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Platforms and execution: Atlas Funded and Finotive

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Where you trade

The trading experience differs significantly in terms of software. Atlas Funded offers a multi-platform environment, allowing traders to choose between the industry-standard MetaTrader 5, the modern and mobile-friendly TradeLocker, and MatchTrader. This variety caters to different technical needs, from those requiring advanced desktop tools to those who prefer trading on the go with a cleaner interface.

Finotive, on the other hand, focuses its operations exclusively on MetaTrader 5. While it lacks the platform variety of its competitor, it provides a stable and familiar environment for users who rely on custom indicators and scripts designed for the MetaTrader ecosystem.

Who executes your orders

Execution environments are a key differentiator. Finotive operates through its own dedicated broker, Finotive Markets, which allows them to have direct control over spreads and the technical conditions of the server. Atlas Funded does not specify an external third-party broker in its data, implying an internal execution setup or a deep integration with their provided platforms.

Leverage and margin

Risk management from a technical standpoint is handled through different mechanisms:

  • Atlas Funded: Offers a standard leverage of 1:100 for Forex. A critical technical rule is the Atlas Protector: if the account hits a net floating loss of 2% of the initial balance, positions are automatically closed. The first trigger also slashes the profit split to 50%, acting as a hard technical stop-out before the account is fully breached.
  • Finotive: Leverage varies by program. 2-Step accounts offer 1:100, while 1-Step and Instant accounts are more restrictive (1:50 and 1:33/1:25 respectively). They use a Strike System where breaching floating drawdown limits (1.5% to 2.5% depending on the plan) results in a penalty that reduces the payout to 10% for that cycle, rather than immediate account closure on the first offense.

Markets available

Both firms offer a wide range of assets, but with different specializations:

  • Atlas Funded: Provides access to Forex, Indices, Metals, Energies, and Crypto. Their inclusion of energies makes them a viable choice for diversified commodity traders.
  • Finotive: Offers Forex, Indices, Commodities, and Crypto. Notably, they offer a specialized Solo FX program, which is strictly limited to Forex but features lower commissions and specific execution rules.

What the setup lets you do

Platform and rule constraints define your trading style:

  • Atlas Funded: Allows EAs and news trading during evaluation. However, it is restrictive for high-frequency styles: profits from trades held under 3 minutes are deducted on funded accounts. News trading on funded accounts is also limited, with a 5-minute window where profits are not counted.
  • Finotive: Is more permissive with news trading but has a unique HFT rule: up to 20% of profits can come from trades held for two minutes or less. If you exceed this, you cannot withdraw until the ratio is balanced. They also require a Stop Loss on most programs (except Solo FX).

What the setup costs

The cost of execution and the financial reward structure are as follows:

  • Atlas Funded: A $10,000 challenge starts at $97 (1-Step) or $79 (2-Step). They offer a high profit split of 90% (up to 100% with add-ons). Payouts are every 14 days. A standout feature is their Payout Guarantee: if they are late by more than 48 hours, they pay an extra $1,000 in total.
  • Finotive: A $10,000 challenge costs between $100 and $110. Execution costs include commissions ranging from $2.50 (Solo FX) to $6 per lot (Metals/Energies). Profit splits range from 70% to 100%. Payouts are faster, available on demand or every 7 to 14 days depending on the plan.

Better setup for

  • Atlas Funded is the better setup for swing traders and diversified commodity traders who value platform variety (TradeLocker/MatchTrader) and want a high profit split with a guaranteed payout timeline.
  • Finotive is the better setup for Forex specialists and Pro traders who prefer the MT5 environment, higher payout frequency, and a scaling plan that can grow capital up to $2,040,000.

Frequently asked questions

Which firm is cheaper for a $10,000 challenge, Atlas Funded or Finotive?

Atlas Funded is generally cheaper, offering a $10,000 2-Step challenge for $79, while the same size at Finotive costs $100. Even for 1-Step programs, Atlas Funded remains lower at $97 compared to Finotive's $110.

Who offers a higher profit split, Atlas Funded or Finotive?

Atlas Funded provides a standard 90% profit split across its programs, which can be increased to 100% via add-ons. Finotive offers a variable split starting at 70% or 75% for Instant accounts and 80% for Standard challenges, although their Pro Challenge does reach 100%.

Which firm allows for faster payouts, Atlas Funded or Finotive?

Finotive offers faster access to capital, with payouts available every 7 days for most challenge accounts and even on-demand for the first withdrawal. Atlas Funded follows a fixed cycle where the first payout occurs after 14 days, and subsequent ones continue every 14 days.

What are the scalping restrictions in Atlas Funded vs Finotive?

Atlas Funded has a time-based restriction where profits from trades held for less than 3 minutes are deducted on funded accounts. Finotive uses a volume-based rule where trades under 2 minutes cannot account for more than 20% of the total profit, allowing for some high-frequency activity as long as it is not the primary strategy.

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Rules, plans, platforms, leverage, commissions and payouts of both, with the option to see only what differs.

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Headquarters

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

Innovation One Building, Level 2, DIFC, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

CEO

Lucas Antonio

Oliver Newland

Country

Saint Lucia

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2024

2021

Banned Countries
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Iran, North Korea, United States
Assets
Forex, Indices, Metals, Energies, Crypto
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Refund
Yes

First Access order: the entry fee is credited in full as Atlas Balance, not cash back to a card. Otherwise, the challenge fee is returned as Atlas Balance on that account's third consecutive payout. Add-ons excluded. Access activation fee excluded.

Yes

Full refund if profitable 30 days after funding.

Solo FX: The Dashboard and launch announcement say the fee is refunded after 30 funded days if the account is profitable. Schedule 10A-1 says it is refunded upon approval of the first Reward Payment Request. Finotive's Terms state that the Schedule prevails; confirm with support before purchase.

Platforms
MetaTrader 5, TradeLocker, MatchTrader
Metatrader 5
Payout Methods
Rise, USDT ERC20, Atlas Balance
Transfer, Crypto, Revolut
Payment Methods
Credit Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Crypto, Atlas Balance
Card, Crypto, Transfer, UPI
Payout Frequency

1-Step and 2-Step: first payout after 14 days, then every 14. 1-Step Daily and 2-Step Daily: on demand, Monday to Friday, once the cycle has 3 trading days. Access: first after 28 days, then every 14. Instant Funded and Instant Zero purchased from 17 October 2026: first after 14 days, then every 14; Weekly add-on: first after 7 days, then every 7. Earlier Instant accounts: first after 28 days, then every 14; Weekly: first after 14 days, then every 7. Weekly on Access: first after 14 days, then every 7. On-Demand (1-Step and 2-Step): first immediately, then every 14.

First payout on demand

  • Standard Challenge, Pro Challenge and Instant Standard: 7 days
  • Instant Lite: 14 days
  • Solo FX: weekly payouts; first request after 14 calendar days in Simulated Funded Status
Payout Guarantee

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.

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Crypto Weekend Trading
No
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Maximum Withdrawal

Instant Zero: buffer of 3% of account size. The table limit applies to each of the first three payouts. 1-Step Daily and 2-Step Daily: buffer of 3%; each of the first three payouts is capped at 2% of the starting balance, before the split. Other plans: up to available profit.

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Minimum Withdrawal

Profit required to request: $50 on 1-Step Daily and 2-Step Daily; $100 on other programs. No additional minimum on the chosen withdrawal amount.

$4

Brokers
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Finotive Markets
Demo Account
No data
Metatrader 5
ID1043PasswordFinotiveServerFinotiveMarkets-Live
Forex
100:1
  • 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 100:1
  • 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro: 50:1
  • Instant Standard: 33:1
  • Instant Lite: 25:1
  • Solo FX (main Challenge range): up to 100:1
  • Solo FX Launchpad accounts: 33:1 until updated
Metals

Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.

  • 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 20:1
  • 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro: 10:1
  • Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 5:1
Energies

Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.

No data
Indices

Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.

  • 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 10:1
  • 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro, Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 5:1
Crypto

Varies by symbol and platform; check the instrument specifications.

  • 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 2:1
  • 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro, Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 1:1
Stocks
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  • 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro: 5:1
  • 1-Step Standard, 1-Step Pro: 4:1
  • Instant Standard, Instant Lite: 2:1
Forex
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0
Metals
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0
Energies
No data
0
Indices
No data
0
Stocks
No data
0
Crypto
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0
Swap Free
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Yes
Account Reset
Yes

Fresh account in the same phase, retaining passed phases. Offer available for 7 days after a breach. Price depends on the plan and phase.

Funded Stage Refresh

  • A refresh can only be requested when your account balance is within 10% of the Maximum Drawdown limit
  • Resets your account balance back to the original starting equity
  • Preserves your profit split rate and any progress made in the Scaling Plan
  • There is a maximum of 3 refreshes per funded account
  • The price depends on the size of the account
Add-ons
Yes

Weekly, On-Demand, No Daily Loss, no minimum days and 100% split, depending on plan. Individual add-ons: +20%; bundle: +45% (+50% on 1-Step Daily and 2-Step Daily).

Yes
  • Swap Free (price depends on the size of the account)
  • Weekend Holding for Instant Accounts (20% of account fee)
Instant
Yes
Yes
One Step
Yes
Yes
  • Standard Challenge
  • Pro Challenge
Account scaling
Yes

Scaling for consistent performance without a new evaluation. Documentation allows exceeding the standard allocation but does not publish exact thresholds.

Yes

Every 90 days, traders who meet performance and consistency targets see their account balance grow by 30% and their profit split increase by 5%, without ever having to sacrifice withdrawals.

More detail about it can be found on this link

Two Steps
Yes
Yes
  • Standard Challenge
  • Pro Challenge
Max Drawdown

1-Step, 2-Step, 1-Step Daily and 2-Step Daily: static. Instant: trailing closed balance, updated at 00:00 UTC; does not lock at starting balance. Access: trailing equity, including floating profit. After withdrawal, recalculated from the new balance, except 1-Step Daily and 2-Step Daily, where the original floor remains.

Static

Profit Split

100% with add-on. First Atlas Protector trigger: 50% for the account's remaining life. First On-Demand payout: 50% for that payout only.

  • Standard Challenge: 80% (up to 95% scaling)
  • Pro Challenge: 100%
  • Instant Standard: 75% (up to 90%)
  • Instant Lite: 70% (up to 85%)
Free Trial
Yes

Website offers a free $1,000 simulated trial, one per verified person; KYC required.

Yes
Daily Drawdown

Resets at 00:00 UTC from equity. Standard plans subtract a fixed amount based on account size; Instant and Access subtract a percentage of equity at reset. Intraday profit does not raise the daily floor.

Balance-based

Three Steps
Yes
No
Max Allocation
400,000
  • Challenge Accounts (Standard): Up to $600,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $2,040,000
  • Pro Challenge Accounts: Up to $600,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $2,040,000
  • Instant Funding (Standard): Up to $200,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $680,000
  • Instant Funding Lite: Up to $200,000 in purchased capital, scalable to $680,000
Maximum Accounts

Multiple accounts allowed within the total allocation limit.

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Maximum Trading Days

No evaluation deadline. Access: activate within 30 days after passing.

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Minimum Trading Days

Evaluation: 3 days per phase on 1-Step, 2-Step, 1-Step Daily and 2-Step Daily; no minimum on Access. Funded per cycle: 5 on 1/2-Step and Instant; 3 on 1-Step Daily, 2-Step Daily and Access.

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Points Reward Program

Atlas Balance for purchases, resets and add-ons; cannot be withdrawn as cash. VIP: 26 ranks across 8 tiers, from Bronze to Atlas Black. XP from purchases, payouts, funded trading, tasks and achievements. Rank-up rewards: Balance and Atlas Packs, unlocked after the first paid order. Rank-based cashback: 3%-10%; bonus for payouts taken as Atlas Balance: 10%-25%. Spending Balance or trading losses do not lower rank; reversed payouts remove their XP.

Atlas Packs: one random prize per pack, with published odds. Available through paid orders, rank-ups or Atlas Balance. Prizes include challenges, resets, add-ons, discounts, Balance, XP and packs.

Access: every account includes an Access Pack with a discount on that account's funded activation fee, up to full coverage. Pack reward and promo code cannot both reduce the funded fee.

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Monthly Competition
Yes

Free monthly competition; simulated account prizes. Registration follows the official schedule.

No
Minimum Profitable Days

Funded: 1/2-Step: each day must close at least +0.5%; Instant: +1%; Access: +0.5%. 1-Step Daily and 2-Step Daily: day with a closed trade, no minimum daily profit. Counter resets after each payout.

Minimum profitable days number must be met every time a trader wants to pass an evaluation phase, scale a funded account or request a payout. A day is considered profitable when it reaches at least 0.5% profit

  • Challenge 1 Step: 3 days
  • Challenge 2 Step: 2 days
  • Instant Standard: 0 days
  • Instant Lite: 5 days
  • Finotive Pro 1 Step: 3 days
  • Finotive Pro 2 Step: 2 days
  • Solo FX: 4 days with at least 0.5% each
Merge Accounts
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No
Expert Advisor (EA)
Yes
Limited
  • Solo FX: all Expert Advisors and automated execution tools are prohibited
  • Other programmes: pre-purchased or mass-market “plug-and-play” EAs are not allowed
VPN
Limited

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

Limited
  • Solo FX: VPNs, proxies and location masking are prohibited
  • Other programmes: Finotive's Terms prohibit masked or unstable connections when they impair verification of identity, location or account control
Hedging
Limited

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

Yes
Requires Stop Loss
No
Limited
  • Solo FX: stop loss is not required
  • Other programmes: stop loss is required
Scalping
Limited

On funded accounts, profits from trades held under 3 minutes are deducted. Losses remain; the deduction does not close the account.

Limited

Accounts with the unified High-Frequency Trading rule active: up to 20% of profit may come from trades held for two minutes or less. The rule becomes active after the first 10 closed trades and is tracked in the dashboard. Exceeding the limit does not generate a strike, but the percentage must return within 20% before requesting a payout.

Solo FX has no specific scalping, rapid-trade-opening, trades-under-60-seconds or HFT restriction. Latency arbitrage and execution abuse remain prohibited.

Stacking / Layering (DCA)
No
No
Martingale
No
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Maximum Risk Limit
Yes

Funded: a net floating loss of 2% of initial balance triggers Atlas Protector. First trigger: positions closed and split cut to 50%; second: account closed. Using 80% of margin closes positions and deducts their profits.

Yes

Floating drawdown is calculated per symbol against the initial account balance.

  • Instant Funding: 1.5%. The first confirmed breach produces a formal warning. From the second confirmed breach onward, each separate event records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.
  • Funded Challenge and Funded Pro: 2%. Each confirmed breach records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.
  • Challenge and Pro evaluation phases: 2%. It is monitored for the progression report but does not trigger a real-time strike or account closure.
  • Solo FX: 2.5% during Simulated Funded Status only. A confirmed breach records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.
Copy Trading
Limited

Only between your own Atlas accounts; copying other traders or external accounts is prohibited.

Yes
News Trading
Limited

Unrestricted during evaluation. On funded accounts, profits from trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news are deducted. Entries inside the window are closed automatically; holding through the entire window is allowed.

Yes

News trading is allowed. For Solo FX, the Dashboard and launch announcement prohibit news straddling, but Schedule 10A-1 disapplies the Terms section that prohibits it. Confirm this contradiction with Finotive before trading news.

Inactivity Rule

Open a trade at least every 30 days; failing closes the account. Instant Zero has no inactivity limit.

30 days

Consistency Rule
Limited

Instant Funded: best day at most 20% of cycle profit. Access funded: 40%. No consistency on Instant Zero, 1-Step, 2-Step, 1-Step Daily or 2-Step Daily.

Yes

Pro accounts — from the 31st funded day

  • Weekly trade count and instrument volume must remain within ±25% of the averages recorded during the Pro Challenge and the first 30 funded days.
  • During every rolling 90-day period, realised and unrealised profit, including rewards already paid, must total at least 5% of the initial balance.
  • Breaching either condition downgrades the account to the equivalent standard funded account and permanently removes the Pro benefits.

Instant Funding Standard and Lite

  • At payout, the single most profitable closed trade must contribute less than 60% of total positive realised profit. Requesting a payout while the condition remains active records one Conditional Strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%.

Solo FX

  • No specific consistency rule or single-trade profit dependency.
Hold Weekend
Yes
Yes

Weekend holding is available through the optional Weekend Holding Add-On on Instant Funding accounts. Without it, all non-crypto positions must be closed before Friday's 17:00 New York market close; Finotive recommends closing at least 10 minutes earlier. Each confirmed breach records one strike and reduces that payout cycle's reward payment to 10%. Five cumulative strikes permanently close the account.

Prohibited Strategies

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.

  • Excessive notional volume (not applicable to Solo FX; its exposure is governed by the margin requirement applicable to the account)
  • High-frequency stacking, including correlated instruments (not a Solo FX-specific restriction; latency arbitrage and execution abuse remain prohibited)
  • Martingale or grid strategies
  • News straddling (the Solo FX dashboard and announcement prohibit it, but Schedule 10A-1 disapplies section 7.9; confirm with support)
  • Using ultra-tight stops just to mask oversized lots
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