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A budget-priced, multi-model forex firm (challenges from ~$13) with trader-friendly mechanics — no time limits, 80% split, weekend holding — but aggressive gotchas: a blanket EA ban, voided news-window profits, a 20% best-day consistency rule, and a hard $10k / 30-day withdrawal cap across all your accounts.
▶Maven Trading Banned Strategies: Rules That Void Both Accounts — 47s explainer, decoded by FundedWiki
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Cheap and flexible with no time limits, but the blanket EA ban, a $10k/30-day withdrawal cap and voided news-window profits are real constraints.
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Best for: Discretionary forex day traders on a tight budget who don't rely on EAs, news scalping, or single-trade home runs.
Bottom line: Great value for manual discretionary traders — just budget around the EA ban and the $10k/30-day withdrawal cap.
| Account sizes | $2K – $100K |
| Profit split | 80% (70% on Predictions/Mini) |
| Max scaling | $1,000,000 |
| Platforms | MT5, DXtrade |
| Instruments | Forex, Metals, Indices, Commodities |
| Payouts | Every 10 business days; $10k cap per rolling 30 days |
| Plan | Type | Max DD | Daily | Targets | Min days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-Step | 1-Step | 5% trailing | 3% | 8% | 0 |
| 2-Step | 2-Step | 8% static | 4% | 8% → 5% | 3 |
| 3-Step | 3-Step | 3% static | 2% | 3% → 3% → 3% | 0 |
| Instant | Instant | 3% trailing | 2% | — | 0 |
2-Step is 8% STATIC (from the starting balance) and 3-Step is 3% static. 1-Step (5%) and Instant (3%) use a TRAILING drawdown from your highest EQUITY, which then locks.
Gotcha: The trailing models trail from highest equity (not balance) — unrealized profit raises your floor and can stop you out on a pullback while you're still in overall profit.
1-Step 3%, 2-Step 4%, 3-Step 2%, Instant 2% — measured from the higher of balance or equity at the prior end-of-day. Resets at 00:00 UTC.
Gotcha: It's anchored to the highest of balance/equity at EOD, so a day with big unrealized gains sets a marker that quietly tightens your room.
On funded/Instant accounts your biggest winning day can't exceed 20% of total profit. Separately, once a payout cycle's profit exceeds $5,000, no single day/trade may exceed 50% of profit — and excess is voided.
Gotcha: Two overlapping rules: a 20% biggest-day cap and a 50%-of-profit cap above $5k where the excess is voided, not paid.
Expert Advisors are not permitted on any Maven platform — using an EA will prevent you from passing your challenge. There is no indicators-only or semi-auto carve-out.
Gotcha: This is a blanket ban; repeated use can suspend the account.
You cannot open or close trades 2 minutes either side of a red-folder news event. Profits made in violation are stripped (in challenge and funded). On Instant accounts, news trading effectively isn't allowed.
Gotcha: The window catches trades that CLOSE inside it too — take-profits, stop-losses and pending fills — even if opened well before the event.
Withdraw every 10 business days at an 80% split. First funded payout capped at 6% of balance, second at 8%, then uncapped. Hard cap: no more than $10,000 per rolling 30-day window across ALL your accounts — excess is voided. Profit over $5,000 triggers a mandatory risk interview within 2 weeks. The challenge fee is refunded on the 3rd withdrawal.
Gotcha: The $10k/30-day cap is combined across every account you hold, and anything above it is voided — not carried over.
Min trading days: 1-step / 3-step / Instant = 0; 2-step = 3 profitable days (≥0.5% each); OMO = 4 profitable days/phase. Weekend and overnight holding are permitted on all account types.
HFT, toxic order flow, long/short arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, tick scalping and server-execution manipulation are strictly prohibited as exploiting the simulated feed.
Banned: excessive scalping (holding 50%+ of trades for under a minute), martingale (five positions opened simultaneously in drawdown on the same pair), gambling (5+ positions inside a losing trade), grid/gap trading, exclusive/reverse/group hedging, 'all-in' trades with no stop, and ~50+ lots on a $100k (high-risk gambling).
Gotcha: The '50% of trades under a minute' rule can catch legitimate fast scalpers, and cross-account hedging breaches BOTH accounts.
Accounts must not be dormant for more than 30 calendar days — no executed trades counts as inactive and the account is closed.
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