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Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Office 8.05 One Canada Square, London, England, E14 5AA, United Kingdom
Karim Yousfi
Saint Lucia
United Kingdom
2026
2012
Prime 1 Step and Prime 2 Step only: the fee is refunded in full once the account has been funded for 30 days and is in profit. Edge and Instant have no refund.
Ability Challenge only: fee refunded with the first payout. Ability One (accounts from 2 November 2026) and FTP Instant Funding: not refundable.
No fixed fee published. Any processing or network fee is shown before you confirm; bank and network charges are paid by the trader.
54555PasswordYq!8YsYaServerAudaCityGlobal-LiveFirst payout on demand once funded (on Instant, after the first trade). Then every 7 days; every 14 on Instant Go.
- Ability Challenge: first payout after 30 days, then every 14 days
- Ability One: every 14 days
- FTP Instant Funding: first payout 14 days after the first trade, then every 14 days
No guaranteed time: the payout policy neither promises nor estimates one. Every request gets an automatic receipt and every payout a verifiable certificate.
Only with the Weekend Holding add-on. Without it, crypto positions are also closed at 4:45 PM New York time on Friday.
At most $2,000 per account in any 7 days; the rest stays on the account for the next request.
Edge 1 Step and Prime 1 Step: 1% of the starting balance, at most $100. Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: no minimum. Instant: 1% of the starting balance. Crypto payouts: at least $100.
Edge 1 Step, Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: 1:100. Prime 1 Step: 1:50. Instant Pro: 1:33. Instant Go: 1:25.
- Ability Challenge: 100:1
- Funded Trader Program: 30:1
Edge 1 Step, Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: 1:100. Prime 1 Step: 1:50. Instant Pro: 1:33. Instant Go: 1:25.
- Ability Challenge: 100:1
- Funded Trader Program: 30:1
Edge 1 Step, Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: 1:100. Prime 1 Step: 1:50. Instant Pro: 1:33. Instant Go: 1:25.
- Ability Challenge: 25:1
- Funded Trader Program: 60:1
Edge 1 Step, Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: 1:100. Prime 1 Step: 1:50. Instant Pro: 1:33. Instant Go: 1:25.
- Ability Challenge: 100:1
- Funded Trader Program: 30:1
Edge 1 Step, Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: 1:100. Prime 1 Step: 1:50. Instant Pro: 1:33. Instant Go: 1:25.
- Ability Challenge: 2:1
- Funded Trader Program: 2:1
Edge and Instant: $5 per lot round turn. Prime: $4.
Edge and Instant: $6 per lot round turn. Prime: $5.
Edge and Instant: 0.06% of the trade value, round turn. Prime: 0.045%.
Paid add-on with a fixed price per size, from $9 (2.5K) to $146 (200K). Reviewed if profit comes mainly from positions held through the rollover.
Voluntary evaluation reset with no open positions: a new account at 20% off the current price. After a breach, a paid restart for 7 days. Funded accounts can buy a reset while under 10% of the max loss has been used.
Weekend Holding (20% of the fee) and Swap-Free (fixed price per size). Bought with the account and non-refundable.
Automatic 90-day cycles: +30% size (up to 680K; 340K on Instant) and +5 split points. They require 50 trades, 12% net (1 Step), 10% (2 Step) or 15% (Instant), 2 of 3 profitable months (all 3 on Instant and Prime), no trade above 7.5% of profit (5% on Instant and Prime) and no warning.
- Eligibility: Traders must demonstrate a monthly profitability of at least 2.5% for the 3 consecutive months.
- Scaling Increase: The account balance is doubled (100% increase) during each scaling event up to $2,000,000.
- Review Cycle: The account is reviewed every 3 months. Traders must make at least one withdrawal within this period.
- FTP Instant Funding: no scaling plan for accounts bought from 2 November 2026.
Static on every plan: the floor stays fixed below the starting balance and is measured on equity, floating loss included. Touching it ends the account.
Balance based
Edge rises 5 points per scaling cycle up to 95%; Instant Pro up to 90%; Instant Go up to 85%. Prime moves to 100% after 30 days funded and does not rise with scaling. Each strike pays the next payout at 10%.
Ability Challenge
- The profit share for the first payout is 75%
- If you withdraw over 10% profit in 30 days, the profit share will increase to 85%
- Once you've doubled your account twice and consistently achieved over 10% profit, you'll qualify for up to 90% profit sharing
Ability One
- Up to 90%
FTP Instant Funding
- 1st payout: 75%
- 2nd payout: 80%
- 3rd payout onward: 85%
One free Edge 1 Step 100K for 14 days under the paid rules, after KYC approval. It never funds or pays out; passing it gives a 20% code valid for 30 days.
Measured from the previous day's closing balance (5 PM New York), floating loss included. Touching it ends the account.
Based in highest value between balance and equity
$1.5M per person across all CFD and futures accounts.
One user per person, with as many accounts as the $1.5M limit allows. Up to 5 accounts per order, with a 10% to 25% bundle discount.
No time limit in the evaluation or once funded.
No limit
- Ability Challenge: 4 days per phase; at least one position must be opened on each of those days
- Ability One and FTP Instant Funding: no minimum (accounts bought from 2 November 2026)
- 1st Place: 3K + $240K Ability Challenge
- 2nd Place: 1.5K + $120K Ability Challenge
- 3rd Place: 500 + $120K Ability Challenge
- 4th Place: 300 + $60K Ability Challenge
- 5th Place: 150 + $60K Ability Challenge
- 6th – 10th Place: $30K Ability Challenge
- 11th – 25th Place: One-time 30% discount on any Ability Challenge
- 26th – 50th Place: One-time 15% discount on any Ability Challenge
Profitable day: a close at +0.5% of the account size. To pass, 3 on 1 Step and 2 per phase on 2 Step. Before each payout: 3 (1 Step), 2 (2 Step), 5 (Instant Go) and none on Instant Pro.
Only EAs the trader developed and controls, and can explain and show running. Bought, rented or subscription bots are prohibited.
Only self-developed EAs are permitted. The use of commercial, publicly available, or third-party-created automated trading tools is strictly prohibited.
Hiding your location with a VPN, proxy or remote desktop is prohibited and triggers a new identity check. Your own EA on a VPS is allowed if disclosed.
Within one account, yes. Prohibited across accounts, yours or others', and against other firms or brokers.
Yes. Once funded, trades under 120 seconds may make at most 20% of profit from the tenth closed trade; above that, payouts pause until it is back under. Not measured in the evaluation.
Grid and martingale strategies that add exposure into losses are prohibited.
Max. Exposure: open notional may not exceed 5,000% of the balance at 2.5K down to 1,000% at 200K. Once funded, no trade may float more than 2% of the starting balance in loss (1.5% on Instant). Each gives a warning that, if the account is in profit, resets it to the starting balance; the second ends the account. Instant: max 1.5% floating loss per symbol.
Maximum limit of 10 lots per open position. You may open multiple positions, but each individual position cannot exceed 10 lots.
Only to copy your own trading: between your own CFD accounts or from your own master account at another broker or firm. Signals and third-party accounts are prohibited.
Internal copying between your own AudaCity accounts is allowed. Copying from third-party accounts (other traders, other firms, signal providers) is not permitted.
Allowed at every stage. Straddling is prohibited: opposite or offsetting positions on the same or correlated instruments within 15 minutes of a red or amber release; the risk desk reviews it.
Do not open new trades or increase existing ones within 3 minutes before or after high-impact economic releases or official speeches, as this behavior may be considered excessive risk-taking.
Only high-impact FOMC events fall under this restriction; low- and medium-impact FOMC events are exempt. Other major/high-impact news restrictions remain unchanged. This update applies to existing and new accounts across Ability Challenge, Ability One and FTP Instant Funding.
30 days without a closed trade ends the account.
6 months
No best-day rule. A single trade may not exceed 60% of profit; if it does, payouts pause until it is back under. On funded Prime, every 7 days the trade count and volume per instrument must stay within ±25% of the average, or the account moves to a standard funded account.
- Ability Challenge: no consistency rule.
- Ability One: 50%, only at the live (funded) stage.
- FTP Instant Funding: 35% for payout eligibility. Score = best trading day profit ÷ total net profit × 100. Above 35%, keep trading until the score is 35% or below.
Ability One and FTP rules apply to accounts bought from 2 November 2026.
Only with the add-on. Without it, positions are closed at 4:45 PM New York time on Friday: the first time is a warning, the second ends the account.
Latency or price-error arbitrage, hedging across accounts or firms, coordinated trading, third-party management, bought bots, gap exploitation, grid and martingale, doubling size after a loss the same day, swap-free abuse and churning accounts. At most 20% of profit may come from the 21:00 to 22:59 UTC window.
- High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
- Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts
- Martingale Trading
- Dollar Cost Averaging



















