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Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Core Markets LLC, a Delaware company. Address: 211 E 43rd St, 7th Flr #259, New York, NY 10017, United States. Offices in New York, Larnaca (Cyprus) and Dubai (UAE).

Youssef Moussa

Saint Lucia

United States

2026

2025

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.

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

No fixed fee published. Any processing or network fee is shown before you confirm; bank and network charges are paid by the trader.

First payout on demand once funded (on Instant, after the first trade). Then every 7 days; every 14 on Instant Go.

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.

No guaranteed time: the payout policy neither promises nor estimates one. Every request gets an automatic receipt and every payout a verifiable certificate.

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.

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.

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.

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.

USD 25

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Weekend Holding (20% of the fee) and Swap-Free (fixed price per size). Bought with the account and non-refundable.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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%.

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.

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%.

$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 time limit to pass the evaluation.

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

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.

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.

Only EAs the trader developed and controls, and can explain and show running. Bought, rented or subscription bots are 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.

Allowed within the same account.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

30 days without a closed trade ends the account.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.