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title: "Hedging - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "Holding opposing positions in the same or correlated instruments so that one offsets the other. Used genuinely it manages exposure; used across accounts…"
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Trading mechanics

# Hedging

Holding opposing positions in the same or correlated instruments so that one offsets the other. Used genuinely it manages exposure; used across accounts it is an attempt to game an evaluation.

GFN’s figure

GFN permits normal hedging within an individual account where it represents genuine trading activity. Manipulative or coordinated hedging across accounts - deliberately taking opposite sides so one account succeeds at another's expense - is prohibited.

- **Within one account**: May be permitted as genuine activity
- **Across your own accounts**: Prohibited where used to manipulate the evaluation
- **Between customers**: Coordinated trading is prohibited

In detail

## Hedging, explained

Within a single account, a hedge is a legitimate way to neutralise exposure through an event rather than closing and re-entering. Costs still accrue on both legs, so it is not free.

Across accounts it is a different activity entirely. Taking opposite sides on two accounts so that one passes at the other's expense is prohibited everywhere in the industry, and it is straightforward to detect.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/hedging) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More trading mechanics](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/mechanics)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Prohibited trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/prohibited-trading) - Activity a firm bans because it targets the trading environment rather than the market. It covers exploiting errors and pricing delays, coordinated trading between accounts, and third-party account management.
- [Maximum allocation](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/maximum-allocation) - The ceiling on how much simulated capital one trader may hold across every account with a firm. It is the real limit on how large a trader can get, and it is often lower than the largest account on sale suggests.
- [Account sharing](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/account-sharing) - Letting someone else trade your account, or trading an account belonging to someone else. It defeats the purpose of an assessment of an individual, and it is prohibited everywhere in the industry without exception.
- [Copy trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/copy-trading) - Replicating trades from one account to another automatically. Copying between your own accounts is a scaling tool; copying another person's trades, or letting them trade yours, is a different activity entirely.
- [Liquidity](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/liquidity) - How much can be traded at a given price without moving it. Deep liquidity produces tight spreads and reliable fills; thin liquidity produces wide spreads, slippage and gaps.

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