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

Sublot 40, Level 3, Block A2, Saradise Kuching, Off Jalan Stutong, 93350, Kuching, Malaysia

Dixon Teo

United States

Malaysia

2023

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.

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.

• Forex Evaluation: Bi-weekly (every 14 calendar days), from account activation or the last payout.
• Instant Funded X: Every 30 days.
• Crypto X-1 and X-2 Step: first payout at any time; then every 30 days.

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).

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

Instant Funded X: Greater of $100 or 1% of starting balance.

1:100; palladium 1:50.

• Forex Evaluation: 10:1 on gold; 5:1 on other metals
• Instant Funded X: 5:1

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

• Forex Evaluation: 10:1
• Instant Funded X: 5:1

• Forex Evaluation and Instant Funded X: 2:1
• Crypto X-1 and X-2 Step: up to 5:1 on BTC and ETH; other cryptocurrencies, 2:1

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.

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

Instant Funded X: Weekend flat fee add-on and up to 90% profit split add-on available.
Crypto X-1 and X-2 Step: Payout Protector add-on, which protects eligible gains after a breach without preventing it.

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.

2 Phase Challenge.

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

Forex Evaluation (X-1 & X-2 Step)
Static drawdown from starting balance. Does not trail.

Instant Funded X
8% trailing drawdown. Trails upward with account growth. Once 8% profit is achieved, drawdown locks permanently at starting balance. After withdrawal, drawdown permanently locks at original starting balance.

Crypto X-1 & X-2 Step
Static from the starting balance. It does not reset after withdrawals.

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.

• Forex Evaluation: 80%
• Instant Funded X: 80% (up to 90% with add-ons)
• Crypto X-1 and X-2 Step: 90%

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.

Forex Evaluation: calculated from the higher of balance and equity at the prior day's close. Resets at 5:00 PM EST.
Instant Funded X: calculated from the prior day's balance, ignoring equity. Resets at 5:00 PM EST.
Crypto X-1 and X-2 Step: ±3% cap from the previous day's equity; resets at 5:00 PM EST.

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

• Forex: $400,000
• Instant Funded X: $100,000
• Max $1M in active evaluations per person
• Maximum one evaluation per specific account size and plan type simultaneously across all platforms
• Crypto: $200,000

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

• Case-by-case. Only possible when multiple assessments of identical product tier, step, and platform are passed simultaneously.
• Not permitted across different platforms, steps, or rule sets.

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

No time limit. Infinite evaluation duration.

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.

0 minimum trading days across all plans.

Monthly competitions with free evaluation prizes.

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.

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

• EAs are allowed, but third-party or off-the-shelf strategies marketed to pass challenge accounts are banned.
• Strategy switching between evaluation and funded phases is also prohibited.

VPN and VPS are prohibited; detection suspends the account.

Prohibited, including across accounts.

• Hedging/reverse trades are permitted within a single account.
• Cross-account hedging is strictly prohibited.

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%.

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.

• Only allowed if you own all accounts involved.
• Group trading, signal services, and mirror trading across multiple accounts are banned.

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.

• Opening positions within 3 minutes before or after news events is prohibited.
• Violations may result in position closure, P&L removal, leverage reduction, or account breach.

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

Accounts with zero trading activity for 30 consecutive days are hard breached.

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.

• Best trading day cannot exceed 45% of total profit target.
• If breached during evaluation, profit target adjusts upward.
• In funded phase, applies to withdrawal eligibility.
• Instant Funded X: No consistency rule.
• Crypto X-1 and X-2 Step: no consistency rule.

• Forex Evaluation: Weekend holding allowed.
• Instant Funded X: All trades must be closed by 3:45 PM EST on Friday, or they are automatically closed (soft breach). Weekend holding add-on available.
• Crypto X-1 and X-2 Step: weekend holding allowed.

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.

• Exploiting pricing/latency errors
• Front-running trades
• Using non-public/insider information
• Arbitraging across company or third-party accounts
• News event trading (within 3 minutes before/after)
• Excessive leverage/"all-in" trades resembling gambling
• Group hedging/reverse trading across multiple accounts
• Third-party strategies marketed for challenge accounts
• Strategy switching between evaluation and funded phases