Long-term growth path: Goat Funded Trader vs Velotrade

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

Hong Kong

St. Lucia

Hong Kong

2023

2025

Gianluca Pizzituti

Liquidity Providers

Full refund after 4th payout

No standard fee refund after passing. The terms exclude refunds once the platform is accessed or the first trade is placed, except where required by law.

• 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.

First, after 14 calendar days from the first funded trade and completion of the required profitable days. Then weekly on request. Paid in USDC or USDT on Arbitrum; each payout is publicly verifiable on Arbiscan.

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

Processing within 24 hours of approval. Trading is halted during the preceding review, which may take longer during busy periods.

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.

First and second withdrawals: capped at 20 times the challenge fee actually paid. The excess is forfeited. No cap from the third withdrawal. Full withdrawals only; the starting balance is restored afterwards without moving the drawdown floor.

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

USD 100

Variable network fee, deducted from the withdrawal and shown when requesting it.

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

Evaluation / funded: majors 50:1 / 30:1; minors 30:1 / 20:1; exotics 20:1 / 10:1.

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

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

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

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

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

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

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

Evaluation 5:1; funded 3:1.

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

Evaluation / funded: BTC 10:1 / 5:1; ETH and SOL 6:1 / 5:1; XRP, HYPE, DOGE, BNB, BCH, SUI, XAUT and ADA 3:1 / 2:1; remaining crypto 2:1 / 2:1.

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

Overnight funding is 0.05% of notional, the same for longs and shorts. Crypto, stocks, indices and commodities: 00:30 UTC, including weekends. Forex: 21:00 UTC, triple on Wednesday and no separate Saturday or Sunday charge.

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%).

No resets or standard free retakes. A failed challenge requires a new purchase.

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

Profit-share upgrade available at purchase. Variants and their prices are shown in the challenges.

No published scaling plan. Increasing capital requires additional accounts within the maximum allocation.

• 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.

Static against each phase's starting balance, including funded accounts. It does not trail profits or move with payouts. Balance and floor reset at the start of the second phase. Equity reaching or falling below the floor, including floating losses, closes the account.

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.

Free read-only DXtrade guest access to view instruments and prices, without trading. Sprint offers challenge prizes, with award-specific profit splits and payout caps.

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.

Recalculated at 00:30 UTC from the higher of balance or equity at that moment. Floating profit can raise the reference; the resulting floor is monitored against real-time equity. Reaching or falling below it breaches the account.

$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 completion deadline; the inactivity rule still applies.

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

• Instant Daily: none.

Five qualifying days, not necessarily consecutive, per evaluation phase. The count resets on funding and must be met again before the first payout, but not subsequent payouts.

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.

A qualifying day requires net realised profit of at least 0.8% of the starting balance. Days run from 00:30 to 00:30 UTC. Holding a position open does not add days.

One registered profile and verified identity. Multiple challenges and funded accounts may sit under that profile; each is assessed separately and results cannot offset one another.

Self-built or publicly available commercial EAs, bots and AI are allowed in evaluation and funded accounts. REST and WebSocket API included without fee or approval; no FIX or L2/L3 depth through the API. MT4/MT5 EAs need a bridge or adaptation. Private, exclusive or bespoke signals are prohibited.

VPNs, VPSs and IP changes are allowed. Only the verified owner may trade; access sharing remains prohibited.

Only within the same account. Cross-account, cross-platform and cross-firm hedging is prohibited, including via copiers. First offence involving one trade: trades closed and a one-time warning per user; multiple trades or repetition: permanent closure.

Optional. A triggered Stop Loss exits at market and may slip. Stop Limit orders are disabled.

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.

Ordinary scalping is allowed; tick scalping, HFT and pricing or latency exploitation are 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.

No general numeric per-trade cap. Leverage, equity limits and the ban on abusive risk still apply. Single stocks have per-company and total exposure limits published on the platform, with possible short restrictions.

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.

Only between accounts owned by the same trader. Public signal services and commercial EAs are allowed without subscriber coordination. Copying other people's accounts, third-party management and private, exclusive or bespoke signals are prohibited.

El beneficio máximo por cualquier operación que se abra o cierre dos minutos antes o después de un evento noticioso de alto impacto (según la designación de ForexFactory.com) está restringido al 1% del saldo de apertura de la cuenta.

Macro news trading is allowed. For single stocks, close from 24 hours before to 24 hours after earnings and ex-dividend events. Close before other corporate actions announced at least one day in advance; reopen when normal trading resumes.

30 Days

Deactivated after 30 calendar days without valid activity, counted from assignment or the latest trade close. A trade held at least 60 seconds qualifies; open positions pause the timer and pending orders do not count. One support-requested reactivation is available within six months; afterwards it may be treated as a hard breach.

• 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.

No cap on a winning day's share of profit; qualifying-day requirements and prohibited strategies still apply.

Allowed, including forex. Single stocks may have size limits, weekend bans or mandatory out-of-hours closure by instrument. Equity limits and overnight costs continue to apply.

• 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

Martingale, grid, arbitrage, tick scalping, HFT, latency or error exploitation, private or bespoke signals, account sharing, insider information, coordinated risk elimination and account rolling. Abusive overleveraging, correlated overexposure and repeatedly adding to losing positions are also prohibited. Profits may be removed, payouts withheld or accounts closed.