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Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
Al Shohada Road 10055, Al Hamra Industrial Zone-FZ, 10055, Ras Al Khaimah, U.A.E.
Christoph Radecker
Sebastian Ness
Saint Lucia
United Arab Emirates
2023
Liquidity Provider
Core and Instant: every 10 active sessions. Rapid Daily: after one session; the account ends after the fifth payout.
1 Step Evaluation and 2 Step
- Instant payout request once requirements are met.
Instant Funding Static
- Base schedule every 14 days.
- Promotional instant requests may apply.
Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later
- Every 14 days.
EA Challenge
- First payout after 4 weeks, then every 2 weeks.
Futures Style
- Instant Funding: payout eligible after 5 days.
- 1 Step Pro Evaluation: payout eligible after 3 days.
Instant Funding Zero
- Every 14 days. No minimum trading-day requirement; meeting the buffer from a single trade does not make payout processing immediate.
The website advertises processing within 48 hours or a 100% split on that payout. Bank transfer or USDC ERC-20 according to the help center.
Payouts are processed within 24 business hours or the trader receives an extra 10% on the profit split.
Up to 50% of profits per request, before the split. Core 50K: $1,500/$2,000/$2,500 for payouts 1-2/3-4/5+; 100K: $2,000/$2,500/$3,000; 200K: $3,000/$3,500/$4,000. Rapid 50K: $1,000 for the first two, then $1,500; 100K: $1,500/$2,000. After the first payout, new profits of at least 50% of the next requested amount are required.
- Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no payout cap.
- Other funded products: usually capped at 5% of the initial balance per payout cycle, depending on the program.
No published minimum.
$100 minimum withdrawal. Lower withdrawals may be processed on request with fees deducted.
- Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: $250 / $500 / $750 / $1,000 minimum payout on $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.
Historically, standard challenges were non-refundable. A newer rule states that evaluation fees purchased after January 9, 2026 are refundable on the 4th payout, while older purchases remain non-refundable.
2% payout fee or a $10 minimum transaction fee per payout.
- Standard challenge accounts: 1:50
- Funded phase: 1:30
- EA Challenge during challenge phase: 1:100
Gold is included in the firm's general leverage framework.
Volumetrica: BTC/ETH/SOL 1:5; other crypto 1:3.
Evaluation resets and up to two funded or Instant resets. Welcome is excluded according to the official help center.
Only the 1 Step Evaluation documents a free reset, available if the funded account is lost within 10 days. Futures Style Instant Funding and Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation show reset availability; no reset fee is stated publicly. Other listed products do not include a free reset.
Discretionary invitation to Elite with real capital and individual limits. The website also advertises a waiting list; automatic scaling is not guaranteed.
EOD trailing: the threshold follows the highest closing value and never decreases. It locks at the initial balance when reached or after the first payout. Subsequent loss room consists of the profits left in the account.
- 1 Step Evaluation: 10% maximum drawdown, trailing on end-of-day (EOD) high-watermark.
- EA Challenge uses trailing high-watermark logic.
- 2 Step and Free Challenge use static maximum drawdown.
- Instant Funding Static uses static drawdown.
- Instant Funding Zero: trailing from the highest recorded equity by default, or static if selected at purchase. After payout, the balance resets to the starting balance; withdrawing all profit above the buffer can breach the trailing drawdown.
- Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later funded phase use trailing high-watermark logic.
- Futures Style Instant Funding: EOD maximum-loss limit of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $5,000 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.
- Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: EOD maximum-loss limit of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.
A Free Challenge exists, but it still requires a small activation fee of $1 to $5 and converts into a $5,000 2 Step account if passed.
Core: up to 10 funded; Rapid: up to 5. Separate limits for CFD/crypto and futures. One Welcome account per user and market. Core CFD/crypto 200K: up to 5 according to checkout. Unlimited evaluations; passed accounts can wait for an activation slot.
New purchases: 90-day evaluation; Instant accounts have no expiry. No monthly renewal fees for purchases from 22 October 2026 at 18:00. Older accounts retain their renewal terms.
No time limits are stated for the 1 Step and 2 Step evaluations. No broader firm-wide maximum duration rule was documented for the other active products reviewed.
Core: no minimum evaluation days. Rapid: the help center specifies 3 evaluation days and consistency.
Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no minimum trading days.
- +10% Profit Split (+15%)
- Weekly payout (+20%)
- +10% Profit Split + Weekly payout (+30%)
- News trading: Instant Funding Static and 1 Step
- Instant Funding Zero: remove daily drawdown (+30%), static maximum drawdown (+50%), or both (+80%). Percentages apply to the base account price.
- 1 Step Evaluation: 90%
- 2 Step: 80%
- Instant Funding Static: scales from 50% to 80%
- Instant Funding Zero: 70% from the first payout
- Instant Funding Trailing: 80% from the first payout
- EA Challenge: scales from 50% to 80%
- Buy Now, Pay Later: 80%
- Futures Style Instant Funding: 90%
- Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: 90%
- Free Challenge funded outcome: 50%
Soft-breached profit is deducted at payout review. If deductions reduce profit to zero or below, the payout is denied and the account is reset.
Daily drawdown resets at 5 PM EST and is generally recalculated from the higher of balance or equity using the product's initial-balance loss allowance.
Futures Style Instant Funding: no daily limit on $25K; $1,200 / $2,100 / $3,000 on $50K / $100K / $150K.
Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: no daily limit on $25K; $1,200 / $1,800 / $2,700 on $50K / $100K / $150K.
Instant Funding Zero: daily drawdown can be removed at purchase.
Only self-developed or transparent systems with full source access and control over their logic. No commercial black-box bots, HFT or arbitrage.
EAs are generally prohibited, except on the EA Challenge where they are allowed only during the challenge phase and prohibited once funded.
Allowed for security or connectivity, never to conceal identity or bypass restrictions.
Hedging mode only; never across accounts or users. Netting mode combines positions per instrument.
No HFT or tick scalping. Payouts require the 15-second rule: at least half of trades and profits must come from trades exceeding that threshold, as described in payout help.
Scalping is not completely banned, but tick scalping is prohibited and trades should generally remain open for more than 2 minutes.
All trades in the same market are aggregated, including fees, spread and slippage. Limit: 1% in evaluation and 0.5% funded/Instant. Two soft closures; the third breach ends the account.
For new accounts purchased after the rule change announced on 30 September 2026, trading high-impact (red-folder) news is prohibited during the 5 minutes before and after the event. A news trading add-on is available at checkout for Instant Funding Static and 1 Step. Accounts purchased before the change retain their previous news trading permissions.
Closure after 8 calendar days without trading. Opening or closing a trade resets the timer; an open position pauses it.
At least one open trade or pending order is required every 30 days to keep the account active.
Core: 30% funded and Instant, none during evaluation. Rapid: 40% during evaluation and none when funded according to checkout and payout-specific help. The rule measures the best day against total profit and resets after each payout.
Profit Consistency Rule
- 1 Step Evaluation: no single trading day can make up 50% or more of total profits, in both evaluation and funded phases.
- 2 Step, Instant Funding Static and EA Challenge: a trading day cannot equal or exceed 25% of total profit for the payout period.
- Instant Funding Lite: 15%.
- Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later: 20%.
- Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no consistency rule.
- Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: none in evaluation; 40% in funded status.
There is no lot size consistency rule.
Latency arbitrage, price or platform manipulation, spoofing/layering, bug exploitation, copying/external signals, third-party management, account sharing, multiple identities and excessive exposure.
- Tick scalping / ultra-short trades
- High-frequency trading (HFT)
- Latency arbitrage
- Reverse arbitrage
- Martingale
- Account management
- Third-party copy trading or mirrored group trading
- Exploiting pricing, execution, latency or platform errors
- Manipulative hedging patterns designed to game payouts or risk limits





















