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Trading Rules, Prohibited Strategies, and Execution Integrity

This article explains Market Masters prohibited strategies, including delayed arbitrage and hedging bans, news trading timing restrictions, the maximum exposure rule, what counts as execution abuse, and approval requirements for copy trading and EAs.

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Written by Will | Paid To Trade
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Market Masters prohibited and restricted strategies

Market Masters has specific prohibited and restricted behaviors designed to protect execution integrity.

Prohibited

Delayed arbitrage is prohibited.


Hedging is prohibited.

Restricted

News trading is restricted within 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high impact news.

Maximum exposure is limited to 1 lot per every 2,500 of account balance.
Example: a 25,000 balance account has a maximum exposure of 10 lots.

Allowed

Weekend holding is allowed.

What is considered execution abuse

Market Masters is built for scalable execution. Any strategy that exploits pricing delays, technology gaps, or execution vulnerabilities is not allowed.

Execution abuse includes

Latency or delayed arbitrage
Attempting to profit from internet or platform delays
Taking advantage of incorrect quotes
Any abusive or bad faith execution behavior

Examples

Sniping and quote exploitation
Pip hunting behavior
Execution exploit patterns designed to take technological or informational advantage

If execution abuse is detected, trades may be corrected or revoked and the account may face restrictions to protect execution integrity.

Copy trading policy in Market Masters

Copy trading may be allowed only with prior approval.

Approval is granted only if the Risk Team can verify the activity is your own strategy and is not tied to:
Third party signals
Group copying
Syndicated trade patterns

Any unapproved copy trading activity may result in restrictions or account action to protect execution integrity.

EAs and automated trading policy in Market Masters

EAs and automated trading may be allowed only with prior approval.

Approval is granted only if the Risk Team can verify the automation is your own strategy and does not create execution integrity issues or system abuse risks.

If automated order flow creates execution integrity issues or system abuse risks, automated trading may be restricted or disabled.

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