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Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
RM 1205, 12/f. Beverly Hse 93-107 Lockhart Rd Wan Chai Hong Kong
Christoph Radecker
Saint Lucia
Hong Kong
2024
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.
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.
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.
Payouts processed within 2 business days. A $500 bonus is automatically applied if processing exceeds this SLA.
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.
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
No published minimum.
$500 across all account sizes
- 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.
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.
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.
Discretionary invitation to Elite with real capital and individual limits. The website also advertises a waiting list; automatic scaling is not guaranteed.
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)
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
No time limit on any plan.
Core: no minimum evaluation days. Rapid: the help center specifies 3 evaluation days and consistency.
FLEX Challenge requires 2 trading days. EOD, Sprint and Instant Funded have no minimum trading days.
GOAT Daily: no minimum trading days once funded.
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)
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.
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.
Only self-developed or transparent systems with full source access and control over their logic. No commercial black-box bots, HFT or arbitrage.
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.
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.
Manual scalping allowed. Tick scalping and trades closed within 2 minutes have their profits deducted (micro-scalping rule).
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 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.
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.
Closure after 8 calendar days without trading. Opening or closing a trade resets the timer; an open position pauses it.
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.
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.
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.
Overnight holding NOT permitted (all account types). All positions must be closed before the end of the trading session. Weekend holding also NOT permitted.
Latency arbitrage, price or platform manipulation, spoofing/layering, bug exploitation, copying/external signals, third-party management, account sharing, multiple identities and excessive exposure.
- 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.





















