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Headquarters

Hong Kong

Prague

CEO

Gianluca Pizzituti

Peter Andreas

Country

Hong Kong

Czech Republic

Foundation

2025

2024

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.

Yes

After first payout, only 2-Step

Payout Fee

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

No payout fees.

Platforms
DXtrade
ByBit, Cleo
Demo Account
DXtrade
ID-Password
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Payout Methods
Crypto
Crypto, Transfer
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
Card, Crypto, 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.

One-Step and Two-Step: first payout on demand once eligible; subsequent payouts 14 days after the previous payout is completed. Instant Funding: first payout after 14 days from the first trade and reaching 5% profit; subsequent payouts every 14 days.
Nitro: first payout on demand once eligible, then every 14 days. Five qualifying profitable days are required each cycle.

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.

Each request is capped at 5% of the account size. Remaining profit carries over to future requests.
Nitro exception: eligible profit capped at 2.5%, 3%, 3.5%, 4%, 4.5% and 5% for payouts 1 to 6 respectively, before the 80% reward share. No cap from payout 7; excess carries forward.

Minimum Withdrawal

USD 100

Instant Funding: USD 35. One-Step and Two-Step: USD 50.
Nitro: USD 50.

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.

100:1
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%
0.02% - 0.05%
ETFs
0.03%
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Commission-Free Option
No
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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.

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Account Reset

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

A paid reset may be offered for failed evaluations, subject to the options available in the dashboard. It restarts the evaluation and all trading-day counters. A Two-Step reset from Phase 2 returns the trader to Phase 1. Reset fees are non-refundable.

Add-ons
Yes

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

Yes
  • Instant Funding: increase the profit split from 70% to 80% (+20% fee).
  • One-Step: increase the profit split from 80% to 90% (+20%) and add 2% maximum drawdown (+20%).
  • Two-Step: increase the profit split from 80% to 90% (+20%), reduce the Phase 1 target from 10% to 8% (+20%), add 2% maximum drawdown (+20%), or remove minimum trading days (+10%).
  • Nitro: reduce the target from 5% to 3% for an extra $10 at checkout; activation fee unchanged.
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 Funding: after achieving 10% profit within 120 days, 5% is paid to the trader and 5% is used to double the account. Scaling is requested on demand and can reach $1,000,000.
  • One-Step and Two-Step: after achieving 10% cumulative profit within 90 days, the account grows by 25%, up to twice its starting size.
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.

  • Instant Funding: 10% Smart Drawdown. After reaching 5% profit, the loss floor locks at 5% below the milestone balance.
  • One-Step: 6% standard; 8% with the Extra 2% Drawdown Room add-on.
  • Two-Step: 8% standard; 10% with the Extra 2% Drawdown Room add-on.
  • Nitro: 5% fixed throughout evaluation.
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.

Yes

$100,000 free trial lasting 7 days. It has a 5% profit target, 5% daily drawdown, 10% maximum drawdown and 2 minimum trading days. Successful completion provides a 20% discount on a paid challenge.

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.

  • Instant Funding: Smart Drawdown applies instead of a separately published fixed daily percentage.
  • One-Step: 4%.
  • Two-Step: 5%.
    The daily limit is measured using equity and resets at midnight UTC.
  • Nitro: 3%.
Max Allocation
200,000
300,000
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.

Unlimited evaluation accounts may be purchased and operated simultaneously. Accounts that exceed the applicable total funded allocation are paused until allocation becomes available.

Merge Accounts
No
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Maximum Trading Days

No completion deadline; the inactivity rule still applies.

No maximum time limit to complete the evaluation.

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.

  • Instant Funding: no minimum trading days.
  • One-Step: 10 trading days.
  • Two-Step: 10 trading days in Phase 1 and 3 trading days in Phase 2.
    A day counts when the absolute closed PnL movement exceeds 0.25% of the initial balance.
  • Nitro: no minimum during evaluation; five profitable days of at least 0.5% of starting balance in each funded payout cycle, not necessarily consecutive.
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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  • Instant Funding: 70% standard; 80% with the profit-split add-on.
  • One-Step: 80% standard; up to 90% through performance progression or the add-on.
  • Two-Step: 80% standard; up to 90% through performance progression or the add-on.
  • Nitro: 80%.
Three Steps
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No
Points Reward Program
No data

Payouts can be converted into Mubite Points for use within the platform.

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

Self-developed bots and EAs are allowed when the trader can prove ownership of the strategy. Public or third-party bots are prohibited. Cleo does not currently support external bots, although its built-in semi-assisted tools may be used.

VPN
Yes

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

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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.

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Requires Stop Loss
No

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

No

Recommended. During the funded stage, consistently trading without stop losses may be considered poor risk management.

Scalping
Limited

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

Limited

Tick scalping performed with manipulative intent or to exploit execution conditions is 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

Each trade must keep its realized loss below 3% of account equity at the time it was opened, both per partial close and cumulatively. In the funded stage, individual positions are capped at 1x account balance on Instant Funding and 2x on One-Step/Two-Step; cumulative exposure is capped at 2x and 3x respectively. The first position-size or exposure violation receives one five-minute correction window.

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.

No

Copying or mirroring trades from other accounts, platforms, signal services or third parties is prohibited during both evaluation and funded stages.

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

News trading is allowed. Daily and maximum drawdown limits and all other risk rules remain active during volatile events.

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.

Deactivation after 30 days without trading. Email warning after 14 days of inactivity.

Consistency Rule
No

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

Yes

Funded stage only. The best day must account for less than 25% of total profit on Instant Funding, 30% on One-Step and 40% on Two-Step. Exceeding the threshold delays payouts until compliance; it does not close the account.
Nitro uses a Funded Score below 20%: best day profit divided by total profit from profitable days in the payout cycle. This delays payout until compliant and never closes 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

Positions may be held overnight, through weekends and for as long as the strategy requires.

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.

Prohibited practices include latency or gap exploitation, external or delayed data feeds, arbitrage, manipulative HFT, group trading, account mirroring, cross-account hedging, account rolling, grid trading, manipulative tick scalping, disproportionate position sizing, unauthorized third-party account management and manipulation of Bybit API keys, balances or challenge parameters.

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