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Office No. 7, AI Robotics HUB, C1 Building, AFZ, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

Léon Grimm

Abdullah Jayed

France

United Arab Emirates

2023

2022

Merit Live: Phoenix covers the processor fee on withdrawals above $500.

Up to 3.5% processing fee on all withdrawals.

Live Funded account at EdgeClear on Rithmic. Classic and Spark: after 4 payouts. Daily: once $1,200/$3,000/$6,000 has been paid (Seed/Starter/Growth). Merit: straight to Live on approval. Risk review required; if not passed, the pre-funded payout limit may be extended instead. Live amount: Classic $1,250/$2,000/$3,500; Spark $400/$1,000; Daily $500/$1,250/$2,000; Merit $2,000. Static drawdown, daily limit agreed with the trader, and every rule waived except overnight and over-week positions. Other funded accounts go dormant on transfer.

Available after $100K Total Active Profits. 80% of simulated profit splits: 50% settlement, 25% live deposit (max $50K), 25% reserve (auto-refills). Auto liquidation at 20% of deposit (locks at deposit after first withdrawal). Withdrawals: 80/20 split, $100 min, 2-5 days processing.

Classic: weekly, first payout after 5 trading days and then every 5. Spark: bi-weekly, first payout after 5 trading days. Daily: any trading day once profit matures (3 trading days; 5 for a day above 30% of total profit and above the tier's daily cap). Merit Live: any time, up to 10 per day. Processing: 2 to 3 business days.

• Flex: Reward withdrawals every 5 days once eligible
• Legacy: Reward withdrawals every 5 benchmark days
• Rapid: Reward withdrawals every 3 days
• Bolt: Daily rewards from day one of eligibility

Per payout: Classic $600/$1,000/$2,000 (Starter/Growth/Scale); Spark $300/$400 (Seed/Starter). Daily: $200/$500/$1,000 per trading day (Seed/Starter/Growth), with $1,000 per day per trader across all Daily accounts. Merit Live: no maximum. PayPal: $2,000 per month.

• USDT (TRC20 / ERC20) or USDC (ERC20) via RiseWorks: up to $1,000 per withdrawal
• USDT (ERC20) / USDC (ERC20) without RiseWorks: up to $1,000,000 per withdrawal

Rapid FundedNext Account (per cycle, lifted after 5 withdrawals)

• $25K: $800
• $50K: $1,500
• $100K: $2,500

Legacy FundedNext Account (before 30 Benchmark Days: max 50% of profit)

• $25K: up to $3,000
• $50K: up to $6,000
• $100K: up to $6,000

After caps are lifted, withdraw 100% of profits with no limit.

Flex FundedNext Account (per cycle; account concludes after 5 Performance Reward withdrawals)

• $50K: up to 50% of profit, max $1,500
• $100K: up to 50% of profit, max $2,500
• $150K: up to 50% of profit, max $4,000

Classic and Daily: $75. Spark: $30 (Seed) or $75 (Starter). Merit Live: $1.

$250 minimum for all withdrawal methods.

After passing: review of up to 72 hours, then KYC and Pre-Funded contract within 48 hours. The trailing drawdown locks at the starting balance on the first payout. Every denied payout comes with a written reason from the risk team. No crypto payouts.

Brand Promise: Performance Reward processed within 24 hours, or $1,000 extra added to your reward.

Per contract and side on TFeed; dxFeed is double. ES, NQ, RTY and YM $1.09; MES, MNQ, M2K and MYM $0.35; CL $1.15; MCL $0.43; GC $1.20; MGC $0.43; NG $1.20; 6E $1.20; ZN $0.80; ZB $0.83; BTC $3.38; MBT $1.38. Same rates on every line, in evaluation and funded.

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Classic, Daily and Spark: unlimited, by paying the fee or with reset coupons (one per month the challenge stays alive; they stack and never expire). Classic: a failed account is reset free at renewal. Merit: no reset.

Unlimited resets at no additional cost. Resets within 7 days keep the same Challenge Account; resets after 7 days provide a new one.

Performance Review (+20% on the price): 20 to 30 page report on the trader's own trades. Free ATAS licence with dxFeed.

Scaling beyond the Classic plan on request, after a full review of the trades.

Classic and Daily: end-of-day trailing in evaluation and funded. Spark: end-of-day trailing in evaluation and real-time trailing once funded. The trailing drawdown locks at the starting balance. Merit: static, the whole $2,000 balance. Live: static.

Trailing end-of-day (EOD) system. Locks at the initial account balance and never decreases.

Classic and Spark: 90%. Daily: 80%. Merit: 50% until the trader has withdrawn twice the starting balance, then 80%.

• Flex: 95% Reward Share by default for new and existing accounts, with no paid add-on.
• Other Futures challenges: 80% Reward Share.

Classic, Daily and Spark: none. Merit: 25% dynamic (soft breach). Live: agreed with each trader based on their results.

Daily loss limit only on Bolt Challenge ($1,000 soft breach for $50K account). Flex, Legacy and Rapid have no daily loss limit.

Classic and Daily: a locked buffer equal to the maximum drawdown stays in the account and is not withdrawable. Spark and Merit: none.

Unlimited challenges. Pre-funded: 5 on TFeed (up to 3 Spark, 3 Daily, 3 Classic Growth or Scale and 5 Classic Starter) and 3 on dxFeed. Live: up to 5, at Phoenix's discretion. Merit: one attempt; another requires buying a Classic or Daily account first.

No deadline. Spark closes after 90 days without a trade. Merit: 30 calendar days.

No time limit. Trade at your own pace until the profit target is met.

Classic and Daily: 2. Spark: 1. Merit: none; the challenge lasts 30 calendar days.

No monthly fee on funded accounts. Activation: $29 one-time on Spark; $0 on Classic, Daily and Merit. Live: CME professional data at $135/month per exchange, deducted from the account.

Free. No activation fee or recurring charges on the FundedNext Account.

Phoenix Extra: PHX earned for ideas and ambassador work, usable on accounts, resets and activation fees. Not convertible to cash.

Classic: 5 days between payouts with at least $100/$200/$300 profit (Starter/Growth/Scale). Spark: 5 days with at least $40 (Seed) or $100 (Starter). Daily and Merit: none.

Rapid FundedNext Account

• No Benchmark Day requirement. First withdrawal eligible after 3 days if conditions are met.

Legacy FundedNext Account

• Minimum 5 Benchmark Days before first withdrawal.
• Benchmark Day profit thresholds: $100 ($25K account) / $200 ($50K and $100K accounts).
• After 30 Benchmark Days: withdrawal cap and 50% profit limit are removed.

Flex FundedNext Account

• 5 Benchmark Days per withdrawal: $200/day ($50K and $100K) / $250/day ($150K).
• Minimum $500 profit in the current cycle.

Classic: the contract limit rises with profit at $1,000, $2,000 and $4,000 up to the account maximum, in evaluation and funded, and drops if profit falls back. Spark, Daily and Merit: full size from day one. Live: one extra mini per $2,000 of profit.

Classic: monthly subscription every 30 days, cancelled automatically on passing; dxFeed adds $20/month. Daily, Spark and Merit: one-time payment. No refunds.

One-time fee (no monthly subscription).

HFT and bots that trade without the trader are prohibited. Tools that assist the trader (hotkeys, DOM, alerts) are allowed.

EAs and trading bots are allowed on both Challenge and FundedNext Accounts. No support is provided for setup or troubleshooting. Strategies exploiting system vulnerabilities (latency abuse, order flooding) remain prohibited.

VPN, VPS and proxy allowed; sessions are monitored and identity documents may be requested.

Opposite positions on the same asset across accounts, own or someone else's.

No minimum trade duration.

Rotating through accounts, each risked in full on the same bet until one hits, is prohibited. Holding several accounts is allowed.

Allowed within a single account, also DCA. Prohibited across accounts.

Same direction across the trader's own accounts. Thor is included with TFeed.

Including Tier 1 releases, at every stage.

Pre-funded: one trade every 7 calendar days, otherwise the account closes without a payout. Live: 30 days, not applied mechanically. Challenges: none, except Spark (90 days).

Classic and Daily evaluations: best day up to 50% of total profit; exceeding it only delays passing. Spark funded: 30%. No rule on Classic and Daily funded, Spark evaluation or Merit.

Challenge Phase

• Rapid Challenge: No consistency rule.
• Legacy Challenge: Daily profit cannot exceed 40% of the total profit target. If exceeded, the profit target increases accordingly (new target = highest daily profit / 40%).

FundedNext Account

• Rapid Account: 40% consistency rule applies (highest single-day profit must be ≤ 40% of total profit).
• Legacy Account: No consistency rule (for challenges purchased or reset after November 21, 2025).

Hedging between accounts, account rolling, martingale or loss recovery across accounts (also at other firms) and HFT or bots. On funded accounts: flipping and one-tick trading on bonds. Stop trading a contract within 2% of its CME daily price limit.

• Platform error exploitation
• Account sharing
• Account rolling
• Multi-order spam / coordinated trading exploits
• Abusing slow data feed
• Account flipping / inconsistent contract execution
• Spoofing
• Layering / order book shaping
• Exploiting bracket strategies (tight brackets / no slippage)
• Grid trading
• Wash trading
• Latency arbitrage
• Reverse hedging
• Hedging with correlated instruments
• Trading in gapped or illiquid markets
• Trading within 2% of CME price limits
• Unauthorized copy or group trading

Positions must be closed before the session ends, at every stage including Live. Breach: funded account denied, or payout denied and account closed.

All positions must be closed by 3:10 PM CT (11:10 PM GMT+2 / 3:10 AM GMT+6) each trading day. Unclosed positions are automatically closed by the system. Trading resumes at 5:00 PM CT.