EN What is allowed, what is restricted, and what ends an account — for Atlas Futures and Atlas CFD. Rules differ between the two product lines, so each is called out.
News trading
Atlas CFD — evaluation: trade the news freely. There are no restrictions or profit deductions during any evaluation phase.
Atlas CFD — funded: profit from a trade opened or closed within 5 minutes before or after a high-impact release may be removed. This is a profit adjustment, not a breach, and the full profit of the affected trade is excluded — not just the portion inside the window. (Policy applies to trades on or after 4 September 2025.)
Holding through news is fine; opening or closing inside the window puts that trade's profit at risk.What counts as high-impact: releases flagged "High Importance" on calendars such as Forex Factory, Investing.com or DailyFX — for example NFP, FOMC and other rate decisions, CPI and GDP.
Atlas Futures: there are no news restrictions — you can hold positions before, during and after a release. Every position must still close before the daily end-of-day cut-off (see Overnight & weekend).
Overnight & weekend holding
Atlas CFD: you can hold positions overnight and over the weekend across every stage — evaluation and funded. Swap / rollover fees apply to positions held past the broker rollover (around 5 PM EST) and are typically tripled over the weekend.
You may carry trades through the weekend, but opening new positions on Saturday or Sunday is not allowed.Atlas Futures: no overnight or weekend holding. Every position must be flat by the 4:45 PM EST end-of-day close (or a product's earlier market close). Holding a position past the close is an automatic breach, regardless of profit or loss.
Minimum hold time
Trades should be held for at least 2 minutes. Trades closed faster are treated as "short trades", and their profit may be deducted from your payout. This applies to all account types, in both the evaluation and funded stages.
What gets reviewed
An occasional short trade is fine. Profit is withheld or the account paused when very short trades are the core strategy — for example tick scalping or HFT-style execution, placeholder trades paired with a large position closed in seconds, or using fast trades to force a target or rack up minimum trading days.
EAs & automation
| Stage | Atlas CFD | Atlas Futures |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation | Allowed | Allowed |
| Funded | Allowed | Allowed with risk-team pre-approval |
Atlas CFD: Expert Advisors and automated strategies are allowed in both stages — trade-management tools, strategy-based EAs and rule-based algorithms are all fine.
Atlas Futures: automation is allowed in the evaluation. On a funded account, fully automated trading must be pre-approved by the Atlas Futures risk team before you deploy it — unapproved automation can forfeit payouts or terminate the account.
Copy trading & hedging
Copy trading
Copy trading is permitted only between your own Atlas accounts. Mirroring another trader, letting others mirror you, or copying between an Atlas account and any external account is prohibited — if positions are coordinated across different traders, every account involved is breached.
Self-copying is fine; coordinated copying across different traders breaches every account involved.Hedging
Hedging within a single account (long and short on the same instrument) is allowed. Hedging across accounts — or across brokers and prop firms — to lock a risk-free outcome is prohibited, and all involved accounts are closed.
In-account hedging is allowed; cross-account or cross-firm hedging is a breach.Leverage
Atlas CFD: leverage is set per asset class and is halved automatically once you are funded.
| Instrument | Evaluation | Funded |
|---|---|---|
| Forex | 1:100 | 1:50 |
| Indices | 1:20 | 1:10 |
| Commodities | 1:20 | 1:10 |
| Crypto | 1:2 | 1:1 |
Atlas Futures: risk is governed by contract-size limits per account, not a leverage ratio. Each account size caps how many minis and micros you can hold at once, and exceeding the cap is a hard breach — see the limits on each Futures model.
Prohibited strategies
The following end an account or have profit removed. Consequences range from profit withholding to immediate closure with profits forfeited.
Execution abuse
- High-frequency trading and tick scalping (sustained sub-minimum trades).
- Latency, statistical or cross-platform arbitrage.
- Spoofing, layering, server overload or toxic order flow.
- Exploiting platform bugs, data errors or pricing anomalies in the simulation.
Risk abuse
- Gambling / all-or-nothing — risking close to your whole loss limit on one idea (for example using more than 80% of available margin on a single trade). Reviewed by compliance before payout.
- One-sided risk (funded) — loss on a single instrument or correlated idea may not exceed 50% of the daily loss limit.
- DCA limit (funded) — adding to a losing position in a way that would consume more than 50% of your remaining daily drawdown in one addition is not permitted.
Account integrity
- Account sharing, third-party / managed trading, or account-passing services.
- Account stacking — buying many evaluations and deliberately breaching to get lucky.
- Cross-account or cross-firm hedging, and copy-trading violations.
- VPN use that masks your real location, and falsified records (doctored statements or payout evidence).