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Headquarters

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

Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

CEO

Peter Brown, David Bhidey

Jakub Rož

Country

Ireland

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2024

2023

Banned Countries
Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, Bangladesh, North Korea, Russian Federation, Belarus, Cuba, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, United States, United Arab Emirates
Assets
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Futures
Brokers
Alchemy Markets

Proprietary platform For Traders X. Liquidity provider not publicly disclosed.

Payout Fee
No data
  • Crypto ($100 – $499): $25
  • Rise $500 or more: $50
Platforms
NinjaTrader, Tradingview, Tradovate
For Traders X
Payout Methods
Rise
Transfer, Crypto, Rise
Payment Methods
Card
Card, Crypto, Transfer
Payout Frequency
  • 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).
  • 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)
Payout Guarantee
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48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split

Maximum Withdrawal

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%
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Minimum Withdrawal
  • Standard and Expert: $100
  • Straight to Live Sim: 3% of balance
  • 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)
Refund
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No

No traditional refund. No activation fee after passing Fast/Fast Pro.

Futures
No data

Per-contract margins set by underlying instrument. Position size capped per account size.

Commission
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Futures
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0.2
Swap Free
No data
No
Account Reset

Only available for evaluation accounts

 

Account Type $50,000 Account $100,000 Account $150,000 Account
Standard $79.00 $125.00 $199.00
Expert $125.00 $225.00 $299.00
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Add-ons
Yes

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
No
Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
No
Yes

Scaling unlocked through the Loyalty Program (5 tiers: Starter, Rising Star, Pro, VIP, Legend). Increments depend on tier. Applies to all account types.

Two Steps
No
No
Max Drawdown

EOD (End of Day Balance)

  • 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
Profit Split

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)

All futures products: 80%

Free Trial
No
No
Daily Drawdown

In all accounts

  • Futures Fast: none
  • Futures Fast Pro: $1,000 (50K)
  • Futures Instant: 3% from highest day equity
Max Allocation

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

$300,000 combined across all Master Accounts and Instant Models (Forex + Crypto + Futures shared cap). No allocation limit during Challenge phase.

Mandatory buffer
Yes

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

No mandatory buffer. Instead, when you request a payout your maximum trailing drawdown locks at your starting balance.

Merge Accounts
No
No
Maximum Trading Days
No data

No time limit on any futures account.

Minimum Trading Days
  • Standard evaluation phase: 4 days to pass
  • Expert evaluation phase: 3 days to pass
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Funded Phase Pricing Model

Lifetime activation fee

No data
Minimum Profitable Days
No data
  • Futures Fast Challenge: 5 profitable days before reward request
  • Futures Fast Pro: 1 profitable day per reward request (50K)
  • Futures Instant: 7 profitable days
Position size scaling
No
No data
Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

Montly fee

No data
Three Steps
No data
No
Monthly Competition
No data
Yes
Expert Advisor (EA)
No
No

EAs allowed only as decision-support tools (alerts, partial management, predefined rules). Fully autonomous trading bots are prohibited.

VPN
Yes
Yes
Hedging
No
No

Cross-account hedging is forbidden.

Requires Stop Loss
No
No
Scalping
Yes

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

Yes

Manual scalping allowed with minimum 5-second hold per trade. Tick scalping and HFT forbidden.

Stacking / Layering (DCA)
Yes
Yes
Martingale
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No

Martingale strategies are forbidden.

Maximum Risk Limit
No data
Yes

Position size capped by contract count per account (see Max Allocation).

Copy Trading
Yes

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.

No

Outbound copy allowed; inbound copy from external sources forbidden.

News Trading
Yes
Yes

News trading allowed without restrictions on Futures accounts.

Inactivity Rule

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

  • 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.

Consistency Rule
Yes
  • 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
Yes
  • 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.
Hold Weekend
No
Yes

Weekend holds are unrestricted.

Prohibited Strategies
  • 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
  • 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.
Overnight positions
No
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