We permit scalp trading with us. However, if trades are within two minutes or less, or if there are suspicious trades resembling Arbitrage activity prohibited by the company our Risk Team will take appropriate action.

All trades are closely monitored by the Risk Team in this regard.

All assets are now 1 in standard lot sizes. You can open any lot size amount.

Our Ability Challenge, Ability One & FTP account does not have a lot size limitation nor stoploss requirements. However, we ask our traders to manage their own risk.

No, both the Ability Challenge, Ability One and FTP stages come with an unlimited trading period.

This structure is designed to reduce pressure and allow traders to perform at their best without the stress of deadlines. You’re free to trade at your own pace while meeting the program’s risk management requirements.

Copy trading is allowed between your own accounts within Audacity Capital, copying from an external account is allowed only if the account belongs to you. Third-party copying is not permitted.

You may hold trades over the weekend and trade during news events. Simply avoid opening, closing (TP, SL, or manual) or adding to positions within 3 minutes before or after any high-impact news release or speech, as that can be identified as excessive risk. This applies to all programs (Ability Challenge, Ability One, FTP (Instant Funding)).

Which events are classified as major news?
Major news events typically include, but are not limited to, Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP), high-impact Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) events, interest rate decisions, and speeches by central bank officials. These events can have significant impacts on financial markets and are closely monitored by traders for potential trading opportunities and market volatility.

Do you have any recommendations for a news calendar?
We highly recommend utilizing FXStreet (https://www.fxstreet.com/economic-calendar) for comprehensive coverage of market news and economic events. This platform serves as an invaluable resource for traders, offering detailed insights into key developments that can impact financial markets.

Example: You open a trade 4 hours before a news event. The trade remains open, but your Take Profit (TP) is automatically triggered 1 minute after the news release. This is considered a violation, as the position was closed within the restricted 3-minute window, regardless of when the trade was originally opened.

Yes. You can hold accounts across FTP, Ability One and Ability Challenge at the same time, within the limits below. Each account follows the rules of its own programme.

Example

You hold a $50,000 FTP account and have passed $400,000 across Ability Challenge and Ability One. Your FTP account uses $50,000 of your $400,000 live allocation, so you can trade up to $350,000 live on your Ability accounts.

What if I pass more accounts than I can activate?

Eligible passed accounts that are not activated can be kept as backups. If one of your live accounts is breached, a backup can be activated to replace it, subject to the programme rules and the $400,000 live allocation limit.

EAs are allowed if they follow our prohibited-strategy rules and are not sourced from third-party signals. Copy trading is allowed between your own accounts within Audacity Capital, copying from an external account is allowed only if the account belongs to you. Third-party copying is not permitted.

Important Notice: The updated rules for FTP Instant Funding and Ability One (1-Step) will take effect on November 2, 2026. All accounts purchased on or after this date will be subject to the new rules. Accounts purchased before November 2, 2026, will continue to operate under the previous rules in effect at the time of purchase.

The consistency rule checks that your profit does not depend on a single trading day. Your best trading day profit can be no more than a set percentage of your total net profit.

CONSISTENCY FORMULA

Best day profit ÷ Total net profit × 100

Total net profit = Total profits − Total losses

Your consistency score resets after every payout.

To find how much net profit you need, divide your best trading day profit by 0.50 (Ability One) or 0.35 (FTP).

The minimum trading days depend on your funding programme and account stage.

Consistency rule instead of minimum days

Ability One live accounts follow a 50% consistency rule, and FTP accounts follow a 35% consistency rule. These replace the minimum trading days on those accounts.

Important to note

Meeting the minimum trading days alone does not guarantee that you pass. You must also meet the applicable trading objectives and follow Audacity Capital's trading rules.

At AudaCity Capital, our Ability Challenge and Verification stages use a Static Drawdown system.
Static drawdown is straightforward and protects traders from unexpected changes during the trading day.

How Static Drawdown Works

• Your daily drawdown limit resets every day at rollover (00:00 GMT+2) based on the higher value between your balance or equity at that moment.
•  Once the limit is set at rollover, it does not move during the day, even if your equity increases due to open profits.
•  You are free to hold trades overnight — the new daily level will update automatically at the next day’s rollover.
• If your equity falls below the allowed limit at any time during the day, the account will be paused or breached (depending on the stage).

Ability Challenge Drawdown Rules

• Daily Drawdown: 7.5%
• Maximum Drawdown: 15%

Example – $100K Ability Account
At rollover (00:00 GMT+2):
Balance/Equity = $100,000

• Daily Drawdown (7.5%) → $7,500
 → Minimum equity allowed for the day: $92,500
• Maximum Drawdown (15%) → $15,000
 → Account breach level: $85,000

During the day:
Even if equity rises to $110,000 during the trading day, the daily limit stays at $92,500 until the next rollover.

Verification Stage Drawdown Rules

• Daily Drawdown: 5%
• Maximum Drawdown: 10%

Example – $100K Verification Account
At rollover (00:00 GMT+2):
Balance/Equity = $100,000

• Daily Drawdown (5%) → $5,000
 → Minimum equity allowed for the day: $95,000
• Maximum Drawdown (10%) → $10,000
 → Account breach level: $90,000

During the day:
If equity increases to $105,000 intraday, the daily limit still remains $95,000 until the next rollover.

Key Points for Traders

•  Your daily drawdown resets every day at rollover, giving you a fresh start.
•  The drawdown level is always based on balance/equity at rollover, whichever is higher.
•  Intraday gains do not raise the drawdown limit.
• Static drawdown provides simplicity, predictability and transparency.

Ability One $50K Account

Absolute Drawdown (Static): 6%
This is the maximum loss allowed from the initial account balance.

Daily Drawdown (Static): 3%
This is the maximum loss permitted within a single trading day, based on the starting balance or equity of that day (whichever is higher).

Example
At rollover:
Highest value = $50,000
 Daily DD (3%) = $1,500
 Absolute DD (6%) = $3,000
So the limits are:

• Daily DD limit: $50,000 – $1,500 = $48,500
• Absolute DD limit: $50,000 – $3,000 = $47,000

FTP (Instant Funding) 

Trailing Drawdown

Unlike the Ability Challenge & Ability One, the FTP uses a trailing drawdown.

This means:

•  The maximum equity the account reaches at any time becomes the new reference point.
•  The drawdown limit moves upward as the account grows.
• It never goes back down.

FTP Daily DD: 5% (Trailing)

Example 

7.5K FTP Account (5% Trailing DD)
If your equity reaches:
$7,800 highest point of the day
Your DD limit becomes:
7,800 × 95% = 7,410
If at any time your equity goes below 7,410, the account is breached.
This applies throughout the day, not just at rollover.

You are allowed to hold positions over the weekend throughout both challenge phases as well as on the funded account stage of the Ability Challenge, Ability One, and FTP(instant funding).

You can hold positions overnight in all stages of the Ability Challenge, Ability One, and FTP(instant funding).

What are the prohibited strategies?

Audacity Capital allows traders full freedom to develop and apply their own strategies — but a small number of practices are not permitted, because they don't reflect genuine trading skill, they exploit the firm's risk model, or they put an unfair or manipulative advantage ahead of real market analysis. Below is a plain-language breakdown of each one, with an example so it's clear what to avoid.

1. High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

What it is: Using Expert Advisors (EAs), bots, or algorithms to open and close large volumes of trades within fractions of a second, exploiting tiny, short-lived price movements or gaps in data feeds.

Why it's not allowed: HFT relies on speed and infrastructure rather than market analysis, and can create unfair advantages, price manipulation, or instability. This also covers Latency Arbitrage — exploiting the delay between when a trade executes and when market data updates.

Example: An EA is programmed to fire 50+ trades per minute on EUR/USD, each closed within a fraction of a second, targeting sub-pip discrepancies between the platform's price feed and a faster external feed. This is HFT and is prohibited, regardless of whether it's profitable.

2. Tick Scalping

What it is: Opening and closing trades within a very short window (2 minutes or below), aiming to catch tiny price flickers rather than trading a genuine directional view.

Why it's not allowed: It relies on noise, not analysis or strategy.

Example:

• 10:00:00 — Buy 1.00 lot EUR/USD
• 10:01:35 — Close for a 3-pip profit

Repeating this pattern — entering and exiting within roughly two minutes based on minor fluctuations — is Tick Scalping and is prohibited.

3. Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts

What it is: Placing opposing buy and sell positions on the same instrument — either within one account, or split across multiple accounts (your own, or coordinated with others) — to lock in a risk-free outcome.

Why it's not allowed: One side of the position loses money for the firm while the other profits, producing a guaranteed, risk-free result for the trader. This is a form of arbitrage and is not a genuine reflection of market risk-taking.

Example: A trader opens a Buy on GBP/USD in Account A and, at the same time, opens an equal-sized Sell on GBP/USD in Account B (their own second account, or a friend's account).

Whichever direction the market moves, one account profits while the other loses — this coordinated opposite-direction setup is prohibited.

4. Averaging Down / Martingale Strategies

What it is: Increasing your position size after a loss, on the same losing idea, in an attempt to recover previous losses with a single winning trade.

Why it's not allowed: It only "works" with unlimited capital. Since accounts have defined loss limits, a losing streak using this method can blow through the account very quickly. It's treated as high-risk, gambling-style behavior rather than a trading plan.

Example: A trader opens 0.50 lots on USD/JPY and it moves against them. Instead of respecting their stop-loss, they open 1.00 lot on the same idea, then 2.00 lots, doubling up each time to try to offset the running loss with one favorable move.

5. Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA)

What it is: Repeatedly adding to a losing position (same or varying size) as price moves further against your original entry, hoping for an eventual reversal.

Why it's not allowed: While DCA can be a legitimate long-term investing approach, on a funded trading account it substantially raises drawdown risk if the price never reverses — and it replaces a defined risk plan with hope.

Example:

• Buy 1.00 lot EUR/USD @ 1.1000
• Price falls to 1.0980 → Buy another 1.00 lot
• Price falls to 1.0960 → Buy another 1.00 lot

Continuing to add to the same losing position rather than exiting per a risk plan is DCA and is prohibited.

6. Use of Third-Party Expert Advisors (EAs)

What it is: Running an EA, bot, or algorithm that you did not personally build.

Why it's not allowed: Only EAs you've personally developed are permitted. Commercially sold EAs, EAs coded by someone else, or EAs downloaded/shared from external sources are not.

Example: A trader purchases a "signal bot" from a third-party vendor's website and runs it on their funded account. Even if they didn't write a single line of its code, using it violates this rule.

7. Account Management by Third Parties

What it is: Letting someone else trade your account for you — whether that's a paid signal/management service, a friend, or an automated service acting on another person's decisions.

Why it's not allowed: The account must be traded by the person who holds it. This applies whether or not money changes hands.

Example: A trader pays a "professional account manager" to log in and place trades on their behalf while they're at work. This is not allowed, even if the manager is a licensed trader elsewhere.

8. Copy Trading

What it is: Mirroring or duplicating another trader's trades onto your account, manually or via a copier/automated tool.

Why it's not allowed: The trading activity isn't your own independent analysis or decision-making.

Example: A trader connects their account to a "copy trading" service that automatically replicates every trade from a signal provider's master account. This is prohibited even if the trader could technically override individual trades.

9. Grid Trading

What it is: Placing a pre-set series of buy and sell orders at fixed price intervals above and below the current price, forming a "grid," regardless of directional analysis.

Why it's not allowed: It's treated as a form of arbitrage rather than genuine directional trading, and can be used to manufacture guaranteed-looking outcomes.

Example: A trader sets pending Buy orders every 20 pips below the current price and pending Sell orders every 20 pips above it on Gold, so that price movement in either direction automatically triggers a new position at a fixed interval.

10. Exploitation of System Vulnerabilities

What it is: Trading in a way that takes advantage of technical flaws — such as pricing errors, stale quotes, or data/latency gaps — whether done deliberately or discovered and then repeatedly exploited.

Why it's not allowed: Profits generated this way don't reflect real market conditions or genuine trading skill.

Example: A trader notices that during a specific broker's server hiccup, prices briefly lag the real market by several seconds, and repeatedly times trades to exploit that stale quote window.

11. Automated Multi-Trade Activity

What it is: Using automated tools to open many positions simultaneously across symbols or accounts, without the trader actively overseeing or managing each one.

Why it's not allowed: It indicates the trades aren't being actively managed or reasoned through by the trader in real time.

Example: An automated script fires off 15 trades across different currency pairs the moment a webhook signal is received, with no manual review of any individual position.

12. Lot Size Abuse

What it is: Opening positions with a lot size that is disproportionately large relative to account size — especially timed around market open/close or high-impact news — creating unrealistic risk exposure.

Why it's not allowed: It reflects reckless risk-taking rather than sound risk management, and is often used to try to hit profit targets in a single trade.

Example: On a $10,000 account, a trader opens a 5.00 lot position on GBP/USD right at the market open, risking a large percentage of the account on one trade.

13. Weekend Gap Trading Rule
Traders are prohibited from intentionally exploiting price gaps that occur between the market close on Friday and the market reopening on Sunday or Monday.

This includes opening positions shortly before market closure or placing pending orders specifically designed to profit from anticipated weekend price gaps.
Traders who hold positions over the weekend do so at their own risk. Due to market gaps, stop-loss and take-profit orders may be executed at the next available market price rather than the originally specified price.

Any losses or violations of applicable drawdown limits resulting from weekend price gaps will remain the trader's responsibility.

Any trading activity identified as intentional weekend gap exploitation may result in the removal of associated profits, rejection of payout requests, or termination of the trading account, following a review.

14. Single Directional Betting

Single Directional Betting refers to trading behaviour where a trader relies excessively on one market direction
or a particular trading idea, resulting in concentrated exposure or trading performance that depends
disproportionately on a single market movement.
Audacity Capital recognises that traders may have a directional bias based on their individual strategies.
However, trading decisions must remain structured, disciplined, and supported by appropriate risk
management.

Ability Challenge (2-Step)
Unlimited trading days to complete both phases.

Ability One (1-Step)
Unlimited trading days to hit your profit target.

FTP (Instant Funding)
Unlimited trading days to reach 10% profit target.

No time pressure, focus on consistent performance.

Please be advised of the latest updates to our leverage settings across all offered programs and asset classes. Kindly refer to the table below for the specific leverage ratios applicable to each account type:

We encourage all traders to review these updates and adjust their strategies accordingly. Should you have any questions or require further clarification, feel free to reach out to our support team.

As part of our standard policy, the use of VPN services by traders is generally prohibited due to concerns related to IP tracking and the risk of server misuse. However, in special cases where a trader presents a valid justification, we may consider allowing VPN usage. In such instances, the trader will be required to submit detailed information outlining the purpose of the VPN. These requests will be carefully reviewed and are subject to approval.

Conversely, the use of a VPS is permitted, provided it is utilized for Expert Advisors (EAs) in a manner that does not result in server abuse.

You are allowed to trade using other WiFi networks. However, please be aware that our risk team is closely monitoring traders' accounts. If we detect any server abuse through the use of arbitrage, HFT, DCA, or other prohibited strategies, we will immediately and permanently deactivate the account. Thank you for your understanding.

The 50% Consistency Rule applies to all free trading competition accounts at AudaCity Capital. This rule encourages traders to maintain consistent profitability rather than relying on a single highly profitable trading day.

How Is the Consistency Score Calculated?

The Consistency Score measures how much of your total net profit comes from your most profitable trading day.

Formula:

Consistency Score (%) = (Best Trading Day Profit ÷ Total Net Profit) × 100

• 50% or Lower: Meets the consistency requirement.
• Above 50%: Does not meet the requirement. Traders must continue trading to improve their score while the competition is active.

Important: A lower Consistency Score is better.

Example

A trader records the following results:

Calculation:

Consistency Score = ($750 ÷ $1,390) × 100 = 53.96%

Result: The trader does not meet the 50% Consistency Rule and must improve their score to 50% or lower.

Why Is This Rule Important?

The Consistency Rule promotes disciplined trading, responsible risk management, and profitability across multiple trading days.

Note: Traders must maintain a Consistency Score of 50% or lower to qualify for the competition rankings, alongside all other applicable competition requirements.