Detailed Comparison: BrightFunded vs QT Funded (2025)

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

Jelle Dijkstra

Tanswell Sassman

United Arab Emirates

South Africa

Market Data Provider

Only when purchasing with add-on

7 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

No limit

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).

With add-on

Phase 2 reset available with add-on

• Bi-weeky payouts (+15%)
• Weekly payouts (25%)
• 90% Profit Split (+20%)
• 100% Challenge Refund (+10%)
• No minimum trading days (+15%)
• Swap-Free (+10%)

• 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

If you meet the requirements of the scaling plan, your funded star account will be increased by 30% of its original size.

• Every funded star account goes through an evaluation over a period of four consecutive months.
• You must be profitable in at least two out of those four months, with a minimum total gain of 10% during the entire four-month period.
• You must also successfully complete at least two payout requests on your funded star account.
• When the scale-up takes place, the balance of the funded star account must be at breakeven or in profit.
• There are no restrictions on upside balance.

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%

• 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.

Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark)

• 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

• Accounts can only be merged into sizes that currently offered
• Only accounts in the Funded Stage are eligible for merging.
• The accounts to be merged must have the same add-ons.
• Merging is only possible if you request it before we send the Funded Account for the first time or after a payout.

Evalution Phases: 5 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

Trade2Earn is a BrightFunded program that rewards traders based on their trading volume, not just their profits. For every trade you make on Challenge or Funded accounts, you earn BrightFunded Tokens that can be exchanged for exclusive perks.

Available perks

• More Drawdown – Greater flexibility and margin for error.
• Lower Profit Targets – Easier to pass evaluations.

Token calculation

• Forex, indices, commodities: 0.2 tokens / $100,000 volume
• Crypto: 0.2 tokens / $20,000 volume

• 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

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

Trading 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after the event is prohibited ( this is a soft breach and will not result in your account being breached).

Trading during this window will result in a deduction of the profit that you made on that particular trade.

Executed trades during this period that lead to a loss won't be compensated.

Executing a trade refers to initiating or closing a market order, as well as triggering any pending order, including stop-loss and take-profit instructions.

• 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.

30 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.

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

• Hedging across multiple accounts
• Exploiting Service Errors or Platform Delays.
• Using External or Delayed Data Feeds.
• Coordinated or Multi-Account Manipulation.
• Violating Platform or Provider Terms.
• Use of Automated Software, AI, or High-Speed Trading Tools.
• Trading During High-Impact News or Events.
• Risk-Abusive Trading: Overleveraging, Overexposure, One-Sided Bets, and Account Rolling.
• Abusive Strategy Types: Grid Trading, Arbitrage, Tick Scalping, High-Frequency Trading (HFT).

• 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