At Global4EX, we are committed to maintaining a fair, transparent, and sustainable trading environment.
Any behavior or strategy that exploits technical vulnerabilities, bypasses real market risk, or does not represent genuine trading skill is strictly prohibited.
Accounts engaging in prohibited practices during the 1-Phase or 2-Phase Challenge Phase may be disqualified immediately without prior notice.
🔁 Reverse Arbitrage
What It Is
Reverse arbitrage involves exploiting price discrepancies caused by execution delays or data lag between platforms or correlated instruments, rather than legitimate market inefficiencies.
The trader acts on information that has not yet updated on one platform, creating an artificial, low-risk edge.
Why It’s Prohibited
• Distorts fair evaluation
• Exploits platform latency instead of market analysis
• Undermines equal trading conditions
Allowed or Not Allowed (Challenge Phase)
• 1-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
• 2-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
Example
Buying an asset on Global4EX before a price update appears, while simultaneously selling it on another platform where the new price is already reflected.
🔄 Hedging Between Accounts
What It Is
Opening opposing positions on the same instrument across multiple accounts, even if all accounts belong to the same trader.
Hedging within a single account may be allowed.
Hedging between accounts is strictly prohibited.
Why It’s Prohibited
• Guarantees profit on at least one account
• Eliminates real market risk
• Prevents accurate performance evaluation
Allowed or Not Allowed (Challenge Phase)
• 1-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
• 2-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
Example
Opening a long EUR/USD trade on one Global4EX account and a short EUR/USD trade on another.
⚡ Tick Scalping
What It Is
Tick scalping involves opening and closing trades within seconds to capture extremely small price movements (typically 1–3 pips). This approach often relies on automation or ultra-fast execution.
Global4EX Rule
• 1-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
• 2-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
Hard Breach Condition
• If any 3 trades are held for less than 10 seconds within a 1-hour period, this is treated as a hard breach violation.
Why It’s Prohibited
• Exploits execution timing rather than genuine market movement
• Does not reflect meaningful analysis or proper risk management
• Encourages rapid-fire trading behavior inconsistent with realistic market conditions
This rule is enforced to prevent traders from generating artificial or timing-based profits that do not represent sustainable trading skill.
Example
Executing multiple trades that are opened and closed within a few seconds, where three or more trades have a holding time of less than 10 seconds within one hour.
🤖 Abusive Autotrading
What It Is
Using Expert Advisors (EAs), bots, or algorithms in a way that exploits latency, execution gaps, or system limitations, rather than executing genuine trading logic.
Automation itself may be allowed, but becomes abusive when designed to exploit infrastructure.
Allowed or Not Allowed (Challenge Phase)
• 1-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed if abusive
• 2-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed if abusive
Why It’s Prohibited
• Bypasses real decision-making
• Exploits system mechanics
Example
An EA placing dozens of trades per minute to profit from server lag or micro price delays.
⏱️ Latency Trading
What It Is
Trading based on milliseconds of delay between price feeds or platforms.
Allowed or Not Allowed (Challenge Phase)
• 1-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
• 2-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
Why It’s Prohibited
• Generates artificial profits
• Violates fairness principles
Example
Entering a trade after observing a price movement on another feed before it updates on Global4EX.
📉 Martingale & Grid Strategies
What They Are
Martingale:
Increasing position size after losses to recover drawdown with one winning trade.
Grid:
Placing buy and sell orders at fixed intervals without directional bias or structured risk control.
Allowed or Not Allowed (Challenge Phase)
• 1-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
• 2-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
Why They’re Prohibited
• Create uncontrolled exposure
• Lead to extreme drawdowns
Example
Doubling position size after every loss until a single win recovers all losses.
🔄 Hyperactive Trading
What It Is
Excessive execution, modification, or cancellation of trades in short timeframes without a clear analytical basis.
Allowed or Not Allowed (Challenge Phase)
• 1-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
• 2-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
Why It’s Prohibited
• Mimics robotic behavior
• Distorts evaluation results
Example
Placing hundreds of trades or thousands of order modifications in a single day without strategy justification.
👥 Account Sharing
What It Is
Allowing third parties to trade your account, using challenge-passing services, or copying trades from unauthorized sources.
Allowed or Not Allowed (Challenge Phase)
• 1-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
• 2-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
Why It’s Prohibited
• Violates KYC/AML requirements
• Undermines individual evaluation
Example
Hiring another person to trade your account.
🛠️ Exploiting Technical Errors
What It Is
Taking advantage of platform issues such as:
• Price freezes
• Execution glitches
• Incorrect spreads
• Delayed market data
Allowed or Not Allowed (Challenge Phase)
• 1-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
• 2-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
Why It’s Prohibited
• Does not reflect real trading ability
Example
Opening trades during a known price freeze.
🎲 Gambling (Trading Without Strategy)
What It Is
Impulsive or emotional trading without analysis, including revenge trading or excessive leverage.
Allowed or Not Allowed (Challenge Phase)
• 1-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
• 2-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
Example
Opening an oversized position without risk control.
🔁 Account Rolling
What It Is
Buying multiple accounts and applying extreme risk strategies until one succeeds by chance.
Allowed or Not Allowed (Challenge Phase)
• 1-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
• 2-Phase Challenge: ❌ Not Allowed
Example
Repeatedly purchasing new accounts after losses and applying reckless strategies
📝 Final Explanation
These rules exist to ensure that Global4EX evaluates real trading skill during the 1-Phase and 2-Phase Challenge Phases, not speed advantages, automation abuse, or technical exploitation.
Any strategy that:
• Eliminates genuine market risk
• Exploits infrastructure weaknesses
• Bypasses fair evaluation
is incompatible with Global4EX Challenge programs.
🌙 Overnight Holding
What It Is
Holding any trade position across the UTC calendar day boundary — where a trade is opened on one day and closed on a different day.
Why It Is Prohibited
Overnight holding exposes accounts to uncontrolled gap risk and is inconsistent with intraday trading discipline expected at Global4EX.
Rule
• All trades must be opened and closed within the same UTC calendar day (00:00 UTC to 23:59 UTC)
• A trade opened on Monday and closed on Tuesday is an overnight holding violation
• This rule applies to all Global4EX account types
• Any overnight holding violation will result in withdrawal rejection
Strict compliance is mandatory.
Violations may result in immediate disqualification or permanent restriction from Global4EX programs.