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2026-10

2023

IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

No refund after credentials are sent; support may authorize exceptions if no trades were placed. No fee refund for passing is published.

Full refund after 4th payout

Every 14 days. One and Two: first payout after 14 days. Instant: first after qualifying profitable days. Signature: 14-day waiting period for each payout. Paid via Rise or crypto; store credit is also available, irrevocable and expires after one year.

First payout 14 days after the first trade. Every 14 days after that. First payout after 7 days with add-on (+15%).

• Instant Pro: First Payout on Demand is available as a checkout add-on.
• Instant Flex: first payout on demand, then every 14 days.

Signature: maximum 3% of balance per payout.

For traders with $200K accounts or larger, the first two reward requests are capped at a maximum withdrawal of $10,000 each. After the first two rewards, this restriction is removed, and there are no further withdrawal limits.

TryAqua: maximum lifetime withdrawal of $100.

1% of balance on Instant, One and Two; Signature does not publish a specific minimum.

$100

$35 flat fee via Rise (for payouts of $1,000 or more). Payouts below $1,000 are paid in crypto and only carry the network fee.

Get Paid in 24 Hours or get an extra $1,000. Rewards are only processed on business days, and so the 48 Hour Reward Guarantee timer is paused on weekends.

• Instant Standard: 30:1
• Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 50:1
• 1 Step Flex: 100:1 during evaluation, 50:1 when funded

• Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
• 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded

• Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
• 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded

• Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
• 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded

• Instant Standard: 1:1
• Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 2 Step, 1 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 2:1

Liquidity-provider commissions vary by instrument and platform; check specifications.

Swap-free accounts are available. No overnight swap fees; positions can be held for as long as desired.

Payout Protector: +25%. Remove Lock on Payout: +25%, only One and Instant. Optional; table prices exclude add-ons.

• 100% profit split (+15%)
• First payout after 7 days (+15%)
• First Payout on Demand (Instant Pro)
• 100% profit split and first payout after 7 days combined (+25%)

Static on One, Two and Signature. Instant: trailing on the highest end-of-day balance; retains its pre-payout level unless Remove Lock on Payout is purchased. One also retains its pre-payout level. Instant requires a 5% non-withdrawable buffer.

• Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Pro, Aqua Man: Trailing, based on the highest value between equity and balance
• TryAqua: Daily and maximum drawdowns are trailing
• 1 Step Flex, 2 Step Elite, 3 Step: Static

Based on balance; monitor the breach level in the dashboard.

Based on highest value between equity and balance

No fixed count; the $1 million limit is shared across evaluations, funded accounts and markets.

No evaluation deadline; the inactivity limit applies.

No limit

Checkout specifies no fixed minimum evaluation days; consistency may require additional days.

• Instant Standard, Instant Pro: 5 days (non-consecutive), 0.5% profit each
• Instant Flex: 7 days
• TryAqua: 5 days, with at least 0.5% profit each
• 1 Step Standard: 3 days, 0.5% profit each
• 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard: 5 days, 0.5% profit each
• 1 Step Flex: no minimum during evaluation; 3 days before the first funded payout, with at least 0.5% profit each
• 2 Step Pro: 0 in evaluation, 5 in funded
• 2 Step Elite: 3 per step
• 3 Step: not specified

Instant: 7 days. One and Two: 4 days with at least 0.25% daily profit. Signature: no specific requirement is published.

You can grow your account to a maximum of $4,000,000. In order to scale your capital and grow, you must make 12% within a 3-month period. If you achieve this, they will increase your account size by 25% of your initial balance.

This is complementary to the Aqua Elite Program.

90%. 100% with add-on (+15%)

Instant accounts can't be merged

The FAQ permits proprietary automation subject to restrictions, but the checkout catalogue flags EAs as disallowed. Obtain written confirmation for the selected plan and platform before using automation.

Permitted within one account. Coordinated opposing positions across accounts or firms are prohibited.

Tick harvesting, full porting and sub-minute positions at or near the contract limit are prohibited.

No universal per-trade percentage is published; gambling, all-in and abuse of margin, leverage or contract limits are prohibited.

If your floating PnL (profit and loss) drops below -2% of the account balance, the account will be permanently closed.

Only applies to Instant Funding Standard, Pro, Flex, AquaMan and TryAqua.

Only between accounts owned by the same trader. Signals, passing services, group trading and EAs facilitating copy trading are prohibited.

• Copy trading between AquaFunded accounts
• Copy trading from Funded-to Evaluation accounts and vice versa
• Copy trading between AquaFunded account and external accounts.

Existing positions may remain open. No opening or closing within 3 minutes before or after high-impact news. Consequences include P&L removal, reduced leverage or account termination.

Two policies depending on the account creation date:

Accounts opened after 2026-04-27

• News trading is allowed.
• Profits generated within 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after a red folder (high-impact) news event or FOMC are capped at 0.5% of the starting balance per payout cycle.
• Anything above the cap is removed without further penalty.

Accounts opened before 2026-04-27

• Trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after a red folder news event or FOMC on funded accounts are not allowed.
• Any profits generated during these windows are removed.

Account closes after 30 consecutive days without trading.

30 days

One: 50% in evaluation and funded. Signature: 50% funded only. Instant: 18%. Two: no consistency rule. The best day cannot exceed that share of total profit; continue trading until compliant.

Applies on funded accounts. A single trading day cannot equal or exceed a given percentage of total profits during the payout period. If it does, payouts are blocked until the ratio normalises; the account is not closed.

• Instant Standard: 20%
• Instant Pro: 20% for accounts purchased on or after 8 September 2026 (limited-time offer); 15% for accounts purchased before that date
• Instant Flex: no consistency rule
• Aqua Man: 15%
• TryAqua: 15%
• 1 Step Pro: 25%
• 2 Step Pro: 50%
• 1 Step Flex: no consistency rule
• 1 Step Standard, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Elite, 3 Step: no specific consistency rule documented

Cross-account arbitrage, latency or pricing-error exploitation, insider trading, front-running, third-party passing strategies and changing strategy between evaluation and funded trading. All-in, gambling and excessive exposure are prohibited. Trading is reviewed before funded account issuance.

• Use of platform or data freezing due to a Demo Server error.
• Use of a delayed data feed
• Trading on delayed charts
• Tick scalping
• High frequency trading
• Arbitrage bots
• Reverse arbitrage
• Latency arbitrage
• Hedge arbitrage or any emulators are prohibited.