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Bahnhofstrasse 21, 6300, Zug, Switzerland
Masarykova 409/26, Brno, Czech Republic
Alan Sanchez
David Varga
Switzerland
Czech Republic
2022
2023
Liquidity Provider
Within 14 days of purchase, only if you haven't accessed MyFintokei or placed any trade. Refund must be requested via email.
5% processing fee on crypto payouts. Only TRC20 USDT supported.
- ETH: 2.5% + 10 EUR
- BTC: 2.5% + 20 EUR
- Other crypto: 2.5%
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14 days
$5,000 per transaction (crypto)
- All accounts: 100 EUR, 100 USD, 2,000 CZK, 20,000 JPY
- ProTrader $400,000: 120 EUR/USD
- SwiftTrader: 3% of the account balance
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 30:1
- StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 25:1
- ProTrader Swing: 25:1
- ProTrader: 100:1
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 30:1
- StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:25
- ProTrader Swing: 1:25
- ProTrader: 1:100
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 30:1
- StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:10
- ProTrader: 1:20
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 20:1
- StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:20
- ProTrader: 1:50
- Advance accounts: 100:1
- Student accounts: 5:1
- CFT Platform and MetaTrader: Advance accounts 100:1; Student accounts 5:1.
- Bybit evaluations: up to 100:1, depending on the instrument and the limits available on Bybit.
- BTC: 2:1
- Other Crypto: 1:1
- ProTrader Swing: swap-free on all account sizes
If your final-stage account is suspended, you can request a reset within 30 days as long as:
- Every trade had a stop-loss.
- No trade lost more than 2%.
2-Phase (size -> reset)
- $5,000 -> $180
- $10,000 -> $345
- $25,000 -> $760
- $50,000 -> $1,140
- $100,000 -> $1,880
- $200,000 -> $3,620
1-Phase (size -> reset)
- $5,000 -> $198
- $10,000 -> $380
- $25,000 -> $840
- $50,000 -> $1,255
- $100,000 -> $2,079
- $200,000 -> $3,980
1-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%) and 90% Profit Split (+20%). 2-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%), 90% Profit Split (+20%), 6% Daily Drawdown (+15%) and 12% Maximum Drawdown (+25%).
Only Instant account can be scaled. Request a withdrawal after 10% profit to double the size of your account up to a max of $1,280,000.
Achieve 10% profit during at least 2 consecutive months to increase your funded account balance. Only one scaled account per trader. More details on scalind structure here
- CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases and Instant use a static maximum loss; 1 Phase uses trailing drawdown.
- Bybit: 1-Phase and Break use a balance-based trailing loss limit that locks at the initial balance after sufficient profit. 2-Phase, Ascend and Instant use fixed maximum-loss limits.
Exact limits are shown in each challenge.
Static
- Instant: 50% at the starting level, then 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% as the account scales.
- 1 Phase and 2 Phases: 80% in the Final Stage, with an optional 90% add-on.
- Break: 80% in the Final Stage.
StartTrader (Dynamic Performance reward)
Your performance reward can vary from 50% to 100%, depending on your trading behavior. The system automatically assesses the way you trade, taking into account several aspects of your trading history, such as:
- The number of active trading days
- How you handle your account's leverage
- Your trading background, reflected in the number of payouts
- The consistency of your results, evaluated through your daily gains and losses
ProTrader: 80%
SwiftTrader: 90%
If your final-stage account is suspended with virtual profits, you can still receive up to 50% in performance rewards if:
- Every trade had a stop-loss.
- No single trade lost more than 2%.
- You traded for at least 15 days.
- CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases, 1 Phase, Instant and Ascend use balance-based daily drawdown.
- Bybit: daily drawdown is calculated from equity using the account balance at 00:05 UTC. Break accounts do not have a separate daily-loss limit.
Exact limits are shown in each challenge.
- StartTrader, ProTrader, Swift: Equity based
- ProTrader Swing: Balance based
Standard Final Stage allocation is capped at $300,000. Instant accounts are separate and can scale to $1,280,000. Break and Ascend accounts also have separate allocation limits.
- ProTrader and ProTrader Swing (combined): 400,000 EUR/USD
- StartTrader: 100,000 EUR/USD
- SwiftTrader: 200,000 EUR/USD
Unlimited
- StartTrader: 180 days on phases 1 and 2
- SwiftTrader: 60 days
- ProTrader, ProTrader Swing: No limit
- 1-Phase, 2-Phase and Break: no minimum trading days to pass the evaluation.
- Instant: no evaluation phase and no minimum days.
- Ascend: 5 trading days in evaluation.
- StartTrader, ProTrader, ProTrader Swing, SwiftTrader: 3 days on evaluation phase
Loyalty Program based on Experience Points (XP) with 6 tiers. XP never expires.
How to earn XP
- Challenge purchases: 10-400 XP per purchase
- Milestones: 50-300 XP for passing phases, breaches, or approved payouts
- One-time bonuses: 200 XP each for registration, KYC completion, and first trial
- Daily activities: 10 XP for login or active trading days
- XP is earned even when failing challenges
Tier Benefits
- Tier 1 (0-1,999 XP): No benefits
- Tier 2 (2,000-4,999 XP): Free $5K StartTrader challenge, 5% performance boost, 5% capital boost
- Tier 3 (5,000-9,999 XP): Free $10K ProTrader challenge, 10% performance boost, +0.5% daily loss limit, 10% capital boost
- Tier 4 (10,000-19,999 XP): Free $20K ProTrader challenge, +1% daily loss limit, +1% max loss limit, 15% capital boost
- Tier 5 (20,000-29,999 XP): Free $50K ProTrader challenge, 15% performance boost, +1.5% daily/max loss limits, 20% capital boost
- Tier 6 (30,000+ XP): Free $100K ProTrader challenge, 20% performance boost, +2% daily/max loss limits, 25% capital boost
Expert Advisors and automation are allowed when used for normal trading. EAs designed for high-frequency trading, tick scalping, arbitrage, reverse trading or exploitation are prohibited.
Normal scalping is allowed. Tick scalping, high-frequency trading and latency exploitation are prohibited.
- It is not allowed to have more than 10% of your total lot volume coming from tick scalping trades
- Any trade lasting less than 10 seconds falls under our tick scalping definition
Simulated profit is capped at $10,000 per trading day and per trade. Trades closed in parts or opened together as one strategy may be treated as a single trade.
Open trades: 3%
Copy trading is allowed under the firm's general rules. Break evaluations may be copied only between the same trader's own Break accounts. Copy trading is prohibited in Break Final Stage and between different traders, third parties or coordinated accounts.
Ascend
During the two minutes before and after high-impact news or market open, traders must not open or add new positions, nor increase or combine their maximum theoretical loss beyond 2% of the account's initial balance.
Only Break Final Stage accounts apply a consistency rule: no single trading day may represent more than 40% of total profits. It is checked only when requesting a payout and does not breach the account.
Fintokei applies Consistency Rules to promote sustainable trading and prevent gambling-style or high-risk behavior. These rules are used only after warnings and can affect either a single account or a trader's entire profile, depending on the severity. When applied, traders are notified with details about the restrictions and next steps.
- Reduced leverage (e.g., 1:10 for FX, 1:5 for other instruments)
- Daily profit and loss caps (+1% / -1% of starting balance)
- Inability to advance in the Scaling program
- Restrictions on new evaluation program purchases
These rules are intended as a safety layer, not a penalty, and can be lifted after 3–6 months of consistent, responsible trading.
Only StartTrader
Max 40% of your profit target can come from 1 day
Crypto futures trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and positions may remain open overnight and over weekends.
High-frequency trading, tick scalping, latency or price-feed exploitation, arbitrage, gambling or all-in trading, abusive hedging, reverse trading across accounts and coordinated trading are prohibited. On Bybit, unauthorized deposits into the subaccount, modifying or disconnecting the API, spot trading, options and non-USDT pairs are also prohibited.
- Copying trades from other persons' signals
- Using services to pass prop trading evaluations
- Tick scalping
- HFT
- Latency arbitrage trading
- Opposite trading / hedging across multiple accounts or traders
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