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▶Tradeify Hold-Time Rules: Silent Payout Denial Explained — 45s explainer, decoded by FundedWiki
Prohibited: exploiting platform/pricing/latency errors, HFT, and running a mini + a micro on the same product simultaneously (treated as hedging). Hold-time rule: on funded accounts, >50% of trades AND >50% of profit must come from trades held longer than 10 seconds (eval: ≥50% of profit from trades held >5 seconds). Scalping above those thresholds, DCA within a plan, flipping and news trading are allowed.
The gotcha
Failing the hold-time rule denies your payout (it doesn't fail the eval), and mini+micro on the same product is an easy accidental hedging breach.
Breaching this doesn't necessarily close the account, but it can disqualify the payout you were trading toward — you keep trading, the profit doesn't get paid.
| funded | >50% trades & profit held >10s |
| eval | ≥50% profit held >5s |
| miniPlusMicro | HEDGING_FORBIDDEN |
Source: support — official page . Confidence: verified.
Tradeify's microscalping hold-time, hedging, error exploitationis 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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