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Headquarters

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

Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

CEO

Andrew Blaylock & George Kohler

Jakub Rož

Country

United Kingdom

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2023

2023

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Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, Bangladesh, North Korea, Russian Federation, Belarus, Cuba, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, United States, United Arab Emirates
Assets
Equity Indexes, Currencies, Metals, Commodities, Crypto, Rates
Futures
Brokers
ACG Markets

Proprietary platform For Traders X. Liquidity provider not publicly disclosed.

Payout Fee
  • Crypto ($100 – $499): $25
  • Rise $500 or more: $50
Platforms
AlphaTrader, TradingView, WealthCharts, Quantower, Deepcharts
For Traders X
Payout Methods
ACH, Wire Transfer, SWIFT, Wise, Rise
Transfer, Crypto, Rise
Live Account
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
Card, Crypto, Transfer
Payout Frequency
  • 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
  • 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)
Payout Guarantee

Same day

48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split

Maximum Withdrawal
  • 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
Minimum Withdrawal
  • Zero: $200
  • Standard: $500
  • Advanced: $1,000
  • Direct: $500
  • 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)
Refund
Futures

Per-contract margins set by underlying instrument. Position size capped per account size.

Futures
0.2
Account Reset

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.

Plan 25K 50K 100K 150K
Zero $399 $499 $799
Standard $599 $799 $999
Add-ons
Instant
One Step
Account scaling
Max Drawdown
  • EOD trailing on every plan
  • Locks at the starting balance
  • Does not reset after a performance fee
  • 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
Free Trial
dailyDrawdown
  • 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
  • Futures Fast: none
  • Futures Fast Pro: $1,000 (50K)
  • Futures Instant: 3% from highest day equity
Max Allocation
  • 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

$300,000 combined across all Master Accounts and Instant Models (Forex + Crypto + Futures shared cap). No allocation limit during Challenge phase.

mandatoryBuffer
Merge Accounts
Maximum Trading Days

No time limit on any futures account.

Minimum Trading Days
  • 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
Funded Phase Pricing Model

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

Minimum Profitable Days

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.

  • Futures Fast Challenge: 5 profitable days before reward request
  • Futures Fast Pro: 1 profitable day per reward request (50K)
  • Futures Instant: 7 profitable days
Position size scaling
Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

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

Two Steps
Profit Split

All futures products: 80%

Three Steps
Monthly Competition
Expert Advisor (EA)
VPN
Hedging
Requires Stop Loss
Scalping
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Stacking / Layering (DCA)
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allowsMartingale
Maximum Risk Limit
Copy Trading
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News Trading
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hasInactivityRule

10 trading days

  • 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.

Consistency Rule
Hold Weekend
Prohibited Strategies
  • 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)
  • 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.
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