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A one-time fee buys one account at the size you pick. The 2-step and the 1-step put an evaluation in front of the funded account; instant funding starts funded from your first trade. Losses on the simulated account are ours, not yours: the fee is what you risk. At your first payout on a funded account you choose to have that fee back or to take a free account of the same size.

Three numbers. The daily loss limit, 5% on the 2-step and 4% on the 1-step and instant funding, measured from your equity at the 17:00 New York reset. The maximum drawdown, 10% on the 2-step and 8% on the 1-step and instant funding, static. And the margin ceiling: open positions may not tie up more than 70% of your equity as margin. All three are computed on equity including open positions, all three are checked on every tick, and all three are drawn in your dashboard by the same engine that enforces them. On funded and instant accounts, a news-rule violation after a warning also ends the account (the FAQ explains the news-trading rule).

It is a fixed floor, not a trailing one. On the day your account opens we take the starting balance, subtract 10% on the 2-step and 8% on the 1-step and instant funding, and that number is your floor for the life of the account. It never rises as you profit and it never falls as you lose, so profit you make above it is headroom you keep rather than a floor that climbs behind you. It is measured on equity including open positions and checked on every tick.

Your share is 80% on the 2-step and the 1-step and 60% on instant funding. The first request opens 30 days after the account is funded, and each later window opens 14 days after the last payout. Both windows count calendar days, and neither asks you to trade on them. The minimum request is €100.00, and money goes out by bank transfer or crypto (BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC). Fees are deducted from the amount sent, and crypto is converted at the rate on the day we send.

The account closes and that fee is spent. Nothing else follows: no cooldown, no ban, and a breach on one account never touches another you bought. A closed account cannot request a payout either, because the payout check requires an account still in the funded state, so profit left sitting in it goes with it.

You trade in SentryFX, the terminal and matching engine we wrote ourselves, with charting from TradingView so the tools are the ones you already use. The universe is FX majors and crosses, gold and silver, index CFDs, WTI and Brent crude, and the two large crypto pairs. Leverage is set per asset class rather than one figure across the board — 1:100 on forex, 1:40 on metals and indices, 1:50 on oils and 1:3 on crypto.

A rating every funded trader carries, starting at 1000. Paid payouts, profitable days, active weeks and clean weeks raise it; losing days, near-miss days, breaches and inactivity closes lower it. It exists from your first funded account, moves only from funded accounts, and stays with you between accounts. Every point is listed in your portal beside the event that produced it.