What is Instant Funding's hft (≤60s), arbitrage, grid; martingale partly allowed rule?

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Instant Funding: HFT (≤60s), arbitrage, grid; martingale partly allowed

ForbiddenVoids accountHidden ruleVerifiedUpdated Jun 5, 2026

Prohibited: HFT (holding trades ≤60 seconds), latency/reverse/account arbitrage, gap trading, toxic order flow, tick scalping, grid trading, reverse/group hedging, one-sided gambling and day-padding. Martingale is ALLOWED on challenges, Micro and IF1; on the flagship you may add to losers but cannot continuously double lot sizes. Risk-per-trade caps also apply (~50% of the daily drawdown; flagship 3% of starting balance).

The gotcha

Martingale is unusually allowed — but on the flagship you can't keep doubling, and any trade held ≤60s counts as banned HFT.

The numbers

hftUnder	60s
martingale	ALLOWED (no doubling on flagship)
forbidden	["arbitrage","grid","group_hedging"]

Source: support — official page . Confidence: verified.

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