This is the profit you must achieve to pass the Challenge. Profit Target is calculated from the closed positions only, therefore open positions do not count toward the Profit Target.

9% or 10%, depending on your order.

Important: During the Challenge, no single trade may exceed 70% of the Profit Target

There is no Profit Target once you reach your Master Account.

6% limit

In the One-Step Challenge, the Max Drawdown is trailing, calculated from your account’s highest balance.

For more information about drawdowns, click here.

Max Drawdown is the same on Challenge and will remain the same once you reach your Master Account.

3% limit

Daily Drawdown is calculated from your balance at the end of the previous day. A violation occurs if an open position pushes your equity below this drawdown limit.

The Daily Drawdown rule will remain on your Master Account.

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You must trade for at least three days to pass the One–Step Challenge. A day is considered a Profitable Day if the end-of-day balance is at least 0.5% higher than the previous day’s balance.

Once you reach your Master Account, you must have a minimum of 3 profitable days before you can request your payout.

There is no time limit for completing the One-Step Challenge.

80% or 90%, depending on your order

Bi-weekly (every 14 days).

Minimum $100 and 3 profitable days.

Allowed on all accounts, both Challenges and Master Accounts.

During the One-Step Challenge, you can freely trade news with no restrictions.

Once you move to a Master Account, you may hold trades over news events but cannot open new trades within five minutes before or after a high-impact news release.

For complete details and examples, please click here.

An account is considered inactive if there is no meaningful trading activity for 30 consecutive days. This rule applies to all programs, both Challenges and Master Accounts.

For more details, click here.

This rule prevents you from using more than 40% of your available margin for a single trade or multiple trades on the same instrument in the same direction. This rule applies to both One-Step Challenges and Master Accounts.

If you’d rather not have this restriction, you can try our Challenge PRO, where the 40% Margin Rule does not apply.

Hedging

Using Expert Advisors (EAs)

High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

Gambling
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For a complete list of what is allowed or forbidden—along with more details about these rules—please visit our Rules Page.