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RM 1205, 12/f. Beverly Hse 93-107 Lockhart Rd Wan Chai Hong Kong
Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Hong Kong
United Arab Emirates
2024
2023
Jakub Rož
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.
- 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)
Payouts processed within 2 business days. A $500 bonus is automatically applied if processing exceeds this SLA.
48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split
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
$500 across all account sizes
- 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)
- 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.
Proprietary platform For Traders X. Liquidity provider not publicly disclosed.
No traditional refund. No activation fee after passing Fast/Fast Pro.
- Crypto ($100 – $499): $25
- Rise $500 or more: $50
Per-contract margins set by underlying instrument. Position size capped per account size.
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.
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)
Scaling unlocked through the Loyalty Program (5 tiers: Starter, Rising Star, Pro, VIP, Legend). Increments depend on tier. Applies to all account types.
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.
- 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
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)
All futures products: 80%
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.
- Futures Fast: none
- Futures Fast Pro: $1,000 (50K)
- Futures Instant: 3% from highest day equity
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.
$300,000 combined across all Master Accounts and Instant Models (Forex + Crypto + Futures shared cap). No allocation limit during Challenge phase.
GOAT Daily funded buffer: $25K $1,100 · $50K $2,100 · $100K $3,100 · $150K $4,600.
No mandatory buffer. Instead, when you request a payout your maximum trailing drawdown locks at your starting balance.
No time limit on any plan.
No time limit on any futures account.
FLEX Challenge requires 2 trading days. EOD, Sprint and Instant Funded have no minimum trading days.
GOAT Daily: no minimum trading days once funded.
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.
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
One-time fee. No monthly subscription and no recurring charges. EOD, Sprint and FLEX Challenge are paid up-front to enter the evaluation phase.
- Futures Fast Challenge: 5 profitable days before reward request
- Futures Fast Pro: 1 profitable day per reward request (50K)
- Futures Instant: 7 profitable days
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.
EAs allowed only as decision-support tools (alerts, partial management, predefined rules). Fully autonomous trading bots are prohibited.
Manual scalping allowed. Tick scalping and trades closed within 2 minutes have their profits deducted (micro-scalping rule).
Manual scalping allowed with minimum 5-second hold per trade. Tick scalping and HFT forbidden.
Martingale strategies are forbidden.
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.
Outbound copy allowed; inbound copy from external sources forbidden.
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.
News trading allowed without restrictions on Futures accounts.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
Overnight holding NOT permitted (all account types). All positions must be closed before the end of the trading session. Weekend holding also NOT permitted.
Weekend holds are unrestricted.
- 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.
- 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.
Cross-account hedging is forbidden.
Position size capped by contract count per account (see Max Allocation).

















