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Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
Christoph Radecker
Kanwal Singh
Saint Lucia
United States
2022
Elite trades real capital by risk-team invitation; standard Funded accounts use simulated capital.
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.
Core and Instant: every 10 active sessions. Rapid Daily: after one session; Rapid Futures 3D: every 3 sessions. Rapid closes after the fifth payout.
Sim-funded: processed Mondays and Wednesdays after meeting each cycle's ATDs. LIVE ELITE: requests on business days; Vault releases follow a separate schedule.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No published minimum.
1 Step: $250. Static, EOD, Diamond Hands and Fast Track: $100. DTF 10K/100K: $500; DTF 50K: $1,000. LIVE ELITE: $250.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
DTF: direct access to sim-funded, without an evaluation.
Discretionary invitation to Elite with real capital and individual limits. The website also advertises a waiting list; automatic scaling is not guaranteed.
LIVE ELITE: capital adjustments at the risk team's discretion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Standard evaluation: no maximum deadline while the subscription remains active. Fast Track: 10 calendar days.
Core: no minimum evaluation days. Rapid: the help center specifies 3 evaluation days and consistency.
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.
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.
The sim-account split is a maximum, subject to approval and payout limits. LIVE ELITE: 80% to the trader.
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.
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.
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.
Evaluation and sim-funded: fixed product limits. LIVE ELITE: contract limits reviewed based on performance; first review after 20 trading days.
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.
Only self-developed or transparent systems with full source access and control over their logic. No commercial black-box bots, HFT or arbitrage.
Bots, AI and algorithms require written authorization. Approved copiers do not authorize automated strategies.
Allowed for security or connectivity, never to conceal identity or bypass restrictions.
VPN, VPS, proxies and IP masking prohibited, except expressly authorized ranges from approved providers.
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.
Every trade must last at least 10 seconds, without exceptions.
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.
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.
Only own accounts and authorized copiers: native tools, Tradesyncer, Tradecopia, Affordable Indicators and Replikanto PropFirm Compliance. LIVE ELITE requires approval.
Closure after 8 calendar days without trading. Opening or closing a trade resets the timer; an open position pauses it.
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.
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.
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.
Allowed on Diamond Hands and DTF. Other plans: close one minute before market close.
Latency arbitrage, price or platform manipulation, spoofing/layering, bug exploitation, copying/external signals, third-party management, account sharing, multiple identities and excessive exposure.
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.
Includes DCA, adding to losing positions or increasing exposure after losses in identical or related instruments.






















