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Headquarters

Innovation One Building, Level 2, DIFC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Masarykova 409/26, Brno, Czech Republic

CEO

Oliver Newland

David Varga

Country

United Arab Emirates

Czech Republic

Foundation

2021

2023

Banned Countries
Iran, North Korea, United States
Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, Syria, Yemen, Cuba, Venezuela, Sudan, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Vietnam, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China
Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Forex, Commodities, Indices, Crypto
Brokers
Finotive Markets

Liquidity Provider

Refund
Yes

Full refund if profitable 30 days after funding.

Solo FX: The Dashboard and launch announcement say the fee is refunded after 30 funded days if the account is profitable. Schedule 10A-1 says it is refunded upon approval of the first Reward Payment Request. Finotive's Terms state that the Schedule prevails; confirm with support before purchase.

Yes

Within 14 days of purchase, only if you haven't accessed MyFintokei or placed any trade. Refund must be requested via email.

Payout Fee
No data
  • ETH: 2.5% + 10 EUR
  • BTC: 2.5% + 20 EUR
  • Other crypto: 2.5%
Platforms
Metatrader 5
TradingView, Metatrader 5, cTrader
Demo Account
Metatrader 5
ID1043PasswordFinotiveServerFinotiveMarkets-Live
No data
Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto, Revolut
Transfer, Crypto, Wallet
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, Transfer
Card, ApplePay, GooglePay, Crypto, Transfer
Payout Frequency

First payout on demand

  • Standard Challenge, Pro Challenge and Instant Standard: 7 days
  • Instant Lite: 14 days
  • Solo FX: weekly payouts; first request after 14 calendar days in Simulated Funded Status

14 days

Alternative Currency
No data
EUR, JPY, CZK
Minimum Withdrawal

$4

  • All accounts: 100 EUR, 100 USD, 2,000 CZK, 20,000 JPY
  • ProTrader $400,000: 120 EUR/USD
  • SwiftTrader: 3% of the account balance
Forex
  • 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 100:1
  • 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro: 50:1
  • Instant Standard: 33:1
  • Instant Lite: 25:1
  • Solo FX: 33:1
  • StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 25:1
  • ProTrader Swing: 25:1
  • ProTrader: 100:1
Metals
  • 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 20:1
  • 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro: 10:1
  • Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 5:1
  • StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:25
  • ProTrader Swing: 1:25
  • ProTrader: 1:100
Indices
  • 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 10:1
  • 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro, Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 5:1
  • StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:20
  • ProTrader: 1:50
Stocks
  • 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 5:1
  • 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro: 4:1
  • Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 2:1
No data
Crypto
  • 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 2:1
  • 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro, Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 1:1
  • BTC: 2:1
  • Other Crypto: 1:1
Energies
No data
  • StartTrader, SwiftTrader: 1:10
  • ProTrader: 1:20
Forex
0
6 / lot
Metals
0
6 / lot
Energies
0
6 / lot
Indices
0
0
Stocks
0
No data
Crypto
0
0
Commission-Free Option
No data
No
Swap Free
Yes
Yes
  • ProTrader Swing: swap-free on all account sizes
Account Reset

Funded Stage Refresh

  • A refresh can only be requested when your account balance is within 10% of the Maximum Drawdown limit
  • Resets your account balance back to the original starting equity
  • Preserves your profit split rate and any progress made in the Scaling Plan
  • There is a maximum of 3 refreshes per funded account
  • The price depends on the size of the account
No data
Add-ons
Yes
  • Swap Free (price depends on the size of the account)
  • Weekend Holding for Instant Accounts (20% of account fee)
No
Instant
Yes
No
One Step
Yes
  • Standard Challenge
  • Pro Challenge
Yes
Account scaling
Yes

Every 90 days, traders who meet performance and consistency targets see their account balance grow by 30% and their profit split increase by 5%, without ever having to sacrifice withdrawals.

More detail about it can be found on this link

Yes

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

Two Steps
Yes
  • Standard Challenge
  • Pro Challenge
Yes
Max Drawdown

Static

Static

Profit Split
  • Standard Challenge: 80% (up to 95% scaling)
  • Pro Challenge: 100%
  • Instant Standard: 75% (up to 90%)
  • Instant Lite: 70% (up to 85%)

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%

Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Daily Drawdown

Balance-based

  • StartTrader, ProTrader, Swift: Equity based
  • ProTrader Swing: Balance based
Three Steps
No
Yes
Max Allocation
  • Challenge Accounts (Standard): Up to $600,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $2,040,000
  • Pro Challenge Accounts: Up to $600,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $2,040,000
  • Instant Funding (Standard): Up to $200,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $680,000
  • Instant Funding Lite: Up to $200,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $680,000
  • ProTrader and ProTrader Swing (combined): 400,000 EUR/USD
  • StartTrader: 100,000 EUR/USD
  • SwiftTrader: 200,000 EUR/USD
Merge Accounts
No
No
Maximum Trading Days
No data
  • StartTrader: 180 days on phases 1 and 2
  • SwiftTrader: 60 days
  • ProTrader, ProTrader Swing: No limit
Minimum Trading Days
No data
  • StartTrader, ProTrader, ProTrader Swing, SwiftTrader: 3 days on evaluation phase
Points Reward Program
No data

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
Monthly Competition
No
Yes
Minimum Profitable Days

Minimum profitable days number must be met every time a trader wants to pass an evaluation phase, scale a funded account or request a payout. A day is considered profitable when it reaches at least 0.5% profit

  • Challenge 1 Step: 3 days
  • Challenge 2 Step: 2 days
  • Instant Standard: 0 days
  • Instant Lite: 5 days
  • Finotive Pro 1 Step: 3 days
  • Finotive Pro 2 Step: 2 days
  • Solo FX: 4 days with at least 0.5% each
No data
Expert Advisor (EA)
Limited
  • Solo FX: all Expert Advisors and automated execution tools are prohibited
  • Other programmes: pre-purchased or mass-market “plug-and-play” EAs are not allowed
Yes
VPN
Limited
  • Solo FX: VPNs, proxies and location masking are prohibited
  • Other programmes: Finotive's Terms prohibit masked or unstable connections when they impair verification of identity, location or account control
No
Hedging
Yes
Yes
Requires Stop Loss
Limited
  • Solo FX: stop loss is not required
  • Other programmes: stop loss is required
No
Scalping
Yes

Solo FX has no specific scalping, rapid-trade-opening, trades-under-60-seconds or HFT restriction. Latency arbitrage and execution abuse remain prohibited.

Yes
  • 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
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
No
Yes
Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

Floating drawdown is calculated per symbol against the initial account balance.

  • Instant Funding: 1.5%. The first confirmed breach produces a formal warning. From the second confirmed breach onward, each separate event records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.
  • Funded Challenge and Funded Pro: 2%. Each confirmed breach records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.
  • Challenge and Pro evaluation phases: 2%. It is monitored for the progression report but does not trigger a real-time strike or account closure.
  • Solo FX: 2.5% during Simulated Funded Status only. A confirmed breach records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.
Yes

Open trades: 3%

Copy Trading
Yes
Yes
News Trading
Yes

News trading is allowed. For Solo FX, the Dashboard and launch announcement prohibit news straddling, but Schedule 10A-1 disapplies the Terms section that prohibits it. Confirm this contradiction with Finotive before trading news.

Yes
Inactivity Rule

30 days

30 days

Consistency Rule
Yes

Pro accounts — from the 31st funded day

  • Weekly trade count and instrument volume must remain within ±25% of the averages recorded during the Pro Challenge and the first 30 funded days.
  • During every rolling 90-day period, realised and unrealised profit, including rewards already paid, must total at least 5% of the initial balance.
  • Breaching either condition downgrades the account to the equivalent standard funded account and permanently removes the Pro benefits.

Instant Funding Standard and Lite

  • At payout, the single most profitable closed trade must contribute less than 60% of total positive realised profit. Requesting a payout while the condition remains active records one Conditional Strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.

Solo FX

  • No specific consistency rule or single-trade profit dependency.
Yes

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

Hold Weekend
Yes

Weekend holding is available through the optional Weekend Holding Add-On on Instant Funding accounts. Without it, all non-crypto positions must be closed before Friday's 17:00 New York market close; Finotive recommends closing at least 10 minutes earlier. Each confirmed breach records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%. Five cumulative strikes permanently close the account.

Yes
Prohibited Strategies
  • Excessive notional volume (not applicable to Solo FX; its exposure is governed by 1:33 margin)
  • High-frequency stacking, including correlated instruments (not a Solo FX-specific restriction; latency arbitrage and execution abuse remain prohibited)
  • Martingale or grid strategies
  • News straddling (the Solo FX dashboard and announcement prohibit it, but Schedule 10A-1 disapplies section 7.9; confirm with support)
  • Using ultra-tight stops just to mask oversized lots
  • 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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