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

Al Shohada Road 10055, Al Hamra Industrial Zone-FZ, 10055, Ras Al Khaimah, U.A.E.

Karim Yousfi

Sebastian Ness

United Kingdom

United Arab Emirates

2012

2023

Liquidity Provider

Full refund after first payout

Historically, standard challenges were non-refundable. A newer rule states that evaluation fees purchased after January 9, 2026 are refundable on the 4th payout, while older purchases remain non-refundable.

2% payout fee or a $10 minimum transaction fee per payout.

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

1 Step Evaluation and 2 Step

• Instant payout request once requirements are met.

Instant Funding Static

• Base schedule every 14 days.
• Promotional instant requests may apply.

Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later

• Every 14 days.

EA Challenge

• First payout after 4 weeks, then every 2 weeks.

Futures Style

• Instant Funding: payout eligible after 5 days.
• 1 Step Pro Evaluation: payout eligible after 3 days.

Payouts are processed within 24 business hours or the trader receives an extra 10% on the profit split.

• Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no payout cap.
• Other funded products: usually capped at 5% of the initial balance per payout cycle, depending on the program.

Funded Trader Program: 10% profit

$100 minimum withdrawal. Lower withdrawals may be processed on request with fees deducted.

• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: $250 / $500 / $750 / $1,000 minimum payout on $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.

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

• Standard challenge accounts: 1:50
• Funded phase: 1:30
• EA Challenge during challenge phase: 1:100

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

Gold is included in the firm's general leverage framework.

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

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

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

Only the 1 Step Evaluation documents a free reset, available if the funded account is lost within 10 days. Futures Style Instant Funding and Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation show reset availability; no reset fee is stated publicly. Other listed products do not include a free reset.

• +10% Profit Split (+15%)
• Weekly payout (+20%)
• +10% Profit Split + Weekly payout (+30%)
• News trading: Instant Funding Static and 1 Step

• 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

• 1 Step Evaluation: 10% maximum drawdown, trailing on end-of-day (EOD) high-watermark.
• EA Challenge uses trailing high-watermark logic.
• 2 Step and Free Challenge use static maximum drawdown.
• Instant Funding Static uses static drawdown.
• Instant Funding Zero: 5% of the initial balance, trailing from the highest recorded equity (high-water mark).
• Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later funded phase use trailing high-watermark logic.
• Futures Style Instant Funding: EOD maximum-loss limit of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $5,000 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: EOD maximum-loss limit of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.

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%

• 1 Step Evaluation: 90%
• 2 Step: 80%
• Instant Funding Static: scales from 50% to 80%
• Instant Funding Zero: 70% from the first payout
• Instant Funding Trailing: 80% from the first payout
• EA Challenge: scales from 50% to 80%
• Buy Now, Pay Later: 80%
• Futures Style Instant Funding: 90%
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: 90%
• Free Challenge funded outcome: 50%

A Free Challenge exists, but it still requires a small activation fee of $1 to $5 and converts into a $5,000 2 Step account if passed.

Soft-breached profit is deducted at payout review. If deductions reduce profit to zero or below, the payout is denied and the account is reset.

Based in highest value between balance and equity

Daily drawdown resets at 5 PM EST and is generally recalculated from the higher of balance or equity using the product's initial-balance loss allowance.

• Futures Style Instant Funding: no daily limit on $25K; $1,200 / $2,100 / $3,000 on $50K / $100K / $150K.
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: no daily limit on $25K; $1,200 / $1,800 / $2,700 on $50K / $100K / $150K.

No limit

No time limits are stated for the 1 Step and 2 Step evaluations. No broader firm-wide maximum duration rule was documented for the other active products reviewed.

• 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

Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no minimum trading days.

• 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)

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

EAs are generally prohibited, except on the EA Challenge where they are allowed only during the challenge phase and prohibited once funded.

Scalping is not completely banned, but tick scalping is prohibited and trades should generally remain open for more than 2 minutes.

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.

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.

For new accounts purchased after the rule change announced on 30 September 2026, trading high-impact (red-folder) news is prohibited during the 5 minutes before and after the event. A news trading add-on is available at checkout for Instant Funding Static and 1 Step. Accounts purchased before the change retain their previous news trading permissions.

6 months

At least one open trade or pending order is required every 30 days to keep the account active.

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.

Profit Consistency Rule

• 1 Step Evaluation: no single trading day can make up 50% or more of total profits, in both evaluation and funded phases.
• 2 Step, Instant Funding Static and EA Challenge: a trading day cannot equal or exceed 25% of total profit for the payout period.
• Instant Funding Lite: 15%.
• Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later: 20%.
• Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no consistency rule.
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: none in evaluation; 40% in funded status.

There is no lot size consistency rule.

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

• Tick scalping / ultra-short trades
• High-frequency trading (HFT)
• Latency arbitrage
• Reverse arbitrage
• Martingale
• Account management
• Third-party copy trading or mirrored group trading
• Exploiting pricing, execution, latency or platform errors
• Manipulative hedging patterns designed to game payouts or risk limits