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Tbilisi, Samgori District, Besarion Chichinadze Street 12, Apartment No. 55, Georgia

Kutay Aktaş

Georgia

2024

Simulated capital using Hyperliquid prices and depth. Orders are not sent to the live venue.

Instant: first request 120 hours after the first executed trade; thereafter, 120 hours after each received payout. Unlimited funded: on demand, without a waiting period or cooldown.

Bybit Instant Pro & Cleo challenges: Daily on-demand withdrawals. Payouts processed in 4-24 hours (usually within 4 hours).

Bybit One Step & Two Step: Every 3-4 days due to Stability Rule.

Native USDC payouts on Arbitrum One, subject to available public-pool funds. Requests may queue when liquidity is unavailable. Close positions and cancel orders before requesting.

4-24 hours (usually within 4 hours)

Instant: 5% of initial capital gross per payout. Each request resets the balance to initial capital; excess above the cap is forfeited on settlement. Partial withdrawals are unavailable. Unlimited: no such cap.

Instant: 1% of initial capital gross. Unlimited funded: USD 25 gross.

BTC, ETH and SOL: up to 10:1. Other crypto: up to 2:1.

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step, Instant Pro): Up to 1:100 for most tradeable coins on Bybit.

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): BTC and ETH up to 1:5, all other assets up to 1:2.

Hourly funding using Hyperliquid rates.

Crypto markets are swap-free by nature.

Static floor based on initial capital; it does not trail profits or decrease after payouts. Checked against equity, including open P&L, fees and funding.

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step)
Static drawdown calculated from initial balance. Customizable from 6% to 10%.

Bybit Instant Pro
Two drawdown types available (3-8%):

• Smart Drawdown (6%): Trails upward with equity gains. Once account reaches +3% profit, drawdown locks permanently at -3% of starting balance.
• Trailing Drawdown (8%): Trails the High Water Mark (highest of balance or equity). After first payout, resets to 4% trailing from the new balance.

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex)
Static drawdown calculated from initial balance. Customizable from 3% to 8%. One Step: 5% default. Flex: 3% default.

Free USD 5,000 demo, one at a time.

After a loss-limit breach or Instant expiry, unrequested funded profit loses payout eligibility. Amounts reserved for previously submitted requests are not automatically forfeited.

Based on the opening balance at 00:00 UTC, after funding. Payout reserves and returns adjust cash and the daily floor equally.

Bybit challenges: Daily maximum loss is half of the total loss limit. Calculated from starting balance at 12:05 AM UTC and does not change during the day until next daily reset.

Cleo challenges: Daily drawdown varies by selected plan and configuration (3-4%).

Instant: USD 50,000 across unexpired accounts and pending purchases; up to USD 50,000 active. Standby accounts count and archiving does not free capacity. Unlimited: no evaluation allocation cap; up to USD 200,000 funded and active. Separate limits; a passed evaluation waits until capacity is available.

Instant: expires 90 days after first activation, even without trading. Unlimited: no expiration in evaluation or funded phases.

No time limit. Trade at your own pace.

No minimum.

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step): 3-4 minimum trading days due to Stability Rule.

Bybit Instant Pro: 3 trading days with at least 0.5% profit each (for payout eligibility).

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): No minimum trading days required. Pass the challenge at your own pace.

Ice Points for eligible activity; the formula is variable and unpublished. 10,000 points: 5% discount; 18,000: 10% discount; 7,500: badge. Owner-bound codes, one use, valid for 90 days and non-stackable.

Instant Pro only: make 10% profit on account balance, forfeit 50% of your profit share, and your account size doubles. Scaling up to $2M.

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step, Instant Pro): Customizable from 60% to 90% depending on the plan selected.

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): Customizable from 60% to 90% depending on the plan selected.

Only between your own accounts. Copying between different users is prohibited.

Stability Score (Bybit challenges only): No single trading day's profit can be equal to or greater than the stability threshold of total profits.

• Bybit Two Step: 45% stability score
• Bybit One Step: 30% stability score
• Bybit Instant Pro: No stability score

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): No Stability Rule.

Violating the rule does not breach the account. The trader must continue trading until the best day's profit falls below the threshold.

Overnight holding is also allowed when usable market data is available.

Account sharing, cross-account hedging, copying between users, latency arbitrage and tick-sniping. Breaches may lead to a ban; appeals through Discord.

• Arbitrage trading
• Latency trading
• High-frequency trading (HFT)
• Hedging between accounts
• Tick scalping
• Holding trades less than 50 seconds
• Spamming the order book
• Group trading
• Exploiting the demo environment
• Expert Advisors (EAs) and automated trading systems
• Copy trading (even between own accounts)
• Front-running price feeds
• Exploiting unrealistic prices or mispricing

All trades must be held for more than 50 seconds. Tick scalping is prohibited.

Bybit API access period is 90 days. Reminder emails are sent starting 10 days before expiration. If not renewed within that period, the account will be restricted and cannot be reactivated.