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RM 1205, 12/f. Beverly Hse 93-107 Lockhart Rd Wan Chai Hong Kong
Hong Kong
United States
2024
2022
Kanwal Singh
Transition at ETF discretion, including early conversion. Review at 5 payouts, 50 ATDs or $25,000 combined. Sim accounts close; assigned live capital differs from nominal sim balances. Eligible unpaid sim profits enter the Vault with conditional releases. Failure to accept conversion within 3 business days results in a partial payment and a 2-year ban. Rithmic-compatible platforms; Tradovate and NinjaTrader are unavailable in live.
EOD Challenge
Every 7 winning days (a winning day = net P&L ≥ 0.2% of account balance).
Sprint Challenge
Every 5 winning days.
FLEX Challenge
Every 5 winning days.
Instant Funded
Every 7 winning days. Minimum 10 calendar days before first payout. After first payout, must surpass previous equity high before next request.
GOAT Daily
Payout requests every 24 hours once funded.
Minimum payout: $500 across all sizes.
Sim-funded: processed Mondays and Wednesdays after meeting each cycle's ATDs. LIVE ELITE: requests on business days; Vault releases follow a separate schedule.
Payouts processed within 2 business days. A $500 bonus is automatically applied if processing exceeds this SLA.
Approval of eligible rewards or initiation of a LIVE ELITE transition within 48 business hours. Transfer initiation and bank receipt are not guaranteed. $1,000 compensation if ETF misses the deadline; ETF chooses the compensation method. Completed KYC and Rise verification and accounts in good standing required. Excludes weekends, US bank or federal holidays, system downtime and third-party delays.
Caps grow with each payout number. FLEX Challenge does not publish caps.
EOD Challenge
- 1st: $50K $1,500 · $100K $2,000 · $150K $2,500
- 2nd: $50K $2,000 · $100K $2,750 · $150K $3,250
- 3rd: $50K $2,500 · $100K $3,250 · $150K $3,750
- 4th+: $50K $2,750 · $100K $3,750 · $150K $4,250
Sprint Challenge
- 1st: $25K $800 · $50K $1,500 · $100K $2,500
- 2nd: $25K $1,000 · $50K $1,750 · $100K $3,000
- 3rd: $25K $1,200 · $50K $2,000 · $100K $3,500
- 4th+: $25K $1,500 · $50K $2,500 · $100K $4,500
Instant Funded (per cycle)
- $25K: $1,000 · $50K: $2,000 · $75K: $3,000 · $100K: $3,000 · $150K: $4,000
GOAT Daily
- Per payout: $25K $650 · $50K $1,000 · $100K $1,500 · $150K $2,500
Maximum per cycle, in USD:
1 Step 50K: 1000/1250/1500/1750; 100K: 1250/1500/1750/2000; 150K: 1500/1750/2000/2250
Static 10K: 500/500/500/1000; 25K: 750/1000/1250/1500; 50K: 1250/1500/1750/2000
EOD 50K: 1250/1500/1750/2000; 100K and Diamond Hands 100K: 1750/2000/2250/2500
Fast Track EOD: 500/750/1000; Static: 750/1000/1250. Three cycles; total 2250/3000 per the specific guide
DTF 10K: 1200 per cycle; 50K: 2500/2500/5000/5000; 100K: 1500/2500/3500/5000
Outside Fast Track: the fourth limit continues; combined sim cap of $25,000 per trader per round, with a $150,000 lifetime cap across all sim rounds. LIVE ELITE: uncapped above the assigned starting balance.
$500 across all account sizes
1 Step: $250. Static, EOD, Diamond Hands and Fast Track: $100. DTF 10K/100K: $500; DTF 50K: $1,000. LIVE ELITE: $250.
- EOD Challenge: 7 winning days.
- Sprint Challenge: 5 winning days.
- Instant Funded: 7 winning days and minimum 10 calendar days before the first payout.
- GOAT Daily: no winning-day requirement once funded.
- A winning day requires net P&L of at least 0.2% of account balance.
- Payout submission windows (excluding GOAT Daily): 5th–8th and 20th–23rd of each month.
- Instant Funded requires exceeding the previous equity high for subsequent payouts.
KYC and Rise onboarding with matching personal details. Country must be supported by payment providers and the live broker. Guam, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands are unsupported. Active account and approved audit; wait for approval before resuming trading. Minimum age: 18 or the local age of majority, whichever is higher. Complete KYC within 5 days of submitting documents; ETF may deny rewards if this is not met. An audio or video interview of up to 60 minutes may be required. In sim, withdraw the cycle maximum and meet its ATDs to advance to the next cycle; ATDs reset. Dashboard payout requirements prevail in a conflict.
Per contract, per side: ES/NQ/YM $2.04; MES $0.56; MNQ $0.51; CL $2.26; MCL $0.76; GC $2.31; MGC $0.76; BTC $6.76; MBT $2.76; ETH $5.76; MET $0.46. Other rates depend on the contract. LIVE ELITE: minis $2 and micros $0.62, plus exchange fees.
Available on evaluation plans (EOD, Sprint, FLEX). Reset fees:
- EOD: $50K $59 · $100K $109 · $150K $159
- Sprint: $25K $46 · $50K $69 · $100K $99
- FLEX: $50K $74 · $100K $124 · $150K $174
Instant Funded and Instant Lite accounts cannot be reset.
Standard evaluations: manual reset or automatic reset on renewal of a failed account. Fast Track: no evaluation reset. Sim-funded and DTF: up to 10 resets per account. LIVE ELITE: no resets.
One Day to Pass, TradeShield, PriceSlash and Double Down Deal (3D), subject to eligibility. Fast Track is excluded from One Day to Pass and 3D. PriceSlash: a 90% coupon for another evaluation of the same type after passing and activation; redeem within 90 days, with the discount retained on renewals. 3D: prepaid monthly activation; a 3-month option for the price of 2, with benefits forfeited on cancellation. Depending on the add-on: monthly billing while the account remains active, without separate cancellation, or a one-time charge until account failure.
DTF: direct access to sim-funded, without an evaluation.
Points-based rewards program (no formal tiers). Earn points by passing challenges, withdrawing, social engagement and trading milestones. Redeem for perks such as:
- +5% profit split on withdrawal (150 points)
- Faster 24h withdrawals (150 points)
- Account scaling +10% size (200 points)
- +$500 extra max drawdown (200 points)
- Free $25K / $50K challenge accounts (350 / 500 points)
LIVE ELITE: capital adjustments at the risk team's discretion.
EOD Challenge
- EOD Trailing — locks at starting balance once balance is restored
- $50K: $2,000 (4%) | $100K: $3,000 (3%) | $150K: $4,500 (3%)
Sprint Challenge
- EOD Trailing — locks at starting balance once balance is restored
- $25K: $1,000 (4%) | $50K: $2,000 (4%) | $100K: $3,000 (3%)
FLEX Challenge
- EOD Trailing Max DD — locks at starting balance
Instant Funded
- Intraday Trailing — locks at starting balance once balance is reached
- $25K: $1,250 (5%) | $50K: $2,500 (5%) | $75K: $3,750 (5%) | $100K: $5,000 (5%) | $150K: $7,500 (5%)
Instant Lite
- EOD Trailing — locks at starting balance
- $25K: $1,000 | $50K: $1,750 | $100K: $3,000
GOAT Daily
- Evaluation: EOD trailing; locks at starting balance + $100.
- Funded: intraday trailing.
1 Step: intraday trailing, including open profit. EOD, Diamond Hands, Fast Track EOD and DTF 10K/50K: trailing at session close on realized profit. Static, Fast Track Static and DTF 100K: fixed floor. Sim-funded trailing locks at the safety net, with a floor at starting balance + $100; the Static floor stays unchanged.
EOD Challenge
- 80% by default
- 90% with optional Profit Share Add-On (+20% of challenge price)
FLEX Challenge
- 80% by default
- 90% with optional Profit Share Add-On (+20% of challenge price)
Sprint Challenge
- 100% on the first $10,000 in payouts
- 90% after the first $10,000
Instant Funded
- 100% on the first $10,000 in payouts
- 90% after the first $10,000
Instant Lite
- 90% from the first payout (no add-on required)
The sim-account split is a maximum, subject to approval and payout limits. LIVE ELITE: 80% to the trader.
EOD Challenge
- Evaluation: no daily loss limit
- Funded: soft breach 2.5% of starting balance ($50K: $1,250 | $100K: $2,500 | $150K: $3,750)
Sprint Challenge
- No daily loss limit (evaluation or funded)
FLEX Challenge
- No daily loss limit (evaluation or funded)
Instant Funded
- 3% of starting balance (soft breach — account pauses until next trading day)
- $25K: $750 | $50K: $1,500 | $75K: $2,250 | $100K: $3,000 | $150K: $4,500
Instant Lite
- $25K: none | $50K: $1,000 | $100K: $2,000
GOAT Daily
- Evaluation and funded: $25K $500 · $50K $1,000 · $100K $1,500 · $150K $2,250.
- Soft breach: positions are closed and trading is paused for the day.
EOD and Diamond Hands: daily limit with a hard breach; TradeShield can turn it into a daily lockout. In sim-funded it stops applying after reaching the safety net. Other plans have no base daily limit.
Initial account sizes up to $150,000. Scaling via rewards program can grow allocation beyond that, with documented brand-wide payouts of $18M+ and up to $750,000 available across plans.
GOAT Daily funded buffer: $25K $1,100 · $50K $2,100 · $100K $3,100 · $150K $4,600.
Non-withdrawable safety net: account drawdown + $100 in realized profit. Funded terms: reach it within 45 calendar days. One-time payment, including DTF: 25 days; one 3-day cure period if it is not reached or is later lost. It must be maintained; failure closes the account without a refund.
LIVE ELITE: merge or split accounts with approval.
No time limit on any plan.
Standard evaluation: no maximum deadline while the subscription remains active. Fast Track: 10 calendar days.
FLEX Challenge requires 2 trading days. EOD, Sprint and Instant Funded have no minimum trading days.
GOAT Daily: no minimum trading days once funded.
Standard evaluation: 5 days; One Day to Pass reduces this to 1. Fast Track: 3 days. DTF: no evaluation. Sunday and Monday count as one day.
No activation fee after passing — you keep 100% of the funded account access without any extra payment. Instant Funded is a one-time fee that grants funded-account access immediately, without an evaluation phase.
Rithmic: an additional $45/month per active account, also during evaluation. Professional data: $128 per exchange, subject to change. Non-professional level 1 data included; level 2 and optional platform licenses are extra. LIVE ELITE: $197/month per exchange and first account; each additional account, $197/month. ETF covers exchange fees after 3 months. The initial evaluation payment and add-ons are credited to the sim balance on activation, not as ATD profit; DTF excluded.
Contract limits (mini / micro) scale with account size and plan:
EOD Challenge
- $50K: 5 / 50
- $100K: 9 / 90
- $150K: 12 / 120
Sprint Challenge
- $25K: 3 / 30
- $50K: 5 / 50
- $100K: 7 / 70
FLEX Challenge
- $50K: 3 / 30
- $100K: 5 / 50
- $150K: 8 / 80
Instant Funded
- $25K: 3 / 30
- $50K: 4 / 40
- $75K: 5 / 50
- $100K: 6 / 60
- $150K: 8 / 80
Evaluation and sim-funded: fixed product limits. LIVE ELITE: contract limits reviewed based on performance; first review after 20 trading days.
One-time fee. No monthly subscription and no recurring charges. EOD, Sprint and FLEX Challenge are paid up-front to enter the evaluation phase.
Standard evaluations: renewal every 30 days until passing and activation; passing does not cancel billing. Fast Track: one-time payment without renewal. First-purchase guarantee: request within 7 days, fewer than 5 trades and no account failure; conditions apply.
Current evaluations: up to 5 active Elite Sim-Funded accounts. DTF: a separate limit of 5 active accounts per trader. Fast Track EOD: 1 per the specific guide, although the store shows 5. One registration per trader and one trader per household.
2 points per dollar on eligible evaluation purchases and evaluation resets. DTF and funded resets excluded.
Standard sim and Fast Track: 8 ATDs for the first cycle and 10 thereafter. Standard purchases from 2 October 2026 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time: each ATD requires $250 and at least 30% of the best day; Static 10K/25K, $125. DTF per cycle: 10K, 5 ATDs with $150 and 50% of the best day; 50K, 15 ATDs with $600 and 62%; 100K, 20 ATDs with $500 and 50%. Fast Track has separate consistency criteria; its guide does not specify a daily dollar minimum.
Personal automated strategies and EAs are allowed, provided they are consistent with the trader's style and do not exploit system vulnerabilities, latency, or data feed anomalies. Strategies designed to manipulate the simulated environment are prohibited.
Bots, AI and algorithms require written authorization. Approved copiers do not authorize automated strategies.
VPN, VPS, proxies and IP masking prohibited, except expressly authorized ranges from approved providers.
Manual scalping allowed. Tick scalping and trades closed within 2 minutes have their profits deducted (micro-scalping rule).
Every trade must last at least 10 seconds, without exceptions.
Includes DCA, adding to losing positions or increasing exposure after losses in identical or related instruments.
Copy trading between your own accounts is allowed (e.g. between multiple GFF accounts in your name). Bundle discounts (2 or 3 accounts) are available and you can copy trades to all simultaneously. Cross-user copy trading is not addressed in the helpcenter.
Only own accounts and authorized copiers: native tools, Tradesyncer, Tradecopia, Affordable Indicators and Replikanto PropFirm Compliance. LIVE ELITE requires approval.
Evaluation phase (EOD, Sprint, FLEX)
No news trading restrictions.
Funded phase (all account types including Instant)
2-minute buffer around high-impact news events. Within 2 min before/after release you cannot open, close or trigger pending orders. Positions opened before the window may be held through the event.
Microscalping rule
EOD, Sprint, Instant: profits from trades closed within 2 minutes of opening are deducted (not a breach but profits invalid).
FLEX: microscalping rule does NOT apply.
15 consecutive days without trades results in account breach. Applies to both evaluation and funded accounts. Once breached, account cannot be reinstated and fees are non-refundable. Notify support in advance if you plan to be away.
One genuine trade every 7 days per account; an approved break is available once per quarter. Log in at least every 30 days. Scratch trades and prolonged lack of progress can lead to closure and forfeited payouts.
No single day can represent more than:
- EOD Challenge — Evaluation: 50% of total profits. Funded: 30% during a payout period.
- Sprint Challenge — Evaluation: 50%. Funded: 35%.
- FLEX Challenge — Evaluation: 50%. Funded: none.
- Instant Funded — 20% (the tightest of all plans).
- Instant Lite — 15% for the 1st payout, 20% for the 2nd, 25% from the 3rd onwards.
- GOAT Daily — Evaluation: 40%. Funded: none.
Violating the rule blocks the next payout but does not close the account.
Fast Track: best day cannot exceed 40% of total profit in evaluation or 30% for payouts. Other plans use the ATD qualifying rule rather than that total-profit cap.
Overnight holding NOT permitted (all account types). All positions must be closed before the end of the trading session. Weekend holding also NOT permitted.
Allowed on Diamond Hands and DTF. Other plans: close one minute before market close.
- Tick scalping and other extremely short-duration trading.
- Trades closed within 2 minutes — profits are deducted (micro-scalping rule).
- Unrealistic execution that relies on simulated market conditions (slippage, liquidity, partial fills) not replicable in live.
- Holding positions overnight or over the weekend.
- Trading affected instruments inside the 2-minute high-impact news buffer on funded accounts.
Abusive HFT, arbitrage, exploiting execution errors or low liquidity, wash trading, collusion, trading for others, manipulating ATDs or payouts, and simultaneously stacking maximum mini and micro limits.
Allowed on Diamond Hands and DTF. Other plans: close one minute before market close.
After reaching 20% sim profit, losing more than 35% of accumulated profit allows ETF to remove the account from the sim program and disqualifies it from LIVE ELITE. Includes payout adjustments and overrides the original drawdown. Reviewed during audits or reward requests. LIVE ELITE applies additional risk-team controls.

















