The 1-phase challenge

A single-phase evaluation, with no second step. Grow your account by 10% and you are funded. No time limit, no daily minimum profit. It is the fastest path, but first you need to understand the trailing drawdown.

Rules Summary

1. Profit Target: 10%

Grow your simulated account by 10%. No time limit. Any 4 days with at least one completed trade count toward the minimum trading days. No daily minimum profit is required.

2. Max Drawdown: 8% trailing

This is the most important rule you need to understand in the 1-Phase model. The floor follows you upward as your balance grows, but it only moves when you close a winning trade at a new high.

Exactly how it works:

When you start, the system sets a dollar difference of 8% of your initial balance. That difference never changes in monetary terms, it simply moves up as your balance grows.

Example: You start a $25,000 account. Your fixed differential is $2,000.

• Day 1: Balance $25,000 → Floor at $23,000

• Day 2: You close a winning trade, the balance rises to $26,500 → The floor rises to $24,500

• Day 3: You close another winner, the balance rises to $28,000 → The floor rises to $26,000

• Day 4: You open a new trade. The market goes against you. Your equity falls to $25,999. Breach triggered, account closed immediately.

Your closed balance was still $28,000. But your equity crossed the floor. That is enough.

3. Daily Loss Limit: 4% dynamic

Each day you start with a new loss limit calculated on the higher value between your current balance and your equity. It resets at midnight, platform time.

4. Minimum Trading Days: 4 days

You must complete at least 4 trading days with at least one completed trade each day. No minimum profit per day, any completed trade counts.

5. Risk per trade and automatic account closure (Hard Breach): 1.1%

Your safety margin per trade is 1%: if you keep your risk per trade (or per group of simultaneously open trades) at or below 0.5% of your starting balance, you will never get close to the closure limit.

If, at any time, your open positions accumulate a floating loss of 1.1% of your starting balance, the account is closed immediately and permanently. There is no prior warning or subsequent recovery. This 1.1% threshold applies equally to all accounts, both during the challenge phase and in the funded account.

Example: On a $25,000 account, a floating loss of $275 or more in simultaneously open positions triggers automatic closure.

The 0.6-point margin between your recommended risk (0.5%) and the closure threshold (1.1%) exists so that, if you set your stop loss correctly at 0.5%, you will never trigger this mechanism due to a minor technical execution lag.

The use of stop loss is mandatory in all phases, both in evaluation and in the funded account: you must set it within the first minute of each trade. It is not just a consistency standard, it is also an evaluation criterion.

👉 See the Severe Breaches: what they are and how to avoid them section for more information.

👉 Also see the Consistency Standards: how they work and why they exist: they include the mandatory stop loss in the first minute and are equally evaluation criteria.

6. Profit Share: 80%, scalable to 100%

Your base profit share is 80%. With available add-ons, you can scale it up to 100%. Your first payout is available after 30 calendar days from your first trade in the funded account. After that, you can withdraw every 14 calendar days.

7. Prohibited Strategies

There are strategies that are prohibited without exception in all models. See the Prohibited strategies section for the complete and updated list.