Detailed Comparison: QT Funded vs City Traders Imperium (2025)

Algaroud Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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

Daniel Martin and Martin Najat

Tanswell Sassman

United Arab Emirates

South Africa

2018

2023

• 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

Only when purchasing with add-on

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.

• 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

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).

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

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, 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.

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

• 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

• 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)

• 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.

Balance-based

• 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

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

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

• 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

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

• 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.

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.

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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