What is the 1 Step Evaluation Challenge?

• Achieve a 10% profit to pass the evaluation phase. 

• Ensure that your Max Daily Loss does not exceed 4% of the account's previous day's end-of-day balance (calculated at 17:00 EST) in any single trading day. 

• Do not exceed a Max Total Loss limit of 8%, which dynamically trails the account's highest balance by 8% of the initial starting balance. Once the Max Total Loss has locked in at the Starting Balance, it will remain locked at this level even after a payout or withdrawal is made from the account.

• No time limits, trade at your own pace. 

• A minimum of 1 trading day is required to complete the evaluation phase. 

• Accounts inactive for 30 consecutive days will be terminated. 

• During the evaluation phase, enjoy up to 1:100 leverage. 

• Once funded, leverage is adjusted to 1:30. 

  • Forex 1:30
  • Metals 1:10 
  • Energies 1:10
  • Indices 1:10
  • Crypto 1:1
  • Stocks <1:4

• Profit-sharing starts at 50% and increases to 70% on the second payout, and 80% on the third and subsequent payouts. 

• First payout requests can be made 15 days after your first funded trade. 

• The maximum payout after the profit split is 6% of your account’s starting balance, capped at 5% for starting balances of 200,000 USD. Any excess profits will be void, and the account can no longer be traded once the limit is reached.

Evaluation Phase: During the evaluation phase, all trading styles, including Expert Advisors (EAs), automated bots, and high-frequency trading, are allowed. 

Funded Phase: The funded phase restricts specific practices: 

• The combined value of all active funded accounts cannot exceed $400,000 per trader. 

• No single trading day should contribute more than 25% of the total profits when requesting a payout.  If multiple payouts have been made, only the trading activity since the previous payout will be considered when calculating the profit consistency rule.

• Maximum Risk per Trade: You are not permitted to risk more than 2% of your account balance, calculated using the previous day's End of Day Balance (calculated at 17:00 EST), on any single instrument, regardless of the number of open trades. The previous day's End of Day Balance can be found in the Max Daily Loss infographic in the Goals Overview section of the Overview Tab, relative to the specific account you are viewing in the client area.

  For example, if your previous day's End of Day Balance (calculated at 17:00 EST) is $50,000, the maximum allowable risk per instrument is $1,000.

• Prohibited Trading Strategies include: 

  • Holding Shares during Earnings: Holding a Single Share Equity CFD position into an earnings release pertaining to that underlying equity.  To avoid being in breach of this rule, you must close all such Single Share Equity CFD positions by 3:50 pm Eastern Time on the day of the release, if an aftermarket release, or on the preceding day, if a before market open release. 
  • Arbitrage and Latency: Using price differences or delays across platforms or data feeds to gain unfair profits is prohibited.
  • System Exploits: Taking advantage of platform bugs, freezes, or server issues is forbidden. Report any technical problems to support.
  • Hedging between accounts or profiles: Whether independently or in collaboration with others, as well as internal hedging (placing opposing positions on the same instrument within a single account), is strictly prohibited.
  • High-Frequency Trading (HFT) and Tick Scalping: Strategies that place trades in rapid succession or aim to profit from very small price movements are not allowed.
  • Sharing accounts: Giving someone else access to trade on your account, or managing another person’s account, is strictly prohibited.
  • ALL in 1 Bet: Trying to reach the profit target with a single trade is not allowed as it does not demonstrate consistent trading behaviour. This rule applies to any trade where the profit generated from one position is equal to or exceeds the account’s profit target. 
  • Automated Trading (EAs, Bots, Algorithms): Use of any automated system, including Expert Advisors or bots, is not permitted. All trades must be placed manually.
  • Copy Trading & Reverse Copy Trading: Mimicking trades from another account or using account management services is prohibited. All trading must be done independently.
  • News Trading: Opening or closing trades within the restricted 20-minute window (10 minutes before and 10 minutes after any high-impact news event shown on our Economic Calendar) is strictly prohibited. You may hold existing positions during this time, but if a trade closes within the window, whether by Take Profit, Stop Loss, or manual action, it will still count as news trading. Any trade that opens or closes inside the restricted timeframe will be treated as a breach and will cause the Funded Evaluation to fail.
    • Trading Gold (XAUUSD) during any high-impact news event from G7 countries (United States, Canada, European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom) will result in a breach.
    • Trading during any US high-impact news event will result in a breach across all instruments, including Forex, Metals, Indices, Stocks, and Crypto.
    • For currency pairs, trading during high-impact news related to either currency in the pair will result in a breach. For example, trading CADJPY during CAD or JPY news will result in a violation.
  • Holding positions or trading (including crypto) over the weekend is prohibited.
  • Inadequate Risk Management, Exploitation of Statistical Vulnerabilities, and Gambling-like behaviour: Trading strategies that involve poor risk management, gambling-like behaviour, or exploitation of statistical weaknesses are strictly prohibited. This includes but is not limited to:
    • Excessive Risk-Taking: Taking on large, unjustified exposure in trades.
    • All-In Trading: Committing a large portion or all of your capital in a single trade.
    • Improper Use of Leverage: Over-leveraging by risking too much across one or several trades in the same direction.
    • Inconsistent Strategies: Trading without a clear, repeatable approach within one or multiple accounts.
    • Account Rolling: Continuously buying multiple evaluation challenges and trading recklessly to bypass rules.
    • Binary Event Trading: Frequently placing trades immediately before major news releases to exploit volatility.

Failure to comply with these rules may result in the account being breached, the challenge being failed, and any profits becoming null and void.