Trading styles allowed at Goat Funded Trader and Sure Leverage Funding

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.

St. Lucia

United Arab Emirates

Sebastian Ness

Liquidity Providers

Liquidity Provider

Full refund after 4th payout

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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

$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.

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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.

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

• +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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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%

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.

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.

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.

$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 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.

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

• Instant Daily: none.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

• 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.

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.

30 Days

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

• 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.

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.

• 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