Trading styles allowed at E8 Markets and Sure Leverage Funding

100 Crescent Ct, Unit 700, Dallas, Texas 75201, US

Al Shohada Road 10055, Al Hamra Industrial Zone-FZ, 10055, Ras Al Khaimah, U.A.E.

Dylan Elchami

Sebastian Ness

United States

United Arab Emirates

2021

2023

Liquidity Providers

Liquidity Provider

Historically, standard challenges were non-refundable. A newer rule states that evaluation fees purchased after January 9, 2026 are refundable on the 4th payout, while older purchases remain non-refundable.

2% payout fee or a $10 minimum transaction fee per payout.

One

• On demand

Signature

• On demand

Pro

• Daily payouts, requestable any day with at least 1% profit since the last payout.

1 Step Evaluation and 2 Step

• Instant payout request once requirements are met.

Instant Funding Static

• Base schedule every 14 days.
• Promotional instant requests may apply.

Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later

• Every 14 days.

EA Challenge

• First payout after 4 weeks, then every 2 weeks.

Futures Style

• Instant Funding: payout eligible after 5 days.
• 1 Step Pro Evaluation: payout eligible after 3 days.

Instant Funding Zero

• Every 14 days. No minimum trading-day requirement; meeting the buffer from a single trade does not make payout processing immediate.

Payouts are processed within 24 business hours or the trader receives an extra 10% on the profit split.

One

• No Cap

Signature

• Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no payout cap.
• Other funded products: usually capped at 5% of the initial balance per payout cycle, depending on the program.

Withdrawal method

• Rise: $250
• Plane: $50

One

• Your net profit (payout share) must be greater than 50% of your daily drawdown.

Signature

• Before you can start requesting payout, you need to leave a buffer in your account in the same size as your EOD Dynamic Drawdown.

$100 minimum withdrawal. Lower withdrawals may be processed on request with fees deducted.

• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: $250 / $500 / $750 / $1,000 minimum payout on $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.

• Signature Forex: 50:1
• One and Pro Forex: 30:1

• Standard challenge accounts: 1:50
• Funded phase: 1:30
• EA Challenge during challenge phase: 1:100

• Signature Forex: 25:1
• One and Pro Forex: 15:1

Gold is included in the firm's general leverage framework.

• Signature Forex: 25:1
• One and Pro Forex: 15:1

• Signature Forex: 25:1
• One and Pro Forex: 15:1

• Signature Forex, One Forex and Pro Forex: 1:1

10% discount

Only the 1 Step Evaluation documents a free reset, available if the funded account is lost within 10 days. Futures Style Instant Funding and Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation show reset availability; no reset fee is stated publicly. Other listed products do not include a free reset.

• Swap-free (+10%)

• +10% Profit Split (+15%)
• Weekly payout (+20%)
• +10% Profit Split + Weekly payout (+30%)
• News trading: Instant Funding Static and 1 Step
• Instant Funding Zero: remove daily drawdown (+30%), static maximum drawdown (+50%), or both (+80%). Percentages apply to the base account price.

• Signature: Trailing
• One Forex: 4% Dynamic (follows the highest closed balance and locks at the initial balance)
• Pro Forex: 8% Static (only moves when the first payout is processed)

• 1 Step Evaluation: 10% maximum drawdown, trailing on end-of-day (EOD) high-watermark.
• EA Challenge uses trailing high-watermark logic.
• 2 Step and Free Challenge use static maximum drawdown.
• Instant Funding Static uses static drawdown.
• Instant Funding Zero: trailing from the highest recorded equity by default, or static if selected at purchase. After payout, the balance resets to the starting balance; withdrawing all profit above the buffer can breach the trailing drawdown.
• Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later funded phase use trailing high-watermark logic.
• Futures Style Instant Funding: EOD maximum-loss limit of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $5,000 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: EOD maximum-loss limit of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.

• One: 80%, 90% or 100% (chosen at checkout)
• Signature: 80%
• Pro: 80%, 90% or 100% (chosen at checkout)

• 1 Step Evaluation: 90%
• 2 Step: 80%
• Instant Funding Static: scales from 50% to 80%
• Instant Funding Zero: 70% from the first payout
• Instant Funding Trailing: 80% from the first payout
• EA Challenge: scales from 50% to 80%
• Buy Now, Pay Later: 80%
• Futures Style Instant Funding: 90%
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: 90%
• Free Challenge funded outcome: 50%

The E8 Trial can replicate E8 One on MatchTrader. Up to 2 trials every 28 days. Trial accounts do not qualify for payouts and close after 30 days.

A Free Challenge exists, but it still requires a small activation fee of $1 to $5 and converts into a $5,000 2 Step account if passed.

Soft-breached profit is deducted at payout review. If deductions reduce profit to zero or below, the payout is denied and the account is reset.

• One Forex: 3% balance-based (hard breach)
• Signature: Balance-based Daily Pause (soft breach; trading can resume the next day)
• Pro Forex: 2.5% balance-based (hard breach)

Daily drawdown resets at 5 PM EST and is generally recalculated from the higher of balance or equity using the product's initial-balance loss allowance.

• Futures Style Instant Funding: no daily limit on $25K; $1,200 / $2,100 / $3,000 on $50K / $100K / $150K.

• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: no daily limit on $25K; $1,200 / $1,800 / $2,700 on $50K / $100K / $150K.

• Instant Funding Zero: daily drawdown can be removed at purchase.

Evaluation Phase

• Unlimited

Funded Phase

• One Forex: $500,000
• Pro Forex: $500,000
• Signature: Up to 5 accounts per market

One

• On demand

Signature

• On demand

Pro

• Daily payouts, requestable any day with at least 1% profit since the last payout.

• One: Allowed
• Signature: Not Allowed

Unlimited

No time limits are stated for the 1 Step and 2 Step evaluations. No broader firm-wide maximum duration rule was documented for the other active products reviewed.

• One and Pro: no minimum, but at least one trade must be opened and closed every 60 days to keep the account active.

Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no minimum trading days.

• One: No minimum days
• Signature: 3 days with 0.3% profit or more for first payout and 5 days between each payout

EAs are generally prohibited, except on the EA Challenge where they are allowed only during the challenge phase and prohibited once funded.

You cannot hold more than 50% of your trades for under one minute

Scalping is not completely banned, but tick scalping is prohibited and trades should generally remain open for more than 2 minutes.

One Forex

• Evaluation phase: Allowed
• Performance phase: Positions cannot be opened or closed in any way from 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after a news release.

Pro Forex

• Allowed during both phases

Signature

• Allowed

For new accounts purchased after the rule change announced on 30 September 2026, trading high-impact (red-folder) news is prohibited during the 5 minutes before and after the event. A news trading add-on is available at checkout for Instant Funding Static and 1 Step. Accounts purchased before the change retain their previous news trading permissions.

60 days

At least one open trade or pending order is required every 30 days to keep the account active.

• Signature: To request a payout, no single trading day can exceed more than 35% of your total generated profits.
• One: To request a payout, no single trading day can exceed more than 40% of your total generated profits.
• Pro: no consistency rule.

Profit Consistency Rule

• 1 Step Evaluation: no single trading day can make up 50% or more of total profits, in both evaluation and funded phases.
• 2 Step, Instant Funding Static and EA Challenge: a trading day cannot equal or exceed 25% of total profit for the payout period.
• Instant Funding Lite: 15%.
• Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later: 20%.
• Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no consistency rule.
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: none in evaluation; 40% in funded status.

There is no lot size consistency rule.

• Signature: Not allowed. All positions are closed by 23:00 server time.
• One and Pro Forex: Allowed

• All-or-nothing
• Hedging across multiple accounts
• Multiple users utilizing the same EA
• Irresponsible Trading in Simulated Accounts
• High-Frequency Trading
• External Account Management

• Tick scalping / ultra-short trades
• High-frequency trading (HFT)
• Latency arbitrage
• Reverse arbitrage
• Martingale
• Account management
• Third-party copy trading or mirrored group trading
• Exploiting pricing, execution, latency or platform errors
• Manipulative hedging patterns designed to game payouts or risk limits