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Office 219, Vakson Commercial Building, Sheikh Zayed Road, Umm Al Sheif

IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Nick Cooke

2024

2023

Refunds available only if you have NOT received or used the trading account, or in case of duplicate payments / technical issues that prevented account delivery. Once trading begins, fees are non-refundable. Refunds are processed within 5-10 business days (card) or 24-48h (crypto).

Full refund after 4th payout

$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.

• 1 Step Plus: First payout on demand, next every 14 days
• Instant, Nova: On Demand
• 1 Step Standard, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Plus: Every 14 days

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.

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.

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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%)

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 Step Standard, Instant: Trailing, locks at initial balance and finally at payout
• 1 Step Plus: Trailing, locks at initial balance but resets at payout
• 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Plus: Static
• Nova: 8% max overall loss (static)

• 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

80% by default, scaling up to 90% for consistent performers

90%. 100% with add-on (+15%)

• General: Based on highest value between equity and balance
• Nova: 4% daily drawdown

Based on highest value between equity and balance

Instant accounts can't be merged

• Nova (challenge): 0 days
• Nova (funded): 7 minimum profitable trading days

• 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

• 1 Step, 2 Step: 3 days with 0.5% profit or more
• Instant: 0 days
• Nova (challenge): 0 days
• Nova (funded): 7 days with at least 0.5% of initial balance each

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 allow between Atmos Funded Accounts

• Copy trading between AquaFunded accounts
• Copy trading from Funded-to Evaluation accounts and vice versa
• Copy trading between AquaFunded account and external accounts.

Not allowed ±2 minutes from high-impact events

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.

90 days

30 days

• 1 Step Plus: No single day >45% of total profit (funded phase)
• Instant: No single day >20% of total profit (funded phase)
• 1 Step Standard, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Plus, Nova: No rule

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

• Allocate too large of your equity or margin to a single open position
• Latency arbitrage (price feed abuse)
• High-frequency trading bots that overload execution
• Tick scalping / toxic flow that manipulates fills
• Hedging across accounts
• Group Trading / Account Management Abuse
• Platform / Price-Feed Manipulation
• Account Sharing / Identity Misuse
• All-In (Gambling)

• 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.