If you trade a funded or evaluation account, read the programme rulebook before following any external signal. Rule breaches are usually the trader's responsibility, and a signal provider will not compensate a failed evaluation.
Rule categories that commonly conflict
- Copy-trading or identical-trade prohibitions across accounts.
- News-window trading restrictions.
- Daily and maximum drawdown limits.
- Consistency rules that penalise irregular sizing.
- Minimum holding-time requirements.
The drawdown mismatch
A signal's stop distance is set without knowledge of your programme's daily loss limit. A sequence of losing signals that a retail account could absorb may end an evaluation. Size positions against the programme limit, not the signal.
Practical approach
- Extract the numeric limits from your rulebook.
- Convert each limit into a maximum risk per trade.
- Decline any signal whose stop distance cannot fit that limit.
- Keep your own record of which signals you took and why.
Programme terms vary and change. Verify current rules with your programme directly; nothing here describes any specific firm's terms.
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