Coordinated trading is prohibited when two or more people arrange their trading so that the program pays out on a result no individual trader actually earned. The clearest cases are opposing positions taken across accounts, and a group placing identical trades across many accounts to convert a low individual chance into a near-certain group outcome.
Trading the same market as someone else is not a breach. Following a public call, a research service or a well-known trader is not a breach. What is prohibited is coordination whose purpose or effect is to shift risk between FPT accounts.
The Two Patterns That Are Always Prohibited
Opposing positions across accounts. Two accounts take the opposite sides of the same market at a similar size and time. One is more or less guaranteed to pass; the other is more or less guaranteed to breach. The pair has not produced a trader — it has produced a coin flip with a paid loser and a paid winner, at FPT's expense. This is prohibited whether the accounts belong to two people, to one person, or to a group.
Volume farming across many accounts. A group buys a large number of accounts and places the same trades across all of them, accepting that most will fail, because the ones that pass produce more in payouts than the failures cost in fees. The individual accounts may each look like ordinary trading. The arrangement is a portfolio bet on FPT, not a demonstration of skill, and it is prohibited.
Both patterns are breaches of Good-Faith Trading and Prohibited Conduct, which is incorporated into the FPT Scale Program Agreement.
What Is Not Prohibited
| Situation | Status |
|---|---|
| Two traders reach the same view independently and trade the same market | Permitted |
| You subscribe to a research service or follow a public call | Permitted |
| You discuss markets in a community and act on your own judgement | Permitted |
| Two people in one household each trade their own accounts with their own decisions | Permitted |
| You hold positions in related markets across your own five accounts, each within its limits | Permitted |
| A group places matched opposite trades across accounts | Prohibited |
| One person directs the trading of several nominally separate accounts | Prohibited |
| Accounts are bought or funded by an organiser who takes a share of the payouts | Prohibited |
| A strategy is run across many accounts specifically because most will fail | Prohibited |
The dividing line is not similarity. It is whether risk is being shifted between FPT accounts so that a payout is manufactured rather than earned.
How FPT Identifies a Related Group
FPT monitors and reviews account activity, and may analyse orders, positions, timing, sizing, risk behaviour, market selection, performance and related account activity. Coordination produces a pattern that ordinary trading does not:
- Entries and exits clustered within a narrow window across profiles that share no stated connection.
- Position sizing that moves in step across accounts, including the way it changes after a loss.
- Systematically opposed exposure between two accounts in the same market at the same time.
- Shared payment instruments, shared devices, shared network origins, or a shared registration pattern.
- Payout destinations that converge on one person.
No single indicator is treated as proof. FPT places the accounts under review, states the category of concern, and asks for information. See Account Reviews.
What Being Treated as a Related Group Means
Where accounts are found to be related, FPT may treat them as a single group for the purposes of the program limits. That has direct consequences:
- The five active accounts ceiling is applied to the group, not to each profile.
- The $500,000 combined allocation cap is applied to the group.
- The $25,000 aggregate monthly payout maximum is applied to the group.
- Payouts across the group may be paused while the review runs.
The limits themselves are set out in Account Limits and Allocation Caps.
Consequences of an Established Breach
Proportionately to the conduct, FPT may void the affected trades or the affected result, deny a payout, reset, suspend or close the accounts involved, close every account in the related group including ones that individually appear compliant, and terminate the program relationship. A discretionary refund is not available after an account-rule violation.
The reason group-wide closure exists is simple: in a coordinated arrangement, the compliant-looking account is usually the one the arrangement was built to protect.
The process and the appeal route are in Rule Violations and the Review Process and Appeals and Support.
If You Trade Alongside Other People
Communities are a normal part of prediction-market trading and FPT has no interest in shutting them down. Three habits keep you clearly on the right side of the rule:
- Make your own sizing and timing decisions. Take an idea from anywhere; do not take the order ticket from anyone.
- Never arrange coverage. If a conversation ever includes who will take the other side, or who will absorb the loss, stop.
- Disclose a genuine connection. If you and someone close to you both trade FPT accounts, say so up front rather than letting a review discover it. Email support@fundedpredictiontrader.com — a disclosed relationship is a fact on file, not an accusation.
Still Need Help?
If you are planning something that involves more than one account or more than one person, describe it to support@fundedpredictiontrader.com before you start. A question asked in advance gets an answer. A structure found during a payout review gets judged on what it did.