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Headquarters

Office 8.05 One Canada Square, London, England, E14 5AA, United Kingdom

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

CEO

Karim Yousfi

Husam Samy

Country

United Kingdom

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2012

2024

Banned Countries
United States, Syria, Iran, North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Venezuela
Syria, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar
Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities
Forex, Commodities, Indices, Crypto
Brokers
AudaCity Global LTD

In-house liquidity provider

Refund
Yes

Full refund after first payout

Yes

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

Platforms
Metatrader 4, Metatrader 5
MatchTrader, Metatrader 5
Demo Account
Metatrader5
ID54555PasswordYq!8YsYaServerAudaCityGlobal-Live
No data
Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto, PayPal
Transfer, Crypto
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, PayPal, Transfer
Card, PayPal, Crypto
Payout Frequency
  • Ability Challenge: First payout after 30 days, next every 14 days
  • Funded Trader Program: When reaching the 10% profit

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

Funded Trader Program: 10% profit

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

Forex
  • Ability Challenge: 100:1
  • Funded Trader Program: 30:1
30:1
Metals
  • Ability Challenge: 100:1
  • Funded Trader Program: 30:1
10:1
Energies
  • Ability Challenge: 25:1
  • Funded Trader Program: 60:1
10:1
Indices
  • Ability Challenge: 100:1
  • Funded Trader Program: 30:1
10:1
Crypto
  • Ability Challenge: 2:1
  • Funded Trader Program: 2:1
2:1
Forex
6 / lot
4 / lot
Metals
6 / lot
4 / lot
Energies
6 / lot
4 / lot
Indices
10 / lot
0.4 / lot
Crypto
0
0
Commission-Free Option
No
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
Yes
  • Eligibility: Traders must demonstrate a monthly profitability of at least 2.5% for the 3 consecutive months.
  • Scaling Increase: The account balance is doubled (100% increase) during each scaling event up to $2,000,000.
  • Review Cycle: The account is reviewed every 3 months. Traders must make at least one withdrawal within this period.
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

Balance based

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

Profit Split

Ability Challenge

  • The profit share for the first payout is 75%
  • If you withdraw over 10% profit in 30 days, the profit share will increase to 85%
  • Once you've doubled your account twice and consistently achieved over 10% profit, you'll qualify for up to 90% profit sharing

Funded Trader Program

  • $7.5k, $15k, $30k, and $60k: More than 30 Days to reach target = 50%, Less than 30 days = 60%
  • $120k and $240k: More than 30 Days to reach target = 60%, Less than 30 days = 70%
  • $480k, $960k, and $1.92m: More than 30 Days to reach target = 50%, Less than 30 days = 60%
  • $120k and $240k (High tier): More than 30 Days to reach target = 70%, Less than 30 days = 80%

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
Yes
No
Daily Drawdown

Based in highest value between balance and equity

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

Three Steps
No
No
Max Allocation
240,000
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
  • Ability Challenge: 4 days
  • Ability One: 3 days
  • Funded Trader Program: 5 days
  • At least one position must be opened on each of those days

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

Monthly Competition
Yes
  • 1st Place: 3K + $240K Ability Challenge
  • 2nd Place: 1.5K + $120K Ability Challenge
  • 3rd Place: 500 + $120K Ability Challenge
  • 4th Place: 300 + $60K Ability Challenge
  • 5th Place: 150 + $60K Ability Challenge
  • 6th – 10th Place: $30K Ability Challenge
  • 11th – 25th Place: One-time 30% discount on any Ability Challenge
  • 26th – 50th Place: One-time 15% discount on any Ability Challenge
No
Minimum Profitable Days
  • Funded Trader Program: 3 days (traders must maintain consistency in trade duration and lot sizes to meet the minimum trading requirement)

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

Only self-developed EAs are permitted. The use of commercial, publicly available, or third-party-created automated trading tools is strictly prohibited.

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
No
Maximum Risk Limit
No

Maximum limit of 10 lots per open position. You may open multiple positions, but each individual position cannot exceed 10 lots.

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

Internal copying between your own AudaCity accounts is allowed. Copying from third-party accounts (other traders, other firms, signal providers) is not permitted.

No

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

News Trading
Limited

Do not open new trades or increase existing ones within 3 minutes before or after high-impact economic releases or official speeches, as this behavior may be considered excessive risk-taking.

Only high-impact FOMC events fall under this restriction; low- and medium-impact FOMC events are exempt. Other major/high-impact news restrictions remain unchanged. This update applies to existing and new accounts across Ability Challenge, Ability One and FTP Instant Funding.

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

6 months

Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.

Consistency Rule
Yes

The formula for calculation of the Consistency Score is: [1 - (most profitable trading day)/(combined profit on all profitable days)]*100:

  1. If the score is above 70 then the trader is considered as consistent.
  2. If the score lies between 50 - 70 then the risk team will manually review the account and decide whether the trader should continue trading until the score becomes above 70 or pass them.
  3. If the score is less than 50, then the trader shall continue trading the account until the score reaches above 50 and then the risk team can take a call.
Yes

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

Hold Weekend
Yes
Yes
Prohibited Strategies
  • High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
  • Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts
  • Martingale Trading
  • Dollar Cost Averaging

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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