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Headquarters

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

23691-001, A2 Building, IFZA Business Park, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, United Arab Emirates

CEO

Nick Cooke

Husam Samy

Country

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2024

2024

Banned Countries
United States of America, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Iraq, American Samoa, Belarus, Northern Mariana Islands, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Ukraine, Virgin Islands (US), Wallis & Futuna Islands, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Syria, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar
Assets
Commodities, Forex, Indices, Crypto
Forex, Commodities, Indices, Crypto
Brokers
Taurex

In-house liquidity provider

Refund
Yes

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).

Yes

The evaluation fee is refundable. Under the published standard conditions, the refund unlocks alongside the fifth successful payout.

Platforms
Metatrader 5
MatchTrader, Metatrader 5
Demo Account
Metatrader 5
ID3002613PasswordH*CgR3MjServerAtmosGlobal-Live
No data
Payout Methods
Crypto, Transfer
Transfer, Crypto
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, GooglePay, ApplePay
Card, PayPal, Crypto
Payout Frequency
  • 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

Depends on the program. Rapid and Ascend allow an early payout after 3 days with a 40% split. Standard payouts retain an 85% split and require the applicable trading days, profit and SFX Stability Index. Instant and 1-Step Pro allow payout requests once their requirements are met, without a fixed bi-weekly cycle.

Payout Guarantee
No data

Requests are processed within 48 business hours. SFX advertises $1,000 compensation if it misses that deadline.

Crypto Weekend Trading
No data
Yes
Maximum Withdrawal
No data

Maximum of $10,000 per request for the first two payouts. This limit is removed afterwards.

Minimum Withdrawal

$100

Payouts below $100 can only be processed through USDT TRC20. Bank transfer is available from $100.

Forex
50:1
30:1
Metals
15:1
10:1
Energies
15:1
10:1
Indices
10:1
10:1
Crypto
2:1
2:1
Forex
5 / lot
4 / lot
Metals
5 / lot
4 / lot
Energies
5 / lot
4 / lot
Indices
5 / lot
0.4 / lot
Crypto
5 / lot
0
Commission-Free Option
No data
No
Swap Free
No
No
Account Reset
No data

Available for Ascend during evaluation and for funded Ascend, 1-Step Pro and Rapid accounts within 10 calendar days of the first trade. A funded reset subsequently applies a 50% split.

Add-ons
Yes
Yes
Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
No
Yes

Reviewed every 3 months. Requires profitability in 2 of the 3 months, at least 10% cumulative profit and 2 payouts. Balance increases by 25% of the initial balance up to $3.2M.

Two Steps
Yes
Yes
Max Drawdown
  • 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)

Rapid: 4% trailing. 1-Step Pro: 6% trailing. Ascend: 8% static. Instant: 6% trailing.

Profit Split

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

85% base split, with the possibility of reaching 100% through the scaling program. Rapid and Ascend allow an early payout with a 40% split.

Free Trial
No
No
Daily Drawdown
  • General: Based on highest value between equity and balance
  • Nova: 4% daily drawdown

Rapid and Instant: 3%. 1-Step Pro: no daily limit. Ascend: 4%.

Three Steps
No
No
Max Allocation
400,000
500,000
Merge Accounts
No
Yes

Funded accounts from the same evaluation type can be merged when both remain at their initial balance, have no open trades and their combined capital does not exceed $500,000. Instant accounts cannot be merged.

Maximum Trading Days

No limit

No time limit.

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

Rapid: no minimum during evaluation. 1-Step Pro: 4 evaluation days. Ascend: 5 days in each phase. Instant: no evaluation.

Monthly Competition
No
No
Minimum Profitable Days
  • 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

For payouts: Rapid and Instant require 10 trading days; 1-Step Pro requires 7 qualified days; Ascend requires 5 days and its first standard payout is available after 14 calendar days.

Expert Advisor (EA)
Yes
Limited

Trade managers, calculators and EAs developed by the trader are allowed. Third-party EAs and EAs designed to exploit rollover or perform news scalping are prohibited.

VPN
No data
Yes
Hedging
Yes
Yes
Requires Stop Loss
No
No
Scalping
Yes
Yes
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
No
Yes
Martingale
No data
No
Maximum Risk Limit
No data
Yes

Maximum floating loss: 2% on Rapid, Ascend and Instant; $300K and $400K Instant accounts have a 1% limit. 1-Step Pro has a 1% limit, with a warning and split reduction to 40% on the first violation and closure on the second.

Copy Trading
Limited

Only allow between Atmos Funded Accounts

No

Copying trades, manually or through software, between the trader's own accounts or from external traders or signal providers is prohibited.

News Trading
No

Not allowed ±2 minutes from high-impact events

Limited

Funded accounts restrict trading from 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news. News straddling, news bracketing and manipulation of the simulated environment are also prohibited.

Inactivity Rule

90 days

Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.

Consistency Rule
Yes
  • 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
Yes

Maximum SFX Stability Index for payout: Rapid 15%, 1-Step Pro 20%, Ascend 25% and Instant 15%.

Hold Weekend
Yes
Yes
Prohibited Strategies
  • 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)

Copy trading; third-party EAs; HFT; latency arbitrage; tick scalping; martingale and grid; news scalping; coordinated reverse trading; exploitation of errors or slow feeds; account sharing or third-party account management.

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