The No-Cost Funding Challenge is a special program available to all ATS subscribers at all times. The purpose of this program is to make sure there is always a way for ATS subscribers to get access to funding resources regardless of whether they have the money to pay for evaluations themselves. 

If they are willing to put in the work and pass the challenge, they will get access to $25,000 in funds to kick-start their career in trading.

Here is how the program works:

STEP 1: Request a $25,000 demo evaluation account below.

STEP 2: Earn a 10% return and pass your demo evaluation.

STEP 3: Receive a $25,000 real evaluation at no cost to you.

STEP 4: Pass your real evaluation and get funded with $25,000 or real capital. 

STEP 5: Use your new $25,000 account to earn income and/or fund your future evaluations for higher account limits.

This is an amazing program but it does come with a few additional rules to make sure no one is trying to game the system.

Additional Program Rules Rules:

Rule #1: You must show a minimum of 15 active trading days.

Rule #2: You must show consistency in your position sizing, average gain, and loss per trade during the entire time span of your evaluation. An example of what would be considered unacceptable is a single max leveraged opportunity making up the majority of your profit.

Rule #3: You are not allowed to request more than 1 demo account every 15 days. If you have requested multiple active accounts within 15 days of one another, each of those accounts will not qualify for a no-cost evaluation if passed.

These additional rules are to prevent anyone from trying to game the system since there is no upfront cost. They are here to ensure someone shows consistency and viable risk management in their approach as all traders should. Those who are able to demonstrate this steady growth ideal will get the opportunity they deserve.

In the event you pass your Demo Evaluation, you are no longer subject to the additional program rules - It will be exactly the same rule set as if you bought your Real Evaluation.

That's the program! A simple way that allows all ATS subscribers to always be working toward qualifying for their first $25,000 real account at no additional cost to them.

There are no limits to how many times someone can enter this challenge as long as they abide by the 15-day rule.

• 5% Daily Loss Limit (hard breach)
• 6% Max Trailing Drawdown (hard breach)
• Must place a trade once every 30 days (hard breach)
• Stop-loss required for each trade (soft breach)
• Flat for the weekend — all positions closed on Friday at 3:45PM EST (soft breach)
• Maximum open positions must not exceed 1/10000^th the size of the Assessment account (soft breach)

• 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.

Daily Loss Limit is calculated based on the previous day’s end of day (5pm EST) balance.

Example:  If your prior day’s end of day balance was $1,000,000 you would breach the Daily Loss Limit of 5% should your equity the next day fall to $950,000. 

Maximum Trailing drawdown is the maximum your account can drawdown before you would hard breach your account.  When you open the account, your Max Trailing Drawdown is set at 6% of your starting balance.  This 6% trails your closed trading balance until you reach 5% profits in your account. Once you have achieved 6% in your account the max trailing locks in at your starting balance, and no longer trails your account.

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 $95,880. Next, let's say you take your account to $110,000 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 Loss Limit). 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.

In line with sound risk management practices, we require a stop loss on every trade.  If you fail to place a stop loss at the time of placing the trade/order, we will close the trade. This is a only soft breach rule, so you can continue trading in your account.

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 = 10 Contracts
• Cryptos- 1 lot = 1 coin
• Stocks - 1 lot = 100 shares
• Silver- 1 lot = 5000 ounces
• Gold - 1 lot = 100 ounces
• Oil - 1 lot = 1000 barrels

Below are the maximum open lots across all pairs that a trader can have at any given time.

• $25K - 2.5 lots with risk
• $50K - 5 lots with risk
• $100K - 10 lots with risk
• $250K - 25 lots with risk
• $500K - 50 lots with risk
• $1 million - 100 lots with risk

For example, if you are in the $100k plan, you will be able to have 10 open lots with risk available.

If you buy 5 lots of EURUSD at 1.20 and your stop loss is at 1.18, you will have 5 lots on with risk, so you would have 5 still available. If the EURUSD moves up to 1.25, and you update your stop loss to be at 1.20, which would be your open price, you no longer have risk on that trade. So, you would again have 10 lots available, even though you currently have 5 lots open.

If you put on too many trades with risk, then our system will liquidate all trades that currently have risk.

Please note, margin and leverage requirements still apply. So, even though these are the maximum lots that can be traded, it is possible based on the leverage of the account that you may not be able to trade up the maximum.

Yes.  If you do not place a trade at least once every 30 days on your account, we will consider you inactive and your account will be breached.

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.

All countries, excluding OFAC listed countries, can take part in our program. 

You must be at least 18 years of age 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 platform, along with pricing and execution is provided by our broker, Think Markets.

You can trade any products offered by Think Markets. This includes FX pairs and CFD Indices, Metals, Equity Shares, and Cryptocurrencies.

In line with sound risk management practices, we allow up to 10:1 leverage.
Forex, Metals, and Indices are 10:1.  Equity Shares are 5:1. Cryptos are 2:1

Trading hours are set by Think Markets.  We do not have any control over the trading hours. 

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.

We use the RAW accounts from Think Markets.  These accounts have commission charges for Forex and Equity Share CFDs.  The other products do not carry a commission. 

Yes, you can trade using an Expert Advisor. 

Yes, you can trade during the news.

We work with a company called Deel to issue trader agreements and process withdrawals of profits.  Upon passing your Assessment, you will receive an email from Gabriella from Deel [email protected] with instructions on how to access and complete your Trader Agreement.  Once the agreement is completed and supporting Know Your Customer documents provided, your Funded account will be created, funded and issued to you typically within 24-48 business hours.

The rules for the Funded account are exactly the same as your Assessment account.  However, with a Funded account, there is no cap on the profits you can generate.

Once you pass the Assessment, we provide you with a live account, funded with real capital.

If you have profits in your Funded account at the time of a hard breach, you will still receive your portion of those profits.

For example, if you have a $100,000 account and you grow that account to $110,000.  Should you then have a hard breach we would close the account.  Of the $10,000 in profits, you would be paid your 75% portion ($7,500).

When you are ready to withdraw your profits, please send an email to our support email with the amount you would like to withdraw.  We will then post your profit share into your Deel account, which you can withdraw via any of the available methods they offer.For example, if you have a $100,000 account and you grow that account to $110,000.  Should you then have a hard breach we would close the account.  Of the $10,000 in profits, you would be paid your 75% portion ($7,500).

You can withdrawal your profits at any time, once per calendar month.  At the time of any withdrawal request, we will also withdraw our share of the profits made, as well. 

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 profit share.