The 1-phase challenge

A single evaluation phase, no second step. Grow your account by 10% and you are funded. No time limit, no minimum daily 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 towards the minimum trading days. No minimum daily 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.

How it works exactly:
When you start, the system sets a dollar difference of 8% of your starting 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 difference 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 (balance minus floating loss) drops to $25,999. Violation triggered, account closed immediately.

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

Two things that catch traders off guard:

1. The floor only moves with closed trades. Floating profits do not move it. The floor rises the moment you close a trade at a new balance high, not before.

2. The violation is triggered by equity, not balance. An open trade with losses can close your account even if your closed balance looks healthy. Always keep your open exposure in mind when checking how far you are from the floor.

💡 Before opening a new trade, check the distance between your current floor and your current equity. That distance, minus the risk of your planned trade, is your actual available room.

→ See: Hard Breaches

3. Daily Loss Limit: 4% dynamic

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

Example: If your balance is $10,000 and your equity is $10,500, your daily limit is 4% of $10,500 = $420.

⚠️ Floating losses count in real time. You do not need to close a trade to violate the daily limit.

→ See: Hard Breaches

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.

→ See: Hard Breaches

5. Equity Guard: triggers at 3% floating loss

If your open trades accumulate a floating loss of 3% of your starting balance at any point, all positions are automatically closed. Your account remains open.

Example: on a $10,000 account: open trades at $300 loss → all positions automatically closed.
→ See: The Equity Guard

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

Your base profit share is 80%, which means if you generate $1,000 in profit in a cycle, $800 is yours. With available add-ons, you can scale it up to 100%.

Your first payout is available after 30 trading days from your first trade in the funded account. After that, you can withdraw every 14 calendar days. The minimum withdrawal is 1% of your starting account balance per cycle, with no maximum.

Payouts are processed within 24–48 business hours via bank transfer or crypto. Transaction fees are on your end.
→ See: Payouts

7. Prohibited Strategies

The following are prohibited without exception and lead to immediate account termination: HFT, latency arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, tick scalping, martingale, grid trading, multi-account hedging, copy trading, account sharing, and exploitation of technical platform feeds.

Automated tools that assist your decisions are fine. Those that make trading decisions for you, without you confirming each trade, are not.

Consistency Standards (your account remains open at all times)

These are habits that professional traders already have. Your account is never at risk because of any of them, and in the rare cases where something needs to be rebalanced before a payout, continuing to trade the same way is almost always the solution.

• News trading. Profits from trades opened or closed within 3 minutes before or after a high-impact news event will not count towards your payout. Applies only on the funded account. Repeated patterns of news trading can lead to a reduction or denial of the payout for that cycle.

• Consistency rule. No single trade can account for more than 25% of the total profit in a withdrawal request.

• Lot size consistency. We calculate your average lot size per instrument throughout the cycle. A trade below half of that average (minor breach) or above twice that average (major breach) will flag your account. Minor breach = payout may be reduced. Major breach = payout denied for that cycle. → See: Consistency Standards for the full calculation

• Overleveraging. Your total concurrent margin use across all open positions must not exceed 20–30% of your account balance at any time. Consistently exceeding this may result in a reduced payout or, in persistent cases, your account being placed in a special review group. → See: Consistency Standards

→ See: Consistency Standards

Inactivity

Open and close at least one trade every 30 consecutive days or your account is closed.

Trading conditions

• Instruments: 400+ on Forex, Metals and Commodities, Indices, Stocks, and Crypto

• Leverage: Forex 1:30 | Metals and Commodities 1:20 | Indices 1:20 | Stocks 1:2 | Crypto 1:1

• Account sizes: $5,000 / $10,000 / $25,000 / $50,000 / $100,000 / $250,000

• Overnight and weekend holding: Allowed. No forced closes.

• EAs and automation: Analytical tools are allowed. Execution tools are not.

→ See: Trading Conditions | Prohibited Strategies | Platforms