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

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

Dixon Teo

Husam Samy

Malaysia

United Arab Emirates

2023

2024

In-house liquidity provider

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

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

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 and 1-Step Pro allow payout requests once their requirements are met, without a fixed bi-weekly cycle.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Rapid: 4% trailing. 1-Step Pro: 6% trailing. Ascend: 8% static. Instant: 6% trailing.

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

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

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.

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

• 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.

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 accounts cannot be merged.

No time limit. Infinite evaluation duration.

No time limit.

0 minimum trading days across all plans.

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

Monthly competitions with free evaluation prizes.

For payouts: Rapid and Instant 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.

• 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.

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.

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

Maximum floating loss: 2% on Rapid, Ascend and Instant; $300K and $400K Instant 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.

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

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

• 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.

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.

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

Accounts are closed after 30 days of inactivity.

• 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.

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

• 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

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.