CITY TRADERS IMPERIUM

City Traders Imperium – Trading Conditions

Forbidden Trading Practices

•    Exploiting price feed errors
•    Group or coordinated trading
•    Account sharing or reselling
•    Third-party account management
•    Taking extreme risk on a single trade
•    Martingale — except where explicitly allowed
•    Grid trading
•    Bracketing strategies
•    Exceeding 150% margin level — profits won't count
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If your strategy depends on "doubling until it works" — this won't be the place for it. That's probably for the best.

News Trading

Trading during news events is fully allowed — no restrictions, no special limitations, no 5-minute windows to navigate.

Which sounds great until spreads widen and your trade starts behaving differently than expected. The freedom is real. The market conditions during high-impact news are also real.

Expert Advisors

The rules here depend on which account type you're on — & the difference matters.

• Third-party EAs without source code → not allowed
• Trade managers and calculators → allowed
• 1-Step & 3-Step challenges → any EA allowed
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Flexibility exists. Just not uniformly across all models — worth checking which account you're on before you start the bot.

Copy Trading

City Traders Imperium has one of the more structured copy trading setups in the industry — your CTI account must always be the Master.

Allowed:

• Copying from your CTI account to personal accounts
• Copying from your CTI account to other prop firm accounts
• Copying between your own CTI accounts
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Not allowed:

• Copying into your CTI account from elsewhere
• Copying from personal accounts into CTI
• Social trading platforms
• Letting someone else trade for you
• Sharing EAs with other traders
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In short: if the strategy isn't yours, it's not allowed.

Challenge Models — Overview

Instant Funding — How It Actually Works

The name suggests immediate full access. The structure is slightly different.

• Level 1 — you start with half the capital
• Level 2 — after reaching +10% profit, the rest is unlocked
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So yes, it's instant. Just not fully unlocked from the start — which is worth knowing before you calculate your position sizes on day one.

First payout requirement:

• Minimum 5 profitable trading days
• Each day must generate at least 0.5% of account balance
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On paper, this looks simple. In practice, it's where consistency quietly becomes the main challenge.

Stop-Loss Rule

A stop-loss must be placed shortly after opening a trade — & this one is enforced automatically, not just recommended.

• You have 1 minute to set it after opening
• If not set → the system closes the trade for you
• Profits from trades without a stop-loss → won't count
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Most traders think they don't need this until they do. The 1-minute window is tight enough to matter if you're used to setting stops after entry.

Risk Monitoring

If your trading starts looking unstable, the risk team may step in. Possible restrictions include reduced leverage & position size limits.

Usually triggered by:

•    Multiple account breaches
•    Sudden strategy changes
•    High-risk exposure
•    Large drawdowns
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Consistent traders rarely notice this. Everyone else eventually learns what triggers it.

IP, VPN & Device Rules

•    VPNs and proxies → not allowed
•    IP changes → allowed, but monitored
•    VPS → allowed only for EAs or copy trading
•    Maximum 2 devices — more requires approval
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Nothing complicated. It just requires you to treat your account like it actually belongs to you.

Inactivity Rule

• At least one trade every 30 days — otherwise the account is closed

You don't need to trade often. Just often enough to prove you didn't forget you have the account.

Holding Trades

• Overnight positions → allowed
• Weekend positions → allowed
• Crypto trading → allowed

Swing traders will feel at home here. No forced closures, no weekend restrictions, no extra fees for holding. The market doesn't pause because you decided to relax — but at least CTI won't force you to close first.

Final Take

City Traders Imperium sits comfortably in the middle of the industry — not the strictest firm on the list, not the most relaxed. The stop-loss rule is enforced automatically which is either a feature or an inconvenience depending on your workflow, & the copy trading setup is more structured than most firms of this size.

The 4.3/5 on Trustpilot across 1,691 reviews & a Hidden Rules Meter of 2.4/10 suggest a firm that does what it says — no major surprises, no red flags worth highlighting.

Hidden Rules Meter: 2.4/10 — Trust Score: 4.3/5 — Trustpilot: 4.3/5.

Restricted Countries

Vietnam is not supported for specific challenge types and instant funding options. Full list of restricted regions available on the City Traders Imperium website.