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Innovation One Building, Level 2, DIFC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Oliver Newland

2026

2023

Traders may enter the live-account review pool after payout 5, significant lifetime payouts, exceptional simulated-funded performance or a previous live transition. Selection is always at Finotive Futures' discretion.

On demand once all requirements are met.

• Daily: daily
• One Step Standard, Instant Standard: on demand
• Flex DLL: after 5 winning days
• Flex No DLL: after 6 winning days

Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central Time.

Payout requests are processed within 24 to 48 hours.

Within 24 business hours. Get paid in 24 hours or AquaFunded Futures pays you an extra $500.

1-Step Funded

• $25K: $1,000 first payout; $1,500 thereafter
• $50K: $2,000 first payout; $2,500 thereafter
• $100K: $2,500 first payout; $3,000 thereafter
• $150K: $3,000 first payout; $3,500 thereafter

Instant

• $25K: $1,000
• $50K: $2,000
• $100K: $3,000
• $150K: $4,000

Daily: maximum daily payout

• $50k: $1,100
• $100k: $2,200
• $150k: $3,300

Instant Standard: payout cap

• $25k: $1,000
• $50k: $2,000
• $100k: $4,000
• $150k: $6,000

One Step Standard: payout cap

• $50k: $2,000, then $2,500
• $100k: $4,000, then $5,000
• $150k: $6,000, then $7,500

Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: payout cap

• $50k: $2,000
• $100k: $2,500
• $150k: $3,000

$500 before the 90% reward split.

• Instant Standard, One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $500

All positions must be closed and KYC and compliance checks must be complete before requesting a payout.

$35 flat processing fee deducted from the first approved withdrawal of each calendar month.

• 1-Step evaluation: a discounted reset can be purchased within 14 calendar days of a breach.
• 1-Step Funded: up to 2 resets before the first payout, within 14 days of the breach; each costs 5 times the evaluation fee.
• Instant: no standard reset; the same size can be repurchased at a reduced price within 3 calendar days of a breach.

One Step Standard funded scaling targets: $52,100 on $50k, $103,600 on $100k and $155,100 on $150k.

• 1-Step: EOD trailing, based on the highest end-of-day balance; it locks at the initial balance once the Profit Buffer is reached.
• Instant: intraday trailing, following the highest balance or open equity.
• Reaching the maximum drawdown is a hard breach.

• Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown during evaluation and funded stages
• Instant Standard: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown
• One Step Standard: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown during evaluation

Calculated from the end-of-day balance. A breach is soft: positions are closed and trading stops for that day; the account is not failed. The new daily limit on 25K 1-Step evaluations applies only to new purchases; existing accounts retain their original rules.

Applies only to 1-Step Funded accounts and must remain in the account: $1,000 on $25K, $2,000 on $50K, $3,000 on $100K and $4,500 on $150K. Each payout also requires new profit equal to 1% of the initial balance above the buffer. Instant accounts use a recurring payout milestone instead: $1,450, $3,000, $5,000 and $8,000 respectively.

Unlimited evaluation accounts. Total funded allocation across 1-Step and Instant accounts is capped at $1,000,000.

No time limit for the 1-Step evaluation. Accounts close after 15 consecutive calendar days without a trade.

Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: unlimited evaluation time.

The 1-Step evaluation can be passed in one trading day.

One Step Standard: none; the evaluation can be passed in one trading day.

No activation fee or recurring subscription.

One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $0 activation fee.

• 1-Step evaluation: none
• 1-Step Funded: 3 per payout cycle
• Instant: 5 per payout cycle

A profitable day requires at least 0.25% of the initial account balance in realised profit.

One-time purchase fee. No subscription or automatic rebilling, and no activation fee after passing.

Bots, EAs and personal automated strategies are allowed if they do not exploit latency, feed errors or the simulated environment.

Connections must remain stable and verifiable. VPNs, proxies or location masking are prohibited when they impair identity, location or account-control checks.

Hedging within one account is allowed, including mini versus micro positions. Opposing or correlated hedges across separate accounts or prop firms are prohibited.

Microscalping is allowed, but no more than 50% of total profit may come from trades held for less than 30 seconds.

Scalping and microscalping are allowed with a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.

Allowed when used responsibly within contract and drawdown limits. Aggressive exposure may be reviewed as gambling behaviour.

Allowed only between accounts personally owned and controlled by the same trader, including their accounts at other prop firms. Third-party signals, accounts and copy services are prohibited.

Copy trading is allowed between accounts owned by the same person. You can copy trades freely across your own AquaFunded Futures accounts without violations for internal account copying.

Allowed without restrictions during the 1-Step evaluation. On 1-Step Funded and Instant accounts, orders cannot be opened, closed or triggered from 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news.

15 consecutive calendar days without a trade is a hard breach and permanently closes the account.

No consistency rule during the 1-Step evaluation. At payout, one day may represent at most 40% of cycle profit on 1-Step Funded accounts and 20% on Instant accounts.

Evaluation Phase

• Daily: 40%
• One Step Standard: none
• Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: 50%

Funded Phase

• Daily: none
• One Step Standard: 40%
• Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: none
• Instant Standard: 20%

Positions cannot be carried through the Friday close into the Sunday reopen.

Hedging across accounts or platforms; latency, feed, spread or exchange arbitrage; account or device sharing; coordinated/group trading; copying third parties; spoofing, layering and market or order-queue manipulation; volume inflation or artificial trades; HFT and algorithmic exploitation; non-viable simulated-fill strategies; gambling/account rolling; news straddling; and gap or illiquid-market exploitation.

• No full automation: bots, AI and hands-off trading are forbidden.
• Auto scalping is limited (>200 trades/day restricted).
• Semi-automation is allowed with active manual control.
• No order manipulation (layering or fake liquidity).
• No exploiting simulated fills, slippage or illiquid markets.
• Follow CME rules; no coordinated accounts.
• Scalping and microscalping require a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.
• Martingale is allowed within risk limits.
• Violations may result in termination and loss of profits.

All open positions are automatically closed at 15:55 CT, five minutes before the daily close.