We support a wide range of trading strategies, including trading assistant tools and EAs. However, Martingale, Reverse Trading, Copy Trading between accounts of different users, High-Frequency Trading, Grid Trading, Latency Arbitrage, demo environment exploitation, and account sharing are strictly prohibited. These methods pose excessive risks and violate Moneta Funded’s commitment to responsible trading. Use of any prohibited strategies will result in immediate account termination. Cheating, fraud, poor risk management, or exploitation of the simulated environment are also forbidden under our Terms & Conditions.
Detailed Overview of Prohibited Trading Strategies:
Risk Management & Trading Conduct
Moneta Funded prioritizes disciplined, responsible, and sustainable trading practices. All trading activity is expected to reflect a genuine trading strategy that applies risk management principles a reasonable and prudent market participant would use when trading their own capital.
Trading behavior that deviates from professional risk management standards may be deemed non-compliant. Such behavior includes, but is not limited to, excessive or disproportionate exposure relative to account equity, concentration of risk into single trades or highly correlated positions, repeated trading activity that results in elevated risk per trade idea, or the absence of reasonable loss containment measures.
Practices that undermine capital preservation, increase the probability of outsized losses, or rely on exposure patterns inconsistent with long-term trading sustainability are not permitted. Moneta Funded reserves the right to classify such activity as prohibited or non-compliant and to take appropriate action, including account restriction, termination, or disqualification from future participation.
Martingale Trading
In Martingale trading, you increase your investment after each loss. You hope that a successful trade will make up for the losses and give you a profit. This strategy is considered a form of gambling and is very risky. It can lead to large losses and even the complete loss of all invested money if there are many consecutive losses.
This trading strategy only works if you have unlimited simulated money (which you don't when trading with a firm). Trading firms set a maximum limit for how much money you can lose, and traders have to adjust their strategy to match this limit of risk.
Reverse Trading
Reverse trading, whether conducted between different proprietary trading firms or internally between multiple Moneta Funded accounts, is strictly prohibited.
Upon detection of reverse trading activity, Moneta Funded reserves the right to shut down the trader's account and ban the trader from future use of Moneta Funded's services.
High Frequency Trading
High-Frequency Trading (HFT) involves employing sophisticated computer algorithms and high-speed telecommunication networks to execute a multitude of trades typically within a minute or less.
The prohibition of High-Frequency Trading (HFT) is in place due to its potential for market manipulation, unfair advantages, and the ability to induce market instability.
Grid Trading
Grid Trading or Hedging is a trading approach where opposing buy and sell orders for the same instrument are strategically placed to achieve equivalent or similar risk. This strategy carries the risks of market manipulation, excessive leveraging, market instability, and the potential for a risk-free simulated profit.
Latency Arbitrage Trading
Latency Arbitrage Trading involves employing a data stream intentionally designed to have a delay or lag in providing market data, such as stock prices or trading volumes. This grants an unjust advantage to the trader compared to others who must rely on real-time market data.
Employing Latency Arbitrage is deemed unethical and runs contrary to the ways in which legitimate financial markets function.
General Exploitation of a Demo Environment
While Latency Arbitrage Trading is one of the most frequented methodologies utilized to exploit demo environments, it's not the only way traders can exploit a demo environment in order to make unethical gains that wouldn't otherwise be possible within legitimate financial markets. That is, traders can also take advantage of glitches that arise within a demo environment rather than reporting the glitch taking place.
For example, if the demo feed suddenly stops at 2:00 price while at the same time allowing a trader to place trades locked in at the 2:00 price and consistently clicks back to where the feed should be 5 min later, if the trader looks at the other charts that don't contain a bug and places a trade on that exact 5 min window to exploit the glitch (as opposed to reporting the bug), this type of behavior would also be deemed a general exploitation of a demo environment.
Moreover, general exploitation of a demo environment violates our Terms & Conditions and will result in a trader's account being canceled as well as banning that trader from future use of Moneta Funded's services.
Account Sharing
Traders are prohibited from sharing accounts or transferring Simulated Funded Accounts from one owner to another for any purpose.
Engaging in account sharing and selling accounts is strictly forbidden and will promptly lead to a violation of your account(s), resulting in a ban from our services.
Copy Trading.
At Moneta Funded, Copy Trading is allowed only between accounts owned by the same individual.
For full details, please refer to our Copy Trading Policy.
News Trading.
Moneta Funded does not allow traders to engage in news trading on 1-Step and 2-Step challenge accounts (evaluation & funded)
No orders (including stop-loss/take profit) may be executed within 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after high-impact news events.
For full details, please refer to our News Trading Policy.
Please note that during any time trading with Moneta Funded, our admin team has the right to vet any trader's trading behaviors to determine whether or not a prohibited trading style was utilized that fails to follow sustainability and prudent risk management. If a prohibited trading style is discovered to be utilized on any specific trader's associated accounts, Moneta Funded reserves the right to inform the trader that prohibited trading style was utilized and ban the trader from partnering with Moneta Funded on future trade endeavors.
On the occasions where prohibited trading styles are discovered during our internal review process, Moneta Funded also reserves the right to not reveal the specific behaviors discovered during our vetting process as this could indirectly lead to promoting development of workarounds to exploit our firm's policies and restrictions that ensure traders are engaged in disciplined and sustainable risk management. Furthermore, traders engaged in prohibited trading styles will be subjected to our no refund policy.