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Headquarters

Top Floor, Rodney Court Building, Rodney Bay, Gros Islet, St. Lucia

RAG Tower, Al Barsha 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

CEO

Martin Doepke

Michal Król

Country

St. Lucia

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2024

2025

Banned Countries
Australia, St. Lucia, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Myanmar, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Central African Republic, Mali, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, Zimbabwe, Libya
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Assets
Forex, Commodities, Indices, Stocks, Crypto
Forex, Commodities, Indices, Stocks, Crypto
Brokers
DNA Markets

Institutional liquidity providers not publicly identified.

Refund
No
Yes

The fee is fully refunded with the second successful funded payout.

Payout Fee

1% for cryptocurrency withdrawals. $50 for international bank transfers.

Bank wire: no fee. PayPal: no fee for withdrawals over $100. Crypto: network fee only.

Platforms
TradeLocker
Metatrader 5
Demo Account
TradeLocker
IDsupport@dnafunded.comPassword5pa1PA$=!814ServerPTTSER
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Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto
Transfer, PayPal, Crypto, Skrill
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
Card, Crypto, ApplePay
Payout Frequency

First payout after 14 trading days (7 days with Early Payout add-on).

Average processing time: 1-4 business days plus 1-2 additional days for funds to arrive.

First payout 14 days after becoming funded; every 14 days thereafter.

Payout Guarantee
No data

Approved requests are released to the payment provider within 24 hours. If Dolvero misses this deadline, it automatically adds a 10% bonus.

Crypto Weekend Trading
Yes

Weekend trading is permitted for cryptocurrencies only. For other markets, trades can be held over the weekend but cannot be executed. Weekend trading is strictly prohibited for Rapid and Instant Funding challenges.

Limited

Cryptocurrency CFDs must also be closed over the weekend unless the Weekend Holding add-on is purchased.

Maximum Withdrawal

5% profit cap on the first three approved payouts. Profits exceeding this cap are wiped when the account resets to original balance.

After three payouts, the cap is removed.

No maximum.

Minimum Withdrawal

$100 after profit split. If profit split is 80%, at least $125 in profits is needed.

$50

Forex

1:50 for all challenge types.

No data
Metals

1:10

No data
Energies

1:10

20:1
Indices

1:10

100:1
Stocks

1:5

20:1
Crypto

1:2

500:1
Forex
0
0
Metals
0
0
Energies
0
0
Indices
0
0
Stocks
0
0
Crypto
0
0
Commission-Free Option
Yes
No
Swap Free
No
No
Account Reset

Reset Demo add-on: restarts account if failed during demo/evaluation phase.

  • Usable once per purchase
  • Conserves all other add-ons
  • Must be selected during purchase

There is no paid reset within a failed evaluation; a new one must be purchased.

Add-ons
Yes
  • Early Payout: Reduces first payout waiting to 7 days.
  • Profit Share Booster: Increases split to 90%.
  • Reset Demo: Restart failed evaluation once.

Add-ons must be selected during purchase and cannot be added later.

Yes

2-Step: Weekend Holding, 90% split, Relaxed Risk and removal of the per-trade limit. 1-Step: Weekend Holding and 90% split.

Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
No
Yes

25% increase after 3 consecutive profitable months, up to $200,000 in the standard program. Larger allocations are invitation-only.

Two Steps
Yes
Yes
Max Drawdown

1-Phase, 2-Phase, Rapid
Static drawdown. Maximum lifetime drawdown is a fixed percentage of initial balance (Initial Balance × Limit / 100).

  • 1-Phase: 6% total
  • 2-Phase: 8% total
  • Rapid: 5% total

Instant Funding
Progressive drawdown (4%). When the account makes profits, the drawdown limit increases accordingly. Example: $10,000 account has a $9,600 minimum that adjusts upward with gains.

It is static on 2-Step and trailing on 1-Step and Instant. The trailing floor only rises when equity reaches a new high and never moves down.

Profit Split

80/20 split. Can be boosted to 90/10 with the Profit Share Booster add-on.

2-Step and 1-Step: 80%, upgradeable to 90% with an add-on. Instant: 70% on the first payout, 80% on the second and 90% from the third onward.

Free Trial
No
Yes

Available on request from support.

Daily Drawdown

Based on balance. Static drawdown calculated as Previous Day Balance × Limit / 100. Resets at end of day.

  • 1-Phase: 5% daily
  • 2-Phase: 5% daily
  • Rapid: 4% daily
  • Instant Funding: No daily drawdown limit.

Includes realized and unrealized losses. It resets at midnight MT5 server time (EET/EEST).

Three Steps
No
No
Max Allocation
600,000
200,000
Merge Accounts
No
Yes

Funded accounts can be merged by contacting support.

Maximum Trading Days

No time limit for 1-Phase, 2-Phase and Instant Funding. Rapid challenge has a 10-day time limit.

No time limit.

Minimum Trading Days
  • 1-Phase: 5 minimum trading days
  • 2-Phase: 5 minimum trading days
  • Rapid: 5 minimum trading days
  • Instant Funding: 5 minimum trading days
  • Funded phase: 14 days before first payout (7 with Early Payout add-on). Trades must be opened on 3 different days.

A trading day is defined as one single trade held for 60+ seconds.

2-Step and 1-Step: 5 qualifying days per phase, each with at least 0.5% profit. Instant: 10 profitable days before the first payout, also with at least 0.5% each.

Monthly Competition
Yes

Free entry tournaments with prize pools up to $750K in funded accounts.

Prizes

  • 1st: $200K
  • 2nd-3rd: $100K
  • 4th-6th: $50K
  • 7th-10th: $25K
  • 11th-15th: $10K
  • 16th-25th: $5K

Paid re-entry available ($3) after elimination. Rules: 5% daily loss / 8% max loss, swap-free accounts, leverage 1:50.

No data
Maximum Accounts
No data

Up to 3 funded accounts at the same time. Multiple simultaneous evaluations are allowed.

Expert Advisor (EA)
Yes

EAs and algorithmic trading permitted on 1-Phase, 2-Phase and Rapid challenges. Strictly prohibited on Instant Funding accounts.

Limited

EAs require prior approval, normally within 24–48 hours.

VPN
Limited

VPN/VPS allowed, but you must be able to prove access was done by you. Payouts may be delayed or declined if DNA cannot verify this. Using VPN to mask location, share accounts, or allow third-party trading is a prohibited act.

No

VPNs, proxies and Tor are prohibited. A private VPS with a dedicated IP may be used for an approved EA with prior authorization.

Hedging
No
No
Requires Stop Loss
No
No data
Scalping
Yes
Limited

Tick scalping and strategies exploiting latency or feed delays are prohibited.

Stacking / Layering (DCA)
No
No
Martingale
No data
No
Maximum Risk Limit
No
Limited

2-Step and 1-Step: maximum realized loss of 2% of current balance per trade idea; it is a hard breach. Instant has no such limit. On 2-Step it can be removed with an add-on.

Copy Trading
Limited

Copy trading only permitted between own DNA Funded accounts. Copying from non-DNA Funded accounts or between different users is prohibited.

No
News Trading
No

No orders 5 minutes before/after high-impact news events (marked red on FXStreet calendar).

Also applies to unexpected high-impact events (market shocks).

Limited

Trades cannot be opened during the 30 minutes before or after any high-impact news event. Existing positions may be held and closed. A 15% add-on removes the restriction.

Inactivity Rule

Traders must execute at least one trade every 30 days to avoid account inactivity.

Instant only: automatic closure after 7 calendar days without a trade. 2-Step and 1-Step evaluations have no inactivity rule.

Consistency Rule
Yes

During the funded phase, traders can generate up to 30% of the requested payout amount as profit per calendar day.

Gains exceeding the 30% daily threshold are removed from the payout, but the account is not disqualified.

Limited

Instant only: no day may exceed 15% of the sum of profitable-day gains when requesting a payout. It does not apply to 2-Step or 1-Step.

Hold Weekend
Limited

For non-crypto markets, trades can be held over the weekend but no new trades can be opened. Strictly prohibited for Rapid and Instant Funding challenges.

Limited

Only with the Weekend Holding add-on (+15%). Without it, all positions must remain closed over the weekend.

Prohibited Strategies

All phases (evaluation + funded)

  • High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
  • Reverse Arbitrage Trading
  • Hedging
  • Copy Trading from non-DNA Funded accounts
  • Gap Trading
  • Account Management (third party access)

Funded phase only

  • Latency Arbitrage
  • News Scalping
  • Reverse Hedging Between Accounts
  • Hedge Arbitrage Trading
  • Tick Scalping
  • Grid Trading
  • Martingale Strategies
  • One-Sided Betting

Copy trading and external signals, hedging on identical or correlated instruments, one-sided or oversized betting, arbitrage, tick scalping, HFT, account coordination, platform exploitation, martingale, grid, layering and third-party account management.

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