Reach the Profit Target for your account size — 7% ($1,750 on $25K, $3,500 on $50K) — without breaking any rules. There is no time limit.

You must trade on at least 3 days to complete the Challenge.

Applies to the Challenge only — never to a Stocks Earning Account — and it never fails your account. Your most profitable day must not exceed 40% of your Profit Target; any amount over that cap is added to the target. Example: on a $1,750 target the cap is $700; a $800 best day is $100 over, so the target becomes $1,850.

Your Max Drawdown is 5% of your account. It trails your end-of-day balance (closed P&L, not intraday peaks) upward, never downward, and stops once it reaches your starting balance. If your balance falls to the drawdown level, the account is breached.

Example:

The Daily Pause is 2% of your account. It’s based on your equity (including unrealised P&L); when your equity falls to the limit, all open trades are closed and the account is paused for the rest of the trading day. The limit recalculates each day from the previous day’s closing balance.

Important: the Daily Pause is a safety feature, not a guaranteed hard stop. In fast markets, slippage can push your loss past it — and past your Max Drawdown, which breaches the account. Don’t rely on the Daily Pause instead of a stop-loss.

Positions are not held overnight. All open positions and pending orders are automatically liquidated 10 minutes before the market close, on both Challenge and Earning accounts.

If your account is inactive for more than 14 days, it is breached.

A trade only counts as profitable if it gains at least $0.10 per share.

Example: if you buy at $50.10, you must sell at $50.20 or higher.

Smaller gains are automatically excluded and don’t contribute to your performance — they don’t breach the account.

Stocks accounts don’t allow true scalping: each trade must stay open for at least 1 minute before it’s closed (buy-sell or sell-buy on the same stock). Profit from trades closed sooner is automatically excluded.

During regular trading hours you can only open a new position in a stock whose average daily trading volume over the past 14 days is greater than 200,000 shares. Stocks below that threshold can’t be opened on the platform — this protects you from illiquid markets and slippage

No trading is allowed during a trading halt — symbol-specific halts, market-wide circuit breakers, or any disruption declared by The Trading Pit. After a halt, there is a 1-minute cooldown before you can open or add to positions. You are responsible for monitoring halts (we reference the official NYSE halt feed).

Allowed on Stocks accounts, in both the Challenge and Earning Phase, with no time window. Be mindful of the heightened volatility around news.

Not mandatory on every trade, but strongly recommended. If the majority of your trades are placed without a stop-loss, the Risk Team may reach out and require you to use them.

Allowed within the same account for risk management (no hedging arbitrage). Hedging across two accounts is prohibited.

EAs are allowed provided they don’t copy signals that aren’t yours, run latency/arbitrage or HFT, or use emulators. You may use a VPS to run your EA.

You may copy trades across your own accounts (you can hold up to 2). Copying from other traders or external sources is not allowed.

Strategies where the majority of your trades last only a few seconds or less are subject to Risk Team review and are not permitted as a trading style.

Not allowed.

A grid strategy involves placing multiple buy and/or sell orders at predetermined price intervals, creating a series or “grid” of positions around a price level. This includes systematically adding multiple positions as the market moves up or down to profit from price fluctuations rather than using independent trade setups.

Not allowed.

A martingale strategy involves increasing the position size after a losing trade or series of losing trades, with the aim of recovering previous losses and generating a profit from a subsequent winning trade. This includes systematically increasing exposure as losses accumulate.

Do not open trades within 2 hours of a market close when it will stay closed for 2 or more hours, or ahead of major news, earnings or events likely to cause a price gap.

This may result in account termination without compensation.

You can hold up to 2 active Stocks Challenges (using the same email) and up to 2 active Stocks Earning accounts. All accounts are managed from one Dashboard, and you may copy trades across your own accounts.

An IP that changes every few days (e.g. while travelling) is fine.

An IP that changes several times within the same day can raise suspicion of account sharing, which is forbidden.

See our Trading Device, IP & Network Policy for the full rules on devices, IPs and shared access.

Stocks also follows our shared Basic Rules for CFD, Futures & Stocks — including Prohibited Trading Practices and Inactivity — as well as our firm-wide Gambling Policy and Trading Device, IP & Network Policy. See those articles for the full details.