Good-Faith Trading and Prohibited Conduct

FPT measures trading skill using a simulated account. That measurement only means something if the result reflects decisions a trader actually made under the account's real constraints. This article defines the conduct required to keep that true, and the conduct that breaches the program.

It applies to every FPT account at every stage — evaluation and funded — and to every person who holds, uses or benefits from an FPT account.

This article is incorporated by reference into the FPT Scale Program Agreement at the version shown above. The full list of incorporated rules articles, with versions and effective dates, is published in the FPT Scale Rules Index.

1. The Good-Faith Standard

1. A trader must trade their own account, with their own decisions, using the platform as it is intended to be used.
2. Results must be produced by market judgement — reading a prediction market, sizing a position, managing risk — and not by exploiting a defect, a data artefact, an account structure or another person's work.
3. The good-faith standard is a standard, not a list. The prohibited-conduct sections below are examples of what falls outside it, not the outer boundary of it.
4. Conduct that is technically permitted by the platform but plainly designed to obtain a payout without taking the intended risk is not good-faith trading.
5. Ordinary trading choices are never a breach. Losing money, trading rarely, trading often, holding to resolution, closing early, being wrong, being right, being aggressive within the account's stated limits — none of these is prohibited conduct.

2. One Person, One Profile

1. A person may hold one FPT profile. Every account that person owns lives under that single profile.
2. A person may hold a maximum of five active accounts, counting evaluation and funded together, with a combined allocation not exceeding $500,000.
3. Creating a second profile — under a different email address, a different name, a household member's identity, a company, or any other cover — to exceed the five-account limit, the $500,000 allocation cap or the $25,000 aggregate monthly payout maximum is prohibited.
4. Account credentials must not be shared, sold, rented, transferred or made available to any other person.
5. A trader must not trade an account that belongs to someone else, and must not allow another person to trade theirs.

Detail and edge cases: Account Sharing and Duplicate Profiles and One FPT Profile per Person.

3. Accurate Information and Verification

1. Account information must be accurate, current and belong to the person who owns the account.
2. The payment method used for a purchase must belong to the account holder. See Payment Method Ownership.
3. Identity verification may be required before a funded account is activated and before a payout is released. See Verification Before Funded Activation or Payout.
4. Providing false identity, address, ownership or payment information is a breach in its own right, independent of trading behaviour.
5. A trader who wishes to trade through a company or similar structure should read Trading Through a Company or LLC before purchasing. The five-account and allocation limits are per person and are not reset by a corporate structure.

4. Coordinated and Related-Account Trading

1. Two or more people must not coordinate their trading in order to manufacture a passing result or a payout between them.
2. Prohibited coordination includes, without limitation: opposing positions taken across accounts so that one account is engineered to pass while the other is sacrificed; a group placing the same trades across many accounts to convert a low individual probability into a near-certain group payout; and one person directing the trading of several nominally separate accounts.
3. Copying a signal service, a public call, or another trader's disclosed position is not automatically prohibited. What is prohibited is coordination whose purpose or effect is to shift risk between FPT accounts so that the program pays out on a result no individual trader earned.
4. FPT may review accounts that show correlated entries, exits, sizing and timing across different profiles, and may treat them as a single related group for the purpose of the account, allocation and payout limits.
5. FPT may decline payouts, close accounts and terminate the program relationship for every account in a related group, including accounts that individually appear compliant.

Detail: Coordinated Trading and Related Accounts.

5. Platform, Price and Data-Feed Exploitation

1. Trading against a known or suspected defect in FPT's pricing, market data, fill simulation, balance calculation, drawdown calculation or dashboard is prohibited.
2. Prohibited exploitation includes, without limitation: acting on a stale, frozen or visibly incorrect price; exploiting a latency gap between FPT's simulated market view and the underlying market; deliberately routing size through a market chosen because its volume figure, liquidity figure or resolution status is malfunctioning; and repeatedly probing the platform to locate such a defect.
3. FPT's simulated fills consider live market price and available liquidity. FPT does not promise a fill at a stale price, and estimated slippage or price impact is an estimate rather than a guarantee. A trader must not build a strategy whose return depends on the estimate being wrong in their favour.
4. A trader who discovers a pricing or platform defect must stop trading on it and report it to support@fundedpredictiontrader.com. Reporting a defect is never penalised. Trading it is.
5. Automation is not prohibited by this section on its own, but automation used to exploit any defect described above, to place orders faster than the platform's intended interface allows, or to evade a position limit is prohibited.
6. Attempting to access, probe, reverse-engineer, overload or interfere with FPT systems, other customers' accounts, or the platform's protective controls is prohibited.

Detail: Price and Data-Feed Exploitation.

6. Position Limits and Risk Controls

1. Every account's max open size and the 5% market-volume cap are risk controls. The allowed position size is the lower of the two.
2. Splitting a position across orders, sub-markets, near-identical markets or accounts in order to hold more exposure than the allowed size is prohibited even where each individual order passes the platform's check.
3. Trading a market chosen primarily because it is thin enough to be moved rather than because of a view on the outcome is prohibited.
4. Late-entry restrictions near a market's explicit expiration exist as a risk control. Attempting to evade them is prohibited. The exact cutoff is not yet defined and will be published before launch in Market Expiration and Late-Entry Restrictions.
5. Where the trading system blocks an order, the block is the rule working as intended. A blocked order is not a violation.

7. Payment and Billing Conduct

1. Purchases must be made with a payment method the account holder is entitled to use.
2. Fraudulent purchases, stolen payment instruments and improper chargeback misuse are breaches of this article as well as grounds for termination.
3. FPT does not prohibit a lawful payment dispute. A customer is always entitled to raise a genuine dispute with their payment provider. What is prohibited is using the dispute process to obtain a service without paying for it, or to reverse a purchase after the account has been traded or has violated a rule.
4. Refund eligibility is governed by the Refund Policy and summarised in Refunds.

8. Monitoring and Analysis

1. FPT monitors and reviews account activity, and may analyse orders, positions, timing, sizing, risk behaviour, market selection, performance and related account activity.
2. FPT uses that data for platform operation, fraud prevention, payout review, analytics, product development, risk research, model development and strategy research, and may use aggregated, anonymised or de-identified data commercially.
3. FPT does not intentionally sell personally identifying trader information, and discloses data where required for legal, compliance, payment, fraud-prevention or security purposes. See the Privacy Policy.
4. Nothing in this section promises live allocation, copy trading, increased limits, special status or extra compensation. Any such arrangement would require a separate written agreement.

See Data Monitoring and Performance Analysis.

9. Review and Consequences

1. FPT may place an account under review where activity is inconsistent with this article. A review may pause trading, a funded activation or a payout while it is carried out.
2. FPT will state the category of concern being reviewed and what information it needs from the trader.
3. Where a breach is established, FPT may, proportionately to the conduct: void the affected trades or the affected result; deny a payout; reset, suspend or close the account; close every account in a related group; and terminate the program relationship.
4. A discretionary refund is not available after an account-rule violation.
5. A trader may appeal an adverse outcome. The appeal route, the information to include and how the decision is communicated are set out in Rule Violations and the Review Process and Appeals and Support.
6. FPT applies the least severe response that addresses the conduct. A first, clearly inadvertent limit breach is not treated as fraud.

10. Versioning and Precedence

1. Conduct rules protect the integrity of the program and apply to all accounts from their effective date, including existing accounts.
2. Each purchase records the version of this article in force at the moment of purchase, alongside the other incorporated rules.
3. Where this article and a marketing page or an informal support answer appear to differ, this article and the Program Agreement control.
4. An unversioned support answer never changes a customer's purchased terms.

Still Need Help?

If you are unsure whether something you intend to do is permitted, ask before you do it. Email support@fundedpredictiontrader.com with a plain description of the strategy or the account arrangement. A question asked in advance is answered; a strategy discovered in review is judged on what it did.