Trading Rules Overview

Understanding the trading rules is essential for success with Tradeify 247. This guide covers all the rules you need to follow to maintain your account and qualify for payouts.

Your account cannot lose more than 3% of the account size within a single trading day. Also known as the Daily Loss Limit (DLL).

How it works: The daily limit resets at the start of each new trading day. If your account equity (balance plus unrealized P&L from open positions) drops below the daily limit at any point during the day, your account will be closed immediately. Important: the breach check uses live equity, so an open losing trade can breach the account before you close it — you do NOT need to close the trade for the breach to trigger.

Your account equity (balance plus unrealized P&L from open positions) cannot fall below the max drawdown floor at any time. Important: the breach check uses live equity, so an open losing trade can breach the account before you close it. The drawdown floor behavior varies by account type:

Your max drawdown limit is fixed and never changes. For a $50,000 account, your limit is always $47,000 ($50,000 minus $3,000, the 6% max drawdown).

Your max drawdown floor trails up with your highest closed-trade balance — it rises the moment a trade closes at a new high (intraday, not at the daily reset) and is capped at your starting balance. It only ever moves up, never down.

Example (50K account):

The payout lock applies to 1-Step Funded, Instant Funding, and APE-X funded accounts. When you request your first payout, your drawdown floor locks at your starting balance ($0 profit). This means after a payout request, you cannot go below your original account size. 2-Step Funded accounts do not have a payout lock — their floor stays fixed at your starting balance minus 6% and a payout does not move it.

All trades must be held for at least 20 seconds.

This rule prevents high-frequency scalping strategies that can be disruptive to liquidity providers. The 20-second timer starts from the moment your position is opened.

Important: Violations of the microscalping rule may result in account termination.

Hedging is not allowed.

You cannot hold simultaneous long and short positions in the same instrument to offset risk. This includes:

Automatic Detection: Our systems automatically monitor for hedging activity. Violations may result in immediate account termination.

Partial closes are allowed. However, they may not be used to artificially increase your number of trading days, or to satisfy Minimum Trading Day or Consistency requirements.

For a trading day to be counted, the entire position must be fully closed. A position is treated as active until all remaining volume has been closed.

Example:

Overnight positions: You may hold positions overnight. However, to carry a position into the next trading day, the original position size must remain fully intact. Holding the full 1.0 lot overnight is allowed. Closing 0.5 lots before the reset and then carrying the remaining 0.5 lots overnight is not allowed.

Why: This prevents the artificial creation of trading days through partial closes and keeps Minimum Trading Day and Consistency requirements reflecting genuine trading activity. Any attempt to manipulate trading day calculations through partial position management may result in the affected profits being excluded from eligibility calculations, or other corrective action at Tradeify's discretion.

If you go 30 consecutive days without placing a trade, your account is closed and marked as breached due to inactivity. This is a breach in exactly the same way a drawdown breach is: the account cannot be reopened or reset, it is no longer eligible for a payout, and any profit remaining in it is forfeited. To trade again you would need to purchase a new account.

You get a warning first. At 28 days of inactivity we email you an Account Inactivity Warning telling you to place at least one trade within the next 48 hours. If you place a trade in that window, nothing happens to your account. If you do not, the account is closed as a breach at 30 days.

To keep your account active, place at least one trade every 30 days. This applies to all account types, including APE-X.

Trading bots are allowed if you own or have exclusive rights to the bot.

Copy trading is allowed. You may use copy trading services or software to mirror trades to your Tradeify account. One exception: on the 3-Step Promotional Plan you may not copy trades between that account and your other accounts, in either direction.

You may not use:

VPNs and VPS are allowed. They can help with connection stability, execution speed, and overall trading performance.

Your account must remain personal at all times. Sharing access or group trading (multiple people on one account) is strictly prohibited and may result in account closure. VPN/VPS may not be used to mask or facilitate account sharing.

If we detect multiple logins from different IP addresses or shared/overlapping IP usage with other users, we may request additional verification. This can include:

These measures protect both the trader and platform integrity. By using VPN or VPS services, you agree to comply with these conditions and cooperate with verification if required.

A verification interview may be conducted by video call (for example, Google Meet) and will come from an official @tradeify.co, @tradeify247.co, or @tradeifycrypto.co address. Tradeify will never ask you to grant remote access to your device, install remote-control software, or send money or crypto during such a call — those are signs of a scam. See Payouts and Billing for how to verify a request is genuine.

Leverage is fixed per account type — you cannot adjust or increase it, regardless of profitability.

Example: With a $100K evaluation account and 5:1 leverage on BTC at $100,000/BTC, you can hold up to 5 BTC ($500,000 notional value).

For users from futures: In USD-margined crypto pairs, the asset moves at face value and leverage multiplies your exposure. There are no mini/micro contract sizes — positions are measured in lot sizes (e.g., 0.01 BTC, 0.5 ETH).

Tokenized stocks: All tokenized stocks trade at 2:1 leverage on every account type, including Instant Funding. See Tokenized Stocks.

The rules above apply to 2-Step, 1-Step, and Instant Funding accounts. APE-X is no longer available for purchase — the rules in this section apply only if you already hold an APE-X account. The APE-X Pay-After-Pass Plan uses a different rule structure — if you hold an APE-X account, the rules below apply to you instead of the 3% Daily Drawdown and 6% Max Drawdown rules above. Microscalping (20s), hedging policy, inactivity, bots, and copy trading rules stay the same across all plans, with one exception: the 3-Step Promotional Plan does not allow copy trading between that account and your other accounts.

APE-X uses a single 4% Max Loss Limit. It is enforced intraday against your live account equity (balance plus unrealized P&L from open positions), and the floor trails up per closed trade — it ratchets higher the moment a trade closes at a new highest balance (intraday, not at the daily reset), capped at your starting balance, and only ever moves up. There is no separate Daily Drawdown or Max Drawdown on APE-X accounts. Important: the breach check uses live equity, so an open losing trade can breach the account before you close it.

Example (100K APE-X account): Starting floor is $96,000 ($100,000 − 4%). Your live equity must stay above $96,000 at all times during the day. If live equity drops below $96,000 intraday (even from an unrealized loss on an open position), the account is liquidated immediately the moment that level is touched. When a trade closes at a new high of $102,000, the floor immediately trails up to $98,000 ($102,000 − $4,000) — intraday, the moment the trade closes, not at the daily reset. The floor only moves up, never down — a close that is not a new high does not move it.

On funded APE-X accounts, no single trading day can account for more than 40% of your total profits. The check is applied when you request a payout.

Example: Total profits to date = $5,000. No single day can account for more than $2,000 (40% of $5,000). If one day does exceed this share, keep trading to even out the distribution before requesting a payout.

For full APE-X evaluation and funded-account details, see the APE-X Evaluations Guide.

Want softer daily-limit behavior while you evaluate? The Daily Soft Breach add-on converts a hard daily breach into a soft one (locked for the day, resumes next trading day) during the 1-Step and 2-Step evaluation phases only. It does not carry through to the funded account — once you pass, the daily loss limit is a hard breach again. It is not offered on Instant Funding or on APE-X, which has no daily loss limit. See our Account Add-ons guide.