Wall Street Funded has stripped out three of the friction points that traders have grumbled about for months, announcing a package of rule rollbacks designed to make day-to-day execution noticeably less restrictive. The firm confirmed that the mandatory 30-minute cooldown after hitting take profit or break even is gone, copy trading is now permitted across phase accounts, and swing trading no longer sits behind an add-on purchase. For a corner of the industry that has spent the last twelve months adding guardrails, the move runs the other direction.
The Cooldown Goes Away — and Intraday Traders Get the Biggest Win
The headline change is the removal of the 30-minute pause that previously kicked in after a position closed at take profit or break even. That window was originally framed as a circuit breaker against revenge trading, but for active intraday and scalp-style traders it has long been treated as a strategic tax. A clean exit at take profit during a fast-moving London or New York open meant either standing on the sidelines for half an hour or watching the same setup re-form without being able to participate.
Wall Street Funded has now scrapped that rule entirely, allowing traders to re-enter the market immediately if their strategy conditions remain valid. The practical effect is that scalpers, breakout traders, and anyone running short-hold systems regain control over their own timing, which is the kind of detail that often separates evaluation passes from drawdown breaches.
Copy Trading Goes Cross-Phase
The second change targets traders running multiple accounts. Copy trading is now permitted across phase accounts, meaning a trader who is simultaneously running an evaluation, a verification, and a funded account can mirror execution between them without tripping a rule. Previously, many firms either banned cross-phase copying outright or quarantined it inside narrow technical conditions, which made multi-account management awkward for anyone scaling out across challenges.
This shift recognises a reality of how serious traders actually operate. Running parallel accounts to spread payout risk, hedge against rule breaches, or compound funding faster is now a mainstream strategy, and the rulebook is catching up to it.
Swing Trading Now Comes Standard
The third update folds swing trading access into every Wall Street Funded account by default. Traders who hold positions overnight or carry exposure through scheduled news releases no longer need to purchase a separate swing add-on or upgrade to a more expensive tier to unlock the privilege. That is a meaningful cost change for traders whose edge depends on multi-day setups, and it removes a layer of pricing complexity that has historically confused newcomers comparing plans.
The firm framed the package as a broader move toward “fewer unnecessary limitations” and smoother execution conditions — language that signals a deliberate repositioning rather than a one-off rule tweak.
What This Means for the Broader Prop Industry
The interesting wrinkle is that Wall Street Funded is moving in the opposite direction from much of the industry. Over the past several months, a wave of prop firms have tightened consistency requirements, capped futures exposure, banned micro-scalping, or introduced sharper rule-violation penalties. The competitive question that has dominated 2025 and 2026 has been how to keep payout liabilities sustainable without scaring traders off.
Wall Street Funded’s package is a bet that the next round of differentiation will be won on execution freedom rather than risk-engineering tightness. If traders increasingly compare firms on “what am I actually allowed to do once I’m funded” rather than headline profit splits, looser rulebooks become a marketing surface in their own right. Expect at least a few of Wall Street Funded’s direct competitors to test similar rollbacks in the coming weeks, particularly on cooldowns and add-on swing fees, which are the two areas where trader complaints have been loudest and most public.
The longer-term risk is symmetry: if cooldowns helped suppress revenge trades, removing them shifts more of the risk-management burden onto traders themselves. Firms that loosen rules without strengthening the rest of their risk stack — daily drawdown enforcement, exposure caps, news-event handling — could end up with worse pass-rate economics. That is the part of this story worth watching over the next quarter.
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Source: Forex Prop Reviews
