These rules apply to every account. Breaking them can lead to a denied payout, account closure or a permanent ban. Unsure about a strategy? Ask support first.
Allowed
News trading – except on LITE funded accounts (2 minutes either side of high-impact news).
Copy trading between your own accounts – including accounts at other firms and third-party copiers.
The same strategy on several accounts, and any discretionary style.
Not allowed
Practice | What it means |
Copying or sharing | Copying other traders, signal providers or groups. Letting anyone else trade your account or use your login. |
Hedging | Long and short on the same instrument, or hedging across Shark Futures accounts or against another firm. |
News straddling | Orders on both sides of a release to exploit simulated fills. |
Arbitrage | Latency, exchange or statistical arbitrage. |
Bots and HFT | Without our approval: sub-second orders, tick scalping, spoofing or layering, splitting orders to beat position limits. |
Microscalping | Half or more of your profit coming from trades held under 10 seconds. |
“Lucky shot” trades | One trade making over 50% of the profit needed to pass or get paid, or trades that go far against you before closing (see below). |
No risk control | Regularly holding big losers with no exit plan, all-or-nothing positions, erratic sizing, or doubling up after losses. |
Account rolling | Max-size gambling, blowing the account and buying another to repeat. |
IP abuse | Constant location hopping or logins from several regions at once. VPNs and VPS are fine. |
How we check risk per trade
We compare how far each trade went against you (MAE) with the profit you took. If MAE is more than 5x the profit on 6 or more of every 10 trades, it’s flagged. Example: a trade goes $1,500 against you and closes +$200 – that’s 7.5x. Stop losses aren’t mandatory, but trade the way you would with your own money.
Reviews
We manually review unusual results: win rates near 100% (or over 90% across 15+ trades), unnaturally smooth profit curves, identical orders at the same timestamp, or identical trades across sessions.
We may ask for a live screen-share. Not responding within 48 hours can lead to suspension.
Meeting the target and payout rules makes you eligible to request a payout, but our risk team also checks how the profit was made. Our decision after review is final.