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Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
1201 N Orange St, Suite 7149 Wilmington, DE 19801, United States
Christoph Radecker
Saint Lucia
United States
2022
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.
- Legacy Master: requests can be submitted at any time and are processed weekly on Wednesday.
- Momentum Master and Fast Track: eligible requests submitted before 12:01 PM CT, Monday–Friday, are processed the same day.
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.
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.
Legacy Master — first three payouts:
| Account | Maximum |
|---|---|
| 25K | $1,000 |
| 50K | $1,500 |
| 100K | $1,750 |
| 150K | $2,000 |
| 250K grandfathered accounts | $2,500 |
Momentum Master:
| Account | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25K | $1,000 | $1,000 | $1,000 | $1,000 |
| 50K | $1,500 | $2,000 | $2,500 | $3,000 |
| 100K | $2,000 | $2,500 | $3,000 | $4,000 |
| 150K | $2,500 | $3,000 | $4,000 | $5,000 |
Fast Track:
| Account | 1st–3rd | 4th+ |
|---|---|---|
| 25K | $1,000 | $1,250 |
| 50K | $2,000 | $2,500 |
| 100K | $2,500 | $3,000 |
| 150K | $3,000 | $3,500 |
No published minimum.
- Legacy Master: $1,000.
- Momentum Master: $500 on 25K; $1,000 on 50K, 100K and 150K.
- Fast Track: $1,000.
- Momentum Master: 5 qualifying profitable days per cycle. Minimum profit per qualifying day: $100 on 25K, $150 on 50K, $200 on 100K and $250 on 150K. Minimum balances: $26,500, $53,000, $104,500 and $156,500 respectively.
- Fast Track: later payout goals after the first payout are $1,000 on 25K, $2,000 on 50K, $3,000 on 100K and $4,500 on 150K.
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.
- Legacy Qualification: resets cost $78. Active recurring Legacy subscriptions keep the free reset available on their renewal date.
- Momentum Qualification: reset available; price not announced. A reset does not extend the 30-calendar-day validity.
- Fast Track: no reset option.
Discretionary invitation to Elite with real capital and individual limits. The website also advertises a waiting list; automatic scaling is not guaranteed.
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.
- Legacy No Scaling Account: real-time Trailing Drawdown.
- Legacy EOD Account: End-of-Day Drawdown.
- In Legacy Master accounts, both thresholds stop moving when they reach the initial balance +$100.
- Momentum and Fast Track Option 1: Trailing Drawdown.
- Momentum and Fast Track Option 2: EOD Drawdown.
- The amount for each account appears in the challenge table.
The Rithmic 14-day free trial (equivalent to 10 trading days) is offered directly by Rithmic and is available only to traders who have not previously registered or used Rithmic services.
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.
Legacy:
Only EOD accounts have a Daily Loss Limit. If it is reached, trading is paused for the rest of the day without being treated as a rule breach. It stops applying when the maximum drawdown reaches the initial balance.
| Account Size | Daily Loss Limit |
|---|---|
| $10K | $400 |
| $25K | $500 |
| $50K | $1,100 |
| $100K | $2,200 |
| $150K | $3,300 |
| $250K grandfathered accounts | $4,500 |
Momentum and Fast Track:
Option 1 has no Daily Loss Limit. Option 2 has a Daily Loss Limit where specified in the challenge table.
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.
- Legacy and Momentum Qualification: 30 calendar days from activation.
- Fast Track: not applicable because there is no Qualification.
Core: no minimum evaluation days. Rapid: the help center specifies 3 evaluation days and consistency.
- Legacy Qualification: 1 trading day to pass. Legacy Master: 10 trading days before payout.
- Momentum Qualification: 1 trading day to pass. Momentum Master: 5 qualifying profitable days per payout cycle.
- Fast Track: no minimum trading days before payout.
- Funded Account: 5 trading days per payout.
- First $10,000 in eligible cumulative profits per trader profile: 100% to the trader.
- Thereafter: 90% to the trader and 10% to Bulenox.
- The first-$10,000 threshold is shared across accounts and products.
- Unlimited Qualification accounts.
- Shared limit of 5 Master-level accounts across the Bulenox products.
| Account Size | Minimum Buffer |
|---|---|
| $25,000 | $1,600 |
| $50,000 | $2,600 |
| $100,000 | $3,100 |
| $150,000 | $4,600 |
| $250,000 | $5,600 |
Once the funded account is achieved, all active master accounts must be merged into a single funded account.
- Legacy Master: one-time activation fee; amounts applicable from August 17 must be confirmed at checkout.
- Momentum Master: no activation fee.
- Fast Track Master: activation is included in the one-time Fast Track fee.
- Momentum Master: 5 qualifying profitable days per payout cycle.
- Fast Track: no minimum profitable-day requirement.
Only EOD accounts have scaling.
$10K EOD Account Scaling
| Profit Range | Max Contracts |
|---|---|
| No Scaling | 5 Micro-Contracts |
$25K EOD Account Scaling
| Profit Range | Max Contracts |
|---|---|
| $0 – $1,500 | 2 |
| $1,501 + | 3 |
$50K EOD Account Scaling
| Profit Range | Max Contracts |
|---|---|
| $0 – $1,500 | 2 |
| $1,501 – $4,000 | 4 |
| $4,001 + | 7 |
$100K EOD Account Scaling
| Profit Range | Max Contracts |
|---|---|
| $0 – $2,000 | 3 |
| $2,001 – $3,000 | 5 |
| $3,001 – $5,000 | 8 |
| $5,001 + | 12 |
$150K EOD Account Scaling
| Profit Range | Max Contracts |
|---|---|
| $0 – $4,000 | 5 |
| $4,001 – $8,000 | 8 |
| $8,001 – $12,000 | 10 |
| $12,001 + | 15 |
$250K EOD Account Scaling
| Profit Range | Max Contracts |
|---|---|
| $0 – $5,000 | 6 |
| $5,001 – $12,000 | 12 |
| $12,001 – $20,000 | 18 |
| $20,001 + | 25 |
- Legacy Qualification and Momentum Qualification: one-time purchase with no recurring subscription; valid for 30 calendar days.
- Active Legacy subscriptions opened before August 17, 2026 remain under their existing subscription terms.
- Fast Track has no Qualification stage.
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.
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.
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.
- Legacy Master: 40%.
- Momentum Master: 35%.
- Fast Track: 20% for the first payout, 25% for the second and 30% from the third onward.
- No consistency rule applies during Qualification.
Latency arbitrage, price or platform manipulation, spoofing/layering, bug exploitation, copying/external signals, third-party management, account sharing, multiple identities and excessive exposure.






















