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Systematic Payout Exploitation (Payout-then-Blowup)

Prohibited Trading Practices

Written by Oliver

Payout milking describes a repeating cycle: pass an evaluation, request a rapid payout, intentionally blow up the account through reckless outsized risk, then restart on a new account. The account is being treated as a lottery ticket rather than as a trading business. Solo Clash classifies this as abusive behaviour.

What counts as a violation:

  • The cycle: repeatedly passing an evaluation, taking a rapid payout, and then deliberately destroying the account.

  • Deliberate blowup: intentionally breaching an account through reckless, outsized risk once a payout has been secured.

  • Scaled operation: running this cycle across multiple accounts, sequentially or simultaneously.

What is allowed:

  • Failing an account through ordinary bad trading or a losing streak = ALLOWED (this rule targets deliberate destruction, not losses)

  • Taking a payout and then continuing to trade the account normally = ALLOWED

  • Buying a new evaluation after a genuine failure = ALLOWED

  • Holding multiple accounts and trading them consistently = ALLOWED

How this is assessed:

We review the full account lifecycle rather than a single trade — whether risk-taking changes sharply after a payout, whether position sizing becomes inconsistent with the strategy used to pass, and whether the pattern repeats across accounts linked to the same trader.

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