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Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia

Suite 302, 2 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland

Lucas Antonio

Peter Brown, David Bhidey

Saint Lucia

Ireland

Standard, Apex and Direct: first payout after 14 days, then every 14, according to checkout. Atlas Live: every 7 days, according to documentation.

• Standard and Expert: Every 14 calendar days from first trade on funded account. Minimum $100.
• Straight to Sim Live: Every 14 calendar days. Minimum 3% of account balance ($450 on $15K, $900 on $30K, $1,800 on $60K, $2,400 on $80K).

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.

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.

Standard and Expert

• $50,000 Account → $5,000
• $100,000 Account → $10,000
• $150,000 Account → $15,000

Straight to Live Sim

• $15K → $3,000
• $30K → $6,000
• $60K → $12,000
• $80K → $15,000

Withdrawals Structure

Withdrawals follow a tier-based structure, where the percentage of profits available for withdrawal increases with each payout:

• Payout 1 → 60% of the total profits (On Standrad and Expert only profits above the buffer count)
• Payout 2 → 70%
• Payout 3 → 80%
• Payout 4 → 90%
• Payout 5 and onwards → 100%

Standard, Apex and Direct: $100. Live: $1,500/$2,500/$5,000/$7,500 for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K sizes.

• Standard and Expert: $100
• Straight to Live Sim: 3% of balance

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.

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Profit Split Increase (+10%)

• Standard: 80% to 90%
• Expert and Direct to Sim Live: 90% to 100%

Remove Daily Drawdown (+10%)

• Only available for Expert account

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 (End of Day Balance)

Atlas Live: 100%. Reached after the fourth paid payout. All programs remain simulated.

Standard and Expert Accounts
Tier-based withdrawal structure:

• Payout 1: 60% of amount above buffer zone
• Payout 2: 70%
• Payout 3: 80%
• Payout 4: 90%
• Payout 5+: 100%

Straight to Sim Live

• Base split: 90% trader / 10% firm
• 100% available with checkout add-on
• Same tier-based withdrawal (60→100% per payout)

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.

In all accounts

5 active accounts across the Evaluation and Funded stages combined, and one Sim Live account

After withdrawal, balance must remain $100 above starting balance.

Standard Accounts

• $50,000 Account → $500
• $100,000 Account → $1,000
• $150,000 Account → $1,500

Expert Accounts

• $50,000 Account → $1,000
• $100,000 Account → $1,500
• $150,000 Account → $2,000

No evaluation deadline.

Standard evaluation: 2 days; Apex: 1. Funded per cycle: Standard 5; Apex 4; Direct 5; Live 4.

• Standard evaluation phase: 4 days to pass
• Expert evaluation phase: 3 days to pass

No activation or subscription fee.

Lifetime activation fee

Standard: +$150 per day. Apex: +$200, except $150K: +$195. Direct and Live: +1% of starting balance per day.

One-time fee; no subscription.

Montly fee

Only available for evaluation accounts

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.

Micro scalping not allow (trades executed within seconds to under a minute, targeting small profits, typically less than 3 points.

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.

Copy trading allowed but NOT enabled by default. Requires submission of a request for review and approval (case-by-case basis). Documentation needed: HTML trading history of master account with 3+ months history, displaying client's own name. Only permitted between accounts owned by the same user.

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.

Open a trade at least every 30 days.

No inactivity rule. Funded accounts will NOT be closed for inactivity. Accounts remain active as long as trading parameters are respected.

Standard: best day at most 50% of profit, according to checkout. Direct and Live: 20%. Apex: no consistency.

• Standard: 30% consistency rule (applies to both Challenge and Funded stages)
• Expert: 40% consistency rule (applies to Funded stage only)
• Straight to Sim Live: 20% consistency rule

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: max leverage on single position using loss limits as stop-loss
• Tick or Micro Scalping: trades with <10 ticks movement
• Exploiting Favorable Fills (no slippage exploitation, tight brackets)
• Account Rolling
• Reverse Trading (opposite positions on separate accounts)
• Manipulating Gaps and Illiquid Markets
• Group Trading
• Account Management (third-party trading on your behalf)
• Latency Arbitrage