Breaches and bans
Prohibited practices
Strategies and behaviour that are not allowed on any Atlas account, and how they are handled.
Atlas simulates real market conditions. Strategies that only work because the environment is simulated, or that hide who is trading, are not allowed. These are reviewed by the risk team, usually before a payout, and are governed by your funded trader agreement and our terms.
Not allowed
- Hedging across accounts or firms. Opening opposite positions across Atlas accounts, or between Atlas and another firm, to pass or be paid on one side.
- Latency or tick arbitrage. Exploiting price-feed delays, stale quotes or tick-level timing.
- Account sharing or passing services. Letting anyone else trade your account, or trading someone else's.
- Order flooding. Placing large numbers of orders to stress the platform or game execution.
- Logging in from several locations to hide who trades. One trader per account.
- Exploiting a bug or pricing error. Report it to support instead.
Allowed
- Expert Advisors and algorithmic trading, within the rules.
- Holding overnight and over the weekend.
- Scalping, as long as funded trades are held for at least 3 minutes. See Short trades.
What happens
A confirmed prohibited practice can lead to the profit concerned being removed, a payout being declined, or the account being breached and closed, as set out in your agreement. This applies to evaluation and funded accounts alike.
Last reviewed 27 September 2026. Rules shown are read from the Atlas risk engine.