Trading Rules

Every Rule, in One Place

Two ideas run through all of it. The challenge runs a static loss floor, a fixed dollar number set at the start that never trails. Instant runs an end-of-day trailing floor instead, the price of skipping the evaluation. Either way every limit is a published number, so nothing about passing or getting paid is a judgment call. Here is the whole rulebook.

Challenge Rules

Three plans on one ladder from $5K to $200K. Pick the buffer you want.

The challenge funded account carries the same loss rules, with no profit target and no consistency rule. The fee is a one-time charge for the evaluation, never a deposit. On Classic, pass and the full fee comes back on top of your first funded payout. Sprint and Sprint Turbo fees are non-refundable once you start trading, priced cheaper instead.

Scaling. A funded account can step up by 25% of the size you bought, up to 2x that size. Each step is earned over a cycle. The first cycle starts the day your account is funded, and a new one starts each time it steps up. Your account steps up once all four of these are true:

• At least 4 months have passed since the cycle started.
• You made closed-trade profit of at least 10% of the size you bought during the cycle. Profit you have already withdrawn counts.
• You took at least 2 payouts during the cycle.
• Your balance is not below the size your account started the cycle at.

The step itself happens once all of your share of the profit has been paid out and you have no open trades or pending orders, which is usually shortly after a payout. If your account is down on the day, the step waits for the next trading day. Your account then restarts at the bigger size, with its loss limits set from that size. On a $100K Classic, the earliest you can reach $125K is 4 months after you are funded, and $200K takes at least 16 months. When you take a payout, the whole amount you withdraw comes off the account balance: your share of it is paid to you, and the rest is the firm's share. If you do not take a payout, your profit stays yours and the account stays its size.

Instant Rules

Funded the moment you pay, no evaluation. Smaller sizes, tighter rules, in exchange for skipping the wait.

• Three sizes: $2.5K for $59, $5K for $129, $10K for $229. Above $10K, take the challenge.
• Drawdown: 6% end-of-day trailing. The floor trails your end-of-day balance, locking gains. It moves only at the daily close, never intraday, and never silently tightens. (The challenge runs pure static instead: skip the evaluation and you trail end-of-day; pass it and your floor does not move until your account steps up a size.)
• Daily loss limit: 3% of the balance you start the day with.
• Max risk per trade: 2% of starting balance.
• First-payout gate: +8% profit and at least 1 trading day. Then on-demand.
• Consistency: no single day over 25% of net profit. Loosens to 30% after your first payout.
• Fixed size, no scaling. An Instant account stays at its purchase size and pays out on demand. It does not scale or graduate. Want growth toward the real-capital layer? Take a Classic or Sprint challenge, which can scale over time.

The Same Rules, in Dollars

Percentages are easy to publish and hard to check. So here are the same rules worked all the way to the dollar, on one plan at one size, using the same arithmetic the account dashboard runs once you are trading. These are the rule lines, the numbers that decide whether an account is still alive. They are not a forecast, a projection, or a claim about what anyone earns.

Challenge, worked

Classic at $50,000

Two checkpoints, both measured against the starting balance, so the second target is not a compounded number.

Step 1 profit target

8% of $50,000

$4,000

Clears at a balance of $54,000.

Step 2 profit target

5% of $50,000

$2,500

Clears at a balance of $52,500.

Daily loss allowance

5% of the day's starting balance

$2,500On day one

It is worked out again each day from the balance you start the day with. On day one that is $2,500, so the line is at $47,500. Close a day at $54,000 and the next day's allowance is $2,700, so the line is at $51,300.

Max total loss

10% of $50,000

$5,000

Static. The floor is set at $45,000 on day one and stays there however far into profit you go, until your account steps up a size. It never trails you up.

There is no consistency rule to work out here. Classic, Sprint and Sprint Turbo do not carry one, so your biggest day counts in full.

Instant, worked

Stampede Instant at $10,000

No evaluation and no profit target, so the numbers that matter are the two loss lines, and the floor that moves.

Daily loss allowance

3% of $10,000

$300

Fixed, off the starting balance, taken from where the previous day closed. On day one the line sits at $9,700.

Max loss allowance

6% of $10,000

$600

This is the trailing one. The floor opens at $9,400 and then ratchets up behind your end-of-day closes, worked out day by day below.

First payout gate

8% of $10,000

$800

Net profit needed before the first payout request. After that first one, payouts are on demand.

How the 6% floor moves

An illustration, not a projection: four end-of-day closes, picked to show the floor rising, then holding through a losing day. The floor tracks 6% below your highest end-of-day close. It moves at the close and never at any other moment, and it never moves back down.

End-of-day closes and the resulting trailing floor for Stampede Instant at $10,000

Day	Closed at	Highest close	Floor now	Change
1	$10,200	$10,200	$9,588	Moved up
2	$10,500	$10,500	$9,870	Moved up
3	$10,350	$10,500	$9,870	Held
4	$10,800	$10,800	$10,152	Moved up

Read the last row carefully, because it is the part that costs people accounts: the floor has reached $10,152, which is above the $10,000 you started with. Banking gains at the close locks them in, and it also means you can no longer hand all of them back. That is the trade for skipping the evaluation. The challenge plans run a static floor instead, which does not move in either direction until your account steps up a size.

The consistency cap, in dollars

Instant carries one consistency rule, and it is checked only when you request a payout, measured over the window since your last one. Worked at the first payout gate above, where net profit is $800:

Largest single day allowed

25% of $800

$200

Before your first payout.

Largest single day allowed

30% of $800

$240

After your first payout, the cap loosens to this share for good.

The cap is a share of net profit, not a dollar ceiling, so it scales with the window it measures. A bigger run means a bigger allowed day. None of the challenge plans have this rule at all.

The same arithmetic runs at every size and on every plan: take the published percentage and apply it to the balance the rule is measured from. The full ladder of sizes and fees is on pricing.

What Applies to Every Account

• No discretionary denial. Every limit and gate is a published number, applied the same to everyone. Drawdown differs by product: static on the challenge, end-of-day trailing on Instant. See trailing vs static drawdown.
• The daily loss limit resets after 00:00 UTC, and the reset is complete by 00:05 UTC. Your trading day is the UTC day, not the day where you live. The platform applies the reset in the minutes after midnight, so until it is applied the previous day's limit is still in force. If you are close to yesterday's floor, close down before midnight rather than carrying it through. Once the reset is applied, whatever you lost yesterday stops counting against you.
• The daily floor is measured from the balance you start the day with. It moves with you. Bank profit and it rises, give some back and it drops. Take a $100,000 Classic account that finishes a day at $105,000: the next day starts at $105,000, so the daily floor is 5% below that, which is $99,750. The max total loss floor is the one that does not move with your balance. On the challenge it is static, so on that same account it stays $90,000 from the day you start, whatever your balance does afterwards. When your account steps up a size, this floor is set again from the new size: a $100,000 Classic account that steps up to $125,000 gets a floor of $112,500. Both floors are live at the same time, and the higher of the two is the one that stops you first.
• Both floors are checked on your equity, not just on closed trades. An open position counts while it is still running. If your equity drops through a floor with a trade still open, that is a breach. You do not get to close it first.
• No risk-free hedging. Opposing positions in the same instrument, or offsetting positions coordinated across your accounts or with others to cancel out risk, are prohibited. This is about manufacturing a near risk-free pass. Ordinary correlated trades are fine: a long in one market and a short in a different but related one is a directional view, not a hedge.
• Martingale, grid, sub-60-second high-frequency trading, and copying anyone else's trades are prohibited. Trading an account that is not yours, or letting someone else trade yours, ends every account you hold.
• Run as many evaluations as you want. Total funded allocation is capped at $200K per trader; growth beyond that comes through scaling. Running your own strategy across your own accounts, including copying your own trades between them, is allowed. Opposing positions across accounts are not.
• News trading, weekend holding, and EAs are allowed on every plan, at no surcharge.
• Accounts have to be used. There is no deadline to pass, and there never will be. But an evaluation on which you place no trades at all for 30 days in a row closes, and a funded account closes after 60. The clock runs from the day the account opens, and any trade resets it to the full 30 or 60 days. An account holding an open position never closes this way, because holding is trading. You get an email 7 days before and again the day before, and the account cannot close until both have been sent. If a funded account closes this way, a payout you have not requested by then is gone, so request it before the date in the notice.

See the full ladder on pricing, the stage-by-stage walk on how it works, and the payout rules.

Minimum Holding Time and Automatic Closure

The minimum holding time is 10 seconds. Profit from a trade closed sooner is excluded from results and payout calculations; losses remain. Only profitable trades closed in under 10 seconds count toward automatic closure under this rule. Losing and break-even trades are still recorded but do not count toward that threshold.

The automatic-closure threshold is 10 qualifying trades in a rolling seven-day period. We send account warnings by email and dashboard inbox at counts of 1, 5, 8 and 9, showing the count, the trades, when they leave the count and the consequence. If delayed detection first finds a higher count, a catch-up warning shows the actual count.

Automatic closure requires a warning for that account from the current seven-day period, recorded as delivered by email before the qualifying trade that triggers closure. Missing or failed advance delivery sends the case for review instead of automatic closure. A late email delivery cannot cause closure for an earlier trade; another qualifying close is required. This delivery review does not itself hold or deny a payout.

The separate prohibition on sub-60-second high-frequency trading still applies. Reaching 10 seconds does not make a prohibited strategy permitted.

Rules FAQ

Is there a time limit to pass? No, and there is no plan to add one. Take as long as you like. The only time-based rule is about abandonment: 30 days with no trades at all closes an evaluation, 60 closes a funded account, and any trade resets the clock. Trade even occasionally and you will never meet it.

Is the drawdown trailing or static? The challenge is static (the floor never trails). Instant runs end-of-day trailing, which updates only at the daily close, never intraday. Both are published, never discretionary.

When does the daily loss limit reset? After 00:00 UTC every day, complete by 00:05 UTC. The platform applies it in the minutes after midnight, and the previous day's limit holds until it does. Your trading day is the UTC day, not the day where you live.

Is the daily limit measured from my original account size or from where I am now? From the balance you start the day with. On a $100,000 Classic account that finished the previous day at $105,000, the daily floor is $99,750, not $100,000. That is the opposite of the max total loss floor, which on the challenge is static and stays put at $90,000 no matter what your balance does, until your account steps up a size.

Does an open trade count toward the limits? Yes. Both floors are checked on your equity, so a losing position counts while it is still open. If your equity drops through a floor before you close, that is a breach.

Is there a consistency rule? Not on the challenge. Instant has one published consistency rule, checked only at payout.

Can I trade news and hold over the weekend? Yes, on every plan, with no surcharge.

Is hedging allowed? Opposing positions in the same instrument, and offsetting positions coordinated across accounts or with others to cancel out risk, are not. Trading two different but correlated markets on a directional view is fine. The line is risk-free offsetting to game a pass, not correlation itself.

What happens if I break a rule? The consequence follows the published rule. Loss-limit breaches close the account. Automatic closure for minimum holding time requires the qualifying-trade threshold and advance email delivery described above. Your account records the reason and the relevant evidence.