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Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Suite 302, 2 Pembroke Street Upper, Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
Jakub Rož
Peter Brown, David Bhidey
United Arab Emirates
Ireland
2023
2024
Proprietary platform For Traders X. Liquidity provider not publicly disclosed.
No traditional refund. No activation fee after passing Fast/Fast Pro.
- Crypto ($100 – $499): $25
- Rise $500 or more: $50
- 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)
Flex: every 5 winning days. Direct: on demand once the profit goal and payout rules are met. Processing within 2 business days.
48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split
- 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)
Flex: $500 / $1,000 / $1,500 for $50K / $100K / $150K. Direct: $500 on all sizes.
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.
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.
Per-contract margins set by underlying instrument. Position size capped per account size.
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.
Scaling unlocked through the Loyalty Program (5 tiers: Starter, Rising Star, Pro, VIP, Legend). Increments depend on tier. Applies to all account types.
- 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
EOD trailing, calculated on closing balance. After a withdrawal, the maximum-loss floor locks permanently at the initial starting balance.
All futures products: 80%
Flex and Direct use a fixed split instead of the former payout tiers. Flex offers an optional 100% split at checkout.
- Futures Fast: none
- Futures Fast Pro: $1,000 (50K)
- Futures Instant: 3% from highest day equity
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.
$300,000 combined across all Master Accounts and Instant Models (Forex + Crypto + Futures shared cap). No allocation limit during Challenge phase.
Maximum 5 active accounts across Flex evaluation, Flex funded and Direct combined.
No mandatory buffer. Instead, when you request a payout your maximum trailing drawdown locks at your starting balance.
No time limit on any futures account.
Flex evaluation: 30 days; paid extensions available in the dashboard. Direct: no evaluation time limit.
- Futures Fast Challenge: 5 profitable days before reward request
- Futures Fast Pro: 1 profitable day per reward request (50K)
- Futures Instant: 7 profitable days
Flex payouts require 5 winning days: at least $150 / $200 / $250 daily profit for $50K / $100K / $150K.
Unlimited paid resets during Flex evaluation only. No resets on Flex funded or Direct accounts.
Flex evaluation: no fixed minimum, but the 50% consistency rule applies. Direct: no evaluation.
No activation fee or recurring subscription.
One-time payment. No recurring monthly subscription.
EAs allowed only as decision-support tools (alerts, partial management, predefined rules). Fully autonomous trading bots are prohibited.
Cross-account hedging is forbidden.
Manual scalping allowed with minimum 5-second hold per trade. Tick scalping and HFT forbidden.
Micro scalping not allow (trades executed within seconds to under a minute, targeting small profits, typically less than 3 points.
Martingale strategies are forbidden.
Position size capped by contract count per account (see Max Allocation).
Outbound copy allowed; inbound copy from external sources forbidden.
EA and copy trading enabled by default on Flex and Direct, subject to trading rules.
News trading allowed without restrictions on Futures accounts.
- 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.
At least 1 trade every 2 weeks; after inactivity, a reminder gives 1 additional week before closure. Applies to evaluation and funded accounts.
- 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.
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.
Weekend holds are unrestricted.
- 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.
- 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



















