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7901 4th St N Ste 300, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, United States
14 Haroshet st, Raanaa, Israel
Saul Lokier
United States
Israel
2016
3.5% for Rise, cryptocurrencies and bank transfers. No fee when the payout is converted into Hub Credits.
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.
The5ers states that all activity is conducted in a simulated trading environment.
- 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.
First payout after 14 days; subsequent payouts every 14 days after the last approved withdrawal.
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.
Approved withdrawals are normally processed within 3 business days.
- 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.
25K: $1,250. 50K: payouts 1–4 are capped at $1,500 / $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,000; later payouts remain capped at $3,000. 100K and 150K: 3% of the current balance.
$250 per request on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed bounties.
A payout can be requested after reaching at least 4% profit over the initial account balance.
- 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.
The funded account must be at least 14 days old and have reached at least 4% profit. The 14-day cycle restarts after scaling.
Standard futures: $5 per side. Micro futures: $2.50 per side.
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.
At every approved 10% profit milestone, buying power increases by 5%, up to $500,000.
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.
4% EOD trailing drawdown, calculated from the highest midnight balance or equity. After a payout, it resets to 4% below the new balance.
80% on Raid and Conquest. Ascension pays fixed 100% bounties.
80% for the trader across all funded accounts.
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.
No time limit. At least one trade must be placed every 14 days.
- Trial: 3 days on Light Armor and 5 on Plated.
- Ascension: 5 days per cycle, not necessarily in a row.
The evaluation can be passed in one trading day while respecting the consistency rule.
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 monthly fee. The current program catalogue shows no 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.
Every approved 10% profit milestone adds 1 mini and 10 micro contracts.
One-time fee per account, no subscription or rebills. You pick the platform at checkout.
One-time evaluation fee with no monthly subscription.
Bots, AI execution and mass order entry are forbidden.
Algorithmic and high-frequency trading are prohibited.
Trades under 12 seconds count as microscalping and cannot exceed 50% of trades or profit. Tick scalping is forbidden.
Contract limit by account size, in minis or micros.
Only between your own Midgard accounts. Copying other traders or signal services is forbidden.
Only between the trader's own 25K and 50K accounts, with a combined maximum allocation of $75,000.
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.
At least one trade must be placed every 14 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.
40% per-position consistency rule during evaluation and funded stages. It is calculated using accumulated profitable trades; losing trades are not deducted.
- 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
High-frequency trading, algorithmic trading and hedging.
Everything is flattened automatically at 4:45 PM ET and you stay flat until the 6:00 PM ET reopen.
Day Trade does not allow overnight positions. Swing allows limited overnight exposure: 1 mini/10 micros on 25K and 50K, 2/20 on 100K and 3/30 on 150K.



















