Funding Pips

Funding Pips - Trading Conditions, Key Rules

Forbidden Trading Practices

• Gap trading
• High-frequency trading
• Toxic trading flow & server spamming
• Latency arbitrage
• Hedging & long-short arbitrage
• Reverse arbitrage & tick scalping
• Opposite account trading
• Copy trading or account management by third-party vendors
• Overleveraging & excessive position sizing
• Purposely trading news events — explicitly prohibited & classified as abuse
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That last one deserves special attention. Most firms restrict news trading on funded accounts. Funding Pips goes further — intentionally trading news is classified as an abuse of the account given in good faith & leads to termination. Not a soft rule. A hard line.

Side note: the Responsible Trading Policy runs to several thousand words and covers everything from geopolitical awareness to taking breaks. It reads less like a terms document and more like a trading philosophy book. Whether that's reassuring or slightly overwhelming depends on your patience for fine print.

News Trading

• News trading is forbidden — intentionally trading news events leads to account termination
• Classified as an abuse of Funding Pips accounts
• Applies to both evaluation and master stage
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This is one of the strictest news trading policies in the industry. If news trading is any part of your strategy — Funding Pips is not the right firm.

Expert Advisors

• Third-party EAs → allowed only if used as a trade or risk manager
• Any other third-party EA → not allowed, leads to account violation & reward decline
• Custom EAs → permitted within responsible trading guidelines
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The distinction is narrow but important — an EA that manages your risk or executes your trades is fine. An EA that generates signals or operates autonomously is not. If you're not sure which category yours falls into, assume it doesn't qualify until confirmed.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading by third-party vendors → strictly prohibited
• Account management by third parties → not allowed
• IP monitoring → Funding Pips explicitly reserves the right to monitor, log & analyze IP address activity
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You can trade from multiple IPs — that's acknowledged. But if IP patterns suggest coordinated or managed trading, expect a review.

Account Models — Overview

The Zero Model — What It Actually Means

The Zero Model is the most unique offering in the Funding Pips lineup & the one most traders misread.

• No profit target on the master account
• 5% trailing max loss — based on equity, trails to the highest equity level reached
• Once 5% profit is reached → max loss locks at initial balance permanently
• 7 minimum profitable days required every 30-day period — each day must generate at least 0.25% of account balance
• Failure to meet the 30-day requirement → account closed
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The trailing mechanism works similarly to other firms' trailing drawdown — the better you do early, the tighter your floor gets until the lock kicks in. After the lock, it behaves like a static drawdown. Read the sequence carefully before you start.

Risk Per Position — Hard Limits

This section applies to all accounts & is enforced strictly.

• Accounts $50K and above → maximum 2% risk per position
• Accounts below $50K → maximum 3% risk per position
• Same trade idea rule → opening a new position in the same direction within 10 minutes counts as one trade idea for the 2%/3% limit
• Splitting trades into multiple positions → all positions counted as one trade for the purpose of this rule
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The 10-minute same-direction rule catches traders who try to scale into positions gradually. If you opened a buy 8 minutes ago & open another buy now — that's one trade idea, one combined risk limit.

Risk Assessment Interviews

• Periodic risk & compliance assessments — can occur monthly, weekly or daily
• Once initiated → payouts withheld until assessment is satisfactorily completed
• Participation mandatory — failure to cooperate results in withheld remuneration & potential termination
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The frequency range here is wide — daily assessments are theoretically possible. In practice this is triggered by unusual trading patterns, but it's worth knowing the mechanism exists before you hit a payout request.

Inactivity Rule

• 30 consecutive calendar days without a trade → account closed
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Standard across the industry. Nothing unusual here.

Disputes Policy

One rule worth reading before you ever consider a chargeback:

• Disputing a payment → account banned immediately, permanently
• All other active accounts → closed
• No appeals accepted
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Funding Pips treats chargebacks as a direct financial & reputational damage. The policy is explicit and non-negotiable. If you have a genuine issue with a payment, contact support first — a dispute will end the relationship permanently.

Final Take

Funding Pips has built something real in three years — 54,329 Trustpilot reviews, a clean Hidden Rules Meter of 2.0/10 & a product lineup that covers most trading styles. The Zero Model in particular is genuinely different from what most firms offer.

The news trading prohibition is the most significant limitation in the lineup — stricter than most competitors & worth factoring in before you buy. The risk per position rules & the 10-minute same-direction trade idea rule add another layer of complexity that rewards traders who read carefully.

Hidden Rules Meter: 2.0/10 — Trust Score: 4.3/5 — Trustpilot: 4.5/5.

Restricted Countries

Funding Pips operates under Dubai law. Full list of restricted jurisdictions available on the Funding Pips website.