Three Step Trading
The three step trading program is a structured evaluation model designed to guide traders through three progressive stages before accessing a funded account. It outlines key trading rules, including consistent profit targets across each step, a fixed maximum drawdown, and the absence of a daily loss limit—offering a unique and flexible approach to risk management. You’ll also find a clear explanation of how funded accounts work once achieved, including profit-sharing, withdrawal processes, and optional add-ons that provide added flexibility and protection. In addition, this page covers important FAQs on trading conditions, platform access, and compliance requirements, giving you everything you need to confidently progress through the program and manage your funded account successfully.
Rule Area | Step 1 | Step 2 | Step 3 | Funded | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Profit Target | 5% | 5% | 5% | - | Funded account has no profit limit |
Daily Loss Limit | - | - | - | - | There is no daily loss |
Max Drawdown | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | Equity-based, does not trail (Hard Breach) |
Leverage | 1:20 | 1:20 | 1:20 | 1:20 | |
Inactivity Period | 30 Days | 30 Days | 30 Days | 30 Days | Must place trade (Hard Breach) |
Flat for Weekend | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | All positions closed on Friday 3:45pm (Soft Breach |
Max Time | - | - | - | - | No Max Time requirements |
ADD-ONS
(available at purchase)
Hold Over Weekend (10% Cost):
Point-of-Sale add-on that disables “Flat for Weekend” requirement; this allows traders to keep positions open over the weekend. Only crypto can be traded over the weekend.
Profit Share Increased to 90% (20% Cost):
Point-of-Sale add-on that increases a trader’s potential profit share for funded accounts to 90% (up from the standard 75%) of the profit.
Payout Protector (25% Cost):
Optional point-of-sale add-on that protects a trader’s eligible profit share in a funded account in the event of a hard breach.
Trading Rules
Soft breach means that we will close all trades that have violated the rule. However, you can continue trading in your Assessment or Funded Account.
Hard breach means that you violated either the Daily Loss Limit or Max Trailing Drawdown rule. Both rules constitute a hard breach. In the event you have a hard breach, you will fail the Assessment or have your Funded Account taken away.
The Daily Loss Limit is the maximum amount an account may lose in a single trading day. This limit resets each day at 5:00 PM EST. The Daily Loss Limit is calculated using the greater of the prior day’s end of day balance, which includes closed P&L only, or the prior day’s end of day equity, which includes both balance and any open P&L. This approach ensures that unrealized gains at the end of the trading day are properly reflected when determining the allowable loss for the following session. If a trader finishes the day with open positions that are in profit, the account equity will be higher than the balance, and equity will be used to calculate the Daily Loss Limit.
If a trader finishes the day with no open positions, balance and equity are the same, and the balance will be used. If a trader finishes the day with open positions that are in a loss, equity will be lower than balance, and the balance will be used.
Example: A trader has a $100,000 account with a 5 percent Daily Loss Limit. At the 5:00 PM EST reset, the account balance is $100,000 and there are open positions in profit, resulting in account equity of $102,000. Because the equity is higher than the balance, the Daily Loss Limit is calculated using the $102,000 equity value. Five percent of $102,000 is $5,100, meaning the account will violate the Daily Loss Limit if intraday equity reaches $96,900 at any point during the next trading day. If the trader had no open positions, or open positions that were in a loss, the Daily Loss Limit would instead be based on the $100,000 balance, resulting in a breach level of $95,000.
The Maximum Trailing Drawdown is initially set at 6% and trails (using CLOSED BALANCE - NOT equity) your account until you have achieved a 6% return in your account. Once you have achieved a 6% return the Maximum Trailing Drawdown no longer trails and is permanently locked in at your starting balance.
Example: If your starting balance is $100,000, you can drawdown to $94,000 before you would violate the Maximum Trailing Drawdown rule. Then for example let's say you take your account to $102,000 in CLOSED BALANCE. This is your new high-water mark, which would mean your new Maximum Trailing Drawdown would be $96,000. Next, let's say you take your account to $106,000 in CLOSED BALANCE, which would be your new high-water mark. At this point your Maximum Trailing Drawdown would be locked in at your starting balance of $100,000. So, regardless of how high your account goes, you would only breach this rule if your account drew back down to $100,000 (note, you can still violate the daily drawdown). For example, if you take your account to $170,000, as long as you do not drawdown more than 5% in any given day, you would only breach if your account equity reaches $100,000.
We require all trades to be closed by 3:45pm EST on Friday. Any trades left open after this time will automatically be closed. Note, this is only a soft breach and you will be able to continue trading once the markets reopen.
Forex: 1 lot = $100k notional
Index: 1 lot = 1 Contract Exceptions:
SPX500: 1 lot = 10 contracts
JPN225: 1 lot = 500 contracts
Cryptos: 1 lot = 1 coin
Silver: 1 lot = 5000 ounces
Gold: 1 lot = 100 ounces
Oil: 1 lot = 100 barrels
Yes. We will consider you inactive and your account will be breached if you do not have any trading activity on your account for 30 consecutive days.
Funded / Live Accounts
Upon passing your Assessment, you will receive an email with instructions on how to access and complete both your “Know Your Customer” verification and your “Trader Agreement”. Once both are completed and supporting documentation is provided, your Funded Account will be created, funded and issued to you typically within 24-48 business hours. You will receive a confirmation email once this account is being enabled.
Once you pass the Assessment, we provide you with a funded account, backed by our capital. The capital in your funded Account is notional and may not match the amount of capital on deposit with the Liquidity Provider. A Funded Account is notionally funded when actual funds in the account (i.e., the equity in a Funded Account represented by the amount of capital) differs from the nominal account size (i.e., the size of the Funded Account that establishes the initial account value and level of trading). Notional funds are the difference between nominal account size and actual capital in a Funded Account.
Use of notional funding does not impact your trading conditions in any way.
No. We do not have any control over pricing from the liquidity provider or on the executions on your trades.
For purposes of managing risk and minimizing transaction costs, we may offset or negate market risk and act as the direct counterparty to certain trades initiated in the Account. Such trades are executed at prices provided by arm’s length third parties. This framework is intended to ensure you receive real market execution on your trades, while simultaneously allowing us to manage risk dynamically by routing existing positions or future orders to third parties for execution as we deem appropriate. We believe that such real market execution and dynamic risk management would not be possible or as cost-effective if trades were executed in simulated accounts. Regardless of whether we act as counterparty to your trades, the gain or loss on your funded account is not calculated differently. However, when we act as the counterparty to your trades, there is an inherent potential conflict of interest because your trades do not result in net gain or loss to us, as your trades would if we were not the direct counterparty.
The maximum position that you may open is determined by your available margin. We reserve the right to increase the margin requirement, limit the number of open positions you may enter or maintain in the Funded Account at any time, and to revise in response to market conditions the drawdown levels at which trading in the funded account will be halted. We or the Liquidity Provider reserve the right to refuse to accept any order.
The rules for the funded account are exactly the same as your Assessment account. However, with a funded account, there is no profit target.
Yes. If you have a hard breach in your funded account, any accumulated gains in the account will be forfeited unless you have purchased the Payout Protector add-on. Please review the FAQs for additional details
Traders can request a withdrawal of the gains in their funded account at any time in their trader dashboard, but no more frequently than once per thirty (30) days. So, if you make gain in your funded account, you can request a withdrawal. When you are ready to withdraw the gains from your funded account, click the Withdraw Profits button in your trader dashboard and enter the amount to withdraw. All such gains are distributed via the available outbound payment solutions offered from time to time. Once your withdrawal request is approved, we will pay the monies owed to you. We reserve the right to change the withdrawal methods and options at any time.
Your first withdrawal can be requested at any time. Thereafter, you can request a withdrawal of the gains in your account every 30 days. When a withdrawal is approved, we will also withdraw our share of the gains, and your max trailing drawdown will lock in at your starting balance. The trailing drawdown does not reset when you request a withdrawal. Example: You have taken an account from $100,000 to $120,000. You then request a withdrawal of $16,000. In this scenario, you will receive $12,000 and we would retain $4,000. This would also take the balance of the account down to $104,000, and your Maximum Trailing Drawdown is locked in at $100,000. So, you would have $4,000 maximum you could lose on the account before it would violate the Maximum Trailing Drawdown rule. If you take a full withdrawal of the gains in your Funded Account, the Maximum Trailing Drawdown will still lock in at the starting balance and will therefore result in the forfeiting of your Funded Account, as your balance will trigger the Maximum Trailing Drawdown breach rule.
Frequently Asked Questions
We have risk management software that is synced with the accounts we create. This allows us to analyze your performance in real time for achievements or rule violations. As such, you must use an account that we provide to you
Subject to compliance with applicable laws and regulations, traders from all countries, excluding OFAC listed countries, can take part in our program, unless otherwise limited at the Company’s discretion.
You must be at least 18 years of age, or the applicable minimum legal age in your country, to purchase an assessment.
Upon purchasing an Assessment, you will receive access to a trader dashboard where you can monitor your Assessment and Funded Accounts. The dashboard is updated every time we calculate metrics, which occurs roughly every 60 seconds. It is your responsibility to monitor your breach levels.
Our technology is currently integrated with DXtrade, MatchTrader & cTrader and GooeyPro platforms.
You can trade any products streamed by the Liquidity Provider into the available platforms, as such products may change from time to time. This includes FX pairs and CFD Indices, Commodities, Metals, and Cryptocurrencies
We offer up to 20:1 leverage on Forex and Metals, up to 10:1 leverage on Indices, up to 5:1 leverage on Oil and up to 2:1 leverage on Cryptocurrencies.
Trading hours are generally set by the Liquidity Provider, unless set by our rules. We do not have any control over the trading hours. You can see the trading hours for each product by using the following methods:
DXtrade – Right click symbol, select “Instrument Info”
MatchTrader – Click symbol to expand, select “Info”
cTrader – Navigate to Symbol Window, scroll down to see “Market Hours” for selected symbol
Please note that holidays can have an impact on available trading hours.
Additionally, pursuant to the no holding trades over the weekend rule, we close all open trades at 3:45pm EST on Fridays.
Please note if a holiday falls on a Friday and the markets are closed, the trader is responsible for closing positions before the markets close on the prior Thursday.
Funded accounts receive the same pricing and commissions as charged by our Liquidity Provider to other, self-funded, retail trading accounts.
Subject to our policy on Prohibited Trading as described below, you can trade using an automated strategy.
You are also prohibited from using any trading strategy that is expressly prohibited by the Company or the Liquidity Providers it uses. Such prohibited trading (“Prohibited Trading”) shall include, but not be limited to:
Exploiting errors or latency in the pricing and/or platform(s) provided by the Liquidity Provider
Utilizing non-public and/or insider information
Front-running of trades placed elsewhere
Trading in any way that jeopardizes the relationship that the Company has with a Liquidity Provider or may result in the canceling of trades
Trading in any way that creates regulatory issues for the Liquidity Provider
Utilizing any third-party strategy, off-the-shelf strategy or one marketed to pass challenge accounts
Utilizing one strategy to pass an assessment and then utilizing a different strategy in a funded account, as determined by the Company in cooperation with Prop Account, LLC at their discretion
Attempting to arbitrage an assessment account with another account with the Company or any third party company, as determined by the Company in its sole and absolute discretion.
If the Company detects that your trading constitutes Prohibited Trading, your participation in the program will be terminated and may include forfeiture of any fees paid to the Company. Additionally, and before any Trader shall receive a funded account, the trading activity of the Trader under these Terms and Conditions shall be reviewed by both the Company and the Liquidity Provider to determine whether such trading activity constitutes Prohibited Trading. In the case of Prohibited Trading, the Trader shall not receive a funded account.
Additionally, the Company reserves the right to disallow or block any Trader from participating in the program for any reason, in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion.
To view all Prohibited Uses, please review our Terms and Conditions here: https://dashboardanalytix.com/client-terms-and-policies/?v=3acf83834396
Trading within 3 minutes before or after a News Event is prohibited. If the Company determines that trading has, in fact, occurred during the News Event. Any traders identified as having trading during a News Event during the challenge phase are subject to having those trades removed, having the leverage on their account reduced or having their account breached altogether. The Company has sole and absolute discretion in determining what constitutes a News Event.
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When trading a Funded Account for our firm, you are treated as an independent contractor. As a result, you are responsible for any and all taxes on your gains.
Affiliates are credited for referrals when a user creates an account using a link or discount code provided by the Affiliate.