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Headquarters

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

Tbilisi, Samgori District, Besarion Chichinadze Street 12, Apartment No. 55, Georgia

CEO

Dylan Elchami

Kutay Aktaş

Country

United States

Georgia

Foundation

2021

2024

Banned Countries
Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Albania, Iraq, Sudan, Algeria, Kosovo, Somalia, Burma/Myanmar, South Sudan, Burundi, Lebanon, Ukraine, Belarus, Libya, United Arab Emirates, Central African Republic, Mali, Venezuela, Cuba, Midway Islands, Yemen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Vatican City, Congo, Nicaragua, West Bank, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Western Sahara, Russia, Zambia, Samoa
Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto, Stocks
Crypto
Brokers

Hyperliquid data feed

Bybit, Cleo (Binance data)
Refund
✓
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Platforms
E8 Terminal
ByBit, Cleo Trading Platform
Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto, Rise, Plane
Transfer, Wise, Crypto
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, GooglePay, ApplePay
Card, Crypto
Payout Frequency
  • E8 One Perpetual: first payout after 3 days; subsequent payouts on demand
  • E8 Pro Perpetual: daily payout requests

Bybit Instant Pro & Cleo challenges: Daily on-demand withdrawals. Payouts processed in 4-24 hours (usually within 4 hours).

Bybit One Step & Two Step: Every 3-4 days due to Stability Rule.

Payout Guarantee

4-24 hours (usually within 4 hours)

Crypto Weekend Trading
✓
✓
Maximum Withdrawal
  • E8 One Perpetual: no payout cap
  • E8 Pro Perpetual: no payout cap
Minimum Withdrawal
  • E8 One Perpetual: net payout must exceed 50% of the daily drawdown amount
  • E8 Pro Perpetual: at least 1% profit
Forex
  • E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 25:1
Metals
  • E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 15:1
Energies
  • E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 15:1
Indices
  • E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 15:1
Stocks
  • E8 One and E8 Pro Perpetual: 5:1
Crypto
  • Bitcoin and Ethereum: 15:1
  • Other cryptocurrencies: 2:1

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step, Instant Pro): Up to 1:100 for most tradeable coins on Bybit.

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): BTC and ETH up to 1:5, all other assets up to 1:2.

Commission
  • Crypto perpetuals: 0.015% maker / 0.045% taker
  • Traditional instruments: 0.003% maker / 0.009% taker
Crypto
0
Swap Free
✓
Account Reset

10% discount

Add-ons
✗
✓
Instant
✗
✓
One Step
✓
✓
Account scaling
✗
✓
Two Steps
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✓
Max Drawdown
  • E8 One Perpetual: 6% dynamic drawdown
  • E8 Pro Perpetual: 8% static drawdown

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step)
Static drawdown calculated from initial balance. Customizable from 6% to 10%.

Bybit Instant Pro
Two drawdown types available (3-8%):

  • Smart Drawdown (6%): Trails upward with equity gains. Once account reaches +3% profit, drawdown locks permanently at -3% of starting balance.
  • Trailing Drawdown (8%): Trails the High Water Mark (highest of balance or equity). After first payout, resets to 4% trailing from the new balance.

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex)
Static drawdown calculated from initial balance. Customizable from 3% to 8%. One Step: 5% default. Flex: 3% default.

Profit Split

80%, 90% or 100%, depending on the option selected at checkout

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step, Instant Pro): Customizable from 60% to 90% depending on the plan selected.

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): Customizable from 60% to 90% depending on the plan selected.

Free Trial
✓
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dailyDrawdown
  • E8 One Perpetual: 4%
  • E8 Pro Perpetual: 2.5%

Bybit challenges: Daily maximum loss is half of the total loss limit. Calculated from starting balance at 12:05 AM UTC and does not change during the day until next daily reset.

Cleo challenges: Daily drawdown varies by selected plan and configuration (3-4%).

Three Steps
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✗
Max Allocation

Unlimited evaluation allocation. Maximum performance allocation: $500,000 for E8 One Perpetual and $500,000 for E8 Pro Perpetual.

300,000
Payout Frequency
  • E8 One Perpetual: first payout after 3 days; subsequent payouts on demand
  • E8 Pro Perpetual: daily payout requests
Merge Accounts
✓
✗
Maximum Trading Days

Unlimited

No time limit. Trade at your own pace.

Minimum Trading Days

No minimum trading days. At least one trade must be placed every 60 days to avoid inactivity.

Bybit challenges (One Step, Two Step): 3-4 minimum trading days due to Stability Rule.

Bybit Instant Pro: 3 trading days with at least 0.5% profit each (for payout eligibility).

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): No minimum trading days required. Pass the challenge at your own pace.

Monthly Competition
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Minimum Profitable Days
  • E8 One Perpetual: none
  • E8 Pro Perpetual: none
Expert Advisor (EA)
✓
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VPN
✓
✓
Hedging
✗
✓
Requires Stop Loss
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Scalping
✓
✓
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
✓
✓
Maximum Risk Limit
✗
Copy Trading
✓
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News Trading
✓
✓
hasInactivityRule
✓

Bybit API access period is 90 days. Reminder emails are sent starting 10 days before expiration. If not renewed within that period, the account will be restricted and cannot be reactivated.

Consistency Rule
✓
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Hold Weekend
✓
✓
Prohibited Strategies
  • All-or-nothing
  • Hedging across multiple accounts
  • Multiple users utilizing the same EA
  • Irresponsible Trading in Simulated Accounts
  • High-Frequency Trading
  • External Account Management
  • Arbitrage trading
  • Latency trading
  • High-frequency trading (HFT)
  • Hedging between accounts
  • Tick scalping
  • Holding trades less than 50 seconds
  • Spamming the order book
  • Group trading
  • Exploiting the demo environment
  • Expert Advisors (EAs) and automated trading systems
  • Copy trading (even between own accounts)
  • Front-running price feeds
  • Exploiting unrealistic prices or mispricing

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