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Headquarters

Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia

CEO

Jakub Rož

Lucas Antonio

Country

United Arab Emirates

Saint Lucia

Foundation

2023

2024

Banned Countries
Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, Bangladesh, North Korea, Russian Federation, Belarus, Cuba, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, United States, United Arab Emirates
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Assets
Futures
Equity Indexes, Metals, Commodities
Brokers

Proprietary platform For Traders X. Liquidity provider not publicly disclosed.

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Refund
No

No traditional refund. No activation fee after passing Fast/Fast Pro.

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Payout Fee
  • Crypto ($100 – $499): $25
  • Rise $500 or more: $50
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Platforms
For Traders X
Volumetrica
Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto, Rise
Rise, USDT ERC20, Atlas Balance
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, Transfer
Credit Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Crypto, Atlas Balance
Payout Frequency
  • Futures Fast: on-demand (after 5 profitable days and offsetting trailing drawdown)
  • Futures Instant: on-demand (after 7 profitable days)
  • Futures Fast Pro: on-demand (after 1 profitable day, balance > $52K)

Standard, Apex and Direct: on request at any time once the profit goal is met, with no waiting period (Apex also needs 5 winning days). Daily: once a day. Requests Monday to Friday (UTC). At the 5th payout the risk team reviews the account and may refer the trader to live trading, closing the funded account.

Payout Guarantee

48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split

First payout: 24 working hours; subsequent payouts: 48. Working hours: Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00 BST. Late payment: $500 with that payout and $500 with the next. Giveaway and collaborator accounts excluded.

Minimum Withdrawal
  • Minimum: $100 in wallet
  • Maximum per cycle by product:
    · Futures Fast 25K: $800
    · Futures Fast 50K: $1,500
    · Futures Fast 100K: $2,500
    · Futures Instant 25K: $1,500
    · Futures Instant 50K: $3,000
    · Futures Instant 100K: $4,500
    · Futures Fast Pro 50K: $250-$1,200 per cycle, final $10,000 (max 5 withdrawals)

Standard, Apex and Direct: $500. Daily: $250/$500/$1,000/$1,500 for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K.

Live Account
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No
Maximum Withdrawal
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Per-size cap per payout, before the split. Standard and Daily: balance above the required balance. Apex: 50% of profit held. Direct: profit held. Apex and Direct keep at least $200 above the starting balance.

Other Payout Requirements
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Identity verification before the first payout. Requesting closes positions and pauses the account until the payout is resolved. Standard: profit goal of $250/$500/$750/$1,000 per payout. Apex from the 2nd payout: $500/$750/$1,000/$1,250. Daily from the 2nd payout: new profit of 50% of the last payout. Direct: $1,500/$3,000/$6,000/$9,000 for the first, then $1,250/$2,500/$3,500/$4,500. Accounts bought from 22 October 2026 have no fee refund.

Futures

Per-contract margins set by underlying instrument. Position size capped per account size.

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Futures
0.2
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Swap Free
No
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Add-ons
No
Yes

No Daily Loss Limit: +25% on Standard, +40% on Apex. 50% Consistency on Apex and Daily: +15%, evaluation best day up to 50% and 2 minimum days.

Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
Account scaling
Yes

Scaling unlocked through the Loyalty Program (5 tiers: Starter, Rising Star, Pro, VIP, Legend). Increments depend on tier. Applies to all account types.

No
Two Steps
No
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Max Drawdown
  • Futures Fast: $1,000 (25K) / $2,000 (50K) / $2,500 (100K), trailing
  • Futures Fast Pro: $2,000 EOD trailing (50K)
  • Futures Instant: 5% EOD trailing

Trailing on end-of-day balance, recalculated at 16:45 New York; never moves down and stops $100 above the starting balance, in evaluation and funded. The first payout request fixes the floor there. Breach measured on equity in real time. Atlas Daily funded uses $2,500 and $3,500 on $100K and $150K.

Profit Split

All futures products: 80%

90% on every program. All accounts are simulated.

Free Trial
No
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Daily Drawdown
  • Futures Fast: none
  • Futures Fast Pro: $1,000 (50K)
  • Futures Instant: 3% from highest day equity

Lockout, not a breach: reaching it closes positions and locks trading until the 16:45 New York reset. Measured from the balance at the start of the trading day. None on Atlas Direct $25K or with the No Daily Loss Limit add-on. Atlas Daily funded: $500/$1,000/$1,250/$1,800.

Three Steps
No
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Max Allocation

$300,000 combined across all Master Accounts and Instant Models (Forex + Crypto + Futures shared cap). No allocation limit during Challenge phase.

400,000
Mandatory buffer
No

No mandatory buffer. Instead, when you request a payout your maximum trailing drawdown locks at your starting balance.

Yes

Standard and Daily: after a payout the balance must stay at the starting balance plus the max loss plus $100. Apex and Direct: at least $200 above the starting balance.

Merge Accounts
No
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Maximum Trading Days

No time limit on any futures account.

No evaluation deadline.

Monthly Competition
Yes
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Minimum Profitable Days
  • Futures Fast Challenge: 5 profitable days before reward request
  • Futures Fast Pro: 1 profitable day per reward request (50K)
  • Futures Instant: 7 profitable days

Apex funded: 5 winning days per payout of $100/$150/$200/$255 net closed profit for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K. Other programs: no winning-day requirement.

Minimum Trading Days
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Evaluation: Standard 2 days; Apex and Daily 3 (2 with the 50% Consistency add-on). Funded: no minimum days, except the winning days on Apex.

Funded Phase Pricing Model
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No activation or subscription fee.

Evaluation Phase Pricing Model
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One-time fee; no subscription.

Expert Advisor (EA)
No

EAs allowed only as decision-support tools (alerts, partial management, predefined rules). Fully autonomous trading bots are prohibited.

Yes
VPN
Yes
Limited

Must not conceal location or identity. Give advance notice of locations inconsistent with registration.

Hedging
No

Cross-account hedging is forbidden.

Limited

Allowed within one account. Prohibited across accounts, brokers or firms.

Requires Stop Loss
No
No
Scalping
Yes

Manual scalping allowed with minimum 5-second hold per trade. Tick scalping and HFT forbidden.

Limited

On funded accounts, a trade held under 3 minutes loses its profit only when that profit is half the max loss or more. Losses remain; it does not close the account.

Stacking / Layering (DCA)
Yes
No
Martingale
No

Martingale strategies are forbidden.

No
Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

Position size capped by contract count per account (see Max Allocation).

Yes

Positions open at 16:45 New York are closed automatically; this is not a breach. No margin-usage rule or Atlas Protector: contract limits cap position size, and funded accounts start at half the limits until the floor locks or the first payout is paid.

Copy Trading
No

Outbound copy allowed; inbound copy from external sources forbidden.

Limited

Only between your own Atlas accounts; copying other traders or external accounts is prohibited.

News Trading
Yes

News trading allowed without restrictions on Futures accounts.

Limited

Allowed on Standard, Apex and Direct, and in every evaluation. Atlas Daily funded: positions opened within 1 minute before or after high-impact news are closed, and profits from trades opened or closed in that window are deducted.

Inactivity Rule
  • Futures Fast Challenge: 7 days
  • Futures Fast Master: 14 days
  • Futures Fast Pro Challenge: 7 days / Master: 14 days
  • Futures Instant: 7 days

Days counted from the moment a position is CLOSED, not opened. Minimal 0.01-lot trades to game the rule don't count.

Open a trade at least every 30 days.

Consistency Rule
Yes
  • Futures Fast Challenge: best day's profit must be < 40% of total accumulated profit. No consistency target on Master.
  • Futures Fast Pro Challenge: same 40% rule.
  • Futures Instant: best day cannot exceed 15% of total profit.
  • Calculation: Best Day Profit / 0.40 = Minimum required total profit.
Limited

Standard: best day at most 50% of total profit to pass, then 40% of each funded cycle. Apex and Daily: 40% to pass, none when funded. Direct: 20% of each cycle.

Hold Weekend
Yes

Weekend holds are unrestricted.

No
Prohibited Strategies
  • Arbitrage (latency, reverse, statistical)
  • HFT
  • Tick scalping (under 5 seconds)
  • Fully autonomous bots/EAs
  • Cross-account hedging
  • Gambling behaviors
  • Martingale
  • Inbound copy trading and signal services
  • Group/signal trading from Telegram, Discord etc.

Latency or tick arbitrage, exploiting prices or bugs, order flooding, hedging across accounts or firms, account sharing and passing services. Multiple locations must not hide who trades. Gambling, martingale and manipulating evaluations are prohibited. All-or-nothing trading: 3 or more trades each making or losing 75% of the max loss that are 20% or more of all futures trades.

Overnight positions
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No
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