At TakeProfitTrader, traders are evaluated and rewarded based on their independent trading decisions, execution, and risk management.
To ensure fair evaluation standards and responsible firm-wide risk management, traders must execute trades independently and may not operate accounts, directly or indirectly, in coordinated synchronization with other users.
Each account must represent an independently operating trader making discretionary trading and execution decisions. Coordinated, centrally managed, or statistically structured activity across multiple identities is prohibited.
Independent Trader Requirement:
You are free to use tools that assist with order execution or trade management, including trade copiers. However, each account must represent independent trading activity and must not engage in coordinated execution or structured activity designed to circumvent independent risk.
The following categories describe prohibited forms of coordinated trading and account structuring activity.
Coordinated Execution Is Not Permitted:
Accounts must not:
- Enter or exit trades in coordinated timing and pricing patterns with other users.
- Mirror another trader’s activity in real time through automated or coordinated execution.
- Execute trades in a systematically synchronized manner with accounts other than your own.
- Enter into coordinated opposing or offsetting positions with other users in a manner designed to transfer, reduce, or neutralize risk.
- Operate in a way that results in statistically improbable execution patterns across multiple accounts.
- Prearrange, pre-negotiate, signal, or otherwise coordinate with another user regarding the side, size, timing, entry, exit, or counterparty of any trade in a manner inconsistent with independent and competitive execution.
Coordinated Account Structuring Is Not Permitted:
Accounts must not:
- Be centrally directed, managed, or structured as part of a coordinated group trading strategy across multiple identities.
- Open or operate multiple accounts under separate identities for the purpose of distributing materially similar high-risk trades across accounts.
- Structure accounts in a manner where the failure of some accounts statistically increases the likelihood of success of others.
Traders may manually follow or learn from other traders. However, trading decisions and executions must be independently made by the account holder.
Synchronization across accounts solely owned and controlled by you is permitted, provided such synchronization does not involve coordinated opposing or offsetting positions designed to transfer, reduce, or neutralize market risk.
Synchronization across accounts operated under separated identities is not permitted.
Why This Policy Exists:
TakeProfitTrader operates a diversified risk model.
When accounts trade in synchronization, particularly in groups, it creates concentrated exposure that defeats the purpose of evaluation and puts the entire trader base at risk and undermines the integrity of the program.
Coordinated offsetting or inverse trading designed to neutralize risk is inconsistent with exchange principles that prohibit pre-arranged or accommodation trades.
The evaluation process from simulated to live-market environments is designed to assess independent trading performance, not portfolio-based statistical dispersion or risk structuring across multiple identities.
Monitoring & Enforcement:
Our surveillance systems monitor trading behavior, execution data, and related technical indicators for patterns that indicate coordinated or non-independent trading activity, including but not limited to:
- Trade timing correlation
- Strategy similarity
- Risk and position sizing patterns
- Execution clustering
- Account relationship indicators
- Device or infrastructure clustering
No single signal (such as shared IP address or device) constitutes a violation in isolation. Combined indicators reasonably suggesting centralized control, coordinated execution, or structured risk dispersion may result in enforcement action.
If coordinated or synchronized trading activity is detected, actions may include:
- Account review
- Profit forfeiture
- Account reset
- Account liquidation
- Permanent ban in cases of severe or repeated violations
Enforcement decisions are based on a combination of behavioral, statistical, and infrastructure-related analysis, not the specific software or tools used.
TakeProfitTrader reserves the right to take enforcement action based on reasonable determination of coordinated or non-independent trading behavior.
Actions are determined based on severity and frequency of violations and may occur before, during, or after a payout review.
Important Clarification:
Tools that assist with trade execution or management, including trade copiers, are allowed, but only for accounts solely owned and controlled by you.
What is not permitted is trading in real-time synchronization with other users or accounts not owned by you, whether in the same or opposing direction, in a manner that removes independent decision-making.
This policy does not restrict synchronization across accounts solely owned and controlled by you. You are free to sync your own accounts as part of your individual trading strategy.
However, synchronization may not be used to enter opposing, offsetting, or risk-neutralizing positions across accounts owned and controlled by you in a manner designed to transfer, reduce, or neutralize risk.
These restrictions align with exchange regulatory standards requiring independent trading activity, including applicable CME and CFTC requirements.
TakeProfitTrader is committed to maintaining a diversified risk model and ensuring long-term program integrity.