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Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Suite 302, 2 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Peter Brown, David Bhidey
Saint Lucia
Ireland
2026
2024
No fixed fee published. Any processing or network fee is shown before you confirm; bank and network charges are paid by the trader.
On demand, as soon as the conditions are met.
Flex: every 5 winning days. Direct: on demand once the profit goal and payout rules are met. Processing within 2 business days.
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.
Flex: 50% of cycle profits, capped at $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,000 for $50K / $100K / $150K. Direct: $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $3,500 per request for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.
$500 before the split. Crypto payouts: at least $100.
Flex: $500 / $1,000 / $1,500 for $50K / $100K / $150K. Direct: $500 on all sizes.
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.
Direct: reach the overall profit goal of $1,500 / $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K before requesting a payout. Remaining profits provide the drawdown cushion after withdrawal.
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.
Unlimited paid resets during Flex evaluation only. No resets on Flex funded or Direct accounts.
Flex only, selected at checkout: increase split to 100% (+15% fee), remove daily loss limit (+15%), or add $250 to maximum loss allowance (+15%). All three: +35%. No add-ons on Direct.
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 trailing, calculated on closing balance. After a withdrawal, the maximum-loss floor locks permanently at the initial starting balance.
90% on both plans.
Flex and Direct use a fixed split instead of the former payout tiers. Flex offers an optional 100% split at checkout.
Soft limit: reaching it closes positions and stops trading until the next session; the account stays open. One Step 25K has none.
Soft breach: reaching the daily limit pauses trading for the rest of the day. Direct $25K has no daily loss limit; Flex can remove it with an add-on.
$1.5M per person across all CFD and futures accounts.
Maximum 5 active accounts across Flex evaluation, Flex funded and Direct combined.
Funded One Step: a buffer equal to the max loss that stays on the account and is never paid out. Instant has none.
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.
Flex evaluation: 30 days; paid extensions available in the dashboard. Direct: no evaluation time limit.
No minimum in the evaluation: it can be passed in one day.
Flex evaluation: no fixed minimum, but the 50% consistency rule applies. Direct: no evaluation.
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.
Flex payouts require 5 winning days: at least $150 / $200 / $250 daily profit for $50K / $100K / $150K.
One-off fee. Includes 30 days of market data; then $35 per 30 days ($540 a month for professional subscribers).
One-time payment. No recurring monthly subscription.
No EAs or automated trading 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.
Yes, but trades under 30 seconds may make at most 50% of profit; until it is back under, no pass or payout.
Micro scalping not allow (trades executed within seconds to under a minute, targeting small profits, typically less than 3 points.
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.
Only between your own futures accounts or from your own master account. Copying others or signals is prohibited.
EA and copy trading enabled by default on Flex and Direct, subject to trading rules.
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.
At least 1 trade every 2 weeks; after inactivity, a reminder gives 1 additional week before closure. Applies to evaluation and funded accounts.
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.
Flex evaluation: best day at most 50% of evaluation profit. Flex funded: at most 40% of cycle profit, reset after each payout. Direct: at most 25% of total returns. Exceeding the ratio delays passing or payouts; it does not breach the account.
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.
- All or Nothing Approach: max leverage on single position using loss limits as stop-loss
- Tick or Micro Scalping: trades with <10 ticks movement
- Exploiting Favorable Fills (no slippage exploitation, tight brackets)
- Account Rolling
- Reverse Trading (opposite positions on separate accounts)
- Manipulating Gaps and Illiquid Markets
- Group Trading
- Account Management (third-party trading on your behalf)
- Latency Arbitrage
Everything is closed at 3:55 PM Chicago time every session; it is not a breach.




















