Rules & Guidelines
Fair Play & Prohibited Trading Practices
Funded With Futures is committed to building a trading environment rooted in fairness, transparency, and integrity. These policies exist to protect every honest trader on our platform — and the sustainability of the firm itself.
Violations of any policy on this page will result in enforcement action up to and including permanent termination, forfeiture of all balances and payouts, and a lifetime ban from Funded With Futures services. All determinations are made at the Company’s sole discretion and are final and binding.
Understanding the Simulated Environment
The simulated trading environment, while a robust and close approximation of live market conditions, is not identical to live execution. Differences in fill algorithms, latency, slippage, and liquidity create gaps that certain strategies can exploit — strategies that would inevitably fail in real market conditions.
Funded With Futures exists to identify and fund traders who demonstrate genuine, transferable skill — not traders who have found ways to game a simulation. A small subset of traders, whether inadvertently or with deliberate intent, engage in practices that exploit these gaps. These practices are strictly prohibited.
Our detection systems combine real-time automated monitoring with manual compliance review. Every account that passes evaluation is subject to a full trading review before funding is granted.
Automated Trading & High-Frequency Trading
High-Frequency Trading (HFT) is strictly prohibited on all Funded With Futures accounts. This includes any strategy that relies on sub-second execution speeds, co-location advantages, or algorithmic latency exploitation.
Traders may use automated trading tools (bots, EAs, algos) under the following conditions:
- The automated strategy must be your own, configured with your own specific settings
- The tool must not be designed to exploit favorable fills unique to the simulated environment
- The strategy must be viable under real-market execution conditions (realistic slippage, fill rates, and latency)
- All automated trading on funded accounts must comply with CME Group guidelines and regulations
- Use of the same automated strategy or bot across multiple unconnected accounts by different individuals is prohibited
If our systems detect trading patterns consistent with HFT or simulation exploitation, the account will be flagged for immediate review. The burden of proof rests with the trader to demonstrate legitimacy.
Order Management & Market Conduct
Funded With Futures enforces strict standards for ethical order management. The following practices are prohibited:
Order Stacking / Spoofing
Simultaneously placing multiple limit orders at the same price level to manipulate order fills or create the appearance of false liquidity.
Gapped / Illiquid Market Exploitation
Initiating trades specifically designed to profit from isolated fills in gapped or illiquid market conditions that would not execute in live markets.
Slippage Exploitation
Exploiting the absence or reduction of slippage in the simulated environment. This includes utilizing unrealistically tight bracket orders to capture fills that would not occur under live conditions.
News Event Trading
Opening, closing, or triggering trades within 5 minutes before or after major economic data releases (FOMC, NFP, CPI, GDP, etc.). See our dedicated News Trading policy for full details.
Microscalping
Capturing extremely small price movements with disproportionately large position sizes within seconds, exploiting simulated fill mechanics. See our dedicated Microscalping policy for full details.
Tick Scalping / Latency Arbitrage
Exploiting sub-second price feed delays or execution latency to capture risk-free ticks. Any strategy dependent on execution speed advantages that exist only in simulation is prohibited.
All trading activity must comply with CME Group rules and regulations. Any activity that would constitute a violation on a live CME exchange is equally prohibited on our platform.
Device Sharing, Copy Trading & Collaborative Trading
Every trader must maintain their own independent trading environment. The following are strictly prohibited:
- Copy Trading: Copying, mirroring, or replicating the trades of another trader — whether manually, via software, or through signals — across any accounts (yours or others’)
- Device Sharing: Using the same device (computer, tablet, or phone) that another Funded With Futures trader uses. Each trader must trade from their own hardware
- Collaborative Trading: Coordinating with others to execute identical, opposite, or complementary strategies across unconnected accounts to guarantee combined outcomes
- Account Sharing: Allowing any other person to access, trade, or manage your Funded With Futures account under any circumstances
- Third-Party Trade Execution: Having someone else enter, exit, or cancel trades on your behalf. Every trade must be initiated by the account holder personally
Our systems monitor for correlated trading patterns across accounts, shared IP addresses, device fingerprints, and execution timing. Violations will result in permanent restriction from all Funded With Futures services.
Hedging
Funded With Futures prohibits hedging of any kind. Hedging is defined as holding both long and short positions on the same underlying asset simultaneously, whether on the same account or across multiple accounts.
This includes but is not limited to:
- Buying E-Mini NQ (NQ) while simultaneously selling Micro NQ (MNQ) — these share the same underlying asset (Nasdaq)
- Buying E-Mini S&P 500 (ES) while selling Micro S&P 500 (MES) — same underlying (S&P 500)
- Holding opposing positions on any contracts that track the same underlying index, commodity, or asset
- Coordinating hedge positions across separate Funded With Futures accounts
This rule applies to both evaluation and Sim Funded accounts. Automated systems that place hedge orders will trigger an immediate account flag.
VPN, VPS & Geographic Restrictions
The use of VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) or VPS (Virtual Private Servers) while trading on Funded With Futures accounts is strictly prohibited.
- You must trade from your actual geographic location at all times
- VPN/VPS usage during KYC verification will result in immediate rejection
- Traders detected using VPNs to circumvent geographic restrictions will be permanently banned
- Cloud-hosted trading environments are not permitted unless explicitly approved in writing by the Company
If you travel frequently and your IP address changes significantly, contact [email protected] in advance to avoid false flags.
Enforcement & Consequences
Funded With Futures enforces these policies through a combination of real-time automated detection, post-trade analysis, and manual compliance review. Every evaluation that reaches a passing status undergoes a full trading audit before funding is granted.
Consequences of violation include:
- Immediate profit confiscation — all profits generated from prohibited practices will be removed
- Account termination — the account will be permanently closed
- Forfeiture of all balances and pending payouts — no compensation will be provided
- Lifetime ban — the trader will be permanently prohibited from creating new accounts or using any Funded With Futures services
- No refund eligibility — violations void any refund rights under our Refund Policy
- Legal action — the Company reserves the right to pursue legal remedies for fraud, system exploitation, or material breach
The Company reserves the right to skip warnings and proceed directly to permanent termination for severe or clearly intentional violations. All determinations are made at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion and are final and binding.
Passed evaluations are subject to review at any time. Traders found in violation of any policy — whether through ignorance or intent — will not be funded and are not eligible for refunds.
Our Commitment to Fair Trading
These policies are not designed to punish traders — they exist to protect them. Every rule on this page serves one purpose: ensuring that the traders who earn funded accounts have demonstrated real, repeatable, and transferable skill that works in live markets.
Funded With Futures deeply values the trust of our trading community. We are committed to maintaining a platform where honest traders thrive, evaluations are meaningful, and funded accounts are earned — not gamed. Trade ethically, respect the platform, and build a sustainable trading career with us.