Trading Rules
2-Step PRO Challenge
For Phase I:
- Achieve an 8% profit target from your starting balance
- 5% Max Daily Loss Limit (hard breach)
- 10% Max Loss Limit (hard breach)
- 50% consistency : No single day’s profit can exceed 50% of the total profit target. For better understanding, please review our article here (https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/10860801-consistency-rule-explained-2-step-pro-accounts)
- Trading Days: Unlimited
- Max Drawdown: Static (not trailing)
- EAs allowed during the challenge (must be your own EA and not used by other traders placing the same trades).
- Stop-Loss required for each trade unless an add-on is purchased (soft breach)
- Must place a trade at least once every 30 days (hard breach)
- Must not violate any prohibited trading strategies, Here’s the article (https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/9047696-what-are-the-restricted-prohibited-trading-strategies-at-top-one-trader)
For Phase II:
- Achieve a 5% profit target from your starting balance
- 5% Max Daily Loss Limit (hard breach)
- 10% Max Loss Limit (hard breach)
- 50% consistency : No single day’s profit can exceed 50% of the total profit target.
- Trading Days: Unlimited
- Max Drawdown: Static (not trailing)
- EAs allowed during the challenge (must be your own EA and not used by other traders placing the same trades).
- Stop-Loss required for each trade unless an add-on is purchased (soft breach)
- Must place a trade at least once every 30 days (hard breach)
- Must not violate any prohibited trading strategies
Specification
- No stocks available
- Leverage: Challenge – FX 50:1, Indices & Metals 10:1, Crypto 2:1. Funded – FX 30:1, Indices & Metals 5:1, Crypto 0.3:1.
- To help protect your account, EquityShield sets a maximum allowable risk on One Symbol, ensuring that if the floating drawdown from one or multiple positions on the same symbol exceeds this limit and reaches 2% loss of the Starting Balance (or across all symbols exceeds 2.5% of the Starting Balance), all open trades for that symbol will, in most cases*, be automatically closed. This helps limit losses and protect your account. Since this is considered a soft breach, you can resume trading immediately.
- Consistency Rule: No single day’s profit can be more than 50% of your total profits, for better understanding review our article here (https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/10860801-consistency-rule-explained-2-step-pro-accounts)
- Daily Loss Limit Calculation: At 5pm EST each day, we take the higher figure of either the account balance or account equity and subtract 5% of your initial balance to determine the daily loss limit for the new day.
- Available trading platforms: MatchTrader, TradeLocker, cTrader. Note: cTrader does not allow U.S. traders and will immediately hard breach their accounts if logged in from a U.S. IP address.
- For restricted trading strategies, please view our article here.
1-Step FLASH Challenge
- Achieve a 10% profit target from your starting balance
- 4% Max Daily Loss Limit (hard breach)
- 7% Max Trailing Drawdown (hard breach) (https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/8318251-understanding-the-max-trailing-drawdown)
- Trading Days = Unlimited
- Minimum 3 Profitable Trading Days
- EAs allowed during the challenge (must be your own EA and not used by other traders placing the same trades).
- Stop-loss required for each trade, unless add-on purchased (soft breach)
- Must place a trade at least once every 30 days (hard breach)
- Must not violate any of our prohibited trading strategies Here’s the article (https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/9047696-what-are-the-restricted-prohibited-trading-strategies-at-top-one-trader)
Specifications
- No stocks available
- Leverage: Challenge – FX, Indices & Metals 10:1, Crypto 2:1. Funded – FX 10:1, Indices & Metals 5:1, Crypto 0.3:1.
- To help protect your account, EquityShield sets a maximum allowable risk on One Symbol, ensuring that if the floating drawdown from one or multiple positions on the same symbol exceeds this limit and reaches 2% loss of the Starting Balance (or across all symbols exceeds 2.5% of the Starting Balance), all open trades for that symbol will, in most cases*, be automatically closed. This helps limit losses and protect your account. Since this is considered a soft breach, you can resume trading immediately.
- A profitable day is when all closed positions for the day made a net profit of at least 0.5% of the initial balance.
Example: On a $10,000 account, that would be $50. - Daily Loss Limit Calculation: At 5pm EST each day, we take the higher figure of either the account balance or account equity and subtract 4% of your initial balance to determine the daily loss limit for the new day.
- When you withdraw your gains on your 1-Step account, Top One Trader will also withdraw its share of the gains, and your maximum drawdown will lock in at your starting balance and remain static no matter how much you grow your account.
- Available trading platforms: MatchTrader, TradeLocker, cTrader. Note: cTrader does not allow U.S. traders and will immediately hard breach their accounts if logged in from a U.S. IP address.
- For restricted trading strategies, please view our article here.
Instant Funding
- No profit Target
- No Daily drawdown
- 6% Max Trailing drawdown (Hard Breach) (https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/9929458-understanding-the-max-trailing-drawdown-instant-funding)
- Consistency rule: 20% for $5k – $100k accounts and 15% for $200k account
- Trading Days: Unlimited
- EAs are not allowed on Instant Funding Accounts.
- Stop-Loss required for each trade unless an add-on is purchased (soft breach)
- Weekend holding is not allowed unless you purchase the adds-on (soft breach)
- Soft breach limit : 10 soft breaches (https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/9929939-soft-breach-rules-instant-funding)
- Must place a trade at least once every 30 days (hard breach)
- Must not violate any prohibited trading strategies. Here’s the article (https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/9047696-what-are-the-restricted-prohibited-trading-strategies-at-top-one-trader)
Specification
- No stocks available
- Leverage: FX 10:1, Indices & Metals 5:1, Crypto 0.3:1.
- To help protect your account, EquityShield sets a maximum allowable risk on One Symbol, ensuring that if the floating drawdown from one or multiple positions on the same symbol exceeds this limit and reaches 2% loss of the Starting Balance (or across all symbols exceeds 2.5% of the Starting Balance), all open trades for that symbol will, in most cases*, be automatically closed. This helps limit losses and protect your account. Since this is considered a soft breach, you can resume trading immediately.
- Consistency Rule: No single day’s profit can exceed 20% of total profits for $5k – $100k accounts, and 15% for $200k accounts. For better understanding, review our article here: (
https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/10140984-understanding-the-20-consistency-rule-for-instant-funded-accounts
https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/10911570-understanding-the-15-consistency-rule-for-200k-instant-funded-accounts
) - When you withdraw your gains on your Instant funding account, Top One Trader will also withdraw its share of the gains, and your maximum drawdown will lock in at your starting balance and remain static no matter how much you grow your account.
- Available trading platform: Only on TradeLocker.
- For restricted trading strategies, please view our article here.