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

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

Martin Doepke

Husam Samy

St. Lucia

United Arab Emirates

In-house liquidity provider

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

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

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.

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.

Requests are processed within 48 business hours. SFX advertises $1,000 compensation if it misses that deadline.

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.

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.

Maximum of $10,000 per request for the first two payouts. This limit is removed afterwards.

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

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

1:50 for all challenge types.

1:10

1:10

1:10

1:5

1:2

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

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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

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

85% base split, with the possibility of reaching 100% through the scaling program. Rapid and Ascend allow an early payout with a 40% split.

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.

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

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.

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

No time limit.

• 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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/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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.

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.

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

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.

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; 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.