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Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

100 Crescent Ct, Unit 700, Dallas, Texas 75201, US

Dylan Elchami

Saint Lucia

United States

2026

2021

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

E8 charges no payout fee. WorkMarket or Rise may charge a processing fee depending on the selected withdrawal method.

Challenge and SimFi Performance accounts are simulated. Futures market data is sourced from CME.

On demand, as soon as the conditions are met.

• Signature Futures: on demand once all payout requirements are met.
• Zero Starter and Zero Max: daily, minimum $100.

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

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.

E8 Signature Futures

E8 Zero Starter

• $50K: $1,000
• $100K: $1,600
• $200K: $2,100

E8 Zero Max

• $50K: $3,000
• $100K: $5,000
• $200K: $7,000

Signature Futures and Zero allow a maximum of 5 payouts per account; after the fifth, the account closes and a free Challenge of the same size is issued.

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

$100

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.

Payouts require successful onboarding and KYC with WorkMarket or Rise. If neither provider accepts the trader, E8 cannot process the payout.

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.

After an account fails, a 10% discount is available for 7 days to retry the same account size and settings.

Zero Starter and Zero Max allow the payout share to be increased from the 80% base configuration to 100% at checkout.

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.

EOD Dynamic Drawdown based on the highest end-of-day balance. Intraday equity does not move it. It locks permanently at the initial balance level.

90% on both plans.

• Signature Futures: 80%.
• Zero Starter/Max: 80% base; 100% can be selected at checkout.

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

• Signature Challenge: none.
• Signature Performance: 2% Daily Pause (soft breach; trading resumes the next day).
• Zero Challenge and Performance: none.

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

• Challenge stage: unlimited accounts.
• Signature Futures: up to 5 active Performance accounts.
• Zero Starter/Max: up to 3 active Performance accounts. Limits apply per household.

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

Signature requires leaving a non-withdrawable buffer equal to the EOD Dynamic Drawdown before payouts. On Zero, any profit left after a payout remains as buffer and cannot be requested in a later cycle.

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.

No time limit.

Unlimited, but the account closes after 7 days of inactivity.

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

• Signature Futures: can pass in 1 day.
• Zero Starter/Max: earliest pass in 3 days because of the 40% Best Day rule.

No activation fee.

No activation fee or recurring subscription.

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

• Signature: 5 profitable days between payouts after the first payout; a profitable day requires at least 0.3% realized profit.
• Zero Starter/Max: no minimum profitable days in Performance.

Only Zero Performance accounts scale contract allowance. At 1.5% locked profit the first level unlocks the next day; at 3% the second level unlocks. Signature and Zero Challenge contract limits do not scale.

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

One-time fee. No subscription.

No EAs or automated trading on futures.

Semi-automated and fully automated trading, including bots, AI tools and HFT above 300 trades per day, is prohibited on Futures.

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.

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

Futures accounts use a netting system. Hedging across multiple accounts or users is prohibited.

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

At least 50% of total profit must come from trades held for 10 seconds or longer.

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

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

There is no fixed percentage risk cap, but irresponsible, all-or-nothing or disproportionate risk-taking can trigger review or account termination.

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

Allowed only between accounts owned by the same trader. Team trading, signals and copying another trader are prohibited.

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.

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

The account closes after 7 days without opening and closing at least one trade.

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.

• Zero Challenge: 40% Best Day rule; if the best day exceeds 40% of total profit, the effective target increases.
• Zero Performance: no consistency rule.
• Signature Challenge: no consistency rule.
• Signature Performance: 35% Best Day rule for payout eligibility.

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.

• Exploiting gaps, illiquid markets, pricing errors or slow data feeds
• Semi-automated or fully automated trading, bots, AI tools and HFT above 300 trades/day
• Trading within 2% of a CME product lock limit
• Irresponsible or all-or-nothing trading
• Hedging across accounts or users
• Tick scalping where less than 50% of profit comes from trades held at least 10 seconds
• Trading anything other than the front-month contract
• Account rolling and strategies that are not reproducible in real markets

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

All positions are forcibly closed every trading day at 15:10 CT. Trading is permitted from 17:00 to 15:10 CT.