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1 Allied Business Centre, Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden, England, AL5 4UT

Innovation One Building, Level 2, DIFC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Andrew Blaylock & George Kohler

Oliver Newland

United Kingdom

United Arab Emirates

2023

2026

Qualified traders may be selected to trade real capital through the Alpha Futures Live Program or Alpha Prime. Live accounts offer daily uncapped withdrawals, no consistency rule and no news-trading restrictions.

Traders may enter the live-account review pool after payout 5, significant lifetime payouts, exceptional simulated-funded performance or a previous live transition. Selection is always at Finotive Futures' discretion.

• Zero, Standard and Advanced: Up to 4 times per month after 5 winning trading days of $200 or more
• Direct: Up to 4 times per month after meeting its Withdrawal Profit Target and 20% consistency rule

On demand once all requirements are met.

Same day

Payout requests are processed within 24 to 48 hours.

• Advanced: $15,000 per account
• Zero 25K: $1,000
• Zero 50K: $1,500
• Zero 100K: $2,500
• Standard 50K: $3,000
• Standard 100K: $4,000
• Standard 150K: $5,000
• Direct 25K: $1,000
• Direct 50K: $2,000
• Direct 100K: $2,500
• Direct 150K: $3,000

1-Step Funded

• $25K: $1,000 first payout; $1,500 thereafter
• $50K: $2,000 first payout; $2,500 thereafter
• $100K: $2,500 first payout; $3,000 thereafter
• $150K: $3,000 first payout; $3,500 thereafter

Instant

• $25K: $1,000
• $50K: $2,000
• $100K: $3,000
• $150K: $4,000

• Zero: $200
• Standard: $500
• Advanced: $1,000
• Direct: $500

$500 before the 90% reward split.

All positions must be closed and KYC and compliance checks must be complete before requesting a payout.

Evaluation Resets

Evaluation reset prices are shown in each challenge. Paying the next monthly subscription also resets an Evaluation.

Qualified Resets

Available after a breach on Zero and Standard Qualified accounts.

• 1-Step evaluation: a discounted reset can be purchased within 14 calendar days of a breach.
• 1-Step Funded: up to 2 resets before the first payout, within 14 days of the breach; each costs 5 times the evaluation fee.
• Instant: no standard reset; the same size can be repurchased at a reduced price within 3 calendar days of a breach.

• Level 2 (Depth of Market) Data for all exchanges: $41/month per user
• EUREX DOM data: $23 per month

• EOD trailing on every plan
• Locks at the starting balance
• Does not reset after a performance fee

• 1-Step: EOD trailing, based on the highest end-of-day balance; it locks at the initial balance once the Profit Buffer is reached.
• Instant: intraday trailing, following the highest balance or open equity.
• Reaching the maximum drawdown is a hard breach.

• Advanced: none
• Zero: applies in Evaluation and Qualified; hitting it locks the account until the next trading day
• Standard: none in Evaluation; applies once Qualified
• Direct: applies from day one

Calculated from the end-of-day balance. A breach is soft: positions are closed and trading stops for that day; the account is not failed. The new daily limit on 25K 1-Step evaluations applies only to new purchases; existing accounts retain their original rules.

• Zero, Standard and Direct: up to 5 Qualified accounts
• Advanced: up to 3 Qualified accounts; an active Advanced Qualified account limits the user to 3 total

Applies only to 1-Step Funded accounts and must remain in the account: $1,000 on $25K, $2,000 on $50K, $3,000 on $100K and $4,500 on $150K. Each payout also requires new profit equal to 1% of the initial balance above the buffer. Instant accounts use a recurring payout milestone instead: $1,450, $3,000, $5,000 and $8,000 respectively.

No time limit for the 1-Step evaluation. Accounts close after 15 consecutive calendar days without a trade.

• Zero (Evaluation): 1 day
• Standard (Evaluation): 2 days
• Advanced (Evaluation): 3 days
• Zero, Standard and Advanced Qualified: 5 winning days of $200 or more before each performance fee
• Direct: no minimum trading days; withdrawals require its profit target and 20% consistency rule

The 1-Step evaluation can be passed in one trading day.

No activation fee on any plan. Direct is paid once; Zero, Standard and Advanced charge monthly only during Evaluation.

No activation fee or recurring subscription.

Zero, Standard and Advanced require 5 winning days with at least $200 profit each before every performance fee request. Direct requires its Withdrawal Profit Target and 20% consistency rule.

• 1-Step evaluation: none
• 1-Step Funded: 3 per payout cycle
• Instant: 5 per payout cycle

A profitable day requires at least 0.25% of the initial account balance in realised profit.

The scaling plan limits maximum position size according to accumulated profit. Zero 25K has no scaling plan; Advanced and Direct have no scaling plan.

Zero Qualified

Standard Qualified

Zero, Standard and Advanced use a monthly Evaluation fee. Direct is one-time.

One-time purchase fee. No subscription or automatic rebilling, and no activation fee after passing.

Unlimited evaluation accounts. Total funded allocation across 1-Step and Instant accounts is capped at $1,000,000.

Bots, EAs and personal automated strategies are allowed if they do not exploit latency, feed errors or the simulated environment.

Connections must remain stable and verifiable. VPNs, proxies or location masking are prohibited when they impair identity, location or account-control checks.

Hedging within one account is allowed, including mini versus micro positions. Opposing or correlated hedges across separate accounts or prop firms are prohibited.

Tick or micro scalping is prohibited when trades repeatedly last less than 2 minutes and move less than 10 ticks. There is no universal minimum holding time.

Microscalping is allowed, but no more than 50% of total profit may come from trades held for less than 30 seconds.

Reasonable DCA is allowed. Excessive order stacking or order-book spamming intended to exploit simulated fills is prohibited.

Allowed when used responsibly within contract and drawdown limits. Aggressive exposure may be reviewed as gambling behaviour.

Permitted only when one user copies trades across accounts held in that same person's name. Automated, group and reverse trading remain prohibited.

Allowed only between accounts personally owned and controlled by the same trader, including their accounts at other prop firms. Third-party signals, accounts and copy services are prohibited.

• All Evaluation accounts: no news-trading restrictions
• Advanced Qualified: no news-trading restrictions
• Direct, Standard and Zero Qualified: no orders within 2 minutes before or 2 minutes after high-impact news

Allowed without restrictions during the 1-Step evaluation. On 1-Step Funded and Instant accounts, orders cannot be opened, closed or triggered from 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news.

10 trading days

15 consecutive calendar days without a trade is a hard breach and permanently closes the account.

• Zero: no Evaluation consistency rule; 40% on Qualified accounts
• Standard: 50% in Evaluation; 40% on Qualified accounts
• Advanced: 40% in Evaluation; none on Qualified accounts
• Direct: 20% between performance fee requests

No consistency rule during the 1-Step evaluation. At payout, one day may represent at most 40% of cycle profit on 1-Step Funded accounts and 20% on Instant accounts.

Positions cannot be carried through the Friday close into the Sunday reopen.

• All or Nothing Approach
• Order Book Spamming
• Tick or Micro Scalping
• Exploiting Absence of Slippage / Favorable Fills
• Multiple Limit Orders at Same Price
• Gambling Tendencies / Account Rolling (Account Stacking)
• Reverse Trading / Hedging
• Trading Illiquid or Gapped Markets for Isolated Fills
• Non-Compliance with CME Group Rules
• Group Trading (Collaborative Trading)

Hedging across accounts or platforms; latency, feed, spread or exchange arbitrage; account or device sharing; coordinated/group trading; copying third parties; spoofing, layering and market or order-queue manipulation; volume inflation or artificial trades; HFT and algorithmic exploitation; non-viable simulated-fill strategies; gambling/account rolling; news straddling; and gap or illiquid-market exploitation.

All open positions are automatically closed at 15:55 CT, five minutes before the daily close.