Trading styles allowed at AquaFunded and City Traders Imperium

IFZA Business Park, DDP, Premises No. 35882-001, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Algaroud Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2023

2018

Daniel Martin and Martin Najat

Full refund after 4th payout

• 1-Step, 2 Step: 100% of your sign-up fee refunded when you hit 10% profit target on funded account
• Instant Funding: 50% of your sign-up fee refunded when you hit 10% profit target on funded account at level 2
• Instant Funding Pro: No refund

$35 flat fee via Rise (for payouts of $1,000 or more). Payouts below $1,000 are paid in crypto and only carry the network fee.

First payout 14 days after the first trade. Every 14 days after that. First payout after 7 days with add-on (+15%).

• Instant Pro: First Payout on Demand is available as a checkout add-on.
• Instant Flex: first payout on demand, then every 14 days.

1-Step, 2-Step

• 1st payout after at least 7 Profitable (0.5% or more) Trading Days and a Minimum of 2% net profit or $100 (whichever is higher).
• After your 1st payout, you can request any subsequent payouts Monthly, during the last 5 days of each month.

Instant

• You can request the 50% profit share from Level 1 when the 10% profit target is achieved on Level 2.
• You can request the second payout on Demand anytime once you have at least 5 profitable trading days and a minimum of 2% net profit or $100 (whichever is higher).
• After the 1st payout, you can request any subsequent payouts Bi-Weekly, on the 14th/15th & the last 2 days of each month.

Get Paid in 24 Hours or get an extra $1,000. Rewards are only processed on business days, and so the 48 Hour Reward Guarantee timer is paused on weekends.

For traders with $200K accounts or larger, the first two reward requests are capped at a maximum withdrawal of $10,000 each. After the first two rewards, this restriction is removed, and there are no further withdrawal limits.

TryAqua: maximum lifetime withdrawal of $100.

$100

• Instant Standard: 30:1
• Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 50:1
• 1 Step Flex: 100:1 during evaluation, 50:1 when funded

• Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
• 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded

• Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
• 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded

• Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 10:1
• 1 Step Flex: 20:1 during evaluation, 10:1 when funded

• Instant Standard: 1:1
• Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 2 Step, 1 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 2:1

Swap-free accounts are available. No overnight swap fees; positions can be held for as long as desired.

• 100% profit split (+15%)
• First payout after 7 days (+15%)
• First Payout on Demand (Instant Pro)
• 100% profit split and first payout after 7 days combined (+25%)

You can grow your account to a maximum of $4,000,000. In order to scale your capital and grow, you must make 12% within a 3-month period. If you achieve this, they will increase your account size by 25% of your initial balance.

This is complementary to the Aqua Elite Program.

1-Step, 2-Step

• You must achieve at least a +10% profit overall in the last 4 months. (Withdrawals don't affect this target).
• Be profitable in at least 2 out of those 4 months.
• Your account must have a positive balance (in profit) at the time of scaling.
• Balance increases by +50% of its original balance, up to $100,000, and then $25,000 up to $200,000

Instant

• You must achieve a 10% net profit of the initial account balance. (Withdrawals don't affect this target).
• 20% Consistency Score.
• Your account balance doubles until you reach the $2 million per account.

• Instant Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Flex, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Pro, Aqua Man: Trailing, based on the highest value between equity and balance
• TryAqua: Daily and maximum drawdowns are trailing
• 1 Step Flex, 2 Step Elite, 3 Step: Static

• 2-Step, Instant: Static
• 1-Step: Trailing

90%. 100% with add-on (+15%)

• 1-Step, 2-Step: 80% (base value), 90% (Bronze Level), 100% (Silver Level)
• Instant Funding: starts at 50% (Level 1)
• Instant Funding Pro: starts at 70% (Level 2)
• Instant scaling: 80% (Level 3), 90% (Bronze Level), 100% (Silver Level)

Based on highest value between equity and balance

Balance-based

• 1-Step: $200,000
• 2-Step: $200,000
• Instant: $80,000

Instant accounts can't be merged

No limit

Unlimited

• Instant Standard, Instant Pro: 5 days (non-consecutive), 0.5% profit each
• Instant Flex: 7 days
• TryAqua: 5 days, with at least 0.5% profit each
• 1 Step Standard: 3 days, 0.5% profit each
• 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard: 5 days, 0.5% profit each
• 1 Step Flex: no minimum during evaluation; 3 days before the first funded payout, with at least 0.5% profit each
• 2 Step Pro: 0 in evaluation, 5 in funded
• 2 Step Elite: 3 per step, at least 0.5% profit per day, not necessarily consecutive
• 3 Step: not specified

You can reset your challenge with an unlimited 15% discount (1-Step, 2-Step, Instant Funding) or 10% (Instant Funding Pro)

Loyalty Program. Complete daily and weekly quests to earn points, unlock discounts, and win cash prizes or even free funded accounts.

• 1-Step, 2-Step: 3 days on evaluation phase, 7 days on funded phase
• Instant: 5 days for payout On Demand

Not using a stop loss is treated as a soft breach. Your account won’t be closed, but the system will automatically exit the trade after 1 minute if no stop loss has been set.

If your floating PnL (profit and loss) drops below -2% of the account balance, the account will be permanently closed.

Only applies to Instant Funding Standard, Pro, Flex, AquaMan and TryAqua.

• Copy trading between AquaFunded accounts
• Copy trading from Funded-to Evaluation accounts and vice versa
• Copy trading between AquaFunded account and external accounts.

Two policies depending on the account creation date:

Accounts opened after 2026-04-27

• News trading is allowed.
• Profits generated within 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after a red folder (high-impact) news event or FOMC are capped at 0.5% of the starting balance per payout cycle.
• Anything above the cap is removed without further penalty.

Accounts opened before 2026-04-27

• Trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after a red folder news event or FOMC on funded accounts are not allowed.
• Any profits generated during these windows are removed.

Applies on funded accounts. A single trading day cannot equal or exceed a given percentage of total profits during the payout period. If it does, payouts are blocked until the ratio normalises; the account is not closed.

• Instant Standard: 20%
• Instant Pro: 20% for accounts purchased on or after 8 September 2026 (limited-time offer); 15% for accounts purchased before that date
• Instant Flex: no consistency rule
• Aqua Man: 15%
• TryAqua: 15%
• 1 Step Pro: 25%
• 2 Step Pro: 50%
• 1 Step Flex: no consistency rule
• 1 Step Standard, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Elite, 3 Step: no specific consistency rule documented

• Use of platform or data freezing due to a Demo Server error.
• Use of a delayed data feed
• Trading on delayed charts
• Tick scalping
• High frequency trading
• Arbitrage bots
• Reverse arbitrage
• Latency arbitrage
• Hedge arbitrage or any emulators are prohibited.

• Exploit Price Inefficiencies / Price Feed Errors
• Group Hedging / Hedging / Group Trading / Copy Trading
• Account Sharing / Reselling of Account / Account Management
• One-Sided Bets
• Gamble to Pass / Over-Leveraging
• Using 3rd-Party EAs (Excluding the 1-Step Challenge)
• Bracketing Strategies
• Martingale Trading Style (Excluding the 1-Step Challenge)
• Grid Trading