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Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia
Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Lucas Antonio
Jakub Rož
Saint Lucia
United Arab Emirates
2024
2023
Standard, Apex and Direct: first payout after 14 days, then every 14, according to checkout. Atlas Live: every 7 days, according to documentation.
- Futures Fast: on-demand (after 5 profitable days and offsetting trailing drawdown)
- Futures Instant: on-demand (after 7 profitable days)
- Futures Fast Pro: on-demand (after 1 profitable day, balance > $52K)
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.
48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split
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, Apex and Direct: $100. Live: $1,500/$2,500/$5,000/$7,500 for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K sizes.
- Minimum: $100 in wallet
- Maximum per cycle by product:
· Futures Fast 25K: $800
· Futures Fast 50K: $1,500
· Futures Fast 100K: $2,500
· Futures Instant 25K: $1,500
· Futures Instant 50K: $3,000
· Futures Instant 100K: $4,500
· Futures Fast Pro 50K: $250-$1,200 per cycle, final $10,000 (max 5 withdrawals)
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.
Proprietary platform For Traders X. Liquidity provider not publicly disclosed.
No traditional refund. No activation fee after passing Fast/Fast Pro.
- Crypto ($100 – $499): $25
- Rise $500 or more: $50
Per-contract margins set by underlying instrument. Position size capped per account size.
Atlas Live after the fourth payout: trailing equity drawdown and Direct contract limits.
Scaling unlocked through the Loyalty Program (5 tiers: Starter, Rising Star, Pro, VIP, Legend). Increments depend on tier. Applies to all account types.
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.
- Futures Fast: $1,000 (25K) / $2,000 (50K) / $2,500 (100K), trailing
- Futures Fast Pro: $2,000 EOD trailing (50K)
- Futures Instant: 5% EOD trailing
Atlas Live: 100%. Reached after the fourth paid payout. All programs remain simulated.
All futures products: 80%
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.
- Futures Fast: none
- Futures Fast Pro: $1,000 (50K)
- Futures Instant: 3% from highest day equity
$300,000 combined across all Master Accounts and Instant Models (Forex + Crypto + Futures shared cap). No allocation limit during Challenge phase.
After withdrawal, balance must remain $100 above starting balance.
No mandatory buffer. Instead, when you request a payout your maximum trailing drawdown locks at your starting balance.
No evaluation deadline.
No time limit on any futures account.
Standard evaluation: 2 days; Apex: 1. Funded per cycle: Standard 5; Apex 4; Direct 5; Live 4.
No activation or subscription fee.
Standard: +$150 per day. Apex: +$200, except $150K: +$195. Direct and Live: +1% of starting balance per day.
- Futures Fast Challenge: 5 profitable days before reward request
- Futures Fast Pro: 1 profitable day per reward request (50K)
- Futures Instant: 7 profitable days
One-time fee; no subscription.
EAs allowed only as decision-support tools (alerts, partial management, predefined rules). Fully autonomous trading bots are prohibited.
Must not conceal location or identity. Give advance notice of locations inconsistent with registration.
Allowed within one account. Prohibited across accounts, brokers or firms.
Cross-account hedging is forbidden.
On funded accounts, profits from trades held under 3 minutes are deducted. Losses remain; the deduction does not close the account.
Manual scalping allowed with minimum 5-second hold per trade. Tick scalping and HFT forbidden.
Martingale strategies are forbidden.
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.
Position size capped by contract count per account (see Max Allocation).
Only between your own Atlas accounts; copying other traders or external accounts is prohibited.
Outbound copy allowed; inbound copy from external sources forbidden.
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.
News trading allowed without restrictions on Futures accounts.
Open a trade at least every 30 days.
- Futures Fast Challenge: 7 days
- Futures Fast Master: 14 days
- Futures Fast Pro Challenge: 7 days / Master: 14 days
- Futures Instant: 7 days
Days counted from the moment a position is CLOSED, not opened. Minimal 0.01-lot trades to game the rule don't count.
Standard: best day at most 50% of profit, according to checkout. Direct and Live: 20%. Apex: no consistency.
- Futures Fast Challenge: best day's profit must be < 40% of total accumulated profit. No consistency target on Master.
- Futures Fast Pro Challenge: same 40% rule.
- Futures Instant: best day cannot exceed 15% of total profit.
- Calculation: Best Day Profit / 0.40 = Minimum required total profit.
Weekend holds are unrestricted.
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.
- Arbitrage (latency, reverse, statistical)
- HFT
- Tick scalping (under 5 seconds)
- Fully autonomous bots/EAs
- Cross-account hedging
- Gambling behaviors
- Martingale
- Inbound copy trading and signal services
- Group/signal trading from Telegram, Discord etc.




















