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Headquarters

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

The Sotheby Building, Ground Floor, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, SW18 1TA, St. Lucia

Country

United Arab Emirates

St. Lucia

Foundation

2023

2023

Banned Countries
Cuba, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Vietnam, Kenya, Albania, Algeria, North Korea, Senegal
Russia, Cuba, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, North Korea, Libya, Vietnam
Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Brokers

Liquidity Providers

Refund
Payout Fee

$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.

Platforms
Metatrader 5, MatchTrader, TradeLocker, cTrader
MatchTrader, cTrader, TradeLocker, Volumetrica, MetaTrader5
Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto, Rise
Transfer, Rise, Crypto
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
ApplePay, Korapay, Card, GooglePay, PayPal, Crypto, Skrill, IMPS
Payout Frequency

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.
  • Biweekly
  • Evaluation accounts can be purchased with an add-on to get the first payout On Demand with 40% profit split
  • Standard Instant Funding have 'Triple payday' rewards, allowing traders to withdraw profits every 10 days.
  • Instant Premium: every 10 days
  • Instant HERO: every 14 days
Payout Guarantee

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.

If the payout takes longer than promised (2 business days), the trader automatically receives an extra $500 reward, guarantee.

Maximum Withdrawal

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.

For the first two reward requests, traders can withdraw a maximum of 6% of the initial account balance.

Minimum Withdrawal

$100

$100

Crypto Weekend Trading
Forex
  • Instant Standard: 30:1
  • Instant Pro, 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
  • Evaluation phases: 100:1
  • Funded phase: 50:1
Metals
  • Instant Standard, Instant Pro, 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
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1
Energies
  • Instant Standard, Instant Pro, 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
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1
Indices
  • Instant Standard, Instant Pro, 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
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1
Crypto
  • Instant Standard: 1:1
  • Instant Pro, 2 Step, 1 Step, 3 Step, Aqua Man: 2:1
  • Evaluation phases: 2:1
  • Funded phase: 2:1
Stocks
  • Evaluation phases: 5:1
  • Funded phase: 5:1
Forex
5 / lot
5 / lot
Metals
5 / lot
5 / lot
Energies
5 / lot
0
Indices
0
0
Stocks
0
Crypto
0
Swap Free
Add-ons
Instant
One Step
Account scaling
Two Steps
Max Drawdown
  • Instant Standard, Instant Pro, 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
  • 1-Step, 2-Step, 3-Step: Static
  • Instant Funding: Trailing
  • Instant Premium: EOD high-watermark; not recalculated intraday or downward
Profit Split

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

Profit split varies by product; see challenges. Add-ons may offer a higher split.

Free Trial
dailyDrawdown

Based on highest value between equity and balance

Most models: highest balance or equity recorded at end of day (EOD high-watermark).

  • Instant HERO: daily starting balance at 5 PM EST.
Three Steps
Max Allocation
400,000

$400,000 on every country except Pakistan, where the maximum is $50,000

Merge Accounts
Maximum Trading Days

No limit

Unlimited

Minimum Trading Days
  • Instant Standard, Instant Pro: 5 days (non-consecutive), 0.5% profit each
  • 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
  • 3 Step: not specified

Instant HERO: 6 non-consecutive valid trading days before payout, with at least 0.5% profit each.

Monthly Competition
Account Reset

If you don’t complete a challenge, you can restart it at any time with a 12% discount. You’ll also get a single-use coupon that gives you 10% off any program.

Reset: buy a Reset to continue from the phase where you breached instead of starting over — it issues a new account at that phase (Funded reset gives a new Funded account, no re-evaluation). Available any time, or within 14 days of a breach. Each phase can be reset once. Price is a % of the original Challenge: Phase 1 −7%; Phase 2 +45–50%; Phase 3 +80%; Funded +50–175% (Instant: −7%).

Points Reward Program

The GOAT Points Program rewards traders for both purchases and trading activities:

  • You earn 1 point for every $1 spent and can gain additional points by completing trading tasks.
  • Points are credited instantly and can be tracked in your Trader Dashboard. You can redeem them for valuable perks such as free accounts, extra leverage, increased drawdown, and account size boosts.
  • There's no limit to how many points you can earn, and all GFT traders are automatically enrolled.
Minimum Profitable Days
  • 3 days with 0.5% profit on all phases of evaluation accounts
  • 5 days with 0.5% profit on all Instant Funding accounts
  • Instant Premium: 5 days with 0.5% profit (not necessarily consecutive)
Expert Advisor (EA)
Hedging
Requires Stop Loss
Scalping
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
allowsMartingale
Maximum Risk Limit
Copy Trading
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News Trading
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hasInactivityRule

30 days

30 Days

Consistency Rule
Hold Weekend
Prohibited Strategies
  • 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.
  • All or nothing
  • Exploit broker/platform errors
  • Use insider/non-public info
  • Front-run other trades
  • Excessively risky strategies
  • Hedging across accounts
  • Third-party EAs/strategies
  • Switch strategies post-assessment
  • Martingale/grid strategies banned
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