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Headquarters

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

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CEO

Husam Samy

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Country

United Arab Emirates

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Foundation

2024

2026-10

Banned Countries
Syria, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar
PK, RU, CU, SD, SO, IR, LB, SY, LY, VN
Assets
Forex, Commodities, Indices, Crypto
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Brokers

In-house liquidity provider

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Refund
Yes

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

Instant Flex: 100% refundable access fee.

Limited

No refund after credentials are sent; support may authorize exceptions if no trades were placed. No fee refund for passing is published.

Platforms
MatchTrader, Metatrader 5
DXTrade, MatchTrader, cTrader, PropX
Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto
Rise, Crypto
Payment Methods
Card, PayPal, Crypto
Card
Payout Frequency

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.

Every 14 days. One and Two: first payout after 14 days. Instant: first after qualifying profitable days. Signature: 14-day waiting period for each payout. Paid via Rise or crypto; store credit is also available, irrevocable and expires after one year.

Payout Guarantee

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

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Crypto Weekend Trading
Yes
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Maximum Withdrawal

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

Signature: maximum 3% of balance per payout.

Minimum Withdrawal

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

1% of balance on Instant, One and Two; Signature does not publish a specific minimum.

Forex
30:1
50:1
Metals
10:1
50:1
Energies
10:1
5:1
Indices
10:1
10:1
Crypto
2:1
2:1
Forex
4 / lot

Liquidity-provider commissions vary by instrument and platform; check specifications.

Metals
4 / lot
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Energies
4 / lot
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Indices
0.4 / lot
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Crypto
0
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Commission-Free Option
No
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Swap Free
No
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Account Reset

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.

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Add-ons
Yes
Yes

Payout Protector: +25%. Remove Lock on Payout: +25%, only One and Instant. Optional; table prices exclude add-ons.

Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
Yes

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.

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Two Steps
Yes
Yes
Max Drawdown

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

Static on One, Two and Signature. Instant: trailing on the highest end-of-day balance; retains its pre-payout level unless Remove Lock on Payout is purchased. One also retains its pre-payout level. Instant requires a 5% non-withdrawable buffer.

Profit Split

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

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Free Trial
No
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Daily Drawdown

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

Based on balance; monitor the breach level in the dashboard.

Three Steps
No
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Max Allocation
500,000
1,000,000
Merge Accounts
Yes

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.

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Maximum Trading Days

No time limit.

No evaluation deadline; the inactivity limit applies.

Minimum Trading Days

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

Checkout specifies no fixed minimum evaluation days; consistency may require additional days.

Monthly Competition
No
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Minimum Profitable Days

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.

Instant: 7 days. One and Two: 4 days with at least 0.25% daily profit. Signature: no specific requirement is published.

Maximum Accounts
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No fixed count; the $1 million limit is shared across evaluations, funded accounts and markets.

Expert Advisor (EA)
Limited

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.

Limited

The FAQ permits proprietary automation subject to restrictions, but the checkout catalogue flags EAs as disallowed. Obtain written confirmation for the selected plan and platform before using automation.

VPN
Yes
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Hedging
Yes
Limited

Permitted within one account. Coordinated opposing positions across accounts or firms are prohibited.

Requires Stop Loss
No
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Scalping
Yes
Limited

Tick harvesting, full porting and sub-minute positions at or near the contract limit are prohibited.

Stacking / Layering (DCA)
Yes
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Martingale
No
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Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

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.

Limited

No universal per-trade percentage is published; gambling, all-in and abuse of margin, leverage or contract limits are prohibited.

Copy Trading
No

Copying trades, manually or through software, between the trader's own accounts or from external traders or signal providers is prohibited.

Limited

Only between accounts owned by the same trader. Signals, passing services, group trading and EAs facilitating copy trading are prohibited.

News Trading
Limited

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.

Limited

Existing positions may remain open. No opening or closing within 3 minutes before or after high-impact news. Consequences include P&L removal, reduced leverage or account termination.

Inactivity Rule

Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.

Account closes after 30 consecutive days without trading.

Consistency Rule
Yes

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

Instant Flex: no consistency rule.

Limited

One: 50% in evaluation and funded. Signature: 50% funded only. Instant: 18%. Two: no consistency rule. The best day cannot exceed that share of total profit; continue trading until compliant.

Hold Weekend
Yes
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Prohibited Strategies

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.

Cross-account arbitrage, latency or pricing-error exploitation, insider trading, front-running, third-party passing strategies and changing strategy between evaluation and funded trading. All-in, gambling and excessive exposure are prohibited. Trading is reviewed before funded account issuance.

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