What Are Account Breaches?
The severity of a breach falls into one of two categories:
Hard Breach
A hard Breach is defined as a situation in which the maximum drawdown limit, daily drawdown limit, or the frequency of violations specified in the soft breach section exceeds the permissible thresholds. This category of violation typically results in the termination of the account.
Soft Breach
Refers to the allowed number of violations a trader may incur before their account is permanently closed. Examples of soft violations include violations related to Risk rules, 30 sec duration, News Trading, etc.
Violations categorized as soft breaches that do not surpass the permitted threshold will not result in immediate account termination. Rather, they will undergo a thorough review by a member of the Risk Management Team.
FTUK team reserves the right to evaluate each case individually.
It is important to note that violations of these rules are only classified as soft breaches if their total does not exceed the allowed limit mentioned in the table below.
These include, but are not limited to:
Soft Breaches | Hard Breaches |
|---|---|
1-3 trades with duration between 0-29 seconds | 4 or more trades with duration between 0-29 seconds |
1-3 instances of Account Protector activation after floating PnL falls below -2% | 4 or more instances of Account Protector activation after floating PnL falls below -2% * |
Trading within 5 minutes of a major news release on the one-step program | Being inactive for longer than 30 days without informing us |
| High Frequency Trading (HFT) |
| Reaching the maximum absolute drawdown |
- Applies to accounts purchased from 27/01/2026 — click here for further details.
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Updated on: 03/02/2026
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