Are there any prohibited strategies?

Yes. At Noctorial, the use of strategies designed to manipulate the system or take uncontrolled risks, whether manually or automatically, is prohibited.

The objective of the Funding Program is to evaluate your ability as a trader, not to test servers, latency errors, or automated shortcuts.

Strategies that are NOT allowed:

• Emulators or simulated environments

• Latency, hedge, or reverse arbitrage

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

• Tick scalping: trades lasting only a few seconds seeking millisecond advantages.

• Martingale: doubling the size of each trade after a loss.

• Grid trading: opening multiple layered orders without clear stops.

• Gapping: opening trades just before the close to exploit potential opening gaps.

• Signal copying or mirror accounts (manual or automatic copy trading)

Pay attention if you use an EA purchased online. Many popular EAs place the same trades across hundreds of accounts. If we detect that you are executing the exact same trades as other Noctorial users (at the same time and with the same volume), this breaks the program rules. Automating is not prohibited. Automating without discretion or control is prohibited.

To monitor this, we use over 50 variables to detect anomalous activity (suspicious durations, exact timings, replicated patterns across multiple accounts…). If we detect that you are using prohibited strategies, your account will be suspended immediately.

You can find all the reasons an account may be canceled and the procedures in the Agreements and the Program's Terms and Conditions.

We are not looking to "catch" you. We are looking for you to learn to trade responsibly, with your own style, and under control.