Detailed Comparison: The Trading Pit vs QT Funded (2025)

Cape Town, South Africa, Western Cape, 7764, ZA

Heiligkreuz 6, 9490, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Tanswell Sassman

Daniela Egli

South Africa

Liechtenstein

2023

2022

Only when purchasing with add-on

Challenge fee refunded after the first reward for accounts purchased before 29 April 2026, or after the third reward for accounts purchased from that date.

• QT ONE: 4-day cycle
• QT TWO: 14-day cycle
• QT INSTANT: 4-day cycle
• QT Power: 14-day cycle for accounts purchased from August 11, 2026. Accounts purchased on or before August 10 receive the first payout on demand, then move to a 14-day cycle.
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): 14-day standard cycle
• QT Bonus (promotional accounts): 30-day cycle

14 days

1% of profit ($100 min) — except QT INSTANT: 5% of profit, and a 3% buffer applies (8% profit must be reached before the first payout request).

$100

1%

100%

• Instant Earning Account: the lower of $2,500 or 50% of total realized profit per reward. Minimum payout $200, every 14 days. From the second reward onward, any profit above $0 since the last request qualifies.

Phase 2 reset available with add-on

• Variable Spreads
• Usage of EA
• Swap Free
• 10% Profit Split Extra (80% → 90%)
• Refund on First Payout
• 14 Day Payout cycle
• 7 Day Payout cycle

Balance increases by 25% after at least 2 active months, 2 rewards and total profit of at least 10% of the initial balance. Every fourth scale-up uses the new balance as its base.

• QT ONE: 6% static
• QT TWO: 8% static
• QT INSTANT: 6% trailing, locked at starting balance once a withdrawal is made
• QT Power: 8% static
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): 6% trailing

Static except for 1-Phase $100K/$200K and 2-Phase $100K accounts purchased from 29 April 2026: those trail on end-of-day balance until the starting balance.

• Instant Earning Account: trailing on the highest balance. The limit stops moving once it reaches the starting balance.

• QT ONE: 70%
• QT TWO: 80%
• QT INSTANT: 100%
• QT Power: 80%
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): 80%
  Upgradeable to 90% with the "10% Profit Split Extra" add-on on eligible plans.

80%

• QT ONE: 3% trailing (fixed amount, threshold recalculated daily on the higher of previous close balance or equity)
• QT TWO: 4% fixed (balance-based)
• QT INSTANT: 3% fixed
• QT Power: 4% fixed
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): 3% daily trailing

Calculated from the previous day's closing balance and updated daily at 16:15 CT.

• Max total funded allocation: $300,000
• Max Instant funded allocation: $100,000
• No duplicate asset trading when at limit

• QT ONE: no minimum on the evaluation (can pass in a single day); 4 days when funded
• QT TWO: 4 days per phase
• QT INSTANT: 4 days when funded
• QT Power: 4 days in each evaluation phase and 4 days per funded payout cycle
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): no minimum on the evaluation; 5 days when funded

• QT TWO: 4 days of +0.5% profit per cycle
• QT INSTANT: 4 days of +1% profit per cycle
• QT ONE: not required

3 profitable days of at least 0.5% of the initial balance each; applies to Challenge and Earning.

• Instant Earning Account: 5 trading days minimum, with no profitable-day requirement.

Before using EAs, they must go through a pre-approval process.

A Stop Loss must be placed within 60 seconds of opening a trade. Applies to QT TWO and QT INSTANT (funded accounts). QT ONE has no stop loss rule.

Allowed on CFD Prime, including trades under one minute. High-frequency trading is prohibited.

Cannot have three or more open positions on the same asset at the same time (only funded account

• QT ONE (Funded): 1% max floating loss across all open positions
• QT TWO (Funded): 1% max floating loss (first violation is a soft breach, second is a hard breach)
• QT TWO (Evaluation): exposure must stay under 75% of the daily drawdown limit
• QT INSTANT (Funded): 1% max exposure per instrument
• QT Power (Evaluation): exposure must stay under 75% of the daily drawdown limit
• QT Power (Funded): no exposure limit
• QT 1 Step (BNPL, Funded): 2% floating loss

Risk per trade idea is capped at 1.5% of initial balance on 1-Phase $100K/$200K. Where the margin rule applies, margin used per trade idea is capped at 40% of initial balance.

• Instant Earning Account: total risk from all open positions on the same symbol may not exceed 1% of the starting balance.

Allowed without restrictions when allocation is lower than $300,000.
Not allowed when the allocation is $300,000 or above.

Allowed only between accounts owned by the same trader, including an external account you own. Third-party copying and shared trading are prohibited.

• No new entries or exits within the 10-minute window around a restricted news event (5 minutes before and 5 minutes after).
• Order modifications ARE permitted during that window: adjusting stop loss, modifying take profit and cancelling orders.
• Positions or limit orders placed more than 5 minutes before the release (with SL and TP set) may remain open or be triggered during the event.
• Restricted releases: CPI, FOMC statement and meetings, Non-Farm Payrolls and USD PMI. Red folder events restrict every pair involving that currency and any index priced in it.
• News source: Forex Factory.
• The News Rule does NOT apply to QT ONE, QT INSTANT, QT Power or QT 1 Step (BNPL) accounts.

News trading is allowed except for the $100,000 and $200,000 accounts, in which case it is not allowed to open traders within 2 minutes before or after high-impact news releases

• QT TWO: no inactivity rule
• QT INSTANT, QT Power, QT 1 Step (BNPL): 14 days
• QT ONE: the comparison table states 7 days while the plan article states 14 days; confirm with support before relying on it.
  The period runs from the purchase date if no trade has been placed, or from the most recent closed trade.

21 consecutive days without placing a trade.

• QT INSTANT: 30%
• QT Power: 35% in both evaluation and funded
• QT 1 Step (BNPL): 20%
• QT ONE, QT TWO: no consistency rule

For 1-Phase $100K/$200K accounts created from 6 July 2026, the best day may not exceed 50% of positive-days profit. It applies in Challenge and Earning; exceeding it requires more profit, not a breach.

• Instant Earning Account: the best day may not exceed 30% of total profit before requesting a payout.

Instant Earning Account: positions can be held over the weekend on most instruments, but gold, oil and crypto must be closed before the weekend break.

• All-or-Nothing
• Latency Trading
• Arbitrage Trading
• High-Frequency Trading
• Tick scalping
• Reverse Trading or Group Hedging
• Order book spamming
• Flooding the server with messages due to incorrect use of algorithm
• One side betting
• Trading behaviours that the Risk Department deem Toxic

• Grid, martingale and similar high-risk strategies
• High-frequency, latency, reverse, hedging-arbitrage or arbitrage trading
• Gap trading
• Overleveraging, overexposure, one-sided bets and hyperactivity