Trading Rules
All limits are enforced automatically by the risk engine — in real time, with no exceptions. The comparison table below is pulled live from our challenge configuration.
Automated
Risk enforcement
Hard Only
Breach severity
Real-time
Data source
Last updated: March 2026
1. Challenge Rules Comparison
One representative per challenge type — rules are identical across account sizes within the same type.
2. Rule Violations
All rule violations are treated as hard breaches — triggered automatically by the risk engine. The account is permanently locked the moment a limit is exceeded. There is no appeal process.
Triggered instantly. Account is permanently locked. Challenge fees are non-refundable. You may repurchase a new challenge after a breach.
- › Maximum daily loss exceeded
- › Maximum total drawdown exceeded
- › Consistency rule violated (profit concentration)
- › Trade frequency limit exceeded
- › News window violated (opening within 5 min before/after a release)
- › Prohibited trading practice detected (martingale, latency arb, copy trading, hedging, etc.)
3. Drawdown Type
All accounts use a Static drawdown. The loss floor is fixed at the initial balance and never moves, regardless of profits made.
Example — $100,000 account with 10% max drawdown
Floor = $90,000 — always. Even if your balance grows to $115,000, the breach threshold stays at $90,000.
4. Risk Monitoring
All funded accounts are continuously monitored by our risk engine. If an account is flagged as elevated risk, the risk team may reduce the maximum allowable loss percentage on open positions until the account returns to normal levels.
If your account is placed under elevated risk monitoring, you will be notified by email. Restrictions are lifted automatically once normal trading behaviour resumes.
5. Funded Account Rules
Once you pass the evaluation and receive a live funded account, the following additional restrictions apply. These are enforced automatically by the risk engine.
Maximum 3% risk per trade idea
No single trade or group of simultaneously opened positions on the same instrument may risk more than 3% of the funded account balance. This cap applies at the moment of entry — if your stop-loss implies a loss greater than 3%, the order will be rejected.
Example — $100,000 account
Max risk per trade = $3,000. Sizing a position where stop-loss exposure exceeds $3,000 will be blocked by the risk engine.
- ›Max daily loss: Still applies on funded accounts at the same percentage configured during your challenge.
- ›Max total drawdown: Still applies. The floor is static — fixed at the initial funded account balance.
- ›Prohibited practices: All prohibited practices from the evaluation phase remain enforced on funded accounts.
- ›Payout eligibility: Withdrawals are processed only when the account is within all risk limits. A breach at any time forfeits the current payout cycle.
6. Daily Reset & Trading Day Definition
The trading day resets at a configured timezone and hour (typically 17:00 New York time) — not at UTC midnight. This aligns with standard forex market convention. A qualifying trading day is any day on which at least one trade is opened and closed. Trades held overnight count toward the day they are closed.
7. Permitted Practices
News Trading
Permitted with a 10-minute protection window. No new positions may be opened 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after a high-impact news release (NFP, FOMC, CPI, etc.). Existing positions may be held through the window.
Weekend Holding
Holding trades over the weekend market close (Fri 22:00 UTC) through Sunday open (22:00 UTC) is permitted. Gap risk is your responsibility.
Expert Advisors
Third-party EAs, bots, and automated strategies are permitted provided they run solely on your account and do not violate prohibited practices.
8. Prohibited Practices
All violations below result in immediate, permanent account lock. The behavioral detection engine runs automatically and continuously on all accounts.
- ✗Platform exploit / pricing bug abuse: Intentional use of execution errors or pricing faults to generate artificial profits.
- ✗Identity or account fraud: False documents, impersonation, or use of another person's identity during verification.
- ✗Martingale / reverse-martingale patterns: Systematically scaling position size in a way that creates compounding risk inconsistent with a live funded environment.
- ✗Latency arbitrage: Exploiting price feed delays or data latency to trade against stale quotes.
- ✗News-spike exploitation: A pattern of entering positions within seconds of major news releases across multiple instruments — indicative of latency exploitation, not genuine directional analysis.
- ✗Cross-account copy trading: Mirroring trades from one LIMITLESS FUNDED account to another (same or different user), including signal services targeting multiple firm accounts simultaneously.
- ✗Opposite hedging between accounts: Holding opposite positions on the same instrument across two or more accounts to guarantee profit on one side while absorbing the loss on another.
- ✗Account sharing / group trading: Allowing another person to trade on your account or coordinating strategies in a way that undermines independent evaluation.
9. Violations & Consequences
Immediate Account Lock
Any rule breach locks the account permanently at the moment it is detected. Challenge fees are non-refundable. Funded account profits accrued up to the breach date may be forfeited. You may repurchase a new challenge after a breach.
10. Changes to These Rules
LIMITLESS FUNDED may update these trading rules from time to time. Changes will be communicated via email and posted on this page with an updated date. Challenges purchased before a rule change continue under the rules in effect at time of purchase. New challenges purchased after a change are subject to the updated rules.
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