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100 Crescent Ct, Unit 700, Dallas, Texas 75201, US

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

Dylan Elchami

Lucas Antonio

United States

Saint Lucia

2021

2024

E8 charges no payout fee. WorkMarket or Rise may charge a processing fee depending on the selected withdrawal method.

Challenge and SimFi Performance accounts are simulated. Futures market data is sourced from CME.

• Signature Futures: on demand once all payout requirements are met.
• Zero Starter and Zero Max: daily, minimum $100.

Standard, Apex and Direct: on request at any time once the profit goal is met, with no waiting period (Apex also needs 5 winning days). Daily: once a day. Requests Monday to Friday (UTC). At the 5th payout the risk team reviews the account and may refer the trader to live trading, closing the funded account.

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.

E8 Signature Futures

E8 Zero Starter

• $50K: $1,000
• $100K: $1,600
• $200K: $2,100

E8 Zero Max

• $50K: $3,000
• $100K: $5,000
• $200K: $7,000

Signature Futures and Zero allow a maximum of 5 payouts per account; after the fifth, the account closes and a free Challenge of the same size is issued.

Per-size cap per payout, before the split. Standard and Daily: balance above the required balance. Apex: 50% of profit held. Direct: profit held. Apex and Direct keep at least $200 above the starting balance.

$100

Standard, Apex and Direct: $500. Daily: $250/$500/$1,000/$1,500 for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K.

Payouts require successful onboarding and KYC with WorkMarket or Rise. If neither provider accepts the trader, E8 cannot process the payout.

Identity verification before the first payout. Requesting closes positions and pauses the account until the payout is resolved. Standard: profit goal of $250/$500/$750/$1,000 per payout. Apex from the 2nd payout: $500/$750/$1,000/$1,250. Daily from the 2nd payout: new profit of 50% of the last payout. Direct: $1,500/$3,000/$6,000/$9,000 for the first, then $1,250/$2,500/$3,500/$4,500. Accounts bought from 22 October 2026 have no fee refund.

After an account fails, a 10% discount is available for 7 days to retry the same account size and settings.

Zero Starter and Zero Max allow the payout share to be increased from the 80% base configuration to 100% at checkout.

No Daily Loss Limit: +25% on Standard, +40% on Apex. 50% Consistency on Apex and Daily: +15%, evaluation best day up to 50% and 2 minimum days.

EOD Dynamic Drawdown based on the highest end-of-day balance. Intraday equity does not move it. It locks permanently at the initial balance level.

Trailing on end-of-day balance, recalculated at 16:45 New York; never moves down and stops $100 above the starting balance, in evaluation and funded. The first payout request fixes the floor there. Breach measured on equity in real time. Atlas Daily funded uses $2,500 and $3,500 on $100K and $150K.

• Signature Futures: 80%.
• Zero Starter/Max: 80% base; 100% can be selected at checkout.

90% on every program. All accounts are simulated.

• Signature Challenge: none.
• Signature Performance: 2% Daily Pause (soft breach; trading resumes the next day).
• Zero Challenge and Performance: none.

Lockout, not a breach: reaching it closes positions and locks trading until the 16:45 New York reset. Measured from the balance at the start of the trading day. None on Atlas Direct $25K or with the No Daily Loss Limit add-on. Atlas Daily funded: $500/$1,000/$1,250/$1,800.

• Challenge stage: unlimited accounts.
• Signature Futures: up to 5 active Performance accounts.
• Zero Starter/Max: up to 3 active Performance accounts. Limits apply per household.

Signature requires leaving a non-withdrawable buffer equal to the EOD Dynamic Drawdown before payouts. On Zero, any profit left after a payout remains as buffer and cannot be requested in a later cycle.

Standard and Daily: after a payout the balance must stay at the starting balance plus the max loss plus $100. Apex and Direct: at least $200 above the starting balance.

Unlimited, but the account closes after 7 days of inactivity.

No evaluation deadline.

• Signature Futures: can pass in 1 day.
• Zero Starter/Max: earliest pass in 3 days because of the 40% Best Day rule.

Evaluation: Standard 2 days; Apex and Daily 3 (2 with the 50% Consistency add-on). Funded: no minimum days, except the winning days on Apex.

No activation fee or recurring subscription.

No activation or subscription fee.

• Signature: 5 profitable days between payouts after the first payout; a profitable day requires at least 0.3% realized profit.
• Zero Starter/Max: no minimum profitable days in Performance.

Apex funded: 5 winning days per payout of $100/$150/$200/$255 net closed profit for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K. Other programs: no winning-day requirement.

Only Zero Performance accounts scale contract allowance. At 1.5% locked profit the first level unlocks the next day; at 3% the second level unlocks. Signature and Zero Challenge contract limits do not scale.

One-time fee. No subscription.

One-time fee; no subscription.

Semi-automated and fully automated trading, including bots, AI tools and HFT above 300 trades per day, is prohibited on Futures.

Must not conceal location or identity. Give advance notice of locations inconsistent with registration.

Futures accounts use a netting system. Hedging across multiple accounts or users is prohibited.

Allowed within one account. Prohibited across accounts, brokers or firms.

At least 50% of total profit must come from trades held for 10 seconds or longer.

On funded accounts, a trade held under 3 minutes loses its profit only when that profit is half the max loss or more. Losses remain; it does not close the account.

There is no fixed percentage risk cap, but irresponsible, all-or-nothing or disproportionate risk-taking can trigger review or account termination.

Positions open at 16:45 New York are closed automatically; this is not a breach. No margin-usage rule or Atlas Protector: contract limits cap position size, and funded accounts start at half the limits until the floor locks or the first payout is paid.

Allowed only between accounts owned by the same trader. Team trading, signals and copying another trader are prohibited.

Only between your own Atlas accounts; copying other traders or external accounts is prohibited.

Allowed on Standard, Apex and Direct, and in every evaluation. Atlas Daily funded: positions opened within 1 minute before or after high-impact news are closed, and profits from trades opened or closed in that window are deducted.

The account closes after 7 days without opening and closing at least one trade.

Open a trade at least every 30 days.

• Zero Challenge: 40% Best Day rule; if the best day exceeds 40% of total profit, the effective target increases.
• Zero Performance: no consistency rule.
• Signature Challenge: no consistency rule.
• Signature Performance: 35% Best Day rule for payout eligibility.

Standard: best day at most 50% of total profit to pass, then 40% of each funded cycle. Apex and Daily: 40% to pass, none when funded. Direct: 20% of each cycle.

• Exploiting gaps, illiquid markets, pricing errors or slow data feeds
• Semi-automated or fully automated trading, bots, AI tools and HFT above 300 trades/day
• Trading within 2% of a CME product lock limit
• Irresponsible or all-or-nothing trading
• Hedging across accounts or users
• Tick scalping where less than 50% of profit comes from trades held at least 10 seconds
• Trading anything other than the front-month contract
• Account rolling and strategies that are not reproducible in real markets

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 trading: 3 or more trades each making or losing 75% of the max loss that are 20% or more of all futures trades.

All positions are forcibly closed every trading day at 15:10 CT. Trading is permitted from 17:00 to 15:10 CT.