Alpha Futures rules

Whether the funded account trades simulated capital, live capital, or simulated capital first and live capital later.

The trading platforms and data connections the account can be traded on.

What the account may trade: the exchanges or product list, and any products excluded.

How many micro contracts count as one E-mini toward a contract limit.

When the firm's trading day begins. A trade after this time counts toward the next trading day for every daily rule: daily loss, consistency, winning days and minimum days.

The firm's trading day as it states it, from its open to its close, with the time zone it uses.

What happens when the daily loss limit is reached: trading stops for the day and the account stays open, or the account fails; null when there is no daily loss limit.

Where the trailing floor stops rising when that depends on the platform the account trades on: one row per platform.

True when touching the drawdown floor at any moment, open profit and loss included, fails the evaluation, even when the floor itself is set at the end of the day.

What the trailing drawdown follows on the funded account: the balance, or gross profit with payouts added back (so a payout uses up the cushion instead of lowering the trail).

True when touching the drawdown floor at any moment, open profit and loss included, closes the funded account.

When and how a funded trader moves from the simulated account to a live one, and what changes when they do.

How often payouts can be requested and are processed, as the firm states it (daily, weekly, every 14 days, on set weekdays).

What the firm charges to send a payout, by method (bank transfer, wire, crypto); null when it charges nothing.

True when the firm refunds the evaluation fee with the first payout.

Whether bots, automated strategies and algorithmic execution may trade the account. Not allowed means a strategy tested on AlgoLift can only be traded there by hand.

Whether trading through major economic releases is allowed, restricted to outside a window around them, or not allowed.

Whether trading through major economic releases is allowed, restricted to outside a window around them, or not allowed.

The window around releases and the releases it covers, when news trading is restricted.

The window around releases and the releases it covers, when news trading is restricted.

The hours in which the account may trade, New York time; null when it may trade whenever the exchange is open.

The time every position must be closed (or is closed by the firm) each day, New York time; null when positions may be held past the close.

Whether a position may be held from one trading day into the next.

Whether a position may be held over the weekend.

Whether opposite positions in the same or related instruments may be held at once, in one account or across accounts.

Whether trades may be copied between accounts: allowed, only between the trader's own accounts at the firm, or not allowed.

The most order executions allowed in one trading day; null when there is no limit.

The shortest time a trade may be held, when the firm restricts very short trades; null when there is no such rule.

Any limit on one trade's loss or open risk (a share of the drawdown, a required stop), as the firm states it.

Restrictions on trading near an exchange price limit, and what a breach costs.

Trading practices the firm forbids (for example exploiting data delays, coordinated trading, or holding to avoid the rules), as it lists them.

Whether the account may be traded from a virtual private server or a remote machine.

Any other activity the firm requires to keep the account open (a trade every week, qualifying days in a rolling window), as it states it.

When the firm checks the trader's identity: before purchase, before funding, or before the first payout.

What the firm does when a rule is broken (a soft breach that pauses the day, a hard breach that closes the account, profits withheld), as it states it.

Decisions the firm reserves to itself (reviews before a payout or a live move, closing accounts it judges to break the spirit of the rules).