All-in trading refers to a trading approach where a trader opens a single trade or a series of nearly identical trades on the same instrument, usually with high leverage, aiming to reach the entire profit target and pass the challenge in a single attempt.
This approach resembles gambling more than skill-based trading, relying on luck rather than strategy or consistency. For that reason, it stands in direct contradiction to the spirit of our evaluation programs.
Here's why this practice is forbidden:
It defeats the purpose of evaluation: Our programs are designed to assess a trader’s consistency, discipline and ability to manage risk over a period of time. Hitting the target through one or few identical trades provides no insight into a trader’s long-term viability or strategy.
It violates the intended use of our challenge accounts: The structure of the evaluation is not meant to reward one-off gambling-style trades. We’re looking for strategic, repeatable trading behavior, not lucky guesses or one-time bets.
What specifically is not allowed?
Passing the evaluation phase by reaching the profit target through:
a single trade (regardless of whether it's held intraday or over multiple days), if the trading history lacks other significant profitable trades, or
a series of similar trades on the same instrument that effectively create one identical exposure. This typically means opening multiple smaller positions instead of one large position, but with the same intent and outcome.
Examples:
Below you may find a few clear examples that contain the above mentioned practices and were performed by some of our customers. Our rules have allowed it in the past, and we treated those customers honestly, including processing the account upgrades and payouts. However, we would not want to endorse such trading styles, which is why we introduced this rule.
Example 1:
Example 2:
Example 3:
In past, some traders managed to achieve the profit target with a single trade idea, after which they opened additional, much smaller trades in the following days (typically very small ones, like 0.01 lots, and for a very short time) just to meet the minimum 3-day trading requirement (so called “flipping trades”). This is also trading behavior that we don't want to support.
Final Note:
Our goal is to support traders who demonstrate repeatable, sustainable strategies. If a trader attempts to pass an evaluation phase using a method that contradicts this philosophy, we reserve the right to follow a transparent and structured process explained HERE.