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Landererova 8, Bratislava - Staré Mesto 811 09, Slovak Republic
23691-001, A2 Building, IFZA Business Park, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, United Arab Emirates
Marek Soska
Husam Samy
Slovakia
United Arab Emirates
2023
2024
Liquidity Providers
In-house liquidity provider
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 evaluation fee is refundable. Under the published standard conditions, the refund unlocks alongside the fifth successful payout.
Instant Flex: 100% refundable access fee.
Bi-weekly
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.
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.
$50
Payouts below $100 can only be processed through USDT TRC20. Bank transfer is available from $100.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Rapid: 4% trailing. 1-Step Pro: 6% trailing. Ascend: 8% static. Instant Funding (original): 6% trailing.
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.
85% base split, with the possibility of reaching 100% through the scaling program. Rapid and Ascend allow an early payout with a 40% split.
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.
Rapid and Instant Funding (original): 3%. 1-Step Pro: no daily limit. Ascend: 4%.
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.
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.
Rapid: no minimum during evaluation. 1-Step Pro: 4 evaluation days. Ascend: 5 days in each phase. Instant Funding (original): no evaluation.
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.
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.
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 trades, manually or through software, between the trader's own accounts or from external traders or signal providers is prohibited.
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.
Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.
Maximum SFX Stability Index for payout: Rapid 15%, 1-Step Pro 20%, Ascend 25% and Instant Funding (original) 15%.
Instant Flex: no consistency rule.
- 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
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.



















