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Arbitrage trading

You may not profit from price differences, feed delays or technical inefficiencies between platforms. Latency arbitrage, triangular arbitrage, cross-platform price exploitation and execution-delay tricks are all prohibited.

Example of a breach

A trader notices that the Traderscale price feed on XAUUSD updates about 300 milliseconds behind another broker's. They watch the faster feed and enter on Traderscale whenever it moves, taking 12 trades in an hour that each close in profit as the price catches up.

The profit did not come from a view on the market. It came from knowing the price before the platform did.

What if the price on another platform really was different?

Normal price differences between providers happen all the time. Trading on one platform while watching another is not a problem in itself. What is prohibited is deliberately trading to exploit a mismatch, delay or infrastructure limitation.

What is reviewed

Execution timing, price-feed differences, platform activity and repeated patterns.

Possible outcome

Profit adjustment, payout rejection or account breach.

Related: Exploiting system errors · High-frequency trading