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Sure Leverage Funding logoSure Leverage Funding
Headquarters

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

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

Country

St. Lucia

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2023

2023

Banned Countries
Russia, Cuba, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, North Korea, Libya, Vietnam
Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar, Russia, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk (Ukraine), Somalia, Syria, Pakistan, Algeria
CEO

Sebastian Ness

Assets
Forex, Indices, Commodities, Crypto
Forex, Crypto, Indices, Commodities
Brokers

Liquidity Providers

Liquidity Provider

Refund
✓
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Platforms
MatchTrader, cTrader, TradeLocker, Volumetrica, MetaTrader5
Metatrader 5, TradeLocker
Payout Methods
Transfer, Rise, Crypto
Rise, Crypto
Payment Methods
ApplePay, Korapay, Card, GooglePay, PayPal, Crypto, Skrill, IMPS
Card, Crypto, Transfer
Payout Frequency
  • 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

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.
Payout Guarantee

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

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

Crypto Weekend Trading
✓
✓
Maximum Withdrawal

For the first two reward requests, traders can withdraw a maximum of 6% of the initial account balance.

  • 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.
Minimum Withdrawal

$100

$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.
Payout Fee

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

Forex
  • Evaluation phases: 100:1
  • Funded phase: 50:1
  • Standard challenge accounts: 1:50
  • Funded phase: 1:30
  • EA Challenge during challenge phase: 1:100
Metals
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1

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

Energies
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1
Indices
  • Evaluation phases: 20:1
  • Funded phase: 10:1
Stocks
  • Evaluation phases: 5:1
  • Funded phase: 5:1
Crypto
  • Evaluation phases: 2:1
  • Funded phase: 2:1
Forex
5 / lot
5 / lot
Metals
5 / lot
5 / lot
Energies
0
5 / lot
Indices
0
5 / lot
Stocks
0
Crypto
0
5 / lot
Account Reset

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%).

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.

Add-ons
✓
✓
Instant
✓
✓
One Step
✓
✓
Account scaling
✓
✗
Two Steps
✓
✓
Max Drawdown
  • 1-Step, 2-Step, 3-Step: Static
  • Instant Funding: Trailing
  • Instant Premium: EOD high-watermark; not recalculated intraday or downward
  • 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: 5% of the initial balance, trailing from the highest recorded equity (high-water mark).
  • 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.
Profit Split

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

  • 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%
Free Trial
✗
✓
dailyDrawdown

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

  • Instant HERO: daily starting balance at 5 PM EST.

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.
Three Steps
✓
✗
Max Allocation

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

200,000
Merge Accounts
✓
✗
Maximum Trading Days

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.

Minimum Trading Days

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

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

Points Reward Program

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.
Monthly Competition
✗
✗
Minimum Profitable Days
  • 3 days with 0.5% profit on all phases of evaluation accounts
  • 5 days with 0.5% profit on all Instant Funding accounts
  • Instant Premium: 5 days with 0.5% profit (not necessarily consecutive)
Profit After Breach

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.

Expert Advisor (EA)
✓
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VPN
✗
✗
Hedging
✗
✓
Requires Stop Loss
✗
✗
Scalping
✓
~
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
✓
✓
Maximum Risk Limit
✓
✗
Copy Trading
~
✓
News Trading
~
✓
hasInactivityRule

30 Days

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

Consistency Rule
✓
✓
Hold Weekend
✓
✓
Prohibited Strategies
  • 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
  • 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

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