Trading Rules & Risk

A complete list of what Gravity Funding strictly prohibits.

These rules apply to every account type. Violations can result in a breach, invalidation of phase results, account suspension, or permanent removal from the platform. Read this before you trade — ignorance of the rules is not accepted as a reason for appeal.

Execution and strategy prohibitions

News trading: Opening or closing trades within a restricted window around high-impact scheduled economic releases (such as CPI, NFP, interest rate decisions). The restricted window applies even if your trade was already open before the news.
High-frequency trading (HFT): Rapid entry and exit of many positions within seconds, regardless of whether individual trades are profitable.
Automated trading: Expert advisors (EAs), bots, scripts, and any software that places or manages trades without real-time manual input.
Copy trading: Mirroring another trader's positions in any form — through a copy service, platform, or manual copying.
Signal services: Using third-party signals, social trading platforms, alert services, or managed execution tools to determine entries and exits.
Martingale strategies: Increasing position size to recover losses through progressively larger trades. This applies to any derivative of this approach including grid recovery, averaging down into losses, and compounding exposure after a losing streak.
Toxic execution: Exploiting platform latency, stale quotes, spread anomalies, price feed delays, or technical errors for profit. Results generated through known or suspected execution abuse will be invalidated.
Minimum trade duration: Every trade must remain open for more than 30 seconds. Trades that close in under 30 seconds may be flagged automatically and reviewed.

Account conduct prohibitions

Account sharing: Only the registered account holder may trade the account. Sharing login credentials, allowing others to place trades, or operating under a third-party service is not permitted.
Multiple accounts coordination: Using multiple Gravity accounts to hedge, test strategies, or offset risk across accounts is not permitted.
Coordinated trading: Entering the same or opposite positions across multiple accounts owned by different users in a coordinated way is treated as an exploit.
Identity misrepresentation: Registering under a false name, using another person's details, or providing fraudulent identity documents during KYC is grounds for permanent account termination.
Chargebacks and payment disputes: Initiating a chargeback or payment dispute while an account is active or after receiving evaluation access is a serious violation. Accounts subject to disputed payments will be suspended pending investigation.

Behavioral review and enforcement

Gravity reserves the right to review any account's trading activity at any time. Accounts may be flagged for:

Unusual trade patterns that match prohibited strategies.
Consistently trading within news windows.
IP address or device anomalies suggesting account sharing.
Statistical patterns consistent with copy trading or coordinated execution.
Behavior that creates systematic risk or exploits evaluation conditions.

Gravity may delay payout processing to complete a trading behavior review. This is not a breach — it is a standard compliance step. Contact support if your payout has been pending for longer than 5 business days.

Consequences of rule violations

Minor violations (first margin warning, single short-duration trade): Strike recorded. Three strikes on the same rule typically result in breach.
Confirmed prohibited strategy use: Immediate account breach. Phase results may be invalidated.
Account sharing or fraud confirmed: Permanent platform removal. No payout issued. No refund on evaluation fees.
Payment dispute or chargeback filed: Account suspended immediately. All active or pending payouts held.

Gravity Funding does not negotiate on confirmed rule violations. All rule enforcement decisions are final unless there is documented evidence of a system or platform error.

Appeals and disputes

If you believe your account was breached in error — due to a platform malfunction, incorrect data sync, or system issue — you may open a dispute through dashboard support within seven days of the breach. Include the account ID, the trade or event in question, timestamps, and any screenshots or logs. Appeals are reviewed against system records, not just the trader's version of events. Gravity's decision after a formal review is final.

Still have questions?

Our support team can help with account-specific questions.