Trading Rules & Guidelines – Atlas Funded
At Atlas Funded, we’re committed to identifying disciplined, consistent traders and providing them with an opportunity to grow. As such, we enforce several rules designed to maintain fairness, platform integrity, and realistic trading behavior. Please review the following policies in full:
High-Frequency Trading (HFT) & Ultra-Fast Scalping
Trades that last less than three minutes as a core strategy are not permitted. This approach places undue strain on broker servers and may exploit the demo environment. While short-duration trades are allowed occasionally, they must not form the basis of your overall trading strategy.
One-Sided Risk Exposure (Funded Accounts Only)
Funded traders must maintain balanced risk management.
You cannot risk more than 50% of your daily loss limit on a single trade or multiple trades in the same instrument.
For example:
If your daily loss limit is 5%, then the maximum permissible risk on a single instrument per day is 2.5%.
This rule applies whether the risk is measured via SL at entry or unrealised drawdown during the trade.
Hedging Across Brokers or Prop Firms
Hedging between multiple brokers or prop firms in an attempt to create risk-free exposure or arbitrage is strictly prohibited. Traders must not use other platforms or firms in conjunction to manipulate risk or performance.
Tick Scalping & Latency Exploitation
Strategies that rely on:
Rapid-fire entries/exits to take advantage of micro price movements (tick scalping)
Latency arbitrage, where traders aim to exploit pricing delays from the broker
are both strictly disallowed, as they do not reflect genuine, sustainable trading behaviour.
Account Sharing & Managed Trading Services
Accounts must be operated solely by the registered user. The following is not allowed:
Sharing credentials with others
Letting third parties trade on your behalf
Trading from geographically inconsistent locations without prior notice or approval
Server Overloading & Toxic Order Flow
Using automated systems or strategies that:
Place large volumes of orders in short succession
Spam market/limit orders or
Cause server strain
is not permitted and may result in breach of account and forfeiture of payouts.
Using Account Passing Services
Purchasing services to complete your evaluation or funded account on your behalf is strictly against our terms. Traders must complete all trading independently. Any account suspected of this will be disqualified.
Weekend Trading Restrictions
You may hold open trades over the weekend (Friday–Monday), but opening new positions on Saturdays or Sundays is not allowed unless explicitly stated for a specific instrument. This helps ensure proper market conditions and compliance with platform integrity.
Gambling Rule
Atlas Funded enforces a strict ban on “all-or-nothing” trading strategies.
These are strategies where the trader deliberately allows a trade to either succeed massively or fail completely — often risking nearly their entire loss limit on one setup. This is considered gambling, not trading.
We are here to support strategic, calculated, and consistent traders — those who can demonstrate an ability to manage risk, generate sustainable profits, and trade responsibly. Trading styles dependent on aggressive, high-risk, all-in approaches are not tolerated.
Breaches of this rule, even if not violating a specific numerical limit, are still subject to termination at the discretion of our team.
Consequences of Violations
We strictly enforce the above policies. Violations may result in:
Account suspension
Disqualification from funded status
Forfeiture of any outstanding profits or payouts
Bans from purchasing future accounts (in serious or repeated cases)
If you have any questions or need clarification about any rule above, we encourage you to reach out to our support team or consult the Atlas Funded Terms & Conditions.
We appreciate your cooperation in maintaining a fair trading environment.