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Office 8.05 One Canada Square, London, England, E14 5AA, United Kingdom

Algaroud Center, 2nd Floor, Office 101-05, Dubai, UAE

Karim Yousfi

Sean Bainton

United Kingdom

United Arab Emirates

2012

2021

Liquidity Provider

Full refund after first payout

• Ability Challenge: First payout after 30 days, next every 14 days
• Funded Trader Program: When reaching the 10% profit

• 1 Step Nano: up to weekly
• 2 Step Nano: bi-weekly
• Other products: 14 days

Payouts processed within 24 business hours (Mon 9 AM – Fri 5 PM Dubai time). If they miss this window you automatically receive a 100% profit split on that payout (no Blue Guardian cut). Delays caused by compliance checks, risk reviews or pending KYC do not qualify.

2 Step Nano: 2% of the initial balance per payout ($500 on $25K, $1,000 on $50K, $2,000 on $100K and $4,000 on $200K).

Funded Trader Program: 10% profit

$100 in crypto, $500 via Rise (bank transfer). On 1 Step Standard and Instant accounts, once you reach 6% profit and the trailing drawdown locks at breakeven, a 1% buffer must remain in the account.

• Ability Challenge: 100:1
• Funded Trader Program: 30:1

• Ability Challenge: 100:1
• Funded Trader Program: 30:1

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

• Ability Challenge: 25:1
• Funded Trader Program: 60:1

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

• Ability Challenge: 100:1
• Funded Trader Program: 30:1

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

• Ability Challenge: 2:1
• Funded Trader Program: 2:1

• 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.

Balance based

• Instant, Guardian X, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Nano, 2 Step Pro, Crypto: Trailing
• 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Classic, 2 Step Nano, 3 Step: Static

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

Funded Trader Program

• $7.5k, $15k, $30k, and $60k: More than 30 Days to reach target = 50%, Less than 30 days = 60%
• $120k and $240k: More than 30 Days to reach target = 60%, Less than 30 days = 70%
• $480k, $960k, and $1.92m: More than 30 Days to reach target = 50%, Less than 30 days = 60%
• $120k and $240k (High tier): More than 30 Days to reach target = 70%, Less than 30 days = 80%

• Existing 1, 2 and 3 Step programs: 85%
• 1 Step Nano and 2 Step Nano: up to 100%
• Instant: 80%
• Instant Starter: 90%
• With add-on: 90%

Based in highest value between balance and equity

Based on highest value between balance and equity

Same-type funded accounts can be merged up to $400,000 ($200,000 cap on Instant). Cross-merging different types (e.g. 2 Step Standard with 2 Step Pro) is NOT allowed. Both accounts must be at break-even (no profit, no loss) at merge time. Beyond the merge cap, the Scaling Plan can take total allocation up to $2,000,000. Guardian X and Instant accounts are NOT eligible for scaling.

• Ability Challenge: 4 days
• Ability One: 3 days
• Funded Trader Program: 5 days
• At least one position must be opened on each of those days

1 Step Nano: no minimum during the evaluation; 5 days when funded.

• 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

• Funded Trader Program: 3 days (traders must maintain consistency in trade duration and lot sizes to meet the minimum trading requirement)

• Instant, 2 Step Standard, Guardian X: 5 days with 0.5% profit or more
• 1 Step, 2 Step Classic, 3 Step, Crypto: 3 days with 0.5% profit or more
• 2 Step Classic: 4 days with 0.5% profit or more

Only self-developed EAs are permitted. The use of commercial, publicly available, or third-party-created automated trading tools is strictly prohibited.

Hedging is allowed within a single account. Hedging across multiple accounts (yours or others') is NOT allowed.

Minimum holding time of 2 minutes. Trades closed in under 2 minutes are flagged as tick scalping and count as a rule violation, whether closed manually or by automated systems. Average trade duration should stay above 1–2 minutes. Scalping itself is allowed as long as you stay above the 2-minute floor.

Maximum limit of 10 lots per open position. You may open multiple positions, but each individual position cannot exceed 10 lots.

Internal copying between your own AudaCity accounts is allowed. Copying from third-party accounts (other traders, other firms, signal providers) is not permitted.

Manual copy trading is allowed ONLY between accounts legally owned by the same person (e.g. between your own Evaluation and Funded accounts, or between your Blue Guardian account and external accounts in your name). NOT allowed:

• Copying trades from other traders' accounts.
• Third-party copiers that involve accounts not legally yours.
• Having a third party manage your trades.

Instant Funding users may also use third-party copiers, provided all accounts belong to the same user.

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.

News trading is allowed on Challenge, Guardian X and Instant Starter.

It is NOT allowed on Instant Standard and Funded accounts. On those, do not open or close trades within 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after a red folder (high-impact) release. Profits made during that window or significantly influenced by the news will be removed, even without an account violation. Same 5-minute window applies around FOMC speeches, statements and news events on Funded accounts.

Note: Instant Standard accounts purchased after November 13, 2025 cannot do news trading at all.

6 months

30 days

The formula for calculation of the Consistency Score is: [1 - (most profitable trading day)/(combined profit on all profitable days)]*100:

1. If the score is above 70 then the trader is considered as consistent.
2. If the score lies between 50 - 70 then the risk team will manually review the account and decide whether the trader should continue trading until the score becomes above 70 or pass them.
3. If the score is less than 50, then the trader shall continue trading the account until the score reaches above 50 and then the risk team can take a call.

Consistency rule applies to: 1 Step Nano evaluation and funded (50%), 2 Step Nano funded (50%), 2 Step Pro funded (25%), Guardian X and Instant Standard funded (20%), Instant Starter funded (15%), $300K and $400K Instant funded (15%).

Does NOT apply to: 2 Step Nano evaluation, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Classic, 3 Step funded accounts, nor to any other challenge phase.

Calculation: a single trading day cannot equal or exceed the threshold of total profits in the payout cycle. If exceeded, the payout button is blocked until the highest day drops below the threshold. Violating it does NOT terminate the account.

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts
• Martingale Trading
• Dollar Cost Averaging

• Platform or data freezing exploits (using a Demo Server error).
• Use of delayed data feed or trading on delayed charts.
• Tick scalping (trades closed under 2 minutes), high-frequency trading, arbitrage bots.
• Reverse arbitrage, latency arbitrage, hedge arbitrage and any emulators.
• Hedging between accounts (within one account is fine).
• Password changes (the password sent by email is the only one accepted).
• Gambling: any trading where margin usage exceeds 80% on running trades.
• Shared devices, VPS or accounts: each trader must use only their personal device. Shared usage across accounts results in payout disqualification, suspension or termination.
• Bypassing copy-trading or signal-trading rules using VPN/VPS.
• Account inactivity: at least 1 trade every 30 days (otherwise breach).