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

Singapore

Bashaar Gokal

James Glyde

Mauritius

Singapore

2023

2024

Not the classic free refund. It is the paid "Challenge Fee Refund" add-on (+10% of price).

• On passing the challenge, the fee is credited as profit balance on the funded account
• Not a refund to the card
• Available across all modes

• 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.

One Step Light

• Weekly payouts by default

Instant accounts

• Payouts every 7 calendar days

First Payout on Demand (add-on +10%)

• Request the first payout as soon as all eligibility requirements are met
• The selected payout interval applies after the first payout

Frequency (default and with add-on)

• Monthly: every 30 days (standard)
• Bi-weekly: every 14 days (add-on from +15%)
• Weekly: every 7 days (add-on from +30%)
• On Demand: no waiting interval between eligible payouts (add-on +50%)

Personal limit

• Only one payout every 7 days per trader, even across multiple accounts, except where an applicable on-demand benefit overrides the interval

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

Minimum by mode (% of balance)

• One Step Light: 1%
• Instant: 1%
• Consistency: 1%
• Endurance: 2%
• Classic: 3%

Minimum by method

• Rise / Skrill / USDT: $50

Rise

• Payouts under $500: $25
• Payouts of $500 or more: free

USDT / USDC

• $2.50 per payout

Skrill

• Subject to Skrill exchange rates

• Manual review within 2 business days
• Sent within 2 business days after approval
• Total: paid within 7 days of request

One Step Light

• First payout cap: 3% of balance
• The cap increases by 1 percentage point after each payout, up to 6%

Other challenge-funded accounts

• First payout cap: 6% of balance
• The cap increases by 2 percentage points after each payout

Instant accounts

• First payout: 3%
• Second payout: 4%
• Third payout: 5%
• Fourth payout onwards: 6%

Hard cap

• $5,000 per payout (always, even if the percentage allows more)

Standard

• Up to $5M exposure: 1:30
• $5M to $10M: 1:15
• Over $10M: 1:10

With Extra Leverage add-on

• Up to $5M exposure: 1:50
• $5M to $10M: 1:20
• Over $10M: 1:10

• Up to $250K exposure: 1:20
• $250K to $500K: 1:10
• Over $500K: 1:5

• Up to $100K exposure: 1:20 (1:25 with add-on)
• Over $100K: 1:5

• Up to $500K exposure: 1:20 (1:25 with add-on)
• $500K to $1M: 1:10
• Over $1M: 1:5

• Up to $100K exposure: 1:2 (1:3 with add-on)
• Over $100K: 1:1

Indices, crypto and energies are commission-free at all ranks. Forex and metals start at $6/lot and drop to $0 at Rank 6.

Paid add-on (10% of challenge price).

• Replaces swaps with a fixed daily admin fee
• 3-day grace period before the first charge
• Must be selected at checkout (cannot be added later)

10% discount for any retakes

Instant accounts from 19 August 2026

• Extra Max Risk: +1%, raising the limit from 1% to 2% (20% of base price)
• Extra Max Loss: +1% to the selected drawdown type (20% of base price)
• Extra Profit Share: +10 percentage points (20% of base price)

Standard challenges: benefits and rules

• Extra Profit Share: +10 percentage points across all ranks (20% of base price)
• Extra Max Loss: +1% to max loss (20% of base price)
• Extra Daily Loss: +1% to daily limit (10% of base price)
• Skip Minimum Trading Days: removes the minimum-day requirement (10% of base price)

Standard challenges: time and money

• Swap-Free: replaces swaps with fixed administration fees (10% of base price)
• Challenge Fee Refund: credits the paid challenge fee as funded-account profit after passing (10% of base price)
• Extended Time Limit: 180 days (+5%) or 360 days (+10%)

Standard challenges: payouts

• First Payout on Demand: removes the wait for the first eligible payout (10% of base price)
• Bi-weekly payouts: 14-day interval (from 15% of base price)
• Weekly payouts: 7-day interval (from 30% of base price)
• On Demand payouts: removes the waiting interval for every eligible payout (50% of base price)

Bundle discount

• Buying three or more qualifying add-ons applies a 20% discount to every qualifying add-on
• Extended Time Limit and payout interval add-ons (Bi-weekly, Weekly and On Demand) are excluded and do not count towards the three
• The bundle discount can be combined with a promotion code applied to the base account

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.

Simple Scaling (all funded accounts since 9 April 2026).

• Level up after 4 payouts or upon reaching the 12% scaling target
• Scaling increment by rank: 10% to 40% of initial balance
• Instant accounts do not scale

• Enhanced, EnhancedX: Static
• Instant Funding, Instant Lite, Express: Trailing (balance based)

Instant accounts from 19 August 2026

• Equity Trailing: 6% at Rank 1, 7% from Rank 2
• EOD Trailing: 5% at Rank 1, 6% from Rank 2
• Payout Trailing: 4% at Rank 1, 5% from Rank 2

One Step Light

• Challenge: 4% End-of-Day trailing Max Loss on $5K to $50K; 3% on $100K and $150K
• Simulated Funded Account: 4% End-of-Day trailing Max Loss on every size
• Based on the End-of-Day high-water mark
• Experience Program rank benefits do not increase it

Standard 1-stage trailing

• 8% Balance Trailing Max Loss
• Rank 2+: 9%

Standard 1-stage static

• 6% Static Max Loss
• Rank 2+: 7%

Standard 2-stage static

• Classic: 9% (10% from Rank 2)
• Endurance: 8% (9% from Rank 2)
• Consistency: 8% (9% from Rank 2)

Add-on

• Extra Max Loss: +1% to the selected max loss type

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.

By rank (Experience Program)

• Rank 0: 70%
• Rank 1: 75%
• Rank 2: 80%
• Rank 3: 85%
• Rank 4: 90%
• Rank 5: 95%
• Rank 6: 99%

Extras

• Extra Profit Share add-on: +10% across all ranks
• Loyalty program: up to 109% total

• Instant Funding: Balance-based
• Instant Lite, Express, Enhanced, EnhancedX: Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark)

One Step Light

• No Daily Loss limit

Other Standard challenges

• 3%, calculated from the previous End-of-Day reference using the higher of balance or equity
• Rank 4+: 4%
• Extra Daily Loss add-on: +1 percentage point

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).

Funded accounts (from challenges)

• Up to 5 accounts
• Max $300,000 combined

Instant accounts

• Up to 3 accounts
• Max $300,000 combined

Challenges

• No limit

Capital earned through scaling is exempt from these limits.

Allowed to merge two funded accounts, provided all of these conditions are met.

• Same mode (Classic with Classic, Endurance with Endurance, Consistency with Consistency)
• Same currency
• Identical add-ons
• No open positions
• Instant accounts cannot be merged

Unlimited

Accounts from 9 April 2026 (per stage)

• 90 days (standard)
• 180 days (add-on +5%)
• 360 days (add-on +10%)

Earlier accounts

• 365 days per stage

One Step Light

• No minimum trading days during the challenge; it can be passed in one trading day

Classic

• 3 trading days per stage (a day = at least one close)
• Removable with the Skip Minimum Trading Days add-on

Endurance / Consistency

• No minimum days: each uses its own sustainability standard

Experience Program: earn XP through milestones and climb ranks (0 to 6).

• Pass challenges, receive payouts, scale accounts, complete quests
• Rank raises profit split, lowers commissions, grants more drawdown and leverage
• Consistency Mode earns double XP on most milestones

One Step Light

• No Profitable Days requirement during the challenge
• 4 Profitable Days are required for each payout
• Each Profitable Day requires the End-of-Day balance to increase by at least 0.25% of the initial balance compared with the previous End-of-Day reference

Endurance

• One-stage: 4 Profitable Days
• Two-stage: 3 Profitable Days per stage
• The applicable requirement must also be completed for each payout
• Each Profitable Day requires the End-of-Day balance to increase by at least 0.5% of the initial balance compared with the previous End-of-Day reference

Instant accounts from 19 August 2026

• 5 Winning Days before a payout
• Winning Day = close with ≥0.5% from the start-of-day balance and above the initial account balance

Earlier Instant accounts

• 5 Winning Days before a payout
• Winning Day = close with ≥0.25% and above the initial account balance

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.

Allowed on all accounts, with your own strategy.

• cTrader Automate (cBots), plugins, Open API
• Trade copiers between your own accounts (TradersConnect, Duplikium, Heron, Tradesyncer)
• Forbidden: bots purchased from marketplaces (MQL5, cBot market)
• Forbidden: HFT and latency scalping

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

Allowed

• Same instrument within one account
• Correlated instruments within one account

Forbidden (toxic trading)

• Same instrument across two or more accounts
• Correlated instruments across accounts
• Hedging with another PipFarm user

The majority of the traders must last longer than 3 minutes

• Proportionate monitoring of excessive or abnormal margin usage. No fixed margin cap per asset or connected accounts.

One Step Light

• Challenge Max Risk: 2%
• Simulated Funded Max Risk: 2%
• Absolute at both stages: reaching the limit closes open positions and breaches the account immediately
• No strikes, escalation or Pip Protector

Standard Simulated Funded Accounts

• Max Risk: 2%
• Pip Protector closes open positions and records a Strike when the limit is reached
• Strike 1 halves the limit; Strike 2 halves it again and permanently reduces the profit share by 50%; Strike 3 breaches the account
• Pip Protector does not apply during the challenge stages

Instant accounts from 19 August 2026

• Max Risk: 1% of starting balance
• Extra Max Risk add-on: raises it to 2%

Earlier Instant accounts

• Keep the Max Risk limit assigned when purchased

• Between your own accounts: allowed (even to/from external brokers or prop firms)
• Copying another trader: forbidden
• Following signals or external services: forbidden

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.

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

• You must close at least one trade every 28 days
• Trade size and duration are irrelevant
• Email warning 3 days before the deadline

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.

One Step Light

• Challenge: no Consistency Score requirement
• Simulated Funded Account: Consistency Score ≤40% to qualify for each payout

Consistency Mode: new checkout

• Consistency Score ≤40% across all formats
• Required to pass the challenge and qualify for payouts

Instant accounts from 19 August 2026

• Equity Trailing: ≤30%
• EOD Trailing: ≤25%
• Payout Trailing: ≤20%

Earlier Instant accounts

• Consistency Score ≤25%

Classic / Endurance Simulated Funded Accounts

• Consistency Score ≤50% to qualify for payouts
• Does not apply during challenge stages

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.

• 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

• High-frequency trading (HFT)
• Latency tick scalping
• Copying another trader or following signals
• Group trading / coordinated orders
• Account passing services (third parties trading for you)
• Cross-account hedging (same or correlated instruments)
• Account churning (buying many challenges to force a random pass)
• Artificial trades to manipulate rules without genuine intent