Prohibited Strategies
AdvancedTrading strategies and behaviors that violate our rules.
While SPIKE allows most legitimate trading strategies, certain practices are prohibited to ensure fair evaluation and protect our trading infrastructure.
Prohibited Activities
- Latency arbitrage — Exploiting price feed delays between our platform and other sources
- High-Frequency Trading (HFT) — Automated strategies executing hundreds of trades per minute
- Account sharing — Letting someone else trade on your account
- Copy trading between accounts — Coordinating trades across multiple SPIKE accounts
- Martingale stacking — Doubling position size after each loss without a stop-loss
- Gap trading exploitation — Exclusively trading market open gaps for guaranteed profit
Allowed Strategies
- ✓ Manual discretionary trading
- ✓ Expert Advisors (EAs) that follow rules
- ✓ News trading
- ✓ Scalping (reasonable frequency)
- ✓ Swing trading and position trading
- ✓ Hedging within the same account
Detection
Our risk monitoring system automatically detects prohibited activities. Violations result in immediate account closure without refund. If you're unsure whether your strategy is allowed, contact support before trading.
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