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Trading rules

What trading strategies are prohibited?

Anything designed to exploit the simulated environment rather than demonstrate genuine skill - latency arbitrage, bad-price exploitation, coordinated trading, account sharing and similar.

The full answer

GFN prohibits activity designed to exploit the simulated environment rather than demonstrate genuine trading skill.

Examples can include:

  • Exploiting platform errors
  • Exploiting delayed or incorrect pricing
  • Latency arbitrage
  • Use of non-public or insider information
  • Front-running
  • Coordinated trading between customers
  • Account sharing
  • Third-party challenge-passing services
  • Manipulative hedging across accounts
  • Deliberately exploiting market-close gaps
  • Strategies designed to compromise a broker/liquidity relationship
  • Other unrealistic or abusive simulated trading behaviour

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