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Headquarters

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

Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

CEO
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Jakub Rož

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
Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, Bangladesh, North Korea, Russian Federation, Belarus, Cuba, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, United States, United Arab Emirates
Assets
Indices, Commodities, Metals, Forex, Agriculture
Futures
Brokers
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Proprietary platform For Traders X. Liquidity provider not publicly disclosed.

Payout Fee
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  • Crypto ($100 – $499): $25
  • Rise $500 or more: $50
Platforms
Rithmic, RTrader Pro, WealthCharts, DeepCharts, Volumetrica, TradingView, Tradesea, MotiveWave, Bookmap, Sierra Chart
For Traders X
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.

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Payment Methods
Card, PayPal
Card, Crypto, 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.
  • Futures Fast: on-demand (after 5 profitable days and offsetting trailing drawdown)
  • Futures Instant: on-demand (after 7 profitable days)
  • Futures Fast Pro: on-demand (after 1 profitable day, balance > $52K)
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.

48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split

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.
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Minimum Withdrawal

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

  • Minimum: $100 in wallet
  • Maximum per cycle by product:
    · Futures Fast 25K: $800
    · Futures Fast 50K: $1,500
    · Futures Fast 100K: $2,500
    · Futures Instant 25K: $1,500
    · Futures Instant 50K: $3,000
    · Futures Instant 100K: $4,500
    · Futures Fast Pro 50K: $250-$1,200 per cycle, final $10,000 (max 5 withdrawals)
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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Refund
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No

No traditional refund. No activation fee after passing Fast/Fast Pro.

Futures
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Per-contract margins set by underlying instrument. Position size capped per account size.

Futures
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0.2
Swap Free
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No
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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Yes

Scaling unlocked through the Loyalty Program (5 tiers: Starter, Rising Star, Pro, VIP, Legend). Increments depend on tier. Applies to all account types.

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.

  • Futures Fast: $1,000 (25K) / $2,000 (50K) / $2,500 (100K), trailing
  • Futures Fast Pro: $2,000 EOD trailing (50K)
  • Futures Instant: 5% EOD trailing
Profit Split

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

All futures products: 80%

Free Trial
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No
Daily Drawdown

No daily loss limit.

  • Futures Fast: none
  • Futures Fast Pro: $1,000 (50K)
  • Futures Instant: 3% from highest day equity
Max Allocation

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

$300,000 combined across all Master Accounts and Instant Models (Forex + Crypto + Futures shared cap). No allocation limit during Challenge phase.

Mandatory buffer
Limited

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

No

No mandatory buffer. Instead, when you request a payout your maximum trailing drawdown locks at your starting balance.

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.

No time limit on any futures account.

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

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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.
  • Futures Fast Challenge: 5 profitable days before reward request
  • Futures Fast Pro: 1 profitable day per reward request (50K)
  • Futures Instant: 7 profitable days
Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

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

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Two Steps
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No
Three Steps
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No
Monthly Competition
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Yes
Expert Advisor (EA)
No

Bots, AI execution and mass order entry are forbidden.

No

EAs allowed only as decision-support tools (alerts, partial management, predefined rules). Fully autonomous trading bots are prohibited.

VPN
No
Yes
Hedging
No
No

Cross-account hedging is forbidden.

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

Manual scalping allowed with minimum 5-second hold per trade. Tick scalping and HFT forbidden.

Stacking / Layering (DCA)
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Yes
Martingale
No
No

Martingale strategies are forbidden.

Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

Contract limit by account size, in minis or micros.

Yes

Position size capped by contract count per account (see Max Allocation).

Copy Trading
Limited

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

No

Outbound copy allowed; inbound copy from external sources forbidden.

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

News trading allowed without restrictions on Futures accounts.

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.

  • Futures Fast Challenge: 7 days
  • Futures Fast Master: 14 days
  • Futures Fast Pro Challenge: 7 days / Master: 14 days
  • Futures Instant: 7 days

Days counted from the moment a position is CLOSED, not opened. Minimal 0.01-lot trades to game the rule don't count.

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
  • Futures Fast Challenge: best day's profit must be < 40% of total accumulated profit. No consistency target on Master.
  • Futures Fast Pro Challenge: same 40% rule.
  • Futures Instant: best day cannot exceed 15% of total profit.
  • Calculation: Best Day Profit / 0.40 = Minimum required total profit.
Hold Weekend
No
Yes

Weekend holds are unrestricted.

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
  • Arbitrage (latency, reverse, statistical)
  • HFT
  • Tick scalping (under 5 seconds)
  • Fully autonomous bots/EAs
  • Cross-account hedging
  • Gambling behaviors
  • Martingale
  • Inbound copy trading and signal services
  • Group/signal trading from Telegram, Discord etc.
Overnight positions
No

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

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