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General Operational Conditions: What You Need to Know
General Operational Conditions: What You Need to Know

Explore the basic rules for trading at Impulse, from drawdown limits to news trading.

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As a trader in Impulse World, it's essential to understand the basic rules governing our operations. These conditions are designed to create a fair, transparent, and professional trading environment for all our users.

Risk and Drawdown Rules

One of the cornerstones of our approach is responsible risk management. That's why we've established clear limits:

  • Daily drawdown: Maximum 5%

  • Maximum loss: 10%

These limits are in place to protect your capital and encourage sustainable trading habits. To better understand how these values are calculated and why we use equity as a measure, we invite you to read our detailed article: Understanding Equity and Drawdown: Keys to Your Trading Success

Trading Policy Summary

For your convenience, here's a brief summary of our main trading policies:

  1. Risk management and margin control: Strict limits to protect your capital

  2. Anti-arbitrage policy: Prohibition of arbitrage practices to maintain fairness

  3. Hedging policy: Hedges not allowed to encourage direct trading strategies

  4. Copy trading policy: Prohibited to promote individual skill development

  5. Active Account Volume (VCA): Limits the maximum challenge size you can manage

  6. Prohibited strategies: Certain strategies, such as probabilistic trading, are forbidden

  7. Promotional challenge policies: Specific rules to leverage these special opportunities

For detailed information about each policy, we invite you to click on the corresponding links.

Stop Out Policy

At Impulse World, we have a clear rule: stop outs are not allowed. This measure aims to promote more careful risk management and prevent catastrophic losses.

Account Activity

To maintain an active and engaged environment, we've implemented an inactivity policy:

  • If you do not make any trades for 30 calendar days, your account may be suspended

  • We recommend maintaining regular activity to avoid interruptions in your trading

Software Restrictions

To ensure the fairness and integrity of our trading ecosystem, we do not allow:

  • Use of EAs (Expert Advisors)

  • Trading bots

  • High-frequency trading

  • Copy trading

We believe in the value of human analysis and informed decision-making.

Weekend Operations

We've updated our policy regarding operations outside regular market hours to offer more flexibility to our traders:

For Traders in Evaluation Phase:

Without Swing Mode Activated:

  • Open trades will be automatically closed at weekly market close (Friday)

  • You will not be disapproved for "out-of-hours operations"

  • We recommend closing your positions before market close to maintain total control of your strategy

With Swing Mode Activated:

  • ✅ You can keep positions open during the weekend

  • ✅ Allowed to trade outside regular market hours

For Funded and Pro Leagues Traders:

  • ✅ Weekend operations permitted

  • ✅ Positions open outside regular market hours allowed

This flexibility allows you to take advantage of opportunities that arise outside traditional hours, adapting to different market conditions and trading strategies.

Always remember to manage your risks appropriately, especially when holding positions open during low liquidity periods like weekends.

Holiday Operations

It's important to consider how holidays can affect your trades:

  • Markets may remain open during some holidays, but with reduced liquidity

  • Low liquidity can result in wider spreads and more volatile price movements

  • Holidays in certain countries can specifically affect currency pairs or assets related to those economies

  • Major currency pairs are generally less affected than exotic or minor pairs

  • If a holiday falls on a weekday (Monday to Thursday), trades will not be automatically closed

Recommendations:

  • Research the holiday calendar of major financial markets

  • Adjust your strategy considering potential low liquidity on holiday days

  • Stay alert to possible gaps or sudden movements when markets reopen after a holiday

  • Consider reducing position sizes during these periods to better manage risk

News Trading

At Impulse World, we recognize the importance of economic events in trading:

  • ✅ Allowed to trade during the publication of important economic news

  • This freedom is part of our flexible trading strategy

Available Trading Instruments

At Impulse World, we offer a wide variety of financial instruments:

  • Forex: Broad range of currency pairs

  • Indices: Including the most important globally

  • Cryptocurrencies: Trading in the dynamic crypto market

  • Commodities: Such as gold, oil, and others

  • CFDs: Contracts for Difference in various markets

  • Stocks: Opportunity to trade in stock markets

This diversity allows you to explore different markets and apply various trading strategies.

About Leverage

At Impulse World, we offer competitive leverage conditions for a wide range of financial instruments:

  • Forex: Leverage of 1:100

  • Metals: Gold and Silver at 1:50, Copper at 1:25, Palladium and Platinum at 1:20

  • Oil: Leverage of 1:20

  • Indices: Leverage of 1:30

  • Cryptocurrencies and Stocks: Leverage of 1:5 in most cases

🧠 Recommendation: Learn more details about the leverage of each asset here: Impulse - MT4 Leverage.pdf

These conditions are designed to offer our traders flexibility and growth potential in their operations, maintaining a balanced approach between opportunity and risk.

Permitted Strategies

During your continuous process at Impulse, you can employ:

  • Technical analysis

  • Fundamental analysis

  • Combinations of both

  • Other types of speculative analysis

We encourage traders to apply strategies aligned with their personal style, whether intraday trading, swing trading, or long-term positions, always respecting risk management rules.


Conclusion

Knowing and respecting these operational conditions is essential to your success as a trader in Impulse World. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with each of them and apply them in your daily trading.

Remember: Trading involves risks. Always operate responsibly and never risk more than you can afford to lose.

Have questions about any of these conditions? Don't hesitate to contact our support team for personalized guidance through the email [email protected] or the live chat located in the bottom right corner of the screen. We look forward to helping you!

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