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Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Christoph Radecker
Saint Lucia
United Arab Emirates
2023
Elite trades real capital by risk-team invitation; standard Funded accounts use simulated capital.
Core and Instant: every 10 active sessions. Rapid Daily: after one session; Rapid Futures 3D: every 3 sessions. Rapid closes after the fifth payout.
- 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.
The website advertises processing within 48 hours or a 100% split on that payout. Bank transfer or USDC ERC-20 according to the help center.
Within 24 business hours. Get paid in 24 hours or AquaFunded Futures pays you an extra $500.
Up to 50% of profits per request, before the split. Core/Instant 50K: $1,500/$2,000/$2,500 for payouts 1-2/3-4/5+; 100K: $2,000/$2,500/$3,000. Rapid Daily 50K: $1,000 for the first two, then $1,500; 100K: $1,500/$2,000. Rapid 3D 50K: $2,000; 100K: $2,000 for the first two, then $3,000. After the first payout, new profits of at least 50% of the next requested amount are required.
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
No published minimum.
- Instant Standard, One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $500
$35 flat processing fee deducted from the first approved withdrawal of each calendar month.
Per contract per side: dxFeed $0.75 micro / $2 mini; Tradovate $0.80 / $2.88. CME L1 included; other exchanges and L2 cost extra. Tradovate is limited to DLL accounts; evaluations cannot migrate.
Evaluation resets and up to two funded or Instant resets. Help articles exclude promotional accounts from resets, although the Welcome Futures checkout displays a reset price. Confirm before purchasing a Welcome reset.
Discretionary invitation to Elite with real capital and individual limits. The website also advertises a waiting list; automatic scaling is not guaranteed.
One Step Standard funded scaling targets: $52,100 on $50k, $103,600 on $100k and $155,100 on $150k.
EOD trailing: the threshold follows the highest closing value and never decreases. It locks at the initial balance when reached or after the first payout. Subsequent loss room consists of the profits left in the account.
- 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
Core DLL and funded Rapid Daily: the checkout specifies one soft closure and account termination on the second breach. Older Core DLL articles still describe an immediate hard breach.
Core and Instant: up to 10 funded accounts. Rapid: up to 5. One Welcome account per user. Unlimited evaluations; passed accounts can wait for an activation slot. Futures limits are separate from CFD/crypto limits.
New purchases: 90-day evaluation; Instant accounts have no expiry. No monthly renewal fees for purchases from 22 October 2026 at 18:00. Older accounts retain their renewal terms.
Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: unlimited evaluation time.
Core: no minimum evaluation days. Rapid: the help center specifies 3 evaluation days and consistency.
One Step Standard: none; the evaluation can be passed in one trading day.
One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $0 activation fee.
Only self-developed or transparent systems with full source access and control over their logic. No commercial black-box bots, HFT or arbitrage.
Allowed for security or connectivity, never to conceal identity or bypass restrictions.
No HFT or tick scalping. Payouts require the 15-second rule: at least half of trades and profits must come from trades exceeding that threshold, as described in payout help.
Scalping and microscalping are allowed with a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.
Position Loss plans aggregate all trades in the same market, including fees, spread and slippage. Limit: 1% in evaluation and 0.5% funded/Instant. Two soft closures; the third breach ends the account. Rapid Futures does not use this limit.
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.
Closure after 8 calendar days without trading. Opening or closing a trade resets the timer; an open position pauses it.
Core: 30% funded and Instant, none during evaluation. Rapid: 40% during evaluation; none for funded Rapid Daily. Rapid Futures 3D: 40% per funded cycle. Resets after each payout.
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%
Latency arbitrage, price or platform manipulation, spoofing/layering, bug exploitation, copying/external signals, third-party management, account sharing, multiple identities and excessive exposure.
- 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.






















