The rules they do not put on the pricing page
48 terms across 15 firms that can cost you an account or a payout after you have paid — 28 of them close the account outright. Every one is quoted from the firm’s own pages, with a link to where we read it.
Automation
EAs, copy trading, VPS and latency.
Tick scalping is banned, manual or automated
Tick scalping is prohibited whether performed by hand or through an EA, bot or script. This is separate from the EA rule — using an allowed EA to run a disallowed strategy still breaches.
- ThinkCapitalCloses the account
Copy trading closes the account the moment it is detected
Their stated procedure for copy trading on simulated funded accounts is immediate: the account is terminated and all open positions are closed on detection. There is no warning step and no appeal window described.
Copy trading is allowed only between your own accounts
BrightFunded permits copy trading only between accounts owned by the same individual. Copying another person, or being copied, falls outside that permission — so a shared strategy between two traders is not covered even where both are paying customers.
Grid trading and tick scalping are named as exploitative
Their terms list Grid Trading, High-Frequency Trading, Tick Scalping and Arbitrage — along with any strategy that does not adhere to live market conditions — as exploitative and not to be used. Grid trading in particular is a strategy plenty of traders run without thinking of it as an exploit.
This list is only as complete as our reading. 15 of the firms we track have been through a rulebook pass; the rest are still to do, and a firm missing from here has not been cleared — it has not been checked. See every firm we track.