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Headquarters

30/1, Kenilworth Court, Sir Augustus Bartolo Street, Ta’Xbiex , Malta

Suite 201, The Catalyst, Cybercity, Ebène, 72201, Mauritius

CEO

Gary Mullen

Bashaar Gokal

Country

Malta

Mauritius

Foundation

2023

2023

Banned Countries
Afghanistan, Belarus, Central African Republic, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, South Sudan, Russia, Ukraine (Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Kherson, Crimea, Sevastopol)
United States
Assets
Forex, Commodities, Indices, Stocks, Crypto
Forex, Commodities, Indices, Crypto
Refund
Yes
  • Challenge fee credited back after passing and claiming first reward (Classic and One-Phase)
  • Pro Challenges are not eligible
  • Full refund available for mistaken purchases within 14 days if no trades were placed
No
Platforms
Metatrader 5, TradeLocker, cTrader
Metatrader 5
Demo Account
TradeLocker
IDspreads@funderpro.comPasswordBE6EG@eQServerFPR
cTrader
IDspreads@funderpro.comPasswordpjw4yzx2vwg9ZHM.rhwServerFPR
Metatrader 5
ID101065PasswordF39@ycHAp
Metatrader 4
ID1005PasswordaGXr8ZzServerHantecMarkets-Server3
Metatrader 5
ID155586PasswordH1Trader!2ServerHantec Markets Holding Limited
Payout Methods
Rise, Crypto
Crypto, Transfer, PayPal
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, PayPal, Skrill, Neteller, PerfectMoney
Card, Crypto, Neteller, PayPal, Transfer, Skrill
Payout Frequency
  • Standard: bi-weekly (14 days) for Challenge and Instant Funded accounts
  • "First Reward in 7 Days" add-on available on Classic and One-Phase
  • Typically processed within 24 hours on business days (average 8 hours)
  • Express, Enhanced, EnhancedX: 14 days standard, 7 days with "Weekly Payout" add-on. First reward 14 days from first trade.
  • Instant Funding, Instant Lite, Instant24: 14 days standard, 7 days with Weekly Payout add-on.
  • Endurance: 14 days standard, 7 with add-on.
  • Withdrawals processed within 1-2 business days. Minimum reward: $20 for Express and Enhanced; 2% of starting balance for EnhancedX; $20 for Instant Funding.
Crypto Weekend Trading
No
No data
Minimum Withdrawal

$100 minimum for reward requests on all account types.

$20 for Express and Enhanced; 2% of starting balance for EnhancedX; $20 for Instant Funding/Lite/24.

Brokers
No data
Hantec Markets
Forex

Classic & Pro Challenge

  • 1:100

One-Phase Challenge

  • 1:50

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

  • 1:30

Instant Account

  • 1:30 (1:20 with News Trading Add-On)
50:1
Metals

Classic & Pro Challenge

  • 1:30

One-Phase Challenge

  • 1:10

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

  • 1:10

Instant Account

  • 1:10 (1:5 with News Trading Add-On)
20:1
Energies

Classic & Pro Challenge

  • 1:30

One-Phase Challenge

  • 1:10

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

  • 1:10

Instant Account

  • 1:10 (1:5 with News Trading Add-On)
15:1
Indices

Classic & Pro Challenge

  • 1:30

One-Phase Challenge

  • 1:10

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

  • 1:10

Instant Account

  • 1:10 (1:5 with News Trading Add-On)
15:1
Stocks

Classic & Pro Challenge

  • 1:5

One-Phase Challenge

  • 1:3

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

  • 1:2

Instant Account

  • Not available
No data
Crypto

Classic & Pro Challenge

  • 1:2

One-Phase Challenge

  • 1:2

Swing Add-On (all challenges)

  • 1:1

Instant Account

  • 1:2 (1:1 with News Trading Add-On)
1:1
Forex
0
5 / lot
Metals
0
1 / lot
Energies
0
1 / lot
Indices
0
0
Stocks
0
No data
Crypto
0
0
Commission-Free Option
No
No
Swap Free
No
No
Account Reset
  • Challenge reset available at any time via dashboard for a fee
  • Challenge Upgrade feature available during Phase 1 of Classic and Pro (30% discount on upgrade price)

10% discount for any retakes

Add-ons
Yes
  • First Reward in 7 Days: available on Classic and One-Phase
  • 90/10 Profit Split: available on Classic and One-Phase
  • No Minimum Trading Days: available on Classic
  • Swing Account: available on all challenge types (Classic, One Phase, and Pro)
Yes
Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
Yes
  • Achieve 10% profit target each trading month for 3 consecutive months
  • Account balance increased by 50%
  • Continues until account reaches $5 million
Yes

Once you've successfully completed your Challenge, you'll be able to choose between receiving an RZR Funded account with the same simulated balance as your Challenge account or upgrading your Challenge account at no additional cost.

If you pass the Challenge again with the increased balance, you'll face the same decision: move up to the next simulated balance level or switch to the RZR Funded account.

Two Steps
Yes
Yes
Max Drawdown

Challenge Accounts

  • Fixed percentage of initial balance for the lifetime of the account

Instant Account

  • 6% trailing drawdown based on EOD Equity or Balance (whichever is higher)
  • Drawdown trails upward with profits until reaching the initial account balance
  • Once reaching initial balance, drawdown becomes static and fixed
  • Enhanced, EnhancedX: Static
  • Instant Funding, Instant Lite, Express: Trailing (balance based)
Profit Split
  • Standard: 80% on all withdrawals
  • 90% available via add-on on Classic and One-Phase

80% base split on all programs. Up to 90% with the optional 90/10 Profit Share add-on at purchase. Some marketing copy mentions up to 95% with additional add-ons stacking.

Free Trial
No
No
Daily Drawdown

Challenge Accounts

  • Daily Drawdown calculated on account starting balance at 5 PM EST snapshot
  • Equity cannot drop below the allowed daily percentage

Instant Account

  • 3% based on EOD Equity or Balance (whichever is higher)
  • Measured at 00:00 GMT+3 server time
  • Does not reset intraday; resets at start of next trading day
  • Instant Funding: Balance-based
  • Instant Lite, Express, Enhanced, EnhancedX: Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark)
Three Steps
No
Yes
Max Allocation
5,000,000

Maximum allocation $400,000 total across all challenge and RZR Funded accounts. Traders can hold multiple accounts of the same size (e.g. 2×$200K at once). Scaling plan up to $200K free of charge (NOT available on Instant Funding).

Merge Accounts
No
No
Maximum Trading Days

No maximum time limit to complete the Challenge.

Unlimited

Minimum Trading Days

Classic, Pro and One-Phase

  • Minimum trading days apply (exact count available on dashboard)
  • "No Minimum Trading Days" add-on available on Classic

Instant Program

  • 5 profitable simulated trading days required
  • Each day must achieve at least +0.5% simulated profit
  • Days do not need to be consecutive
  • Loss or breakeven days do not count
No data
Monthly Competition
No
Yes
Minimum Profitable Days
  • Instant Program requires 5 profitable trading days with at least +0.5% profit each
  • Days do not need to be consecutive
No data
Expert Advisor (EA)
Yes
  • Expert Advisors (EAs) and trading bots are permitted
  • You must own your EA/bot
  • Must not exploit technical inefficiencies or manipulate latency
  • Third-party EAs not allowed on Instant unless you own the source code
Limited

Express, Enhanced, EnhancedX, Endurance

  • EAs allowed as long as they do not perform any restricted strategies.

Instant Funding, Instant Lite, Instant24

  • EAs PROHIBITED on Instant Funding.
VPN
Yes
Yes
Hedging
Limited

Permitted only within the same trading account. Hedging across multiple accounts is not allowed.

Limited

Hedging is allowed within each individual account but PROHIBITED across separate accounts.

Requires Stop Loss
No
No
Scalping
Yes
No

The majority of the traders must last longer than 3 minutes

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

Instant Account

  • Maximum 2% risk per trade idea
  • Margin usage must not exceed 80% across all asset classes at any time

Challenge Phase

  • No margin cap or maximum lot size enforced

Funded Account

  • Margin rules apply
Yes
  • Proportionate monitoring of excessive or abnormal margin usage. No fixed margin cap per asset or connected accounts.
Copy Trading
Yes
Yes
News Trading
Limited

Challenge Phases

  • Allowed in all challenge types (Classic, Pro, One-Phase)

Funded Accounts

  • Only permitted with Swing Add-On

Instant Account

  • Restricted by default
  • Only allowed with News Trading Add-On
  • 2-minute window rule applies (no opening within 2 minutes before/after major news)
Limited

Challenge phase (Express, Enhanced, EnhancedX, Endurance)

  • No restrictions on trading during news events. Caution advised due to volatility/slippage.

Funded phase (RZR Funded Accounts on Express/Enhanced/EnhancedX)

  • News trading is restricted. Trades may not be opened, closed or adjusted 3 minutes before or after high-impact news events (Forex Factory red folder).

Instant Funding, Instant Lite, Instant24

  • News trading prohibited. Trades may not be opened or closed within 3 minutes before/after high impact news events.
Inactivity Rule
  • 30 consecutive days without placing or closing a trade results in automatic account failure
  • Applies to Challenge, Instant, and Funded Stage accounts
  • No refunds or renewals for inactivity breaches

If no trade is placed for 30 consecutive days, this is treated as a Hard Breach and the account is closed.

Consistency Rule
Limited

Classic Challenge

  • Phase 1: No consistency rule
  • Phase 2: No consistency rule

One-Phase Challenge

  • 40% max daily profit of total

Pro Challenge

  • Phase 1: 45%
  • Phase 2: 45%

Funded Stages

  • No consistency rule

Instant Account

  • 15% max daily profit of total

  • Rule is equity-based (unrealised profit included)

  • Even if account is in loss, the rule still counts towards highest profit day

Limited

Express Challenge (1 Step)

  • No consistency rule.

Enhanced Challenge (2 Step)

  • No consistency rule.

EnhancedX (2 Step)

  • 35% consistency: (Best day profit / Total profit) * 100 must be ≤ 35%. Calculated on end-of-day equity (00:00 server time). Applies to Challenge AND RZR Funded account stages. Can be removed in challenge phase via "Remove Consistency" add-on (persists in Trader Account). Reward requests withdraw the full account profit, not a partial amount.

Endurance (3 Step)

  • No consistency rule.

Instant Funding

  • No consistency rule.

Instant Lite

  • 20% consistency: (Best day profit / Total profit) * 100 must be ≤ 20%.

Instant24

  • 15% trade consistency.
Hold Weekend
Limited

Challenge and Funded Accounts

  • Only allowed with Swing Add-On
  • Without Swing Add-On: all trades including crypto must be closed by Friday 16:30 EST

Instant Account

  • Overnight and weekend holding allowed by default
Limited

Express, Enhanced, EnhancedX, Endurance

  • Weekend holding allowed. Caution advised due to gap risk.
  • Crypto can be traded over the weekend.

Instant Funding, Instant Lite, Instant24

  • Weekend holding NOT allowed. All trades must be closed by Friday 23:45 GMT+3.
Prohibited Strategies
  • Martingale and grid strategies
  • Excessive lot sizing and aggressive loss recovery
  • High-frequency trading (HFT)
  • Latency arbitrage, scalping arbitrage, and gap exploitation
  • Flooding the market with small pip trades
  • Intentional weekend/overnight gap exploitation
  • Account rolling or lot-sizing techniques to bypass drawdown controls
  • Exploiting platform or pricing errors / latencies
  • Collusion with others to manipulate prices or coordinate trading
  • Scalping for quick profits from minor price changes (majority of trades open <3 minutes)
  • Third-party or marketed strategies to pass the Challenge
  • Automated algorithms for manipulative trading practices
  • Unauthorised access or use of another customer's account
  • Arbitrage between Demo Account and any other account
  • Trading under multiple accounts using different registration details
  • High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
  • Reverse trading / group hedging
  • Overleveraging, overexposure or one-sided bets (≥85% margin across one or connected assets)
  • Hedging across multiple accounts
  • All or nothing trading
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