Risk rules compared: Crypto Fund Trader and The Trading Pit

Bahnhofstrasse 21, 6300, Zug, Switzerland

Heiligkreuz 6, 9490, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Alan Sanchez

Daniela Egli

Switzerland

Liechtenstein

Challenge fee refunded after the first reward for accounts purchased before 29 April 2026, or after the third reward for accounts purchased from that date.

5% processing fee on crypto payouts. Only TRC20 USDT supported.

1%

1-Phase and 2-Phase: after at least 15 traded days or every 30 calendar days; the Weekly Payout add-on reduces this to 7 traded days. Break: on demand with no minimum traded days after passing, paying the activation fee and meeting the 40% consistency rule. Instant: Withdrawal & Upgrade at 10% profit with no minimum days; earlier withdrawals follow the standard conditions.

14 days

$5,000 per transaction (crypto)

• Instant Earning Account: the lower of 50% of total realized profit or a cap of $2,500 ($5K, $10K, $20K), $3,500 ($50K) or $4,500 ($100K) per reward. Minimum payout $200, every 14 days. From the second reward onward, any profit above $0 since the last request qualifies.

100%

$100

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 30:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 20:1

• Advance accounts: 100:1
• Student accounts: 5:1

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: Advance accounts 100:1; Student accounts 5:1.
• Bybit evaluations: up to 100:1, depending on the instrument and the limits available on Bybit.

If your final-stage account is suspended, you can request a reset within 30 days as long as:

• Every trade had a stop-loss.
• No trade lost more than 2%.

2-Phase (size -> reset)

• $5,000 -> $180
• $10,000 -> $345
• $25,000 -> $760
• $50,000 -> $1,140
• $100,000 -> $1,880
• $200,000 -> $3,620

1-Phase (size -> reset)

• $5,000 -> $198
• $10,000 -> $380
• $25,000 -> $840
• $50,000 -> $1,255
• $100,000 -> $2,079
• $200,000 -> $3,980

1-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%) and 90% Profit Split (+20%). 2-Phase: Weekly Payout (+20%), 90% Profit Split (+20%), 6% Daily Drawdown (+15%) and 12% Maximum Drawdown (+25%).

Only Instant account can be scaled. Request a withdrawal after 10% profit to double the size of your account up to a max of $1,280,000.

Balance increases by 25% after at least 2 active months, 2 rewards and total profit of at least 10% of the initial balance. Every fourth scale-up uses the new balance as its base.

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases and Instant use a static maximum loss; 1 Phase uses trailing drawdown.
• Bybit: 1-Phase and Break use a balance-based trailing loss limit that locks at the initial balance after sufficient profit. 2-Phase, Ascend and Instant use fixed maximum-loss limits.

Exact limits are shown in each challenge.

Static except for 1-Phase $100K/$200K and 2-Phase $100K accounts purchased from 29 April 2026: those trail on end-of-day balance until the starting balance.

• Instant Earning Account: trailing on the highest balance. The limit stops moving once it reaches the starting balance.

• Instant: 50% at the starting level, then 60%, 70%, 80% and 90% as the account scales.
• 1 Phase and 2 Phases: 80% in the Final Stage, with an optional 90% add-on.
• Break: 80% in the Final Stage.

80%

If your final-stage account is suspended with virtual profits, you can still receive up to 50% in performance rewards if:

• Every trade had a stop-loss.
• No single trade lost more than 2%.
• You traded for at least 15 days.

• CFT Platform and MetaTrader: 2 Phases, 1 Phase, Instant and Ascend use balance-based daily drawdown.
• Bybit: daily drawdown is calculated from equity using the account balance at 00:05 UTC. Break accounts do not have a separate daily-loss limit.

Exact limits are shown in each challenge.

Calculated from the previous day's closing balance and updated daily at 16:15 CT.

Standard Final Stage allocation is capped at $300,000. Instant accounts are separate and can scale to $1,280,000. Break and Ascend accounts also have separate allocation limits.

• 1-Phase, 2-Phase and Break: no minimum trading days to pass the evaluation.
• Instant: no evaluation phase and no minimum days.
• Ascend: 5 trading days in evaluation.

3 profitable days of at least 0.5% of the initial balance each; applies to Challenge and Earning.

• Instant Earning Account: 5 trading days minimum, with no profitable-day requirement.

Expert Advisors and automation are allowed when used for normal trading. EAs designed for high-frequency trading, tick scalping, arbitrage, reverse trading or exploitation are prohibited.

Normal scalping is allowed. Tick scalping, high-frequency trading and latency exploitation are prohibited.

Allowed on CFD Prime, including trades under one minute. High-frequency trading is prohibited.

Simulated profit is capped at $10,000 per trading day and per trade. Trades closed in parts or opened together as one strategy may be treated as a single trade.

Risk per trade idea is capped at 1.5% of initial balance on 1-Phase $100K/$200K. Where the margin rule applies, margin used per trade idea is capped at 40% of initial balance.

• Instant Earning Account: total risk from all open positions on the same symbol may not exceed 1% ($5K, $10K, $20K) or 0.5% ($50K, $100K) of the starting balance.

Copy trading is allowed under the firm's general rules. Break evaluations may be copied only between the same trader's own Break accounts. Copy trading is prohibited in Break Final Stage and between different traders, third parties or coordinated accounts.

Allowed only between accounts owned by the same trader, including an external account you own. Third-party copying and shared trading are prohibited.

Ascend

During the two minutes before and after high-impact news or market open, traders must not open or add new positions, nor increase or combine their maximum theoretical loss beyond 2% of the account's initial balance.

News trading is allowed except for the $100,000 and $200,000 accounts, in which case it is not allowed to open traders within 2 minutes before or after high-impact news releases

Only Break Final Stage accounts apply a consistency rule: no single trading day may represent more than 40% of total profits. It is checked only when requesting a payout and does not breach the account.

For 1-Phase $100K/$200K accounts created from 6 July 2026, the best day may not exceed 50% of positive-days profit. It applies in Challenge and Earning; exceeding it requires more profit, not a breach.

• Instant Earning Account: the best day may not exceed 30% ($5K, $10K, $20K), 25% ($50K) or 20% ($100K) of total profit before requesting a payout.

Crypto futures trade 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and positions may remain open overnight and over weekends.

Instant Earning Account: positions can be held over the weekend on most instruments, but gold, oil and crypto must be closed before the weekend break.

High-frequency trading, tick scalping, latency or price-feed exploitation, arbitrage, gambling or all-in trading, abusive hedging, reverse trading across accounts and coordinated trading are prohibited. On Bybit, unauthorized deposits into the subaccount, modifying or disconnecting the API, spot trading, options and non-USDT pairs are also prohibited.

• Grid, martingale and similar high-risk strategies
• High-frequency, latency, reverse, hedging-arbitrage or arbitrage trading
• Gap trading
• Overleveraging, overexposure, one-sided bets and hyperactivity

21 consecutive days without placing a trade.