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Headquarters

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

Heiligkreuz 6, 9490, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

CEO
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Daniela Egli

Country

United States

Liechtenstein

Foundation
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2022

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, Albania, Antarctica, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Palestinian Territory, Russia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Yemen
Assets
Indices, Commodities, Metals, Forex, Agriculture
Equity Indexes, Currencies, Agricultural, Energy, Metals, Interest Rates, Crypto
Brokers
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Rithmic, dxFeed, Tradovate
Payout Fee
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No payout fee

Platforms
Rithmic, RTrader Pro, WealthCharts, DeepCharts, Volumetrica, TradingView, Tradesea, MotiveWave, Bookmap, Sierra Chart
ATAS, Quantower, Volsys, RTrader Pro, Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView, Sierra Chart, MotiveWave, Jigsaw, Volfix
Payout Methods
Rise, Dots
Transfer, Crypto, Rise
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.

No
Payment Methods
Card, PayPal
Card, Crypto, Bank Transfer
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.
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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 hours on business days

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.

Up to 50% of the current profit buffer per reward, capped at $2,500 ($50K), $3,500 ($100K) or $5,000 ($150K).

  • Futures Instant: by reward number, up to $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,000 on $50K and $2,500 / $3,000 / $3,500 on $100K (rewards 1-3, 4-5 and 6+).
Minimum Withdrawal

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

$100

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.

Futures Prime: 5 profitable days of at least $150 each (not consecutive), one request every 7 days, and a balance at least $0.01 above the last post-payout balance.

  • Futures Instant: one request every 5 days for amounts above $500, after meeting the cycle's minimum profit goal ($3,000 on $50K, $6,000 on $100K), which resets after each payout.
Account Reset
Yes

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

Available for Futures Challenges with at least one trading day remaining; unavailable on Earning accounts.

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.

Yes

Optional Level 2 market data is available. Challenge Extend costs $99 / $189 / $289 by account size.

Instant
No
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
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Yes

Buying power scales from end-of-day profit and is adjusted daily at 16:00 CT.

After passing the Challenge the account moves through a level ladder. Each level has its own profit target and drawdown limit; reaching the target unlocks a payout and promotes the account to the next level, with more capital, more drawdown flexibility and a higher profit share. Smaller accounts run through around 10 levels.

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.

Trailing on end-of-day balance. It stops at the starting balance and never moves down.

Profit Split

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

80%

Free Trial
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No
Daily Drawdown

No daily loss limit.

Daily Pause is recalculated from the previous day's closing balance at 16:15 CT. It closes positions and pauses trading until the next day.

Max Allocation

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

750,000
Mandatory buffer
Limited

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

No
Maximum Accounts

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

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Merge Accounts
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No
Maximum Trading Days

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

30 days (includes weekends and holidays)

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

3 unique trading days to pass.

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.

No activation fee for new Futures Prime accounts purchased from 26 March 2026.

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.

Respect Points Program (Affiliate)
10% commission on each referred trader turns into points for the original trader. Points accumulate per challenge purchased via your affiliate link.

Minimum Profitable Days
  • Conquest: 5 days at the minimum daily profit for its size.
  • Raid and Ascension: none.
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Position size scaling
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Yes

The contract limit grows with each level of the ladder. An account that starts at 10 micros can reach 50 micros; larger accounts scale up to 50 standard contracts.

Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

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

One-time fee; no subscription.

Expert Advisor (EA)
No

Bots, AI execution and mass order entry are forbidden.

Yes
VPN
No
Limited

VPN is allowed for individual traders, provided it is not used to mask shared access or coordinated activity between accounts. Multiple accounts accessed from the same IP / network is prohibited.

Hedging
No
Limited

Hedging within the same account is allowed for risk-management purposes, provided no Hedging Arbitrage is involved. Hedging between two accounts (BUY on one + SELL on the other) is prohibited.

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
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
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Yes
Martingale
No
No
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.

Limited

Copy trading is allowed up to 5 accounts (manual or automated). If you copy the same strategy to more than 5 accounts, we reserve the right to deny upgrades of additional accounts. You may only copy from external accounts that are yours (not from other traders). Copying between your Futures Challenges and Futures Earning accounts is prohibited.

  • Futures Instant: allowed between 2 accounts.
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.

21 consecutive days without placing a single trade → the account is considered inactive and breached. Holding an overnight position or having an unexecuted pending order does NOT count as activity. The countdown starts when the account is purchased/created.

  • Futures Instant: 14 days without trading.
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

40% Consistency Rule (Futures Prime Challenge only). Single-day profit may not exceed 40% of the profit target. Any excess is added to the new profit target. The rule does not apply to Earning accounts.

  • Futures Instant: the biggest profitable day may not exceed 20% of total profit before a payout.
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
  • High-frequency, latency, reverse, hedge-arbitrage or arbitrage trading
  • Grid, martingale, gambling or account rolling
  • Gap trading before extended market closures
  • Copying between Challenge and Earning accounts
  • Emulators, unauthorized feeds or exploiting fills
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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