Restricted trading
practices.
Every practice below is prohibited on every FundedIQ account. They are clause 7 of the Trading Rules, written out here in full so you can read them before you trade rather than after.
Clear rules. Human review.
How we review trading practices.
Automated risk systems monitor every account for the practices below and flag matching patterns.
A flagged pattern is reviewed by a person before any decision.
A first occurrence normally results in a written warning to your registered email and dashboard; a repeat or a serious occurrence may fail the current phase, end the account, or exclude the affected profit under clause 10.
Every flag is reviewed by a person.Automated monitoring finds matching patterns. A human decides what happens next.
Prohibited practices
16 practicesThe following are prohibited on every FundedIQ account:
Price and data-feed exploitation
Using delayed, frozen, stale, misquoted, off-market, or demonstrably erroneous prices or exploiting a platform or data-feed defect
Latency arbitrage and platform abuse
Latency arbitrage, server flooding, excessive order messaging, denial-of-service behaviour, or conduct designed to impair or manipulate a platform
Cross-account hedging and risk transfers
Coordinated opposite positions or risk-free transfer of exposure between different traders, profiles, or controlled groups
Third-party account control
Account passing, account management, signal execution, copy services, or any third-party control of decisions or credentials
Manipulating objectives and rewards
Transactions with no genuine simulated-market rationale that are designed to game a target, trading-day, consistency, reward, rebate, or exposure rule
Circumventing account and trading limits
Circumventing instrument, leverage, position, allocation, country, payment, device, or account limits
Non-public confidential information
Trading on non-public confidential information obtained through FundedIQ or unlawfully from another source
Gambling-style trading
Gambling-style trading, including all-in positions, martingale, doubling, or adding to a losing position with the same or a larger size, and any approach that relies on chance rather than skill to reach a target or a reward
One-sided betting
One-sided betting: repeatedly taking the same direction on one instrument or on correlated instruments without genuine risk management, so that the outcome rests on a single directional bet
Grid trading
Grid trading: a ladder of orders at regular price steps on the same instrument placed without regard to direction or risk
Price chasing
Price chasing: rapid reversals or re-entries within seconds of a loss that chase the market rather than follow a plan
Tick scalping and high-frequency abuse
Tick scalping, burst or high-frequency order placement, quote stuffing, or any pattern of ultra-short trades designed to exploit micro-movements, feed latency, or the platform's risk controls
Copy and mirror trading
Copy trading, mirror trading, trade copiers, or coordinated entries that match another account in instrument, timing, and size, whether the other account belongs to the same or a different person
Restricted news, instruments and times
Trading during a restricted news window, on a restricted instrument, or at a restricted time where the Product Schedule or these Trading Rules restrict it
Unauthorised automated trading
Using an expert advisor, bot, script, or automation that the Product Schedule does not permit, that is not your own, or that copies or reproduces another person's trades
Sudden material changes in behaviour
A sudden, material change in trading behaviour, size, or frequency, in particular after most of a target has been reached, that indicates the account is not being traded by the verified trader with the same genuine strategy, in which case an explanation may be requested before a decision is made
Clause 7 of the FundedIQ Trading Rules, effective 21 September 2026. The document is the record; this page repeats it.
News trading, stage by stage
These are the current settings for every programme and every stage. Your Product Schedule is the record for your own account.
| Programme | Evaluation phases | IQ Account |
|---|---|---|
| IQ One | Allowed | Not Allowed |
| IQ Core | Allowed | Not Allowed |
Where news trading is restricted, the standard restricted window runs from five minutes before a listed event until five minutes after it. Your Product Schedule is the record for your own account, and the economic calendar lists the events and how hard each one is expected to hit.
Common questions
No. A flagged pattern is reviewed by a person before any decision is made. Automated monitoring only identifies patterns for that review.