Allowed Trading Activities

While we have strict rules to prevent toxic flow and gambling, FundedCobra provides an extremely flexible environment for legitimate manual traders.

Here is a comprehensive list of what you ARE allowed to do on all account types:

1. News Trading

You are fully allowed to trade around economic events. Whether it's NFP, CPI, or FOMC, you can hold open trades through the volatility or execute new trades during the news release.

2. Weekend Position Holding

You are allowed to leave trades open over the weekend. We do not force you to close your positions on Friday afternoon. If you are a swing trader, you can hold your positions for weeks if necessary.

3. Trading Multiple Pairs Simultaneously

You can have open trades on EURUSD, Gold, and US30 all at the same time. There are no limits to the variety of instruments you trade.

4. Both Long and Short Positions

You can open Buy (Long) positions and Sell (Short) positions. (Note: Just not simultaneously on the EXACT SAME pair, as per the Hedging Rule).

5. Partial Position Closing

You are allowed to take partial profits. If you open a 1.0 Lot position, you can close 0.5 Lots and let the runner go.

6. Modifying Stop Loss / Take Profit

You can freely modify your Stop Loss and Take Profit levels after a trade has been entered. Moving your Stop Loss to breakeven or trailing it manually is fully permitted.

Accounts with stricter rules

• Cobra Prime and Cobra Strike bought from 30 October 2026: no weekend holding. Open forex, metals, indices and energy trades close by themselves 5 minutes before the Friday close. Cobra Strike also blocks high-impact news: no new trades on a symbol from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after the news, and open trades on it close 5 minutes before. Crypto is not affected and neither is a breach. Both can be added at checkout.
• Cobra Strike also allows martingale.
• Diwali 2026 free accounts (the 2 free accounts from the Buy 1 Get 2 Free offer) do not allow martingale (opening a trade twice as big or more right after a losing trade on the same pair) or stacking (4 trades in a row in the same direction on the same pair). See the Diwali offer article for all their rules.

Not allowed on any account

We check for these before every payout. If we find one, the payout is declined and the account is closed.

• Arbitrage: latency, price-feed or broker-to-broker arbitrage of any kind.
• Tick scalping: opening and closing many trades within seconds to catch feed delays or glitches.
• Bought bots: ready-made "pass the challenge" EAs or bots bought online. Trades must be placed by hand.
• Copy trading: copying trades between different people, signal groups, account sharing, or letting someone else trade your account.
• Outside hedging: hedging your FundedCobra account against an account at another firm or broker.
• Price errors: using an obviously wrong price or a platform error. Trades opened on it are removed.
• False claims: posting false claims about FundedCobra, or threatening to, to pressure a payout decision.

The full list is also on our rules page.