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

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

Jelle Dijkstra

Peter Brown, David Bhidey

United Arab Emirates

Ireland

2023

2024

Prime Program requires Risk approval: eligible after 5 payouts on one account (the SIM account maximum), 10 across accounts, or 20% profit on one account. Only accounts with at least one payout move to Live. Choose Live or a cash-out of 50% of MLL per eligible account within 24 hours; no answer means Live. SIM accounts close and evaluations pause. Cash-out or a Live breach: 21 days without new purchases or resuming evaluations. Live starts at $0 with real capital, EOD drawdown, 80% split, daily payouts and no consistency rule. One Live trader per household; other household members cannot hold SIM Funded accounts.

• BrightPlus: up to one approved payout per session; first payout from 24 hours after the first trade. Each subsequent payout requires fresh closed profit of 1% of the original account size.
• BrightCore: winning-day cycles, counted again from the next full session after each payout.

Flex: every 5 winning days. Direct: on demand once the profit goal and payout rules are met. Processing within 2 business days.

Processing within 24 business hours of the request.

Per request: 25K $1,000; 50K $2,000; 100K $3,000; 150K $4,000.

• BrightPlus: also limited to the balance above the buffer.
• BrightCore: the lowest of the size cap, 50% of current profit, and balance minus (starting balance + $100). The 2x addon doubles only the size cap.

Flex: 50% of cycle profits, capped at $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,000 for $50K / $100K / $150K. Direct: $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $3,500 per request for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.

Minimum request: $250, before the profit split.

Flex: $500 / $1,000 / $1,500 for $50K / $100K / $150K. Direct: $500 on all sizes.

At least 18 or the higher local age of majority. Sumsub KYC and a signed contract before SIM Funded activation, within 24 hours of completing both. One profile per person. The minimum trade duration rule must be met in each payout cycle. USDC on ERC-20 or bank transfer.

Direct: reach the overall profit goal of $1,500 / $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K before requesting a payout. Remaining profits provide the drawdown cushion after withdrawal.

Per contract, per side, USD, all fees included: ES/NQ/RTY/YM 2.88; MES/MNQ/M2K/MYM 0.95; NKD/ZC/ZL/ZW 3.65; 6A/6B/6C/6E/6J/6N/6S/NG 3.10; M6A/M6B/M6E 0.84; CL 3.00; MCL 1.20; QM 2.70; QG 2.00; GC/SI/HG/PL 3.15; MGC 1.30; HE/LE 3.60; ZS/ZM 3.63. Round trip: twice these rates.

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After a breach, within the time shown on the dashboard. Restarts evaluation even from SIM Funded, keeping the account number and addons. Costs 55% of the current list price including addons; addons cannot change and the hedging warning is not restored.

Unlimited paid resets during Flex evaluation only. No resets on Flex funded or Direct accounts.

Optional at purchase, with additive surcharges on the base price: 100% Profit Split +20%; 2x Payout Cap +40%; BrightCore only, 3 Day Payout Cycle +20%. Targets, drawdown and contracts do not change.

Flex only, selected at checkout: increase split to 100% (+15% fee), remove daily loss limit (+15%), or add $250 to maximum loss allowance (+15%). All three: +35%. No add-ons on Direct.

• BrightPlus: intraday trailing on peak equity, including open profit. In SIM it locks at starting balance + $100 once equity reaches the buffer.
• BrightCore: trailing on the highest closing balance, updated between 4:45 and 5:59 PM ET. In SIM it locks at starting balance + $100 on the first approved payout, even if previously higher.
  No lock during evaluation. Touching the floor with live equity breaches the account at any time.

EOD trailing, calculated on closing balance. After a withdrawal, the maximum-loss floor locks permanently at the initial starting balance.

The split applies to each requested amount; the full request is deducted from the account balance.

Flex and Direct use a fixed split instead of the former payout tiers. Flex offers an optional 100% split at checkout.

No separate daily loss limit.

Soft breach: reaching the daily limit pauses trading for the rest of the day. Direct $25K has no daily loss limit; Flex can remove it with an add-on.

Maximum 5 active accounts across Flex evaluation, Flex funded and Direct combined.

BrightPlus: starting balance + MLL + $100, retained after every payout. Only closed profit counts. Falling below pauses payouts without breaching the account. BrightCore has no such buffer.

Up to 5 active SIM Funded accounts across all plans and sizes. Unlimited evaluations. With all 5 slots used, another evaluation pass waits until a slot opens.

No time limit, subject to inactivity rules.

Flex evaluation: 30 days; paid extensions available in the dashboard. Direct: no evaluation time limit.

No explicit minimum. Consistency requires at least 2 sessions on BrightPlus and 3 on BrightCore in practice.

Flex evaluation: no fixed minimum, but the 50% consistency rule applies. Direct: no evaluation.

Trade2Earn: activity earns BrightTokens redeemable for perks and evaluations, with no cash value. On Live, Prime Ladder pays bonuses every 10 winning days through Diamond (80 days); Prime Trader at 90 is status only. Total bonuses per account: 25K $5,000; 50K $10,000; 100K $20,000; 150K $30,000. Losing days and payouts preserve progress; an account breach resets it.

• BrightPlus: no winning-day requirement.
• BrightCore SIM: 5 per payout, or 3 with the addon. Minimum closed net profit per session: 25K $100; 50K $200; 100K and 150K $300. Days need not be consecutive; at most one per session.

Flex payouts require 5 winning days: at least $150 / $200 / $250 daily profit for $50K / $100K / $150K.

No activation fee or recurring subscription.

One-time payment. No recurring monthly subscription.

Only exclusively self-authored software with no third-party access. It must not mirror another trader, be a black box or run simultaneously at other firms. Source-code review may be required.

VPN/VPS allowed without concealing identity or location or bypassing country restrictions. Only the owner may trade the account.

Prohibited within and across your accounts, including different expiries, mini/micro and correlated instruments in the same group. First occurrence: warning, positions closed and profit removed while losses remain. Second: account breach. One warning per evaluation and one over the lifetime of SIM, not renewed by payouts or resets. Both accounts are penalized for a cross-account hedge.

More than 50% of net winning-trade profit must come from trades held longer than 15 seconds. Partial fills count separately. Equality is insufficient. Noncompliance delays passing or blocks payouts without breaching the account; the calculation restarts after each payout. Exploitative tick scalping and HFT are prohibited.

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

Only between your BrightFunded accounts within the same profile. Copying others, signals or group trading is a hard breach.

EA and copy trading enabled by default on Flex and Direct, subject to trading rules.

Open a new trade every 30 calendar days in evaluation and every 7 trading sessions in SIM, excluding holidays. Closing, editing and unfilled pending orders do not count. Advance warning; missing the deadline deactivates the account as a hard breach.

At least 1 trade every 2 weeks; after inactivity, a reminder gives 1 additional week before closure. Applies to evaluation and funded accounts.

Evaluation only: best session / total net profit, up to 50% on BrightPlus and 40% on BrightCore. Includes commissions and losing days. Recalculated at session close; equality is allowed. Delays passing without breaching the account. Does not apply in SIM.

Flex evaluation: best day at most 50% of evaluation profit. Flex funded: at most 40% of cycle profit, reset after each payout. Direct: at most 25% of total returns. Exceeding the ratio delays passing or payouts; it does not breach the account.

Exploiting simulated prices, latency, fills or liquidity; arbitrage, spoofing, layering, abusive HFT, oversized one-way bets, account rolling, third-party management and risk or size changes inconsistent with normal trading. Terms allow affected profits to be removed, extra limits imposed or accounts closed.

• 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

Automatic close at 4:45 PM ET, Monday to Friday, without a breach for auto-close. CME session runs from 6:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET the next day; holiday cutoffs may be earlier.