11 programmes · 6 firms · 101 say nothing
The only rule here that punishes absence
Every other rule on this site punishes an action: a loss too large, a trade at the wrong minute, too much risk on one idea. This one punishes not trading. Go quiet for a set number of days on an account you passed for and paid for, and it closes.
30 days at 4 firms, 60 days at 2 firms. And at one firm the clock gets shorter the moment the account starts being worth something.
30 days (8 programmes)
Funding Pips · 2 Step Standard · breached
Accounts with no completed trade for 30 consecutive days are breached.
Funding Pips · 2 Step Pro · breached
Accounts with no completed trade for 30 consecutive days are breached.
Funding Pips · 2 Step Flex · breached
Accounts with no completed trade for 30 consecutive days are breached.
Funding Pips · 1 Step Flex · breached
Accounts with no completed trade for 30 consecutive days are breached.
Funding Pips · FundingPips Zero · breached
Accounts with no completed trade for 30 consecutive days are breached.
OneFunded · Core Challenge · closes
One trade every 60 days during the evaluation and every 30 once funded, or the account closes "with no eligibility for refunds".
DNA Funded · 1 Phase · closes
Thirty days without trading closes the account, and the maximum aggregate allocation across all accounts is $600,000.
Blueberry Funded · Flex 1-Step · closes
Leverage 1:30 on FX, 1:10 on metals, indices and commodities, 1:2 on crypto. Payouts every 14 days, minimum request 1% of the initial balance. Thirty consecutive days without a closed trade closes the account.
60 days (3 programmes)
E8 Markets · E8 One · disabled
At least one trade must be placed and closed every 60 days or the account is disabled.
E8 Markets · E8 Pro · disabled
At least one trade must be placed and closed every 60 days or the account is disabled.
FXIFY · One Phase · hard-breached
One trade every 60 days or the account is hard-breached for inactivity.
One firm shortens the clock once you are funded
One trade every 60 days during the evaluation and every 30 once funded, or the account closes "with no eligibility for refunds".
Sixty days while nothing is at stake, thirty once there is. It belongs with the other rules that appear at the moment an account starts earning — eleven firms publish one — and it is the only one of them that can be triggered by a holiday.
The clause attached to it is the part worth reading twice: the account closes “with no eligibility for refunds”. On a programme whose fee is returned with the first payout, going quiet does not just cost the account. It costs the fee that was coming back.
Why the wording matters more than the number
The firms here use 4 different words for what happens — breached, disabled, hard-breached and closes — and they are not obviously the same thing. A breach is something a rulebook defines; a disabled account is something support might restore; a closure with no refund eligibility is neither.
The clock itself is also worded in a way that decides cases. Most count days without a completed trade, so a position sitting open does not stop it. A trader holding one long swing position through a quiet month is inactive by that definition and active by any ordinary reading of the word.
And the 101 programmes that publish nothing are not therefore safe. They are unmeasured, which on a rule that runs while you are not looking is a different kind of exposure.
What this does not measure
- · Whether firms enforce it. Everything here is a published rule. How often an account is actually closed for a quiet month is not something any firm publishes.
- · Whether it can be appealed. Only one firm here says anything about what follows, and what it says is that the fee does not come back.
- · Any probability. Nothing on this site models it. The model counts losing trades, and this rule fires when there are no trades at all.
- · Two rules the sweep caught and this page excludes. a payout cadence published two ways, not a clock on going quiet; a payout cadence, matched only by the words “every 14 days”.
Where these rules were read
FundingPips Help Centre — account models — read 2026-08-05
E8 Markets Help Center — product overview — read 2026-08-05
FXIFY — assessment account rules — read 2026-08-23
OneFunded — Terms and Conditions, clauses 13 and 14 — read 2026-08-23
DNA Funded — Rules and Conditions V2.1 — read 2026-08-23
Blueberry Funded — help centre — read 2026-08-23
Questions
- Do prop firm accounts close if you stop trading?
- At 6 of the firms read for this site, yes: 30 days at 4 firms, 60 days at 2 firms. The other 101 programmes publish no such clock. Where it exists it applies to a funded account you have already passed for and paid for.
- How long can you leave a prop firm account inactive?
- 30 days at Funding Pips, OneFunded, DNA Funded, Blueberry Funded; 60 days at E8 Markets, FXIFY. The clock counts days without a COMPLETED trade, so a position left open does not stop it on the firms that word it that way.
- Does the inactivity clock change once you are funded?
- At one firm it does, and it gets shorter. One trade every 60 days during the evaluation and every 30 once funded, or the account closes "with no eligibility for refunds". Everywhere else the same number applies throughout.
- What happens to the fee if the account closes for inactivity?
- Most firms do not say. OneFunded do, and the answer is the harsher one: the account closes "with no eligibility for refunds", so a fee that would have come back with a first payout does not come back at all.