Gambling:
You cannot use gambling strategies to pass the challenge phase. Blueberry Funded defines gambling as follows:
Excessive Scalping:
Holding 50% or more of your trades for less than a minute. This includes Tick Scalping and HFT.
Martingale:
Trading accounts may not use martingale strategies (progressively increasing lot sizes after losses).What this means: You cannot respond to losses by placing larger positions in the same asset or correlated assets to attempt to recover previous losses.
This includes:Opening larger positions after a losing trade
"Doubling down" when positions move against you
Pyramiding positions with increasing size in drawdown
What specifically constitutes a violation:
Opening a new position in the same asset with a larger lot size after a losing trade
Increasing position size by 50% or more following losses in the same trading session
Establishing a pattern of progressively larger positions during drawdown periods
Using multiple accounts to circumvent martingale detection
Opening larger positions in highly correlated assets after losses (e.g., switching from EURUSD to EURJPY with increased size)
Why we enforce this: Martingale strategies exponentially increase risk and can lead to catastrophic account damage. Our policy protects your capital from unsustainable risk escalation.
Position Stacking Limitations Rule: Position stacking is strictly limited to maintain appropriate risk distribution.
Limits:
AllowedSame Asset Pair: Maximum 4 simultaneous positions per individual asset
Multiple Assets: Maximum 7 simultaneous positions across all assets
What specifically constitutes a violation:
Same Asset Pair: Having 5 or more open positions simultaneously on a single asset pair (e.g., 5+ EURUSD positions)
Multiple Assets: Having 8 or more positions open simultaneously across all trading assets
Creating multiple smaller positions to bypass lot size restrictions
Opening and closing repetitive positions in the same asset within short time frames to disguise stacking behavior
Using grid strategies that automatically open multiple positions beyond the stacking limits
What constitutes position stacking: Multiple open positions in the same direction (or opposing directions) on the same instrument or across correlated instruments. Why these limits exist: Excessive position stacking circumvents lot size restrictions and creates dangerous risk concentration. These limits ensure proper diversification and prevent unintended overexposure to market movements.
All In:
All-in should be like this "All-In Trading Behavior" refers to trading actions where a trader commits an excessively large portion of their account equity on a single trade or series of trades without proper risk management (e.g., no stop-loss). This approach often leads to extreme PnL swings—from substantial profits to significant drawdowns—and is seen as high-risk and misaligned with the firm’s long-term partnership goals. Such behavior is viewed as a form of gambling and is considered a hard breach at any stage of trading, including both evaluation and funded accounts.
Grid Trading:
Placing multiple trades at predetermined intervals to create a grid-like structure, with no clear risk management strategy.
Examples:
Excessive Scalping:
A trader executes 60 trades, with 35 of them held for less than 45 seconds. This means more than 50% of their trades are categorized as excessive scalping.
Grid Trading:
A trader sets up a grid trading strategy by placing buy orders at intervals of 20 pips (e.g., buying AUD/USD at 0.6700, 0.6720, 0.6740) and sell orders at intervals of 20 pips (e.g., selling AUD/USD at 0.6680, 0.6660, 0.6640) without a clear risk management plan or exit strategy. This creates a grid of trades without appropriate risk management.
Reverse Hand Post Taking Losses:
This strategy involves chasing losses by entering the opposite direction of a losing trade within a short time frame of closing the losing position, in hopes of reversing the outcome. While this may seem like a way to recover quickly, it disrupts the data we rely on to evaluate consistent performance and proper risk management. By using this strategy, you bypass the skills we are looking to test, such as strategic decision-making and discipline. Therefore, this method is prohibited, and using it may prevent you from advancing to the funded stage or result in a possible hard breach, a restart from Phase 1, or denial of a payout, depending on your risk profile as assessed by our risk team.
To avoid being flagged for this prohibited strategy, the minimum time to wait before entering a trade in the opposite direction is 5 minutes.
Note:
A ‘trade’ is defined as a position held on a specific pair, which can include multiple entries with similar timings and lot sizes. Multiple entries on the same pair at the same time may count as one trade. If you are found using prohibited strategies, including gambling and grid trading, you will not advance to the funded stage and will need to retry the challenge and if done on the earnings account you will be denied payout and reverted to Phase 1.
For the lot size rules, you can view them in this article here.
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