Trading Restrictions & Prohibited Practices at Funded7

Trading Restrictions & Prohibited Practices at Funded7

At Funded7, we foster transparency, fair trading, and skill-based evaluations, ensuring all traders operate within responsible risk management guidelines. To maintain fairness and integrity, certain trading strategies and activities are strictly prohibited across all challenges.

⛔ News Trading Restrictions

To protect against market manipulation, trading within one minute before and after major news events is not permitted. Economic calendar can be found here: https://my.funded7.com/en-US/economic-calendar

✔️ Trades opened more than two (2) minute before a news event may remain open.
✔️ Stop Loss (SL) and Take Profit (TP) execution during restricted periods is allowed.
✔️ Pending orders or new market executions within the restricted time frame will result in a rule violation.

Major news events include but are not limited to:
• CPI, PPI, GDP releases
• Unemployment & NFP reports
• FOMC meetings & Central Bank rate decisions
• Retail Sales, Consumer Confidence Index (CCI), and PMI reports

📜 Prohibited Trading Practices

⚠️ High-Risk & Exploitative Trading

Funded7 prohibits strategies that involve excessive risk, statistical exploits, or gambling-like behavior, such as:
• Excessive Risk-Taking – High-exposure trades with reckless risk management.
• All-In Trading – Allocating a significant portion of capital to a single trade.
• Improper Leverage Use – Overleveraging across multiple trades.
• Account Rolling – Continuously purchasing challenges and trading recklessly.

Traders engaging in such practices may face account closure and forfeiture of payouts, following a compliance review.

⛔ Specific Trading Violations

✔️ Holding Shares During Earnings
• Single Share Equity CFD positions must be closed by 3:50 PM EST on earnings release day.
• Holding positions through earnings violates account rules, and any resulting profit/loss will be removed.

✔️ Arbitrage & Latency Exploits
• Using slow data feeds, external pricing, or system glitches for arbitrage is strictly prohibited.

✔️ System Exploits
• Exploiting platform or server issues for unfair advantages is forbidden.
• If server issues arise, report them to Funded7 support immediately.

✔️ Hedging
• Hedging positions across multiple accounts is prohibited.
• Traders can hedge only within the same account.

✔️ High-Frequency Trading (HFT) & Tick Scalping
• Excessively fast trading strategies, including microsecond executions, are restricted.
• Tick scalping is not allowed due to its potential for market disruption.

✔️ Account Sharing
• Selling, transferring, or sharing accounts is strictly forbidden. (Example you open 5 positions but only 1 of them reaches your Profit goal).

✔️ All-In-One Bet Trading
• Reaching the profit target through a single high-risk trade is not allowed.

✔️ Martingale Trading
• Doubling trade sizes on losing positions to recover losses is prohibited.
• Multiple positions exceeding 1x of the original trade size fall under this violation.

✔️ Copy Trading & Reverse Copy Trading
• Automated copy trading services and “pass my challenge” schemes are strictly banned.
• Accounts flagged for identical trade patterns will be manually reviewed.

🤖 Are Automated Trading Systems Allowed?
Automated trading using Expert Advisors (EAs), bots, or scripts is permitted, but you need to make sure that you do not violate any of the above rules which will result in an immediate account breach.

At Funded7, we are committed to maintaining a fair, skill-based trading environment. By adhering to these guidelines, traders can focus on long-term success and responsible risk management. Trade smart, trade fair, and get funded! 🚀