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Brand: OANDA Prop Trader

OANDA Prop Trader

Forex Prop Firm
https://proptrader.oanda.com
Legal Company Name: OANDA Assessments Limited
Location: 171, Old Bakery Street, Valletta, VLT 1455, Malta
Our Summary
Assessment-based OANDA prop program where successful traders become signal providers on virtual accounts, with OANDA using those signals in its proprietary trading models and sharing a portion of resulting profits.
Trading Plans

Compare each plan path, how it progresses, and the key funding and payout terms we have confirmed so far.

Market-specific program path offered under this firm's current product lineup.

OANDA uses a two-phase challenge followed by a verification stage. Traders who pass both phases complete KYC, open or link an OANDA Global Markets account, and then receive an OANDA Prop Trader account as a signal provider.
Profit-share payouts are requested from the user portal every 14 days, require all positions to be closed, and are paid to an OANDA Global Markets account created during onboarding. The original challenge fee is refunded with the first profit-share payout.
Official FAQs describe leverage up to 100:1 on FX and Gold, and up to 50:1 on CFD Indices and Commodities. This is one of the clearer non-futures leverage disclosures in the set.
Funded Account Structure

OANDA Prop Trader uses a two-phase challenge and then moves successful traders into a virtual OANDA Prop Trader account as signal providers. The trader is not operating a standard live funded brokerage account; their signals feed OANDA proprietary models.

Allowed Trading Instruments
Structured instrument coverage is still being normalized for this firm. For now, use the market badges and the plan and rules notes above as the best guide to what this firm supports.

Participation is limited to approved countries under OANDA Prop Trader terms. After passing, traders complete ID verification and a liveness check, and must establish an OANDA Global Markets account to receive payouts.

For non-futures firms, this section summarizes challenge fees, commissions, spreads, swaps, activation costs, and other trader-facing cost notes when exact structured fee rows are not yet normalized.
OANDA charges a challenge fee by tier and plan type, with classic and boost pricing tiers published in the FAQ. The fee is refundable on the trader's first profit-share payout after passing.
General Policies
Algorithm & EA Policy
EAs, scripts, and indicators are allowed, subject to OANDA's prohibited-behavior terms.
OANDA allows EAs, scripts, and indicators, but prohibits copy trading into the OANDA account from external services and prohibits EAs that use price or latency arbitrage or other restricted behaviors.
Copy Trading
Not allowed

EAs, algos, and bots are allowed, but copying trades into the OANDA account from external firms or third-party services is prohibited. Copying trades outward from the OANDA account to non-OANDA destinations is allowed. Hedging is allowed on the same account but not as cross-account coordination.

Microscalping Policy
Scalping strategies are allowed subject to OANDA's terms, but latency-arbitrage-style execution remains prohibited.
Bots Policy

Bots, scripts, and EAs are allowed if they do not engage in prohibited copy trading, price arbitrage, latency arbitrage, or other banned behaviors.

DCA Policy

No explicit DCA or martingale policy surfaced in the current official materials reviewed for this firm.

Allowed Trading Hours
OANDA allows holding positions overnight, during weekends, and through news events, but challenge accounts must avoid opening or closing trades within 2 minutes before or after high-impact news releases.
Move to Live Criteria

OANDA uses a two-phase challenge followed by a verification stage. Traders who pass both phases complete KYC, open or link an OANDA Global Markets account, and then receive an OANDA Prop Trader account as a signal provider.

Rule Enforcement Notes

Hard-breach conditions such as daily loss, maximum drawdown, and prohibited copy-trading behavior can close the account. OANDA also enforces a daily max-profit consistency rule during challenge phases that closes positions and disables trading until the next day once the limit is reached.

Refund Policy

If a trader passes the challenge and becomes a signal provider, OANDA refunds 100% of the challenge fee on the first profit-share payout.

Activation Fee Policy

No separate funded-account activation fee surfaced in the official OANDA Prop Trader materials reviewed. OANDA describes a challenge fee, verification, and account setup, but not an additional funded-activation charge.

VPN Policy
No dedicated VPN or VPS policy surfaced in OANDA Prop Trader's current public FAQ. Traders should rely on OANDA's published prohibited-behavior rules and support guidance rather than assume a separate public VPN allowance article exists.
Payout Methods

Profit-share payouts are requested from the user portal every 14 days, require all positions to be closed, and are paid to an OANDA Global Markets account created during onboarding. The original challenge fee is refunded with the first profit-share payout.

Change Log
Current News / Promotions
Trading Platforms
MetaTrader 5

OANDA Prop Trader uses MetaTrader 5 for its challenge and prop-trader environment.

Reviews
Trust Pilot
Evaluate Trustpilot reviews with a grain of salt: the platform is known to have fake review issues.
Languages Supported
English
1 language
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