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- Slippage & micro-breaches: “I only went over by $0.01”
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- Weekend holding: Allowed? (and what the Weekend Add-on changes)
- Overnight holding: allowed?
- News restricted window: what exactly is blocked (including pending orders)
- What are the consequences of trading restricted news?
- What is the exact definition of “red news” and what is restricted?
- Is news trading allowed? (Challenge vs Funded)
- Is scalping allowed in PropXP?
- Is There a Minimum Holding Time
- Gap trading: What’s allowed vs “holding into close to exploit reopen”
- HFT / latency arb / external feed / system error exploitation: definitions
- Hedging & correlation hedging: what it means (plain English) + examples
- Martingale / grid: allowed, restricted, or “depends how you use it”?
- Third-party access: can someone “help manage” my account?
- Trade copying: what’s allowed vs forbidden
- Are EAs allowed? (what’s OK vs what gets you flagged)
Is scalping allowed in PropXP?
TL;DR
Yes, scalping is allowed in PropXP, but human-speed scalping is allowed, not HFT scalping, tick scalping, or hyper scalping.
Also, there is an important difference by account type:
- Challenges: no minimum holding time
- Funded Accounts and Instant Funding: 2-minute minimum holding time
So yes, you can scalp. No, that does not mean machine-gunning ticks for a few seconds at a time.
How it works
PropXP allows normal discretionary scalping and other legitimate short-term trading styles.
What is not allowed is trading behavior that looks like execution abuse, including things such as:
- HFT-style scalping
- tick scalping
- hyper scalping
- ultra-short, systematic in-and-out behavior designed to exploit execution rather than trade actual market movement
In plain English: if you are trading like a person, fine. If you are trading like a caffeinated bot, not fine.
Minimum holding time by account type
That means:
- During a Challenge, there is no minimum holding time, so short-duration trades are allowed.
- On Funded Accounts and Instant Funding, you must hold trades for at least 2 minutes before manually closing or reducing them, subject to the usual rule interpretation and behavior review.
Practical guidance for scalpers
A useful way to think about this on Funded Accounts and Instant Funding is the classic Al Brooks idea that a scalp is a trade exited within about 5 bars of entry.
That kind of trading is generally still perfectly normal.
Examples:
- On a 1-minute chart, entering and exiting 2 bars later is fine.
- On a 5-minute chart, exiting halfway through the candle after entry is also fine, because by then you are already beyond the 2-minute minimum holding time.
- On a Challenge, those same trades are also fine, and there is no holding-time floor.
The real issue is not “short trade = bad.”
The issue is systematic ultra-fast trading behavior that crosses into tick-scalping / HFT-style execution abuse.
Common gotchas
- Scalping is allowed; tick scalping is not.
- During Challenges, there is no minimum holding time.
- On Funded Accounts and Instant Funding, repeatedly closing trades in under 2 minutes can be treated as a minimum-holding-time issue and/or tick-scalping behavior.
- A few isolated fast exits are not the same thing as a repeated pattern.
- “But I’m a scalper” is not a magic exemption from the rule. Scalping is a style; abusive execution behavior is something else.
Example
You trade EURUSD on the 1-minute chart.
- You enter long and close the trade 2 candles later: that is normal scalping.
- You enter on a 5-minute chart and exit 2.5 minutes later, before the candle closes: also fine on a Funded or Instant Funding account.
- You repeatedly open and close positions in seconds, over and over, for tiny price changes: that starts to look like tick scalping / HFT-style behavior, which is not allowed.
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