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Big, payout-credible firm whose appeal — fast 5-day 1-Step payouts, 90%+ splits and a slice of challenge-phase profit — is balanced by floating-loss-inclusive drawdown math and aggressive 'strategy-switching' enforcement that can deny rewards.
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Fast payouts and a rare challenge-phase profit share, but balance-based drawdown that counts floating losses and a strict 'trade the same way when funded' rule that catches people at withdrawal.
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Best for: Disciplined single-strategy discretionary or EA traders (MT4/MT5) who want fast, frequent payouts and won't switch instruments or ramp risk after funding.
Bottom line: A solid payer if you pick one strategy and keep trading it exactly the same way once funded.
| Account sizes | $6K – $200K |
| Profit split | 80% – 95% |
| Max scaling | $4,000,000 |
| Platforms | MT4, MT5, cTrader, Match-Trader |
| Instruments | Forex, Indices, Metals, Crypto |
| Payouts | 1-Step: 5-day cycles · 2-Step/Lite: 21 days then 14-day cycles |
| Plan | Type | Max DD | Daily | Targets | Min days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stellar 1-Step | 1-Step | 6% static | 3% | 10% | 2 |
| Stellar 2-Step | 2-Step | 10% static | 5% | 8% → 5% | 5 |
| Stellar Lite | 2-Step | 8% static | 4% | 8% → 4% | 5 |
| Stellar Instant | Instant | 6% trailing | — | — | — |
A fixed floor off your starting balance: 10% (2-Step), 8% (Lite), 6% (1-Step) — static, balance-based. Stellar Instant is the exception: a 6% TRAILING cap that moves up with profit but never above your starting balance.
Gotcha: It counts floating/unrealized losses, swaps, commissions and fees — not just closed trades. A deep open drawdown can breach you before you ever close the position.
5% (2-Step), 4% (Lite), 3% (1-Step) of your initial balance per day — and the budget rises intraday by any profit you bank. Stellar Instant has NO daily loss limit. Resets at midnight server time (GMT+3 in summer, GMT+2 in winter).
Gotcha: Because it includes open-position floating P/L, a large unrealized loss at any moment in the day can trip the daily breach even if you plan to recover before the close.
Where it applies, no single day's profit may exceed 40% of your total profit, or the rule is 'not met' and you keep trading until the distribution evens out before a payout is eligible. FundedNext's help center indicates this binds the Futures models and legacy Express more than the core CFD Stellar accounts.
Gotcha: The 40% number is official, but which models it binds varies — verify against your specific purchased account's terms. Manufacturing even days with opposing/correlated trades is itself a bannable 'artificial profit' practice.
You must show ONE coherent strategy in the challenge and keep using it when funded. Passing on (say) EUR/USD at small size and then switching to Gold with much higher margin once funded is treated as 'gambling' and is prohibited — it also covers manual↔EA switching.
Gotcha: This is FundedNext's signature enforcement: breaches lead to review, suspension and reward denial — often discovered at the payout stage after you've already 'passed.'
Stellar 2-Step: 8% then 5%. Stellar Lite: 8% then 4%. Stellar 1-Step: 10% in one phase. Once funded there is no profit target. Stellar Instant is funded immediately with no challenge.
Fully allowed during the challenge. On funded accounts, profit from trades opened 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after a listed high-impact news event on a correlated pair counts only 40% — while any loss counts 100%.
Gotcha: Asymmetric: they keep your losses but cut your news-window gains to 40%. Only news that directly correlates to the pair triggers it. If the adjustment pushes you below initial balance you can't withdraw that cycle.
EAs and custom indicators are allowed on standard MT4/MT5 Stellar accounts. The FundedNext CFD / Match-Trader variant does NOT allow automated/algorithmic trading (only built-in indicators). EAs are commonly reported as unsupported on cTrader.
Gotcha: You can't use an EA to pass and then trade manually when funded (or vice-versa) — strategy must stay consistent. Check which platform your account uses before automating.
Copying and hedging are permitted only between accounts owned by the same individual. Copying to/from another person — or group/managed copy services — is strictly prohibited.
Gotcha: Sharing a signal that makes many unrelated accounts trade identically ('similar trades' / group trading) voids accounts.
Methods involving platform manipulation, latency exploitation or 'cheating' are banned, as are unconventional practices that exploit market norms or disrupt fair trading. It's a broad catch-all used to deny 'too good to be true' results.
Gotcha: Deliberately vague — it's the clause FundedNext leans on at payout review to deny suspicious results, so unusually fast/clean stats can draw scrutiny.
Stellar 2-Step and Lite need at least 5 trading days per phase (≥1 trade/day); Stellar 1-Step needs 2. Days don't have to be consecutive.
60 consecutive calendar days with no trade triggers a warning email, then deactivation 24 hours later. Funded and most challenge accounts can't be revived. KYC must be completed within 30 days of passing.
Gotcha: It's 60 calendar days (weekends/holidays included). Miss KYC inside 30 days of passing and you can lose the funded account.
Stellar 1-Step: first payout after 5 trading days, then every 5 business days, 90%→95% split. 2-Step/Lite: first payout 21 days after funding, then 14-day cycles, 80%→90% (95% add-on). FundedNext also pays a 15% slice of the profit you earned during the challenge. Scaling reaches ~$4M.
Gotcha: Watch the withdrawal fee (commonly reported ~3.5%) and remember the news/strategy adjustments can block a cycle if they pull you below initial balance.
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