What risk management and consistency rules must traders follow at QT Funded?

💡 Answer

3 Percent Rule

QT Funded does not publish a universal "3% per trade" rule. Risk is controlled via plan-level drawdown limits and explicit max-risk / max-exposure policies:

• QT INSTANT: maximum risk allowed is 2% (hard breach if violated).
• QT PRIME (Funded): funded traders must not expose more than 2.5% of initial account balance at any one time.
• QT POWER: the maximum risk per trade or overall open positions is 2% of account balance (hard breach).
• Excessive Exposure: risking more than 75% of daily/max drawdown limits within open positions can trigger penalties (e.g., evaluation resets upon passing).

Consistency Rules

Consistency requirements are tied to plan rules and payout eligibility:

• QT POWER: both challenge and funded accounts must maintain a 35% consistency score (best day profit ÷ total profit × 100).
• QT PRIME (On-Demand): requires a 35% consistency score and a minimum of 3% profit to be requested; pays 100% split when eligible.
• QT INSTANT: requires a 25% consistency threshold at withdrawal time (no single day’s profit may exceed 25% of total profits) and a minimum 5% profit before the first withdrawal.

Other Risk Rules

• Inactivity: accounts cannot be inactive for more than 30 calendar days.
• News rule (Funded stage for QT PRIME & QT INSTANT): no manual opening/closing/modifying trades or orders within 5 minutes before/after high-impact (Forex Factory red-folder) releases; violations are treated as hard breaches. QT PRIME On-Demand does not have the news rule applied.
• Weekend holding: trades can be held over the weekend across QT PRIME, QT POWER and QT INSTANT.
• EA & Trade Copiers: allowed only with pre-approval via [email protected]; unapproved use can result in account forfeit; group trading (multiple traders using the same EA with identical trades) is prohibited.
• Copy trading & allocation controls: copying and same-strategy usage is permitted under $400,000 total allocation; at $400,000 and above, traders cannot copy trades or use the same strategy between accounts (each account must trade different instruments/strategy for its history). QT INSTANT has an additional max allocation rule ($99,000 for same-strategy use; also counts toward the $400,000 cap).
• Third-party payments: not accepted; payment method name must match the account holder.
• Prohibited practices: latency/arbitrage/HFT, order-book spamming, reverse trading/group hedging, one-sided betting, and other behaviors deemed toxic can lead to profit forfeiture or bans.
• VPN/VPS: permitted; however, trading must be conducted solely by the verified account holder and restricted-country IP connections can cause enforcement actions.