Overview
Etirda prohibits any abusive trading strategies, including Gambling Behavior, All-in-One Trading, Quick Strike, Copy Trading across accounts, High Frequency Trading, Arbitrage, Group Hedging, Tick Scalping, Grid Trading, Latency Trading, One Sided Betting, Account Rolling, Hyperactivity, exploiting Demo server errors, Guarantee of profit during low liquidity, and Account or Device Sharing. These methods affect markets and break fair rules or exhibit unsustainable trading behaviour.
Traders who engage in any of these behaviours may face account termination, profit forfeiture, or permanent restrictions on Etirda’s services.
Etirda strongly prohibits any form of cheating while using the platform, as it goes against our Terms of Service, which you have agreed to during registration.
Gambling Behaviour
Etirda expects traders to follow consistent, risk-managed strategies. Opening oversized positions without a valid trading plan or risk analysis is considered gambling. Using an excessive portion of available equity or margin in a single trade, or adopting “all-in” approaches that risk large portions of the account, violates Etirda’s sustainable trading principles. Every position should reflect careful analysis and respect for Etirda’s drawdown and risk parameters.
Quick-Strike or Tick Exploit Strategies
Strategies that focus on capturing movements within seconds are forbidden. This includes trades executed purely to take advantage of latency or price movements that exist for short durations. Such practices do not represent genuine market skill and may interfere with fair trading conditions for others.
High-Frequency Trading
The use of high-frequency systems that send a large number of orders within milliseconds, or rely on specialized network advantages, is prohibited. These activities cause unnecessary server load and create artificial liquidity that does not reflect authentic trading behaviour.
Copy Trading and Signal Mirroring
Copy trading between multiple accounts not owned by the same individual, including those of relatives, family members, or friends, is not allowed.
Hedging Across Multiple Accounts
Hedging is a risk management strategy where a trader opens two opposite trades (buy and sell) on the same asset to reduce potential losses. For example, if the market moves against one trade, the other trade may gain, minimizing overall risk.
Hedging across multiple accounts is prohibited. This undermines a sound trading strategy. We monitor suspicious trading behaviour, like taking the risk of full or close to daily loss limit, which can result in account termination.
Arbitrage Trading
Arbitrage trading is the practice of taking advantage of price differences or timing gaps between markets or platforms to lock in profit with little to no risk.
All forms of arbitrage, including latency, broker, or news-based arbitrage, are restricted. Arbitrage seeks to exploit timing or pricing discrepancies between different data feeds or liquidity providers and does not demonstrate actual trading skill. Etirda considers any such method an abuse of the evaluation process.
Tick Scalping
Tick scalping is the practice of traders aiming to profit from small price fluctuations by executing a high volume of trades in a short period of time.
At Etirda, restrictions have been placed on tick scalping due to its potential for market manipulation and disruptive trading behaviour.
Grid Trading
Grid trading is a strategy in which a trader sets multiple buy and sell orders at various price levels both above and below the current market price. The aim is to capitalize on market volatility, earning profits as the price rises and falls through those predefined levels.
Since Grid trading can create artificial market activity that results in manipulation, it is prohibited at Etirda. It also increases the risk of loss due to the possibility of large market movements against the trader’s direction.
Latency Trading
Latency trading involves executing trades using delayed market data or taking advantage of lags in trade execution, with the goal of capturing predictable or nearly guaranteed profits created by those delays.
At Etirda, Latency Trading is strictly prohibited. It has an unethical nature and violates fair trading practices in the financial markets.
Account Rolling
Account rolling is a high-risk approach in which a trader purchases multiple evaluation accounts in a short period, intentionally allowing some to fail while concentrating efforts on passing the remaining ones.
We believe account rolling is not based on strategy, and it depends on luck. This is against our goal to help traders empower their trading strategies and become structured and organised traders. It also bypasses the core principles of responsible trading.
To maintain fair and structured trading, we strongly restrict Account Rolling at Etirda.
One-Sided Betting
One-sided betting is a high-risk trading approach in which a trader opens one or several positions exclusively in a single direction, either all buys or all sells, without evaluating market conditions or performing proper analysis.
At Etirda, One-Sided betting is prohibited due to its speculative nature and potential for significant losses. This type of betting relies on luck, which contradicts our policy aimed at helping traders become organised and structured.
Hyperactivity
Hyperactivity is restricted at Etirda. Although an essential aspect of Etirda is trading, hyperactivity is prohibited. One reason for the prohibition is that it will cause slowdowns on the server and might interfere with other traders’ experiences. The second reason is that hyperactivity will lead to potential losses for traders. Our goal is to help traders prevent trading without a strategy. Conversely, a lack of knowledge and strategy often leads to hyperactivity. For this, it is strict on our platform, and we take measures to avoid hyperactivity.
Use of Platform or Data Freezing Caused by Demo Server Errors
Exploiting any unfair advantage, such as platform freezing or data delays resulting from demo server errors, is strictly prohibited. This policy ensures a fair trading environment for everyone and prevents any deceptive or misleading behaviour.
If a trader is found to be taking advantage of such issues, their activity will be reviewed, and appropriate actions may be taken, including the removal of access to our demo servers.
In case of any server-related problems, traders are advised to promptly report the issue to Etirda’s support team.
Account Sharing/Device Sharing
Account sharing is the act of sharing and reselling Etirda accounts with other individuals and entities, and it is prohibited. Also, sharing devices with other traders is not allowed, regardless of the relationship. Any form of device sharing is not tolerated at Etirda, for it breaches our security rules and fairness.