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56 Alekou Konstantinou, Strovolos, 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus
100 Crescent Ct, Unit 700, Dallas, Texas 75201, US
Revin Zabala
Dylan Elchami
Cyprus
United States
2024
2021
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14-day money-back guarantee if you have not started trading and have not breached the terms. Not available for accounts migrated to another platform.
E8 Pro Perpetual evaluation fees are refundable.
Any day, weekends included, once the balance is at least 1% above the starting balance. No new profit is needed between requests.
- E8 One Perpetual: first payout after 3 days; subsequent payouts on demand
- E8 Pro Perpetual: daily payout requests
Eligible payouts not processed within 24 business hours (Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM ET) are doubled. Doubling applies to payouts up to $1,000.
All markets trade 24/7, weekends included.
No cap per request: up to your full balance above the 1% threshold. No mandatory buffer.
- E8 One Perpetual: no payout cap
- E8 Pro Perpetual: no payout cap
$50 per request.
- E8 One Perpetual: net payout must exceed 50% of the daily drawdown amount
- E8 Pro Perpetual: at least 1% profit
EUR and JPY: 50:1. GBP: 25:1.
- E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 25:1
Gold: 10:1. Silver, platinum, copper and palladium: 5:1.
- E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 15:1
WTI and Brent crude: 8:1. Natural gas: 3:1. Heating oil: 2:1.
- E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 15:1
S&P 500 and XYZ 100: 20:1. Japan 225: 5:1. KOSPI 200: 2:1.
- E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 15:1
AAPL, MSFT, EWY, AMZN and SMH: 5:1. NVDA, GOOGL and META: 4:1. TSLA, AMD, PLTR and other listed names: 3:1. Other stocks and ETFs: 2:1.
- E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 5:1
BTC and ETH: 8:1. SOL: 5:1. HYPE, XRP, BNB, DOGE and TRX: 3:1. Other crypto: 2:1.
- Bitcoin and Ethereum: 15:1
- Other cryptocurrencies: 2:1
0.025% of position value, charged only when opening. Closing is free. Same on every instrument.
- Crypto perpetuals: 0.015% maker / 0.045% taker
- Traditional instruments: 0.003% maker / 0.009% taker
No swap: holding a position overnight costs nothing extra. The opening commission is the only trading cost.
10% discount
Static, measured from the starting balance, in the evaluation and until the first approved funded payout. That payout moves the floor to the starting balance, once and permanently. Touching it with balance or equity breaches the account.
- E8 One Perpetual: 6% dynamic drawdown
- E8 Pro Perpetual: 8% static drawdown
80% on the first four approved payouts, 85% on the fifth and 90% from the sixth. A rejected request does not advance it.
80%, 90% or 100%, depending on the option selected at checkout
E8 Trial can replicate E8 One Perpetual on E8 Terminal. Up to two trials may be opened every 28 days. Trial accounts do not qualify for payouts and close after 30 days.
Hard breach, floating losses included. The allowance is a percentage of the starting balance, subtracted at each daily reset from the higher of closing balance or equity. The program rules set the reset at 22:00 UTC; the FAQ says 5 PM ET.
- E8 One Perpetual: 4%
- E8 Pro Perpetual: 2.5%
Unlimited evaluation allocation. Maximum performance allocation: $500,000 for E8 One Perpetual and $500,000 for E8 Pro Perpetual.
Up to 5 accounts per order, within the $100,000 combined allocation across both programs.
- E8 One Perpetual: account merging is allowed
No time limit.
Unlimited
None.
No minimum trading days. At least one trade must be placed every 60 days to avoid inactivity.
None.
- E8 One Perpetual: none
- E8 Pro Perpetual: none
- E8 One Perpetual: first payout after 3 days; subsequent payouts on demand
- E8 Pro Perpetual: daily payout requests
Not available yet: API access for your own bots is announced as coming soon, under the same risk limits. Signal-copying services are excluded.
Allowed as long as no connection from a prohibited country is detected. Purchases and KYC through a VPN or VPS are prohibited.
Allowed within a single account. Opposite positions across accounts are prohibited.
No minimum hold time.
You cannot hold more than 50% of your trades for under one minute
Martingale and layering allowed.
No lot size restrictions or margin rules.
Allowed on every plan, including CPI, NFP and FOMC.
- E8 One Perpetual evaluation: allowed
- E8 One Perpetual performance account: opening or closing trades within five minutes before or after high-impact news is prohibited
- E8 Pro Perpetual: allowed in evaluation and performance accounts
An account with no trading activity for 30 days is closed.
At least one trade every 60 days
- E8 One Perpetual: 40% best-day rule in the performance account
- E8 Pro Perpetual: no consistency rule
Positions can stay open overnight and through weekends.
Perpetual markets are available 24/7.
Exploiting pricing, platform errors or latency; insider information; front-running; third-party or off-the-shelf strategies marketed to pass challenges; passing with one strategy and using another on the funded account; arbitrage against other accounts or firms; hedging across accounts.
- All-or-nothing
- Hedging across multiple accounts
- Multiple users utilizing the same EA
- Irresponsible Trading in Simulated Accounts
- High-Frequency Trading
- External Account Management



















