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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
Jason Blax
United States
United Arab Emirates
2023
$35 flat processing fee deducted from the first approved withdrawal of each calendar month.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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
$250 per request on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed bounties.
- Instant Standard, One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $500
- 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.
Up to 3 resets per Trial account, bought manually. They restore the starting balance and erase the account history. Non-refundable.
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.
One Step Standard funded scaling targets: $52,100 on $50k, $103,600 on $100k and $155,100 on $150k.
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
80% on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed 100% bounties.
No daily loss limit.
Up to 5 active accounts at once, Trial or funded: $750,000 with five 150K accounts.
Raid only: the buffer equals the account drawdown and only profit above it can be withdrawn. Conquest has no buffer.
5 active accounts at once and no more than 20 new funded accounts in any 30 days.
No deadline, but you must trade at least once every 28 days.
Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: unlimited evaluation time.
- 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.
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.
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.
- Conquest: 5 days at the minimum daily profit for its size.
- Raid and Ascension: none.
One-time fee per account, no subscription or rebills. You pick the platform at checkout.
Bots, AI execution and mass order entry are forbidden.
Trades under 12 seconds count as microscalping and cannot exceed 50% of trades or profit. Tick scalping is forbidden.
Scalping and microscalping are allowed with a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.
Contract limit by account size, in minis or micros.
Only between your own Midgard accounts. Copying other traders or signal services is forbidden.
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.
Free on the Trial. Once funded, stay flat from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after NFP, CPI and FOMC; other news is free.
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.
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.
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%
- 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.
Everything is flattened automatically at 4:45 PM ET and you stay flat until the 6:00 PM ET reopen.



















