Introduction
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working behind the scenes to clarify a number of rules and added detailed Help Centre articles to make the PipFarm experience clearer for everyone.
As you’ll be aware, PipFarm has always stood for clear and straightforward rules. But that doesn’t mean not having rules.
Therefore, in this update, many points have been clarified, and I urge everyone to review this email and our updated help centre.
New: The 90% Profit Rule 📏
We’ve introduced a new requirement: No single trade can account for more than 90% of your total profits. This applies to both challenge passes and each payout.
Why? Because we want to evaluate your trading through multiple decisions, not just one big trade. Passing a challenge from a single position or trade idea doesn’t give us enough information to assess your skill, consistency, or risk management.
📅 This rule takes effect on August 1st, 2025 and will apply to new challenges purchased after August 1st, 2025 and any funded accounts promoted from those challenges purchased after August 1st, 2025. Any challenges purchased before this date will be exempt from this rule.
New: Trade Idea definition 📈
A Trade Idea is a group of trades that are treated as a single decision for evaluating performance and risk. Even if a trader opens and closes multiple positions, they’re part of the same idea if they are the same direction, same symbol, and the trades overlap or are opened less than an hour apart.
This definition is used across several of our rules, including:
- The Maximum Risk per Trade Idea rule in Instant Mode
- The new 90% rule limiting how much one idea can contribute to profits
Clearer: Max Risk Per Trade Idea (Instant Accounts) 💡
Our Instant Mode accounts always had a Max Open Risk rule, along with a cooling-off period for traders who exceeded the threshold. However, the way these two worked together wasn’t clear enough, which caused confusion.
To fix that, we’ve now redefined and renamed the rule as Max Risk Per Trade Idea.
Instead of looking at open risk broadly, we now assess risk at the trade-idea level by grouping trades that are part of the same setup or decision. This provides a fairer and clearer picture of your risk, preventing traders from bypassing limits by spreading risk across multiple trades.
Improved: Performance reviews, enhanced verification & probation measures 🧭
We’ve added four detailed Help Centre articles to explain how we respond to unsustainable or potentially toxic trading behaviour. These tools help support fair use of the platform and guide traders back toward sustainable practices.
Improved: Prohibited Trading Practice Guides 🚫
We’ve improved the way we explain what’s not allowed. Previously, all prohibited behaviours were listed in one brief article. Now, each type of abuse has its own dedicated Help Centre guide, with clear definitions and multiple real-world examples.
These include practices like:
👉 Layering across multiple accounts
👉 Using account passing services
👉 High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
👉 Hedging techniques to manipulate program rules
Conclusion
I want to be upfront about how things work at PipFarm and make our process is clear to everyone. These updated guides cover everything from how we assess risk to how we intervene when things don’t look right.
