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Headquarters

7901 4th St N Ste 300, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, United States

IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

CEO
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Jason Blax

Country

United States

United Arab Emirates

Foundation
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2023

Banned Countries
AF, AL, DZ, AD, AO, BS, BB, BY, BA, BW, BG, MM, BI, KH, CF, CN, CI, CU, CD, EC, ET, GE, GH, IS, ID, IR, IQ, JM, XK, LA, LB, LR, LY, MY, MU, MN, ME, MA, NI, KP, PK, PA, PG, RU, RS, SO, SS, LK, SD, SY, TT, TN, TR, UG, UA, VE, VN, YE, ZW
Afghanistan, Cuba, Mauritius, Senegal, Albania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mongolia, South Africa, Algeria, Ecuador, Montenegro, Tanzania, Angola, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Ghana, Namibia, Tunisia, Barbados, Hong Kong, North Korea, Turkey, Belarus, Iceland, Pakistan, Uganda, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Indonesia, Philippines, Ukraine, Botswana, Iran, Panama, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Iraq, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, Burma (Myanmar), Jamaica, Qatar, Yemen, Burundi, Kosovo, Russia, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Romania, Cambodia, Laos, Serbia, Central African Republic, Lebanon, Slovenia, Cameroon, Liberia, Somalia, China, Libya, South Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Macedonia, Sudan, Crimea, Mali, Sri Lanka, Croatia, Mozambique, Syria
Assets
Indices, Commodities, Metals, Forex, Agriculture
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Payout Fee
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$35 flat processing fee deducted from the first approved withdrawal of each calendar month.

Platforms
Rithmic, RTrader Pro, WealthCharts, DeepCharts, Volumetrica, TradingView, Tradesea, MotiveWave, Bookmap, Sierra Chart
Volumetrica, Tradovate, DeepCharts, TradingView
Payout Methods
Rise, Dots
Rise, Crypto
Live Account
Yes

After the three Ascension cycles you move to a Live account with Midgard's real capital, starting at $1,000 to $4,000 by size. Minimum balance: 30% of the highest end-of-day balance, which only rises; if equity touches it, the account is liquidated. No targets or payout caps. It requires extra verification (proof of address, phone and tax ID) and the trader pays their own market data.

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Payment Methods
Card, PayPal
Card, Crypto
Payout Frequency
  • Raid: once per CME session; after a payout, wait for the next session (6 PM ET).
  • Conquest: after 5 days at the minimum daily profit ($200, $250, $300 and $350 by size) and total profit of at least 5 times that minimum.
  • Ascension: one bounty each completed cycle.
  • 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.

Payout Guarantee

Paid as soon as you confirm an eligible request. It can be held while your latest fills are checked (about 15 minutes) or while the account is under review.

Within 24 business hours. Get paid in 24 hours or AquaFunded Futures pays you an extra $500.

Maximum Withdrawal
  • Raid Light Armor: $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 and $2,500 per request (25K to 150K).
  • Raid Plated: $10,000 per request on every size.
  • Conquest: up to 50% of profit, capped at $1,000, $1,500, $2,000 and $2,500 on Light Armor and $2,500, $5,000, $7,500 and $10,000 on Plated.
  • Live: no cap.

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
Minimum Withdrawal

$250 per request on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed bounties.

  • Instant Standard, One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $500
Other Payout Requirements
  • KYC with Sumsub (ID and facial check) before the first payout.
  • Payouts go through Rise or Dots, which ask for their own onboarding and tax forms.
  • Microscalping: at most 50% of trades or profit since the last payout can come from trades under 12 seconds.
  • Raid: the buffer must stay intact after each payout.
  • Light Armor: you can only withdraw profit made since the last payout. Plated: the same, but only after a payout taken while profit was above the cap.
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Account Reset
Yes

Up to 3 resets per Trial account, bought manually. They restore the starting balance and erase the account history. Non-refundable.

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Add-ons
Yes

PLAT End-of-Day Drawdown boost: a Trial bought with it trails the highest end-of-day balance instead of intraday equity. Its price is not public.

No
Instant
No
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
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Limited

One Step Standard funded scaling targets: $52,100 on $50k, $103,600 on $100k and $155,100 on $150k.

Max Drawdown

Intraday trailing: it follows the highest equity, unrealized profit included. On the Trial it locks at the profit target. Once funded it locks at the starting balance when profit reaches the buffer, which equals the drawdown. Losses and payouts reduce it dollar for dollar; at zero the account fails.

  • 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
Profit Split

80% on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed 100% bounties.

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Daily Drawdown

No daily loss limit.

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Max Allocation

Up to 5 active accounts at once, Trial or funded: $750,000 with five 150K accounts.

450,000
Mandatory buffer
Limited

Raid only: the buffer equals the account drawdown and only profit above it can be withdrawn. Conquest has no buffer.

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Maximum Accounts

5 active accounts at once and no more than 20 new funded accounts in any 30 days.

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Maximum Trading Days

No deadline, but you must trade at least once every 28 days.

Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: unlimited evaluation time.

Minimum Trading Days
  • Trial: 3 days on Light Armor and 5 on Plated.
  • Ascension: 5 days per cycle, not necessarily in a row.

One Step Standard: none; the evaluation can be passed in one trading day.

Funded Phase Pricing Model

No activation fee on purchased accounts. Free accounts (100% code, gift or giveaway) may pay a one-time activation when moving to funded: $49 on Light Armor and $99 on Plated.

One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $0 activation fee.

Points Reward Program

PLAT: points for purchases, milestones and promotions, which can also be bought. They cannot be withdrawn, have no cash value and are reversed if the purchase is refunded.

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Minimum Profitable Days
  • Conquest: 5 days at the minimum daily profit for its size.
  • Raid and Ascension: none.
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Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

One-time fee per account, no subscription or rebills. You pick the platform at checkout.

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Expert Advisor (EA)
No

Bots, AI execution and mass order entry are forbidden.

No
VPN
No
Yes
Hedging
No
No
Requires Stop Loss
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No
Scalping
Limited

Trades under 12 seconds count as microscalping and cannot exceed 50% of trades or profit. Tick scalping is forbidden.

Yes

Scalping and microscalping are allowed with a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.

Stacking / Layering (DCA)
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Yes
Martingale
No
Yes
Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

Contract limit by account size, in minis or micros.

No
Copy Trading
Limited

Only between your own Midgard accounts. Copying other traders or signal services is forbidden.

Yes

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.

News Trading
Limited

Free on the Trial. Once funded, stay flat from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after NFP, CPI and FOMC; other news is free.

Yes
Inactivity Rule

At least one trade every 28 days, counted from purchase or the last reset. Otherwise the account is closed with no refund; they email about 5 days before.

No
Consistency Rule
Limited

40% on the Trial only: the best day cannot exceed 40% of profit. You need the target or the best day divided by 0.4, whichever is higher. None once funded.

Yes

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%
Hold Weekend
No
No
Prohibited Strategies
  • Bots, AI or mass order entry
  • One- or two-tick tick scalping
  • Exploiting simulated fills: rapid-fire orders, gaps, slippage-free stops, tight brackets and auto-breakeven
  • Latency arbitrage or price errors
  • Hedging across accounts and opposite positions in correlated products (NQ and MNQ)
  • Martingale or averaging down
  • Copying other traders or trading for others
  • VPN, proxy or an external or slow data feed
  • 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.
Overnight positions
No

Everything is flattened automatically at 4:45 PM ET and you stay flat until the 6:00 PM ET reopen.

No
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