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

Bahnhofstrasse 21, 6300, Zug, Switzerland

Dixon Teo

Alan Sanchez

Malaysia

Switzerland

2023

2022

5% processing fee on crypto payouts. Only TRC20 USDT supported.

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

1-Phase and 2-Phase: after at least 15 traded days or every 30 calendar days; the Weekly Payout add-on reduces this to 7 traded days. Break: on demand with no minimum traded days after passing, paying the activation fee and meeting the 40% consistency rule. Instant: Withdrawal & Upgrade at 10% profit with no minimum days; earlier withdrawals follow the standard conditions.

$5,000 per transaction (crypto)

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

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 20:1

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: Advance accounts 100:1; Student accounts 5:1.
• Bybit evaluations: up to 100:1, depending on the instrument and the limits available on Bybit.

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 5:1

If your final-stage account is suspended, you can request a reset within 30 days as long as:

• Every trade had a stop-loss.
• No trade lost more than 2%.

2-Phase (size -> reset)

• $5,000 -> $180
• $10,000 -> $345
• $25,000 -> $760
• $50,000 -> $1,140
• $100,000 -> $1,880
• $200,000 -> $3,620

1-Phase (size -> reset)

• $5,000 -> $198
• $10,000 -> $380
• $25,000 -> $840
• $50,000 -> $1,255
• $100,000 -> $2,079
• $200,000 -> $3,980

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

1-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%) and 90% Profit Split (+20%). 2-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%), 90% Profit Split (+20%), 6% Daily Drawdown (+15%) and 12% Maximum Drawdown (+25%).

Only Instant account can be scaled. Request a withdrawal after 10% profit to double the size of your account up to a max of $1,280,000.

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.

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases and Instant use a static maximum loss; 1 Phase uses trailing drawdown.
• Bybit: 1-Phase and Break use a balance-based trailing loss limit that locks at the initial balance after sufficient profit. 2-Phase, Ascend and Instant use fixed maximum-loss limits.

Exact limits are shown in each challenge.

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

• Instant: 50% at the starting level, then 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% as the account scales.
• 1 Phase and 2 Phases: 80% in the Final Stage, with an optional 90% add-on.
• Break: 80% in the Final Stage.

If your final-stage account is suspended with virtual profits, you can still receive up to 50% in performance rewards if:

• Every trade had a stop-loss.
• No single trade lost more than 2%.
• You traded for at least 15 days.

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.

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases, 1 Phase, Instant and Ascend use balance-based daily drawdown.
• Bybit: daily drawdown is calculated from equity using the account balance at 00:05 UTC. Break accounts do not have a separate daily-loss limit.

Exact limits are shown in each challenge.

• 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

Standard Final Stage allocation is capped at $300,000. Instant accounts are separate and can scale to $1,280,000. Break and Ascend accounts also have separate allocation limits.

• 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.

Unlimited

0 minimum trading days across all plans.

• 1-Phase, 2-Phase and Break: no minimum trading days to pass the evaluation.
• Instant: no evaluation phase and no minimum days.
• Ascend: 5 trading days in evaluation.

Monthly competitions with free evaluation prizes.

• 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.

Expert Advisors and automation are allowed when used for normal trading. EAs designed for high-frequency trading, tick scalping, arbitrage, reverse trading or exploitation are prohibited.

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

Normal scalping is allowed. Tick scalping, high-frequency trading and latency exploitation are prohibited.

Simulated profit is capped at $10,000 per trading day and per trade. Trades closed in parts or opened together as one strategy may be treated as a single trade.

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

Copy trading is allowed under the firm's general rules. Break evaluations may be copied only between the same trader's own Break accounts. Copy trading is prohibited in Break Final Stage and between different traders, third parties or coordinated accounts.

• 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.

Ascend

During the two minutes before and after high-impact news or market open, traders must not open or add new positions, nor increase or combine their maximum theoretical loss beyond 2% of the account's initial balance.

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

• 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.

Only Break Final Stage accounts apply a consistency rule: no single trading day may represent more than 40% of total profits. It is checked only when requesting a payout and does not breach the account.

• 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 futures trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and positions may remain open overnight and over weekends.

• 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

High-frequency trading, tick scalping, latency or price-feed exploitation, arbitrage, gambling or all-in trading, abusive hedging, reverse trading across accounts and coordinated trading are prohibited. On Bybit, unauthorized deposits into the subaccount, modifying or disconnecting the API, spot trading, options and non-USDT pairs are also prohibited.