Permitted Trading Styles and Strategies
High-Frequency Trading (HFT) Bots (Challenge Phase Only) Allowed specifically during the HFT Evaluation Challenge.
News Trading You’re free to open or close positions around major economic releases.
Weekend Position Holding We permit carrying trades over weekends, subject to standard risk controls.
Prohibited (or Toxic) Trading Styles and Strategies
Grid Trading You may only add once to a losing position. Repeatedly layering multiple positions in a “grid” pattern is not allowed.
Tick Scalping Strategies that rely on extremely short-term “tick-level” moves to exploit price feeds or platform latency are forbidden.
Martingale Aggressively doubling down on losing trades is not permitted due to the excessive risk it introduces.
Hedging Holding opposing positions on the same instrument to artificially manage margin or drawdown is disallowed.
Spamming Rapidly opening and closing orders (or sending excessive trade requests) to abuse execution or server latency is strictly prohibited.
Latency Arbitrage Exploiting delays between quote providers or using software to capitalize on discrepancies in data feeds is considered a toxic practice.
Quote Manipulation Any attempt to manipulate bid/ask quotes or generate false market signals violates our fair-trading policy.
Other Platform Exploits Any strategy that deliberately takes advantage of technical loopholes, glitches, or errors on the platform is likewise banned.
If a funded trader is found using any prohibited or toxic strategy, Pro-Tix reserves the right to take immediate corrective action. This may include suspending the account, revoking access to the firm’s capital, withholding profits associated with the offending trades, and/or terminating the trader’s contract altogether. We enforce these measures to ensure a fair and secure trading environment for all participants.