We may ask you to complete a check-in at any stage. A check-in is a review of you and your trading, carried out either as an AI-assisted session or as a video call with our risk team. A person on the risk team makes every decision. While a check-in is pending, payouts are suspended, but you can keep trading. This page also explains fair play: the standard all trading must meet, and the automatic consequences of a fair-play violation.
What a check-in is
A check-in helps us confirm that you are who you say you are and that your trading follows the rules. It may cover:
your identity, verification and sanctions information;
who owns and controls your accounts;
fraud and risk indicators;
your trading strategy and risk management;
the reasoning behind specific trades;
your use of automated systems; and
a demonstration of your trading platform.
You must show valid government-issued identification if we ask.
The two formats
AI-assisted session. An automated session that gathers information. AI tools don't make decisions about your account.
Video call with a member of our risk team.
We send the invitation to your registered email address, and it says which format applies. You can't choose or change the format. Either way, a person on our risk team makes every decision.
While a check-in is pending
From the moment we request a check-in until we confirm it's complete:
payouts and pending payout requests are suspended;
your trading isn't restricted, and the Trading Rules still apply; and
activation of a funded account isn't held back.
Completing a check-in
There's no fixed deadline, but you must complete a check-in promptly.
Complete it yourself, about your own trading, without help from anyone else. Having someone else complete or help with a check-in is a breach.
Check-ins may be recorded or logged. We keep recordings of AI-assisted sessions for 30 days. See the Privacy Policy for how we handle check-in records.
Failing a check-in is a rule violation. The account is closed, you may be banned from Tradeify Perps and your Live Fund is forfeited.
Fair play
All trading on evaluations and funded accounts must be consistent with fair play. Fair play means trading on your own decisions, with a genuine strategy and risk you understand, not a process built mainly to exploit the rules of an evaluation or the platform.
We assess fair play on the overall pattern of your trading and account activity, across accounts and over time. It applies from the moment you get access to an evaluation.
These are fair-play violations:
Hedging: holding opposing positions, including across accounts. See "Hedging and Product Groups".
Gaming the evaluation: using multiple accounts to pass by chance rather than by showing trading ability, or trading built mainly around the evaluation rules rather than a genuine market view.
Group and coordinated trading: coordinating trades across accounts or with other people to manufacture profitable accounts, protect one account with another or guarantee payouts.
Rolling accounts: repeatedly using up accounts at maximum risk and buying new ones until one passes.
Excessive account activity can also lead to action under the Trading Rules, and where it amounts to gaming the evaluation or rolling accounts, it's a fair-play violation.
Consequences of a fair-play violation
If we decide you've committed a fair-play violation, the consequences are automatic:
all your Tradeify Perps accounts are closed;
unpaid profit and Rewards on them are forfeited;
your Live Fund is forfeited; and
you're permanently barred from Tradeify Perps.
A ban from Tradeify Perps may also extend to other Tradeify brands, case by case. Other breaches are handled in proportion to how serious they are. See "Trading rules overview".