Glossary · Risk and drawdown
Multi-accounting
- Also called
- multiple accounts
- account farming
- cross-account hedging
- group trading
What it means
In a prop firm, multi-accounting covers accounts opened under friends' or relatives' names, synthetic identities, and groups trading opposite sides of the same position across accounts so that one of them passes. It breaks the assumption that each account is an independent trader.
Detection combines KYC data, payment details, device fingerprinting, IP and location analysis, and trade correlation in the risk engine. Most firms check thoroughly at payout stage, when the cost of a false positive and a false negative are both highest.
The rule itself should be explicit: what counts as a related account, whether household members may trade, and what the firm will do when it finds linked accounts.
Related terms
Read these next.
KYC
Risk engine
Copy trading policy
EA policy
Payout reserve
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