To keep trading fair for everyone, Atmos prohibits strategies that exploit latency, manipulate execution, or coordinate activity across accounts/brokers.
⚡ TL;DR
Not allowed: latency/arbitrage bots, tick-scalping/HFT, news-window trading (±2 min), opposite trading/hedging across accounts, coordinated group/MAM trading, platform/price-feed abuse, account sharing.
Allowed: normal scalping/intraday/swing, EAs and copy trading that don’t exploit latency, hedging inside a single account.
🚫 Prohibited Strategies (Definitions + Examples)
Strategy | What it is | Examples that breach |
Latency / Arbitrage Trading | Exploiting price or feed delays to hit stale quotes before they update. | Bots that buy at Broker A where price is late and instantly close at Broker B; repeated fills with consistent unidirectional slippage advantage within milliseconds. |
Tick-Scalping / HFT Abuse | Extremely high-frequency order bursts designed to game execution (not normal scalping). | Dozens of sub-second orders per minute, cancelling/replacing to “probe” liquidity; average hold time only a few seconds with systematic slippage capture. |
News-Window Trading | Trading immediately around high-impact news to capture gaps/slippage. | Opening/closing any trade within ±2 minutes of events like NFP, CPI, FOMC; straddle/pending-order traps around the event window. |
Opposite Trading / Cross-Account Hedging | Taking opposite positions across multiple Atmos accounts or with outside brokers to guarantee one side wins. | Long on Account A and short on Account B for the same symbol/timeframe; mirroring opposite exposure with a non-Atmos broker. |
Group Trading / Account Management Abuse | Coordinated trading across many accounts to manufacture toxic flow or to replicate a latency edge. | Signal rooms/MAMs that blast identical entries/exits within milliseconds across many Atmos accounts; “leader” account using a feed advantage. |
Platform / Price-Feed Manipulation | Abusing technical glitches, off-market quotes, or manipulating client software. | Forcing disconnections to seek re-quotes; exploiting mispriced symbols; altering client logs to obscure activity. |
Account Sharing / Identity Misuse | Letting others trade your account or operating under another person’s identity. | Multiple devices/IPs trading the same account concurrently by different people; purchased/“rented” accounts. |
All-In (Gambling) | A single, oversized bet with no real risk management intended to pass or fail in one shot. | No stop-loss; position size that risks a large part or almost all of the drawdown; stacking into one direction until breach/pass; one trade intended to hit the entire profit target in a day while exceeding risk rules. |
Note: Normal scalping is allowed. What’s banned is tick-scalping/HFT that systematically exploits execution/latency rather than market edge.
✅ What’s Allowed (for clarity)
Manual trading — scalping, intraday, swing.
EAs & copy trading — permitted if they don’t exploit latency or violate rules.
Hedging inside one account — permitted.
Holding overnight/weekends — permitted.
Trading around news — you may hold through news, but no open/close within ±2 minutes.
🧪 Examples (Allowed vs Not Allowed)
Allowed: A scalper places 10–30 trades/day, average hold time 1–10 minutes, variable slippage, risk managed, no news-window entries/exits.
Not Allowed: A bot fires sub-second entries/exits with near-perfect fill advantage around every data release; equity curve rises only during spikes; orders mirrored across several accounts.
⚠️ Consequences
Immediate breach/closure of the account.
Profit removal from prohibited activity.
Potential program ban for repeated or severe violations.