The table below lists trading strategies and behaviours that are not allowed at Finotive Futures, and the consequences that apply to each.
Strategy or Behaviour | Description | Consequence |
Hedging Across Accounts and Platforms | Placing opposing positions across multiple accounts, whether personally owned, held by another trader, or held at another prop firm, with the intent to offset or negate market risk. | Goes to manual review by our Risk and Compliance team first. This can result in a warning, profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, evaluation failure, funded account termination, or a permanent platform ban. |
Latency Arbitrage and Feed Error Exploitation | Exploiting delays in price updates between systems or data feeds to trade ahead of a price that has already moved in the real market, or knowingly profiting from mispriced quotes, feed errors, or data discrepancies, regardless of whether the fill is later corrected. | Immediate account termination. All profits generated through such activity are forfeited and any pending payout is rejected. |
Spread and Exchange Arbitrage | Exploiting price differences for the same asset across different exchanges or platforms by simultaneously buying on one and selling on another to lock in a risk-free outcome without genuine market exposure. | Immediate account termination. All profits generated through such activity are forfeited and any pending payout is rejected. |
Account Sharing and Trading on Behalf of Others | Allowing another person to access or operate your account, or operating another trader's account for any reason under any circumstance. | Immediate termination of all accounts associated with both parties. All profits and pending payouts are forfeited without appeal. |
Device Sharing Between Traders | Two or more traders accessing their respective accounts from the same physical device, whether a computer, tablet, or mobile phone. | Immediate termination of all accounts associated with both parties. All profits and pending payouts are forfeited without appeal. |
IP Address Changes and Suspicious Location Activity | Frequent or unexplained IP address changes, use of VPNs or proxies, or account access from multiple unrecognised locations that raise identity or security concerns. | Enhanced KYC verification is triggered immediately. Account is placed under review and trading activity may be restricted until identity is confirmed to the satisfaction of the compliance team. |
Coordinated and Group Trading | Coordinating trade entries, exits, or directions with any other person across separate accounts, whether through shared signals, private communication, shared environments, or any form of linked execution. | Goes to manual review by our Risk and Compliance team first. This can result in a warning, profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, evaluation failure, funded account termination, or a permanent platform ban. |
Copying Another Trader's Positions | Replicating another trader's positions manually or through copy trading services, mirror tools, or external EAs sourcing signals from another Finotive Futures account. | Goes to manual review by our Risk and Compliance team first. This can result in a warning, profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, evaluation failure, funded account termination, or a permanent platform ban. |
Market Manipulation and Deception | Spoofing, layering, price manipulation, fraudulent order entry, or any conduct designed to distort market prices, create false impressions of supply and demand, or deceive other market participants. | Immediate account termination. All profits and pending payouts are forfeited. Cases of serious manipulation may be reported to relevant regulatory bodies. |
Order Queue Manipulation | Placing multiple identical limit orders at the same price level with the intent to inflate apparent queue priority or secure preferential execution, then cancelling the excess orders once a fill is obtained. | Goes to manual review by our Risk and Compliance team first. This can result in a warning, profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, evaluation failure, funded account termination, or a permanent platform ban. |
Volume Inflation | Executing an abnormally high number of trades or entering oversized positions during periods of negligible price movement with the primary intent of manufacturing paper profit figures rather than expressing a genuine market view. | Goes to manual review by our Risk and Compliance team first. This can result in a warning, profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, evaluation failure, funded account termination, or a permanent platform ban. |
Artificial Trades to Satisfy Requirements | Placing token, undersized, or otherwise meaningless trades solely to register an active trading day or satisfy minimum day requirements without genuine market participation or intent. | Goes to manual review by our Risk and Compliance team first. This can result in a warning, profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, evaluation failure, funded account termination, or a permanent platform ban. |
High-Frequency and Algorithmic Exploitation | Using HFT systems, tick scalpers, bulk order automation, or any algorithmic tool designed to exploit execution speed advantages, platform inefficiencies, or simulated fill conditions, rather than to express a genuine directional market view. | Immediate account termination. All profits and pending payouts are forfeited. |
Non-Viable Strategies | Running any strategy that depends on guaranteed fills at bid or ask, zero slippage, or any other execution condition that does not and cannot exist in a live futures market environment. | Goes to manual review by our Risk and Compliance team first. This can result in a warning, profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, evaluation failure, funded account termination, or a permanent platform ban. |
Gambling Behaviour and Account Rolling | Placing oversized positions without any clear risk rationale, executing all-or-nothing trades designed to breach or profit in a single session, or repeatedly purchasing evaluation accounts with aggressive exposure in the expectation that one will eventually produce a payout. | Goes to manual review by our Risk and Compliance team first. This can result in a warning, profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, evaluation failure, funded account termination, or a permanent platform ban. |
News Straddling Around Tier 1 Data Releases | Entering a straddling position in the seconds immediately surrounding a scheduled Tier 1 economic data release, such as Non-Farm Payrolls, FOMC rate decisions, or CPI announcements. | Goes to manual review by our Risk and Compliance team first. This can result in a warning, profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, evaluation failure, funded account termination, or a permanent platform ban. |
Gap and Illiquid Market Trading | Initiating positions specifically to capture price gaps from market closures, weekend re-openings, or abnormally wide spread conditions during off-hours where the fills obtained would not be available under normal market liquidity. | Goes to manual review by our Risk and Compliance team first. This can result in a warning, profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, evaluation failure, funded account termination, or a permanent platform ban. |
