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The rules that decide whether an FT UK account passes, stays funded or breaches. Most of the restrictions are on strategy rather than on timing, and news, overnight and weekend trading are all permitted on forex accounts.
Checked against FT UK on 29 July 2026
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Every FT UK rules table lists news trading as allowed, and the homepage and Instant Funding pages advertise no news restrictions. At the same time News Trading Activated is sold at checkout for 20% of the order value, and two add-on articles state that news trading is excluded from the add-ons usable at all levels. FT UK does not reconcile the two positions anywhere on its site.
Overnight and weekend holding are allowed at every level of every forex program. Futures accounts differ: positions are auto closed at 15:50 CT and cannot be held overnight or over the weekend.
The help centre allows risk management expert advisors on forex accounts, while both sets of terms state that traders should not rely on signals, bots or software. Copy trading is permitted from your own accounts and between a non FT UK account and an FT UK account, but copying between two FT UK accounts is a violation. Expert advisors and copy trading are both prohibited outright on futures accounts.
Hedge arbitrage is prohibited and the terms prohibit hedging across multiple user accounts. Whether hedging inside a single forex account is permitted is not addressed anywhere on the site. Futures accounts additionally prohibit normal hedging and group hedging.
The rules tables say yes and the marketing pages say there are no news restrictions. FT UK also sells a News Trading Activated add-on at checkout for 20% of the order value, and its add-on articles state that news trading is excluded from the features usable at all levels. Traders should confirm at checkout which applies to the account they are buying. On futures, FT UK states plainly that it imposes no news restrictions.
On forex accounts, yes. Overnight and weekend holding are allowed at every level of every forex program. On futures accounts, no. Positions are auto closed at 15:50 CT and cannot be carried overnight or into the weekend.
On forex accounts the help centre states that risk management expert advisors are allowed, while both sets of terms state that traders should not rely on signals, bots or software. The banned strategy list applies whether or not an advisor is used. On futures accounts, automated trading systems are prohibited in both the challenge and funded phases.
Hedge arbitrage is prohibited and the terms prohibit hedging across multiple user accounts, including hedging two FT UK accounts against each other. Hedging within a single forex account is not addressed in any published rule. Futures accounts also prohibit normal hedging and group hedging.
The biggest winning day divided by current total closed profit, taken at the 22:00 UTC rollover, so it is calculated on realised profit and losing days count in the denominator. It applies to Instant Funding and Flex Funded accounts and to futures, not to 1 Step or 2 Step. Instant Funding requires 20% at levels 1 and 2, 30% at levels 3 to 5 and 40% at level 6, before both payout and scaling. Exceeding it is not a breach, and the score resets after a payout or a scaling.
A hard breach closes the account permanently and any remaining profit is forfeited, since withdrawals are only possible while the account is active. A banned strategy brings account closure, a permanent ban and no refund, and the terms allow the profit share to be reduced to 0% or payouts to be cut by 0% to 50% for rule violations. The futures daily loss limit is a soft breach that only disables trading for the rest of that day.
