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Govant Building, 1st Floor, Kumul Highway, Port Vila, Vanuatu

Core Markets LLC, a Delaware company. Address: 211 E 43rd St, 7th Flr #259, New York, NY 10017, United States. Offices in New York, Larnaca (Cyprus) and Dubai (UAE).

Marcus Fetherston

Youssef Moussa

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

United States

2024

2025

The fee paid is reimbursed with the fourth payout. Purchases are final, except payment errors, undelivered services or mandatory legal rights.

14 days, including Synthetics. Standard accounts: 7 days with the 7-Day Payout Add-On (+20%), or On-Demand with the Payout On-Demand Add-On. These add-ons are not available for Synthetics accounts.

On demand. After the first payout: 3 days with at least 0.5% realized net profit since the previous payout. No open positions or pending orders; identity verification required.

Processed within 24 hours after account review and submission of all requested documents. If missed, 100% split for that payout. Bank and blockchain settlement times are excluded.

$2,000 for Crypto

Up to 50% of profit per request. Capped at USD 2,500 for accounts up to USD 100,000; USD 5,000 for larger accounts. Remaining profit stays in the account.

$100

USD 25

• 1 Step, Instant: 1:30
• 2 Step: 1:50

• Standard indices: 1:10
• Synthetic indices: 1:30

You can reset your account from the stage you reached: Phase 1, Phase 2 or even a Funded Account. If you reached funded, the reset provides a new funded account at the same starting size, so you can return to trading toward your next payout without completing the evaluation again.

Resets are available through your Trader Dashboard for 7 days after an account breach.
Synthetics exception: evaluation phases only, at 20% off base price. Funded synthetic accounts cannot be reset.

The Second Try add-on provides one reset if the account is breached. The rewards program Trader tier includes one free retry.

Paid add-ons: unrestricted funded news trading, 90% or 95% profit split, and Second Try.

Eligibility Criteria (3 months)

• Generate at least 10% net profit over 3 consecutive months
• Process at least 4 payouts within the same 3-month period

Benefits

• Upgraded Profit Split: Earn up to 90% of your profits
• Balance Scale-Up: Your account balance increases by 25% every 3 months
• Maximum Allocation: Scale your account balance up to a maximum of $2 million
  Synthetic 1-Step and 2-Step are eligible. Synthetic Instant is not eligible.

From USD 10,000 accounts: 12% profit within 3 months adds 25% of the starting balance. Elite is a separate performance-based benefits program.

• Standard 1 Step, 2 Step: Static
• Standard Instant: Trailing
• Synthetic 1-Step, 2-Step and Instant: Static

Static against the initial balance; includes floating losses and costs. Pay After Pass funded accounts have a 6% limit.

80%

Based in highest value between equity and balance
Synthetics: highest previous day's closing equity or balance.

Recalculated at 00:00 UTC from the higher of balance or equity, minus a fixed amount based on initial capital. Flex and Pay After Pass evaluation have no daily limit; funded Pay After Pass applies 3%.

Unlimited

No time limit to pass the evaluation.

7 XP tiers. Purchases and tasks earn XP; 1% to 20% cashback redeemable for discounts. Annual tier review. Higher tiers retain previous benefits.

Minimum days with 0.5% profit per payout cycle or phase:

• Flex 1 Step: none to pass. If one trade idea generated more than 60% of the profit target, the funded account requires 4 minimum trading days before a payout can be requested
• Instant Lite: none
• 1 Step: 3 days
• Instant Elite: 5 days (reduced to 3 with the 3-Day Fast Track Add-On)
• Prime: 3 days per phase for accounts purchased from August 17, 2026 (previously 5). Eligible to request a payout in as little as 3 trading days when combined with the On-Demand Payout Add-On
• Synthetic 1-Step: 5 active days
• Synthetic 2-Step: 3 active days per phase
• Synthetic Instant: 5 active days
• An active synthetic day requires at least 0.5% profit on equity.

1-Step and 2-Step Standard: 3 per phase and in funded. Flex: 5 per phase and in funded. Instant: 5 before the first payout. Pay After Pass: 0 in evaluation and 5 in funded. Each day requires at least 0.5% realized net profit; days need not be consecutive.

Allowed under the firm's EA conditions, including current Synthetics. Legacy synthetic accounts prohibit EAs until passing their current evaluation phase or their next funded payout.

You are allowed to use a VPN or VPS as long as it has a Static IP.

Also be aware that the IP rule restricts multiple accounts from different individuals from being accessed from the same IP address to ensure the integrity and fairness of our trading environment.

Allowed. Synthetics: within the same trading account only.

Allowed within the same account.

Tick scalping (holding trades for only a few seconds to capture minimal price movements) is prohibited. Regular scalping is allowed; the previous "50% of trades > 1 minute" rule was removed for accounts purchased after March 12, 2026.
Funded Synthetics: profits from full or partial closes inside 5 minutes are removed at payout. Soft breach; the account stays open. Legacy accounts apply this after their next payout.

More than 50% of trades held for less than one minute is prohibited.

No aggressive scaling outside reasonable limits or 3 or more positions in one losing trading idea. Prior positions must be protected when adding.

Allowed on other account types. Prohibited on Synthetics under the current rules. Legacy synthetic accounts retain permission until passing their current evaluation phase or their next funded payout.

Flex 1 Step (evaluation and funded): 1% Risk Per Trade Idea from the initial account size. Positions on the same instrument count as one idea. The first automatic breach is soft and the second is hard; aggregated re-entry losses may cause direct account closure.

Other Funded Accounts purchased after March 12, 2026 (Prime excluded): 1.5% Risk Per Trade Idea. A "trade idea" includes your initial position and any positions opened in the same direction within 10 minutes of closing a losing trade. The combined loss across all positions in that window cannot exceed 1.5% of your initial account size.

Optional Add-On at checkout: Upgrade to 2% Risk Per Trade Idea for more drawdown room.

Instant Lite (accounts purchased from August 17, 2026): once the account reaches 4% in profit, a 1% maximum risk per trade applies.

Do not use more than 50% of available margin. The firm may impose a 1% maximum risk per trading idea after written notification.

Prime and Flex 1 Step: external signals and copy trading are not allowed. Other account types allow copy trading.
Synthetics: between your own accounts only.

Only between accounts held by the same person, including external accounts. EAs and external copiers are allowed; each account must comply individually.

• Flex 1 Step: do not open or close positions within 5 minutes before or after a high-impact news event, during either evaluation or funded stages. Holding through news is allowed. Strikes carry over: the first deducts the profit, the second also reduces the profit split from 85% to 60%, and the third closes the account
• Other accounts: do not open new trades within 2 minutes before or after a scheduled high-impact news release. You may close or manage existing trades, and take-profits, stop-losses and partial closes remain permitted

Unrestricted in evaluation. In funded, no opening or closing from 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after high-impact news and FOMC events. The News Trading add-on removes this window. Without it, affected trade profits are removed.

30 days

Account closure after 30 days without trades, in both evaluation and funded.

Instant Lite accounts purchased from August 17, 2026 have a 15% consistency rule. It does not apply to Flex 1 Step, Instant Elite, standard 1-Step, Prime or standard 2-Step accounts, which have no consistency rule.
Synthetics: 25% once funded; no evaluation consistency. Legacy funded synthetics: 30% until the next payout.

Checked only at payout: Instant and Pay After Pass, 15%; 1-Step and 2-Step, 30%. Each day counts at its highest net profit reached during the day, even if it closes at a loss. Trading may continue until the ratio is met.

Flex 1 Step: overnight holding is allowed, but weekend holding is not allowed. Other account types allow weekend holding.

• Arbitrage
• HFT (High Frequency Trading)
• Tick Scalping
• Toxic Trading
• Bad Faith Trading
• Current Synthetics: grid trading and martingale

Exploiting pricing or platform errors, latency arbitrage, insider trading, front-running, gambling without a strategy and all-or-nothing trading. The strategy must remain consistent between evaluation and funded.