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

Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Nick Cooke

David Viota

2024

2023

OGM International LTD

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).

The fee is refunded with the fourth payout. The statutory 14-day withdrawal right applies only before the first trade is opened.

• 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

Every 14 days, with no initial waiting period. There must be no open positions when requesting a payout.

48-hour guarantee: if Orion does not process the payout on time, it applies a 100% profit split and refunds the evaluation fee.

No limit

Swap-free accounts are available as a paid option. Terms and availability depend on the selected product.

Over a rolling 3-month period: 15% return, at least 2 of 3 profitable months, and 3 payouts. Balance increases by 25%, profit split rises to 90%, and the account can scale up to $4,000,000.

• 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)

The mechanism depends on the product: static on Standard, Swing, and Select; trailing with a lock on Zero and Nova funded accounts.

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

80% initially. It rises to 90% after meeting the scaling-plan requirements.

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

Calculated on equity and includes open trades, commissions, and swaps. The applicable percentage is shown on each challenge.

No limit

No maximum time limit.

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

Standard, Swing, and Select require 4 minimum trading days per evaluation phase. Zero and Nova have no published minimum.

• 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

Maximum combined initial allocation of $400,000.

EAs are allowed when the strategy is the trader's own and does not breach prohibited practices such as arbitrage, HFT, or exploitation of delays and errors.

Hedging within one account is allowed. Hedging positions across multiple accounts to manipulate results is prohibited.

Manual scalping is allowed, but tick scalping, HFT, and strategies exploiting delays or pricing errors are prohibited.

Multiple positions are allowed as part of a legitimate strategy; excessive or coordinated exposure intended to bypass risk rules is prohibited.

Orion may treat excessive exposure, overleveraging, and other risk practices inconsistent with realistic trading as a breach.

Only allow between Atmos Funded Accounts

Copying between your own Orion accounts is allowed. Copying signals, third-party accounts, or external services is prohibited.

Not allowed ±2 minutes from high-impact events

During evaluation there is no timing restriction, but using news as a strategy is prohibited. On funded accounts, Nova, Standard, and Select prohibit opening or closing trades 2 minutes before and after high-impact news. Swing has no timing restriction. Zero allows it, but trades executed within 5 minutes before or after receive a 50% profit split.

90 days

The account may be closed after prolonged inactivity under Orion's current terms.

• 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

The 20% Best Day rule applies only to Orion Zero and Orion Nova funded accounts.

• 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)

• Latency arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, and exploitation of prices or delays
• HFT, tick scalping, and strategies designed to exploit the simulated environment
• Copy trading from third parties or signal services
• Hedging across accounts and coordinated opposite trades
• Account rolling, third-party management, and sharing or reselling accounts
• Gambling behaviour, overleveraging, and excessive exposure