Trading Rules
Simple, straightforward rules for evaluation and funded accounts
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.
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 Limit | 5 mini contracts OR 50 micro contracts per side (all sizes) | |||
| Daily Loss Limit | None — no daily loss limit on either style, eval or funded | |||
| Consistency Rule | None — no consistency rule to pass or to keep funded | |||
| Overnight / Weekend Holding | Not allowed — positions must be flat by session close | |||
| Evaluation Period | 25 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)
★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 Limit | None | |||
| Payout Consistency | None | |||
| Single-Trade Drawdown (MAE) Limit | 30% of drawdown — a single trade losing this much before it closes denies the payout | |||
| Contract Limit | 5m / 50µ | 5m / 50µ | 5m / 50µ | 5m / 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
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:
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.
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.
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