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Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Suite 4.3.02, Block 4, Eurotowers, Gibraltar, GX11 1AA
Jakub Rož
United Arab Emirates
Gibraltar
2023
2023
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)
Fundamental: every 10 qualifying trading days. Premium: every 5 qualifying days. LIVE from Express to Live: daily.
48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split
Phidias states that 90% of payouts are processed in under 30 minutes and all payouts within 24 hours.
- 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)
$500.
Express to Live converts the CASH account to LIVE after reaching its CASH target and requesting the first payout through “Switch to Live”. Phidias states that the full path from signup to first payout and LIVE conversion can be completed in 48 hours on every E2L size. Fundamental and Premium may transition to LIVE after 5 payouts or $100,000 in cumulative profits, subject to the risk team’s discretion.
Fundamental and Premium: up to $2,000 per cycle on 50K, $2,500 on 100K, and $2,750 on 150K. LIVE accounts originating from Express to Live have no maximum daily limit.
Fundamental and Premium apply a 30% consistency rule on CASH accounts. A qualifying day must generate at least $150 on 50K, $200 on 100K, or $250 on 150K. Express to Live uses a separate bonus and automatic LIVE conversion system.
Per-contract margins set by underlying instrument. Position size capped per account size.
Market-depth data and additional exchanges can be purchased from the member area.
Scaling unlocked through the Loyalty Program (5 tiers: Starter, Rising Star, Pro, VIP, Legend). Increments depend on tier. Applies to all account types.
LIVE accounts may advance to ELITE after 60 days and a $125,000 balance, or MASTER after 120 days and $250,000. Transition remains subject to risk review.
- 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
Express to Live uses a static drawdown that never moves. Fundamental and Premium use trailing drawdown calculated at the end of the day; the limit remains fixed during the session.
All futures products: 80%
Express to Live and Fundamental: 80%. Premium: 75% on the first payout, 80% on the second, 85% on the third, 90% on the fourth, and 100% from the fifth onward on the CASH account. LIVE accounts: 80%.
- Futures Fast: none
- Futures Fast Pro: $1,000 (50K)
- Futures Instant: 3% from highest day equity
There is no daily loss limit on Express to Live, Fundamental, or Premium.
$300,000 combined across all Master Accounts and Instant Models (Forex + Crypto + Futures shared cap). No allocation limit during Challenge phase.
No mandatory buffer. Instead, when you request a payout your maximum trailing drawdown locks at your starting balance.
A minimum threshold applies when requesting a payout, but withdrawals may reduce the balance to $50,100, $100,100, or $150,100. Phidias does not treat this as a locked buffer.
No time limit on any futures account.
- Futures Fast Challenge: 5 profitable days before reward request
- Futures Fast Pro: 1 profitable day per reward request (50K)
- Futures Instant: 7 profitable days
On Fundamental and Premium CASH accounts, a qualifying day must close with at least $150 on 50K, $200 on 100K, or $250 on 150K.
Fundamental and Premium allow unlimited evaluation resets. A failed subscription also resets with the next 30-day renewal. Express to Live does not allow resets. Premium CASH permits one funded-account reset.
Unlimited evaluation accounts. A trader may operate a LIVE account while pursuing a new evaluation. Simultaneous maximum: 5 Fundamental CASH, 5 Premium CASH, and 5 Express to Live CASH/LIVE accounts. The 10K Drawdown Summer Edition allows unlimited simultaneous entries, with only the trader’s best account counting on the leaderboard. Fundamental and Premium 150K accounts count as two slots in their category.
Evaluation: 0 days on Express to Live, 3 on Fundamental, and 1 on Premium. CASH: 0 days for the Express to Live bonus, 10 qualifying days between payouts on Fundamental, and 5 on Premium.
Phidias Wallet centralizes account subscriptions, bank or cryptocurrency withdrawals, purchases, activations, and LIVE-account funding directly from earnings. Phidias Points are an internal unit that cannot be transferred outside the ecosystem.
On LIVE accounts, traders may request a contract-limit increase in writing. The risk team may approve, reject, or adjust the limit.
EAs allowed only as decision-support tools (alerts, partial management, predefined rules). Fully autonomous trading bots are prohibited.
Robots, fully automated algorithms, and HFT are prohibited. Semi-automated software is allowed when the trader actively monitors and manually adjusts every trade.
Cross-account hedging is forbidden.
Hedging is prohibited on the same underlying within one account (including ES vs MES), between CASH accounts, and through coordinated opposite trades between traders; violations can close all involved accounts and lead to a ban. Multiple assets may be traded simultaneously, but the contract cap applies across all symbols; bypassing it can close the account without refund.
Manual scalping allowed with minimum 5-second hold per trade. Tick scalping and HFT forbidden.
DCA is allowed to smooth entry points, provided consistent risk management is maintained.
Martingale strategies are forbidden.
Position size capped by contract count per account (see Max Allocation).
Phidias requires consistent position sizing and risk management. Lottery-style trading, excessive margin usage, or non-replicable patterns may lead to reduced contracts or account closure.
Outbound copy allowed; inbound copy from external sources forbidden.
Allowed within the maximum account limits. Identical strategies exceeding the authorized allocation may result in account suspension.
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.
- 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.
There is no consistency rule during evaluation or on Express to Live. On Fundamental and Premium CASH accounts, no single day may represent more than 30% of total profit. It is calculated over at least 4 days.
Weekend holds are unrestricted.
Allowed only on Premium. Fundamental and Express to Live must close before the end of the session.
- 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.
Robots and fully automated trading; HFT; lottery-style or full-margin trades during high-volatility news; old or illiquid contracts; spreads between expirations; one-tick Treasury-bond arbitrage; exploitation of technical or market errors.
Allowed only on Premium. Fundamental and Express to Live must close before the end of the session.



















