Breaches and deductions

A breach

A breach is final for that account. It happens when:

• equity goes below the maximum drawdown floor,
• equity goes below today's daily loss floor,
• Atlas Protector triggers for the second time,
• 30 days pass without a new trade (inactivity), or
• the account is found using a prohibited practice, such as hedging across accounts, latency arbitrage or account sharing.

Futures accounts also breach if a position is still open at the 4:45 PM New York close. See futures rules at a glance.

When an account is breached, trading stops and the account moves to Inactive on the Accounts page. Any payout not yet requested on it is no longer available.

You can usually reset it. For 7 days after a rule breach, the dashboard offers a reset at a discount that continues from the phase you were in. An account closed for a prohibited practice may not be offered one.

A deduction

A deduction removes the profit from specific trades and leaves the account open. It comes from:

• the news window,
• the short-trade rule,
• the margin-usage rule.

Deductions are debited from your account balance at the platform soon after they are found. They never count against your daily loss limit, and losses on the same trades are never deducted.

Seeing why

• The Statistics page shows each floor, the daily reset and, in trade history, the trades involved.
• Breaches and deductions also appear in your notifications (the bell in the top bar).
• For anything unclear, send support the account number and the trade tickets.