30% off WEALTH

Trading Rules

Simple, straightforward rules for evaluation and funded accounts

Gas & Electric evaluations share the same targets — the drawdown style differs. Same profit targets, same contract limits, no daily loss limit and no consistency rule to pass on either. Gas evals trail intraday; Electric evals use an end-of-day trailing drawdown that moves up only at session close — the same drawdown style each account keeps once funded.

Gas, once funded, uses a trailing drawdown with no daily loss limit and no consistency rule, and a 30% single-trade drawdown limit — the trailing drawdown is the only loss-limit rule on the account.

Exactly how the trailing (intraday) drawdown works (both platforms). Your drawdown floor follows your highest live account equity, including the unrealized profit of open positions — on both DeepCharts and WealthCharts. The floor rises in real time as an open trade moves in your favor and never falls back, so giving back an open trade's profit can reach your floor and liquidate the position before that profit is ever booked. The floor starts at your starting balance minus the drawdown, only ratchets up from there, and the breach check is live: touching the floor at any moment fails the account. Manage open positions accordingly — do not let a winning trade round-trip back into your drawdown.

1Evaluation Rules

Account Parameters

Parameter$25K Account$50K Account$100K Account$150K Account
Starting Balance$25,000$50,000$100,000$150,000
Profit Target$1,375 (5.5%)$2,750 (5.5%)$5,500 (5.5%)$8,250 (5.5%)
Trailing Drawdown (eval)$1,000 (4.0%)$2,000 (4.0%)$3,500 (3.5%)$5,000 (3.3%)
Contract Limit5 mini contracts OR 50 micro contracts per side (all sizes)
Daily Loss LimitNone — no daily loss limit on either style, eval or funded
Consistency RuleNone — no consistency rule to pass or to keep funded
Overnight / Weekend HoldingNot allowed — positions must be flat by session close
Evaluation Period25 days from purchase — deactivates if not passed
Pricing
Gas Standard (one-time): $99 (25K), $119 (50K), $238 (100K), $298 (150K)
Gas Activation (one-time): $47 (50K), $97 (100K), $137 (150K) + $129 activation fee — not offered on $25K
To skip the evaluation and start funded, see the Diesel tab.

To Pass Evaluation:

  • Hit profit target ($1,375 for 25K, $2,750 for 50K, $5,500 for 100K, $8,250 for 150K)
  • Stay above your drawdown floor at all times (trailing intraday on Gas, end-of-day on Electric)
  • No overnight or weekend holds — positions must be flat by session close
  • No daily loss limit during the evaluation — only the trailing drawdown applies
  • No consistency rule — neither to pass the eval nor on funded payouts
  • No gambling or reckless trading
  • No bots, EAs, scripts, or automated trading
  • No hedging between accounts
  • Place at least one trade every 14 consecutive days. Evaluation and funded accounts with no trade placed for 14 consecutive days are subject to forfeiture (logging in or loading a chart does not count as activity)
25-day evaluation period. Every evaluation account deactivates 25 days after purchase if it has not been passed. Pass and get funded within those 25 days and the clock stops — funded accounts have no time limit. Diesel (instant-funded) accounts skip the evaluation and are not time-limited — see the Diesel tab.

Funded Account Rules — Gas

These rules apply once your account is funded — each style keeps the drawdown it ran in the evaluation, and the funded ruleset adds its own guardrails.

Funded Rule$25K$50K$100K$150K
Trailing Drawdown$1,000$2,000$3,500$5,000
Daily Loss LimitNone
Payout ConsistencyNone
Single-Trade Drawdown (MAE) Limit30% of drawdown — a single trade losing this much before it closes denies the payout
Contract Limit5m / 50µ5m / 50µ5m / 50µ5m / 50µ

Gas funded breach states (red flags): hitting the trailing drawdown floor fails the account; a payout is denied if any single trade's MAE reaches 30% of drawdown. There is no daily loss limit and no consistency rule.

2Payout Rules

Minimum Trading Days
8 Days
Required Winning Days
6 Winning Days
Min Profit Per Winning Day
$130
Profit Split
90/10
Accounts funded before Jun 7, 2026: 80/20
🕒

How we count a “trading day”

A trading day and a winning day are counted by CME futures session, not by calendar date. CME equity-index sessions run:

6:00 PM ET (prior day) 5:00 PM ET (next day) · 5:00 PM ET → 6:00 PM ET daily maintenance break

So the Tuesday session = 6pm ET Monday through 5pm ET Tuesday. A trade you place at 9pm ET Monday is in the Tuesday session, not the Monday session.

  • Trading day = a CME session where you placed at least one closed trade.
  • Winning day = a CME session where your net P&L closed at $130 or more.
  • • Counts update after the session closes (5pm ET). A profitable trade taken mid-session won't bank a winning day until the session ends.
  • • Sunday 6pm ET opens the Monday session. Friday 5pm ET closes the week.

Additional Requirements:

  • Minimum payout request: $500 per cycle
  • Maximum payout request (per cycle, by account size): $1,000 (25K) / $1,500 (50K) / $2,000 (100K) / $2,500 (150K) gross — $900 / $1,350 / $1,800 / $2,250 net at the 90% split for accounts whose evaluation was purchased on or after June 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM Pacific; $800 / $1,200 / $1,600 / $2,000 net at the legacy 80% split for accounts from evaluations purchased before that time
  • Profit split applied to the requested amount: 90% trader / 10% Redline
  • You can request up to 50% of your accumulated profit each cycle — no minimum buffer required to remain in the account (subject to the $500 floor and the per-account cap above)
  • Post-failure reset window: a failed account may purchase a reset within the published reset window
  • Processing time: approved payouts are processed in up to 14 business days after approval, subject to completed KYC, AML screening, and rule-compliance review. This is a maximum window, not a guarantee of a specific pay date; most approved payouts are processed sooner
  • Trailing drawdown: $1,000 (25K), $2,000 (50K), $3,500 (100K), $5,000 (150K) — only loss-limit rule on the account, with no consistency requirement
  • No overnight or weekend holds — positions must be flat by session close
  • Account inactivity: you must place at least one trade every 14 consecutive days. Activity means a placed trade. Logging in or loading a chart does not count. An evaluation or funded account with no trade placed for 14 consecutive days is subject to forfeiture (closed and access removed) at Redline's discretion
  • Payout methods: ACH (US bank), domestic wire (US bank), or Wise (international).

+Powerups (Optional Add-Ons)

Powerups are optional, paid add-ons you can activate on an individual account. They are never required to trade, pass, or get paid.

  • Activated per account — a Powerup only affects the account you buy it on.
  • Available on active evaluation and funded accounts. Diesel (instant-funded) accounts are not eligible.
  • Conduct waivers are single-use — each one stands down one specific payout-conduct rule on your next payout, then is spent (buy again to cover another payout). They do not waive drawdown, profit target, or trading-day requirements, and never excuse fraud or market manipulation.
  • Balance Boost and Profit Bonus add real funds to your balance (coming soon).
  • Powerups are non-refundable once activated. Full terms in the Trader Agreement.

3Prohibited Activities

❌ No automated trading (bots, EAs, scripts)

Manual trading only. The following are all banned, regardless of profitability:

  • • Trading bots, EAs, or any automated decision software
  • • Scripts that send orders programmatically (Python, NinjaScript, MQL, custom DOM scripts, etc.)
  • • Latency / arbitrage / order-flow scripts
  • • Signal services where a bot — not you — places the order on your account
  • • Auto-execution copy-trading software where execution is hands-off

What IS allowed:

  • • Hotkeys and bracket orders configured in your trading platform
  • • Pre-set stop-loss / take-profit levels
  • • Manual mirroring of trades you place by hand on another Redline account (Volumetrica copy trading, TradeSyncer)

How we catch it: trades closed within 1 second of opening with significant profit are an unmistakable bot signature (see Rule 6 below). But we don't need that detection to trigger to act — if we identify bot usage by ANY means (Discord chat, support tickets, trader admissions, order-flow telemetry), the account is closed immediately, no payout.

❌ Trading conduct rules

The AI compliance evaluator runs deterministic math on your trade history at every payout. Below is exactly what it looks at. Designed to identify high-risk behavior such as excessive position sizing or rule circumvention, while not penalizing legitimate strategies.

1. Excessive single-trade risk

A single trade whose worst unrealized drawdown ate a large chunk of your trailing drawdown limit. Measured by Maximum Adverse Excursion (MAE) — the deepest the trade went against you before it closed — as a % of your trailing drawdown. The deny line is per style: 30% on Gas, 50% on Electric and Diesel. You're viewing the Gas threshold.

MAE ≥ 30% of trailing drawdown🔴 Denied
MAE < 30% of trailing drawdown✅ No flag

Example (Gas): 50K account → $2,000 trailing drawdown. A trade that went $400 against you (20%) before turning around → no flag. A trade that went $600 (30%) → denied.

2. Doubling down after a loss

Increasing your contract size after a losing trade on the same day, with no break to reassess. We count “hard doublings” — the size on the next trade is at least 2× the previous loser's size, within 60 minutes, same session.

5+ hard doublings in the cycle🔴 Denied
2–4 doublings + any trade hit ≥ 40% MAE🔴 Denied (Rule 1)
2–4 doublings, no high-MAE, no prior warning🟡 Approved + warning
2–4 doublings, no high-MAE, prior warning on file🔴 Denied (escalation)
1 doubling🟡 Logged, no action

We recognize some traders use legitimate scale-in strategies. First offense is a heads-up. A repeat with an open warning is intentional behavior and gets the auto-deny. Conduct warnings are recorded against you as the trader, not a single account — an open warning applies across all of your funded accounts, and repeating the warned conduct on any of them triggers the auto-deny.

3. Event pre-positioning

Putting on large positions in the seconds before/after a scheduled news release. Measured by: trades opened within ±5 seconds of a major release window, held less than 5 seconds, with ≥ 3 full contracts (or 30 micros).

Events we watch: FOMC rate decisions, CPI, PPI, NFP, jobless claims, PCE, GDP, ISM, JOLTS, Treasury auctions, and the standard US 8:30 / 9:00 / 9:30 / 10:00 ET release windows.

4+ instances in the cycle🔴 Denied / terminate
1–3 instances⚠️ Review (denies if combined with another flag)
4. Over-trading / tilt

A single day where you traded WAY more than your normal pattern AND had a long streak of losses — the classic revenge-trading signature. Measured by: day's trade count ≥ 4× your daily median for the cycle AND ≥ 4 consecutive losing trades on that day.

Both signals on the same day🔴 Denied
Just one signal✅ No flag
5. Profit concentration

Your entire cycle's profit comes from one or two trades; the rest is roughly break-even or losing. Measured as: top 1 trade as a % of your gross cycle winnings (the sum of your winning trades, so the ratio is always between 0% and 100%); top 2 trades combined. This is a standalone denial: if one trade carries 75% or more of your gross cycle winnings (or your top two combined carry 90% or more), the payout is denied on its own, with no other flag required.

Single trade ≥ 75% of gross cycle winnings🔴 Denied
Top 2 trades combined ≥ 90% of gross cycle winnings🔴 Denied
Profit distributed across many trades✅ No flag
6. Bot-like execution

Trades opened and closed within a second with significant profit. Indicates an automated script — see “No automated trading” above. Measured by: trades with hold duration ≤ 1 second AND net P&L ≥ $200.

5+ instances in the cycle🔴 Denied / terminate
1–4 instances⚠️ Review (denies if combined with another flag)
How decisions are made

Decisions are automatic. The evaluator runs the math above and either approves and pays your payout or denies it — with the reason emailed to you either way. There is no general human review queue for ordinary trading conduct.

  • ✅ APPROVE — all checks pass with no flags, OR you have a single warning-level flag (such as one doubling-down flag) and nothing else. Payout auto-fires; the warning is logged to your trader record — it applies across ALL of your funded accounts, not just this one.
  • 🔴 DENY — any deny-level flag fires (this includes profit concentration: a single trade at 75%+ of gross cycle winnings, or the top two combined at 90%+, denies on its own), OR any two warning-level flags fire together, OR a doubling-down warning repeats after a prior warning on file (warnings are tracked per trader across ALL of your funded accounts, so a prior warning on any account counts here). Payout is rejected with the reason emailed to you; your account stays open and you can request again next cycle.
  • 🔍 HELD — a small set of cases are held for a manual look before any decision: a suspected fraud signal, trade data we can't verify, or accounts on certain partner platforms during onboarding. You'll be emailed when a decision is reached.
What we DON'T flag
  • • Number of trades per day — only flagged in combination with consecutive losses (Rule 4).
  • • Single trade size — only flagged via MAE, not by contract count alone.
  • • Use of stop losses — your discretion; not a compliance signal.

Last updated: 2026-05-29. Payout requests are evaluated automatically against the published rules above, and the reason for any decision is emailed to you. A limited set of cases (suspected fraud, unverifiable trade data, or certain partner-platform accounts during onboarding) are held for a manual look before a decision is reached. If you believe a decision was made in error, contact support. Thresholds reflect current production calibration; we adjust these as we see real-trader data, never to retroactively penalize traders who already met the prior bar.

❌ No Hedging

Hedging between multiple Redline accounts is strictly prohibited. Trading opposite positions across your accounts or coordinating with other traders will result in permanent ban.

⚠️ Copying a Professional Trader Requires Notification

If you copy, mirror, or follow a professional trader's positions — whether manually, via signal services, trade rooms, or any copy trading software connected to an external source — you must notify Redline in advance. We don't prohibit it outright, but we need to know about it. Failure to disclose may result in payout denial or account termination.

Note: Copying trades between your own Redline accounts (e.g. via Volumetrica or TradeSyncer) is always allowed and does not require notification.

❌ Other Violations

  • • Account sharing or allowing others to trade your account
  • • Using exploits or manipulating the platform
  • • Providing false information during registration or KYC

4Trading Platform

📊

DeepCharts by dxFeed

Every Redline account includes DeepCharts; WealthCharts is available as an optional alternative. DeepCharts is powered by dxFeed — a professional-grade data provider licensed by the CME.

CME Licensed Data Provider
📈

WealthCharts (optional)

WealthCharts is a professional charting and execution platform available on request. Same CME-licensed dxFeed data, the same drawdown ceilings, and the same drawdown measurement as DeepCharts — see the drawdown note above.

CME Licensed Data Provider

Frequently Asked Questions

⚠️ Agreement

By creating an account or trading with Redline Futures Funding, you acknowledge that:

  • You have read and understood all rules on this page
  • You agree to trade skillfully without gambling or reckless behavior
  • You will not hedge between accounts or engage in prohibited activities
  • Redline has sole discretion to deny payouts or terminate accounts for rule violations