Breakout rules explained

The drawdown mechanic — read this twice

Breakout uses a static drawdown. The maximum-loss level is fixed from the starting balance and does not move as you make money. This is the trader-friendly model: your buffer is knowable on day one and a profitable run genuinely increases the distance to your stop-out.

Whatever the model, size your risk against the buffer rather than the account size. The practical rule we use: never let a single campaign risk more than a third of the distance between current equity and the breach level.

Consistency and payout-eligibility rules

Consistency rules are where traders lose money they have already made. On Breakout the stated position is: None. That leaves the payout gate mostly to the drawdown and minimum-days requirements.

The mechanic to watch is the single-best-day percentage. Where a firm caps one day at a share of total profit, a single outsized win can push a payout out by weeks because you must grind additional smaller days to bring the ratio back inside the cap. If you scalp news or trade one high-conviction setup a week, that mechanic will hurt you far more than a slightly lower profit split.

Full rule matrix

Each flag below is read off Breakout's public rulebook and paired with the actual mechanic, because "allowed" means very different things from firm to firm.

• News trading: allowed — Crypto markets have no scheduled news blackout.
• Expert advisors / algos: conditionally allowed — API and bot trading is permitted within the firm's rate limits.
• Weekend holding: allowed — Crypto trades 24/7 — weekend holding is the norm, not an exception.
• Overnight holding: allowed — No session close to trade around.
• Copy trading: conditionally allowed — Own accounts only.
• No time limit: allowed — No deadline on the evaluation.
• Crypto pairs: allowed — Crypto is the entire product — perpetuals on a custom terminal.
• No consistency rule: allowed — No consistency rule on the standard evaluation.

Rules that end accounts in practice

Beyond the headline limits, these are the clauses Breakout actually enforces.

• Static drawdown: Loss limits reference the starting balance with no trailing mechanic.
• No consistency rule: Withdrawals are not gated on daily profit distribution, which suits the lumpy return profile of crypto strategies.
• Perps-specific mechanics: Funding payments and liquidation behaviour follow exchange conventions. Model funding cost into your edge — it is a real drag on carried positions that does not exist in FX CFD prop products.

Rule stability

Breakout does not currently appear in our rule-change register, meaning we have not logged a material rulebook revision for it in the tracked period. Re-check before each payout anyway — firms are not obliged to announce changes prominently.

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