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Hong Kong

100 Crescent Ct, Unit 700, Dallas, Texas 75201, US

Gianluca Pizzituti

Dylan Elchami

Hong Kong

United States

2025

2021

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.

E8 Pro Perpetual evaluation fees are refundable.

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

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.

• E8 One Perpetual: first payout after 3 days; subsequent payouts on demand
• E8 Pro Perpetual: daily payout requests

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

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.

• E8 One Perpetual: no payout cap
• E8 Pro Perpetual: no payout cap

USD 100

• E8 One Perpetual: net payout must exceed 50% of the daily drawdown amount
• E8 Pro Perpetual: at least 1% profit

Hyperliquid data feed

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

• E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 25:1

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

• E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 15:1

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

• E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 15:1

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

• E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 15:1

Evaluation 5:1; funded 3:1.

• E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 5:1

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.

• Bitcoin and Ethereum: 15:1
• Other cryptocurrencies: 2:1

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

• Crypto perpetuals: 0.015% maker / 0.045% taker
• Traditional instruments: 0.003% maker / 0.009% taker

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 resets or standard free retakes. A failed challenge requires a new purchase.

10% discount

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

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

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.

• E8 One Perpetual: 6% dynamic drawdown
• E8 Pro Perpetual: 8% static drawdown

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.

E8 Trial can replicate E8 One Perpetual on E8 Terminal. Up to two trials may be opened every 28 days. Trial accounts do not qualify for payouts and close after 30 days.

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.

• E8 One Perpetual: 4%
• E8 Pro Perpetual: 2.5%

Unlimited evaluation allocation. Maximum performance allocation: $500,000 for E8 One Perpetual and $500,000 for E8 Pro Perpetual.

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.

• E8 One Perpetual: account merging is allowed

No completion deadline; the inactivity rule still applies.

Unlimited

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. At least one trade must be placed every 60 days to avoid inactivity.

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.

• E8 One Perpetual: none
• E8 Pro Perpetual: none

80%, 90% or 100%, depending on the option selected at checkout

• E8 One Perpetual: first payout after 3 days; subsequent payouts on demand
• E8 Pro Perpetual: daily payout requests

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.

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

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.

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

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

You cannot hold more than 50% of your trades for under one minute

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.

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.

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.

• E8 One Perpetual evaluation: allowed
• E8 One Perpetual performance account: opening or closing trades within five minutes before or after high-impact news is prohibited
• E8 Pro Perpetual: allowed in evaluation and performance accounts

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.

At least one trade every 60 days

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

• E8 One Perpetual: 40% best-day rule in the performance account
• E8 Pro Perpetual: no consistency rule

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.

Perpetual markets are available 24/7.

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.

• All-or-nothing
• Hedging across multiple accounts
• Multiple users utilizing the same EA
• Irresponsible Trading in Simulated Accounts
• High-Frequency Trading
• External Account Management