Long-term Growth and Capital Scaling: Goat Funded Trader vs. Klein Funding

The Sotheby Building, Ground Floor, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, SW18 1TA, St. Lucia

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

St. Lucia

Georgia

2023

2024

Kutay Aktaş

Liquidity Providers

Full refund after 4th payout

• Biweekly
• Evaluation accounts can be purchased with an add-on to get the first payout On Demand with 40% profit split
• Standard Instant Funding have 'Triple payday' rewards, allowing traders to withdraw profits every 10 days.
• Instant Premium: every 10 days
• Instant HERO: every 14 days
• Instant Daily: first request 24 hours after purchase, then daily.

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.

If the payout takes longer than promised (2 business days), the trader automatically receives an extra $500 reward, guarantee.

4-24 hours (usually within 4 hours)

Other models: for the first two requests, up to 6% of the initial balance. Instant Daily: up to 3% of the initial balance per request.

Other models: $100. Instant Daily: 1% of the initial balance per request.

• Evaluation phases: 100:1
• Funded phase: 50:1

• Evaluation phases: 20:1
• Funded phase: 10:1

• Evaluation phases: 20:1
• Funded phase: 10:1

• Evaluation phases: 20:1
• Funded phase: 10:1

• Evaluation phases: 5:1
• Funded phase: 5:1

• Evaluation phases: 2:1
• Funded phase: 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.

Crypto markets are swap-free by nature.

If you don’t complete a challenge, you can restart it at any time with a 12% discount. You’ll also get a single-use coupon that gives you 10% off any program.

Reset: buy a Reset to continue from the phase where you breached instead of starting over — it issues a new account at that phase (Funded reset gives a new Funded account, no re-evaluation). Available any time, or within 14 days of a breach. Each phase can be reset once. Price is a % of the original Challenge: Phase 1 −7%; Phase 2 +45–50%; Phase 3 +80%; Funded +50–175% (Instant: −7%).

• Payout On Demand (+15%)
• 100% Profit Split (+20%)
• Both add-ons (+30%)

Instant Pro only: make 10% profit on account balance, forfeit 50% of your profit share, and your account size doubles. Scaling up to $2M.

• 1-Step, 2-Step: Static
• Instant Funding: Trailing
• Instant Premium: EOD high-watermark; not recalculated intraday or downward
• Instant Daily: intraday trailing on peak balance/equity. Locks at the initial balance when reached or at the first payout, whichever comes first; never resets. Withdrawing down to the initial balance breaches the account.

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 varies by product; see challenges. Add-ons may offer a higher split.

• Instant Daily: base split in the catalogue; 70% on payouts 3 and 4, 80% from payout 5.

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.

Most models: highest balance or equity recorded at end of day (EOD high-watermark).

• Instant HERO: daily starting balance at 5 PM EST.
• Instant Daily: none.

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%).

$400,000 on every country except Pakistan, where the maximum is $50,000

Merging available on eligible accounts. Instant Daily cannot merge with any account.

Other models: unlimited. Instant Daily: account closes automatically after 30 days.

No time limit. Trade at your own pace.

Instant HERO: 6 non-consecutive valid trading days before payout, with at least 0.5% profit each.

• Instant Daily: none.

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.

The GOAT Points Program rewards traders for both purchases and trading activities:

• You earn 1 point for every $1 spent and can gain additional points by completing trading tasks.
• Points are credited instantly and can be tracked in your Trader Dashboard. You can redeem them for valuable perks such as free accounts, extra leverage, increased drawdown, and account size boosts.
• There's no limit to how many points you can earn, and all GFT traders are automatically enrolled.

• 3 days with 0.5% profit on all phases of evaluation accounts
• 5 days with 0.5% profit on Instant Funding accounts other than Instant Daily
• Instant Premium: 5 days with 0.5% profit (not necessarily consecutive)
• Instant Daily: no minimum profitable days.

Funded accounts only: minimum holding time of 1 minute for purchases from 6 October 2026 at 00:00 UTC; 2 minutes for earlier purchases, including their resets. Funded accounts follow the original challenge purchase date. Profits from shorter trades are excluded from payouts; losses still count. This is not an account breach. Evaluation accounts are exempt.

All trades must be held for more than 50 seconds. Tick scalping is prohibited.

• Instant HERO: 1% maximum floating loss; breach closes the account.
• The firm may impose a 1% risk-per-trade-idea limit after excessive risk-taking.
• Instant Daily: combined floating loss across all open positions must stay below 1% of the initial balance; touching the limit closes the account.

Allowed between your own GFT accounts only through Goat Copier, GFT's own trade copier: funded to funded, challenge to challenge, and challenge to funded in either direction. Applies to existing and new accounts. Any other trade copier or third-party tool is prohibited, as is copying other traders, or copying between GFT and personal broker accounts or accounts at another prop firm.

Trades opened or closed (manually or by stop loss, take profit or pending orders) within 5 minutes before or after a high-impact news release (red folder on ForexFactory.com or Myfxbook.com) have a maximum profit per trade: 3% of the initial balance on accounts purchased from 10 November 2026, and 1% on accounts purchased earlier. Funded accounts and resets follow the original challenge purchase date. Applies to challenge and funded accounts; only profit above the cap is removed and it is not a breach.

30 Days

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.

• Instant Goat: A single day cannot represent more than 15% of your total earnings when requesting a withdrawal.
• Instant Premium: no consistency rule.
• Instant HERO: no single day can represent 15% or more of total profits during a payout period.
• Instant Daily: no daily profit consistency requirement. For payouts, the largest winning trade must be at least the largest losing trade, net of commission/swap; checked since purchase or the last payout. Partial closes count separately.

Stability Score (Bybit challenges only): No single trading day's profit can be equal to or greater than the stability threshold of total profits.

• Bybit Two Step: 45% stability score
• Bybit One Step: 30% stability score
• Bybit Instant Pro: No stability score

Cleo challenges (One Step, Flex): No Stability Rule.

Violating the rule does not breach the account. The trader must continue trading until the best day's profit falls below the threshold.

• All or nothing
• Exploit broker/platform errors
• Use insider/non-public info
• Front-run other trades
• Excessively risky strategies
• Hedging across accounts
• Third-party EAs/strategies
• Switch strategies post-assessment
• Martingale/grid strategies banned

• 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