ForexTradingCup

By taking part in a ForexTradingCup competition you agree to these rules in full.

1. Eligibility

A new account, opened through our link. The broker account must be a NEW live MT4 or MT5 account that you opened with one of our partner brokers through a ForexTradingCup link, after you first used that link. Accounts you already held, or opened through someone else's link, can still be connected for your journal and statistics but cannot enter. We check this against our partner data (account number, registration date and whether it came through our link) and the time you first clicked our link, normally within a day.
At least $500 deposited. To be ranked, keep at least $500 deposited on the entered account: deposits minus withdrawals since the account was opened. A broker bonus or credit does not count. A withdrawal that takes you below $500 takes you off the board until you deposit again. The deposit stays your money, in your own broker account.
At least 1.00 lot traded during the competition (the total of your counted closed trades, for example 10 trades of 0.10) to qualify for the ranking and prizes.
Entries. If your balance falls below $50 during the competition, that entry ends. Everyone has 3 entries per competition: deposit $500 to the same account to re-enter, and your result starts again from 0%. Your latest entry is the one that counts for the prizes.
Entries for November 2026 close on 1 December at 00:00 UTC. Later entries count for the next competition.
Joining is free. You connect your account with its password; we only read it and never place, change or close trades or move funds.

2. Scoring formula

Rankings are based on percentage return on starting balance:

Return = (ending balance − starting balance) ÷ starting balance × 100%

Your starting balance is your balance when scoring opens, or your first deposit if you deposit after it opened (or your balance when a re-entry starts). Every trader starts at 0%.
Deposits and withdrawals are excluded from performance.
A $1,000 account can beat a $100,000 account if it makes a higher percentage return.
Ties break on return, then on the number of trades, then on the earlier sign-up.

3. Eligible instruments

All major, minor and exotic forex pairs. Also: metals (XAUUSD, XAGUSD), major indices (US30, SPX500, NAS100, DAX, under the names your broker uses for them) and major cryptocurrencies (BTCUSD, ETHUSD). Trades on anything else, such as single stocks, oil or other coins, stay in your journal but do not count towards your score.

4. Lot size

There is no minimum or maximum lot size. Every eligible closed trade counts, whatever its size.

5. One account, one prize

One entered account per person per competition, and one person per broker account. A broker account can qualify once, for one person, for good.
You may connect more accounts for your journal and statistics; only the entered account is ranked.
One person wins at most one prize per competition. If the winner of a special award already holds a ranked prize, the award goes to the next trader who meets its criteria.

6. Prohibited activities

The following lead to immediate disqualification from the competition:

Using two or more accounts, yours or someone else's, to hedge the same position.
Tick scalping: any counted trade held less than 10 seconds disqualifies the entry for that month.
High-frequency trading (HFT) bots. Trades opened by an Expert Advisor or other automation are detected from the trade data and left out of your statistics and ranking.
Exploiting broker arbitrage, latency or data-feed errors.
Bonus or credit manipulation, copying signals between entrants to inflate results, or any other form of market or contest manipulation.

7. Competition period

The November 2026 competition runs from 10 November at 00:00 to 9 December at 23:59 (UTC). Trades opened before the competition starts or closed after it ends are excluded from scoring.

8. Prizes

1st: $10,000
2nd: Rolex Datejust
3rd: Dubai trip
4th to 10th: Up to $1,000 each

Special awards, paid in addition to the ranked places (one prize per person, see section 5):

Best Newcomer, $500. Highest-ranked first-time competitor. Needs a ranked entry (1.00 lot traded).
Consistency King, $500. Highest win rate with 50 or more trades.
Risk Manager, $500. Best risk-adjusted return: return divided by the deepest drawdown. Needs a ranked entry (1.00 lot traded).

Prizes are paid within 14 days of the competition end, or of passing the identity check if that comes later. Winners of prizes of $1,000 or more must pass identity verification (KYC) first. We never ask a winner for a payment, deposit, tax or fee.

9. Trader grade

Every trader with at least 10 closed trades gets a score from 0 to 100, computed from the broker history of their connected account. It is separate from the monthly ranking and does not change prizes. How it is made up is on the grades page. A grade describes past account behaviour; it is not a prediction, a certification or investment advice.

10. Dispute resolution

Disputes must reach us within 7 days of the competition end, through the contact page or support@forextradingcup.com. Our decision on disputes is final. Results may be adjusted if a technical error is found.

11. Rule changes

We may change these rules for future competitions with 7 days' notice. The rules of a running competition do not change while it runs.

Achievements and rank updates

Badges are earned from the broker data of your connected account and the live board, never typed in by us. They have no cash value and do not change the ranking or prizes. There are deliberately no badges for the number of trades, trading every day or depositing: they would reward overtrading.

Qualified. Traded 1.00 lot on counted trades in a competition while meeting every entry rule.
Top 10 for 24 hours. Held a place in the top 10 of a running competition for 24 hours without dropping out.
Steady hand. Finished a competition ranked, in profit, with a drawdown under 10% in the counted entry.
Personal best. Closed a calendar month in profit with your highest monthly return so far, after at least one earlier month with trades.
Two weeks in control. Kept a daily loss limit of at most 5% of your balance, unchanged for 14 days, never broken, with closed trades on at least 5 of those days.
Grade B or better. Reached trader grade B, A or S.
Grade A. Reached trader grade A or S.

The board shows how many places each trader moved since the first data sync of the UTC day, and the biggest climbers of the day. Your rival is the trader directly above you (for number 1, the one directly below). We email you when you enter or leave the top 10 (at most once a day each way) and send a weekly recap on Mondays; you can turn these emails off with the link in any of them.

Season prizes and free draw

Coming soon: the prize pool is being arranged. No giveaway is open for entries yet.

Eligibility. You must be 18 or older and not be an employee of the operator or a member of their household. Entry is void where the law prohibits it, and people in any country where such a giveaway is prohibited may not win.
No purchase or deposit needed. Entering and winning never depend on buying anything, depositing money or trading with a particular broker. Opening an account at a partner broker is optional and gives no extra entries.
Free entry. Make a free account, or use the free entry form without an account. One free entry per person and email address. An account and a free entry with the same email count once.
Who is in the draw. Everyone who made a free entry before entries closed, and every account that has a confirmed email address and was created before entries closed. Suspended accounts and organiser or staff accounts are not entered. Entries close on the draw date, or earlier if the organisers stop entries or hold the draw early; the cut-off is recorded in the audit log. Creating an account requires confirming that you are 18 or older and accept these rules.
Draw entries. 1 for an account, +1 per active connected broker account (each counted once, up to 5), +2 per closed month in which you are ranked, +1 per invited trader who connects an account (up to 10).
Staff. The organiser, its staff and the accounts it marks as staff do not take part in the draw and cannot win skill prizes. The number excluded is published with the draw.
How winners are chosen (draw). After the draw date, management runs one draw. Winners are picked with a secure random number generator, weighted by entries and without replacement, so a person wins at most one draw prize. The whole ordered list, a snapshot of the entry pool and their SHA-256 digests are stored and shown on the giveaway page after the draw. The draw is only run once the prizes are recorded as fully funded, unless management records a written reason for going ahead sooner, which is logged.
How winners are chosen (skill). Your returns in the closed months of the season are compounded. You must be ranked in at least 2 of the season months. Traders removed from a month's leaderboard for breaking the rules are not eligible. Ties are decided by the number of ranked months, then by the earlier sign-up. The prizes go in the order of the table above.
Claiming and forfeit. A winner is contacted using the email on the account or entry and has 14 days from that message to reply and send the details asked for. A prize not claimed in time, or declined, is forfeited and passes to the next eligible name on the stored list (the draw order, or the skill ranking). Nothing is re-rolled and no one is picked by hand. We never ask a winner for a payment, deposit, tax or fee.
ID check. Winners of prizes of $1,000 or more must pass an identity check before payment or delivery, and may be asked for proof of age and country. If you cannot be verified, the prize may be withdrawn.
Payment and delivery. Cash prizes are paid by bank transfer to an account in the winner's own name within 14 days of verification. Winners are responsible for any taxes, customs duties and travel documents.
Winners shown. If you win, your name may be shown on the giveaway page in a shortened form (first name and initial, or the first letters of an account name). Winners are listed as soon as they are drawn and marked confirmed once they have passed any ID check.
Where prohibited. The giveaway is not offered, and entries are void, where it would be unlawful. We can refuse entries from any country.
Operator. Contact support@forextradingcup.com.

Rolex and Submariner are trademarks of their respective owners. This giveaway is not sponsored by, endorsed by or affiliated with Rolex.

By taking part in a ForexTradingCup competition you agree to these rules in full.

1. Eligibility

A new account, opened through our link. The broker account must be a NEW live MT4 or MT5 account that you opened with one of our partner brokers through a ForexTradingCup link, after you first used that link. Accounts you already held, or opened through someone else's link, can still be connected for your journal and statistics but cannot enter. We check this against our partner data (account number, registration date and whether it came through our link) and the time you first clicked our link, normally within a day.
At least $500 deposited. To be ranked, keep at least $500 deposited on the entered account: deposits minus withdrawals since the account was opened. A broker bonus or credit does not count. A withdrawal that takes you below $500 takes you off the board until you deposit again. The deposit stays your money, in your own broker account.
At least 1.00 lot traded during the competition (the total of your counted closed trades, for example 10 trades of 0.10) to qualify for the ranking and prizes.
Entries. If your balance falls below $50 during the competition, that entry ends. Everyone has 3 entries per competition: deposit $500 to the same account to re-enter, and your result starts again from 0%. Your latest entry is the one that counts for the prizes.
Entries for November 2026 close on 1 December at 00:00 UTC. Later entries count for the next competition.
Joining is free. You connect your account with its password; we only read it and never place, change or close trades or move funds.

2. Scoring formula

Rankings are based on percentage return on starting balance:

Return = (ending balance − starting balance) ÷ starting balance × 100%

Your starting balance is your balance when scoring opens, or your first deposit if you deposit after it opened (or your balance when a re-entry starts). Every trader starts at 0%.
Deposits and withdrawals are excluded from performance.
A $1,000 account can beat a $100,000 account if it makes a higher percentage return.
Ties break on return, then on the number of trades, then on the earlier sign-up.

3. Eligible instruments

4. Lot size

There is no minimum or maximum lot size. Every eligible closed trade counts, whatever its size.

5. One account, one prize

One entered account per person per competition, and one person per broker account. A broker account can qualify once, for one person, for good.
You may connect more accounts for your journal and statistics; only the entered account is ranked.
One person wins at most one prize per competition. If the winner of a special award already holds a ranked prize, the award goes to the next trader who meets its criteria.

6. Prohibited activities

The following lead to immediate disqualification from the competition:

Using two or more accounts, yours or someone else's, to hedge the same position.
Tick scalping: any counted trade held less than 10 seconds disqualifies the entry for that month.
High-frequency trading (HFT) bots. Trades opened by an Expert Advisor or other automation are detected from the trade data and left out of your statistics and ranking.
Exploiting broker arbitrage, latency or data-feed errors.
Bonus or credit manipulation, copying signals between entrants to inflate results, or any other form of market or contest manipulation.

7. Competition period

The November 2026 competition runs from 10 November at 00:00 to 9 December at 23:59 (UTC). Trades opened before the competition starts or closed after it ends are excluded from scoring.

8. Prizes

1st: $10,000
2nd: Rolex Datejust
3rd: Dubai trip
4th to 10th: Up to $1,000 each

Special awards, paid in addition to the ranked places (one prize per person, see section 5):

Best Newcomer, $500. Highest-ranked first-time competitor. Needs a ranked entry (1.00 lot traded).
Consistency King, $500. Highest win rate with 50 or more trades.
Risk Manager, $500. Best risk-adjusted return: return divided by the deepest drawdown. Needs a ranked entry (1.00 lot traded).

9. Trader grade

10. Dispute resolution

11. Rule changes

We may change these rules for future competitions with 7 days' notice. The rules of a running competition do not change while it runs.

Achievements and rank updates

Qualified. Traded 1.00 lot on counted trades in a competition while meeting every entry rule.
Top 10 for 24 hours. Held a place in the top 10 of a running competition for 24 hours without dropping out.
Steady hand. Finished a competition ranked, in profit, with a drawdown under 10% in the counted entry.
Personal best. Closed a calendar month in profit with your highest monthly return so far, after at least one earlier month with trades.
Two weeks in control. Kept a daily loss limit of at most 5% of your balance, unchanged for 14 days, never broken, with closed trades on at least 5 of those days.
Grade B or better. Reached trader grade B, A or S.
Grade A. Reached trader grade A or S.

Season prizes and free draw

Coming soon: the prize pool is being arranged. No giveaway is open for entries yet.

Eligibility. You must be 18 or older and not be an employee of the operator or a member of their household. Entry is void where the law prohibits it, and people in any country where such a giveaway is prohibited may not win.
No purchase or deposit needed. Entering and winning never depend on buying anything, depositing money or trading with a particular broker. Opening an account at a partner broker is optional and gives no extra entries.
Free entry. Make a free account, or use the free entry form without an account. One free entry per person and email address. An account and a free entry with the same email count once.
Who is in the draw. Everyone who made a free entry before entries closed, and every account that has a confirmed email address and was created before entries closed. Suspended accounts and organiser or staff accounts are not entered. Entries close on the draw date, or earlier if the organisers stop entries or hold the draw early; the cut-off is recorded in the audit log. Creating an account requires confirming that you are 18 or older and accept these rules.
Draw entries. 1 for an account, +1 per active connected broker account (each counted once, up to 5), +2 per closed month in which you are ranked, +1 per invited trader who connects an account (up to 10).
Staff. The organiser, its staff and the accounts it marks as staff do not take part in the draw and cannot win skill prizes. The number excluded is published with the draw.
How winners are chosen (draw). After the draw date, management runs one draw. Winners are picked with a secure random number generator, weighted by entries and without replacement, so a person wins at most one draw prize. The whole ordered list, a snapshot of the entry pool and their SHA-256 digests are stored and shown on the giveaway page after the draw. The draw is only run once the prizes are recorded as fully funded, unless management records a written reason for going ahead sooner, which is logged.
How winners are chosen (skill). Your returns in the closed months of the season are compounded. You must be ranked in at least 2 of the season months. Traders removed from a month's leaderboard for breaking the rules are not eligible. Ties are decided by the number of ranked months, then by the earlier sign-up. The prizes go in the order of the table above.
Claiming and forfeit. A winner is contacted using the email on the account or entry and has 14 days from that message to reply and send the details asked for. A prize not claimed in time, or declined, is forfeited and passes to the next eligible name on the stored list (the draw order, or the skill ranking). Nothing is re-rolled and no one is picked by hand. We never ask a winner for a payment, deposit, tax or fee.
ID check. Winners of prizes of $1,000 or more must pass an identity check before payment or delivery, and may be asked for proof of age and country. If you cannot be verified, the prize may be withdrawn.
Payment and delivery. Cash prizes are paid by bank transfer to an account in the winner's own name within 14 days of verification. Winners are responsible for any taxes, customs duties and travel documents.
Winners shown. If you win, your name may be shown on the giveaway page in a shortened form (first name and initial, or the first letters of an account name). Winners are listed as soon as they are drawn and marked confirmed once they have passed any ID check.
Where prohibited. The giveaway is not offered, and entries are void, where it would be unlawful. We can refuse entries from any country.
Operator. Contact support@forextradingcup.com.

Rolex and Submariner are trademarks of their respective owners. This giveaway is not sponsored by, endorsed by or affiliated with Rolex.

Competition rules

1. Eligibility

2. Scoring formula

3. Eligible instruments

4. Lot size

5. One account, one prize

6. Prohibited activities

7. Competition period

8. Prizes

9. Trader grade

10. Dispute resolution

11. Rule changes

Achievements and rank updates

Season prizes and free draw

Competition rules

1. Eligibility

2. Scoring formula

3. Eligible instruments

4. Lot size

5. One account, one prize

6. Prohibited activities

7. Competition period

8. Prizes

9. Trader grade

10. Dispute resolution

11. Rule changes

Achievements and rank updates

Season prizes and free draw