If you have ever wondered why a trader can be profitable and still get flagged, it usually comes down to one thing: the firm is looking for behavior that feels exploitative, coordinated, or unsustainable, not just the final PnL. Hola Prime says it prohibits strategies that exploit the platform, distort fair conditions, or reflect gambling style risk taking and the consequences can range from warnings and restrictions all the way to termination and permanent bans.
Below are the triggers traders misjudge most often, plus the simple habits that keep your account looking clean.
What “Flagged” Usually Means
A flag is basically the system or risk team saying, “this activity needs a closer look.” Hola Prime notes that when prohibited trading is detected, participation can be terminated and you can forfeit payouts and fees, and traders may be denied a funded account if prohibited trading is found during review.
The good news is that most flags are avoidable once you know what patterns look suspicious from the outside.
Hyperactivity And Excessive Trading
One of the quickest triggers is hyperactivity, which Hola Prime describes as excessive trading or rapid modification to orders, stops, and take profits that ends up putting too much risk on the account.
This one catches traders who run aggressive trade management tools, spam pending orders, or constantly edit levels every few seconds. Even if the intention is harmless, it can look like platform exploitation or stress testing.
Account Or Device Sharing
Hola Prime explicitly calls out account or device sharing as a breach, including sharing, selling, or letting others access your account. It also flags coordinated activity between unconnected accounts and third parties that pools or hedges risk, with a zero tolerance stance toward that kind of behavior.
In real life, this often shows up as logins from multiple places, multiple people “helping,” or a trader trying to manage several accounts in ways that look like a team running one strategy together.
Gambling Style Risk And Speculative Trading
Hola Prime lists gambling or speculative behavior as prohibited, including overleveraging, excessive margin use, and placing multiple buy and sell orders at different levels to capture short term moves without proper analysis. They even give an example of stacking orders above and below price, which can explode when price trends hard in one direction.
They also describe “gap trading” around major news or near market closures as a high risk practice and treat it as prohibited in this context.
Oversized Single Idea Risk
Another easy misread is the “one trade idea” risk. On the futures prohibited practices page, Hola Prime states that on funded or direct accounts, the loss on a single trade idea should not exceed 2% of the initial balance, and splitting positions can still count as one idea, including re entries within 10 minutes in the same direction. Breaching this leads to a hard breach and termination.
This is aimed at traders who try to disguise one big bet by chopping it into several smaller tickets.
One Sided Betting
Hola Prime also prohibits one sided betting, which is repeatedly taking positions in only one direction without proper market evaluation, because it is highly speculative and can create unnecessary exposure.
This tends to show up as stubborn averaging in, endless buys in a downtrend, or endless sells in an uptrend, especially when the trader is emotionally attached to a bias.
Arbitrage And Price Feed Exploits
Arbitrage is called out directly. Hola Prime prohibits taking advantage of discrepancies in price feeds, technical glitches, or delays across platforms, including variations like reverse arbitrage and hedge arbitrage across firms, because it bypasses fair analysis and works against fair market conditions.
If your “edge” depends on latency, glitches, or price mismatches, that is the kind of edge that gets removed fast.
Copy Trading And Group Behavior
Copy trading is allowed only in a narrow lane: between two Hola Prime accounts owned by the same individual. External copying, or copying between accounts not owned by the same person, is prohibited. Hola Prime also says that if a sizable portion of your trades are identical to other traders based on timing, price, lot size, symbols, and similar factors, it can be treated as copy trading, group trading, signal services, or passing services and associated accounts can be terminated.
So even if you are not “copying” in your mind, trade mirroring patterns can still get you flagged.
Hedging Across Accounts And Reverse Trades
Hedging inside the same account can be allowed, but hedging across multiple accounts or in a group is treated as prohibited in these rules. Hola Prime gives a clear example of buying EURUSD on one account and selling EURUSD on another at the same time as a breach.
This rule is largely about preventing teams from neutralizing risk across accounts while still trying to extract payouts.
Tick Scalping And High Frequency Trading
Hola Prime prohibits tick scalping and high frequency trading that uses sophisticated algorithms and fast networks to profit from tiny price moves with a high volume of trades, describing it as unfair and disruptive to liquidity.
If your strategy relies on rapid fire entries and cancellations, expect scrutiny.
Automation And EAs
Automation rules vary by product and account type, which is where traders get confused. On the futures prohibited practices page, Hola Prime states that semi or fully automated trading like bots or AI is not allowed on all accounts in that context.
On the crypto prohibited practices page, Hola Prime notes EA activity is monitored and traceable, and it also states that EAs are strictly prohibited on Hola Prime X accounts issued under the Direct model.
Separately, Hola Prime’s forex FAQ states Martingale is strictly prohibited, which matters because many “EAs” are just Martingale in a fancy wrapper.
How To Stay Clean Without Trading Scared
Trade like one person, on one account, with one consistent approach. Avoid anything that looks like coordination, mirroring, or hedging across accounts. Keep your sizing stable and explainable. If you use tools, make sure they do not create hyperactive order behavior. And if you are unsure about whether a specific automation or style is allowed on your exact account type, check the relevant rules page for that product before you run it live, because the restrictions can differ by model.
