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7901 4th St N Ste 300, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, United States
Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia
Lucas Antonio
United States
Saint Lucia
2024
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.
Standard, Apex and Direct: on request at any time once the profit goal is met, with no waiting period (Apex also needs 5 winning days). Daily: once a day. Requests Monday to Friday (UTC). At the 5th payout the risk team reviews the account and may refer the trader to live trading, closing the funded account.
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.
First payout: 24 working hours; subsequent payouts: 48. Working hours: Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00 BST. Late payment: $500 with that payout and $500 with the next. Giveaway and collaborator accounts excluded.
- 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.
Per-size cap per payout, before the split. Standard and Daily: balance above the required balance. Apex: 50% of profit held. Direct: profit held. Apex and Direct keep at least $200 above the starting balance.
$250 per request on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed bounties.
Standard, Apex and Direct: $500. Daily: $250/$500/$1,000/$1,500 for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K.
- 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.
Identity verification before the first payout. Requesting closes positions and pauses the account until the payout is resolved. Standard: profit goal of $250/$500/$750/$1,000 per payout. Apex from the 2nd payout: $500/$750/$1,000/$1,250. Daily from the 2nd payout: new profit of 50% of the last payout. Direct: $1,500/$3,000/$6,000/$9,000 for the first, then $1,250/$2,500/$3,500/$4,500. Accounts bought from 22 October 2026 have no fee refund.
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.
No Daily Loss Limit: +25% on Standard, +40% on Apex. 50% Consistency on Apex and Daily: +15%, evaluation best day up to 50% and 2 minimum days.
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.
Trailing on end-of-day balance, recalculated at 16:45 New York; never moves down and stops $100 above the starting balance, in evaluation and funded. The first payout request fixes the floor there. Breach measured on equity in real time. Atlas Daily funded uses $2,500 and $3,500 on $100K and $150K.
80% on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed 100% bounties.
90% on every program. All accounts are simulated.
No daily loss limit.
Lockout, not a breach: reaching it closes positions and locks trading until the 16:45 New York reset. Measured from the balance at the start of the trading day. None on Atlas Direct $25K or with the No Daily Loss Limit add-on. Atlas Daily funded: $500/$1,000/$1,250/$1,800.
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.
Standard and Daily: after a payout the balance must stay at the starting balance plus the max loss plus $100. Apex and Direct: at least $200 above the starting balance.
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.
No evaluation deadline.
- Trial: 3 days on Light Armor and 5 on Plated.
- Ascension: 5 days per cycle, not necessarily in a row.
Evaluation: Standard 2 days; Apex and Daily 3 (2 with the 50% Consistency add-on). Funded: no minimum days, except the winning days on Apex.
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.
No activation or subscription 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.
Apex funded: 5 winning days per payout of $100/$150/$200/$255 net closed profit for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K. Other programs: no winning-day requirement.
One-time fee per account, no subscription or rebills. You pick the platform at checkout.
One-time fee; no subscription.
Bots, AI execution and mass order entry are forbidden.
Must not conceal location or identity. Give advance notice of locations inconsistent with registration.
Allowed within one account. Prohibited across accounts, brokers or firms.
Trades under 12 seconds count as microscalping and cannot exceed 50% of trades or profit. Tick scalping is forbidden.
On funded accounts, a trade held under 3 minutes loses its profit only when that profit is half the max loss or more. Losses remain; it does not close the account.
Contract limit by account size, in minis or micros.
Positions open at 16:45 New York are closed automatically; this is not a breach. No margin-usage rule or Atlas Protector: contract limits cap position size, and funded accounts start at half the limits until the floor locks or the first payout is paid.
Only between your own Midgard accounts. Copying other traders or signal services is forbidden.
Only between your own Atlas accounts; copying other traders or external accounts is prohibited.
Free on the Trial. Once funded, stay flat from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after NFP, CPI and FOMC; other news is free.
Allowed on Standard, Apex and Direct, and in every evaluation. Atlas Daily funded: positions opened within 1 minute before or after high-impact news are closed, and profits from trades opened or closed in that window are deducted.
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.
Open a trade at least every 30 days.
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.
Standard: best day at most 50% of total profit to pass, then 40% of each funded cycle. Apex and Daily: 40% to pass, none when funded. Direct: 20% of each cycle.
- 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
Latency or tick arbitrage, exploiting prices or bugs, order flooding, hedging across accounts or firms, account sharing and passing services. Multiple locations must not hide who trades. Gambling, martingale and manipulating evaluations are prohibited. All-or-nothing trading: 3 or more trades each making or losing 75% of the max loss that are 20% or more of all futures trades.
Everything is flattened automatically at 4:45 PM ET and you stay flat until the 6:00 PM ET reopen.


















