Hey UProfiter! 🚀 We invite you to review the following information, which is essential to ensure you can trade within our guidelines without any complications.

As part of our mission to ensure market integrity and fairness among all participants, we have established clear guidelines regarding acceptable trading practices and those that are strictly prohibited. These policies align with the regulations set forth by governing bodies, including the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), as well as our internal standards of conduct.

 

1. Regulatory Compliance

Regulators such as the CFTC actively monitor trading activities to ensure market integrity. Particular attention is given to practices such as:

• Wash trades: Artificial trades designed to simulate market activity.
• Layering and spoofing: Strategies intended to manipulate prices or the behavior of other participants.
• Disruptive practices: Any actions that distort the normal functioning of the market.

These practices are prohibited by market regulations and our internal policies. Violations may result in disciplinary actions, such as significant fines, trading restrictions, or permanent bans.

Our platform also conducts constant monitoring of trading activities to identify disruptive or manipulative behaviors and ensure that all traders operate in a fair and transparent environment.

 

2. Prohibited Practices

To maintain an equitable trading environment, the following activities are strictly prohibited:

a. Manipulation and Exploitation of Errors

• Using strategies designed to exploit errors on the platform, such as incorrect prices or delays in data updates.
• Utilizing tools or methods intended to exploit errors, bugs, or system deficiencies.

b. Disruptive Activities

• Implementing spoofing, layering, or other practices that distort the market, as determined at our sole discretion.
• Trading an excessive or unrealistic number of contracts in a single day.
• Executing trades outside the best bid or offer (BBO).
• Using external or delayed data feeds to gain unfair advantages.

c. Coordination of Accounts and Manipulative Strategies

• Coordinating trades between connected or external accounts to manipulate outcomes, collectively reduce risks, or gain unfair advantages.
• Simultaneously placing opposing or identical trades between separate accounts to manipulate or mitigate risks collectively.

d. Improper Use of Technology

• Using automated software, artificial intelligence, high-frequency systems, or bulk data entry tools to manipulate results or gain unfair advantages.

e. Inconsistencies with Real Markets

• Executing trades that do not reflect how futures are traded in real markets.
• Holding positions within 2% of a product’s lock limit 
• Maintaining open trades in negative territory exceeding 1.5% of the account balance.

f. Third-Party Representation and Non-Commercial Activity

• Trading on behalf of third parties, sharing incentives, or engaging in business arrangements tied to trading outcomes.
• Participating in activities that, at our sole discretion, represent non-viable strategies, manipulate the market, or conflict with a sustainable trading environment.

 

3. Trading Best Practices

To ensure a fair and sustainable trading environment, we encourage all users to trade with discipline and within established parameters. This includes:

• Understanding and complying with market rules and CFTC regulations.
• Avoiding behaviors that may be interpreted as manipulative or disruptive.
• Adopting trading strategies that reflect real market conditions, ensuring that trades align with legitimate futures market practices.
• Trading ethically and responsibly, considering the broader impact of their activities on the overall trading environment.

Additionally, users must adopt a responsible approach when using simulated trading platforms. The purpose of simulation is to foster learning and the development of viable strategies, not to exploit technical limitations for unrealistic results.

- Examples of prohibited practices in simulated environments include, but are not limited to:

• Running scalping strategies designed to exploit unrealistic conditions, such as fills inconsistent with live markets.
• Conducting excessive volumes of rapid trades in a single day to exploit preferential queue positions.
• Taking reckless risks in gapped markets to attempt profits from improbable fills in live environments.
• Exploiting the lack of slippage in simulators to achieve impossible stop-loss executions.
• Configuring brackets or auto-break-even adjustments to manipulate favorable fills.

- Commitment to Transparency and Compliance
Adherence to these best practices not only ensures a fair and equitable environment for all users but also protects the integrity of the market. Our platform reserves the right to investigate suspicious activity and take disciplinary actions in cases of non-compliance, which may include:

• Temporary or permanent account suspension.
• Restrictions on trading activities.
• Cancellation of any incentives or benefits associated with the program.

By trading on our platform, users agree to uphold these standards and contribute to a responsible, competitive, and sustainable trading environment.