Detailed Comparison: Atmos Funded vs QT Funded (2025)

Office 219, Vakson Commercial Building, Sheikh Zayed Road, Umm Al Sheif

Cape Town, South Africa, Western Cape, 7764, ZA

Nick Cooke

Tanswell Sassman

United Arab Emirates

South Africa

2024

2023

Refunds available only if you have NOT received or used the trading account, or in case of duplicate payments / technical issues that prevented account delivery. Once trading begins, fees are non-refundable. Refunds are processed within 5-10 business days (card) or 24-48h (crypto).

Only when purchasing with add-on

• 1 Step Plus: First payout on demand, next every 14 days
• Instant, Nova: On Demand
• 1 Step Standard, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Plus: Every 14 days

• QT ONE: 4-day cycle
• QT TWO: 14-day cycle
• QT INSTANT: 4-day cycle
• QT Power: 14-day cycle for accounts purchased from August 11, 2026. Accounts purchased on or before August 10 receive the first payout on demand, then move to a 14-day cycle.
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): 14-day standard cycle
• QT Bonus (promotional accounts): 30-day cycle

$100

1% of profit ($100 min) — except QT INSTANT: 5% of profit, and a 3% buffer applies (8% profit must be reached before the first payout request).

Phase 2 reset available with add-on

• Variable Spreads
• Usage of EA
• Swap Free
• 10% Profit Split Extra (80% → 90%)
• Refund on First Payout
• 14 Day Payout cycle
• 7 Day Payout cycle

• 1 Step Standard, Instant: Trailing, locks at initial balance and finally at payout
• 1 Step Plus: Trailing, locks at initial balance but resets at payout
• 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Plus: Static
• Nova: 8% max overall loss (static)

• QT ONE: 6% static
• QT TWO: 8% static
• QT INSTANT: 6% trailing, locked at starting balance once a withdrawal is made
• QT Power: 8% static
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): 6% trailing

80% by default, scaling up to 90% for consistent performers

• QT ONE: 70%
• QT TWO: 80%
• QT INSTANT: 100%
• QT Power: 80%
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): 80%
  Upgradeable to 90% with the "10% Profit Split Extra" add-on on eligible plans.

• General: Based on highest value between equity and balance
• Nova: 4% daily drawdown

• QT ONE: 3% trailing (fixed amount, threshold recalculated daily on the higher of previous close balance or equity)
• QT TWO: 4% fixed (balance-based)
• QT INSTANT: 3% fixed
• QT Power: 4% fixed
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): 3% daily trailing

• Max total funded allocation: $300,000
• Max Instant funded allocation: $100,000
• No duplicate asset trading when at limit

No limit

Unlimited

• Nova (challenge): 0 days
• Nova (funded): 7 minimum profitable trading days

• QT ONE: no minimum on the evaluation (can pass in a single day); 4 days when funded
• QT TWO: 4 days per phase
• QT INSTANT: 4 days when funded
• QT Power: 4 days in each evaluation phase and 4 days per funded payout cycle
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): no minimum on the evaluation; 5 days when funded

• 1 Step, 2 Step: 3 days with 0.5% profit or more
• Instant: 0 days
• Nova (challenge): 0 days
• Nova (funded): 7 days with at least 0.5% of initial balance each

• QT TWO: 4 days of +0.5% profit per cycle
• QT INSTANT: 4 days of +1% profit per cycle
• QT ONE: not required

Before using EAs, they must go through a pre-approval process.

A Stop Loss must be placed within 60 seconds of opening a trade. Applies to QT TWO and QT INSTANT (funded accounts). QT ONE has no stop loss rule.

Cannot have three or more open positions on the same asset at the same time (only funded account

• QT ONE (Funded): 1% max floating loss across all open positions
• QT TWO (Funded): 1% max floating loss (first violation is a soft breach, second is a hard breach)
• QT TWO (Evaluation): exposure must stay under 75% of the daily drawdown limit
• QT INSTANT (Funded): 1% max exposure per instrument
• QT Power (Evaluation): exposure must stay under 75% of the daily drawdown limit
• QT Power (Funded): no exposure limit
• QT 1 Step (BNPL, Funded): 2% floating loss

Only allow between Atmos Funded Accounts

Allowed without restrictions when allocation is lower than $300,000.
Not allowed when the allocation is $300,000 or above.

Not allowed ±2 minutes from high-impact events

• No new entries or exits within the 10-minute window around a restricted news event (5 minutes before and 5 minutes after).
• Order modifications ARE permitted during that window: adjusting stop loss, modifying take profit and cancelling orders.
• Positions or limit orders placed more than 5 minutes before the release (with SL and TP set) may remain open or be triggered during the event.
• Restricted releases: CPI, FOMC statement and meetings, Non-Farm Payrolls and USD PMI. Red folder events restrict every pair involving that currency and any index priced in it.
• News source: Forex Factory.
• The News Rule does NOT apply to QT ONE, QT INSTANT, QT Power or QT 1 Step (BNPL) accounts.

90 days

• QT TWO: no inactivity rule
• QT INSTANT, QT Power, QT 1 Step (BNPL): 14 days
• QT ONE: the comparison table states 7 days while the plan article states 14 days; confirm with support before relying on it.
  The period runs from the purchase date if no trade has been placed, or from the most recent closed trade.

• 1 Step Plus: No single day >45% of total profit (funded phase)
• Instant: No single day >20% of total profit (funded phase)
• 1 Step Standard, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Plus, Nova: No rule

• QT INSTANT: 30%
• QT Power: 35% in both evaluation and funded
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): 20%
• QT ONE, QT TWO: no consistency rule

• Allocate too large of your equity or margin to a single open position
• Latency arbitrage (price feed abuse)
• High-frequency trading bots that overload execution
• Tick scalping / toxic flow that manipulates fills
• Hedging across accounts
• Group Trading / Account Management Abuse
• Platform / Price-Feed Manipulation
• Account Sharing / Identity Misuse
• All-In (Gambling)

• All-or-Nothing
• Latency Trading
• Arbitrage Trading
• High-Frequency Trading
• Tick scalping
• Reverse Trading or Group Hedging
• Order book spamming
• Flooding the server with messages due to incorrect use of algorithm
• One side betting
• Trading behaviours that the Risk Department deem Toxic