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Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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

David Viota

Husam Samy

2023

2024

OGM International LTD

In-house liquidity provider

The fee is refunded with the fourth payout. The statutory 14-day withdrawal right applies only before the first trade is opened.

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

Instant Flex: 100% refundable access fee.

Every 14 days, with no initial waiting period. There must be no open positions when requesting a payout.

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.

48-hour guarantee: if Orion does not process the payout on time, it applies a 100% profit split and refunds the evaluation fee.

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

No limit

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

$100

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

Swap-free accounts are available as a paid option. Terms and availability depend on the selected product.

Over a rolling 3-month period: 15% return, at least 2 of 3 profitable months, and 3 payouts. Balance increases by 25%, profit split rises to 90%, and the account can scale up to $4,000,000.

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.

The mechanism depends on the product: static on Standard, Swing, and Select; trailing with a lock on Zero and Nova funded accounts.

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

80% initially. It rises to 90% after meeting the scaling-plan requirements.

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

Calculated on equity and includes open trades, commissions, and swaps. The applicable percentage is shown on each challenge.

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

Maximum combined initial allocation of $400,000.

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.

No maximum time limit.

No time limit.

Standard, Swing, and Select require 4 minimum trading days per evaluation phase. Zero and Nova have no published minimum.

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

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.

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.

EAs are allowed when the strategy is the trader's own and does not breach prohibited practices such as arbitrage, HFT, or exploitation of delays and errors.

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.

Hedging within one account is allowed. Hedging positions across multiple accounts to manipulate results is prohibited.

Manual scalping is allowed, but tick scalping, HFT, and strategies exploiting delays or pricing errors are prohibited.

Multiple positions are allowed as part of a legitimate strategy; excessive or coordinated exposure intended to bypass risk rules is prohibited.

Orion may treat excessive exposure, overleveraging, and other risk practices inconsistent with realistic trading as a breach.

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.

Copying between your own Orion accounts is allowed. Copying signals, third-party accounts, or external services is prohibited.

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

During evaluation there is no timing restriction, but using news as a strategy is prohibited. On funded accounts, Nova, Standard, and Select prohibit opening or closing trades 2 minutes before and after high-impact news. Swing has no timing restriction. Zero allows it, but trades executed within 5 minutes before or after receive a 50% profit split.

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.

The account may be closed after prolonged inactivity under Orion's current terms.

Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.

The 20% Best Day rule applies only to Orion Zero and Orion Nova funded accounts.

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

Instant Flex: no consistency rule.

• Latency arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, and exploitation of prices or delays
• HFT, tick scalping, and strategies designed to exploit the simulated environment
• Copy trading from third parties or signal services
• Hedging across accounts and coordinated opposite trades
• Account rolling, third-party management, and sharing or reselling accounts
• Gambling behaviour, overleveraging, and excessive exposure

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.