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

Registered office: Dover, Delaware, United States

Dixon Teo

Youssef Moussa

Malaysia

United States

2023

2025

The fee paid is reimbursed with the fourth payout. Purchases are final, except payment errors, undelivered services or mandatory legal rights.

• Forex Evaluation: Bi-weekly (every 14 calendar days). Instant first payout.
• Instant Funded X: Every 30 days.

On demand. After the first payout: 3 days with at least 0.5% realized net profit since the previous payout. No open positions or pending orders; identity verification required.

Processed within 24 hours after account review and submission of all requested documents. If missed, 100% split for that payout. Bank and blockchain settlement times are excluded.

Up to 50% of profit per request. Capped at USD 2,500 for accounts up to USD 100,000; USD 5,000 for larger accounts. Remaining profit stays in the account.

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

USD 25

The Second Try add-on provides one reset if the account is breached. The rewards program Trader tier includes one free retry.

Instant Funded X: Weekend flat fee add-on and up to 90% profit split add-on available.

Paid add-ons: unrestricted funded news trading, 90% or 95% profit split, and Second Try.

From USD 10,000 accounts: 12% profit within 3 months adds 25% of the starting balance. Elite is a separate performance-based benefits program.

Forex Evaluation (X-1 & X-2 Step)
6% 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.

Static against the initial balance; includes floating losses and costs. Pay After Pass funded accounts have a 6% limit.

• Forex Evaluation: 80%
• Instant Funded X: 80% (up to 90% with add-ons)

Forex Evaluation & Instant Funded X: 5% daily max loss. Calculated from the higher of: prior day's end-of-day balance or equity. Resets at 5:00 PM EST.

Recalculated at 00:00 UTC from the higher of balance or equity, minus a fixed amount based on initial capital. Flex and Pay After Pass evaluation have no daily limit; funded Pay After Pass applies 3%.

• 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

• 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. Infinite evaluation duration.

No time limit to pass the evaluation.

0 minimum trading days across all plans.

7 XP tiers. Purchases and tasks earn XP; 1% to 20% cashback redeemable for discounts. Annual tier review. Higher tiers retain previous benefits.

Monthly competitions with free evaluation prizes.

1-Step and 2-Step Standard: 3 per phase and in funded. Flex: 5 per phase and in funded. Instant: 5 before the first payout. Pay After Pass: 0 in evaluation and 5 in funded. Each day requires at least 0.5% realized net profit; days need not be consecutive.

• 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.

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

Allowed within the same account.

More than 50% of trades held for less than one minute is prohibited.

No aggressive scaling outside reasonable limits or 3 or more positions in one losing trading idea. Prior positions must be protected when adding.

Do not use more than 50% of available margin. The firm may impose a 1% maximum risk per trading idea after written notification.

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

Only between accounts held by the same person, including external accounts. EAs and external copiers are allowed; each account must comply individually.

• 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.

Unrestricted in evaluation. In funded, no opening or closing from 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after high-impact news and FOMC events. The News Trading add-on removes this window. Without it, affected trade profits are removed.

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

Account closure after 30 days without trades, in both evaluation and funded.

• 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.

Checked only at payout: Instant and Pay After Pass, 15%; 1-Step and 2-Step, 30%. Each day counts at its highest net profit reached during the day, even if it closes at a loss. Trading may continue until the ratio is met.

• 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.

• 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

Exploiting pricing or platform errors, latency arbitrage, insider trading, front-running, gambling without a strategy and all-or-nothing trading. The strategy must remain consistent between evaluation and funded.