Crypto Fund Trader rules

Most accounts end on a technicality: a daily limit measured on equity, a floor that moved, a rule that only applies to one program. This page lists every rule we found in CFT’s FAQ, with a full guide for the ones that matter most.

All the rules on one page

Daily loss limit

5% on 2-Phase and 3-Phase, 4% on 1-Phase and Instant. It is measured from your balance at 00:05 UTC and breached on equity, so open losses count. Break accounts list no daily limit. Full guide, or try your numbers in the drawdown calculator.

Overall loss limit

Fixed at 10% of the starting balance on 2-Phase and 5% on 3-Phase. Trailing on 1-Phase (6%, locks at the starting balance) and on Break (4% of the highest balance on $25,000 and $50,000, 3% on $100,000).

Consistency rule

Only on Break funded accounts: no single day can make more than 40% of your total profit when you ask for a payout. Full guide.

News trading

Allowed on every program except Ascend, which blocks new trades from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after high-impact news and market openings. During that window, Ascend traders also cannot add volume to open positions or risk more than 2% of the initial balance.

Reverse trading and hedging

You cannot hold opposite positions on the same asset for 60 seconds or more. To trade the other way, close your open positions first. Opposite trades on different pairs are fine; BTC/USD against BTC/EUR is not. Hedging across your own accounts is banned, even under different email addresses. An opposite trade on the same instrument is allowed once the first trade has been open for 24 hours.

Profit cap

The most simulated profit counted in one day or from one trade is $10,000. Above that, open trades can be closed and the excess deducted. The daily count starts from your balance at 00:10 UTC, and trades opened together as one strategy can count as one.

Maximum allocation

The total starting balance of all your active funded accounts cannot exceed $300,000; profits do not count toward it. Ascend, Instant and Break accounts sit outside that limit with their own caps: three active Instant accounts and five funded Break accounts.

Trading days and time limits

Evaluations have no minimum number of trading days and no time limit. For rewards, you need 15 traded days, or you can ask every 30 calendar days. Payout rules.

Strategies that are not allowed

High-frequency trading, tick scalping, latency arbitrage and any strategy that exploits the simulated environment. CFT also rules out “gambling-style” and all-in trading. Its list of banned expert advisors names news-scalping, arbitrage and multi-account reverse-trading EAs, and tick scalping is banned whether done by hand or by a bot.

Rules for Bybit accounts

Only USDT futures count. Spot trading, options, USDC pairs and extra deposits to the sub-account are banned, and editing, deleting or replacing the API key voids the evaluation. The Bybit guide.

Weekend and overnight positions

Allowed on every account type. Positions held overnight on MetaTrader 5 and Match-Trader can be charged swaps; on Bybit, funding rates apply instead.

Copy trading

CFT’s FAQ covers copy trading for two programs. On Break, it is allowed during the evaluation and only between your own Break accounts; it is banned on funded Break accounts. On Ascend, copying between accounts is banned. Coordinated trading between traders that cannot be explained by coincidence counts as copying.