All trading activities reflect genuine and effective trading strategies and strictly adhere to the risk management principles followed by rational and prudent market participants when trading with their own capital.
Any trading activity that deviates from professional risk management standards may be deemed non-compliant. Trading activities that impair capital preservation, significantly increase the probability of substantial losses, or rely on risk exposure patterns inconsistent with long-term trading sustainability are strictly prohibited.
AIFO prohibits the following trading strategies and behaviors. These actions distort the market, circumvent fair trading rules, or demonstrate unsustainable trading behavior. Violations may result inaccountrestriction,profit confiscation, or permanent termination. AIFO reserves the final right of interpretation for unreasonable trading strategies.
High-Leverage Trading
Trigger conditions: Frequently hitting the daily loss limit 90%, or margin utilization ≥ 70%.
- Excessive leverage magnifies risk and can result in severe losses in a short time, violating risk management rules.
First violation: add restrictions, floating P/L cannot exceed 1% of account size.
Second violation: Account Closure
Gambling Behavior
Trigger conditions: Using more than 40% of margin in a single-variety, or continuously hitting the daily loss limitof 90%.
- Excessive margin use or consecutive high-risk trades constitute gambling behavior, which destabilizes account equity.
First violation: Add restrictions, floating P/L cannot exceed 1% of account size.
Second violation: Account Closure
High-Frequency Trading
- Executing numerous trades in seconds with very short holding periods may create abnormal market impact and execution risk.
Violation: Account Closure
Scalping
Holding trades for less than one minute for ≥50%.
- Excessive scalping can easily lead to high-frequency trading risks, resulting in the accumulation of extremely high transaction costs in real trading environments, and it is not a trading behavior that can achieve effective and sustainable growth.
Violation: Account Closure
Copy Trading
- Replicating trades across multiple accounts undermines trader independence and masks true performance.
Violation: Account Closure
Hedging or Arbitrage
- Cross-account or group hedging, and any form of arbitrage (including latency or market arbitrage) may bypass risk rules or affect fair trading.
Violation: Account Closure
Grid Trading
- Placing multiple buy/sell orders at various price levels to profit from market fluctuations.
Example
Buy at $100, $105, $110; sell at $115, $120, $125. Sharp market drops can lead to significant losses.
Violation: Profits from such trades are confiscated
Delayed Trading
- Exploiting order execution delay or delayed market data to guarantee profit with trades violates fair trading principles.
Violation: Account Closure
One-Sided Betting
- Establish 10 or more small positions in a single asset class or 1 large position across multiple asset classes.
First violation: Restrict single trade P/L ≤1% of account size
Second violation: Account Closure
Account Rolling
What Is Account Cycling?
- Account Cycling refers to a high-risk and prohibited practice where multiple Evaluation accounts are purchased within a short period, with some accounts intentionally sacrificed to increase the probability of passing others.
- This approach relies on luck rather than trading skill, ignoring proper risk management and market analysis. It resembles gambling more than professional trading.
Why AIFO Does Not Allow Account Cycling
AIFO is committed to supporting traders who demonstrate consistency, discipline, and long-term profitability.
Account Cycling bypasses the core principles of responsible trading and undermines the integrity of the Evaluation process.
The purpose of the Evaluation is to assess a trader’s ability to:
- Manage risk effectively
- Execute strategies consistently
- Maintain sustainable performance
- not to determine how many accounts can be passed using aggressive and non-repeatable tactics.
Traders who engage in Account Cycling fail to demonstrate genuine trading skill, which compromises the fairness of the trading environment.
How AIFO Enforces the Account Cycling Policy
To maintain a fair and transparent ecosystem, AIFO actively monitors Account Cycling behavior. Confirmed violations may result in:
- Restrictions on purchasing new accounts
- Permanent reductions in Maximum Allocation
- Suspension or termination of involved accounts
- In severe cases, permanent ban from the AIFO platform
These measures ensure that only traders who develop and apply sound, sustainable trading strategies can progress reinforcing an environment built on skill, discipline, and long-term success.
Platform Exploit
- Exploiting server errors, frozen data, or abnormal quotes for unfair advantage harms other traders.
Violation: Account Closure
Traders should report any platform issues to AIFO support immediately.
