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Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia
85 Great Portland Street, London, England W1W 7LT, GB
Lucas Antonio
Faizan Anees
Saint Lucia
United Kingdom
2024
2024
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 of the challenge fee with the first 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.
- By default: Biweekly
- With add-on (+25%): Weekly
- Bolt: Biweekly by default; On-Demand Payouts with add-on (+25%)
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.
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.
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
Rise: $50 each month any payout is requested
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- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 30:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 100:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 10:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 10:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 5:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 1:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 1:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
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.
- Profit Split 90% (+25%)
- Weekly payout (+25%; not available on Bolt)
- Allows News Trading (+25%)
- Bolt: On-Demand Payouts (+25%)
- Bolt: Weekend Holding (+15%), permits weekend holding and trading
Scaling for consistent performance without a new evaluation. Documentation allows exceeding the standard allocation but does not publish exact thresholds.
- Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step: Traders become eligible after reaching a minimum profit of 10% within three months, equivalent to an average monthly gain of around 3.33%. Each approved phase increases the original demo account balance by 20%, up to $1 million on MetaTrader 5 or $1.5 million on ThinkTrader. Assessments take place every three months and require three payouts during each cycle.
- Bolt: Reach 10% total profit across four payouts within two months. Each approved scaling phase increases the account balance by 25%, up to $500,000.
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.
- Lightning: 6% trailing, locks at initial balance once it grows by 6%
- Bolt: 6% trailing equity, locks at initial balance after the first payout
- Dual Step Intraday: 7% static
- Dual Step Swing: 7% static
- Nexus: 8% 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.
- Standard: 80%
- With add-on (+25%): 90%
- Bolt: 90% with scaling
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.
- Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step Swing, Bolt: 3% Balance-based (Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step Swing) / 3% Equity-based (Bolt, Dual Step Intraday)
- All accounts: Soft breach, account disabled for the day, resumes next day at 00:00 MT5 Server Time
- MetaTrader 5: $300,000
- ThinkTrader: $600,000
- Bolt with scaling: $500,000
Multiple accounts allowed within the total allocation limit.
No evaluation deadline. Access: activate within 30 days after passing.
Unlimited
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.
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.
- Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step: 3 days minimum (0.5% profit each)
- Bolt: No minimum profitable trading days
- Standard: Bi-weekly (14 days)
- With add-on (+25%): Weekly (7 days)
- Bolt: Bi-weekly (14 days); On-Demand Payouts add-on (+25%) available
- All programs except Bolt: No consistency rule
- Bolt: 20% best day cap
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.
Maximum of 2 positions simultaneously
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.
Only between your own Atlas accounts; copying other traders or external accounts is prohibited.
Traders may use copy trading across multiple Think Capital accounts. That said, copying trades from personal accounts or from accounts with other proprietary firms is not allowed.
If you wish to copy trades between different prop firm accounts, your Think Capital account must be set as the primary (master) account.
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.
- Dual Step (Swing): Allowed by default
- Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step (Intraday): Only allowed with add-on
- Bolt: Not allowed
Rule for products where news trading requires the add-on:
- No trades, including limit and stop orders, may be executed 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after a high-impact news event (total of 4 minutes).
- Any activity during this 4-minute window will result in immediate termination of the funded agreement, account cancellation, and forfeiture of any profits.
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.
Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step: allowed. Bolt: requires the Weekend Holding add-on (+15%).
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.
- Copy Trading
- Grid (Reverse) Trading
- Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts
- Collusion Between Users
- Account Sharing, Account Management, or Account Sale
- Latency Arbitrage
- High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
- Abuse of a Delayed Data Feed
- Abuse of the Simulated Environment
- Trading on Delayed Charts
- Utilization of Expert Advisors
- Challenge Passing Services
- Martingale Trading
- Use of Guarantee of Compliance with Limit Orders
- Trading in Sanctioned Countries
- Trading Activity: Soft Breaches/Warnings
- Use of Platform or Data Freezing Due to Technical Errors
- News Trading
- Order Layering
- Gambling/Punting



















