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Landererova 8, Bratislava - Staré Mesto 811 09, Slovak Republic

Core Markets LLC, a Delaware company. Address: 211 E 43rd St, 7th Flr #259, New York, NY 10017, United States. Offices in New York, Larnaca (Cyprus) and Dubai (UAE).

Marek Soska

Youssef Moussa

Slovakia

United States

2023

2025

Liquidity Providers

RF Instant

• 100% fee refund after passing Level 0.

RF Copper (4-Phase)

• 200% refund with the first commission payment to the RCF account.

RF Bronze (3-Phase)

• 150% refund with the first commission payment.

RF Silver (2-Phase)

• 100% refund with the first commission payment.

RF Gold (1-Phase)

• 0% refund.

RF Diamond

• 100% refund after passing Level 0.

The fee paid is reimbursed with the fourth payout. Purchases are final, except payment errors, undelivered services or mandatory legal rights.

Bi-weekly

On demand. After the first payout: 3 days with at least 0.5% realized net profit since the previous payout. No open positions or pending orders; identity verification required.

Processed within 24 hours after account review and submission of all requested documents. If missed, 100% split for that payout. Bank and blockchain settlement times are excluded.

No limit

Up to 50% of profit per request. Capped at USD 2,500 for accounts up to USD 100,000; USD 5,000 for larger accounts. Remaining profit stays in the account.

$50

USD 25

RF Copper / RF Bronze

• Max leverage up to 1:200

RF Silver

• Max leverage up to 1:100

RF Gold / RF Diamond

• Max leverage up to 1:50

Max leverage up to 1:25.

Max leverage up to 1:5.

Max leverage up to 1:25.

Max leverage up to 1:2.5.

Max leverage up to 1:2.5.

The Second Try add-on provides one reset if the account is breached. The rewards program Trader tier includes one free retry.

Paid add-ons: unrestricted funded news trading, 90% or 95% profit split, and Second Try.

RF Diamond

• Automatic scaling: account increases by 60% for every 10% profit achieved, up to Level 8 ($530,000).

Other Programs

• Successful traders may have their account increased by up to 200% of the initial value upon meeting conditions.

From USD 10,000 accounts: 12% profit within 3 months adds 25% of the starting balance. Elite is a separate performance-based benefits program.

RF Copper / RF Bronze / RF Silver

• 10% overall drawdown of the starting capital, bound to both closed and open trades (static).

RF Gold / RF Diamond

• 6% overall drawdown of the starting capital, bound to both closed and open trades (static).

Static against the initial balance; includes floating losses and costs. Pay After Pass funded accounts have a 6% limit.

RF Copper / RF Bronze / RF Silver / RF Gold

• Up to 90% profit commission on the RCF account.

RF Diamond

• 75% profit commission from the start.

A free trial account is available for traders to try the services. Note that passing the free trial does not entitle the trader to a real account; the full verification process is still required.

RF Copper / RF Bronze / RF Silver

• 5% daily drawdown based on starting equity at 09:00 PM UTC.

RF Gold (Evaluation Phase)

• No daily drawdown limit during the evaluation phase; 4% on the funded RCF account.

RF Diamond

• No daily drawdown limit; only overall drawdown applies.

Recalculated at 00:00 UTC from the higher of balance or equity, minus a fixed amount based on initial capital. Flex and Pay After Pass evaluation have no daily limit; funded Pay After Pass applies 3%.

Each training phase lasts 999 calendar days from activation, with the exception of the RF Instant program which has no time limit. Marketing materials describe this as 'unlimited time' for most programs.

No time limit to pass the evaluation.

7 XP tiers. Purchases and tasks earn XP; 1% to 20% cashback redeemable for discounts. Annual tier review. Higher tiers retain previous benefits.

1-Step and 2-Step Standard: 3 per phase and in funded. Flex: 5 per phase and in funded. Instant: 5 before the first payout. Pay After Pass: 0 in evaluation and 5 in funded. Each day requires at least 0.5% realized net profit; days need not be consecutive.

Allowed within the same account.

More than 50% of trades held for less than one minute is prohibited.

No aggressive scaling outside reasonable limits or 3 or more positions in one losing trading idea. Prior positions must be protected when adding.

Do not use more than 50% of available margin. The firm may impose a 1% maximum risk per trading idea after written notification.

Only between accounts held by the same person, including external accounts. EAs and external copiers are allowed; each account must comply individually.

Unrestricted in evaluation. In funded, no opening or closing from 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after high-impact news and FOMC events. The News Trading add-on removes this window. Without it, affected trade profits are removed.

Account closure after 30 days without trades, in both evaluation and funded.

Checked only at payout: Instant and Pay After Pass, 15%; 1-Step and 2-Step, 30%. Each day counts at its highest net profit reached during the day, even if it closes at a loss. Trading may continue until the ratio is met.

• Hedging (bilateral and multilateral) and arbitrage strategies
• Trading with external or slow data feeds
• Excessive position sizes during major news or within 1 hour before market close
• Trades lasting less than 30 seconds (aggressive scalping)
• Martingale and one-sided bet multiplication
• Risk exceeding 1.5% of the current RCF account balance on a single trade or group of trades
• All forms of price, gap, swap, and reverse arbitrage
• Account management or trading on behalf of others
• Third-party copy trading or mirrored group trading
• Exploiting platform, pricing, execution, or latency errors

Exploiting pricing or platform errors, latency arbitrage, insider trading, front-running, gambling without a strategy and all-or-nothing trading. The strategy must remain consistent between evaluation and funded.