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A trader-friendly firm with NO consistency rule, static drawdown on its 2-step plans, weekend/overnight holding, and a unique 'Trade2Earn' token rewards layer. The catches are a soft-breach news rule on funded accounts and strict single-account / cross-account-hedging enforcement.
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No consistency rule anywhere, static 2-step drawdown, generous holding rules and a Trade2Earn token layer — just mind the funded-stage news soft-breach and the one-account-per-person policy.
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Best for: Discretionary swing and news traders who want generous holding rules, no consistency cap and a fast path to a 100% split — and who keep to one account.
Bottom line: Flexible and rewarding for honest single-account traders; the only real trap is the funded news window.
| Account sizes | $5K – $200K |
| Profit split | 80% – 100% |
| Max scaling | $400,000+ |
| Platforms | MT5, DXtrade |
| Instruments | Forex, Indices, Metals, Crypto |
| Payouts | First reward 30 days after first funded trade, then bi-weekly |
| Plan | Type | Max DD | Daily | Targets | Min days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-Step Bright | 2-Step | 8% static | 4% | 8% → 5% | 5 |
| 2-Step Classic | 2-Step | 10% static | 5% | 10% → 5% | 5 |
| 1-Step | 1-Step | 6% trailing | 3% | 10% | 5 |
2-Step Bright is 8% STATIC and 2-Step Classic is 10% STATIC (both fixed from the starting balance). The 1-Step uses a 6% TRAILING floor that follows your high-water mark until you're +6%, then locks at the original balance.
Gotcha: The 1-step's trailing drawdown is harsher early on — it follows your peak until the breakeven lock.
Bright 4%, Classic 5%, 1-Step 3% — a percentage of your ORIGINAL challenge size, using the higher of balance or equity at rollover to set the next day's floor. Resets between 11:30–11:59 PM CET.
Gotcha: The floor is off original size (not current balance), and an open winner at rollover raises your next-day floor.
BrightFunded does not currently enforce a consistency rule — no daily % caps, no minimum profitable days, no even-distribution requirement, in evaluation or funded.
Gotcha: 'Currently' — it isn't contractually locked, and 'bad faith' end-of-challenge risk inflation can still be judged manually.
Unrestricted during the entire evaluation. On funded accounts you can't trade within 5 minutes before/after major news; profit on a violating trade is deducted (a SOFT breach — the account isn't killed), and losses aren't compensated. A trade opened ≥48 hours before the event is exempt.
Gotcha: The restriction flips ON only after funding — easy to forget when the evaluation had none.
Weekend and overnight holding are allowed on all account types. Swap fees apply unless you buy the Swap-Free add-on.
EAs are allowed on supported platforms as long as they respect the loss limits (no API/automation on DXtrade). Copy trading is allowed only between accounts you own; copying others/relatives, signal trading from community groups, and third-party account management are prohibited.
Gotcha: Trading off community-group signals counts as banned 'signal trading,' and copying anyone else's trades can lead to closure.
Prohibited: latency/data-feed exploitation, arbitrage, tick scalping (in/out within seconds for small pips), HFT, grid trading, overleveraging, correlated-asset overexposure, adding to losers, account rolling, and AI/superhuman-speed order systems.
Gotcha: 'Tick scalping within seconds' is explicitly banned even though there's no general scalping ban — fast scalpers are at risk.
Hedging the same instrument WITHIN one account is allowed. Hedging the same instrument ACROSS different accounts (BrightFunded, other firms or platforms) is strictly prohibited: 1st violation is a soft breach (warning, trades closed), 2nd is a hard breach (permanent closure).
Gotcha: It applies even to hedging across other firms/brokers and to automated copy setups.
One registered profile per person (you may buy multiple challenges under it, but creating multiple identities is banned — detected via name, IP, device fingerprint, payment patterns and KYC). Inactivity: 30 calendar days without a trade auto-deactivates the account (P1, P2 and funded); ignore it 6 months and it can become a hard breach.
Gotcha: A second identity suspends/closes ALL associated accounts and revokes payouts — and the 30-day inactivity rule applies to funded accounts too.
Split starts 80/20 (instant 90% via paid add-on, up to 100% via the Scaling Plan). First reward is requestable 30 days after your first funded trade, then bi-weekly (weekly via add-on), with no minimum payout and 24h processing. Separately, 'Trade2Earn' mints BrightFunded Tokens on every trade (win or lose) by volume, redeemable for payout boosts or free evaluations. Min 5 qualifying days/stage (a trade must stay open ≥60s to count a day).
Gotcha: The 100% split requires multiple Scaling-Plan steps; 90% otherwise needs a paid add-on. Sub-60-second trades don't count toward a trading day.
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