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Headquarters

Hong Kong

Bahnhofstrasse 21, 6300, Zug, Switzerland

CEO

Gianluca Pizzituti

Alan Sanchez

Country

Hong Kong

Switzerland

Foundation

2025

2022

Banned Countries
North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk
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Assets
Crypto, Forex, Stocks, Indices, Commodities, ETFs
Crypto
Refund
No

No standard fee refund after passing. The terms exclude refunds once the platform is accessed or the first trade is placed, except where required by law.

No
Payout Fee

Variable network fee, deducted from the withdrawal and shown when requesting it.

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Platforms
DXtrade
ByBit
Demo Account
DXtrade
ID-Password
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Payout Methods
Crypto
Crypto, Transfer
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
Card, Crypto, PayPal, ApplePay, GooglePay
Payout Frequency

First, after 14 calendar days from the first funded trade and completion of the required profitable days. Then weekly on request. Paid in USDC or USDT.

1-Phase and 2-Phase: after at least 15 traded days or every 30 calendar days; the Weekly Payout add-on reduces this to 7 traded days. Break: on demand with no minimum traded days after passing, paying the activation fee and meeting the 40% consistency rule. Instant: Withdrawal & Upgrade at 10% profit with no minimum days; earlier withdrawals follow the standard conditions.

Payout Guarantee

Processing within 24 hours of approval. Trading is halted during the preceding review, which may take longer during busy periods.

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Crypto Weekend Trading
Yes
Yes
Maximum Withdrawal

First and second withdrawals: capped at 20 times the challenge fee actually paid. The excess is forfeited. No cap from the third withdrawal. Full withdrawals only; the starting balance is restored afterwards without moving the drawdown floor.

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Minimum Withdrawal

USD 100

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Brokers
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Bybit
Forex

Evaluation / funded: majors 50:1 / 30:1; minors 30:1 / 20:1; exotics 20:1 / 10:1.

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Metals

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

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Energies

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

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Indices

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

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Stocks

Evaluation 5:1; funded 3:1.

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Crypto

Evaluation / funded: BTC 10:1 / 5:1; ETH and SOL 6:1 / 5:1; XRP, HYPE, DOGE, BNB, BCH, SUI, XAUT and ADA 3:1 / 2:1; remaining crypto 2:1 / 2:1.

Up to 100:1, depending on the instrument and the limits available on Bybit.

ETFs

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

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Forex
0.004%
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Metals
0.01%
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Energies
0.01%
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Indices
0.03%
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Stocks
0.03%
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Crypto
0.03%
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ETFs
0.03%
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Commission-Free Option
No
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Commission
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Bybit evaluations use the native fees of the trader's connected Bybit account. Fees vary by trading pair, maker/taker status and volume tier. Crypto Fund Trader does not add a markup.

Swap Free
No

Overnight funding is 0.05% of notional, the same for longs and shorts. Crypto, stocks, indices and commodities: 00:30 UTC, including weekends. Forex: 21:00 UTC, triple on Wednesday and no separate Saturday or Sunday charge.

No
Account Reset

No resets or standard free retakes. A failed challenge requires a new purchase.

Yes

Resets apply only to suspended Final Stage accounts from 1-Phase and 2-Phase evaluations. Every trade must have used a stop loss, no trade may have risked more than 2%, and the reset must be requested within 30 calendar days.

Add-ons
Yes

Profit-share upgrade available at purchase. Variants and their prices are shown in the challenges.

Yes

1-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%) and 90% Profit Split (+20%). 2-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%), 90% Profit Split (+20%), 6% Daily Drawdown (+15%) and 12% Maximum Drawdown (+25%).

Instant
No
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
No

No published scaling plan. Increasing capital requires additional accounts within the maximum allocation.

Yes

Instant accounts can double in size after reaching 10% simulated profit and requesting a Withdrawal & Upgrade. They can scale up to $1,280,000.

Two Steps
Yes
Yes
Max Drawdown

Static against each phase's starting balance, including funded accounts. It does not trail profits or move with payouts. Balance and floor reset at the start of the second phase. Equity reaching or falling below the floor, including floating losses, closes the account.

1-Phase and Break use a balance-based trailing loss limit that locks at the initial balance after sufficient profit. 2-Phase and Instant use fixed maximum-loss limits. Exact percentages are shown in each challenge.

Free Trial
No

Free read-only DXtrade guest access to view instruments and prices, without trading. Sprint offers challenge prizes, with award-specific profit splits and payout caps.

No
Daily Drawdown

Recalculated at 00:30 UTC from the higher of balance or equity at that moment. Floating profit can raise the reference; the resulting floor is monitored against real-time equity. Reaching or falling below it breaches the account.

Daily drawdown is calculated from equity using the account balance at 00:05 UTC. Break accounts do not have a separate daily-loss limit. Exact limits are shown in each challenge.

Max Allocation
200,000

Standard Final Stage allocation is capped at $300,000. Instant accounts are separate and can scale to $1,280,000. Break accounts also have a separate allocation limit.

Maximum Accounts

One registered profile and verified identity. Multiple challenges and funded accounts may sit under that profile; each is assessed separately and results cannot offset one another.

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Merge Accounts
No
No
Maximum Trading Days

No completion deadline; the inactivity rule still applies.

Unlimited.

Minimum Trading Days

Five qualifying days, not necessarily consecutive, per evaluation phase. The count resets on funding and must be met again before the first payout, but not subsequent payouts.

No minimum trading days to pass 1-Phase, 2-Phase or Break evaluations. Instant has no evaluation phase.

Minimum Profitable Days

A qualifying day requires net realised profit of at least 0.8% of the starting balance. Days run from 00:30 to 00:30 UTC. Holding a position open does not add days.

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Profit Split
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1-Phase, 2-Phase and Break start at 80%; 1-Phase and 2-Phase can select a 90% add-on. Instant starts at 50% and increases through its scaling levels.

Expert Advisor (EA)
Limited

Self-built or publicly available commercial EAs, bots and AI are allowed in evaluation and funded accounts. REST and WebSocket API included without fee or approval; no FIX or L2/L3 depth through the API. MT4/MT5 EAs need a bridge or adaptation. Private, exclusive or bespoke signals are prohibited.

Limited

Expert Advisors and automation are allowed when used for normal trading. EAs designed for high-frequency trading, tick scalping, arbitrage, reverse trading or exploitation are prohibited.

VPN
Yes

VPNs, VPSs and IP changes are allowed. Only the verified owner may trade; access sharing remains prohibited.

Yes
Hedging
Limited

Only within the same account. Cross-account, cross-platform and cross-firm hedging is prohibited, including via copiers. First offence involving one trade: trades closed and a one-time warning per user; multiple trades or repetition: permanent closure.

No

Hedging and opposite positions across accounts are prohibited. To reverse direction on the same instrument, existing opposite positions must first be closed and the applicable timing rules respected.

Requires Stop Loss
No

Optional. A triggered Stop Loss exits at market and may slip. Stop Limit orders are disabled.

No
Scalping
Limited

Ordinary scalping is allowed; tick scalping, HFT and pricing or latency exploitation are prohibited.

Limited

Normal scalping is allowed. Tick scalping, high-frequency trading and latency exploitation are prohibited.

Martingale
No
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Maximum Risk Limit
Limited

No general numeric per-trade cap. Leverage, equity limits and the ban on abusive risk still apply. Single stocks have per-company and total exposure limits published on the platform, with possible short restrictions.

Yes

Simulated profit is capped at $10,000 per trading day and per trade. Trades closed in parts or opened together as one strategy may be treated as a single trade.

Copy Trading
Limited

Only between accounts owned by the same trader. Public signal services and commercial EAs are allowed without subscriber coordination. Copying other people's accounts, third-party management and private, exclusive or bespoke signals are prohibited.

Limited

Break evaluations may be copied only between the same trader's own Break accounts. Copy trading is prohibited in Break Final Stage and between different traders, third parties or coordinated accounts.

News Trading
Limited

Macro news trading is allowed. For single stocks, close from 24 hours before to 24 hours after earnings and ex-dividend events. Close before other corporate actions announced at least one day in advance; reopen when normal trading resumes.

Yes
Inactivity Rule

Deactivated after 30 calendar days without valid activity, counted from assignment or the latest trade close. A trade held at least 60 seconds qualifies; open positions pause the timer and pending orders do not count. One support-requested reactivation is available within six months; afterwards it may be treated as a hard breach.

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Consistency Rule
No

No cap on a winning day's share of profit; qualifying-day requirements and prohibited strategies still apply.

Limited

Only Break Final Stage accounts apply a consistency rule: no single trading day may represent more than 40% of total profits. It is checked only when requesting a payout and does not breach the account.

Hold Weekend
Limited

Allowed, including forex. Single stocks may have size limits, weekend bans or mandatory out-of-hours closure by instrument. Equity limits and overnight costs continue to apply.

Yes

Crypto futures trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and positions may remain open overnight and over weekends.

Prohibited Strategies

Martingale, grid, arbitrage, tick scalping, HFT, latency or error exploitation, private or bespoke signals, account sharing, insider information, coordinated risk elimination and account rolling. Abusive overleveraging, correlated overexposure and repeatedly adding to losing positions are also prohibited. Profits may be removed, payouts withheld or accounts closed.

High-frequency trading, tick scalping, latency or price-feed exploitation, arbitrage, gambling or all-in trading, abusive hedging, reverse trading across accounts, coordinated trading, unauthorized deposits into the Bybit subaccount, modifying or disconnecting the API, spot trading, options and non-USDT pairs are prohibited.

Stacking / Layering (DCA)
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Yes
Overnight positions
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Yes
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