The 1 Step (New) Challenge is a single-phase evaluation account with the following rules:

The maximum drawdown and daily drawdown rules apply during both the evaluation and funded phases.

Once you reach the profit target without breaching the drawdown rules and successfully complete KYC verification, you will receive a funded account.

The stop-loss, profit consistency and lot size consistency rules apply during the funded phase.

No. There is no time limit for completing the 1 Step (New) Challenge.

The profit target during the evaluation phase is 10%.

There is no additional profit target once the account becomes funded.

The standard profit split is 90/10.

The trader receives 90% of the approved payout profit, and SLF receives 10%.

Payouts operate on a bi-weekly schedule.

You may request a payout every two weeks, provided all payout requirements and trading rules have been satisfied.

In this account type, no single trading day may account for 50% or more of the total profit earned during the payout period.

Yes, it applies to both the challenge account, and funded account. To pass the challenge you must pass the consistency, and to get a payout you must pass consistency.

If you earn $1,000 in one trading day, you must reach more than $2,000 in total profit before becoming eligible to request a payout.

You cannot request a payout until the Profit Consistency Rule has been satisfied.

A stop loss is not required, this rule was removed entirely.

Not allowed: If trade is open or closed 5 minutes before or after any Red news event the profit will be soft breached/deducted from the account at payout.

Valid payout requests are guaranteed to be processed within 24 business hours.

If an eligible payout is delayed beyond 24 business hours, you will receive an additional 10% added to your profit split.

The guarantee does not apply when delays are caused by:

No. Expert Advisors, also known as EAs, are not permitted on the 1 Step (New) Challenge.

You may copy your own trades to your SLF funded account.

However, copying identical trades from another trader within the same timeframe is not permitted.

Yes. Averaging into trades is allowed.

Traders should avoid tick scalping.

Trades should remain open for longer than two minutes or they will be a soft breach.

The Maximum Drawdown is 10% of your account's starting balance and trails on an end-of-day basis.

Each day at 5:00 PM EST, the system records your account's balance or equity, whichever is higher. If that figure is higher than at any previous daily reset, the drawdown limit trails upwards to lock in the gain. Once the drawdown level moves up, it will not come back down.

Intraday equity fluctuations do not affect the drawdown limit — only the 5:00 PM EST snapshot is used to recalculate it. The Maximum Drawdown applies during both the evaluation and funded phases.

On a $100,000 account:

The drawdown level only ever trails upward, and only at the daily 5:00 PM EST reset.

The Maximum Daily Loss is 3% of the initial account balance.

This rule applies during both the evaluation and funded phases.

At 5:00 PM EST each day, the system compares your account balance and equity. The higher value is used to calculate the following day’s daily loss limit.

The system then subtracts 3% of the initial account balance from that value.

On a $100,000 account, the daily loss amount is $3,000.

At 5:00 PM EST:

Because equity is higher, the next day’s daily drawdown limit is:

$102,000 − $3,000 = $99,000

Your equity cannot fall below $99,000 during the following trading day.

On a $100,000 account:

Because the balance is higher, the daily drawdown is calculated from the $100,000 balance.

The next day’s daily drawdown limit is:

$100,000 − $3,000 = $97,000

Your equity cannot fall below $97,000 during the following trading day.

A soft breach occurs when a trader violates a funded account rule, such as:

The profit generated from the breached trade will be deducted from the trader’s total payout profit.

If you earned $5,000 in total profit and $1,000 came from trades that breached the rules, your payout would be calculated using the remaining $4,000.

A maximum of 20 soft breaches is permitted before the account is closed.

Soft breaches are reviewed during the payout process and may not be detected automatically when the trade is placed.

If 50% or more of your trades are classified as soft breaches, the payout will be declined.

If you placed 15 trades and 10 of those trades breached the rules, the payout would be declined.

Your profit split will be reduced by half.

Your funded account will be closed.