broker's feed, the charting platform, or any associated systems will result in immediate account breach - This includes latency arbitrage and price manipulation **Use of Insider or Non-Public Information** - Trading based on information not available to the general public, including insider news or confidential financial disclosures, is prohibited **Front-Running** - Placing trades with the intent to benefit from anticipated price movement based on trades executed elsewhere (e.g., in another account or at another firm) is not allowed **Hedging Between Accounts** - You may not hedge one account against another, whether within Top One Futures or across other prop firms or brokers - All trades must reflect independent trading strategies without cross-account hedging **Unauthorized Account Access** - Only the registered account owner is permitted to trade - Allowing friends, family, or third parties to access or trade on your account violates this policy **Minimum Trade Duration (10-Second Rule)** - To protect against ultra-high-frequency scalping and promote responsible trading: - All trades must remain open longer than 10 seconds - 10.00 seconds = violation, 10.01 seconds = acceptable - Closing any portion of a trade before 10 seconds violates this rule - Adding to a trade (e.g., scaling in) within 10 seconds is permitted - Occasional minor violations are tolerable, but if: - Anywhere close to 50% or more of your total and/or withdrawable profits - OR, anywhere close to 50% or more of your individual trades - violate this rule, all profits associated with these trades will be removed **Trading That Risks Broker Relationships** - Trading strategies or behaviors that may harm our broker relationships—such as abnormal flow, slippage targeting, or mass quote stuffing—are grounds for account closure **Trading That May Create Regulatory Concerns** - Any activity that could cause regulatory exposure for Top One Futures or our liquidity partners is not tolerated **Externally Marketed Challenge-Passing Strategies** - Using any publicly available or purchased system advertised to help traders "pass challenges" is not allowed - All strategies must be developed and executed by the trader **Rolling, Churning, or Gambling Accounts** - Creating multiple evaluation accounts in a short period and using a batch-style approach, such as intentionally letting most accounts fail while focusing on passing just one, is strictly prohibited - Excessive account creation within a short timeframe, especially when done repeatedly, is considered manipulative and will be flagged by our systems - We do not support gambling behavior - This includes consistently breaching accounts within 24–48 hours of purchase and then immediately repurchasing new accounts, indicative of toxic trading strategies - Such actions are not indicative of consistency or skill but instead reflect reckless trading strategies intended to exploit asymmetric risk at scale - Traders engaging in this type of behavior are not aligned with our long-term vision and may be permanently disqualified - **Examples of disqualifiable churning behavior:** - Purchasing multiple batch accounts and breaching newly purchased accounts within 1–2 days of trading and repeating the cycle - Example Day 1: Trader purchased 9 accounts, all breached within 24 hours - Example Day 2: Trader purchased 7 more accounts, again all breached within 24 hours - This shows no sustainable risk management or strategy and instead indicates a trial-and-error "gambling" style of trading - Attempting to maximize short-term sim funded payout potential through unsustainable trading approaches **Arbitrage with Other Firms** - Attempting to gain an advantage by arbitraging trades across Top One Futures and another firm or platform is prohibited **Automated Trading / Expert Advisors (EAs)** - Use of any automated trading system, script, bot, Expert Advisor (EA), or high-frequency execution tool is strictly forbidden - All trades must be entered manually or semi-manually by the trader **Copy Trading or Group Trading** - Each trader must operate independently - The following are not allowed: - Executing the same trades as another person or account - Coordinated trading with relatives or friends - Following signal services, Telegram groups, Discord calls, or any shared trade alert system - You are not allowed to mix account types in any copy trading setup - The leader and follower accounts must be the same type and value - **Note on Copy Trading Between Firms:** - Traders can use third-party copy trading platforms - While Top One Futures does not prohibit copy trading between your own accounts at different firms, all trade decisions must originate from activity on our platform - Trades have to begin from your Top One Futures account and reflect your own strategy and discretion **Intentional Account Breaching (Sim Farming)** - Traders may not attempt to deliberately fail or breach funded accounts to avoid transitioning to live trading, remain on simulated accounts, or game system protections **Additional Resources** - All prohibited practices in detail can be found via this link: [Prohibited Trading Practices](https://intercom.help/top-one-futures/en/articles/11021584-prohibited-trading-practices) **Overnight Holding** - Overnight trading is NOT allowed - All positions must be closed by 4:10 PM EST each trading day - Any open trades after this time may trigger forced liquidation and lead to potential account penalties **News Trading** - **INSTANT Sim Funded, Ignite Instant Funding and all evaluations:** Allowed without any restrictions - **Elite Access funded accounts and Elite Daily funded accounts:** Not allowed 2 minutes before and after high impact news - You may hold a trade during a news event if: - The position was opened before the 2-minute pre-news window - However: - If a trade is closed inside the restricted window → violation - If you modify stops or targets inside the window → violation - Your trade must not be closed by any means during the restricted news window - **If a funded trader violates the news rule:** - Profits generated from the violating trade may be removed - The payout request may be denied - The account may be flagged for review - Repeated violations may lead to stricter action - News violations do not automatically result in a hard breach unless abuse is detected **Trading Hours** - **Hours:** 6:00 PM EST and 4:10 PM EST the next day, Monday through Friday - **Daily Break:** There is a daily 1-hour break from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST, during which trading is paused - After the break, the next session opens **Inactivity Rule** - All Sim Funded traders must place at least one trade every 14 calendar days to keep their account in good standing **IP Address Restrictions** - [IP Address Restrictions Explained](https://intercom.help/top-one-futures/en/articles/11187841-are-there-ip-address-restrictions)