What systematic means here
Trade management and systematic execution are allowed. That covers a stop, a breakeven shift, and partial targets placed by a tool you run on your own logic. It does not cover a public copier, a martingale that doubles after a loss, or a grid that stacks tickets into a move. Tick scalping under a minute or two is named in the prohibition. If the method needs the spread to twitch and the trade to be gone immediately, it is the thing they banned.
Create your Venasri login and connect the Alpha account on MT5, cTrader, or DXtrade. The $497 fee on $100K does not include a waiver for automation. Three minimum trading days still apply. A bot that passes in one afternoon still owes the calendar.
Two thousand requests is a daily budget
Count order sends and modifications together toward 2,000 in a day. A trail that edits a NAS100 stop every second will spend that budget before lunch and still may not have a better price. Step the stop at structure or at a partial. Four planned edits are a rounding error. Four hundred tick edits are the start of a problem, and two thousand is the line.
The duration rule sits beside the cap: a majority of profit from trades closed in under 60 seconds fails a funded book. You can be under 2,000 requests and still fail the duration test. Bot Control should prefer holds that are real trades, and it should refuse a strategy whose edge is the sub-60-second bucket.
Loss lines the bot must respect
Alpha Pro's day is 5%, $5,000 on $100K, and the maximum is a static 10%, $10,000. Alpha One's day is 4%, $4,000, and the maximum trails 6% at the end of the day. A bot sized for Pro will overtrade One. The daily base is the higher of day-start balance or equity at 00:00 ACG Markets time. A bot that ignores the rebase will keep trading a day that already shrank.
Equity Guard is the account flatten. It should sit under the contract you bought, not under a generic 10% story. The guard is a risk manager, which the rules allow. A guard that grids into a loser is the thing the rules name as prohibited.
News, lots, and the funded extra tests
Alpha Pro funded accounts have a 2-minute window before and after high-impact news. The bot has to stop opening and closing in that window. Alpha Swing may trade the release. Slip-through stops during CPI, NFP, and FOMC still count toward the 5% day. Weekend holds are allowed on Pro and Swing. A bot that carries Friday's grid into Sunday is stacking two prohibitions if the grid was never legal.
Funded accounts also enforce a maximum lot exposure. The example given is 25 lots on $100K. Most profits from trades under 2 minutes fail the book even when each trade was tiny. The 80% split and the 14-day payout do not repair a duration breach. Build the bot to the slowest rule, not the fastest fill.
