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General Rules


These rules apply to all Propanium challenges. By purchasing or participating in a challenge, you agree to comply with the requirements below.

Any challenge type may have its own specific rules that will complement or override the general rules.



Program Structure

All programs can be comprised by two types of accounts:

  1. Evaluation account: You must meet the profit target while respecting all risk rules.
  2. Funded account: After verification, you continue trading under the same core risk rules, and after successful completion, you can be eligible for a payout.


Explicitly Allowed Activity

  • Trading on events is allowed. All we ask for is consistency:
    • If more than 50% of your positive PnL comes from orders opened or closed during the 10-minutes before and after a high-impact event, we will consider you a news trader.
    • A news trader needs to trade during a minimum of four high-impact events to earn a payout. To be more specific, no event PnL can be greater that half of total event PnL.
    • If the market happens to be closed 10 minutes before or during an event, the 10 last minutes of the previous market session will be regarded as the 10 minutes prior to the event.
    • The same rule applies to earnings calls, but these categories do not mingle for the purpose of this rule.
  • Trading during weekends is allowed.
  • Holding positions after the market session ends is allowed. But if more than 50% of PnL comes from overnight sessions, you will be considered an overnight trader, and you'll have to follow a consistency restriction identical to the event traders' to qualify for a payout.
  • Sharing devices and using multiple devices and locations is allowed .


Account Activity

Trading account inactivity must not exceed 30 days

In order to avoid failing the challenge, logging in to avoid 30 consecutive days of inactivity is sufficient.



Profit Targets and Payouts

  • Payout
    • The client may receive the earned payout once. In all cases, the account’s profit limit shall be established at 50% of the initial balance.
      • For example, if you seek a $10,000 payout, a $20,000 challenge can grant it, but a $10,000 challenge cannot.
  • Buffer
    • Every funded account requires reaching a profit buffer before a payout can be claimed. This buffer cannot be withdrawn in any case. By default, the buffer is equivalent to the daily drawdown.
      • For example, a challenge with a 3% daily drawdown limit needs to earn a 3% profit before a payout can be claimed, and if profit reaches 13%, only 10% can be withdrawn.
  • Breach

    A challenge will be marked as failed when hard rules are breached. Hard rules are explicitly displayed in the challenge preview:

    • Maximum drawdown
    • Daily drawdown
    • Special rules specific to the challenge
    • Plus the inactivity rule


Prohibited Activity

  • Taking advantage of unrealistic prices or trade opportunities is prohibited.
  • Arbitrage and latency trading are prohibited.
  • High-Frequency Trading (sub-second bots) is prohibited.
  • Placing big volumes in one direction or hedging between accounts is prohibited.
  • Order book spamming and flooding the server with messages is prohibited.


Enforcement and Corrective Actions

Any systematic abuse of the conditions may result in a corrective warning.

If the behavior continues after warning, all trading decisions and outcomes made from the time of the warning may be disregarded for the purpose of challenge completion, with due notification.

When the behavior is found to have ceased, the trader shall be informed and eligibility shall be restored from that moment onward.

We came up with this system by prioritizing the respect to the trader, and we apply it in the same light.

Contest Rules


  • In a contest, the rules of the underlying challenge continue to apply.
    • For example, a One-Step challenge remains subject to its own rules while participating in a contest.

How winners are decided

A contest winner is determined through a combination of profitability, rule compliance, and risk management.

When the contest ends, traders who have reached the final stage are first ranked by profit. They are then divided into small cohorts based on their profit ranking.

The winner of each cohort is the participant who demonstrated the most disciplined risk management within that group.

Example

  • Winner #1: The participant with the strongest risk management among the 5 most profitable traders.
  • Winner #2: The participant with the strongest risk management among the next 5 most profitable traders.

Prizes are distributed in that order. In special circumstances, we may choose more than one winner within a particular cohort.

Important

Collusion and gambling-like patterns will be disregarded for the purpose of ranking the profitability of Free Contest participants.