BrightFunded

A trading strategy where a trader consistently takes positions in one single direction without considering market conditions or conducting proper analysis. This practice is not allowed.

Traders are prohibited from stacking, which involves placing an unusually large number of orders in a short period of time.

Expert Advisors (EAs) are allowed, but the trader remains fully responsible for compliance with all loss limits and for monitoring the EA. BrightFunded does not guarantee compatibility or performance of third-party EAs, and API / automated trading is not supported on DXtrade. Using high-frequency trading bots, artificial intelligence, ultra-high-speed execution or mass data entry that could exploit the system or provide an unfair advantage is not allowed.

• Evaluation (Phase 1 and Phase 2): news trading is allowed without restriction.
• Funded accounts: no opening or closing of trades — including pending orders, stop losses and take profits — within 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after a high-impact news event (per the Forex Factory economic calendar).
• Breaching this is a soft breach: profits from the offending trade are deducted, losses are not compensated and the account is not closed.
• Exception: positions opened at least 48 hours before the event are exempt if a take profit triggers inside the window.

• Allowed: holding both buy and sell positions on the same instrument within the same trading account.
• Prohibited: opposite positions on the same or highly correlated instruments across different accounts — other BrightFunded accounts, other prop firms, other platforms, or via copy trading / EAs.
• First detection is a soft breach (all trades closed, accounts stay open); second detection is a hard breach and accounts are permanently closed.

Copy trading is allowed only between accounts owned by the same person. Copying trades between accounts not owned by the same individual — including those of relatives, family or friends — and trading community or paid signals is prohibited. Trade-similarity detection is in place; violations lead to profit deductions or account closure.

• Grid trading, arbitrage (including latency and reverse arbitrage), tick scalping and high-frequency trading.
• Exploiting service errors, technical malfunctions, price-feed delays or execution issues.
• Trading on external or delayed third-party data feeds that are inconsistent with BrightFunded pricing.
• Multi-account manipulation, group trading and offsetting trades placed to artificially remove market risk.
• Risk-abusive trading: over-leveraging, over-exposure to correlated assets, continuously averaging down into losses and account rolling to reset metrics.

One account per person. Opening or operating multiple accounts, or coordinating with other traders, is not permitted.

A valid trading day requires at least one trade held for a minimum of 1 minute (60 seconds). The daily permitted loss resets between 11:30 PM and 11:59 PM CET; trading through that rollover window is discouraged.

Effective 1 September 2025: at least one trade (held 1+ minute) must be placed within 30 calendar days of the last closed trade, on Phase 1, Phase 2 and Funded accounts. Pending orders do not count. Deactivated accounts must be reactivated via support; no reactivation within 6 months is treated as a hard breach.

Overnight and weekend holding are allowed, and there is no maximum trading period. Swap fees apply on overnight positions unless the Swap-Free add-on was purchased with the challenge.

Use of a VPN or VPS is permitted.