Guaranteed limit orders

Trading on delayed charts

Grid Trading

Martingale

Macroeconomic trading.

Hedging between accounts

High-frequency trading

Account management

Arbitrage Trading

In the Real Market, there is no guarantee that your orders will be executed at the precise price you set, particularly in situations of low liquidity or high market volatility. This applies to Limit and Stop Orders, as well as Take Profits and Stop Losses.

Day traders have the potential to utilize a data feed that exhibits a delay or lag in delivering market data, including stock prices and trading volumes. This can grant them an unfair advantage over other traders who rely on real-time market data.

Grid trading is when orders are placed above and below a set price, creating a grid of orders that increment or decrease along with the chart price. Having 2 trades open at a time is not considered as grid trading, however, once there are more than 2 positions in the trading session it falls more into grid trading.

The process for identifying Grid Trading, most often than not follows, the below-stated points:

For example, the below image shows a trader that had placed four separate trades on EURAUD.i all opened at different times, yet all closed at the same time. The initial trade was at a loss that got worse as the market progressed, but in an attempt to reduce the loss they had opened more positions not only at different pricing but with larger lot sizing than the initial trade.

Note that the above example also leads to Martingale

Martingale is a methodology to amplify the chance of recovering from a losing streak by constantly increasing the lot size of new trades in order to circumvent any loss taken.

This strategy involves doubling up losing trades and reducing winning trades by roughly half. Opening subsequent trades on an asset with a difference in ≈50% of the prior trade would result in martingale.

For example, the below image shows a trader that had placed five separate trades on NZDUSD.i all of which had incrementing lot sizes to the prior trade. This is a clear-cut example of the martingale strategy.

Traders may adopt news trading as a strategy to capitalize on the market's response to economic or political news and events, such as interest rate decisions, GDP reports, and political announcements. News trading can be a risky approach as market reactions to news events are typically unforeseeable and can result in considerable losses.

Please see this article regarding Macroeconomic Trading Restrictions for more information.

Hedging between accounts is a trading technique in which an individual or a group creates several accounts with a financial institution and executes trades on the same asset in opposing directions (i.e., buy/sell) across all accounts. This strategy aims to generate profits from the price fluctuations of an asset without incurring significant market risks.

In the real financial market, implementing this technique would yield zero profits since you're hedged in both directions. Conversely, while trading with a Firm, one account would be incurring losses for the firm while the other would be generating profits, resulting in risk-free earnings.

High-Frequency Trading (HFT) involves utilizing sophisticated computer algorithms and high-speed telecommunications networks to conduct a considerable number of trades within a matter of seconds. It's prohibited due to the potential for market manipulation, unfair advantages, and instability.

Any trader caught participating in HFT will violate our Terms of Use and consequently lose the ability to trade with us.

The use of account management, 3rd party management, or pass-your-challenge services is prohibited because it goes against the principles of fair trading and can be considered cheating. These services allow traders to use other people's money, strategies, or accounts to make trades and profit from them. This practice doesn't demonstrate the trader's actual skills and abilities, and it can lead to inflated results that don't reflect their actual performance.