Pledge

Earn2Trade Pledge

Earn2Trade was created to provide a trader evaluation program for aspiring futures traders. Our goal is to provide aspiring futures traders with, first, exposure to markets in a low risk setting and, second, the possibility of accessing trading capital and joining a proprietary trading firm. As the industry has grown, Earn2Trade identified a need to provide a positive framework for growth that would reflect the aspirations of its community. In order to realize those aspirations, Earn2Trade has committed to the following principles:

• Prepare Aspiring Futures Traders for Live Futures Markets
• Provide Equal Opportunity for Aspiring Futures Traders
• Provide a Fair, Objective and Low Risk Environment for Aspiring Futures Traders
• Practice Transparent Business Policies
• Reject Deceptive Marketing Practices
• Educate Aspiring Futures Traders on the Risks Associated with Trading
• Where appropriate, to implement independent compliance and audit protocols from a neutral third party source

Preparing Aspiring Futures Traders for Live Futures Markets

Earn2Trade is primarily focused on helping the aspiring futures trader community learn and develop trading and risk management skills in a low risk, real-time simulated environment. Earn2Trade strongly believes that the experience of simulated trading, as experiential learning, is a valuable educational piece that will help increase the likelihood of trader success. Earn2Trade provides a real-time simulated trading environment to help aspiring futures traders safely learn how to trade and to develop the skills and the discipline necessary to be more prepared for live trading, whether it be their personal or proprietary capital. Earn2Ttrade believes the service provided is good for the trading community and the financial industry as a whole.

Providing Equal Opportunity for Aspiring Futures Traders

Earn2Trade firmly believes that success in trading is not exclusively contingent on a formal or professional background, and that the current technological environment has opened up opportunities for trading in a democratic way. While in the past, trading was often the exclusive domain of a closed, small group of professionals, non-professional traders are testing their mettle in the market in growing numbers.

Earn2Trade endeavors to support the rights of, and provide opportunities for aspiring futures traders to join the professional trading industry, by testing themselves through an objective examination and joining a proprietary trading firm as professional traders.

Except where legally prohibited, Earn2Trade commits to provide aspiring futures traders, regardless of physical location, race, religious beliefs, age, gender, income level or other differentiation, with access to a process that objectively measures performance and ultimately leads to the possibility of trading proprietary capital for those who meet the applicable standards.

Provide a Fair, Objective and Low Risk Environment for Aspiring Futures Traders

Earn2Trade undertakes to provide an objective and low risk environment for aspiring futures traders to receive exposure to markets. Accordingly, Earn2Trade commits to the following principles:

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  Provide an objective service for aspiring futures trader to have their trading evaluated
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  Provide aspiring futures traders with the option of at least one live third party data feed connectivity service for their evaluation
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  Provide aspiring futures traders with the option of multiple third party trading platforms for their evaluation
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  Ensure the impartiality of and prevention of manipulation of any trades made over the course of the examination, and commit to non interference or manipulation with any part of the data feed
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  Commit to respond in a reasonably prompt and effective manner to any customer support, billing, and technical support requests, including directing traders with platform or data inquiries to their respective providers
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  Ensure that successful candidates who successfully complete their evaluations are reasonably promptly onboarded to proprietary trading accounts, without inappropriate delays
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  Recognize that it is not a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) and refrain from providing any specific or tailored trading advice to aspiring futures traders.

Practice Transparent Business Policies

Earn2Trade commits to abide by the principle of transparency towards their aspiring futures traders in all relevant interactions regarding sales, support, technical or promotional concerns. All efforts must be made to disclose relevant evaluation rules and parameters, relevant business practices, contact information and other conditions or procedures in the clearest and most forthright way possible. Earn2Trade adheres to the following transparency policies and provide all relevant information either on, or directly linked to the product page:

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  Disclosure of verified examination pass rates on website
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  Provision of contact information with registered or operating office address
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  Transparency regarding the differences between live (Live Account) and sim funded accounts (LiveSim), and discussion of differences between how different categories of accounts are provided to traders who qualify, and how such accounts are managed.
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  Written disclosure of withdrawal conditions, procedures and timelines
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  Written disclosure of all rules and fees
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  Disclosure of funding company for proprietary accounts, and disclosure of the FCM where live funded accounts are carried
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  Provision of a link on the website to a document with the entire Earn2Trade pledge
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  Provide appropriate disclaimers on substantially all website pages

Reject Deceptive Marketing Practices

Earn2Trade understands that good trading takes time to develop and learn. Earn2Trade rejects negative, deceptive, malicious, inflammatory, fraudulent or otherwise inappropriate marketing practices. Specifically, marketing shall never present the examinations (or the examination process) as a path to wealth or an extravagant lifestyle and shall always be accompanied by appropriate disclaimers. The difficulty of long-term successful trading shall not be minimized, and Earn2Trade shall not present the lifestyle available to successful traders in a manner that suggests that such lifestyle is achieved except by a minority of traders.

Educate Traders on the Risks Associated with Trading

Earn2Trade commits to educating aspiring futures traders about the risks associated with trading. Earn2Trade shall provide an objective, non-product specific trading education that emphasizes risk management as the fundamental principle underlying responsible trading. This information is made available for free with all of our examinations, or can be purchased separately as the Beginner Crash Course. Earn2Trade also offers freely available media, including but not limited to:

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  Blog or news articles
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  Informational videos
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  Social media sites
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  Email newsletters

Submit to Independent Compliance and Audit Reviews

Earn2Trade will submit itself to periodic examinations by independent examiners, for the purpose of assessing its compliance to its Pledge commitments. Any material issues will be reported and disclosed by, Earn2Trade.

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