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Headquarters

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

CEO
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Jason Blax

Country

Saint Lucia

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2026

2023

Banned Countries
IR, KP, PS
Afghanistan, Cuba, Mauritius, Senegal, Albania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mongolia, South Africa, Algeria, Ecuador, Montenegro, Tanzania, Angola, Ethiopia, Nicaragua, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Ghana, Namibia, Tunisia, Barbados, Hong Kong, North Korea, Turkey, Belarus, Iceland, Pakistan, Uganda, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Indonesia, Philippines, Ukraine, Botswana, Iran, Panama, Vietnam, Bulgaria, Iraq, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, Burma (Myanmar), Jamaica, Qatar, Yemen, Burundi, Kosovo, Russia, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Romania, Cambodia, Laos, Serbia, Central African Republic, Lebanon, Slovenia, Cameroon, Liberia, Somalia, China, Libya, South Sudan, Côte d'Ivoire, Macedonia, Sudan, Crimea, Mali, Sri Lanka, Croatia, Mozambique, Syria
Assets
Futures, Indices, Commodities, Forex
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Brokers
dxFeed
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Payout Fee

No fixed fee published. Any processing or network fee is shown before you confirm; bank and network charges are paid by the trader.

$35 flat processing fee deducted from the first approved withdrawal of each calendar month.

Platforms
Volumetrica
Volumetrica, Tradovate, DeepCharts, TradingView
Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto
Rise, Crypto
Live Account
No
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Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, Transfer, UPI
Card, Crypto
Payout Frequency

On demand, as soon as the conditions are met.

  • Daily: daily
  • One Step Standard, Instant Standard: on demand
  • Flex DLL: after 5 winning days
  • Flex No DLL: after 6 winning days

Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Central Time.

Payout Guarantee

No guaranteed time: the payout policy neither promises nor estimates one. Every request gets an automatic receipt and every payout a verifiable certificate.

Within 24 business hours. Get paid in 24 hours or AquaFunded Futures pays you an extra $500.

Maximum Withdrawal

Before the split. One Step 25K/50K/100K/150K: $1,000/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000 on the first payout and $1,500/$2,500/$3,000/$3,500 after. Instant: $1,000/$2,000/$3,000/$4,000 on every payout. The rest rolls into the next one.

Daily: maximum daily payout

  • $50k: $1,100
  • $100k: $2,200
  • $150k: $3,300

Instant Standard: payout cap

  • $25k: $1,000
  • $50k: $2,000
  • $100k: $4,000
  • $150k: $6,000

One Step Standard: payout cap

  • $50k: $2,000, then $2,500
  • $100k: $4,000, then $5,000
  • $150k: $6,000, then $7,500

Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: payout cap

  • $50k: $2,000
  • $100k: $2,500
  • $150k: $3,000
Minimum Withdrawal

$500 before the split. Crypto payouts: at least $100.

  • Instant Standard, One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $500
Other Payout Requirements

Every position closed. Funded One Step: balance above the buffer plus 1% of the starting balance, 3 profitable days (+0.25%) and the 40% rule. Instant: a profit milestone before each payout ($1,450, $3,000, $5,000 or $8,000 on 25K, 50K, 100K or 150K), 5 profitable days and the 20% rule.

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Account Reset
Limited

One Step: after an evaluation breach, a restart within 14 days at the same price. Funded One Step: a reset within 14 days, at most twice and before the first payout. Instant: no reset; a new account at a reduced price is offered for 3 days.

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Add-ons
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No
Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
No
Limited

One Step Standard funded scaling targets: $52,100 on $50k, $103,600 on $100k and $155,100 on $150k.

Max Drawdown

One Step: end-of-day trailing, rising with the closing balance. Instant: intraday trailing on peak equity, open profit included. Both lock once they reach the starting balance. Touching it ends the account.

  • Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown during evaluation and funded stages
  • Instant Standard: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown
  • One Step Standard: end-of-day (EOD) drawdown during evaluation
Profit Split

90% on both plans.

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Free Trial
No
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Daily Drawdown

Soft limit: reaching it closes positions and stops trading until the next session; the account stays open. One Step 25K has none.

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Max Allocation

$1.5M per person across all CFD and futures accounts.

450,000
Mandatory buffer
Limited

Funded One Step: a buffer equal to the max loss that stays on the account and is never paid out. Instant has none.

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Maximum Accounts

One user per person, with as many accounts as the $1.5M limit allows. Up to 5 accounts per order, with a 10% to 25% bundle discount.

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Maximum Trading Days

No time limit.

Daily, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: unlimited evaluation time.

Minimum Trading Days

No minimum in the evaluation: it can be passed in one day.

One Step Standard: none; the evaluation can be passed in one trading day.

Funded Phase Pricing Model

No activation fee.

One Step Standard, Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: $0 activation fee.

Minimum Profitable Days

Before each payout: 3 days at +0.25% of the starting balance on funded One Step and 5 on Instant. The evaluation needs none.

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Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

One-off fee. Includes 30 days of market data; then $35 per 30 days ($540 a month for professional subscribers).

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Expert Advisor (EA)
No

No EAs or automated trading on futures.

No
VPN
No

Hiding your location with a VPN, proxy or remote desktop is prohibited and triggers a new identity check. Your own EA on a VPS is allowed if disclosed.

Yes
Hedging
Limited

Within one account, yes (mini against micro or different contracts). Prohibited across accounts.

No
Requires Stop Loss
No
No
Scalping
Limited

Yes, but trades under 30 seconds may make at most 50% of profit; until it is back under, no pass or payout.

Yes

Scalping and microscalping are allowed with a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.

Stacking / Layering (DCA)
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Yes
Martingale
Limited

Allowed when used responsibly within the contract and loss limits; aggressive sequences are reviewed.

Yes
Maximum Risk Limit
Limited

A cap on contracts open at once; exceeding it once is a warning, the second time goes to review.

No
Copy Trading
Limited

Only between your own futures accounts or from your own master account. Copying others or signals is prohibited.

Yes

Copy trading is allowed between accounts owned by the same person. You can copy trades freely across your own AquaFunded Futures accounts without violations for internal account copying.

News Trading
Limited

Free during the One Step evaluation. Funded and on Instant, no trade may be opened or closed 2 minutes either side of red USD news: profit from those trades is removed. Two warnings; the third goes to review.

Yes
Inactivity Rule

15 days without trading deactivates the account; an open position does not count.

No
Consistency Rule
Limited

No day may exceed 40% of the cycle's profit on funded One Step (none in the evaluation) or 20% on Instant. Until met, the payout waits.

Yes

Evaluation Phase

  • Daily: 40%
  • One Step Standard: none
  • Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: 50%

Funded Phase

  • Daily: none
  • One Step Standard: 40%
  • Flex DLL and Flex No DLL: none
  • Instant Standard: 20%
Hold Weekend
No
No
Prohibited Strategies

Hedging across accounts, latency or cross-market arbitrage, account or device sharing, coordinated trading, copying others, market or order-queue manipulation, volume inflation, filler trades to count days, HFT, strategies that cannot work in a live market, gambling and account rolling, straddling tier-1 news and gap trading.

  • No full automation: bots, AI and hands-off trading are forbidden.
  • Auto scalping is limited (>200 trades/day restricted).
  • Semi-automation is allowed with active manual control.
  • No order manipulation (layering or fake liquidity).
  • No exploiting simulated fills, slippage or illiquid markets.
  • Follow CME rules; no coordinated accounts.
  • Scalping and microscalping require a minimum trade duration of 10 seconds.
  • Martingale is allowed within risk limits.
  • Violations may result in termination and loss of profits.
Overnight positions
No

Everything is closed at 3:55 PM Chicago time every session; it is not a breach.

No
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