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) |
7. Cross-account hedging
Holding a position while an opposite position in the same or related instrument was open on another of your Redline accounts (micros count toward their full-size contract — e.g. MES↔ES, MNQ↔NQ). At every payout, your trade history is screened against all of your other Redline accounts for overlapping opposite positions. Copying your own trades in the same direction across your accounts is allowed and is not flagged by this rule.
| Any opposite overlap held ≥ 60 seconds, or 2–4 overlapping positions | 🔴 Denied |
| 5+ overlapping positions, or 30+ minutes total opposite overlap | 🔴 Denied / terminate |
| A single brief overlap (under 60 seconds) | 🟡 Approved + warning (a repeat is denied) |
| Same-direction copying between your own accounts | ✅ No flag |
Overlaps under 10 seconds are ignored (timestamp tolerance across platforms). This rule cannot be waived by any power-up. Hedging with accounts held by other traders is covered separately under account-integrity checks and the permanent-ban policy below.
How decisions are made
Payout compliance decisions are automatic. The evaluator applies the published rules above and produces an approval or denial only when the decision-critical evidence is conclusive. Compliance approval and payment execution are separate stages: approval clears the request for processing; it does not mean the transfer has already been sent.
- ✅ APPROVE — all enforceable decision-critical checks clear, OR you have a single warning-level flag (such as one doubling-down flag) and nothing else. The compliance approval is recorded and the payout moves to payment processing under the selected payout method and its current security and operational controls. 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.
- ⏳ AUTOMATED VERIFICATION — when decision-critical provider or internal evidence is not yet complete, the request remains pending and the system retries automatically. This is not an approval, denial, rule-violation finding, or manual-review queue. Missing evidence cannot by itself deny you; the evaluator issues a final decision when the evidence contract resolves.
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: 2026-08-01. Payout requests are evaluated automatically against the published rules above, and the reason for a denial is emailed to you. A retryable evidence gap keeps the request pending for automatic recovery and is never a manual sign-off request or a denial by itself. Approval clears compliance; transfer processing occurs separately through the selected payment rail. 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