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Headquarters

13 Omonoias Avenue, Limassol 3052, Cyprus (head office); Robin Kelton Building, Choc Bay, Castries, Saint Lucia (registered company).

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

CEO

Tal Fromchenko

Husam Samy

Country

Cyprus / Saint Lucia

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2025

2024

Banned Countries
Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Crimea, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Laos, Liberia, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, United States, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen
Syria, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar
Assets
Forex, Indices, Metals, Energies, Commodities, Cryptocurrencies, Stocks
Forex, Commodities, Indices, Crypto
Brokers
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In-house liquidity provider

Refund
Yes

The simulation fee is refunded on your third successful payout, not at purchase.

Yes

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

Instant Flex: 100% refundable access fee.

Payout Fee

$25 on wire transfer and Revolut. Crypto and debit card vary by provider.

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Platforms
MetaTrader 5, cTrader
MatchTrader, Metatrader 5
Demo Account
Unknown
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Payout Methods
Transfer, Revolut, Crypto
Transfer, Crypto
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
Card, PayPal, Crypto
Payout Frequency

Turbo: first payout after 14 calendar days of funded trading, then every 14 days. Sprint: first payout as soon as funded, then every 14 days. Executive: every 14 days from the start of funded trading. Leveraged ONE: every 14 days. Instant and Nitro: every 14 days, with a paid 5-day payout add-on.

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 Funding (original) and 1-Step Pro allow payout requests once their requirements are met, without a fixed bi-weekly cycle.

Instant Flex: bi-weekly payouts.

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

Crypto Weekend Trading
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Yes
Maximum Withdrawal
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Maximum of $10,000 per request for the first two payouts. This limit is removed afterwards.

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

Forex

1:30 on every program.

30:1
Metals

1:10 on every program.

10:1
Energies

1:3 on Turbo, Sprint, Leveraged ONE and Executive.

10:1
Indices

1:8 on every program.

10:1
Stocks

1:1 on the Forex/CFD programs.

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Crypto

1:1 on the Forex/CFD programs.

2:1
Commission

$4 per lot round trip on forex and metals. No commission on indices, commodities, crypto, stocks or any other asset.

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Forex
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4 / lot
Metals
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4 / lot
Energies
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4 / lot
Indices
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0.4 / lot
Crypto
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0
Commission-Free Option
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No
Swap Free
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No
Account Reset
Yes

Not available on Leveraged Nitro: a breached account is closed.

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.

Add-ons
Yes

Paid at checkout. Instant, Nitro and Leveraged ONE: 5-day payout (+15%) and 95% reward share (+25%). Instant: news trading (+20%). Turbo: profit target reduced to 4% ($10).

Yes
Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
No
Yes

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.

Two Steps
No
Yes
Max Drawdown

Trailing on Turbo and Leveraged ONE: follows new closed-balance highs and locks at the starting balance after a 6% gain. Trailing on equity on Instant and Nitro. Static on Sprint and Executive. The percentage for each program is in its challenges.

Rapid: 4% trailing. 1-Step Pro: 6% trailing. Ascend: 8% static. Instant Funding (original): 6% trailing.

Profit Split

80%

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

Free Trial
No
No
Daily Drawdown

Calculated from the higher of balance or equity at 23:00 GMT+3. The percentage varies by program and is shown in its challenges.

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

Three Steps
Yes
No
Max Allocation
1,955,000
500,000
Maximum Trading Days

No evaluation time limit on any current program.

No time limit.

Points Reward Program

Loyalty credits can be exchanged for checkout coupons. Credits and coupons expire at the end of the following month.

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Minimum Profitable Days

Executive: three non-consecutive days with at least 0.5% net profit per evaluation phase and before funded payouts. Turbo and Leveraged ONE: three such days before funded payouts. Instant and Nitro: five days with at least 0.5% profit each before requesting a reward. Sprint: none.

For payouts: Rapid and Instant Funding (original) 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.

Merge Accounts
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Yes

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 Funding (original) accounts cannot be merged.

Minimum Trading Days
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Rapid: no minimum during evaluation. 1-Step Pro: 4 evaluation days. Ascend: 5 days in each phase. Instant Funding (original): no evaluation.

Monthly Competition
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No
Expert Advisor (EA)
Limited

Only EAs you built and control yourself, plus risk and trade-management tools. Commercial EAs are banned, including bought, rented, licensed or publicly distributed ones, however much they have been modified.

Limited

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
Yes

Allowed while you remain the verified holder and sole operator. It cannot be used to share access, hide your identity or location, or get around geographic restrictions.

Yes
Requires Stop Loss
No
No
Scalping
Limited

Genuine scalping is allowed. High-frequency, tick and repetitive micro-duration trading are prohibited; positions are expected to stay open for at least two minutes as a benchmark.

Yes
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
Limited

Scaling in or out and multiple entries are allowed for a genuine trade thesis. Layering or re-entry to hide concentrated risk or manipulate payout eligibility is prohibited.

Yes
Martingale
No

Grid, martingale and anti-martingale escalation are prohibited.

No
Copy Trading
Limited

Only between accounts registered in your own name, whether at Leveraged, another prop firm or a retail broker. Copying between different people, family included, is prohibited.

No

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

News Trading
Limited

Blocked on every program except Sprint and Instant accounts with the paid news trading add-on. You cannot open, increase, or fully or partially close a position in the five minutes before or after a high-impact release, pending orders included. A position opened earlier may stay open through it.

Limited

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.

Inactivity Rule
Yes

30 days without opening and closing a trade and the account is closed.

Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.

Consistency Rule
Limited

20% at payout on funded Turbo and Leveraged ONE accounts and on Leveraged Instant: the best day cannot exceed 20% of total profit. No consistency rule during evaluation or on Sprint, Nitro and Executive.

Yes

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

Instant Flex: no consistency rule.

Hold Weekend
Limited

Genuine swing trading and overnight or weekend holding are allowed. Strategies built to exploit expected gaps are prohibited. Hedged or offsetting positions within the same account may not be held overnight or over the weekend.

Yes
Prohibited Strategies

High-frequency and tick scalping; latency or price-feed arbitrage; market-gap and restricted-news exploitation; cross-account hedging or coordination; third-party signals or account management; grid and martingale; payout manipulation and platform abuse.

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.

Hedging
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Yes
Maximum Risk Limit
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Yes

Maximum floating loss: 2% on Rapid, Ascend and Instant Funding (original); $300K and $400K Instant Funding (original) 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.

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