Research-based analysis: I've gone through every rule document, help center article, and community data point I could find on Tradeify. This breakdown reflects extensive research across their 3.0 overhaul — covering Select, Growth, and Lightning plans, the new Elite Live Performance Reward Pool, and updated drawdown mechanics. Nothing here is based on assumptions or marketing copy.
I broke it all down in my complete Tradeify rules overview. For the full picture, read my complete Tradeify review. For the absolute latest, check Tradeify's website or their help center.
What Does Tradeify Mean by "Professional Conduct"?
As of April 2026: Tradeify doesn't publish a single-page code of conduct document, but the expectations are woven through their terms of service, help center articles, and community guidelines. I've pieced together the full picture from all of those sources.
At its core, professional conduct at Tradeify means trading with genuine skill and intent. They're looking for traders who approach the markets with a real strategy, manage risk responsibly, and treat the evaluation and funded stages as a legitimate business activity — not a slot machine.
This isn't just corporate language. Tradeify actively monitors trading behavior through automated systems and manual review. They're watching patterns, not individual trades. A single unusual trade won't get you flagged. But a pattern of behavior that suggests you're gaming the system rather than trading it will.
Does professional conduct mean the same thing in evaluation and funded stages?
Mostly, yes. The behavioral expectations carry across all stages — evaluation, simulated funded, and live funded. What changes is the intensity of monitoring. During evaluation, the system is primarily checking that you hit your profit target without violating drawdown rules. Once you're funded, the monitoring gets more granular because real capital allocation is on the line.
The 3.0 overhaul didn't change the fundamental conduct expectations. What it did change was the tooling around compliance — specifically the new dashboard and journal integration, which I'll cover in detail below.
How does Tradeify define "intent to trade"?
Tradeify wants to see that you're making deliberate trading decisions based on market analysis. They're not looking for perfection. They're looking for intentionality.
What counts as intent: entering trades based on technical or fundamental analysis, using consistent position sizing, managing stops and targets, adapting to market conditions.
What doesn't count: placing random trades to hit a daily activity requirement, entering and exiting positions within seconds repeatedly to generate volume without real exposure, or holding positions through major news events with no apparent risk management.
What Strategies and Behaviors Are Prohibited?
This is the section you need to bookmark. Tradeify has a clear set of prohibited activities, and violating any of them can result in account termination — sometimes without warning.
Is tick scalping allowed?
No. Tradeify prohibits ultra-short-duration scalping where you're entering and exiting positions for a single tick or minimal price movement. The exact threshold isn't publicly defined to the tick, but the principle is clear: if your average trade duration is measured in seconds and your average profit per trade is one to two ticks, you're in violation territory.
This matters because tick scalping exploits the simulated environment rather than demonstrating tradeable skill. The fills you get in a sim environment on one-tick targets often don't translate to live execution.
Can I use automated trading bots or EAs on Tradeify?
Tradeify allows automated trading with some conditions. Your bot or expert advisor needs to execute a genuine strategy — not exploit latency, data feed delays, or sim-specific fills. If an automated system is designed to game the evaluation rather than trade the market, it falls under prohibited behavior.
The key distinction: a bot that trades a real strategy (trend following, mean reversion, breakout systems) is fine. A bot that's engineered specifically to pass prop firm evaluations through exploit patterns is not.
What about hedging across multiple accounts?
Tradeify prohibits coordinated trading across multiple accounts to create a risk-free or near-risk-free position. The classic example: going long on one account and short on another with the same instrument, knowing one will hit the profit target while the other gets stopped out at the drawdown limit.
This extends to accounts owned by different people. If Tradeify detects coordinated opposing positions across accounts that share IP addresses, device fingerprints, or KYC connections, all accounts involved face termination.
Are there restrictions on news trading?
Tradeify has specific news trading rules that I covered in detail in my Tradeify news trading rules article. The short version: major economic events have restricted windows during which you can't hold open positions. The dashboard shows which events are coming up and when the restriction windows apply.
What other behaviors will get me flagged?
Here's the full list of activities that Tradeify considers violations:
- Exploitation of sim fills: Trading strategies that rely on execution quality only available in simulation
- Account sharing: Letting someone else trade on your account
- Identity misrepresentation: Using false KYC information or creating accounts under other people's names
- Coordinated trading: Working with other traders to hedge or distribute risk across accounts
- Copy trading from external signals: Blindly following a signal service without personal analysis (though Tradeify's copy trading feature within their platform has its own rules)
- Manipulation of drawdown mechanics: Deliberately triggering or avoiding drawdown calculations through trade timing exploits
- Chargeback or payment fraud: Covered in detail in my Tradeify chargeback policy article
| Activity | Status | Consequence |
|---|---|---|
| Tick scalping (1-2 tick targets) | Prohibited | Account review / termination |
| Cross-account hedging | Prohibited | All linked accounts terminated |
| Sim fill exploitation bots | Prohibited | Account termination |
| Account sharing | Prohibited | Permanent ban |
| Legitimate automated trading | Allowed | N/A |
| Manual scalping (multi-tick targets) | Allowed | N/A |
| Swing trading / position holding | Allowed | N/A |
How the Dashboard and Journal Help You Monitor Compliance
The 3.0 overhaul brought a completely redesigned dashboard, and one of the most underrated additions is the built-in trading journal. This isn't just a nice-to-have — it's a compliance tool.
What does the new dashboard show?
The redesigned dashboard gives you real-time visibility into your account metrics. You can see your current drawdown usage, profit progress, daily P&L, and rule status at a glance. The layout is cleaner than the old version, with color-coded indicators that make it obvious when you're approaching rule limits.
For funded traders, the dashboard also tracks payout eligibility, profit split calculations, and withdrawal request status. Everything lives in one place instead of being scattered across different pages.
How does the built-in journal work?
The journal automatically logs every trade you take — entry time, exit time, instrument, direction, size, P&L, and duration. You can add notes, tags, and categories to each trade after the fact.
Here's why this matters for compliance: if Tradeify flags your account for review, having a documented journal with notes explaining your rationale for each trade is powerful evidence of intentional trading. It's the difference between "I was deliberately trading an opening range breakout on ES" and having no explanation for why you entered and exited 47 trades in 20 minutes.
Can I use the journal to catch my own compliance issues?
Absolutely, and this is how I'd recommend using it. Review your journal weekly and look for patterns that might raise flags:
- Average trade duration dropping below your normal range
- Win rate significantly higher than what's achievable in live markets
- Concentration of trades around specific news events
- Trade clustering around drawdown reset times
If you notice these patterns in your own data, adjust your approach before Tradeify's monitoring system catches them.
Does the journal sync with external platforms?
The journal pulls data directly from whatever trading platform you're connected to — NinjaTrader, Tradovate, WealthCharts, or TradeSea via Rithmic. You don't need to manually enter trades. The sync happens automatically, and the journal updates after each session.
How Should I Communicate With Tradeify Support?
Support communication isn't usually something I'd dedicate an entire section to, but with prop firms it matters more than you'd think. How you interact with support can affect account review outcomes.
What are the official support channels?
Tradeify runs support through two primary channels:
Help center (help.tradeify.co): This is the formal support system. Submit tickets, track responses, browse knowledge base articles. For billing issues, account reviews, or anything that needs a paper trail, use this.
Discord community: Tradeify has an active Discord server where support staff and community managers are present. For quick questions, platform setup help, and general guidance, Discord works well. It's faster but less formal.
What should I include in a support ticket?
When you contact Tradeify about any account issue, include:
- Your account email address
- The specific account ID (especially if you have multiple accounts)
- Screenshots of the issue
- Exact dates and times if the issue involves specific trades
- A clear description of what happened and what you expected
How should I handle an account review or flag?
If Tradeify contacts you about a potential rule violation, stay calm and professional. Respond promptly. Provide any information they request. If you have journal entries explaining your trading decisions, reference them.
Don't get defensive or confrontational. Don't threaten chargebacks (this is the fastest way to turn a review into a termination). Don't create new accounts while a review is pending.
Most account reviews result in a warning or clarification, not termination. Tradeify generally gives traders a chance to explain unusual patterns before taking permanent action — unless the violation is clearly intentional (like cross-account hedging or identity fraud).
What Are the Best Practices for Account Management?
Beyond the prohibited behaviors list, there's a set of practical habits that'll keep your Tradeify account healthy and your trading relationship smooth.
Should I trade every day?
There's no minimum daily trading requirement on Tradeify. You don't need to place trades just to show activity. In fact, forcing trades to hit some perceived activity minimum is more likely to create problematic patterns than taking a day off.
Trade when your strategy signals an opportunity. Sit out when it doesn't. Tradeify won't penalize you for not trading on a given day.
How should I handle drawdown management?
Drawdown rules vary by account type — Select, Growth, and Lightning each have different mechanics. But the universal best practice is the same: know your drawdown limit before you start trading each day, and set your platform stops accordingly.
The dashboard shows your real-time drawdown buffer. Check it before your first trade. If you're already close to the limit from a previous session, reduce your position size or skip the day entirely.
What about position sizing across multiple accounts?
If you're running multiple Tradeify accounts (which is allowed), treat each one as an independent business. Don't let the outcome of one account influence your decisions on another. And absolutely don't use opposing positions across accounts.
Each account should have its own strategy, its own risk parameters, and its own position sizing model. If your approach on Account A is identical and simultaneous to Account B but in the opposite direction, that's a red flag.
When should I scale up contract size?
Tradeify's account types have defined contract limits. Within those limits, scaling up should follow your strategy's rules — not your emotions. A profitable streak isn't a reason to double your size. A losing streak isn't a reason to go to maximum contracts trying to recover.
The journal is useful here too. Track your position sizing over time. If you see a pattern of increasing size after losses (revenge trading behavior), you'll catch it in the data before it becomes a problem.
How do I protect my account during volatile markets?
High-volatility events — FOMC decisions, NFP releases, major geopolitical news — create both opportunity and risk. Tradeify's news trading rules restrict holding positions through certain events, but even outside those windows, volatile markets deserve extra caution.
During major volatility events, consider:
- Reducing position size by 50% or more
- Using wider stops to avoid getting shaken out
- Limiting total risk per day to half your normal maximum
- Being prepared for slippage on stops
What Triggers an Account Review at Tradeify?
Understanding what triggers a review helps you avoid accidentally tripping the system. Here's what I've gathered from Tradeify's documentation and community reports.
What patterns does the monitoring system flag?
Tradeify uses automated systems to scan for unusual trading patterns. The specifics aren't publicly disclosed (for obvious reasons), but based on their published rules and community data, the following patterns draw attention:
- Abnormally short trade durations: Consistent trades lasting under 10 seconds
- Near-perfect win rates: Win rates above 90% over a significant sample size
- Coordinated activity: Similar trades appearing simultaneously across accounts with shared identifiers
- Drawdown manipulation: Trades that appear timed to exploit drawdown calculation windows
- Excessive overnight holding: Holding positions through session closes when the account type restricts it
Is there a difference between automated flags and manual reviews?
Yes. Automated flags are the first layer — they highlight accounts that display statistical outliers. A human reviewer then looks at the flagged account to determine whether the pattern indicates a genuine violation or just an unusual but legitimate trading style.
This is why the journal matters. An automated system sees numbers. A human reviewer can read your trade notes, understand your strategy logic, and make a judgment call about intent.
Can I get flagged for being too profitable?
Not directly. Tradeify doesn't penalize profitability. But extreme profitability combined with other unusual patterns (very short durations, near-perfect win rates, suspiciously convenient timing) will trigger a closer look. Being profitable through normal trading isn't a problem. Being profitable through patterns that don't translate to live markets is.
What happens after a review?
Reviews typically end in one of three outcomes:
- Cleared: No action needed. Your trading is legitimate and the flag was a false positive.
- Warning: The review found borderline behavior. You'll receive specific guidance on what to adjust.
- Termination: The review found a clear policy violation. Account access is revoked.
Most traders who trade legitimately and respond professionally to reviews end up in category one or two. Terminations from reviews are generally reserved for clear-cut violations.
| Review Trigger | Risk Level | Best Response |
|---|---|---|
| Short avg trade duration | Medium | Journal notes explaining scalp strategy |
| High win rate outlier | Medium | Show consistent strategy with clear edge |
| Coordinated positions detected | High | Prove accounts trade independently |
| News window violation | High | Acknowledge and adjust trading hours |
| Drawdown timing anomaly | High | Demonstrate legitimate trade rationale |
FAQ
What does Tradeify consider professional conduct?
Tradeify expects traders to approach markets with genuine skill and strategy. This means deliberate trading decisions, consistent risk management, and treating the evaluation and funded stages as a real business — not an attempt to game the system.
Can I use automated trading bots on Tradeify?
Yes, automated trading is allowed as long as your bot executes a legitimate strategy. Bots designed to exploit sim-specific fills, latency gaps, or evaluation mechanics are prohibited. The strategy needs to be viable in live market conditions.
What happens if I accidentally violate a trader guideline?
Most first-time violations that appear accidental result in a warning rather than immediate termination. Tradeify's review process considers intent and pattern. Respond promptly and professionally if contacted, and adjust your approach based on their feedback.
Does the built-in journal replace external trading journals?
It can, but many traders use both. The built-in journal auto-syncs trade data from your connected platform. External journals might offer more advanced analytics or custom metrics. For compliance purposes, the built-in journal is what Tradeify's review team references.
How does Tradeify monitor for prohibited strategies?
Tradeify uses automated pattern detection systems that flag statistical outliers in trade duration, win rate, position coordination, and timing. Flagged accounts get human review before any action is taken.
Can I trade the same strategy on multiple Tradeify accounts?
Yes, you can use the same strategy across multiple accounts. The restriction is on coordinated opposing positions (hedging across accounts). Running the same directional strategy on multiple accounts simultaneously is allowed.
What should I do before contacting Tradeify support about an account issue?
Gather your account email, specific account ID, screenshots of the issue, and exact dates and times. Submit a ticket through the help center at help.tradeify.co for formal issues, or use Discord for quick questions.
Does Tradeify publish specific rules about minimum trade duration?
Tradeify doesn't publish an exact minimum duration in seconds, but their guidelines clearly prohibit tick scalping and ultra-short-duration trading that exploits simulated execution. Trades should reflect genuine market analysis, not rapid-fire entries and exits.
Are there conduct differences between evaluation and funded accounts?
The core conduct expectations are the same across all stages. What changes is monitoring intensity — funded accounts receive more detailed review because they involve capital allocation decisions. The rules themselves don't change.
Can getting flagged for review affect my future accounts with Tradeify?
A flag that results in clearance doesn't negatively impact your standing. A flag that results in a warning goes on record and may lead to faster escalation if similar patterns appear again. Tradeify maintains a history of account reviews for each customer.
