Funded Futures Network Max Standard — Skip the Eval $50,000

Allowed in evaluation, banned in every later phase. Article 3.3: “Evaluation (all account types) | YES — does not blow the account”; “Exhibition (OG accounts) | NO”, “Sim-Funded (all types) | NO”, “Live-Funded (all types) | NO — immediate account liquidation”. The blackout is Tier 1 events only and the window is exact: “You must be completely FLAT (no open positions, no pending orders) for the following window around every T1 news event: 1 minute BEFORE the event, DURING the event, 1 minute AFTER the event.” T1 is defined as FOMC meetings and minutes, the Employment Report (NFP) and CPI for all traders, EIA for energy traders and Agricultural Reports for agricultural traders, tracked on FFN’s built-in Financial Juice calendar — “You must make use of Financial Juice news calendar — no other news calendar is accepted.” Consequence: “If you hold a position through a T1 news event in an Exhibition or Funded account, the account is immediately liquidated. You will NOT be eligible for funding, and ALL profits in the account are forfeited. This cannot be reversed. There is no appeal process.” News profit still counts toward the evaluation consistency calculation.

Article 3.4’s session table, under the headings “Must Be FLAT By” and “Can Reopen At”, reads “Weekend (Friday close) | 4:50 PM EST Friday | 6:00 PM EST Sunday”. “No positions may be held… over the weekend (4:50 PM Friday to 6:00 PM Sunday).”

Permitted only for the account holder’s own strategy on their own accounts. Article 3.7: “FFN permits automated strategies provided they execute the registered account holder’s own strategy. Automation tools may not be used to synchronize execution timing across accounts belonging to different users or to replicate another trader’s positions in real time.” The FAQ is more discretionary about it: “Automated trading is allowed but at the discretion of FFN. Any traders implementing HFT trading bots or attempting to exploit the simulated environment will lose access to their account.” Granting access “to any automated system or API controlled by a third party rather than by you” is a terminable violation, and the HFT 5-second rule “applies to both manual and automated trading strategies”. The Terms of Use dated July 22, 2022 still prohibit trading bots, copy traders and automatic execution, conflicting with the current detailed help rules that permit own-account use under conditions.

Own accounts only, hard-capped at five. Article 7.1: “You may copy-trade a maximum of 5 FFN accounts at any given time… If more than 5 accounts are being copy-traded at any time, ALL of the accounts being copy-traded will: 1. Not be eligible for funding 2. Be required to reset (considered a rule violation).” The definition is deliberately wide: “Any trade taken at the same times on the ENTRY OR EXIT across multiple accounts, is considered COPIED”, covering signal-copy services, bots running identical strategies and manual mirror trading. Splitting the load does not help: asked “Can I have 10 accounts with 2 separate copy traders running 5 accounts each?”, FFN answers “No. If two copy traders are running on the same or similar products, all accounts will be liquidated. You may run up to 5 accounts through a single copy trading strategy.” Copying anyone else’s trades is prohibited outright, and “Running a trade copier tool to replicate another trader’s positions on your own account, or allowing your trades to be copied to accounts registered to other people” results in termination, withheld payouts and a ban. The Terms of Use dated July 22, 2022 still prohibit trading bots, copy traders and automatic execution, conflicting with the current detailed help rules that permit own-account use under conditions.

“All accounts at FFN are day-trade only. No positions may be held across the daily flat period (4:50 PM to 6:00 PM EST) or over the weekend” (Article 3.4). This bans holding through the daily close, not trading the overnight session: “Traders are permitted to trade DURING the overnight session if they wish to do so, beginning at 06:00 pm EST, all the way through to 04:50 pm EST the following day” (FFN FAQ). The auto-flatten is not a safety net — “POSITIONS OPEN AT MARKET CLOSE = ACCOUNT FAILURE… we recommend not relying on the system to close your trades”, and on holiday early closes “FFN’s auto-close will not operate on non-standard close times”.

Far broader than a cross-account rule — FFN bans holding opposite directions in any two products at all. FFN FAQ: “No. When you are in the Evaluation, Exhibition and Funded stage, this would be considered a broken rule making you no longer eligible for funding. Any product traded against each other will trigger the Hedging rule. This means at no time can you go long on one product and short on another. A micro and a mini contract are considered different products — which means for example, you cannot go long on NQ and short on MNQ.” Article 3.7 separately prohibits “any arrangement where accounts intentionally take opposing positions to hedge risk across accounts belonging to different traders.”

Article 3.7: “VPN usage is permitted for personal privacy, provided it does not cause your IP to match or closely resemble another FFN account holder’s IP environment. VPN usage is prohibited when its purpose is to obscure account relationships, bypass geographic restrictions, or mask coordinated trading activity.” A VPS is permitted on the same basis — “The VPS must be used exclusively by the registered account holder”, and “shared hosting environments, shared VPS services, or managed account services where a third party accesses your account” are prohibited. “Frequently switching IP addresses in a pattern that suggests deliberate identity concealment or location masking” is listed as prohibited behaviour, though “a matching IP alone does not automatically constitute a violation”, and traders who expect to trade from a different location are told to “contact FFN support in advance”.