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Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
56 Alekou Konstantinou, Strovolos, 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus
Jakub Rož
Revin Zabala
United Arab Emirates
Cyprus
2023
2024
No broker: prices come from Hyperliquid or Binance, whichever has more liquidity for each market.
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.
- Crypto ($100 to $399): $25
- Rise ($400 or more): $50
On demand from the first day on the Master account, with positions closed. First reward after 1% profit on the initial balance; then 2% growth on the remaining balance between rewards.
Any day, weekends included, once the balance is at least 1% above the starting balance. No new profit is needed between requests.
48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split
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.
Every market trades 24/7, weekends included: indices, gold and oil too.
All markets trade 24/7, weekends included.
$10,000 per reward.
No cap per request: up to your full balance above the 1% threshold. No mandatory buffer.
$100 to withdraw from the For Traders wallet.
$50 per request.
Gold: 20:1 in the help center, 10:1 in the instruments list. Silver, platinum, palladium and copper: 5:1.
Gold: 10:1. Silver, platinum, copper and palladium: 5:1.
WTI and Brent: 8:1. Natural gas: 5:1.
WTI and Brent crude: 8:1. Natural gas: 3:1. Heating oil: 2:1.
NAS100 and SP500: 12:1. JP225: 5:1.
S&P 500 and XYZ 100: 20:1. Japan 225: 5:1. KOSPI 200: 2:1.
NVDA, AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, META and GOOGL: 4:1. MSTR, COIN, CRCL, CRWV and BMNR: 2:1. Other stocks: 3:1.
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.
BTC: 10:1. ETH: 8:1. BNB and SOL: 5:1. HYPE, DOGE, XRP, TRX and LIT: 3:1. Other crypto: 2:1.
BTC and ETH: 8:1. SOL: 5:1. HYPE, XRP, BNB, DOGE and TRX: 3:1. Other crypto: 2:1.
EUR and JPY: 50:1. GBP: 25:1.
0.025% of position value, charged only when opening. Closing is free. Same on every instrument.
Fixed daily fee on position value, charged hourly and equal for longs and shorts: crypto 0.03%, forex 0.005%, other markets 0.015%.
No swap: holding a position overnight costs nothing extra. The opening commission is the only trading cost.
Static, measured from the initial balance, in the challenge and on the Master account. After the first reward the floor locks at the initial balance for good. Hard breach.
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.
80%.
80% on the first four approved payouts, 85% on the fifth and 90% from the sixth. A rejected request does not advance it.
Hard breach, open positions included. A fixed share of the initial balance, subtracted at 00:00 server time (CET/CEST) from the higher of balance or equity.
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.
Up to 5 accounts per order, within the $100,000 combined allocation across both programs.
No time limit.
No time limit.
None.
None.
None.
None.
EAs allowed only as decision-support tools (alerts, partial management, predefined rules). Fully autonomous trading bots are prohibited.
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.
Cross-account hedging (opposing positions on the same instrument across accounts) is forbidden.
Allowed within a single account. Opposite positions across accounts are prohibited.
Manual scalping allowed with a minimum 5-second hold per trade. Tick scalping and HFT are forbidden.
No minimum hold time.
Martingale strategies (doubling position size after losses) are classified as gambling and forbidden.
Martingale and layering allowed.
No lot size restrictions or margin rules.
Outbound copy trading (from your For Traders account to external accounts) is allowed. Inbound copy trading from external sources is strictly forbidden.
Free in the challenge. On the Master account, no new positions from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news; open positions can stay. Breaking it is a soft breach: those profits may be deducted.
Allowed on every plan, including CPI, NFP and FOMC.
Close at least one position every 7 days, in the challenge and on the Master account. Breaking it is a hard breach.
An account with no trading activity for 30 days is closed.
Positions can stay open overnight and over the weekend.
Positions can stay open overnight and through weekends.
- Arbitrage (latency, reverse, statistical)
- HFT (High Frequency Trading)
- Grid trading
- Tick scalping
- Fully autonomous bots/EAs
- Cross-account hedging
- Gambling behaviors (overleveraging, all-in trades > 70% of profit target)
- Martingale
- Inbound copy trading and signal services
- Group/signal trading from Telegram, Discord etc.
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.

















