Forbidden Trading Practices

Responsible & sustainable trading habits.

All participants must follow these rules during the Evaluation Process and any funded stage. Simulated trading is used to assess real trading skill, discipline, and risk management while maintaining a fair and transparent environment. These rules are designed to promote trading habits suitable for real markets with real capital, while also protecting the platform from manipulative or abusive behavior.

Forbidden Trading Practices

Exploiting technical issues
Taking advantage of platform bugs, system delays, price feed errors, execution glitches, or display inaccuracies whether intentional or not.

Manipulative or coordinated trading
Any form of collusion, coordinated trading, or manipulation, including:

• Using multiple or related accounts
• Sharing strategies to game evaluation rules
• Attempting to distort performance metrics or bypass objectives

Unfair automation or tooling
Using automated software, high-frequency trading systems, AI-driven tools, or mass order entry systems that provide an unfair advantage or are inconsistent with normal trading behavior.

Abusive or unrealistic trading behavior
Trading in a way that does not reflect realistic market participation, including:

• Extreme overleveraging
• One-sided exposure without risk controls
• Account flipping or gambling-style behavior

Risk Management

Trading behavior must remain reasonable and consistent throughout the evaluation and funded stages. You must trade in line with normal market behavior and apply prudent risk management at all times.

You must not:

• Suddenly increase position sizes far beyond your historical behavior
• Change trading patterns in a way that suggests abuse, circumvention, or gambling

Use of Services

Accounts are for personal use only. You may not trade on behalf of others, provide account management services, or allow third-party access. Any violation will result in immediate account termination and forfeiture of payouts.

Compliance with all trading rules is mandatory and remains your responsibility when using carrotfunding’s services. Any breach of these rules may result in corrective action, including trade removal, restricted platform access, Evaluation failure, forfeiture of rewards, or termination of your account. Carrotfunding evaluates risk behavior using available data and records, acting reasonably and in good faith.