Hard vs soft breach: do warnings exist?

Program Instant Funding One Phase Two Phase
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TL;DR

For the “math rules” (drawdowns, forbidden practices), PropXP treats breaks as hard breaches.
Warnings exist only in review-based situations (pattern abuse / malicious behavior), but you should never plan around getting one.

How it works

  • Hard breach = you crossed a defined line, account fails/gets terminated (or reward gets denied/cut), immediately.
  • Review-based actions = you didn’t necessarily trip a single numeric rule, but your behavior triggers a risk/compliance review (e.g. abusive gap behavior, coordinated patterns). That can lead to warning, denial, or termination.

Special cases: Max floating loss, minimum holding time, news trading, weekend trading/holding rule breach

Instant Funding and Funded Accounts traders who breach the news trading or weekend holding rules:
  • First violation → warning email & profit adjustment on the affected trades (if needed) + reduced profit split to 50% for the remaining life of the account.
  • Second violation → hard breach of the account.
Instant Funding and Funded Accounts traders who breach the minimum holding time rule:
  • First violation → warning email & profit adjustment on the affected trades (if needed).
  • Second violation → hard breach of the account.
Instant Funding accounts have a special max floating loss rule. When you breach it the first time, you will be “soft breached”: All your open positions will be flattened and your profit split will be permanently reduced to 50%. If you breach the max floating loss rule a second time, your account will be breached. The max floating loss rule applied only to Instant Funding accounts.

Common gotchas

  • Micro-breach = breach. $0.01 over is still over.
  • Equity-based rules don’t care that you “came back” 5 seconds later.
  • “Dashboard didn’t update yet” is not a defense (dash is a display, the market is reality).
  • If you’re trading close to limits, you’re basically choosing a breach.

Example

You’re down -2.9% on a 3% daily limit, spread widens and equity prints -3.01% = hard breach. “But it recovered” is a bedtime story.

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