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

Al Shohada Road 10055, Al Hamra Industrial Zone-FZ, 10055, Ras Al Khaimah, U.A.E.

Bashaar Gokal

Sebastian Ness

Mauritius

United Arab Emirates

Liquidity Provider

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.

• 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.

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.

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

$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.

2% payout fee or a $10 minimum transaction fee per payout.

Payouts are processed within 24 business hours or the trader receives an extra 10% on the profit split.

• 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.

• 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.

10% discount for any retakes

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.

• +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 the Daily Loss Limit (+30% on the account price).

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.

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

• 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: 5% of the initial balance, trailing from the highest recorded equity (high-water mark).
• 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.

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.

• 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%

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.

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

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.

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).

Unlimited

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.

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.

Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no minimum trading days.

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.

EAs are generally prohibited, except on the EA Challenge where they are allowed only during the challenge phase and prohibited once funded.

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

The majority of the traders must last longer than 3 minutes

Scalping is not completely banned, but tick scalping is prohibited and trades should generally remain open for more than 2 minutes.

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

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.

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.

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

At least one open trade or pending order is required every 30 days to keep the account active.

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.

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.

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

• 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