This page is a single-place summary of the trading rules and prohibited practices covered in the other Account Rules articles. It exists for convenience — if anything here ever seems to conflict with another article, the more detailed article and your trader agreement govern.
Risk & performance rules
Daily Loss Limit (DLL) — the maximum amount you're permitted to lose in a single trading day. Breaching it closes the account.
Max Drawdown — the maximum you can lose in the account overall before it closes. Think of it as a line in the sand you cannot cross.
Consistency Rule — your trading approach must be consistent over time, not reliant on one or two lucky big wins.
Microscalping rule — all trades must be held for at least 10 seconds.
Inactivity — accounts with no trading activity for 30 consecutive days are automatically closed.
Prohibited activities
Latency arbitrage or platform exploits — exploiting pricing errors, delays, or system glitches. This includes exploiting the lack of slippage in the simulated environment to achieve unrealistic stop-loss execution (e.g., bracketing data releases to profit from sim fill behaviour that would not occur in live markets), or deploying strategies that exploit latency across data feeds.
Insider trading — using non-public or privileged information.
Front-running — trading ahead of orders placed elsewhere.
Hedging, grid trading, or cross-account arbitrage — you cannot hold simultaneous long and short positions in the same instrument to offset risk. This includes:
Holding both long and short positions in the same cryptocurrency pair (e.g., going long BTC on one account and short BTC on another)
Cross-account hedging between multiple Frontline accounts
Group trading or hedging between accounts owned by different users
Hedging positions between a Frontline account and an account at another prop trading firm
Market manipulation — any form of spoofing, layering, or wash trading, including any conduct that would be prohibited by crypto exchange rules.
Order splitting — entering multiple limit or stop orders at the same price at the same time to game order fills.
Account sharing — sharing login credentials, trading on behalf of others, or multiple users trading from the same household/device/IP. VPNs and VPS are allowed, but may not be used to mask or facilitate account sharing.
Trading bots or automated trading systems (ATS) purchased from a third party — systems purchased from a third party that trade on the trader's behalf are strictly prohibited. (Bots and automated strategies you develop and own yourself are allowed.)
"Pass my funded" services — using third-party strategies or services marketed to pass prop firm evaluations.
Strategy switching — using one strategy to pass evaluation, then switching to a materially different approach on your funded account.
Unreplicable strategies — trading patterns that can't reasonably be executed in live markets (e.g., relying on extreme leverage that would trigger auto-deleveraging, or creating massive unrealized P&L swings).
Uncommercial or unviable strategies — any trading that is inconsistent with how trading is actually performed in live crypto perpetual futures markets, or any pattern that, in Frontline's sole discretion, represents uncommercial activity, is intended to game the market, or poses a risk of financial or other harm to Frontline.
Platform interference — using any instrument, software, bug, or deficiency that could adversely affect the operation of the Trading Platform or Services.
What's explicitly allowed
News trading is allowed, but exercise caution around major releases (CPI, NFP, FOMC) as volatility can cause unexpected losses.
Overnight and weekend holding is permitted on all programs.
VPNs and VPS are allowed, as long as the account remains personal (see account sharing above).
Trading bots or automated strategies you develop and own yourself are allowed.