Question 1

Finotive Funding: Five strikes and the account is closed permanently

Accepted Answer

Most rule breaks at Finotive are not instant failures. Each confirmed breach records one Strike and cuts your Reward Payment to 10% for that entire Payout Cycle. Five cumulative Strikes close the account permanently. The consequence is therefore cumulative across your whole time with the firm. A Strike you took months ago still counts toward the fifth.

Question 2

Finotive Funding: Unrealised loss is capped per symbol, not just per account

Accepted Answer

Floating Drawdown is measured as the unrealised loss across all your open positions on the SAME symbol, combined, as a percentage of the initial balance. The threshold is 1.5% on Instant Funding and 2.0% during Challenge and Pro Challenge. On Instant Funding the first breach is a Formal Warning; from the second onward, each event is a Strike and a payout cut to 10%. You can be well inside your account drawdown and still breach this by holding several open positions on one instrument.

Question 3

Finotive Funding: Trading one instrument too heavily is itself a breach

Accepted Answer

Once you have ten or more closed trades in a Payout Cycle, Finotive checks concentration: if 70% or more of those trades, or 70% or more of your total exposure, are on the same symbol in the same direction, that is Excessive One-Sided Position Concentration. Requesting a payout while the condition is active records a Conditional Strike and cuts that payout to 10%. Their own wording says it does not require a 50/50 buy-sell balance and does not prohibit trading one instrument, but a specialist who only trades gold long will meet it.

Question 4

Finotive Funding: During the challenge you are not told when you break these rules

Accepted Answer

Finotive states plainly that during Challenge and Pro Challenge it will not issue real-time dashboard alerts, email alerts, platform notifications, Early Soft Warnings, Formal Warnings or Conditional Strike indicators for the warning-based and conditional-strike rules. Findings are collected and handed to you in a Challenge Phase Progression Report after you pass the stage. You can therefore trade an entire challenge building up findings you have no way of seeing.

Question 5

Finotive Funding: Doubling up after a loss triggers a risk review

Accepted Answer

Closing a position on an instrument at a realised loss and then opening a new position on the same instrument in the same direction with at least twice the volume of the losing trade is flagged as Realised-Loss Recovery Over-Sizing, behaviour Finotive describes as gambling-style recovery, which may trigger an internal Risk Review. The ordinary act of sizing up to win a loss back is what the rule is aimed at.

Question 6

Finotive Funding: Hedging around red news is banned for 15 minutes either side

Accepted Answer

Straddled, offsetting or equivalent hedged exposure on the same or correlated instruments is prohibited within fifteen minutes before or after Red or Amber events on the Forex Factory calendar, earnings and geopolitical events, where the purpose is to capture the volatility. Note the window is measured both ways: a hedge placed a quarter of an hour before the release is inside it.

Category	Weight	Active today	Effective weight today	This firm
Rule transparency	20%	Yes	20%	8 of 20
Payout terms and reliability	18%	Yes	18%	14 of 18
Trader reputation	16%	Yes	16%	12 of 16
Challenge value	12%	Yes	12%	7 of 12
Drawdown terms	10%	Yes	10%	7 of 10
Trading flexibility	8%	Yes	8%	No data, 0 points
Operating history	6%	Yes	6%	No data, 0 points
Country access	4%	Yes	4%	4 of 4
Platform choice	3%	Yes	3%	1 of 3
Account scale	3%	Yes	3%	2 of 3
Total	100%		100%

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