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1 Step Crypto - Rules

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Written by Yemi
Updated over a month ago

Overview

What is the 1 Step Challenge?
The 1 Step Challenge is a single-phase evaluation account with:

  • Profit Target: 6%

  • Maximum Drawdown: 4% (trailing high-watermark)

  • Daily Drawdown: There is NO daily drawdown. There is only Max Drawdown

  • Minimum Profitable Days: 4 minimum profitable days required to pass. A profitable day is a day with above 0.5% profit.

There are no time limits on completing the challenge.


Trading Rules

Stop Losses

  • 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

  • News trading is allowed during both evaluation and funded phases.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

  • EAs are not permitted on the 1 Step Challenge.

Copy Trading

  • Allowed for copying your own trades to your SLF/BCF funded account.

  • Copying identical trades from other traders in the same timeframe is not allowed.

Averaging Into Trades

  • 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.

Tick Scalping

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


Consistency Rules

Profit Consistency Rule

  • No single trading day may equal or exceed 35% of your total profit for that payout period.

  • Example: If you make $1,000 in one day, you must reach $2,860 total profit before you are eligible to request a payout.

  • Profit caps apply when calculating the 35% threshold.

  • Payout requests cannot be made until this rule is satisfied.

Lot Size Consistency

  • Checked at the time of payout.

  • Based on your average trade size:

    • Max lot = average + 100%

    • Min lot = average – 75%

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

❗ Multiple trades in the same direction on the same pair, opened close together, are treated as one Trade Idea. Lots and profit are combined.


Drawdown & Targets

Overall Drawdown (Trailing High-Watermark)

  • Max drawdown = 4% of the highest balance or equity, whichever is greater.

  • This drawdown trails as profits increase.

Example:

  • On a $100k account, initial drawdown is $4k.

  • If equity grows to $102k, the drawdown moves to $98k.

  • If balance grows to $108k, the drawdown moves to $104k.

Maximum Daily Loss (Daily Drawdown)

  • There is no daily loss rule, the only drawdown you need to think of is the Maximum Drawdown.

Profit Target

  • Single-phase target = 6%.


Payouts

Withdrawal Schedule

  • Payouts are instant request — meaning you can request a payout as soon as you meet requirements.

  • Actual processing is covered by our 24-hour payout guarantee (details below).

24-Hour Payout Guarantee

  • Payouts are guaranteed within 24 business hours.

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

Exceptions:

  • Weekends/holidays (bank delays)

  • Compliance checks / risk review

  • Delays in Rise onboarding or user response

Payouts

Profit Split

Profit split starts at 70% and scales to a cap of 90%, with 5% increasing split on each payout.

  • 70% for the first payout

  • 75% for the second payout

  • 80% for the third payout

  • 85% for the forth payout

  • 90% for the rest of the payouts

Instant Payouts

  • Instant payout requests are available on the 1 Step Challenge.

  • This means you can request a payout immediately after passing requirements, though processing still falls under the 24-hour guarantee.


Rule Breaches & Payout Denials

Soft Breaches (Profit Deductions)

  • 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

Payout Denial Penalties

  • 1st denial: profit split halved.

  • 2nd denial: account closed.


Resets

Free Reset

  • If you reach funded status and lose your account within 10 days, you may request a free reset.

  • Reset account size matches your previous funded size and will give you a new challenge of the same size.

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