At Upside Funding, our trading rules are designed to ensure fairness, skill-based evaluation, and a realistic trading environment. To protect the integrity of our funded trader evaluation process, certain strategies and behaviours are strictly prohibited. This page outlines the key practices that violate Upside Funding trading rules and explains why they are banned.
At Upside Funding, trading strategies designed to exploit system weaknesses or execute trades at unrealistic speeds, such as High-Frequency Trading (HFT), are strictly prohibited. These include practices like stacking trades or leveraging latency arbitrage.
Using software or automated systems to execute hundreds (or thousands) of trades in milliseconds to capitalize on minor price movements.
Placing an unusually high volume of orders within a short timeframe to overwhelm the system or manipulate results.
Exploiting delays in the platform’s data feed to trade at outdated or incorrect prices.
Implementing algorithms to flood the system with multiple small orders to manipulate spreads or exploit execution delays.
HFT techniques and exploitative trades cannot be executed in live trading environments due to real-world market restrictions and system regulations.
Allowing such practices would give an unfair advantage to those using automated exploits over traders relying on skill and analysis.
High-frequency orders and stacking can strain the platform, negatively affecting other traders’ experience and data accuracy.
Upside Funding is designed to evaluate and fund skilled traders, not automated systems. Stick to strategies that can be replicated in real live markets. Exploiting the system doesn’t just breach our rules—it invalidates your trading performance.
Trading during high-volatility periods caused by major news events are considered Red Folder news events. is strictly prohibited at Upside Funding. This includes opening trades or placing stop/limit orders within 5 minutes before or after major news releases. Such practices, known as news gap trading or straddling, create unreplicable and unpredictable trading conditions that do not reflect fair market behavior.
Major news releases can create rapid price movements, making execution highly unpredictable.
Orders placed during volatile conditions may face slippage, leading to significant discrepancies between the expected and executed price.
The irregular nature of news-driven market behavior cannot be reliably reproduced in live trading conditions, rendering such strategies invalid for evaluations.
News gap trading leverages extreme conditions that aren’t sustainable in real-world, live market environments.
Such strategies undermine the purpose of the Evaluation Process, which is to assess trading skills under normal market conditions.
Allowing these practices would provide an unfair advantage to traders using risky, luck-based strategies rather than disciplined, skill-driven techniques.
Refrain from placing orders within the 5-minute window before or after a major news events (Red Folder) to ensure compliance and maintain realistic trading conditions.
At Upside Funding, trading strategies designed to exploit system weaknesses or execute trades at unrealistic speeds, such as High-Frequency Trading (HFT), are strictly prohibited. These include practices like stacking trades or leveraging latency arbitrage.
Using software or automated systems to execute hundreds (or thousands) of trades in milliseconds to capitalize on minor price movements.
Placing an unusually high volume of orders within a short timeframe to overwhelm the system or manipulate results.
Exploiting delays in the platform’s data feed to trade at outdated or incorrect prices.
Implementing algorithms to flood the system with multiple small orders to manipulate spreads or exploit execution delays.
HFT techniques and exploitative trades cannot be executed in live trading environments due to real-world market restrictions and system regulations.
Allowing such practices would give an unfair advantage to those using automated exploits over traders relying on skill and analysis.
High-frequency orders and stacking can strain the platform, negatively affecting other traders’ experience and data accuracy.
Upside Funding is designed to evaluate and fund skilled traders, not automated systems. Stick to strategies that can be replicated in real live markets. Exploiting the system doesn’t just breach our rules—it invalidates your trading performance.
Upside Funding prohibits account hedging practices that involve using multiple accounts or different firms to offset risks. While hedging within a single account is permitted to manage your trading strategy, cross-account or cross-firm hedging is strictly off-limits as it undermines the integrity of the Evaluation Process.
Hedging trades within a single account to manage your market exposure (e.g., opening positions in opposing directions on the same symbol in a controlled and strategic manner).
The Evaluation Process is designed to assess your trading skills under controlled conditions. Hedging across accounts negates these controls and invalidates the assessment.
Cross-account hedging exploits loopholes, giving an unfair advantage over traders who follow the rules.
Hedging across accounts creates artificial performance metrics, making it impossible to accurately evaluate a trader’s skill and consistency.
Focus on building your trading strategy within the parameters of a single account. Cross-account or cross-firm hedging violates Upside Funding’s rules and will result in immediate account termination.
The Evaluation Process is designed to measure your trading skill. Outsourcing the process defeats its purpose and compromises the integrity of our funded trading program.
Traders relying on external help undermine the efforts of those who put in the work themselves.
A third party passing your evaluation won’t guarantee your ability to sustain performance when managing real funds, creating unnecessary risks for both you and the program.
The Evaluation Process is about your trading skills. Letting someone else take the reins not only violates Upside Funding’s rules but also cheats you out of proving your capabilities. Success is earned, not outsourced.
At Upside Funding, traders are evaluated on their individual skills and strategies. Copying trades—whether manually or using automated tools like EAs or APIs—is strictly prohibited. Additionally, engaging in collaborative trading practices with other traders is not allowed. These restrictions ensure that every trader is assessed fairly and independently.
The Evaluation Process is designed to assess your unique skills. Copying trades or relying on external inputs invalidates the accuracy of this assessment.
Collaboration or trade mirroring gives an edge to traders who bypass the system, putting rule-abiding participants at a disadvantage.
Copy or collaborative trading often produces performance that cannot be sustained in real trading environments, defeating the purpose of Upside Funding’s program.
Your performance is meant to reflect your trading expertise. Copying trades or collaborating with others violates Upside Funding’s rules and will result in immediate disqualification. Show us what you can do on your own.
Upside Funding values skill, discipline, and strategy in trading. Gambling-like behaviors—such as excessive risk-taking, reckless one-sided bets, or toxic trading flows—are strictly prohibited. Trading without proper analysis or relying on luck undermines the purpose of our program and the development of professional trading habits.
Placing trades with unreasonably high leverage or outsized position sizes that can wipe out accounts in a single move.
Consistently trading in one direction (buy-only or sell-only) without considering market analysis or conditions.
Engaging in strategies designed to create erratic or unnatural trading activity, often leading to platform instability.
The Evaluation Process is designed to assess your ability to trade with discipline and strategy, not to reward blind luck.
Gambling-like behaviors disrupt the trading environment and fail to align with the professional standards of Upside Funding.
Toxic trading practices lead to inconsistent results and discourage the development of responsible trading habits necessary for sustainable success.
Developing disciplined trading habits is why we provide 1:1 mentorship to funded traders. Gambling strategies go against this growth-focused philosophy. Professional trading requires discipline, analysis, and measured risk. At Upside Funding, reckless or luck-based trading strategies are not tolerated. Show your expertise, not your willingness to gamble.
At Upside Funding, every trader is expected to participate as an individual. Using multiple accounts, identities, or emails to bypass rules is strictly prohibited. This ensures a fair and consistent experience for all participants in our Evaluation Process and funded trading programs.
Allowing another person to trade on your account or using someone else’s account.
Registering accounts under false names or using fraudulent information to gain access to the platform.
Allowing multiple accounts or identities would give some traders an unfair advantage, such as bypassing evaluation rules or exploiting system loopholes.
One account per trader ensures that our evaluations are accurate and consistent across all participants.
Restricting multiple accounts reduces the risk of system manipulation, collusion, or fraud.
Stick to one account, one identity, and one email. The Evaluation Process is designed to measure your individual trading skills. Violating this rule will result in immediate disqualification and account termination.
To ensure an efficient and engaged trading environment, accounts that remain inactive for 30 consecutive days will be deactivated and cannot be restored. Active participation is essential for maintaining access to your evaluation or funded account.
Make sure to log in to your account at least once every 30 days.
For evaluation accounts, engage in trades periodically to demonstrate progress.
If you anticipate an extended period of inactivity, contact our support team to explore options.
Deactivating inactive accounts ensures our resources and trading systems remain focused on active traders.
Regular account activity promotes discipline and consistent participation, both critical traits for successful traders.
Clearing inactive accounts ensures an optimized environment for all participants, free of clutter or stagnation.
Stay active by logging in and participating consistently. If your account becomes inactive for 30 consecutive days, it will be permanently deactivated, and any progress or access will be forfeited.
