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A flexible UK firm that tolerates scalping, news trading during the evaluation and (with proof of ownership) copy trading — with mostly STATIC drawdowns. The traps are the trailing drawdown on the 1-step Alpha One plan and a strict 40% best-day consistency rule on payouts.
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Flexible evaluation rules — free news trading, very low minimum days, mostly static drawdowns — but the trailing Alpha One and a 40% best-day payout rule are the real catches.
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Best for: Active scalpers and news traders who want flexible evaluation rules — take the 1-day Alpha One sprint or the static-drawdown Pro/Swing plans — and who respect the 40% best-day payout rule.
Bottom line: A flexible eval that's easy to pass; just mind the trailing Alpha One floor and the 40% best-day rule when you withdraw.
| Account sizes | $5K – $300K (max $400K allocation) |
| Profit split | 80% (scales to $2M virtual capital) |
| Max scaling | $2,000,000 |
| Platforms | MT5 |
| Instruments | Forex, Indices, Metals, Oil, Crypto |
| Payouts | On-demand (40% best-day rule) or bi-weekly (first after 5 days) |
| Plan | Type | Max DD | Daily | Targets | Min days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha One | 1-Step | 6% trailing | 4% | 10% | 1 |
| Alpha Pro 10% | 2-Step | 10% static | 5% | 10% → 5% | 3 |
| Alpha Pro 8% | 2-Step | 8% static | 4% | 8% → 5% | 3 |
| Alpha Swing | 2-Step | 10% static | 5% | 10% → 5% | 3 |
Most plans use a STATIC loss line off the starting balance (10%/8%/6% on Pro, 10% on Swing, 6% on Three) that never moves. Alpha One is the exception: a 6% TRAILING high-water-mark floor that rises with your peak balance until it reaches the initial-balance level, then freezes.
Gotcha: On Alpha One, early gains pull the breach line up behind you — giving back profit can breach before you're even back to break-even.
A daily loss allowance from the start-of-day reference: 5% (Pro 10%/Swing), 4% (Pro 8%/One/Three), 3% (Pro 6%). Pro 8/10% & Swing measure off the starting balance; Pro 6%, One and Three use the higher of balance or equity. Resets 00:00 GMT+3.
Gotcha: Unrealized (floating) losses count — a deep open drawdown you intend to recover can hard-breach you intraday even if you'd have closed green.
No consistency rule during the evaluation. At payout, no single day's net profit may be 40% or more of your total net profit in the window (best-day × 2.5 = the minimum total you need). You also need at least 2% gross profit to request on-demand.
Gotcha: A partial withdrawal RESETS the consistency score to zero — you rebuild a fresh window from the next trade.
Free during the evaluation. On the Qualified (funded) account there's a blackout: Pro 8/10% = no open/close 2 min before & after a release; Pro 6%/One/Three = 5 min before & after; Swing = trades opened within 2 min of a release must last >2 min to be valid.
Gotcha: A stop-loss or take-profit FILLED inside the restricted window is a soft breach — those profits are stripped from your performance fee even though you didn't manually trade.
Swing/One/Three allow weekend + overnight holding at all stages. Pro evaluation allows it too — but the funded Pro (Qualified Analyst) account does NOT permit weekend holding: profits from trades held over the weekend are removed.
Gotcha: On a funded Pro account, holding over the weekend silently voids those trades' profits (the account stays active unless drawdown is breached).
Only risk-management EAs are allowed (lot sizing, SL/TP, break-even, risk control), on MT5, pre-submitted (EX5/MQ5) to support. Fully automated trade-executing EAs, HFT and latency-arbitrage bots are prohibited.
Gotcha: Using an unapproved auto-executing EA is immediate disqualification / permanent termination. Not available on cTrader/DXtrade/TradeLocker.
Allowed only if you PROVE ownership of the master account (account number, investor password, server), one master at a time. Copying other people's or group trades is prohibited. Not available on cTrader/DXtrade/TradeLocker.
Gotcha: Copying other traders' trades triggers review and forfeiture of trading privileges.
Prohibited: arbitrage, latency trading, HFT, front-running the price feed, exploiting mispriced/unrealistic quotes, order-book spamming, reverse/group hedging, group/signal trading and account-management services — the account must be traded by the named owner.
Gotcha: A breach can strip the entire payout window's profits and disqualify you from advancing to Qualified, on top of agreement termination.
Alpha One needs just 1 trading day; Pro/Swing/Three need 3 per phase. There is no maximum and no time limit on the assessment. A day = a trade opened and closed.
Gotcha: Using 'minimal lots' (e.g. 0.02 vs your usual 20) to farm trading days for a payout is disallowed and can invalidate the payout.
30 consecutive calendar days with no trading triggers permanent deactivation. Logging in does not count, and the deactivation is irreversible.
Gotcha: It can't be reversed — even paid evaluation/qualified accounts are lost. Email support before a long planned absence.
Qualified traders keep 80% of profits. Choose on-demand (needs 40% best-day compliance + 2% gross profit) or bi-weekly (first payout after 5 trading days + $100 gross, then every 14 days). Scale +10% of the initial balance at each 10% gain, up to $2M cumulative virtual capital.
Gotcha: The two payout methods are mutually exclusive, and to scale you must be at withdrawal stage with all profits withdrawn first. (Third-party '90% split' claims are unconfirmed — official pages state 80%.)
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