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Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia
1 Allied Business Centre, Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden, England, AL5 4UT
Lucas Antonio
Andrew Blaylock & George Kohler
Saint Lucia
United Kingdom
2024
2023
Qualified traders may be selected to trade real capital through the Alpha Futures Live Program or Alpha Prime. Live accounts offer daily uncapped withdrawals, no consistency rule and no news-trading restrictions.
Standard, Apex and Direct: first payout after 14 days, then every 14, according to checkout. Atlas Live: every 7 days, according to documentation.
- Zero, Standard and Advanced: Up to 4 times per month after 5 winning trading days of $200 or more
- Direct: Up to 4 times per month after meeting its Withdrawal Profit Target and 20% consistency rule
First payout: 24 working hours; subsequent payouts: 48. Working hours: Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00 BST. Late payment: $500 with that payout and $500 with the next. Giveaway and collaborator accounts excluded.
Same day
Standard, Apex and Direct: up to 50% of cycle profit and the limit in the corresponding row. Live: first payout capped at $4,000/$6,000/$7,000/$8,000 for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K; afterwards, no cap beyond available profit.
- Advanced: $15,000 per account
- Zero 25K: $1,000
- Zero 50K: $1,500
- Zero 100K: $2,500
- Standard 50K: $3,000
- Standard 100K: $4,000
- Standard 150K: $5,000
- Direct 25K: $1,000
- Direct 50K: $2,000
- Direct 100K: $2,500
- Direct 150K: $3,000
Standard, Apex and Direct: $100. Live: $1,500/$2,500/$5,000/$7,500 for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K sizes.
- Zero: $200
- Standard: $500
- Advanced: $1,000
- Direct: $500
Approved KYC. Requesting closes positions and pauses the account until payout is resolved. Challenge fee refunded as Atlas Balance with the third consecutive payout, according to the shared FAQ.
- Level 2 (Depth of Market) Data for all exchanges: $41/month per user
- EUREX DOM data: $23 per month
Atlas Live after the fourth payout: trailing equity drawdown and Direct contract limits.
Trailing at each day's close, 16:45 New York. On funded Standard, Apex and Direct, stops rising at starting balance; the first payout request locks the floor there. Live: trailing equity without a lock.
- EOD trailing on every plan
- Locks at the starting balance
- Does not reset after a performance fee
Atlas Live: 100%. Reached after the fourth paid payout. All programs remain simulated.
Standard: soft limit. Closes positions and locks trading until the 16:45 New York reset; does not close the account unless maximum drawdown is also reached.
- Advanced: none
- Zero: applies in Evaluation and Qualified; hitting it locks the account until the next trading day
- Standard: none in Evaluation; applies once Qualified
- Direct: applies from day one
- Zero, Standard and Direct: up to 5 Qualified accounts
- Advanced: up to 3 Qualified accounts; an active Advanced Qualified account limits the user to 3 total
After withdrawal, balance must remain $100 above starting balance.
No evaluation deadline.
Standard evaluation: 2 days; Apex: 1. Funded per cycle: Standard 5; Apex 4; Direct 5; Live 4.
- Zero (Evaluation): 1 day
- Standard (Evaluation): 2 days
- Advanced (Evaluation): 3 days
- Zero, Standard and Advanced Qualified: 5 winning days of $200 or more before each performance fee
- Direct: no minimum trading days; withdrawals require its profit target and 20% consistency rule
No activation or subscription fee.
No activation fee on any plan. Direct is paid once; Zero, Standard and Advanced charge monthly only during Evaluation.
Standard: +$150 per day. Apex: +$200, except $150K: +$195. Direct and Live: +1% of starting balance per day.
Zero, Standard and Advanced require 5 winning days with at least $200 profit each before every performance fee request. Direct requires its Withdrawal Profit Target and 20% consistency rule.
One-time fee; no subscription.
Zero, Standard and Advanced use a monthly Evaluation fee. Direct is one-time.
Evaluation Resets
Evaluation reset prices are shown in each challenge. Paying the next monthly subscription also resets an Evaluation.
Qualified Resets
Available after a breach on Zero and Standard Qualified accounts.
| Plan | 25K | 50K | 100K | 150K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zero | $399 | $499 | $799 | — |
| Standard | — | $599 | $799 | $999 |
The scaling plan limits maximum position size according to accumulated profit. Zero 25K has no scaling plan; Advanced and Direct have no scaling plan.
Zero Qualified
| Profit | 50K minis | 50K micros | 100K minis | 100K micros |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less than $1,500 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| $1,500-$2,000 | 2 | 20 | 3 | 30 |
| $2,000-$3,000 | 3 | 30 | 4 | 40 |
| $3,000-$4,500 | — | — | 5 | 50 |
| $4,500+ | — | — | 6 | 60 |
Standard Qualified
| Profit | 50K minis | 50K micros | 100K minis | 100K micros | 150K minis | 150K micros |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less than $1,500 | 2 | 20 | 3 | 30 | 3 | 30 |
| $1,500-$2,000 | 3 | 30 | 4 | 40 | 4 | 40 |
| $2,000-$3,000 | 5 | 50 | 5 | 50 | 5 | 50 |
| $3,000-$4,500 | 5 | 50 | 10 | 100 | 10 | 100 |
| $4,500+ | 5 | 50 | 10 | 100 | 15 | 150 |
Must not conceal location or identity. Give advance notice of locations inconsistent with registration.
Allowed within one account. Prohibited across accounts, brokers or firms.
On funded accounts, profits from trades held under 3 minutes are deducted. Losses remain; the deduction does not close the account.
Tick or micro scalping is prohibited when trades repeatedly last less than 2 minutes and move less than 10 ticks. There is no universal minimum holding time.
Reasonable DCA is allowed. Excessive order stacking or order-book spamming intended to exploit simulated fills is prohibited.
Close all positions before 16:45 New York; holding afterwards closes the account. On funded accounts, 80% margin usage closes positions and deducts their profits. Respect contract limits.
Only between your own Atlas accounts; copying other traders or external accounts is prohibited.
Permitted only when one user copies trades across accounts held in that same person's name. Automated, group and reverse trading remain prohibited.
Unrestricted during evaluation. On funded accounts, profits from trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news are deducted. Holding through the entire window is allowed.
- All Evaluation accounts: no news-trading restrictions
- Advanced Qualified: no news-trading restrictions
- Direct, Standard and Zero Qualified: no orders within 2 minutes before or 2 minutes after high-impact news
Open a trade at least every 30 days.
10 trading days
Standard: best day at most 50% of profit, according to checkout. Direct and Live: 20%. Apex: no consistency.
- Zero: no Evaluation consistency rule; 40% on Qualified accounts
- Standard: 50% in Evaluation; 40% on Qualified accounts
- Advanced: 40% in Evaluation; none on Qualified accounts
- Direct: 20% between performance fee requests
Latency or tick arbitrage, exploiting prices or bugs, order flooding, hedging across accounts or firms, account sharing and passing services. Multiple locations must not hide who trades. Gambling, martingale and manipulating evaluations are prohibited.
- All or Nothing Approach
- Order Book Spamming
- Tick or Micro Scalping
- Exploiting Absence of Slippage / Favorable Fills
- Multiple Limit Orders at Same Price
- Gambling Tendencies / Account Rolling (Account Stacking)
- Reverse Trading / Hedging
- Trading Illiquid or Gapped Markets for Isolated Fills
- Non-Compliance with CME Group Rules
- Group Trading (Collaborative Trading)
