What is City Traders Imperium's hft, latency arbitrage, gap exploitation rule?

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City Traders Imperium: HFT, latency arbitrage, gap exploitation

ForbiddenVoids accountVerifiedUpdated Jun 5, 2026

Prohibited: HFT / mass data entry, latency arbitrage, open/close gap exploitation, copy trading via signal marketplaces, and EA renting/sharing. Martingale, grid and news trading are explicitly ALLOWED.

The gotcha

CTI is unusually permissive (martingale/grid OK) but draws a hard line at latency/gap exploitation and signal copying.

The numbers

forbidden	["HFT","latency_arbitrage","gap_exploitation","signal_copy"]
allowed	["martingale","grid","news"]

Source: official tos — official page . Confidence: verified.

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