Rules

Daily Drawdown

Our FX accounts have a daily drawdown. If your equity drops more than this amount in a single day, the account is breached. The daily drawdown resets every day at UTC 0000 for FX and is calculated from your equity at that time.

Futures accounts do not have daily drawdown.

Example 1: On a $50,000 account with 6% daily drawdown ($3,000), if your equity is $52,000 at UTC 0000, your equity must not fall below $49,000 at any point during that day.

Example 2: On a $50,000 account with 6% daily drawdown ($3,000), if your equity is $54,000 at UTC 0000, your floor is $51,000. You lose $2,000 during the day, no breach. The next day resets at UTC 0000 with equity of $52,000, so your new floor is $49,000. It always resets at UTC 0000.

Max. Drawdown

Our 2-Step FX accounts have a static max. drawdown. This is a fixed percentage of your starting balance. It never moves up, no matter how high your balance grows. If your equity drops below this level, the account is breached.

Example: A $100,000 account with 12% max. drawdown has a floor at $88,000. If your equity drops to $88,000 or below at any point, the account is breached.

1-Step and Futures accounts have an End-of-Day (EoD) trailing max. drawdown. The drawdown floor starts below your initial balance. At the end of each day (UTC 0000), it only trails up if your account has reached a new highest recorded equity or balance. It never moves down. Once the floor reaches +2% above your initial balance, it stops trailing and becomes fixed.

Example 1: Starting balance = $100,000, EoD trailing max. drawdown = $5,000. Your floor starts at $95,000. After a few days your account closes at $104,000 at UTC 0000, a new “reference high”, so the floor moves up to $99,000. Your account then dips to $101,000 during the next day. No breach, since $101,000 is above $99,000.

Example 2: Same account. Over time your equity reaches $108,000 at end of day (UTC 0000), a new “reference high”. The ceiling for the floor is +2% of initial balance = $102,000. The drawdown floor locks at $102,000 and never trails higher. If your equity later drops to $101,990, which is below the $102,000 floor, then Account is breached.

Example 3: Starting balance = $50,000, max. drawdown = $2,500. Your floor starts at $47,500. On Day 1 your account closes at $51,000 at UTC 0000, a new “reference high”, so the floor moves to $48,500. On Day 2 your account drops to $49,500 at end of day. This is not a new high, so the floor stays at $48,500. On Day 3 your account closes at $52,500, a new reference high, so the floor moves up to $50,000. The ceiling is +2% of initial balance = $51,000. The floor will keep trailing until it reaches $51,000, then it locks permanently.

Consistency

40% Consistency Rule: Your Best Day Profit cannot exceed 40% of your Total Closed Profit. Only closed trades are included in this calculation.

Formula: (Best Day Profit ÷ Closed Profit) × 100

If your Best Day Profit exceeds the 40% limit, your account will not fail. But you must increase your Total Closed Profit to bring this ratio below 40% in order to pass or request payout.

Example 1: You have a $100,000 account. Your Total Closed Profit is $10,000. Your Best Day Profit is $3,000. Consistency = ($3,000 ÷ $10,000) × 100 = 30%. Since 30% is below 40%, you are consistent and can pass or request payout.

Example 2: You have a $50,000 account. Your Total Closed Profit is $5,000. Your Best Day Profit is $3,000. Consistency = ($3,000 ÷ $5,000) × 100 = 60%. Since 60% is above 40%, you are not consistent yet. Your account will not fail, but you need to keep trading and increase your Total Closed Profit until your Best Day Profit is less than 40% of it. For example, if you continue trading and your Total Closed Profit grows to $8,000 while your Best Day Profit stays at $3,000, your new Consistency = ($3,000 ÷ $8,000) × 100 = 37.5%. Now 37.5% is below 40%, so you are consistent and can pass or request payout.

Min. Profitable Days

Minimum Profitable Days Rule: You must trade on at least a required number of distinct profitable days to pass a step or request a payout. A day counts as profitable only if your closed profit for that day is at least 1% of your initial account balance.

Example 1: Your account requires 3 minimum profitable days and your initial balance is $50,000. You trade for 10 days, and on 4 of those days you close more than $500 (1% of $50,000) in profit each. Since 4 profitable days is more than the required 3, you pass this rule.

Example 2: Your account requires 3 minimum profitable days and your initial balance is $50,000. You trade for 10 days, but only 2 of those days have closed profit above $500 (1% of $50,000). Since 2 profitable days is less than the required 3, you cannot pass or request a payout yet. You need at least 1 more profitable day with a minimum of $500 in closed profit.

Violation consequences

To keep trading fair and professional, certain practices are not allowed. The TradersYard Payout Deduction Policy addresses rule violations in both Challenge and Funded accounts:

1. Profit Deduction

All profits generated from violating following practices, will be deducted from your account balance at evaluation or funded account where the violation occurs.

Practices include:

• Overleveraging (OL)
• News Trading (NEWS)
• Martingale (MGTL)
• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Early-stage gambling behavior (non-systematic)
• Minor or borderline risk rule violations
• Practices where the behavior is not clearly abusive and the trader shows potential to correct their approach.

Outcome:

• A formal warning and/ or,
• Profit deduction from account balance.
• If subtracting the violating profit causes your equity to drop below the daily drawdown limit, the funded account will be terminated immediately, and no further payouts will be made.
• Example: Trader submits a payout request for $10,000 (100%) → Total violation amount due to overleveraging and Martingale: $4,000 → Adjusted payout amount: $6,000 (100%) → Trader profit split as per unique scalable profit system: $4,930

2. Trading Account Suspension and offboarding

A hard breach refers to a violation of serious prohibited practices.

Practices include:

• Copy trading
• Hedging between accounts
• Arbitrage
• Account management (third-party trading)
• Gambling / all-or-nothing behavior

Outcome:

• Immediate suspension of all trading accounts
• Full offboarding of the trader including platform/dashboard access revoked
• Refund issued only for accounts in a positive balance (where applicable)
• Removal from Discord and all communication channels
• Severe or repeated violations may result in immediate account termination, regardless of any pending payout request.

List of Prohibited Practices

Below you will find all prohibited practices, please read them carefully. Any attempt to circumvent these practices via any method will result in permanent disqualification from all company services.

Market Exploits

Trading strategies that rely on system glitches, delayed feeds, or arbitrage (including latency, hedge, scalping, or gap-exploitation tactics) are forbidden. Holding positions solely to profit from weekend or overnight gaps is not allowed. Any attempt to manipulate prices or exploit the platform will result in profit deduction acquired through those trades.

Multiple Accounts & Copy Trading

Hedging across accounts is not allowed. Opening opposite positions in different accounts, even if owned by the same person or group, will lead to disqualification. Copy-trading from external accounts you do not own, group trading across multiple linked accounts to generate fake volume or opposing positions, and replicating trades using third-party Expert Advisors without owning the source code are all prohibited.

Gambling Behavior

Martingale, grid strategies, random lot sizes, or reckless scalping are considered gambling and are strictly prohibited.

News Trading Abuse

Placing pending orders around high-impact news events (bracket strategies) is not allowed. If you have the News Trading restricted during a challenge and take profit is hit during news window, then that profit will be deducted. Repeated violations of this rule will result in account termination.

Trading Style

Avoid overconcentration on a single asset, heavily one-sided bets without analysis, or impulsive overtrading. Flooding the market with tiny-pip trades or unrealistic trade counts to inflate profitability is not allowed. A disciplined and researched approach is required.

Account Churning

Buying and blowing up accounts at a rate that cannot be replicated in a normal trading environment is prohibited.

No HFT, no exploits, no gambling strategies, no multi-account hedging — always trade with consistency and discipline. Any behavior that signals irresponsible or excessively risky trading may lead to disqualification.

No VPN/VPS Allowed

If you use a VPN or VPS, your account will be blocked and permanently banned.

Martingale & Aggressive Position-Sizing Policy

We strictly prohibit the use of Martingale or other aggressive position-sizing strategies that systematically increase trade size following losses.

The Rule Explained

If you experience a "losing streak", defined as two or more consecutive closed trades with negative Profit & Loss then you must manage the size of your subsequent position(s).

• After a losing streak: The total notional volume of any new position(s) opened may not exceed 2 times (2x) the notional volume of the single largest losing trade within that streak.
• Aggregation: To prevent circumvention, multiple orders opened near-simultaneously that logically form a single position will be aggregated for calculation purposes.

How We Calculate Notional Volume

Notional Volume = Lots × Contract Size × Entry Price (converted to your account currency)

Breach Trigger

We monitor for a breach using the following ratio:

Ratio = Notional Volume of new position(s) ÷ Notional Volume of largest losing trade in the streak

If the Ratio > 2.00 after a qualifying losing streak, it will automatically trigger a Martingale breach.

High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and Execution Restrictions Policy

To maintain a fair, orderly, and efficient trading environment, our platform implements strict controls on high-frequency trading (HFT) and rapid transaction execution. This policy is designed to mitigate latency arbitrage, harmful order flow, and potentially abusive execution practices, ensuring equitable trading conditions for all users. Violating rules will result in profit deduction acquired for these trades.

Maximum permitted executions per Instrument

Maximum Allowed Lot Size

The following table outlines the maximum allowed lot size for simultaneous open positions per instrument.

• Definition: The "Maximum Simultaneous Open Lots" refers to the total combined lot size of all buy and sell positions currently open on a single instrument (e.g., all EURUSD long and short positions combined).
• Hedging: Hedging (partial or full) on the same instrument does not exempt you from this limit. For example, if the limit for EURUSD is 10 lots, you cannot have a 6 lot buy and a 6 lot sell open simultaneously, as the total open lot size is 12.
• Consequence of Breach: Exceeding the published limit constitutes a breach of rules, resulting in a deduction on your payout.

News Trading

News trading is restricted unless you choose the account to allow news trading during account purchase.

Trading is restricted during high-impact news events. Specifically, traders are not allowed to open or close trades within 10 minutes before and 5 minutes after a high-impact news release. During this period, any pending orders, including stop losses and take profits of the existing positions, cannot be executed by system.

Please note that news trading is always restricted on funded account despite having it allowed for step 1 and 2.

We strongly recommend closing open positions before such news events to avoid unexpected volatility and losses.

Payouts and Payout Cap

Traders can request a payout at the end of each payout cycle, once their profits reach min $50 or more on funded account.

There is no payout cap on FX challenges, you can request a reward of any size. We have a scalable profit split system, please check it out here.

Any FX Giveaway accounts received from a promotion or tournament prize for free of cost, are limited to a single payout with a maximum payout cap of $1,000.

Futures account have first 5 payouts capped as follows:

• on 25K EoD Drawdown account: $2,000
• on 50K EoD Drawdown account: $3,000
• on 100K EoD Drawdown account: $4,000
• on 125K EoD Drawdown account: $5,000

Reward Split

TradersYard uses a unique scalable profit split system. Your profit is split in tiers — you keep 100% of the first $300, 90% of profits between $300 and $1,000, and 80% of any profit above $1,000.

Example: You request a payout with $1,200 in profit. Your payout is calculated in tiers: First $300 at 100% = $300. Next $700 (from $300 to $1,000) at 90% = $630. Remaining $200 (from $1,000 to $1,200) at 80% = $160.

Your total payout = $300 + $630 + $160 = $1,090 out of $1,200 profit.

Scaling Plans

After every 4th payout of at least 1% profit, your FX funded account will receive an additional 10% of your base account size in funding. An account can be scaled up to a maximum of $200,000 or scaled a maximum of 5 times, whichever limit is reached first.

Example 1: You have a $100,000 funded account. After your 4th payout (each with at least 1% profit), you receive a 10% scaling bonus. Your account is now upgraded to a $110,000 base account. After another 4 payouts (8th total), you scale again to $120,000, and so on.

Example 2: You have a $150,000 funded account. After your 4th payout, you scale by 10% to $165,000. After your 8th payout, you scale again to $180,000. However, since the maximum account size is $200,000 and accounts can only be scaled 5 times, your scaling will stop once either of those limits is reached, which in this case is account size of $195,000.

Futures accounts do not have scaling plan.

Reward Frequency and Time Limits

Once a funded account is started, the first payout can be requested after 15 days. If a trader is in a loss but has not breached the account, there is still no restriction or cycle forcing them to reset - they can take as much time as needed to return to profitability and request a payout. The payout cycle only resets when a trader actually requests a payout, which means the timing remains in the your control.

For example, a trader who begins a funded account on Day 0 becomes eligible to request a payout on Day 15. If they continue trading without requesting a payout, there will not be any need of new cycle. Even by Day 45, nothing changes until they choose to request payout. If the trader decides to request a payout on Day 50, only then does the payout cycle reset once payout amount is transferred, and the next 14-day window begins from that point.

There are no time limits in any step of the challenge or in the funded account to pass. Traders can progress entirely at their own pace without the pressure of deadlines.

Leverage

You have two options to choose your leverage:

Up to 1:75 means FX (1:75), Commodities (1:15), Indices (1:15), Stocks (1:2), Crypto (1:2).

Up to 1:30 means FX (1:30), Commodities (1:10), Indices (1:10), Stocks (1:1), Crypto (1:1).

Overnight and weekend holding

Overnight and weekend holding allowed in all FX challenges.

All positions held overnight are subject to swap charges.

Overnight holding is restricted in futures challenges.

Swaps and Commissions

Commissions:

Forex, Indices, Crypto, Commodities:
$1.5 per lot, charged per execution
e.g., 0.5 lot = $0.75

Stocks & ETF CFDs:
0.025% of trade value
e.g., 100 shares at $100 = $2.50

Swaps (Overnight Fees):

Long trades: -0.008% per lot
Short trades: +0.002% per lot
Applied daily on open positions

Max Funds Allocation

The maximum funded allocation is $300,000 or 2 funded accounts, whichever limit is reached first. You can purchase unlimited evaluations, but the $300,000 cap applies only to funded accounts. Partial restrictions apply to Malaysia, Pakistan, and Indonesia, where the maximum funded allocation is $100,000.

Inactivity Rule and Refund Policy

You must execute at least one trade within every 15-day period to keep your account active. If your account becomes inactive, it will be permanently closed and cannot be restored.

Refund Policy

• No Trade taken yet: Full refund can be issued.
• If account has a trade: No refund will be issued.