QT Funded: Arbitrage, HFT, all-or-nothing, toxic trading
▶QT Funded Toxic Trading Rule: Win the Trade, Lose the Account — 49s explainer, decoded by FundedWiki
Prohibited: arbitrage, latency trading, HFT (incl. tick scalping), reverse/group hedging (coordinated across accounts), order-book spamming, one-sided betting, front-running price feeds, and 'all-or-nothing' trading — which explicitly includes using more than 75% of your daily drawdown limit on a single trade, trading without a stop-loss, or trading major news unprotected. A broad 'toxic trading' clause lets the Risk Department void accounts at discretion.
The gotcha
Committing more than 75% of your daily drawdown to one trade is a violation even if you don't breach — and the 'toxic' catch-all is subjective.
What happens if you break it
Breaching this voids the account outright — the evaluation or funded account is terminated and any unrealised profit is forfeited. It's the most severe class of breach.
The numbers
| forbidden | ["arbitrage","latency","HFT","group_hedging","front_running"] |
| allOrNothing | >75% daily DD on one trade |
| toxicClause | true |
Source: official tos — official page . Confidence: verified.
How other prop firms handle prohibited strategies
QT Funded's arbitrage, hft, all-or-nothing, toxic trading is one approach. Here's how the rest of the field treats prohibited strategies — sorted by how hard a breach hits.
| Firm | Rule | If breached |
|---|---|---|
| Apex Trader Funding | No automation, HFT, hedging or exploitation | Voids account |
| AquaFunded | Tick scalping, HFT, arbitrage, gambling | Voids account |
| ATFunded | HFT, arbitrage, group hedging (pre-pause) | Voids account |
| Atmos Funded | Arbitrage, latency, cross-account hedging | Voids account |
| Audacity Capital | HFT, tick scalping, hedging, martingale, grid | Voids account |
| Blue Guardian | HFT, arbitrage, sub-2-minute scalping | Voids account |
| Blueberry Futures | Hedging, HFT, DCA cap, one-sided bets | Voids account |
| Breakout | Latency exploit, strategy switching, account sharing | Voids account |
| BrightFunded | Hedging rule | Voids account |
| City Traders Imperium | HFT, latency arbitrage, gap exploitation | Voids account |
| Crypto Fund Trader | Reverse-trade rule, HFT, arbitrage, martingale | Voids account |
| Finotive Funding | Hedging, arbitrage, gambling, late-night scalping | Voids account |
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Informational only — not financial advice, not affiliated with QT Funded. Verify against official terms before relying on this. Last reviewed Jun 5, 2026.
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