Instant Account — requirements
Reward Target
None (0%). Instant gives you direct access to simulated capital from day one, without evaluation phases.
Minimum Profitable Days & Trading Days
- Requirement: 3 Profitable Days and a minimum of 2 Trading Days — 5 qualifying days in total.
- Definition: a Profitable Day requires a closing daily balance at least +0.5% higher than the prior high balance.
Maximum Daily Loss (Daily Drawdown)
- Limit: 4% of the initial balance ($4,000 on a $100k account).
- Calculation: evaluated continuously against the previous day's close; resets at 00:00 UTC.
Maximum Drawdown (Account Equity Requirement)
- Limit: 6% from the initial balance (static).
- Example ($100,000 account): equity/balance must never touch or breach $94,000.
Leverage, Holding and News
- Leverage: 1:100 across all instruments.
- Minimum holding time: 3 minutes on every trade.
- Trade layering: one trade per 5-minute window, and a maximum of 2 concurrent layers. Opening a 3rd layer fails the account.
- Overnight holding: allowed by default. Swap/rollover charges apply as normal.
- Weekend holding: not allowed by default — available as a paid add-on at checkout.
- News trading: a 10-minute restricted window applies (5 minutes before and after high-impact releases).
- Account fee: evaluation fees are not returned on Instant accounts.