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

Sublot 40, Level 3, Block A2, Saradise Kuching, Off Jalan Stutong, 93350, Kuching, Malaysia

Nick Cooke

Dixon Teo

United Arab Emirates

Malaysia

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).

• 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

• Forex Evaluation: Bi-weekly (every 14 calendar days). Instant first payout.
• Instant Funded X: Every 30 days.

$100

Instant Funded X: Greater of $100 or 1% of starting balance.

Instant Funded X: Weekend flat fee add-on and up to 90% profit split add-on available.

• 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)

Forex Evaluation (X-1 & X-2 Step)
6% static drawdown from starting balance. Does not trail.

Instant Funded X
8% trailing drawdown. Trails upward with account growth. Once 8% profit is achieved, drawdown locks permanently at starting balance. After withdrawal, drawdown permanently locks at original starting balance.

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

• Forex Evaluation: 80%
• Instant Funded X: 80% (up to 90% with add-ons)

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

Forex Evaluation & Instant Funded X: 5% daily max loss. Calculated from the higher of: prior day's end-of-day balance or equity. Resets at 5:00 PM EST.

• Forex: $400,000
• Instant Funded X: $100,000
• Max $1M in active evaluations per person
• Maximum one evaluation per specific account size and plan type simultaneously across all platforms

• Case-by-case. Only possible when multiple assessments of identical product tier, step, and platform are passed simultaneously.
• Not permitted across different platforms, steps, or rule sets.

No limit

No time limit. Infinite evaluation duration.

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

0 minimum trading days across all plans.

Monthly competitions with free evaluation prizes.

• 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

• EAs are allowed, but third-party or off-the-shelf strategies marketed to pass challenge accounts are banned.
• Strategy switching between evaluation and funded phases is also prohibited.

• Hedging/reverse trades are permitted within a single account.
• Cross-account hedging is strictly prohibited.

Only allow between Atmos Funded Accounts

• Only allowed if you own all accounts involved.
• Group trading, signal services, and mirror trading across multiple accounts are banned.

Not allowed ±2 minutes from high-impact events

• Opening positions within 3 minutes before or after news events is prohibited.
• Violations may result in position closure, P&L removal, leverage reduction, or account breach.

90 days

Accounts with zero trading activity for 30 consecutive days are hard breached.

• 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

• Best trading day cannot exceed 45% of total profit target.
• If breached during evaluation, profit target adjusts upward.
• In funded phase, applies to withdrawal eligibility.
• Instant Funded X: No consistency rule.

• Forex Evaluation: Weekend holding allowed.
• Instant Funded X: All trades must be closed by 3:45 PM EST on Friday, or they are automatically closed (soft breach). Weekend holding add-on available.

• 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)

• Exploiting pricing/latency errors
• Front-running trades
• Using non-public/insider information
• Arbitraging across company or third-party accounts
• News event trading (within 3 minutes before/after)
• Excessive leverage/"all-in" trades resembling gambling
• Group hedging/reverse trading across multiple accounts
• Third-party strategies marketed for challenge accounts
• Strategy switching between evaluation and funded phases