This list is short on purpose. We are not looking for reasons to deny a payout, and there are no hidden traps written to catch you out. These are the practices that will void an account.
Forbidden practices
- Multi-account abuse. Creating extra accounts to bypass the 3-account limit, or to farm free and discounted challenges. This results in a permanent ban.
- Latency and arbitrage exploits. Trading on feed delays, price errors or quote gaps rather than on market direction.
- Exploiting platform or server errors. Profit from a demonstrable pricing or execution fault is reversed.
- Group or coordinated trading. Multiple traders coordinating opposing positions across accounts to guarantee one passes.
- Copy trading another JPD trader. Mirroring someone else's JPD account. Copying between your own accounts is fine.
- Account sharing or transfer. Selling, renting or handing over your account credentials.
- Hedging or algo trading on Scout, where both are disabled.
- Trading the news window on Prime Classic or Scout, both always news restricted.
Blown accounts and the cool-down
A breached account counts as blown. There is no penalty for the first few. Breaching drawdown is part of trading, and we do not treat it as misconduct.
A trader who breaches 10 accounts cannot buy new accounts and enters a 2 business-day cool-down before purchasing again. That is a cool-down, not a ban.
What happens when a rule is broken
- Drawdown breach: the account closes. Buy another whenever you want, subject to the cool-down above.
- Prohibited practice: the account is voided and any pending reward from the affected trades is withheld.
- Multi-account abuse: permanent ban across all accounts.
What we will not do
We will not deny a payout for trading too well, for a single large winning day, or for a consistency rule, because we do not operate one. If a reward is ever withheld, you get a written reason citing the specific rule.