Platforms and execution: Alpha Futures vs. Atlas Funded Futures

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

Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia

Andrew Blaylock & George Kohler

Lucas Antonio

United Kingdom

Saint Lucia

2023

2024

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.

• 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

Standard, Apex and Direct: on request at any time once the profit goal is met, with no waiting period (Apex also needs 5 winning days). Daily: once a day. Requests Monday to Friday (UTC). At the 5th payout the risk team reviews the account and may refer the trader to live trading, closing the funded account.

Same day

First payout: 24 working hours; subsequent payouts: 48. Working hours: Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00 BST. Late payment: $500 with that payout and $500 with the next. Giveaway and collaborator accounts excluded.

• 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

Per-size cap per payout, before the split. Standard and Daily: balance above the required balance. Apex: 50% of profit held. Direct: profit held. Apex and Direct keep at least $200 above the starting balance.

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

Standard, Apex and Direct: $500. Daily: $250/$500/$1,000/$1,500 for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K.

Identity verification before the first payout. Requesting closes positions and pauses the account until the payout is resolved. Standard: profit goal of $250/$500/$750/$1,000 per payout. Apex from the 2nd payout: $500/$750/$1,000/$1,250. Daily from the 2nd payout: new profit of 50% of the last payout. Direct: $1,500/$3,000/$6,000/$9,000 for the first, then $1,250/$2,500/$3,500/$4,500. Accounts bought from 22 October 2026 have no fee refund.

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.

• Level 2 (Depth of Market) Data for all exchanges: $41/month per user
• EUREX DOM data: $23 per month
• Standard 50K, 100K and 150K: add-on that removes the consistency rule once Qualified, from $70/month. The Evaluation keeps the 50% rule.

No Daily Loss Limit: +25% on Standard, +40% on Apex. 50% Consistency on Apex and Daily: +15%, evaluation best day up to 50% and 2 minimum days.

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

Trailing on end-of-day balance, recalculated at 16:45 New York; never moves down and stops $100 above the starting balance, in evaluation and funded. The first payout request fixes the floor there. Breach measured on equity in real time. Atlas Daily funded uses $2,500 and $3,500 on $100K and $150K.

• 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

Lockout, not a breach: reaching it closes positions and locks trading until the 16:45 New York reset. Measured from the balance at the start of the trading day. None on Atlas Direct $25K or with the No Daily Loss Limit add-on. Atlas Daily funded: $500/$1,000/$1,250/$1,800.

• 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

Standard and Daily: after a payout the balance must stay at the starting balance plus the max loss plus $100. Apex and Direct: at least $200 above the starting balance.

No evaluation deadline.

• 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

Evaluation: Standard 2 days; Apex and Daily 3 (2 with the 50% Consistency add-on). Funded: no minimum days, except the winning days on Apex.

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

No activation or subscription fee.

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.

Apex funded: 5 winning days per payout of $100/$150/$200/$255 net closed profit for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K. Other programs: no winning-day requirement.

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 fee; no subscription.

90% on every program. All accounts are simulated.

Must not conceal location or identity. Give advance notice of locations inconsistent with registration.

Allowed within one account. Prohibited across accounts, brokers or firms.

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.

On funded accounts, a trade held under 3 minutes loses its profit only when that profit is half the max loss or more. Losses remain; it does not close the account.

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

Positions open at 16:45 New York are closed automatically; this is not a breach. No margin-usage rule or Atlas Protector: contract limits cap position size, and funded accounts start at half the limits until the floor locks or the first payout is paid.

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

Only between your own Atlas accounts; copying other traders or external accounts is 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 on Standard, Apex and Direct, and in every evaluation. Atlas Daily funded: positions opened within 1 minute before or after high-impact news are closed, and profits from trades opened or closed in that window are deducted.

10 trading days

Open a trade at least every 30 days.

• Zero: no Evaluation consistency rule; 40% on Qualified accounts
• Standard: 50% in Evaluation; 40% on Qualified accounts (removed on Qualified with the Standard add-on)
• Advanced: 40% in Evaluation; none on Qualified accounts
• Direct: 20% between performance fee requests

Standard: best day at most 50% of total profit to pass, then 40% of each funded cycle. Apex and Daily: 40% to pass, none when funded. Direct: 20% of each cycle.

• 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)

Latency or tick arbitrage, exploiting prices or bugs, order flooding, hedging across accounts or firms, account sharing and passing services. Multiple locations must not hide who trades. Gambling, martingale and manipulating evaluations are prohibited. All-or-nothing trading: 3 or more trades each making or losing 75% of the max loss that are 20% or more of all futures trades.