Community guidelines

The basics

FTC is a place for traders to share ideas, ask questions and warn each other about bad brokers. Keep it useful and respectful.

Rules everywhere on FTC

• No abuse, slurs, threats or harassment.
• No spam, self-promotion or referral links in the chat, comments or forum. Your own website and channels can go on your profile, and approved signal providers can also share them in the global chat.
• No selling signals, courses, account management or “guaranteed profit” schemes. Approved providers may post free signals only as described under Signal providers.
• No asking members to move to Telegram, WhatsApp or private messages to do business.
• No impersonating FTC staff, brokers or other members.
• No sharing other people's personal information.
• No illegal content.

Extra rules in the global chat

• Links, website addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and messaging handles are blocked automatically, except in messages from approved signal providers.
• A message containing abusive language is blocked and your account is suspended automatically: for 24 hours the first time, 7 days the second time, and permanently the third time.
• Posting a link or contact detail in the chat or a private message gets a warning. Three in 24 hours means a 24-hour suspension.
• Slow mode allows one message every 3 seconds, or every 15 seconds for accounts less than a day old.
• Messages are limited to 500 characters. Images and files can't be posted.

Signal providers

• Only providers approved by FTC can post signals, and only with the signal form in the global chat.
• Every signal needs an entry, a stop loss and at least one target, and can't include promises of profit.
• Providers mark their own results. Marking results dishonestly ends an approval.
• Providers can post links in the global chat, for example to their website or a free channel. They can't sell signals, courses or account management, or ask for payment, in the chat, comments or forum.
• FTC can remove signals and suspend or end an approval at any time.

Connections and private messages

• Members with a confirmed email address can send connection requests. The other member can accept or ignore a request, and the sender isn't told when a request is ignored.
• Only connected members can send each other private messages. Messages are text only: links, contact details and attachments are blocked, and the abuse and scam filters used in the global chat apply.
• Either member can remove the connection at any time, which stops further messages.
• Report a private message that breaks these rules. Moderators read a private message only when its recipient reports it.
• Members can send up to 30 connection requests and 300 private messages a day.

Profiles and walls

• Your profile page, wall posts and public trading accounts can be seen by anyone, and can appear in search engine results.
• Profile pictures must not show other people without their permission, logos you don't own, or offensive content.
• Wall images and videos are shown from the services that host them, such as ImgBB, Imgur, Postimages, TradingView and YouTube. FTC doesn't store them; moderators remove posts that break these rules.
• Trading account details and imported histories come from the member. FTC doesn't verify them, and they must not be edited to mislead.
• Never share account passwords or investor passwords, on your profile or anywhere else.

Broker experiences

• Only describe brokers you have actually used.
• Don't post account numbers, passwords or personal data.
• Brokers can reply in a discussion, but they can't have posts removed for being negative.

Reporting

Use Report on any chat message, signal, comment, wall post or profile. Moderators check every report, and content reported by several members is hidden while it's reviewed.

Enforcement

Moderators may remove content, warn, suspend or ban accounts that break these rules. Every decision comes with a reason and a way to appeal. See Moderation and appeals.