This is your complete guide to PropXP’s proprietary trading rules. Whether you’re completing a challenge or managing a funded demo account, these rules are designed to help you trade responsibly, stay compliant, control risk, and grow your capital with confidence.
Yes. Overnight holding is permitted, and weekend holding is available as an optional add-on.
Without the weekend add-on, positions must be closed before the market closes on Friday.
To complete the One-Step Challenge successfully, the trader must reach a 10% profit target while respecting all risk limits and maintaining at least three real trading days.
The One-Step Challenge uses a static maximum loss limit of 6%. If the account equity or balance ever falls 6% below its starting value, the challenge is failed
PropXP allows a wide range of strategies, including manual trading, scalping and martingale.
The following are not allowed:
Yes. News trading is fully allowed during the challenge, including entering positions around high-impact releases.
Holding positions through news is also allowed.
News Add-On Allows you to hold trades through high-impact (red) news events when funded. Without this add-on, funded traders must close positions 5 minutes before and cannot open or close positions until 5 minutes after a red news event.
Yes. The One-Step Challenge enforces a 3% daily loss limit, calculated based on equity. If the trader’s equity drops more than 3% from the previous day’s starting point, the account breaches.
No, there is no minimum trading days requirement. However all accounts have a 40% consistency rule, so you will need at least 3 trading days in order to pass a challenge phase or claim a performance reward.
PropXP applies a 40% consistency rule to all its challenges and funded accounts.
How to avoid issues: Split performance across days, taper size after strong sessions, and don’t try to “win the phase” in one trade.
If your total profit is $9,000, your best day's profit cannot be more than $3,600. Exceeding this would add the excess to your target rather than speeding completion
If you meet all challenge requirements except the consistency rule, you will not fail your challenge. You can keep trading profitably until you lower the consistency percentage to the correct value.
If you meet all performance reward requirements except the consistency rule, you will not be able to request a reward until you have lowered the consistency percentage to the correct. You must continue trading profitably to do so.
You have a $100,000 challenge. Your profit target is $10,000 and the consistency rule is 40%. If you profit more than $4,000 in one day you will not pass your challenge once you reach a balance of $110,000.
For instance:
You have reached your profit target, but your best day of $6,000 is 60% of your total profits (not 40%), so you need to keep trading:
If you do this, you will pass your account phase or be able to claim a performance reward.
Note about your dashboard: Your PropXP dashboard is updated on average every 30 minutes. This means that when you close a trade, you might have to wait some time before it reflects on your consistency rule percentage.
Yes. Challenge accounts operate under the following asset-class leverage settings:
There is no cap on the number of open lots or positions in the One-Step Challenge.
The challenge ends immediately if any of the following occur:
All breaches are treated as hard breaches, meaning the account is failed instantly.
Traders may use manual strategies, scalping approaches and martingale systems.
The following methods are not permitted:
Copy trading is only allowed between a trader’s own PropXP accounts.
Yes. News trading is fully allowed during the challenge, including entering positions around high-impact releases.
Holding positions through news is also allowed.
News Add-On Allows you to hold trades through high-impact (red) news events when funded. Without this add-on, funded traders must close positions 5 minutes before and cannot open or close positions until 5 minutes after a red news event.
Phase 1 has a static maximum loss limit of 10%.
If the account equity or balance falls 10% below its starting balance, Phase 1 ends immediately.
Yes. Traders must complete at least three real trading days before they can pass Phase 1.
Phase 1 uses a 5% daily loss limit, calculated based on equity at the start of the trading day. Exceeding this threshold results in a hard breach.
To complete Phase 1, traders must achieve a 10% profit target, stay within the 40% consistency rule, and follow all risk limits.
Yes. All Phase 1 accounts use PropXP’s standardized leverage requirements:
There is no limit on the number of open lots or active positions.
Any of the following results in an immediate hard breach:
All violations end the evaluation instantly.
Phase 2 also uses a 5% daily loss limit, based on the account’s equity at the start of the trading day.
Yes. News trading is allowed, and traders may also hold positions through impactful economic announcements.
A Phase 2 evaluation will end immediately if the trader:
All violations are treated as hard breaches.
Yes — leverage remains the same as Phase 1:
And again, no limit on open positions.
To complete Phase 2, the trader must reach a 5% profit target, respecting all risk limits and completing at least three real trading days.
PropXP applies a 40% consistency rule to all its challenges and funded accounts.
How to avoid issues: Split performance across days, taper size after strong sessions, and don’t try to “win the phase” in one trade.
If your total profit is $9,000, your best day's profit cannot be more than $3,600. Exceeding this would add the excess to your target rather than speeding completion
If you meet all challenge requirements except the consistency rule, you will not fail your challenge. You can keep trading profitably until you lower the consistency percentage to the correct value.
If you meet all performance reward requirements except the consistency rule, you will not be able to request a reward until you have lowered the consistency percentage to the correct. You must continue trading profitably to do so.
You have a $100,000 challenge. Your profit target is $10,000 and the consistency rule is 40%. If you profit more than $4,000 in one day you will not pass your challenge once you reach a balance of $110,000.
For instance:
You have reached your profit target, but your best day of $6,000 is 60% of your total profits (not 40%), so you need to keep trading:
If you do this, you will pass your account phase or be able to claim a performance reward.
Note about your dashboard: Your PropXP dashboard is updated on average every 30 minutes. This means that when you close a trade, you might have to wait some time before it reflects on your consistency rule percentage.
No, but like all PropXP accounts a consistency rule of 40% applies, so mathematically you need minimum 3 trading days to pass the challenge phase.
Phase 2 shares the same overall drawdown rule as Phase 1 — a static 10% maximum loss limit.
Permitted:
Not permitted:
Copy trading is only allowed between a trader’s own PropXP accounts.