Risk Rules Library
for Prop Firms

Drawdown limit tracks peak account equity in real time. The maximum loss floor rises with profits and never moves back down. Breach = immediate account breach.

Fixed maximum loss from initial account balance. Does not move with profits. Typical for "absolute drawdown" challenge structures. Breach = fail.

Maximum loss permitted within a single calendar or rolling 24-hour window. Resets at a configurable server time. Breach suspends trading for the remainder of the day.

Calculates drawdown from current floating equity including open positions. Prevents traders from holding catastrophic drawdown in open trades before realising it as a loss.

Configurable warning thresholds at 50%, 75%, and 90% of any drawdown limit. Sends in-dashboard alerts and optional email/webhook before breach occurs.

Rolling 7-day maximum loss. Useful for funded accounts with conservative risk structures. Resets each Monday at server open. Complements daily limits.

Drawdown measured in absolute pip value rather than percentage. Useful for instruments with fixed-value lot structures where percentage thresholds are imprecise.

Optional buffer window (minutes) after a breach before enforcement fires. Allows positions opened before the event to close naturally without hard-stop interference.

Hard cap on single trade lot size per instrument or across all instruments. Prevents oversized positions that can erase large portions of account equity in seconds.

Limits the number of concurrent open trades. Enforced at trade-open time — new orders are rejected once the cap is hit. Configurable per instrument group.

Total notional value of all open positions cannot exceed a percentage of account balance. Prevents over-leveraging across correlated instruments simultaneously.

Maximum exposure allowed in any one trading symbol as a percentage of total account equity. Discourages all-in bets on a single market event.

Prevents traders from exponentially increasing lot sizes between consecutive trades on the same symbol — a core martingale detection layer at the order level.

Restricts the size of offsetting buy/sell positions on the same or correlated symbols. Detects and caps coordinated hedging used to exploit funding structures.

Enforces a minimum lot size per trade. Prevents micro-lot spam patterns and ensures all positions have meaningful market exposure for analysis.

Prevents trade opens and closes within configurable windows around high-impact economic events. Syncs live with Forex Factory, Investing.com, and custom calendars.

All open positions must be closed before market close on Friday. Configurable cut-off time and symbol-level exceptions for instruments that trade through the weekend.

Each trade must remain open for a minimum duration before it can be closed. Enforces genuine market engagement and blocks tick-scalping and latency-arbitrage strategies.

Limits trading to specific market sessions (London, New York, Asian, Sydney). Prevents strategies that specifically exploit low-liquidity out-of-session price movement.

Positions held beyond a maximum time limit are auto-closed at market price. Ensures position churn and prevents indefinite carry or hedging holds in funded accounts.

Maximum number of trade opens per day. Prevents algorithmic burst trading patterns that could overwhelm broker infrastructure or exploit micro-latency windows.

Requires a minimum number of active trading days to qualify for payout or phase pass. Prevents single-session lucky-trade exploitation of profit targets.

Identifies doubling or multiplying lot size patterns after losses. Detects classic, modified, and fibonacci martingale variants. Configurable multiplier threshold triggers enforcement.

Detects equidistant order placement patterns characteristic of grid systems. Analyzes open order distribution, direction mix, and spacing intervals to flag grid strategies.

Enforces minimum trade durations and flags accounts exceeding frequency thresholds. Combined with latency scoring to identify API-driven ultra-fast execution.

Compares trade timing, symbol, direction, and lot correlation across accounts. Correlation above threshold triggers a linked-account investigation and payout hold.

Identifies trades consistently opened within milliseconds of price-feed updates in patterns inconsistent with human reaction time. Scores and flags arbitrage exploitation.

Rate-limits algorithmic trading execution to prevent burst patterns that abuse micro-inefficiencies. Permits EA use while enforcing frequency, duration, and lot-size caps.

Detects sequential position additions in the same direction on a losing trade. Configurable maximum average-down count before enforcement triggers.

Prevents patterns that systematically exploit guaranteed stop-loss slippage or swap-free account benefits as a primary profit mechanism rather than market trading.

Define exactly which trading symbols are permitted or forbidden. Full symbol-group support: Forex Majors, Minors, Exotics, Metals, Indices, Energies, Crypto CFDs.

Sets individual maximum lot size limits for specific symbols. Allows tighter caps on volatile instruments like XAUUSD and BTCUSD while allowing larger positions on major pairs.

Auto-blocks specific symbols during declared volatility events (CPI, NFP, central bank decisions) that are linked to that instrument's underlying economy or asset class.

Detects systematic use of swap-free account status combined with long-duration holds on high-swap instruments. Flags accounts using zero-cost carry as a primary strategy.

Calculates aggregate exposure across instruments sharing an underlying asset (e.g., EURUSD + EURGBP). Caps combined directional exposure per currency or commodity.

Applies news block windows only to instruments directly linked to a scheduled event — USD events block EURUSD and GBPUSD but not XAUUSD unless configured otherwise.

Blocks logins and trading from 1,000+ commercial VPN providers, TOR exit nodes, and known datacenter IP ranges. Updated daily from multiple threat intelligence feeds.

Blocks logins and trading from OFAC/FATF-sanctioned jurisdictions plus any custom territories. GeoIP accuracy to country, region, and city level with fallback ASN validation.

Device fingerprint + IP clustering identifies multiple accounts operated from the same person or household. Threshold-based enforcement from flag to payout hold to suspension.

Assigns a 0–100 risk score to each connecting IP based on abuse reports, fraud databases, and historical platform behavior. Score thresholds trigger automatic enforcement actions.

Prevents payout processing for accounts that have not completed identity verification. Integrates with Sumsub, Onfido, and custom KYC providers via webhook callbacks.

Flags when 3 or more distinct accounts connect from the same IP within a rolling time window. Generates an investigation alert without automatic enforcement until reviewed.