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85 Great Portland Street, London, England W1W 7LT, GB
56 Alekou Konstantinou, Strovolos, 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus
Faizan Anees
Revin Zabala
United Kingdom
Cyprus
2024
2024
Liquidity Provider
Full refund of the challenge fee with the first payout
Full refund after 3rd payout. Not available for Instant Funding Accounts and 1-step Nitro X Accounts
Rise: $50 each month any payout is requested
5% processing fee on crypto payouts (covers blockchain costs, liquidity swaps, and infrastructure). Only TRC20 USDT supported for crypto payouts.
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- By default: Biweekly
- With add-on (+25%): Weekly
- Bolt: Biweekly by default; On-Demand Payouts with add-on (+25%)
On Demand, provided you have met these specific criteria:
- Consistency Rule
- Minimum Payout Amount of 1% of Initial Balance (Before-Split)
- Minimum Trading Days
The 24-hour payout guarantee ensures that you are eligible to receive your full payout within 24 business hours of your payout request. If Funded Trader Markets fail to meet this time frame, they will double the requested payout and issue a free account of the same size. This guarantee is only applicable for payouts up to $1000.
- 2-Step Prime: $15,000 per month
- 1-Step Nitro X: $5,000 per account and request, and required to leave a buffer of 50% of the profits
- Crypto payouts: $5,000 per transaction (TRC20 USDT only)
$100
- 1-Step Nitro X: Must make at least a 3% profit before withdrawal
- All other accounts: 1% of initial balance
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 30:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 100:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 10:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 10:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 5:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 15:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
- Lightning (Metatrader 5): 1:1
- Nexus (Metatrader 5): 1:1
- All accounts (ThinkTrader), Dual Step (Metatrader 5): Dynamic
- BTC, ETH: 5:1
- Other crypto: 2:1
All accounts are swap free
A reset gives a trader who has violated their account rules (such as exceeding the Daily or Overall Loss Limit) the ability to restore the account to its original starting balance paying a fee, and begin trading again.
1-Step Nitro X (Evaluation Phase)
- Reset Limit: Unlimited
- Reset Window: Within 30 days of the original purchase date
1-Step Nitro and 1-Step Nitro X (Funded Phase)
- Reset Limit: One-time only
Instant Standard
- Reset Limit: One-time only
- Reset Window: Within 24 hours after the breach
- Profit Split 90% (+25%)
- Weekly payout (+25%; not available on Bolt)
- Allows News Trading (+25%)
- Bolt: On-Demand Payouts (+25%)
- Bolt: Weekend Holding (+15%), permits weekend holding and trading
90% Profit Split (2-Step Plus): It has no cost on money but Shield Risk Protocol will apply now on evaluation phase as well
- Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step: Traders become eligible after reaching a minimum profit of 10% within three months, equivalent to an average monthly gain of around 3.33%. Each approved phase increases the original demo account balance by 20%, up to $1 million on MetaTrader 5 or $1.5 million on ThinkTrader. Assessments take place every three months and require three payouts during each cycle.
- Bolt: Reach 10% total profit across four payouts within two months. Each approved scaling phase increases the account balance by 25%, up to $500,000.
- Lightning: 6% trailing, locks at initial balance once it grows by 6%
- Bolt: 6% trailing equity, locks at initial balance after the first payout
- Dual Step Intraday: 7% static
- Dual Step Swing: 7% static
- Nexus: 8% static
- Instant, 1-Step: Trailing
- 2-Step: Static
- Standard: 80%
- With add-on (+25%): 90%
- Bolt: 90% with scaling
Instant Standard, Instant Pro
- 1st payout: 50%
- 2nd payout: 60%
- 3rd payout: 70%
- 4th payout and next: 80%
Instant Plus
80%
2-Step Plus
70% (up to 90% with 2-Step Plus add-on)
1-Step Nitro
90% for the first $10,000 and 80% after that
1-Step Nitro X
100%
If your Simulated Funded account with Funded Trader Markets is in profit but has been breached, you may still qualify for a withdrawal with a 50% split, provided the following conditions are met:
- Stop Loss Usage: Every trade had an SL in place.
- Loss Limits: No single position incurred a loss exceeding 1% of the account's initial balance.
- Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step Swing, Bolt: 3% Balance-based (Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step Swing) / 3% Equity-based (Bolt, Dual Step Intraday)
- All accounts: Soft breach, account disabled for the day, resumes next day at 00:00 MT5 Server Time
Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark
- MetaTrader 5: $300,000
- ThinkTrader: $600,000
- Bolt with scaling: $500,000
Evaluations
- 2-Step Plus: $200,000
- 1-Step Nitro: $300,000
- 1-Step Nitro X: $150,000
Instant Funding
- Instant Standard: $100,000
- Instant Pro: $100,000
- Instant Plus: $100,000
- Standard: Bi-weekly (14 days)
- With add-on (+25%): Weekly (7 days)
- Bolt: Bi-weekly (14 days); On-Demand Payouts add-on (+25%) available
- All programs except Bolt: No consistency rule
- Bolt: 20% best day cap
Unlimited
Unlimited
- Lightning, Nexus, Dual Step: 3 days minimum (0.5% profit each)
- Bolt: No minimum profitable trading days
1-Step Nitro / 1-Step Nitro X
- Evaluation: no minimum days.
- Funded Simulation: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit count.
2-Step Plus
- Evaluation: 3 minimum days per phase.
- Funded Simulation: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit.
Instant Standard / Pro / Plus
- Payout eligibility: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit count.
- Instant Pro: trading-day requirement can be removed with a checkout add-on.
Maximum of 2 positions simultaneously
Martingale and layering are allowed per account (increasing position size after a loss, or opening multiple positions in the same direction at different price levels). Running these strategies across multiple accounts simultaneously is prohibited and counts as abusive behavior.
Shield Risk Protocol
Maximum Floating Loss Limits
- Instant Plus, 2-Step Plus: Maximum floating loss = 1% of account balance
Breach Consequences
- Breach it once = 80% profit split drops to 50%
- Breach it repeatedly = payout share reduces permanently to 40%, 30% and finally 20%
Traders may use copy trading across multiple Think Capital accounts. That said, copying trades from personal accounts or from accounts with other proprietary firms is not allowed.
If you wish to copy trades between different prop firm accounts, your Think Capital account must be set as the primary (master) account.
Built-in Copy Trading lets traders link their own FTM accounts and mirror trades, including from Evaluation to Funded phases. Available across supported platforms. Account sharing and group trading remain prohibited.
- Dual Step (Swing): Allowed by default
- Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step (Intraday): Only allowed with add-on
- Bolt: Not allowed
Rule for products where news trading requires the add-on:
- No trades, including limit and stop orders, may be executed 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after a high-impact news event (total of 4 minutes).
- Any activity during this 4-minute window will result in immediate termination of the funded agreement, account cancellation, and forfeiture of any profits.
30 days
Accounts inactive for 30 days are subject to closure.
Instant (all)
- If a single day's profit is more than 20% of your total profit in the Instant Funding Account, you have to keep trading until the best day profit is less than 20% of the total profit.
1-Step Nitro
50% on evaluation phase and 45% on funded phase
1-Step Nitro X
25% on funded phase
2-Step Plus
No consistency rule on evaluation. No consistency rule on funded phase.
Lightning, Nexus and Dual Step: allowed. Bolt: requires the Weekend Holding add-on (+15%).
- Copy Trading
- Grid (Reverse) Trading
- Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts
- Collusion Between Users
- Account Sharing, Account Management, or Account Sale
- Latency Arbitrage
- High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
- Abuse of a Delayed Data Feed
- Abuse of the Simulated Environment
- Trading on Delayed Charts
- Utilization of Expert Advisors
- Challenge Passing Services
- Martingale Trading
- Use of Guarantee of Compliance with Limit Orders
- Trading in Sanctioned Countries
- Trading Activity: Soft Breaches/Warnings
- Use of Platform or Data Freezing Due to Technical Errors
- News Trading
- Order Layering
- Gambling/Punting
- Using Manipulative Software or Techniques
- Non-Standard Trading Practices
- Using External or Slow Data Feeds
- Exploiting Service Errors
- Manipulative Trading
- Hedging Across Accounts
- Account Management Services
- Group Trading
- High-Frequency Trading
- News Scalping
- Arbitrage Trading
- Multi-Account Reverse Trading
- Tick Scalping
- Internal Reverse Trading
- Group Hedging
- Account Management Services
- Account Sharing


















