Trading Rules & Guidelines – TF8
At TF8, we’re committed to identifying disciplined, consistent traders and providing them with an opportunity to grow. As such, we enforce several rules designed to maintain fairness, platform integrity, and realistic trading behavior. Please review the following policies in full:
1. Gamification of the Evaluation
Participants are expected to engage in genuine discretionary trading based on independent market analysis, judgment, and evolving market conditions.
Any attempt to optimize, manipulate, or "game" the evaluation by exploiting the structure or mechanics of the program, rather than participating in legitimate market speculation, is strictly prohibited.
This includes, but is not limited to:
Trading strategies primarily designed to maximize the probability of passing the evaluation rather than expressing a genuine market thesis.
Statistical, probability-based, or rule-optimization approaches that seek to exploit evaluation parameters without meaningful discretionary decision-making.
Trading activity focused on satisfying specific program metrics (such as consistency, drawdown, or payout requirements) instead of responding to market opportunities.
Any methodology where the primary objective is to optimize the challenge itself rather than demonstrate sustainable trading ability.
Floor8 reserves the sole discretion to determine whether a trading approach reflects genuine discretionary trading or constitutes prohibited evaluation optimization.
2. Expert Advisors (EAs) and Automated Trading
Participants may only use Expert Advisors ("EAs") that they have personally developed and fully own.
To be considered permissible, the participant must:
Own the complete source code of the EA;
Be able to demonstrate authorship and explain the EA's logic upon request; and
Provide reasonable evidence of ownership if requested by Floor8.
The following are strictly prohibited:
Commercial or third-party Expert Advisors.
Purchased, rented, leased, licensed, or shared automated systems.
Signal-copying software or trade replication software.
Martingale, grid, recovery, or similar automated risk escalation systems.
Any automated system primarily designed to exploit execution characteristics or evaluation rules rather than discretionary market analysis.
The use of standalone risk management utilities that do not generate, modify, or execute trades—such a
Risk & Compliance Interviews
To help maintain a fair and transparent trading environment, Floor8 may occasionally invite participants to a Risk & Compliance interview as part of its standard review process.
These interviews are a routine measure designed to verify the authenticity of trading activity, better understand a participant's trading approach, and ensure compliance with the Terms and Conditions. They also provide an opportunity for participants to explain their methodology and discuss their trading decisions directly with our team.
As part of the review, Floor8 may, at its sole discretion:
Invite a participant to attend an online interview.
Request a live screen-sharing session.
Ask the participant to explain their trading methodology, market analysis, trade rationale, and risk management approach.
Request information regarding any tools, scripts, or Expert Advisors used on the account where relevant.
Participants are expected to cooperate in good faith throughout the review process. Failure to participate in a requested interview, refusal to provide reasonable information, or providing false or misleading information may result in the suspension or termination of the account, denial of payouts, or other actions in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
These interviews may be requested at any stage of the evaluation or funded account lifecycle whenever Floor8 considers them appropriate from a risk or compliance perspective.
High-Frequency Trading (HFT), Ultra-Fast Scalping & Very Short-Duration Trades
Trades held for less than three minutes are not permitted. This includes repeated sub-3-minute trades used to meet minimum trading days, hit targets quickly, or gain large profits from brief moves.
One-Sided Risk Exposure (Funded Accounts Only)
Funded traders must maintain balanced risk management at all times.
Risk on any single trade — or multiple trades on the same instrument — may not exceed 50% of your account model’s daily drawdown limit.
The daily drawdown limit is a fixed percentage determined by your account model and is calculated from the starting balance of each trading day.
Example:
If your account model has a 5% daily drawdown limit, the maximum permissible risk on a single instrument for that day is 2.5%.
This rule applies regardless of how risk is measured, including:
- Stop loss placement at entry
- Unrealised drawdown during an open trade
Hedging Across Brokers or Prop Firms
Hedging between multiple accounts, brokers or prop firms to create risk-free exposure or arbitrage is strictly prohibited. Traders must not use other platforms or firms in conjunction to manipulate risk or performance.
Copy Trading Between Accounts
Copy trading is allowed only between your own personal Funded accounts.
For example, if you have two or more active Funded accounts under your name, you may copy trades between them.
However, copy trading between different traders is strictly prohibited.
You may not copy trades from other people, nor allow others to copy from you, or copy between TF8 accounts and any external trading accounts in your name.
If your trade activity matches another trader’s, it may be treated as a breach of the program rules and could result in account termination.
Tick Scalping & Latency Exploitation
Strategies that rely on:
Rapid-fire entries/exits to take advantage of micro price movements (tick scalping)
Latency arbitrage (exploiting broker pricing delays)
are strictly disallowed as they do not reflect genuine, sustainable trading behaviour.
Account Sharing & Managed Trading Services
Accounts must be operated solely by the registered user. The following is not allowed:
Sharing credentials with others
Letting third parties trade on your behalf
Trading from geographically inconsistent locations without prior notice or approval
Server Overloading & Toxic Order Flow
Using automated systems or strategies that:
Place large volumes of orders in short succession
Spam market/limit orders
Cause server strain
is prohibited and may result in breach of account and forfeiture of payouts.
Using Account Passing Services
Purchasing services to complete your evaluation or funded account on your behalf is strictly against our terms. Any account suspected of this will be disqualified.
Weekend Trading Restrictions
You may hold open trades over the weekend (Friday–Monday), but opening new positions on Saturdays or Sundays is not allowed unless explicitly stated for a specific instrument.
Gambling Rule
We strictly ban “all-or-nothing” trading strategies—where nearly the entire loss limit is risked on a single setup. This is considered gambling, not trading, and is not tolerated.
Breaches of this rule, even without violating a specific numerical limit, may result in termination at our discretion.
Consequences of Violations
Violations of any of the above policies may result in:
Account suspension
Disqualification from funded status
Forfeiture of any outstanding profits or payouts
Permanent bans from purchasing future accounts (in serious or repeated cases)
If you have any questions or need clarification about any rule above, please contact our support team or consult the TF8 Terms & Conditions.
We appreciate your cooperation in maintaining a fair trading environment.
