Essential Trading Rules Overview

MegaTrader’s rules protect traders and keep evaluations fair: respect market hours, stay within your daily loss and drawdown guardrails, avoid prohibited behaviors (hedging, mixed micro/mini usage), and maintain trade quality (10-second microscalping standard and plan-defined consistency).

Daily Loss Limit – You may not exceed your plan/size’s daily loss limit (shown in Dashboard → Account Card).
​Trailing Drawdown – A threshold that follows your peak equity; breaching it violates the account. Some plans adjust intraday; others lock at end-of-day.
​Add-On: Drawdown Buffer +$500 – If purchased, adds $500 to your trailing drawdown allowance.

Auto-Flatten: If you’re not flat by the cutoff, risk systems will close positions. P&L/slippage still counts toward limits.

Hedging (Prohibited): No opposing positions on the same or correlated instruments (e.g., ES/MES, NQ/MNQ), including across accounts you control.
​Micros vs. Minis: Trade micros or minis in a given account/session—not both simultaneously. You can switch between sessions after flattening.
​Conversion: 10 micros = 1 mini (for limit equivalence).

No scaling ladder: your full maximum position is available from day one (subject to risk rules).

No more than 50% of your current account profit may come from trades held for 10 seconds or less. To remain in compliance, the profit generated from trades held under 10 seconds must be less than half of your current realized account profit.

This rule is enforced continuously and applies in all market conditions, including news events and session opens/closes, and applies equally to all contract sizes (micro or mini).

🚫 Result: Not Compliant — because more than 50% of the account profit came from trades held under 10 seconds.

To remain compliant, profit from trades held under 10 seconds must remain below 50% of the current account profit.

Your plan caps how big your single best day can be relative to total profits. Keep your top day ≤ plan threshold (see Dashboard/plan specs).
​Example: If the threshold is 20% and your best day is $2,000, you’ll need $10,000+ total profit to remain eligible.

Allowed (no blackouts) at your own risk. Expect slippage, gaps, and order-flow delays. The Daily Loss Limit is not a stop, and the 10-second rule remains in force.

Allowed if the strategy is yours, not high-frequency, not shared, and you can prove ownership if requested. Any exploitation of platform behavior, latency, or price display issues is forbidden.

Trade honestly; don’t game the environment. Violations (hedging, mixed size simultaneously, exploiting errors) can lead to compliance holds, disqualification, payout denial for affected periods, and/or account closure.

You must pass checks for Daily Loss Limit, Trailing Drawdown, Microscalping (10s), Consistency %, and your plan’s payout cadence. Some plans require minimum trading days between payouts; the Anytime Payouts add-on can waive the waiting period once other conditions are met.

If you have questions about approved instruments, risk limits, or trading practices, contact us at [email protected] or open a live chat inside your portal.