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Headquarters

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

30 N Gould St STE 4000, Sheridan, WY 82801

CEO
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Osvaldo Guimarães

Country

Saint Lucia

United States

Foundation

2026

2016

Banned Countries
IR, KP, PS
Afghanistan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Myanmar, Central African Republic, Cuba, Gibraltar, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Nauru, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen, Iowa (US), Minnesota (US), South Carolina (US), Guam, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands
Assets
Futures, Indices, Commodities, Forex
Futures
Brokers
dxFeed
Dorman Trading, Edge Clear, Ninja Trader, Lunaro Markets
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.

Withdrawal Method Fees
Rise $50 per withdrawal for non-US customers
1.5% for US customers
Deel $50 per withdrawal
Bayzat $5-$40
Direct Crypto 0.735%
Platforms
Volumetrica
NinjaTrader, Finamark, RTrader, RTrader Pro, Overcharts, Inside Edge Trader, Investor RT, Motive Wave, MultiCharts, Bookmap, Photon, QScalp, QSI, ScalpTool, Trade Navigator, Volfix, Jigsaw Trading, ATAS, Sierra Chart, Quantower, Tradovate, Tradingview, BlackArrow, DeepCharts
Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto
Deel, Rise, Crypto, Bayzal
Live Account
No
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Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, Transfer, UPI
Card, PayPal, Crypto, Apple Pay, Google Pay
Payout Frequency

On demand, as soon as the conditions are met.

On Demand and processed on Wednesday

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.

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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.

LiveSim® Gauntlet Mini™

  • Max Withdrawal: $4,000 (Requires $5,000 in total profit).
  • Profit Split: The firm takes a 20% share (deducted monthly or at each withdrawal).

LiveSim® Trader Career Path®

  • Max Withdrawal: The program's profit target minus 20%.
  • Deductions: No monthly deductions; the 20% is only taken from the target amount.
Minimum Withdrawal

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

$100

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.

Variable Pricing ($25K–$50K Accounts)

Reset fees for these entry-level accounts fluctuate according to current promotions and are consistently priced lower than a brand-new subscription:

  • TCP25 (Trader Career Path® 25K)
  • TCP50 (Trader Career Path® 50K)
  • GAU50 (Gauntlet Mini™ 50K)

Fixed Pricing ($100K–$200K Accounts)

Reset fees for these higher-balance accounts remain constant and are not affected by promotional offers:

  • TCP100 (Trader Career Path® 100K) – $100
  • GAU100 (Gauntlet Mini™ 100K) – $100
  • GAU150 (Gauntlet Mini™ 150K) – $130
  • GAU200 (Gauntlet Mini™ 200K) – $155

A complimentary free reset is added after each monthly renewal of your subscription. You can use these free resets at any time while your subscription is active, accumulate more than one, but any unused resets will be forfeited if you cancel.

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

Scaling only allowed for Trader Career Path

 

TCP25

Current Account Required Withdrawal (Net) Next Account Size
$25,000 $1,400 $50,000
$50,000 $2,400 $100,000
$100,000 $4,800 $200,000
$200,000 $8,800 Custom Offer

 

TCP50

Current Account Required Withdrawal (Net) Next Account Size
$50,000 $2,400 $100,000
$100,000 $4,800 $200,000
$200,000 $8,800 $400,000
$400,000 $32,000 Custom Offer

 

TCP100

Current Account Required Withdrawal (Net) Next Account Size
$100,000 $4,800 $150,000
$150,000 $7,200 $200,000
$200,000 $8,800 $400,000
$400,000 $32,000 Custom Offer
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.

  • Evaluation and LiveSim: EOD (End Of Day balance)
  • Live: Trailing
Profit Split

90% on both plans.

  • $25K–$200K accounts: 80/20 if the profit reaches or exceeds the threshold set for the account size; 50/50 if it is below the threshold.
  • Trader Career Path® $400K accounts: fixed 60/40.
Free Trial
No
No
Daily Drawdown

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

Both Trading Path Career and Gauntlet Mini have daily drawdown limits. On the funded phase, daily drawdown can be removed upon request after the lower threshold of the trader's maximum drawdown reaches the account's starting balance.

Max Allocation

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

Maximum of 3 funded accounts. Only one of them can be LiveSim

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.

No
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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Merge Accounts
No data
No
Maximum Trading Days

No time limit.

Unlimited

Minimum Trading Days

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

None. No minimum trading days are required to pass the evaluation, nor on LiveSim®/Live funded accounts.

Funded Phase Pricing Model

No activation fee.

Montly fee and Lifetime 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.

No minimum trading days on either Trader Career Path® or The Gauntlet Mini™. The evaluation can be passed as soon as the profit goal is reached.

Payouts on LiveSim® and Live accounts: 5 profitable days before each withdrawal request. They do not need to be consecutive, losing days do not reset the count, and the count restarts after each withdrawal. Minimum daily profit, net of commissions and fees, for a day to count:

  • TCP25: $100
  • TCP50 and GAU50: $150
  • TCP100 and GAU100: $200
  • GAU150: $250
  • GAU200: $350
    The trading day runs from 5:00 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. CT.
Position size scaling
No data
No
Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

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

Montly fee

Two Steps
No data
No
Expert Advisor (EA)
No

No EAs or automated trading on futures.

Yes
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

Not recommended

Hedging
Limited

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

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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
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
No data
Yes
Martingale
Limited

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

No data
Maximum Risk Limit
Limited

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

No data
Copy Trading
Limited

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

No
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: In order to complete the evaluation, no single trading day can account for 30% or more of your total PnL.

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.

  • Exploiting platform errors.
  • Disruptive trading or spoofing.
  • Excessive daily contracts.
  • Collusion and manipulation.
  • AI or high-speed abuse.
  • Unrealistic market behavior.
  • Exploiting technical flaws.
  • Bypassing restrictions.
  • Trading for others.
Overnight positions
No

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

No
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