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title: "Soft breach - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "A rule violation that triggers corrective action - a position closed, a warning, a review - without failing the account outright."
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Drawdown and risk limits

# Soft breach

A rule violation that triggers corrective action - a position closed, a warning, a review - without failing the account outright. The account survives, but the trade or the profit attached to it may not.

GFN’s figure

On a GFN account, a soft breach may result in a trade being closed or other corrective action rather than the account being terminated. The exact treatment depends on the rules attached to that account.

- **Outcome**: Corrective action, not automatic termination
- **Typical causes**: Missing compulsory stop, minimum-duration and news-window rules
- **Escalation**: Repeated violations can prompt a review

In detail

## Soft breach, explained

Soft breaches typically cover rules about how you trade rather than how much you lose: a missing compulsory stop, a trade held for less than the minimum duration, or profit taken inside a restricted news window.

Treating a soft breach as harmless is a mistake. Repeated ones are what prompt a manual review, and a review is where an account is looked at as a pattern rather than as a single trade.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/breach-and-what-happens) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More drawdown and risk limits](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/drawdown)

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.

- [Hard breach](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/hard-breach) - A violation serious enough to fail or terminate the account immediately. Exceeding the daily loss limit or the maximum drawdown is the usual cause, and a later recovery in the market does not reverse it.
- [Breach](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/breach) - Any violation of an account's published rules. Breaches are graded: a soft one triggers corrective action, a hard one fails the account. The word is used for both, which is why the grade matters more than the term.
- [News trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/news-trading) - Trading around scheduled economic releases, where volatility and spreads both spike at once. The strategy depends on execution quality at exactly the moment execution quality is at its worst, which is why most firms restrict it on funded accounts.
- [Stop loss](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/stop-loss) - A resting order that closes a losing position at a predetermined level. It is the mechanism that turns a risk-per-trade figure into an actual limit rather than an intention.
- [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.

Also governed by [/rules/breach-and-what-happens](https://getfundednow.com/rules/breach-and-what-happens)

[Account suspension](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/account-suspension)

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Source: https://getfundednow.com/glossary/soft-breach
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