Trading Rules
Review instrument, holding, news, margin, strategy, and account-access rules before trading.
A profitable trade can still violate a rule. Check the permissions attached to your program and account stage before opening, modifying, partially closing, or closing a position.
Before you start
Review the instruments available in your MT5 account and the current BFT terms. A symbol visible in another broker account is not automatically available in BFT. Account-specific restrictions take precedence over general examples.
Applies to
These rules apply to evaluation accounts and simulated funded accounts. News and holding permissions can vary by program and stage.
How it works
| Program | Evaluation news trading | Evaluation weekend holding |
|---|---|---|
| Yangon Standard 2 Step | Allowed | Check account terms |
| Mandalay Lite 2 Step | Not allowed | Allowed |
| Yangon Express 1 Step | Allowed | Check account terms |
- Instruments: Trade only symbols enabled on the BFT-provided MT5 account.
- News: Yangon Standard and Yangon Express allow news trading during evaluation. Mandalay does not allow news trading. Simulated funded accounts can have restricted high-impact-news windows, so review the applicable account terms before acting near an event.
- Holding: Mandalay explicitly permits weekend holding during evaluation. Check the program terms for other weekend or stage-specific permissions. Floating losses and market gaps still count toward loss limits.
- Stop Loss: Every open trade must have a Stop Loss after the three-minute grace period. Adding one within the grace period avoids a warning. The first distinct violation sends a warning, the second sends a final warning, and the third requires BFT review.
- Account-specific warnings: Stop Loss and Minimum Holding Time use separate counts on each account. They reset on new Phase 2, first Funded, and replacement Funded accounts. Existing profit deductions remain. Minimum Holding Time requires at least two minutes, with Stop Loss and Take Profit exits excluded. Its first violation sends a warning, its second sends a final warning, and its third requires BFT review rather than automatic termination.
- 3% maximum risk exposure: Total potential loss from the Stop Losses on all open positions must stay at or below 3% of the account's initial balance. The first distinct violating ticket set sends a soft-breach warning. After an issued warning, a new distinct violation causes a hard breach without another warning. Challenge warnings carry between Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the same purchased Challenge. They do not carry into Funded: the first Funded account starts with a fresh 3% warning history. Funded warnings carry to replacement Funded accounts issued after payouts in the same Funded lineage. A payout or a clean trading cycle does not reset Funded warnings. A separately purchased Challenge starts fresh.
- 35% consistency: The requirement applies only to Funded accounts originating from Challenges purchased on or after September 7, 2026 at 12:00 AM Myanmar time. A Challenge purchased earlier remains unaffected even if it reaches Funded later. Above 35% is not a breach; it temporarily prevents payout eligibility.
- Legacy 30% margin cap: Accounts originating from Challenges purchased before September 7, 2026 at 12:00 AM Myanmar time retain the earlier rule. The broker-reported combined used margin of all open positions must be 30% or less of the account's initial balance. This is an account-wide total, not a separate 30% allowance for each position. The BFT cap does not apply to accounts under the new rules version.
- Lot size: There is no single fixed lot limit. Position size remains constrained by the applicable rules version, broker/platform margin requirements, leverage, available margin, loss limits, and all other risk rules.
Prohibited practices include:
- Martingale position increases on losing trades.
- Manual or automated grid trading.
- Copied or mirrored trading and third-party account management.
- Cross-account hedging or reverse trading.
- Arbitrage or execution manipulation.
- Account sharing and gambling-like concentrated exposure.
Automated tools do not exempt a trader from these rules.
How it is calculated
For an affected Funded account, Consistency = Highest Profitable Day ÷ Current Payout-Cycle Net Profit × 100. Current Payout-Cycle Net Profit is the eligible realized net trading result since Funded trading began for the first cycle, or since the most recent approved payout for later cycles. It includes all eligible closed-trade results during the cycle: realized profits minus realized losses. A losing day cannot be the Highest Profitable Day, but its realized losses reduce Current Payout-Cycle Net Profit and may increase the consistency percentage. Open or floating P&L, profits from the Challenge and Evaluation stages, and non-trading balance movements are excluded. Highest Profitable Day uses the standard BFT day boundary: each trading day ends at 21:59:59 GMT, and the next begins at 22:00 GMT. Each approved payout starts a new cycle; partial payout requests are not available.
For a legacy-rules account, Margin Utilization = Broker-Reported Combined Used Margin ÷ Initial Account Balance × 100. Add the required margin for every open position before comparing the total with 30%. The broker/platform separately calculates required and available margin.
What success looks like
Every trade uses an allowed symbol, respects the program's event and holding permissions, remains within broker and BFT loss/risk limits, and comes from the account holder's own compliant strategy.
What happens if the limit is reached
A rule violation can lead to a warning, profit adjustment, payout rejection, account review, trading restriction, or breach. The result depends on the rule, frequency, intent, account stage, and applicable terms.
Common mistakes
- Assuming the new-rules removal of the BFT cap also applies to a legacy-rules account.
- Calculating 30% separately for each position instead of using total combined used margin.
- Assuming that news permission during evaluation also applies unchanged after passing.
- Calling a losing-position sequence ordinary scaling when lot size increases in a Martingale pattern.
- Sharing credentials with a signal provider or account manager.
What happens next
Build a position-sizing plan that remains below all loss and risk limits. Check the dashboard after each trading session.