What is FundedAura’s Maximum Daily Drawdown rule?
FundedAura uses a dynamic Daily Drawdown model to ensure traders manage risk responsibly on any given trading day. The Daily Drawdown limit is calculated from the starting balance of the day, meaning the system locks in your equity at the market open (00:00 server time). If your equity falls below the permitted threshold at any point during that day—including through open floating losses—you will breach the account. This encourages traders to plan their risk carefully and avoid oversized positions during low-liquidity market conditions. The Daily Drawdown resets every new trading day, providing traders a fresh start while maintaining consistent protection for the firm’s capital.
What is FundedAura’s Maximum Overall Drawdown rule?
The Maximum Overall Drawdown represents the total amount a trader can lose from the initial account balance or from equity highs, depending on the challenge type you purchased. This drawdown applies throughout the entire lifetime of your challenge or funded account, and it does not reset daily. If your equity falls below the overall limit at any point—whether due to closed losses or floating drawdown—you will breach the account. This rule ensures long-term risk management, preventing over-leveraged strategies or attempts to recover large losses with excessive risk. It also guarantees that traders who scale up do so gradually and responsibly.
How is profit calculated toward challenge completion?
Profit is calculated strictly based on closed trades. Floating gains do not count toward passing the challenge until positions are fully closed. This ensures that traders cannot temporarily inflate equity through unrealized gains that could reverse before confirmation. FundedAura uses precise tick-based brokerage data to ensure all calculations are accurate and fair. Once the profit target is reached, your account is reviewed automatically by our system and forwarded for final approval, provided all rules have been followed.
What triggers an automatic challenge breach?
A breach is triggered whenever any core rule is violated, including exceeding Daily Drawdown, Overall Drawdown, using prohibited strategies, or engaging in manipulation. Breaches are immediate and irreversible because they represent a scenario where the firm can no longer simulate realistic risk. The breach may occur in real time or shortly after a position closes if the system detects a violation in your trade journal. Traders receive an email notification along with detailed reasoning for the breach. We encourage traders to monitor their dashboard for real-time updates to avoid accidental violations.
Does FundedAura allow martingale or grid systems?
No—martingale, grid, and similar exponentially increasing volume strategies are strictly prohibited. These strategies create unrealistic growth curves that do not reflect sustainable or responsible trading and introduce risks that exceed professional risk parameters. Even if these systems generate short-term gains, they can cause catastrophic equity swings that violate our risk model. FundedAura’s analysis tools automatically detect signature patterns such as lot multipliers, aggressive layering, and highly correlated entries. Traders who use such strategies will breach their account immediately upon detection.
Are there any instruments I am not allowed to trade?
FundedAura offers access to all major FX pairs, commodities, indices, and cryptocurrencies. However, certain extremely low-liquidity exotic pairs may be restricted if they pose execution risks or create inconsistent fills. Restrictions may also be applied to newly listed instruments or assets experiencing abnormal volatility. These restrictions protect traders from sudden spread spikes or unexpected leverage changes. Any restricted instruments will be clearly marked in the trading platform, and our support team can clarify details upon request.
Is high-frequency trading allowed?
FundedAura allows fast executionons that are made within a 1 minute time frame but not true high-frequency trading (HFT) that relies on micro-second arbitrage or data-feed manipulation. Professional prop-firm environments cannot replicate institutional HFT conditions, so these strategies introduce false performance and unrealistic fills. If our system detects patterns resembling HFT—such as thousands of trades per hour, micro-second entries, or exploit-based routing—the account may be flagged and manually reviewed. Traders may still use active scalping strategies as long as they reflect normal retail execution behavior. Consistent transparency is key to preserving trust and fairness.
Can I use tick-scalping or latency-focused strategies?
Latency arbitrage, tick-speed exploitation, and similar low-latency strategies are prohibited because they take advantage of broker data delays or feed mismatches. These trades often rely on execution “gaps” that would not exist in real market conditions and therefore create unrealistic performance. FundedAura deploys anti-latency monitoring that compares your fill timing, position volume, and price patterns against known exploit profiles. Normal scalping—where trades are held for a short time but executed in predictable conditions—is fully allowed. As long as your strategy reflects real-world profitability, it is permitted.
What happens if I over-leverage an account?
Over-leveraging exposes you to sudden equity swings that can instantly breach both Daily and Overall Drawdown. If you enter a position size far beyond what is consistent with your prior trade history, your account may be flagged for risk review. A breach will occur automatically if floating losses exceed allowed thresholds, even if the position later returns to profit. Over-leveraging is one of the most common causes of challenge failure, so traders should maintain a clear and consistent risk plan. FundedAura recommends using no more than 1–2% risk per trade for long-term funded stability.
10. Is copy trading between Aura accounts allowed?
Copy trading between your own FundedAura accounts is allowed, provided the execution remains within risk rules and does not trigger simultaneous drawdown breaches. However, copying across a large number of accounts with identical timing, volume, and direction may trigger a review for mass replication behavior, which is prohibited. Copying trades from other traders’ accounts is strictly forbidden because it constitutes multi-user account sharing. FundedAura tracks device and IP behavior to ensure compliance and maintain fairness across the platform.
What is your rule on third-party trade copiers?
FundedAura allows the use of trade copiers as long as they are used responsibly and do not attempt to exploit broker delays or data feeds. Copiers must operate in real-time execution and cannot create sudden synchronized bursts that resemble latency arbitrage. If your copier introduces irregular price entries, off-market fills, or duplicated execution patterns across multiple accounts, our system may suspend or breach the account pending review. Trade copying should reflect manual or automated strategy execution—not exploit-based arbitrage systems.
Do you allow trade mirroring from external live accounts?
Mirroring is allowed only if the external account belongs to you and uses legitimate retail execution. However, mirroring from institutional feeds, ultra-low-latency connections, or private liquidity pools is prohibited because these conditions create unrealistic fills relative to retail markets. Our monitoring tools compare execution timestamps and slippage patterns to detect inconsistencies. Traders intending to use mirroring tools should ensure they trade within normal reaction times and market behavior. Violations may lead to immediate breach without refund.
Can I hedge positions on multiple Aura accounts?
Hedging is allowed within a single account but not across multiple accounts in opposite directions. Opposite-direction hedging across multiple FundedAura accounts creates artificial exposure that does not exist in real proprietary trading and is considered a form of risk manipulation. If detected, your accounts may be suspended, merged, or breached depending on the severity. Hedging within one account—such as buying and selling correlated pairs in managed risk—is permitted. The key factor is avoiding multi-account manipulation.
Are lot-size spikes considered violations?
Yes. Excessive lot-size spikes—where position size suddenly increases far beyond your historical pattern—can signal gambler’s fallacy behavior or intentional rule exploitation. While traders may scale position size gradually as equity grows, sudden, unrealistic jumps may flag your account for review. If the spike causes rapid drawdown or violates daily limits, the system will breach the account automatically. FundedAura encourages consistent and predictable risk behavior to ensure a fair and sustainable trading environment.
Do you restrict trading patterns that appear algorithmic?
FundedAura allows algorithmic trading as long as the algorithm behaves like a normal retail trader’s system—following predictable patterns and reacting to market conditions realistically. However, systems that appear to exploit data-feed mismatches, latency gaps, or broker inefficiencies are prohibited. If your EA executes trades with microsecond precision or displays non-human reaction times, it may be flagged for exploit behavior. We encourage traders to ensure their EAs include realistic delays and variability to reflect natural execution conditions.
What happens if my trade closes due to slippage?
Slippage is a natural part of trading, especially during low liquidity, high volatility, or news events. FundedAura does not penalize traders for normal slippage. However, if a trader attempts to take advantage of slippage—such as opening trades milliseconds before high-impact events or attempting price-jumping strategies—our systems will detect inconsistent execution patterns. If slippage leads to a rule breach (e.g., equity falls below drawdown limits), the breach stands, as all calculations are based on actual broker data. Traders should always account for potential slippage in their risk planning.
Can I recover from a violation or is the account final?
All challenge and funded breaches are final because they represent risk parameters being exceeded in real time. FundedAura must enforce strict and consistent rule management to simulate realistic proprietary trading conditions. However, traders can purchase a new challenge at any time or request seasonal discount codes if available. We encourage traders to review their dashboard analytics after a breach to understand exactly what caused the violation. Long-term success comes from adjusting strategy after mistakes.
What happens if my broker freezes or lags?
If a platform outage occurs on the broker’s side, FundedAura reviews the incident carefully using raw price data, system logs, and execution journals. If the freeze directly caused a rule breach, our technical team may restore the account depending on the analysis. However, if the breach occurred independently of the freeze—or during normal market conditions—the rule violation remains valid. Traders should use stable internet connections and avoid trading during known broker maintenance windows.
Can I appeal a rule violation?
Yes, traders may submit an appeal if they believe a breach occurred incorrectly. Appeals go through a formal review process where our team analyzes execution logs, price feeds, equity curves, and system alerts. If the breach resulted from a technical error or incorrect system reading, we may reinstate the account. However, if the breach was caused by trader actions—such as over-leveraging, hitting drawdown, or using prohibited strategies—the decision will remain final. Appeals must be filed within 48 hours of the breach notification.
