The payout gate repeats every cycle. Only new net profit made in the cycle counts, after commissions and swaps, measured against the balance the cycle started with. Each qualifying day needs profit of at least 0.5% of that same balance; floating profit alone does not count, and the days do not need to be in a row.

The daily limit. Your daily loss limit is a fixed dollar amount. It is your product's daily loss percentage of the starting balance of your current payout cycle. During an evaluation, that starting balance is the account size you bought. Your trading profits and losses do not change this amount, either during the day or from one day to the next. Each server day starts at 00:00 server time. During the day, your equity, including open positions, must not fall below that day's floor. On 1-Step and 2-Step, the floor is your balance at the start of the day minus the limit. On a funded Flash or Instant account, the floor is the higher of your balance and your equity at the start of the day, minus the limit. After a payout is completed and paid, a new payout cycle starts. The balance left in the account becomes the new starting balance, and your overall loss limit starts again from it. The payout itself does not count as a trading loss. It also does not give back any of the daily limit you have already used, so the amount you can still lose that day stays the same. At the next daily reset, your daily limit is recalculated from the new starting balance.

The overall limit trails, then locks. It starts 6% below the starting balance and rises with the highest closed balance, not with floating profit. Once it reaches the starting balance it stays there. After a payout is completed and paid, it starts again. The balance left in the account becomes the new starting balance, the limit is set 6% below it, and the limit locks when it rises to that new starting balance.

Weekends and holidays. At the platform's Friday close before each weekend, and 30 minutes before each market's holiday close, open positions are closed and pending orders cancelled, and new trades on that market wait until it reopens. Crypto that trades around the clock stays open. This is not a breach.

News. You may hold positions through news, but profit from a trade opened or closed within 3 minutes before or after a high-impact release is not eligible: it is removed from the balance, and that removal can take the account past its overall loss limit. A trade opened at least 5 hours before the window and closed by a pre-set stop loss or take profit keeps its profit, and a trade opened or closed exactly at the edge of the window counts as inside it.

Trading style. There is no minimum trade duration, and no mandatory stop-loss, subject to our risk-management and trading rules. Exploitation, abusive trading practices and unreasonable risk-taking are prohibited and may result in review and action under the account terms (Terms §11.1).

If the account breaches a loss limit, it is closed, with no warning first. A person can go through what happened with you, and My challenge failed: can I retry or reset it? explains what you can do next.

Inactivity. Opening or closing a trade counts as activity, and so does a change in the profit or loss of a position you hold open. Signing in to your Dashboard or your platform does not. An account with no activity may be closed for inactivity, and we e-mail you first (Terms §5.7).

Several accounts. You can hold up to 4 active 2-Step, 1-Step and Instant accounts in total, and every account must be traded by you. If the account sizes you have bought add up to more than $400,000, the start of a new funded account is reviewed by our Risk team; this is a review, not a ban.

Reward share: 80%, or 100% with the profit split upgrade bought with the account. There is no scaling plan on Instant. Rewards are discretionary and never guaranteed.

When you can request. Every payout, including the first, needs the 3% payout gate and at least 5 qualifying days in the cycle. It also needs 14 days since the cycle started unless you bought Payout On Demand, and a payout of at least $100 to you after the split. After the payout, the account must stay at least 1% of the cycle's starting balance above its overall loss limit.

Before you request. Close every position, cancel every pending order and make sure your identity is verified: it must be verified before your first payout. While the request is pending the account is read-only, and every request is checked before it is paid.

Cycles and amounts. The first cycle starts at your first trade on the account; each later cycle starts when the previous payout has been completed and paid. You choose when to request and how much of the eligible amount to take.

Loss limit: the overall limit starts at $94,000. It rises as the closed balance reaches new highs, until it reaches $100,000 when the closed balance reaches $106,000. From then on it stays at $100,000.

Not yet eligible: after 14 days the account has made $2,900 of net profit in the cycle, which is 2.9% of the $100,000 it started with. The 3% gate is not met, so no payout can be requested yet.

Eligible to request: later the account has made $3,400 of net profit in the cycle, which is 3.4%, over 5 qualifying days of at least $500 profit each. A request can be made once every position is closed, every pending order is cancelled and your identity is verified, and it is checked before it is paid.

The buffer: with a highest closed balance of $103,400, the loss limit is $97,400. After the payout the account must stay at or above $98,400, which is $1,000 (1% of $100,000) above that limit.

Next cycle: once the payout is completed and paid, the loss limit starts again from the balance left in the account, which becomes the new starting balance. The next payout again needs its own 3% of net profit and 5 qualifying days in the new cycle.

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