Prohibited Trading Practices

INTRODUCTION

At Quantum X Futures, our goal is simple: find skilled, disciplined traders we can partner with for the long term. Our rules are designed to be some of the fairest in the industry — EOD drawdown, no hidden traps, weekly payouts. In return, we ask that all traders engage with our evaluations and performance accounts in good faith.

This article explains the trading practices that are NOT permitted on any Quantum X Futures account. These rules exist to protect the integrity of our simulated environment and to keep things fair for every trader on the platform. Breaching any of them may result in the loss of the affected account, forfeiture of any associated profits or payouts, and — in serious cases — closure of all your accounts with us.

If you ever have a question about whether a particular strategy is allowed, just ask our support team before you trade it. We're always happy to clarify.

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WHAT IS AND ISN'T ALLOWED

First, the good news — most strategies are completely fine. You're free to trade discretionary or systematic strategies, scalp, swing, hold through news (with certain restrictions), and use automation and Expert Advisors (EAs) to assist your trading.

What we prohibit are practices that don't reflect genuine trading skill, that exploit the simulated nature of our platform, or that attempt to extract payouts through statistical gaming rather than real edge. These are listed below.

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PROHIBITED PRACTICES

1. HIGH-FREQUENCY TRADING (HFT)

Strategies that place an extremely high volume of orders at speeds no human could realistically execute or oversee. Our platform is built for skilled human traders, not for machines firing thousands of orders to exploit micro-movements.

2. LATENCY ARBITRAGE

Exploiting differences in price feed timing, between our platform and the wider market, to enter trades with a risk-free informational advantage. This profits from a technical gap, not from trading skill.

3. SECONDS SCALPING

Opening and closing positions within seconds to capture a few points of movement at scale, in a way that relies on simulated fills rather than real market conditions. We understand that on some occasions the market move faster than others and sometimes you will be in and out of a trade quickly, however if more than half of your trades (50%) is opened and closed in less than 120 seconds (2 Minutes), this is not allowed. Normal scalping is fine; exploiting the fill model is not. 

4. UNAUTHORISED TRADE COPYING

Using a copier, bridge, or trade-copying software to systematically replicate trades onto another person's account, or to copy another person's account onto yours. The issue is the automated or systematic replication of someone else's trading — not your own decisions.

To be clear about what IS allowed: copying trades across your own accounts is fine. What's prohibited is copying between different people's accounts — hooking your account up to a copier that mirrors another person's positions automatically, manually replicating another person's trades onto your account, or running a service or copier that copies your trades onto other people's accounts.

5. GROUP / COORDINATED TRADING (HEDGING ACROSS ACCOUNTS)

Coordinating trades between two or more accounts — yours or those of others — to hedge risk or guarantee an outcome. For example, going long on one account and short on the same instrument in another, so one account passes regardless of market direction. This converts a 50/50 outcome into a "guaranteed" pass and is strictly prohibited.

6. "ONE-DIRECTIONAL" / MASS-ACCOUNT GAMING

Buying a large number of accounts and placing opposing or high-variance bets across them so that, statistically, some are guaranteed to pass and produce payouts. Payouts are intended to reward genuine, repeatable skill — not the law of averages.

7. EXPLOITING PLATFORM OR DATA-FEED ERRORS

Knowingly taking advantage of platform malfunctions, pricing errors, frozen quotes, delayed feeds, or any technical glitch to record profits that would not exist under normal market conditions. If you spot an error, please report it to support rather than trading on it.

8. MARKET MANIPULATION TACTICS

Any behaviour designed to distort or fake market activity, including spoofing (placing orders with no intent to fill), layering, and wash trading. These practices are illegal in live markets and are not tolerated in our simulated environment either.

9. ACCOUNT SHARING & THIRD-PARTY TRADING

Allowing another person to trade your account, or trading an account on behalf of someone else. Each account is for the use of the individual registered to it. This includes selling, renting, or transferring accounts.

10. GAP / EXPIRY & ROLLOVER EXPLOITATION

Strategies that rely solely on holding positions through known data gaps, contract rollovers, or session breaks to exploit simulated pricing rather than genuine market exposure.

11. NEWS TRADING

You may hold through news releases following your trading plan, but no orders may be executed within 2 minutes before or 2 minutes after high impact news events.

We refer to the Calendar on ForexFactory. Any events related to the asset you are trading (USD for /ES, NQ, /GC, /CL for example) with a red folder is considered high impact and this rule applies.

12. PAYOUT / WINNING-DAY MANIPULATION

Winning days must reflect genuine trading activity. Traders may not generate the majority of their profits on one or a small number of trading days and then deliberately reduce their trading activity, position size, or profit targets simply to meet the minimum profit required for additional winning days and become eligible for a payout. This is gambling and not the type of trader we're looking to put on live.

For example, generating a large profit on one trading day and then placing minimal or token trades on subsequent days solely to reach the minimum winning-day threshold would be considered manipulation of the payout requirements.

We understand that trading performance naturally varies from day to day, and having one significantly profitable day is not itself a violation. What is prohibited is a clear pattern of artificially manufacturing the remaining qualifying days after the majority of the intended payout profit has already been generated.

Where this pattern is identified, Quantum X Futures may exclude those days from the winning-day calculation and require additional legitimate winning days before a payout can be approved.

13. SHARED NETWORKS & HOUSEHOLDS

To preserve the integrity of evaluations and payouts, only one Quantum X Futures account may be active per IP address, device, or household on any given trading day. If you live with, work with, or share an internet connection with another Quantum X Futures trader, only one of you may place trades in any 24-hour period.

This applies regardless of whether the accounts are coordinating their trades. Two unrelated traders in the same household trading the same instruments on the same day — even independently — produces a pattern we cannot distinguish from coordinated activity, and so it is not permitted.

If you genuinely share a household or network with another trader and want to trade on the same days, you must declare this to support before you trade. We will review the situation case by case and, where appropriate, whitelist the arrangement. Undeclared shared-IP or shared-household trading on the same day will be treated as a breach of these rules.

Use of VPNs, proxies, or other tools to mask your IP or location in order to circumvent this rule is itself a breach and will result in immediate account closure.

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A NOTE ON AUTOMATION

We want to be clear: automation is allowed. You're welcome to use EAs, bots, and algorithmic tools to assist your trading. What's prohibited is using automation to carry out any of the practices above — particularly HFT, latency arbitrage, and tick scalping. If your automated strategy reflects a genuine trading edge and respects the spirit of these rules, you're fine.

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OUR RECORDS ARE AUTHORITATIVE

Quantum X Futures operates a simulated trading environment. All account activity - order timestamps, fills, execution prices, position sizes, profit and loss, and balance and drawdown calculations - is recorded server-side on our backend. Our backend record is the sole authoritative record of your trading.

Most traders connect to their accounts through third-party platforms - NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView, Quantower and similar - which run locally on the trader's own machine. Data displayed, logged or exported by that software can differ from our backend for a number of reasons, including local system clock drift, differences between charting and execution data feeds, client-side rendering and aggregation, plugin or EA behaviour, connection latency, and the fact that locally held data sits on a system we do not control and can be modified.

Because that data cannot be independently verified by us, it cannot be used to establish what actually occurred on your account. Accordingly:

• Where any discrepancy arises between our backend records and data from any third-party platform, charting package, broker feed, statement, screenshot or export, our backend records prevail.
• Screenshots, exports, journals and platform logs may be submitted in support of a review, and we will look at them — but they do not override our backend records.
• This applies to all determinations we make, including rule breaches, drawdown and balance calculations, payout eligibility, and the timestamps used to assess the News Trading and Seconds Scalping rules.

This matters most for latency-sensitive conduct such as latency arbitrage (see Prohibited Practice 2), where the gap between a locally displayed price or timestamp and our server-side record is the precise thing being exploited. A local record cannot be used to justify conduct that our server-side record shows to be a breach.

If you believe our backend has recorded something incorrectly, report it to support with as much detail as you can. We investigate genuine reporting errors and, where we find one on our side, we correct it.

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ENFORCEMENT & REVIEW

Quantum X Futures reserves the right to review any account and any trading activity at our discretion. Where we identify a breach of these practices, we may, depending on the severity:

• Void the trades in question

• Withhold or reverse affected profits and payouts

• Reset, suspend, or terminate the affected account

• Close all accounts associated with the trader, without refund

We assess each case carefully and on its own facts. Our aim is never to penalise genuine traders — it's to protect the people who play fair. If you believe a decision was made in error, you can contact our support team to request a review.

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QUESTIONS?

If you're ever unsure whether a strategy is permitted, reach out before you trade it. Our support team would much rather answer a question up front than have to void an account later. You can reach us through the Help Center or our Discord community.

Trade well, trade fair. 

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