The Instant account has no challenge phase. You trade a funded-style account from day one.
Profit Target
- None. There is no evaluation phase.
Minimum Days
- 5 Winning Days before each payout.
- A Winning Day is a single trading day (00:00 to 23:59 UTC) in which your account's profit reaches at least 0.5% of the Initial Account Balance, calculated on an equity basis.
Maximum Daily Drawdown
- 3% of the Initial Account Balance ($3,000 on a $100k account).
- Includes closed trades and floating losses. Resets every day at 00:00 UTC, dashboard time.
- A breach is permanent account failure.
Maximum Loss
- 6% of the Initial Account Balance, static.
- Example ($100,000 account): equity or balance must never fall below $94,000.
Minimum Holding Time
- 3 minutes for all trades. Closing earlier is a hard breach.
News Trading
- Restricted window of 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high-impact releases (soft breach).
Trade Layering
- A new trade may open only 10 minutes after the previous trade's opening time.
- Maximum 2 concurrent layers. Opening a 3rd layer fails the account.
Other Instant rules
- 1% Per-Trade Risk Rule: the floating loss on a single position must not exceed 1% of the Initial Account Balance.
- EAs are allowed only if they follow every rule. High-frequency trading (HFT) bots are not allowed.
- Account fees are not returned on Instant accounts.
Inactivity
- 30 consecutive days without an executed trade closes the account.
Leverage and Payouts
- Leverage: 1:100 across all instruments.
- Payouts: bi-weekly (every 14 days).
- Profit split: starts at 70% and grows up to 100%.
Optional Add-On (at checkout, for an additional fee)
- Overnight Holding: prohibited by default, unlocked by the Overnight Holding Add-on (+10% of the account fee).
- Weekend Holding: prohibited by default, unlocked by the Weekend Holding Add-on (+15% of the account fee).