Prohibited Strategies

To ensure a fair and stable trading environment, AeroFunded enforces specific trading-style restrictions. These rules are designed to prevent manipulative, abusive, or system-exploiting practices that could compromise the integrity of our platform. If a trader is found to be using such methods to game or circumvent our systems, AeroFunded reserves the right to take appropriate action, including account disqualification.

Restricted trading styles include:

A trading strategy that places multiple buy and sell orders at predetermined price intervals, forming a “grid” structure. While it attempts to profit from market oscillations, grid trading often lacks clear risk management and can generate artificial trading volume. Because it closely resembles automated or system-exploiting behavior, this strategy is not permitted under AeroFunded’s trading rules.

A trader opens a buy order every 20 pips and a sell order every 20 pips on the same instrument, regardless of market direction. As price moves up and down, multiple positions are triggered automatically, creating a grid of trades above and below the current price.

This approach results in numerous open positions with no defined stop-loss strategy, increasing exposure and generating artificial trade volume. Because the strategy relies on preset intervals rather than market-based risk management, it is considered grid trading and is not allowed under AeroFunded’s rules.

Latency arbitrage is a trading practice where a trader attempts to profit from delays between different price feeds or execution systems. This involves entering trades on a slower platform before prices update to reflect the true market value. Because this method exploits technical latency rather than trading skill or strategy, it is strictly prohibited.

A trader monitors a fast market data feed and notices a sudden price movement that has not yet appeared on the trading platform. The trader quickly places a trade to capture the price difference before the platform updates. Once the price feed catches up, the trade instantly moves into profit.

This behavior relies on system delays, not market analysis, and is therefore not allowed under AeroFunded’s rules.

Reverse arbitrage is a trading practice where a trader deliberately exploits asymmetric execution or fill behavior to benefit one account at the expense of another. This involves directing unfavorable trades to one account while allocating favorable trades to a separate account, undermining fair execution and proper risk allocation. This practice compromises market integrity and is strictly prohibited.

A trader places the same trades across multiple accounts but manipulates execution timing or order placement so that losing or poor fills occur in one account, while profitable or favorable fills are captured in another. Over time, one account absorbs consistent losses while the other gains an unfair advantage.

Because this behavior intentionally manipulates trade allocation and execution outcomes, it violates AeroFunded’s fairness and risk management standards and is not allowed.

Tick scalping is a trading practice involving extremely short-duration trades, often held for 30 seconds or less, executed in a repeated pattern of rapid entries and exits. This approach seeks to profit from micro-price movements, execution speed, or server latency, rather than meaningful market analysis. As such, tick scalping is not permitted.

A trader repeatedly opens and closes positions within 1 minute of entry, targeting minimal price fluctuations of one or two ticks. Over the course of a session, dozens or hundreds of trades are executed with no defined market structure or strategic analysis.

Because this behavior relies on execution speed and platform micro-volatility rather than sound trading strategy, it violates AeroFunded’s trading rules.

Account management occurs when a trader operates, controls, or grants access to their account to another individual, or trades on behalf of someone else. This violates identity verification, fairness, and compliance requirements and is strictly prohibited.

A trader allows a friend, mentor, or third-party service to place trades on their AeroFunded account, or logs in from multiple locations to have another person actively manage the account. Because the account holder is no longer the sole decision-maker, this behavior is not allowed.

Signal trading involves copying or mirroring trades from another trader, signal provider, or trade-copying system, whether executed manually or automatically. This results in duplicated trade patterns and removes individual decision-making, invalidating the evaluation process.

A trader subscribes to a signal service and manually copies each entry, stop loss, and take profit into their AeroFunded account. Even if trades are placed manually, replicating another trader’s signals is considered signal trading and is prohibited.

High-frequency trading refers to the use of automated strategies executing extremely high volumes of trades at ultra-fast speeds within very short timeframes. Retail trading platforms are not designed to support true HFT, and attempting to replicate it can place undue strain on infrastructure. As a result, HFT-style trading is not permitted.

A trader deploys an automated strategy that executes hundreds or thousands of trades per day, holding positions for fractions of a second to capture minimal price movements. Because this approach relies on speed and automation rather than market analysis, it violates AeroFunded’s trading rules.

Martingale is a high-risk trading strategy where a trader increases position size after a loss in an attempt to recover previous losses with a single winning trade. This approach creates unbounded and exponential risk, often leading to rapid and irreversible drawdowns. Due to its predictable pattern of increasing position sizes following losses, martingale behavior is easily identifiable and strictly prohibited.

You may not respond to losses by increasing position size in the same instrument or in highly correlated instruments in an effort to recover losses.

Martingale strategies dramatically amplify risk and can result in catastrophic losses within a short period of time. AeroFunded enforces this rule to protect traders from unsustainable risk escalation and to maintain a fair, professional trading environment.

Hedging between accounts occurs when a trader opens opposing positions across multiple accounts with the intent of ensuring one account profits while the other absorbs losses. This practice creates an artificial, low-risk outcome and undermines the purpose of the evaluation. As such, it is strictly prohibited.

A trader opens a long EURUSD position on one AeroFunded account and simultaneously opens a short EURUSD position on another account. Regardless of market direction, one account is guaranteed to benefit while the other fails. Because this strategy removes genuine market risk, it is considered manipulation and is not allowed.

Guaranteed limit orders involve placing limit orders that are executed at better-than-market prices due to platform glitches, delayed pricing, or abnormal volatility spikes. Intentionally exploiting these execution anomalies is considered system abuse and is prohibited.

A trader places limit orders far from the current market price during a sudden volatility spike, knowing that delayed price updates may result in unrealistic or guaranteed fills. Once filled, the trader immediately closes the position for risk-free profit. This behavior exploits execution irregularities and is not permitted.

Data feed manipulation includes any attempt to exploit price feed errors, delays, freezes, or desynchronization between the trading platform and the underlying market. Trading based on known or suspected feed issues is considered fraudulent and strictly prohibited.

Because these actions rely on technical flaws rather than legitimate market analysis, they violate AeroFunded’s trading rules.

Hedging occurs when a trader opens opposing positions on the same trading account, such as placing both a buy and sell order on the same instrument at the same time. This practice artificially locks in exposure and removes normal market risk. For this reason, hedging is restricted unless explicitly permitted under specific account rules.

All-In Trading Behavior refers to trading actions where a trader commits an excessively large portion of account equity to a single trade or a series of trades without proper risk management, such as using disproportionately large position sizes. This approach can result in extreme profit-and-loss swings, ranging from substantial short-term gains to severe drawdowns.

Because this behavior resembles gambling rather than disciplined trading, it is misaligned with AeroFunded’s long-term partnership objectives and risk standards. All-in trading is considered a hard breach and is strictly prohibited at all stages, including evaluations and funded accounts.

AeroFunded is committed to maintaining a fair and transparent trading environment for all traders. Engaging in prohibited trading practices undermines market integrity and creates an uneven playing field. To prevent this, all trading activity is continuously monitored, and advanced systems are in place to identify and address any violations.

If a breach of these trading style restrictions is detected, appropriate action will be taken in accordance with AeroFunded’s risk management policies.

If you have any questions or require clarification regarding these restrictions, our support team is available to assist. We appreciate your cooperation in helping us maintain a fair and professional trading environment.