📜#Rules explained
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[Breaking] FundingPips Significantly Relaxes Its Rules: Betting Big on One Trade, Holding Floating Losses, and Passing on a Single Big Win Are All Now OK — Existing Accounts Keep the Old Rules (September 28, 2026)
FundingPips significantly relaxed its rules on September 28, 2026. As long as you stay within the daily loss and max loss limits, it's now fine to bet big on a single trade, hold floating losses, or pass with one big win. Minimum trading days now starts from 0. This applies only to accounts purchased on or after September 28 on 1 Step Flex, 2 Step Flex, 2 Step Pro, and 2 Step Standard — accounts you already have keep the old rules.
When Should You Change Your Prop Account Settings? Don't Touch It During Evaluation — Always Change It the Moment You Get Funded
When a challenge isn't going the way you'd hoped, you want to raise your lot size. You want to change your trading hours. But that judgment call has no statistical basis. Telling a 40% pass-rate method apart from a 25% one needs 150 accounts per method, and most people only have one or two. Meanwhile, the moment you reach a funded account, rules that didn't exist during evaluation kick in all at once — Hola Prime caps risk per trade at 2%, Hantec treats the 3 minutes around a news release as a violation even to close a position. These are cases where you must change something. We sorted out what to keep fixed, what to change, and how to treat an account that's already deep in drawdown, using 40,000 Monte Carlo runs. As of September 18, 2026.
Funded7's Payout Was Held Under OREF "Rule 1" | Explaining the MIN(median×2.5, Q3+1.5×IQR) Consistency Review With a Real Review Email [September 2026]
A Funded7 payout request came back DELAYED for failing "Rule 1 (Consistency): Position Sizing" R1A. We break down the official FAQ's allowable threshold — MIN(median×2.5, Q3+1.5×IQR) — using real figures from a review email sent to this site's owner (median ¥1,240,946, IQR ¥17,094, threshold ¥1,274,058, largest position ¥1,294,723). Covers why keeping your lot size too consistent shrinks the threshold, why a fixed-lot BTC EA gets caught, how it differs from Rule 2/Rule 3, why profit isn't confiscated, and how to think about passing on the next review.
I Got a 'One-Sided Bets' Warning From The5ers: The Rules Say Permanent Ban, What Actually Happened Was 'Activated After Acknowledgment'
The full text of the risk-management warning email that arrived right before my The5ers funded account was due to activate. The original list of all 22 prohibited practices, how one-sided bets is judged, the exact reply I sent, and what EA traders should do to avoid a repeat.
We've Lifted The5ers' Yellow Card: Two Successful Payouts, But the Interview Clause and Bulk-Trading Ban Still Stand [Updated September 2026]
This site issued The5ers a yellow card in July 2026, and lifted it on September 25, 2026. Both payouts from the owner's $100K High Stakes funded account went through with no interview required, and none of the conditions for a red-card downgrade have occurred. That said, the clause requiring an interview to be scheduled and completed within 5 business days — or pending payouts get denied — is still in the September 23, 2026 version of the terms. The single biggest cause of bans is bulk trading (opening multiple positions at once) and copy trading, so don't use copy tools. The six warning signs from July are kept below as background.
The Complete Guide to Drawdown Types: Static DD, Trailing DD, and Daily DD Explained, With Which Firms Use Which
A breakdown of prop firm DD rules by formula. Explains the differences between static, trailing, EOD, and daily (Balance/Equity-based) drawdown, with a table showing which of 18 firms use which type.
Consistency rule fully explained: how it's calculated, which firms use it, and techniques to avoid tripping it
Explains the prop firm consistency rule from the formula up: the difference between 20%/30%/40% thresholds, which firms use it, and lot-sizing and day-spreading techniques to avoid violating it.
[Updated July 2026] Prop Firm Rule Leniency Ranking: 16 Firms Compared | Rated on Two Axes — 'Rule Leniency' and 'Discretionary Risk'
Comparing 16 firms: FundedHive, Lark Funding, The5ers, Fintokei, Funded7, FundingPips, Alpha Capital, Hantec, Fundora, E8 Markets, BlueberryFunded, FundedNext, SuperFunded, FundedElite, FTMO, and Forge of Traders. Organized by weekend holding, news trading, EA, scalping, consistency rules, and drawdown, plus a second axis rating how far each firm's discretion can go in shutting you down.