Trading Integrity Standards
Trading Integrity Standards
Trading Expectations, Strategy Guidelines & Risk Polic
Purpose & Scope
Purpose
PropShopTrader is built for traders who operate with discipline, consistency, and structured risk management. Our programs are designed to identify and scale professional trading behavior – not gambling, exploitation, or system abuse.
These Standards outline:
- Expected trading conduct
- Prohibited practices
- Monitoring and enforcement framework
These Standards protect:
- Firm capital
- Platform integrity
- Fair participation & disciplined traders
Controlling Authority
These Trading Integrity Standards are incorporated into all program agreements and related policies.
Participation in any PropShopTrader program requires adherence to:
- The most current version of these Standards
- All referenced policies
- All program rules
- All posted compliance requirements
PropShopTrader may update, interpret, and enforce these Standards at its sole discretion. Continued participation constitutes acceptance of the current version.
What We Expect
Professional Trading Expectations
Traders must demonstrate behavior consistent with scalable, risk-controlled participation. Evaluation is based on overall conduct patterns – not isolated trades.
PropShopTrader does not restrict strategy selection. However, all trading must reflect professional standards and risk integrity.
Required Conduct
- Trade with a defined, repeatable approach
- Use rational and consistent position sizing
- Respect drawdown and MAE limits
- Apply structured entries and exits
- Avoid impulse-based or outcome-chasing behavior
Our objective is not to limit creativity – but to ensure trading behavior can responsibly scal
Prohibited
Prohibited Trading Practices
The following conduct is prohibited across all phases. This list is non-exhaustive. PropShopTrader reserves sole discretion to determine whether conduct violates these Standards.
- Gambling & High-Risk Behavior
- Overleveraging relative to account drawdown
- Sudden, unexplained contract size escalation
- "All-in" or windfall-style trades
- Trading without structured risk controls
- Concentrated risk inconsistent with professional standards
- Account Manipulation & System Abuse
- Artificial activity to satisfy minimum trading requirements
- Attempting to manipulate benchmarks or progression metrics
- Exploiting platform errors, routing delays, or data discrepancies
- Using unauthorized or external data feeds
- Circumventing program structure or evaluation methodology
- Hedging & Collusion
- Simultaneous long and short positions in the same instrument
- Micro-to-parent contract hedging
- Cross-account synthetic neutrality
- Coordinated trading across individuals or entities
- Activity designed to artificially reduce true market exposure
- Automation & Execution Abuse
- Fully automated trading without active supervision
- Latency-based exploitation
- Arbitrage or synthetic volume generation
- Execution-mechanic exploitation
Automation is permitted only when the trader is actively present, activity is continuously monitored, and manual intervention is immediately possible. PropShopTrader retains sole discretion regarding acceptable automation usage
Compliance
Compliance Monitoring
PropShopTrader monitors trading behavior using internal systems. Monitoring may include analysis of:
- MAE behavior
- Position sizing patterns
- Risk concentration
- Hedging activity
- Automation signatures
- Benchmark manipulation
Monitoring methodologies are proprietary and confidential. PropShopTrader is not obligated to disclose detection models or thresholds.
Enforcement & Consequences
Violations may result in one or more actions, including:
- Payout restrictions (Real Prop)
- Profit adjustments or nullification
- Benchmark exclusion
- Loss of progression eligibility
- Account suspension
- Account failure or termination
- Permanent removal
All determinations are made at PropShopTrader’s sole discretion. Where an appeal process is offered, it is limited to internal review standards.
Identity
Account & Identity Standards
- Maintain one profile per individual or legal entity
- Comply with account limits per asset class
- Match all accounts to verified legal identity
- Avoid third-party trading or credential sharing
- Ensure multiple accounts reflect distinct strategies
PropShopTrader may modify account eligibility standards at its discretion.
News Trading
News Trading
News trading is permitted. Traders are expected to:
- Maintain structured risk controls
- Avoid impulsive sizing
- Account for volatility and slippage
Elevated volatility periods may receive heightened review.
Legal
Legal Authority & Policy Updates
PropShopTrader may modify these Standards at any time, interpret rules as necessary, and enforce compliance to protect firm capital.
Participation does not guarantee progression, Real Prop transition, or payouts. All trading activity remains subject to ongoing review.
Our Commitment
These Standards exist to protect disciplined traders and build a professional trading ecosystem. Structured behavior enables scalable capital allocation.
