📘 EA Challenge – FAQ & Rules

Profit Target: 6%

Maximum Drawdown: 8% (trailing high-watermark)

Daily Drawdown: 4%

Profit Consistency Rule: 25%

Allowed during the challenge phase only.

Not permitted once you reach the funded phase.

A stop-loss is mandatory in funded accounts and must be set within 5 minutes of trade entry.

Not required during the challenge phase, but strongly recommended.

Fake stop-losses are prohibited (e.g., placing a SL that, if hit, would cause losses greater than daily/max drawdown).

News trading is allowed during both evaluation and funded phases.

Not permitted on EA Challenge accounts.

Allowed, but trades in the same direction on the same pair (within a short timeframe) are treated as one Trade Idea.

Trade Ideas are used for Profit Consistency and Lot Consistency checks.

Please avoid any attempts at tick scalping, and keep trades open for over 2 minutes.

No single trading day may equal or exceed 25% of your total profit for that payout period.

Example: If you make $1,250 in one day, you must reach $5,000 total profit before you are eligible to request a payout.

Profit caps apply when calculating the 25% threshold.

Payout requests cannot be made until this rule is satisfied.

Checked at the time of payout.

Based on your average trade size:

Example: Avg 1 lot → max 2 lots, min 0.25 lots.

Max drawdown = 8% of the highest balance or equity.

Drawdown trails until you reach 6% profit, then it is fixed at starting balance.

On a $100,000 account, max drawdown = $92,000.

Once balance reaches $106,000, drawdown is locked at $100,000.

If you withdraw $4,000 (4%), your remaining drawdown buffer is only 4%.

Always leave enough margin to cover the maximum drawdown.

The maximum daily loss is 4% of the initial account balance.

Each day at 5pm EST, we calculate your new daily loss limit by taking the higher of your account balance or equity, then subtracting 4% of the initial balance.

On a $100,000 account, if at 5pm EST you have a floating profit of $2,000, your equity is $102,000.

The next day, your equity cannot drop below $98,000.

On a $100,000 account, if at 5pm EST you have a floating loss of –$2,000, your equity is $98,000.

Since your $100,000 balance is higher, the daily drawdown is based on that.

The next day, your equity cannot fall below $96,000.

Payouts increase over time:

1st payout: 4 weeks after purchase.

Subsequent payouts: every 2 weeks.

Max withdrawal per cycle = 5% of initial balance.

Profit cap = 5% of initial balance.

If you exceed the cap, profits above it are not counted toward withdrawals.

❌ Not available on the EA Challenge.

Available only on the 1 Step, 2 Step, and Instant Funding challenges.

Once requested, payouts are processed within 24 business hours.

If delayed, you’ll receive an extra 10% on your profit split.

Exceptions include weekends, holidays, compliance checks, or delays in Rise onboarding.

If you break a rule (e.g., Lot Consistency, Stop Loss rule, or other restrictions), the profit from that trade is deducted from your total profit.

If deductions are less than your profit, the reduced payout is still processed.

If deductions are greater than your profit (e.g., $3,000 profit but $4,000 deducted), your payout is denied.

You have a maximum of 20 soft breaches before account closure, this is detected at payout stage. Not automatically

1st denial: profit split halved.

2nd denial: account closed.

If your account equity ever falls more than 1% below the starting balance (including floating losses, swaps, and commissions), penalties will apply:

❌ Not available on the EA Challenge.

Only available on the 1 Step Challenge.