Funding Traders strongly prohibits all gambling strategies aimed at exploiting or gamifying the evaluation model. The primary goal is to find traders committed to profitable strategies and disciplined risk management—not gamblers chasing quick payouts.
What Sets Real Traders Apart
Some participants may meet evaluation criteria like profit targets and loss limits, but the crucial question is: How were these results achieved—through genuine trading, or gambling methods?
The industry has seen a surge of high-risk strategies designed to hit a single payout, only for those traders to quickly lose their funded accounts afterward. This mindset undermines the type of disciplined trading community Funding Traders seeks to foster.
Instead, the aim is to build a trader pool focused on refining winning strategies with strict discipline, rather than seeking shortcuts for temporary success.
Types of Gambling Strategies
Overleveraged Trades
Allocating over 30% of available margin to one trade is a red flag.
Such behavior leaves no flexibility to respond to changing market conditions or pursue new opportunities.
Overleveraging increases the likelihood of breaking daily and maximum loss limits rapidly.
Overexposure
Opening trades on multiple symbols doesn’t guarantee proper risk distribution.
Traders must consider symbol correlations; risking small amounts across correlated trades can still equate to large total risk.
Using over 50% margin on closely linked trades magnifies vulnerability if the market moves against the position.
One-Sided Trading
Rushing through evaluations by putting all bets on one market direction is popular but not tolerated.
Stacking buy/sell positions to hit targets quickly misrepresents genuine trading ability.
Excuses like “I’ll trade more seriously after funding” do not hold; real traders view the evaluation as a true test of skill.
Account Rolling/Stacking
Purchasing multiple evaluations and risking big on each until one pays out is another prohibited tactic.
This is not evidence of trading skill but of gambling, often used to create a false public image of trading expertise.
FundingTraders’ Commitment
Funding Traders is dedicated to cultivating professional, disciplined traders who use evaluations as genuine tests of skill, not as loopholes. The platform’s risk management team serves to help traders learn robust, transferrable trading skills that stand the test of real market conditions, supporting a community driven by discipline and knowledge—not luck or shortcuts.