These rules follow the instant-funding standard: no target, 8% daily, 8% trailing maximum, bi-weekly payouts, and the published restrictions on automation, weekends and high-impact news. They do not follow evaluation-challenge rules.
The risk model is the entire product. Read it once before you buy. Breaching either limit is a hard breach and closes the account.
Calculated from the account balance at the end of the previous day (5:00 PM EST). It resets each day. Intraday equity that prints through the daily floor is a breach, including floating loss on open trades.
The maximum loss is 8% of the starting balance, trailing the closed-balance high-water mark. It continues to trail until the account is +8% from start. At +8% profit, or when a payout is processed, the floor locks at the original starting balance and stops trailing.
Start. Floor = $9,200. Daily floor on day one = $9,200.
Closed balance $10,400. Trailing floor = $10,400 − $800 = $9,600. Daily floor = 8% below prior EOD.
Closed balance $10,800 (+8%). Maximum floor locks at $10,000. It no longer trails higher.
After a payout. Regardless of remaining profit, the maximum floor locks at $10,000. Withdrawing the entire buffer can leave almost no room for the next trade. Plan withdrawals.
Initial floor $46,000. At a $54,000 high-water mark the 8% profit lock is reached and the floor becomes $50,000 for the life of the account.
Instant funding is stricter than evaluation programs on automation, weekends and news. That is deliberate.
| Topic | Instant funding rule at Johnson Capital |
|---|---|
| Expert advisors / bots | Not permitted. Use of EAs, bots or trade copiers can terminate the account. |
| Copy trading | Not permitted from third parties or from other accounts you control. |
| Weekend holding | Not permitted. Open positions are flattened before Friday cash-market close. |
| Overnight (Mon–Thu) | Permitted. |
| News trading | Restricted 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high-impact releases. New orders, including SL/TP executions in that window, are restricted. Profit printed inside the window is not counted. Existing positions may be held through the print. |
| Stop-loss mandatory | No. |
| Hedging | Permitted. |
| Martingale / grid as a bot | Automated grid or martingale systems are treated as prohibited EAs. Discretionary scaling by hand is not, by itself, a breach. |
| Consistency rule | None on this program. |
| Profit target | None. |
| Time limit | None. Inactivity of 60 calendar days without a trade is a hard breach. |
| Instruments | No blanket symbol ban. Availability follows the platform feed (FX, metals, indices and selected others). |
| Leverage | Up to 50:1 on FX. Lower on indices, commodities and stocks as published in the dashboard. |
| One account | One active instant account at a time. |
| Platform switch | If no trades have been placed, the account may be switched between MT5 and DXTrade. After the first trade, the platform is fixed. |
