Futures Forbidden Trading Practices

You must not use any trading strategy intended to exploit, game, or undermine the purpose or spirit of our Services; including strategies that exploit

• errors in our Services, such as  errors in the display of the prices or delays in their updates, or an external or slow data feed, or

• any characteristic specific to a simulated environment that would not be present in a live futures market, whether or not you were aware of the exploitation.

You must not structure positions in a way that relies on the account’s drawdown protection available in the Trading Platform as the sole exit mechanism.

You must not perform, alone or in concert with other persons simulated trades or combinations of trades designed to eliminate or reduce directional market risk. This includes trades between any accounts provided by us, accounts held with various operators/providers, or accounts held with other members of the FTMO Group. For example, simultaneously entering into opposite positions is prohibited, except when such positions are entered on a single account. This applies regardless of whether the instruments used are identical, related contract equivalents, or correlated products, and regardless of whether the accounts involved are held in your name or coordinated with others.

You must not replicate, follow, or otherwise incorporate the trading decisions of any third party into your Evaluation Account or Sim-Funded Account. Whether via signal services, master accounts, trade copiers, or any manual or automated arrangement where decisions originate from someone other than you, regardless of whether the service is paid or free, or whether the third party is also an FTMO client.

Automated trading is permitted. You must not, however, use any software, artificial intelligence, or automated systems that manipulate, abuse, or provide an unfair advantage when participating in the Evaluation Account or Sim-Funded Account, including high-frequency strategies and latency arbitrage. You are fully responsible for all activity generated by your automated systems, including errors and malfunctions.

You must not open new positions in any contract when price is within 2% of the CME-defined daily price limit for that contract and trading day. Price limits are recalculated daily from the prior settlement price, vary by product and time of day, and are published by CME Group here.

You must not carry any open position or active resting order past the end of the permitted trading day. Positions or orders remaining open at session close are automatically liquidated and/or cancelled by the Trading Platform. Any strategy that relies on or benefits from  market exposure past market close is prohibited.

You must not perform simulated trades that contradict how trading is conducted in actual markets, or in any way that FTMO reasonably considers could cause financial, reputational, or other harm. This includes overleveraging, one-sided bets, account rolling, or any pattern of behaviour that is not reasonably replicable with real capital under real market conditions.