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Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia
IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Lucas Antonio
Saint Lucia
United Arab Emirates
2024
2023
Challenge fee returned as Atlas Balance on that account's third consecutive payout. Add-ons excluded. Access: entry fee only; activation fee excluded.
Full refund after 4th payout
1-Step, 2-Step, Pro and 3-Step: first payout after 14 days, then every 14. Instant and Access: first after 28 days, then every 14. Weekly: first after 14 days, then every 7. On-Demand: first immediately, then every 14. Daily Payouts on Pro: daily.
First payout 14 days after the first trade. Every 14 days after that. First payout after 7 days with add-on (+15%).
- Instant Pro: First Payout on Demand is available as a checkout add-on.
- Instant Flex: first payout on demand, then every 14 days.
First payout: 24 working hours; subsequent payouts: 48. Working hours: Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00 BST. Late payment: $500 with that payout and $500 with the next. Giveaway and collaborator accounts excluded.
Get Paid in 24 Hours or get an extra $1,000. Rewards are only processed on business days, and so the 48 Hour Reward Guarantee timer is paused on weekends.
Instant Zero: buffer of 3% of account size. The table limit applies to each of the first three payouts. Other plans: up to available profit; Daily Payouts adds its own conditions.
For traders with $200K accounts or larger, the first two reward requests are capped at a maximum withdrawal of $10,000 each. After the first two rewards, this restriction is removed, and there are no further withdrawal limits.
TryAqua: maximum lifetime withdrawal of $100.
Profit required to request: $50 on 1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro; $100 on other programs. No additional minimum on the chosen withdrawal amount.
$100
$35 flat fee via Rise (for payouts of $1,000 or more). Payouts below $1,000 are paid in crypto and only carry the network fee.
- Instant Standard: 30:1
- Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 50:1
- 1 Step Flex: 100:1 during evaluation, 50:1 when funded
Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.
- Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
- 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded
Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.
- Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
- 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded
Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.
- Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
- 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded
Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.
- Instant Standard: 1:1
- Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 2 Step, 1 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 2:1
Swap-free accounts are available. No overnight swap fees; positions can be held for as long as desired.
Fresh account in the same phase, retaining passed phases. Offer available for 7 days after a breach. Price depends on the plan and phase.
Weekly, On-Demand, Daily Payouts, no minimum days and 100% split, depending on plan. Individual add-ons: +20%; Daily: +25%; bundle: +45%. Daily Pro: 2% buffer and 3% cap per payout for the first three.
- 100% profit split (+15%)
- First payout after 7 days (+15%)
- First Payout on Demand (Instant Pro)
- 100% profit split and first payout after 7 days combined (+25%)
Scaling for consistent performance without a new evaluation. Documentation allows exceeding the standard allocation but does not publish exact thresholds.
You can grow your account to a maximum of $4,000,000. In order to scale your capital and grow, you must make 12% within a 3-month period. If you achieve this, they will increase your account size by 25% of your initial balance.
This is complementary to the Aqua Elite Program.
1/2/3-Step: static. Instant: trailing closed balance, updated at 00:00 UTC; does not lock at starting balance. Access: trailing equity, including floating profit. After withdrawal, recalculated from the new balance, except Pro, where the original floor remains.
- Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Pro, Aqua Man: Trailing, based on the highest value between equity and balance
- TryAqua: Daily and maximum drawdowns are trailing
- 1 Step Flex, 2 Step Elite, 3 Step: Static
100% with add-on. First Atlas Protector trigger: 50% for the account's remaining life. First On-Demand payout: 50% for that payout only.
90%. 100% with add-on (+15%)
Website offers a free $1,000 simulated trial, one per verified person; KYC required.
Resets at 00:00 UTC from equity. Standard plans subtract a fixed amount based on account size; Instant and Access subtract a percentage of equity at reset. Intraday profit does not raise the daily floor.
Based on highest value between equity and balance
Multiple accounts allowed within the total allocation limit.
No evaluation deadline. Access: activate within 30 days after passing.
No limit
Evaluation: 3 days per phase on 1/2/3-Step; no minimum on Pro and Access. Funded per cycle: 5 on 1/2-Step and Instant; 3 on Pro, 3-Step and Access.
- Instant Standard, Instant Pro: 5 days (non-consecutive), 0.5% profit each
- Instant Flex: 7 days
- TryAqua: 5 days, with at least 0.5% profit each
- 1 Step Standard: 3 days, 0.5% profit each
- 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard: 5 days, 0.5% profit each
- 1 Step Flex: no minimum during evaluation; 3 days before the first funded payout, with at least 0.5% profit each
- 2 Step Pro: 0 in evaluation, 5 in funded
- 2 Step Elite: 3 per step
- 3 Step: not specified
Atlas Balance for purchases, resets and add-ons; cannot be withdrawn as cash. Cashback and Balance payout bonus depend on rank.
Free monthly competition; simulated account prizes. Registration follows the official schedule.
Funded: 1/2-Step: each day must close at least +0.5%; Instant: +1%; Access: +0.5%. Pro and 3-Step: day with a closed trade, no minimum daily profit. Counter resets after each payout.
Instant accounts can't be merged
Must not conceal location or identity. Give advance notice of locations inconsistent with registration.
Allowed within one account. Prohibited across accounts, brokers or firms.
On funded accounts, profits from trades held under 3 minutes are deducted. Losses remain; the deduction does not close the account.
Funded: the greater of net floating loss and the sum of losing positions, at 2% of initial balance, trigger Atlas Protector. First trigger: positions closed and split cut to 50%; second: account closed. Using 80% of margin closes positions and deducts their profits. Risk per instrument limited to 50% of the daily limit where applicable.
If your floating PnL (profit and loss) drops below -2% of the account balance, the account will be permanently closed.
Only applies to Instant Funding Standard, Pro, Flex, AquaMan and TryAqua.
Only between your own Atlas accounts; copying other traders or external accounts is prohibited.
- Copy trading between AquaFunded accounts
- Copy trading from Funded-to Evaluation accounts and vice versa
- Copy trading between AquaFunded account and external accounts.
Unrestricted during evaluation. On funded accounts, profits from trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news are deducted. Entries inside the window are closed automatically; holding through the entire window is allowed.
Two policies depending on the account creation date:
Accounts opened after 2026-04-27
- News trading is allowed.
- Profits generated within 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after a red folder (high-impact) news event or FOMC are capped at 0.5% of the starting balance per payout cycle.
- Anything above the cap is removed without further penalty.
Accounts opened before 2026-04-27
- Trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after a red folder news event or FOMC on funded accounts are not allowed.
- Any profits generated during these windows are removed.
Open a trade at least every 30 days; failing closes the account. Instant Zero has no inactivity limit.
30 days
Instant Funded: best day at most 20% of cycle profit. No consistency on Access, Zero, 1/2/3-Step or Pro, according to checkout.
Applies on funded accounts. A single trading day cannot equal or exceed a given percentage of total profits during the payout period. If it does, payouts are blocked until the ratio normalises; the account is not closed.
- Instant Standard: 20%
- Instant Pro: 20% for accounts purchased on or after 8 September 2026 (limited-time offer); 15% for accounts purchased before that date
- Instant Flex: no consistency rule
- Aqua Man: 15%
- TryAqua: 15%
- 1 Step Pro: 25%
- 2 Step Pro: 50%
- 1 Step Flex: no consistency rule
- 1 Step Standard, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Elite, 3 Step: no specific consistency rule documented
Latency or tick arbitrage, exploiting prices or bugs, order flooding, hedging across accounts or firms, account sharing and passing services. Multiple locations must not hide who trades. Gambling, martingale and manipulating evaluations are prohibited.
- Use of platform or data freezing due to a Demo Server error.
- Use of a delayed data feed
- Trading on delayed charts
- Tick scalping
- High frequency trading
- Arbitrage bots
- Reverse arbitrage
- Latency arbitrage
- Hedge arbitrage or any emulators are prohibited.




















