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23691-001, A2 Building, IFZA Business Park, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, United Arab Emirates

RAG Tower, Al Barsha 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Husam Samy

Michal Król

2024

2025

In-house liquidity provider

Institutional liquidity providers not publicly identified.

The evaluation fee is refundable. Under the published standard conditions, the refund unlocks alongside the fifth successful payout.

Instant Flex: 100% refundable access fee.

The fee is fully refunded with the second successful funded payout.

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.

First payout 14 days after becoming funded; every 14 days thereafter.

Requests are processed within 48 business hours. SFX advertises $1,000 compensation if it misses that deadline.

Approved requests are released to the payment provider within 24 hours. If Dolvero misses this deadline, it automatically adds a 10% bonus.

Cryptocurrency CFDs must also be closed over the weekend unless the Weekend Holding add-on is purchased.

Maximum of $10,000 per request for the first two payouts. This limit is removed afterwards.

No maximum.

Payouts below $100 can only be processed through USDT TRC20. Bank transfer is available from $100.

$50

Bank wire: no fee. PayPal: no fee for withdrawals over $100. Crypto: network fee only.

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.

There is no paid reset within a failed evaluation; a new one must be purchased.

2-Step: Weekend Holding, 90% split, Relaxed Risk and removal of the per-trade limit. 1-Step: Weekend Holding and 90% split.

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.

25% increase after 3 consecutive profitable months, up to $200,000 in the standard program. Larger allocations are invitation-only.

Rapid: 4% trailing. 1-Step Pro: 6% trailing. Ascend: 8% static. Instant Funding (original): 6% trailing.

It is static on 2-Step and trailing on 1-Step and Instant. The trailing floor only rises when equity reaches a new high and never moves down.

85% base split, with the possibility of reaching 100% through the scaling program. Rapid and Ascend allow an early payout with a 40% split.

2-Step and 1-Step: 80%, upgradeable to 90% with an add-on. Instant: 70% on the first payout, 80% on the second and 90% from the third onward.

Available on request from support.

Rapid and Instant Funding (original): 3%. 1-Step Pro: no daily limit. Ascend: 4%.

Includes realized and unrealized losses. It resets at midnight MT5 server time (EET/EEST).

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.

Funded accounts can be merged by contacting support.

Rapid: no minimum during evaluation. 1-Step Pro: 4 evaluation days. Ascend: 5 days in each phase. Instant Funding (original): no evaluation.

2-Step and 1-Step: 5 qualifying days per phase, each with at least 0.5% profit. Instant: 10 profitable days before the first payout, also with at least 0.5% each.

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.

Up to 3 funded accounts at the same time. Multiple simultaneous evaluations are allowed.

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.

EAs require prior approval, normally within 24–48 hours.

VPNs, proxies and Tor are prohibited. A private VPS with a dedicated IP may be used for an approved EA with prior authorization.

Tick scalping and strategies exploiting latency or feed delays 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.

2-Step and 1-Step: maximum realized loss of 2% of current balance per trade idea; it is a hard breach. Instant has no such limit. On 2-Step it can be removed with an add-on.

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.

Trades cannot be opened during the 30 minutes before or after any high-impact news event. Existing positions may be held and closed. A 15% add-on removes the restriction.

Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.

Instant only: automatic closure after 7 calendar days without a trade. 2-Step and 1-Step evaluations have no inactivity rule.

Maximum SFX Stability Index for payout: Rapid 15%, 1-Step Pro 20%, Ascend 25% and Instant Funding (original) 15%.

Instant Flex: no consistency rule.

Instant only: no day may exceed 15% of the sum of profitable-day gains when requesting a payout. It does not apply to 2-Step or 1-Step.

Only with the Weekend Holding add-on (+15%). Without it, all positions must remain closed over the weekend.

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.

Copy trading and external signals, hedging on identical or correlated instruments, one-sided or oversized betting, arbitrage, tick scalping, HFT, account coordination, platform exploitation, martingale, grid, layering and third-party account management.