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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, at Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis

Sublot 40, Level 3, Block A2, Saradise Kuching, Off Jalan Stutong, 93350, Kuching, Malaysia

Iñaki Martinez, Albert Suriol

Dixon Teo

United Arab Emirates

Malaysia

2024

2023

Refund of the initial payment of the evaluation account will be made with the second payment

50%

One Step: First payout after 30 days and 10 days for every payout after that
Two Step and Instant: First payout after 15 days and 5 days for every payout after that

• Forex Evaluation: Bi-weekly (every 14 calendar days). Instant first payout.
• Instant Funded X: Every 30 days.

• 1%
• Crypto: $100
• Rise: $500

Instant Funded X: Greater of $100 or 1% of starting balance.

One Step, Instant: 30:1
Two Step: 50:1

One Step, Instant: 10:1
Two Step: 20:1

One Step, Instant: 1:1
Two Step: 2:1

Instant Funded X: Weekend flat fee add-on and up to 90% profit split add-on available.

15% profit in 3 months + 3 withdrawals → +25% balance. Max cumulative $2,000,000. Profit split can increase up to 95%.

• One Step and Two Step: Static
• Instant: Trailing

Forex Evaluation (X-1 & X-2 Step)
6% static drawdown from starting balance. Does not trail.

Instant Funded X
8% trailing drawdown. Trails upward with account growth. Once 8% profit is achieved, drawdown locks permanently at starting balance. After withdrawal, drawdown permanently locks at original starting balance.

80%

• Forex Evaluation: 80%
• Instant Funded X: 80% (up to 90% with add-ons)

Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark)

Forex Evaluation & Instant Funded X: 5% daily max loss. Calculated from the higher of: prior day's end-of-day balance or equity. Resets at 5:00 PM EST.

• Forex: $400,000
• Instant Funded X: $100,000
• Max $1M in active evaluations per person
• Maximum one evaluation per specific account size and plan type simultaneously across all platforms

• Case-by-case. Only possible when multiple assessments of identical product tier, step, and platform are passed simultaneously.
• Not permitted across different platforms, steps, or rule sets.

Unlimited

No time limit. Infinite evaluation duration.

0 minimum trading days across all plans.

Monthly competitions with free evaluation prizes.

4 days with at leat 0.5% profit

• EAs are allowed, but third-party or off-the-shelf strategies marketed to pass challenge accounts are banned.
• Strategy switching between evaluation and funded phases is also prohibited.

While VPNs and VPS are allowed, their usage is heavily considered during investigations of suspicious behavior or breaches of the terms and conditions.

• Hedging/reverse trades are permitted within a single account.
• Cross-account hedging is strictly prohibited.

SL (Stop Loss) must be added to the trade within a maximum of two minutes after the trade is opened.

Trades must be open for at least 60 seconds

5k:

• Forex: 3 lots
• Metals and Energies: 0.5 lots
• Indices: 5 lots

10k:

• Forex: 6 lots
• Metals and Energies: 1 lot
• Indices: 10 lots

20k:

• Forex: 12 lots
• Metals and Energies: 1.8 lots
• Indices: 20 lots

50k:

• Forex: 20 lots
• Metals and Energies: 4 lots
• Indices: 40 lots

100k:

• Forex: 35 lots
• Metals and Energies: 7 lots
• Indices: 70 lots

For all accounts, it's not allowed to risk more than 50% of the daily drawdown on one trade idea

For Instant Standard and Pro accounts, it's not allowed to risk more than 1% on the balance account

Only allowed to copy trades manually during evaluation phase between accounts of different size

• Only allowed if you own all accounts involved.
• Group trading, signal services, and mirror trading across multiple accounts are banned.

Trading funded accounts during high-impact news is restricted; opening or closing positions is prohibited within a 4-minute window both before and after red folder macroeconomic events.

• Opening positions within 3 minutes before or after news events is prohibited.
• Violations may result in position closure, P&L removal, leverage reduction, or account breach.

30 days

Accounts with zero trading activity for 30 consecutive days are hard breached.

To request a payment your biggest winning day can't exceed:

• Instant Standard: 30%
• Instant Pro: 15%

• Best trading day cannot exceed 45% of total profit target.
• If breached during evaluation, profit target adjusts upward.
• In funded phase, applies to withdrawal eligibility.
• Instant Funded X: No consistency rule.

• Forex Evaluation: Weekend holding allowed.
• Instant Funded X: All trades must be closed by 3:45 PM EST on Friday, or they are automatically closed (soft breach). Weekend holding add-on available.

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Trades lasting less than 60 seconds
• Grid trading
• Arbitrage trading
• Hedge trading
• Latency trading
• Reverse trading
• Tick scalping
• Hyperactivity
• Account cycling/rotation
• Gambling behavior
• Trade stacking
• Group hedging
• Overleveraging

• Exploiting pricing/latency errors
• Front-running trades
• Using non-public/insider information
• Arbitraging across company or third-party accounts
• News event trading (within 3 minutes before/after)
• Excessive leverage/"all-in" trades resembling gambling
• Group hedging/reverse trading across multiple accounts
• Third-party strategies marketed for challenge accounts
• Strategy switching between evaluation and funded phases