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

Meydan Grandstand, 6th Floor, Meydan Road, Nad Al Sheba, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia

Husam Samy

Arlind I.

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates / Saint Lucia

In-house liquidity provider

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

Instant Flex: 100% refundable access fee.

1-Step only: 100% fee refund with the third 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.

Every 21 exchange days; 14 days with the add-on. Requests are usually processed within 72 business hours.

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

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

The first two payouts are limited to 10% of the account size and an absolute maximum of USD 10,000. There is no maximum from the third payout onward.

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

USD 100 via crypto; USD 300 via bank transfer.

Crypto: no fee. Bank transfer through Rise: USD 50.

1-Step and 2-Step evaluation: 100:1. PineX Account: 1-Step and Instant PineX 30:1; 2-Step and Instant Elite 50:1.

Evaluation: 20:1. PineX Account: 1-Step, Instant PineX and Instant Elite 10:1; 2-Step 20:1.

1-Step: 20:1 in evaluation and 10:1 in the PineX Account. 2-Step: 30:1. Instant PineX and Instant Elite: 10:1.

Evaluation: 20:1. PineX Account and Instant: 10:1.

1-Step and Instant: 2:1. 2-Step: 2:1 in evaluation and 1:1 in the PineX Account.

1-Step: US 20:1 in evaluation and 10:1 funded; EU 30:1. 2-Step: US 5:1 and EU 30:1. Instant: US and EU 30:1.

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.

Add-ons are available to reduce the payout cycle from 21 to 14 exchange days and, except on Instant Elite, increase the split up to 100%.

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.

Free Growth Plan with scaling up to USD 2,000,000.

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

1-Step and 2-Step use static drawdown from starting capital. Instant PineX and Instant Elite trail new highs; PineX resets after a payout and Elite does not.

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

80% by default. Up to 100% through an add-on on 1-Step, 2-Step and Instant PineX. Instant Elite remains at 80%.

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

1-Step and 2-Step keep a static daily limit. On Instant PineX and Instant Elite, the limit trails the daily balance/equity high.

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.

Eligible accounts may be combined up to USD 600,000. Instant accounts cannot be combined with Direct Funding.

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

1-Step: 3 evaluation days and 4 profitable days of at least 0.5% for payout. 2-Step: none in evaluation and 4 on the PineX Account. Instant PineX: 5 days of at least 0.5%. Instant Elite: 6 days of at least 0.5%.

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.

Multiple accounts are allowed. Eligible traders may combine them up to USD 600,000 in active allocation.

PineX Points: 1 point per euro spent, redeemable for accounts, add-ons, discounts and rewards.

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, bots, scripts and tools that automatically open, close or manage trades are not allowed.

The firm expressly discourages VPN or VPS use and prohibits sharing devices or access credentials.

A stop loss is not mandatory, but exposure above 10 times the starting capital with more than 50% of trades lacking an SL may be treated as abuse.

Scalping is allowed, but Quick Strike/HFT, extremely short holding times and mass order activity are prohibited.

A maximum of two simultaneous open positions in the same market and direction within one trade idea.

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.

Instant PineX: maximum 2% of starting capital per trade idea. Instant Elite: maximum 1% floating loss. No fixed per-trade percentage applies on 1-Step or 2-Step, but the general excessive-risk rules still apply.

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

Mirroring, third-party executed signals and copying between accounts are 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.

Positions on the affected instrument cannot be opened or closed during the 5 minutes before and after red-folder news. Automatic SL or TP closures also count.

Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.

The account is considered breached after 30 calendar days without opening and closing at least one trade.

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 PineX applies a 20% rule: the best day must represent less than 20% of the period's profit. 1-Step, 2-Step and Instant Elite have no consistency rule.

Allowed on Instant PineX and Instant Elite. Not allowed on 1-Step or 2-Step.

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.

Hedging and inverse trading; copy trading and account sharing; martingale, grids and recovery systems; excessive or all-in risk; more than two positions in the same trade idea; extreme margin usage; Quick Strike/HFT; arbitrage and latency abuse; account rolling; EAs and automated tools.