Minimum Trades: Minimum Trades: At least 10 qualifying closed trades. This proves your strategy is not dependent on just one or two instances.
What is a Qualifying Trade?
Only trades that carry real market risk count toward the minimum.
We also review whether counted trades reflect genuine market participation. A trade may be excluded where it shows no real trading intent. We consider holding time far below your own normal, a result too small to affect the account either way, and placement at the very end of a phase or payout window, taken together rather than in isolation. Trades opened after a profit target has already been met receive particular attention, because they can no longer change the outcome.
Review and verification
We may review at any time whether these criteria have been genuinely met, including after an upgrade has been granted or a payout approved or paid. An automated check at the time of a request is preliminary and does not prevent a later review. Where a review finds the minimum was not genuinely met, we may act under Rule 4 and our Terms and Conditions. A decision not to act earlier does not waive that right.
If the minimum is not met
Nothing is confiscated and no Strike is recorded. Rule 1 remains a Quality Standard, not a violation trigger. Promotion or payout is deferred until you have 10 qualifying trades. Keep trading normally and the requirement is met in the ordinary course.
Placing trades for the sole purpose of reaching the count is treated as exploitation of the evaluation system under Rule 4, and handled under those terms.
