At AquaFutures, our simulated trading environment is designed to closely reflect real market conditions and professional futures trading standards. While simulated environments provide traders with realistic market exposure, differences may still exist compared to live market conditions, particularly in areas such as slippage, liquidity, execution speed, and order fills.
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Because of these differences, certain trading styles or behaviors may generate unrealistic performance in simulated environments while being unsustainable or impossible to replicate consistently in live markets. To maintain a fair, transparent, and sustainable ecosystem for all traders, AquaFutures strictly prohibits any strategy or behavior that attempts to exploit simulated market conditions, manipulate execution mechanics, abuse platform limitations, or bypass responsible risk management principles.

All trading activity remains subject to ongoing review by the AquaFutures Risk Team. Our policies are designed to protect the integrity of the platform, our funding partners, and traders who participate fairly and professionally.
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AquaFutures is designed for discretionary and responsibly managed trading activity. Trading behavior that resembles institutional high-frequency execution systems or fully automated exploitation strategies is not permitted within our ecosystem.

The use of fully automated systems, unattended algorithms, trading bots, AI-driven execution software, latency arbitrage systems, or any form of self-operating execution mechanism is strictly prohibited across all AquaFutures account types. This includes systems designed to continuously execute trades without direct trader involvement or systems intended to exploit execution speed, slippage conditions, or simulated fill behavior.
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While traders may use tools for charting assistance, alerts, or trade management, all trading activity must remain actively supervised and manually managed by the trader at all times. Semi-automated systems may only be used when the trader remains fully present during execution, actively manages positions, fully understands the strategy being used, and is not attempting to exploit simulated market behavior.

AquaFutures also prohibits excessive trading frequency that resembles high-frequency trading behavior. Traders may not execute 100 or more trades within a single trading day. However, excessively repetitive or mechanically identical execution behavior may still trigger reviews even below this threshold if the activity appears unrealistic or dependent primarily on execution speed rather than actual trading analysis.
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These restrictions exist because excessive automation and rapid-fire execution often produce unrealistic simulated results that cannot reasonably be replicated in live market conditions.
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Accounts displaying signs of automation abuse, execution exploitation, or abnormal trading behavior may face payout denial, account suspension, or permanent termination.

AquaFutures strictly prohibits all forms of coordinated trading, synthetic hedging, or account manipulation involving multiple traders, accounts, or firms.
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Our evaluation and funded programs are designed to assess individual trading skill, consistency, discipline, and risk management. Strategies designed to artificially reduce risk exposure through coordination between accounts undermine the integrity of the platform and are not permitted under any circumstances.
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Hedging between multiple AquaFutures accounts is strictly prohibited. Hedging between different individuals, across separate prop firms, or through coordinated trading groups is also forbidden. This includes situations where one account takes a long position while another account takes a short position on the same asset with the intention of reducing or neutralizing overall risk exposure.
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Copy trading or coordinated execution between unrelated traders is also prohibited, particularly when the activity is intended to guarantee outcomes or manipulate funded account performance.
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AquaFutures additionally prohibits simultaneously trading Mini and Micro contracts on the same asset when used as a method of manipulating exposure, reducing directional risk artificially, or bypassing platform limitations. Examples may include simultaneously holding NQ and MNQ positions in offsetting directions or using Micro contracts to hedge larger Mini contract exposure.
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Although these structures may appear legitimate on the surface, they are commonly associated with synthetic hedging and platform abuse.
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Any coordinated trading or hedging-related activity identified by the AquaFutures Risk Team may result in immediate enforcement action, including payout denial, account closure, or permanent platform restrictions.

AquaFutures expects all traders to participate in the market ethically, responsibly, and in accordance with professional trading standards.
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Any attempt to manipulate fills, exploit execution mechanics, abuse order behavior, or create unrealistic trading conditions is strictly prohibited.
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Practices such as layering, order stacking, rapid order cancellations, excessive bracket manipulation, or artificial liquidity behavior are not permitted. Placing multiple pending orders at identical or near-identical price levels with the intention of manipulating fills or exploiting simulated execution conditions is considered abusive behavior.
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Strategies specifically designed to exploit low-liquidity environments, overnight gaps, delayed fills, thin order books, volatility spikes, or news-related execution anomalies are also prohibited. Simulated environments may occasionally behave differently during these conditions compared to live markets, creating unrealistic execution advantages that do not reflect sustainable trading performance.
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AquaFutures also prohibits strategies designed to exploit unrealistic slippage or fill quality. This includes systems dependent on perfect execution, ultra-tight stop-loss and take-profit brackets intended solely for fill exploitation, or rapid entry-and-exit behavior relying primarily on simulated execution precision rather than genuine market structure.
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Trading during major Tier-1 economic releases may also be restricted depending on market conditions, volatility levels, and platform stability requirements. AquaFutures reserves the right to review or restrict trading activity surrounding high-impact economic events where simulated execution may significantly differ from live market conditions.
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All trading activity must remain compliant with applicable exchange rules, including CME Group standards and market conduct requirements.

AquaFutures allows legitimate scalping strategies. We understand that many professional futures traders operate on lower timeframes and may naturally hold positions for shorter periods of time. Scalping itself is not prohibited when executed responsibly and within reasonable trading behavior.
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However, AquaFutures strictly prohibits microscalping and execution-based trading strategies that rely primarily on simulated market advantages rather than genuine market analysis or sustainable execution practices.
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Microscalping generally refers to extremely short-duration trading behavior that depends heavily on execution speed, minimal slippage, rapid entries and exits, or unrealistic fill conditions that may exist within simulated environments. These strategies often involve repeatedly opening and closing positions within seconds while targeting extremely small price fluctuations throughout the trading session.
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Although these strategies may appear profitable in simulation, they are often unsustainable in live markets where liquidity conditions, slippage, latency, and execution delays behave differently.
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To maintain fair and sustainable trading conditions, AquaFutures requires that at least 50% of all closed trades remain open for longer than 1 minute. In addition, at least 50% of total generated profits must come from trades held longer than 1 minute. Traders are also expected to maintain an average risk-to-reward ratio above 0.3RR across their overall trading activity.
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The purpose of these requirements is not to prevent legitimate scalping, but rather to discourage execution-dependent strategies designed to exploit characteristics unique to simulated environments.
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Examples of acceptable scalping may include holding trades for several minutes while targeting structured market movements, trading around technical levels with defined stop losses and realistic profit targets, or executing lower timeframe setups while still allowing trades reasonable time to develop naturally.
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By contrast, prohibited microscalping behavior may include repeatedly opening and closing trades within seconds, targeting only minimal tick movements at excessive frequency, relying primarily on fill speed rather than market structure, or exploiting low-latency simulated execution conditions.
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Trading activity that demonstrates excessive dependency on execution mechanics rather than actual trading skill may still be reviewed even if certain statistical requirements appear technically satisfied.

AquaFutures is built for disciplined traders who apply structured risk management and professional trading practices. Behavior that resembles gambling rather than legitimate trading is strictly prohibited.
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This includes taking oversized positions without proper risk planning, trading without stop losses while exposing the account to excessive risk, repeatedly using maximum leverage without a structured strategy, or attempting unrealistic “all-or-nothing” trades.
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AquaFutures also prohibits behavior commonly referred to as “Account Rolling” or “Account Stacking.”
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Account Rolling generally refers to repeatedly purchasing evaluations or funded accounts while using extremely aggressive risk exposure with the expectation that eventually one account will produce a large payout. This often includes repeatedly breaching accounts, continuously cycling through new accounts after hitting Maximum Loss Limits, purchasing excessive numbers of accounts simultaneously, or maintaining large numbers of backup accounts intended solely for replacement purposes.
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Rather than demonstrating consistency or genuine trading skill, these practices resemble gambling systems based on probability cycling and excessive risk exposure.
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This behavior undermines the purpose of evaluations, creates unsustainable platform risk, distorts trader performance metrics, and fails to represent professional trading standards.
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AquaFutures evaluates traders based on consistency, discipline, execution quality, and sustainable profitability not high-risk gambling exposure.
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Accounts displaying reckless behavior, gambling tendencies, repeated account cycling patterns, or abusive risk management practices may face profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, or permanent restrictions from the platform.

Martingale strategies are permitted at AquaFutures when used responsibly and within all platform rules, margin requirements, contract limitations, and risk management expectations.
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However, traders should understand that aggressive Martingale systems can quickly create excessive account exposure and may still trigger reviews if the overall trading behavior resembles reckless risk management or gambling tendencies.
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The use of Martingale does not exempt traders from any AquaFutures rules related to maximum loss limits, consistency requirements, position sizing standards, or prohibited risk behavior.
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The AquaFutures Risk Team reserves the right to review any strategy that creates abnormal, excessive, or unsustainable exposure regardless of the underlying methodology being used.

All accounts at AquaFutures remain subject to ongoing monitoring and review by the Risk Team. Passing an evaluation or reaching funded status does not exempt any account from future compliance reviews.
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If prohibited behavior is identified, AquaFutures reserves the right to take action including profit removal, payout denial, account suspension, evaluation failure, funded account termination, or permanent platform bans.
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Enforcement decisions are based on overall trading behavior, execution analysis, consistency metrics, account patterns, risk exposure, and platform integrity considerations.
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Attempts to intentionally bypass platform rules, exploit loopholes, manipulate enforcement systems, or engage in deceptive trading practices may result in escalated enforcement action.
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If you have any questions regarding these policies or would like clarification on whether a specific strategy is permitted, please contact the AquaFutures Support Team via live chat, Discord ticket, or email at [email protected].