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Brighton, Colorado (USA). Representative address in Joué-lès-Tours, France, not open to the public.

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

Husam Samy

United States

United Arab Emirates

2024

In-house liquidity provider

Challenges: the fee is refunded after passing, 50% with the first payout (which must be at least 1% of the account size) and 50% with the second. Not available on instant funding. A purchase is only refunded if requested within 7 days with no trading.

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

Instant Flex: 100% refundable access fee.

No firm fee; network or bank fees are paid by the trader.

Every 14 days. Instant funding: first payout after 20 days per the rules (product pages say 4 weeks), then every 14 days. Two consecutive non compliant requests may suspend the account.

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.

Paid within 14 days of the request at most. Once approved, payment takes 24 to 72 business hours (USDT usually within 24 hours; bank transfer up to 5 business days).

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.

$100 or the equivalent in euros, with any method.

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

1:100; palladium 1:50.

1:100; Nikkei 225 and ASX 200 1:50.

Paid, from the dashboard. In the challenge, about 50% of the price and back to phase 1 or 2. On a funded account, full price and funded status is kept. Usually applied within 24 hours.

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.

At checkout: news trading (+20% of the price) and no mandatory stop loss (+30%).

Funded account with no evaluation, with a profit cap and its own profit split ladder that starts lower.

1 Phase Challenge.

On request from the dashboard, after several profitable periods on a funded account. Decided case by case based on consistency and rule compliance, at no cost.

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.

2 Phase Challenge.

Static, measured on the initial capital. Breaching it suspends the account.

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

Rises with each payout. Challenges: 70%, 75%, 80%, 85% and 90% from the fifth. Instant funding: 50%, 55%, 60%, 65%, 70% and 90% from the sixth.

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

Free Trial 10K, no card needed: 8% target, 5% daily and 10% total loss, no mandatory stop loss. One per email every 30 days; after passing, the account stays open for 24 hours and pays nothing.

Measured on the initial capital, including floating losses; per its forum it resets at midnight UTC. Breaching it suspends the account.

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

$1,000,000 per account and $3,000,000 combined.

Several accounts at once up to the maximum combined capital. Each one is evaluated separately.

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.

No time limit. The challenge must be activated within 30 days of purchase.

No time limit.

Evaluation: 2 days. Funded account: 14 days before each payout; a day only counts if a trade is opened and closed on it. If a payout is refused, the counter resets.

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

Funded account: 7 of the 14 minimum days. In evaluation, the FAQ and its comparisons ask for 2 profitable days; the rules page says 2 trading 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.

Allowed if declared. Undeclared EAs, HFT and abusive AI are prohibited.

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.

VPN and VPS are prohibited; detection suspends the account.

Prohibited, including across accounts.

Mandatory when opening and closing every trade. One trade without a stop is tolerated; the second one suspends the account. Can be removed with the paid add-on.

Trades under 100 seconds or under 1.5 pips count as prohibited scalping; repeated trades of 2 pips or less are reviewed.

Per trade: maximum loss of 2% and maximum profit of 3%.

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 between your own accounts does not count for payouts. Under the "Be copied" program, copied profit can be at most 50% of the eligible profit.

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

No opening or closing (including a triggered SL/TP) 10 minutes before and after 3 star releases on the TradingView calendar, any currency and symbol. A position opened before the release may be held. Allowed with the paid add-on.

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.

Closed after 15 consecutive days without trading, or suspended after 40 days in loss.

Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.

When requesting a payout, no single trade may exceed 25% of total profit (if it does, the payout is held until rebalanced) and no instrument 80%. Each trade must also be between 1/4 and 2 times the largest lot already used on the account.

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

Instant Flex: no consistency rule.

HFT and scalping under 100 seconds or under 1.5 pips, martingale, hedging (including across accounts), grid, latency and quote arbitrage, gap trading, exploiting price or platform errors, abusive AI, undeclared EAs, overexposure or gambling, account rolling and third party trading.

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.