On Funded Stage and Instant accounts, a new trade may be opened only when at least 10 minutes have passed since the previous trade's opening time.
Standard rule (Funded Stage and Instant)
- Only 1 trade may be opened within 10 minutes of the previous trade's opening time.
- Opening a second trade inside those 10 minutes is a violation resulting in account termination, even if the first trade was already closed.
- The 10 minutes are counted from each trade's opening time. Closing a trade does not reset the window.
Instant accounts: additional cap
- Instant accounts have an additional restriction: a maximum of 2 concurrent layers is allowed.
- Opening a 3rd layer at any time results in account failure, even if each entry was separated by 10 minutes or more.
Examples
- Trade A opens at 10:00:00. Trade B opens at 10:10:00 or later: valid.
- Trade A opens at 10:00:00 and closes at 10:04:00. Trade B opens at 10:06:00: breach, because fewer than 10 minutes passed since Trade A opened.
- Instant account: Trade A at 10:00, Trade B at 10:12, Trade C at 10:25 while A and B are still open: breach, because C is a 3rd concurrent layer.
Key points
- Applies to 1-Step Funded, 2-Step Funded, Flex Funded and Instant accounts. It does not apply during the 1-Step / 2-Step challenge or the Flex evaluation.
- Applies to all trades and all instruments, including pending orders that trigger.
- Violation is a hard breach: account termination.