What is group trading or account pooling?
Quick answer
Group trading or account pooling is when several people share one funded account, or one person trades accounts held in other people's names, to get around per-person limits or to combine resources. It breaks the link between the verified trader and the trading, which most firms prohibit.
Detailed answer
Typical patterns:
- Logins from different locations and devices on the same account.
- Accounts registered to relatives or friends but traded identically.
- A coach or service trading clients' accounts.
Controls:
- Terms: the account must be traded only by the verified holder.
- KYC: match the payout recipient to the account holder.
- Session evidence: login patterns where available.
- Credential rotation to end sessions when sharing is suspected.
On PropExecutor, rotating an account's password ends every live session for it immediately, which stops shared access at once while you investigate.
Example
Five accounts registered to different people trade identical positions at identical times, and their payouts all go to wallets that later send funds to the same address. That combination of trading and payment evidence is typical of pooling.
Communicate the rule
State in your terms that each account must be traded only by its verified holder, and that payouts go only to that person. Clear wording makes enforcement much easier.
PropExecutor team · Updated
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