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.

Instant Rules

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

• Sizes and fees: $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 never moves.)
• 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, loosening 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 scales as you book profit.

The Same Rules, in Dollars

Percentages are easy to publish and hard to check. So here are the rules above 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 $50,000

$2,500

Fixed. It is the same $2,500 every day, and it comes off wherever yesterday closed. On day one that puts the line at $47,500. Close a day at $54,000 and the next day's line is $51,500. The allowance never changes; the line follows your balance.

Max total loss

10% of $50,000

$5,000

Static. The floor is set at $45,000 on day one and stays there for the life of the account, however far into profit you go. 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 actually 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 never moves in either direction.

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, apply it to the starting balance. 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 at 00:00 UTC. Your trading day is the UTC day, not the day where you live. Whatever you lost yesterday stops counting against you at the reset.
• 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. 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. 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 hedging. Holding opposing positions in the same or closely correlated instruments, across your accounts, or in coordination with others, is prohibited.
• Prohibited strategies: Martingale, grid, sub-60-second high-frequency trading, and copying anyone else's trades. Trading an account that is not yours, or letting someone else trade yours, ends every account you hold.
• Multiple accounts: 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.
• Allowed on every plan: news trading, weekend holding, and EAs, at no surcharge.
• The account is simulated. You trade live prices against these published rules, and your split pays on that performance.

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

Rules FAQ

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? At 00:00 UTC, every day. 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.

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? No. Opposing positions in the same or correlated instruments are prohibited within and across accounts.

What happens if I break a rule? The account closes at the breach. It is mechanical, measured by the platform against the published definition.