Evaluation, verification, payout.
Four stages between buying a challenge and withdrawing profit. No hidden consistency rule, no time limit, and no clause that only appears once you are winning.
- 01Pick a challenge
Choose
- 02Pass Phase 1
Prove
- 03Clear Phase 2 and KYC
Verify
- 04Trade funded and withdraw
Get paid
Your edge is worth more on someone else’s balance sheet
Most retail traders are not short of skill. They are short of size. Funded trading separates the two problems: you bring the strategy and the discipline, we bring the capital and carry the downside.
Trading your own capital
$5,000 personal account
- Capital you have to find
- $5,000
- Buying power
- $5,000
- A 4% month, gross
- $200
- What actually reaches you
- $200
- A 10% losing stretch
- −$500
- How you scale
- Deposit more
Saved, deposited and exposed in full
Grows only when you deposit again
The same skill, applied to a small base
100% of a number that changes nothing
Straight out of your own net worth
Growth is capped by what you can afford to lose
Trading Connect Funded capital
$200,000 Professional account
- Capital you have to find
- $899
- Buying power
- $200,000
- A 4% month, gross
- $8,000
- What actually reaches you
- $7,200
- A 10% losing stretch
- $0
- How you scale
- Up to $2,000,000
One evaluation fee, refunded with your first payout
Live from the day the funded account is issued
Identical trades, forty times the notional
90% split, paid weekly on Professional
$20,000 absorbed by us; the account simply closes
Capital doubles on +10% across two payout cycles
A 4% month on a $5,000 personal account pays $200. The same 4% month on a funded $200,000 account pays you $7,200 at a 90% split.
Same instruments, same entries, same risk discipline. The only variable is the size of the account behind the order, and that is the one variable we are willing to solve for you.
- Own account
- $200
- Funded, after split
- $7,200
- Advantage
- 36×
The risk sits on our balance sheet
Your maximum loss is a fixed, refundable $899. Ours is the $20,000 the rulebook permits before an account is closed. That asymmetry is the entire product: we underwrite the variance so you can trade the strategy you already know without betting your savings on it.
Position sizing that finally matters
A disciplined 0.5% risk per trade is $25 on a $5,000 account and $1,000 on a funded $200,000 one. Nothing about the setup changes. Only the scale of the outcome does, which is why edge is worth more here than it is at home.
Years of compounding, skipped
To clear $7,200 in a 4% month with your own money you would need $180,000 sitting in the account. The evaluation asks for $899, a profit target and four trading days. Capital stops being the bottleneck and consistency becomes the only one.
Illustrative figures based on the Professional tier. Returns are not guaranteed and past performance does not predict future results.
Four stages, no surprises between them.
Each stage has a published rule set, a defined check and a defined outcome. Nothing about the path from purchase to payout is discretionary.
Pick a challenge
Select the account size and platform that match how you actually trade. Every tier runs the same rulebook, so scale is the only variable.
- $10,000 to $200,000 in five tiers
- MetaTrader 5, cTrader or the Web Terminal
- Instant activation on card and crypto
The rules that apply
- Your tier fixes both profit targets and the dollar value of both drawdown floors for the life of the evaluation.
- Add-ons are chosen at checkout and cannot be attached to an account later.
- Payment must come from an instrument in your own name — we cannot accept third-party funding.
What we check
Your country against the restricted-jurisdiction list, and the payer name against sanctions screening. Both run automatically at checkout, before any money is captured.
What happens next
Platform credentials and a server address land in your inbox and in the portal. Card, wallet and crypto payments activate the account immediately; a bank transfer activates when the funds settle.
Pass Phase 1
Reach the profit target for your tier while staying inside a 5% daily and 10% overall drawdown. There is no calendar deadline — only a four-day minimum.
- 8–10% profit target by tier
- 5% max daily drawdown, 10% overall
- Minimum 4 trading days, no time limit
The rules that apply
- Reach the Phase 1 profit target for your tier: 10% on Starter, Essential and Growth, 9% on Advanced, 8% on Professional.
- Stay above the 5% daily drawdown floor and the 10% overall drawdown floor at every moment, floating profit and loss included.
- Trade on at least four days. A trading day is any day on which you open or close at least one position.
- There is no calendar deadline. Take a week or take six months.
What we check
Every tick. Drawdown is evaluated server-side at the platform, so a breach closes the account at the moment it occurs rather than being adjudicated the following morning. The portal shows your live headroom against both floors while you trade.
What happens next
Once the target prints and the fourth trading day is complete, Phase 2 is provisioned within one business day, reset to the balance you started Phase 1 with.
Clear Phase 2 and KYC
The target halves to 4–5% under identical risk limits. Upload a photo ID and a proof of address once, inside the portal, and we review it the same business day.
- 4–5% profit target, same drawdown limits
- Government ID plus proof of address
- Typically reviewed within a few hours
The rules that apply
- The profit target halves: 5% on Starter, Essential, Growth and Advanced, 4% on Professional.
- Identical risk limits — 5% daily, 10% overall — and the same four-day minimum.
- Still no time limit. Nothing about Phase 2 is more restrictive than Phase 1 except the target being lower.
What we check
A government-issued photo ID and a proof of address dated within the last three months, uploaded once inside the portal. One person, one identity: accounts opened under a second identity are closed and are not eligible for a refund.
What happens next
Documents are usually reviewed within a few hours on a business day. When both the target and the verification are complete, your funded account is issued with the same platform credentials you have been using.
Trade funded and withdraw
Your funded account goes live and payouts run bi-weekly, or weekly on Professional. Approved requests are released within 24 to 48 hours.
- Keep 80% to 90% of every dollar earned
- Evaluation fee refunded with the first payout
- Scale to $2,000,000 on consistent performance
The rules that apply
- Keep 80% to 90% of net realised profit, set by your tier and any split add-on.
- Payout cycles run every 14 days, or every 7 on Professional and with the weekly add-on.
- The drawdown floors carry over to the funded account unchanged. Funding is not the end of risk management.
- You can request any amount up to your accrued profit, with no minimum and no cap.
What we check
Your trade log is screened against the three prohibited behaviours before the first release. It is a screen rather than a hurdle: a clean log clears automatically, and if anything is flagged you receive the evidence behind it.
What happens next
Approved requests are released within 24 to 48 hours. Your evaluation fee is refunded in full alongside the first payout, and the scaling clock starts on the cycle you have just closed.
Two drawdown limits, measured two different ways.
More evaluations end on a misunderstanding of these two lines than on a bad trade. Here is precisely how each one is calculated, on a $100,000 account.
Daily drawdown · 5%
Measured against an anchor that resets at 00:00 UTC every day. The anchor is the higher of your starting balance or your equity at that reset, and the floor sits $5,000 — 5% of the initial balance — below it.
It includes floating profit and loss, so an open position that is deep in the red counts against you before you close it. A profitable day raises the anchor, which means the floor rises with your equity and never falls below $95,000.
Overall drawdown · 10%
Static. It is set once, at $90,000 on a $100,000 account, and it does not move for the life of the evaluation. It does not trail your profit and it is not recalculated after a good week.
Because the daily anchor never drops below your starting balance, the daily floor is the line that binds in ordinary trading. The overall floor is the backstop: it is what catches an overnight or weekend gap that jumps straight past the daily level in a single print.
| Moment | Equity | Daily anchor | Daily floor | Overall floor | Headroom |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 · 00:00 UTCThe evaluation opens. The daily anchor is your starting balance. | $100,000 | $100,000 | $95,000 | $90,000 | $5,000 |
| Day 1 · close, up $3,200A profitable day does not move the daily floor until the reset. | $103,200 | $100,000 | $95,000 | $90,000 | $8,200 |
| Day 2 · 00:00 UTC resetEquity is above the starting balance, so it becomes the new anchor. | $103,200 | $103,200 | $98,200 | $90,000 | $5,000 |
| Day 2 · close, down $4,700Inside the daily floor by $300 — and still $8,500 above the overall floor. | $98,500 | $103,200 | $98,200 | $90,000 | $300 |
| Day 3 · 00:00 UTC resetEquity is below the starting balance, so the anchor reverts to it. | $98,500 | $100,000 | $95,000 | $90,000 | $3,500 |
The breach case
Had that day-two loss reached $5,100 rather than $4,700, equity would have touched $98,100 — one hundred dollars below the $98,200 daily floor — and the account would have closed there and then, with $8,100 still standing between you and the $90,000 overall floor. That is the whole lesson: after a good day, the number you have to respect is the one measured from your new high, not from where you started.
How money actually leaves the desk.
A payout is a request, a review and a transfer. None of those three steps is designed to be slow, and none of them costs you anything.
When a cycle closes
The first cycle opens the day your funded account is issued and closes 14 days later, or 7 on Professional. From that moment the request button is live in the portal and stays live — a cycle you do not draw on simply rolls its profit forward.
The 24 to 48 hour window
Requests are reviewed on the business day they arrive. Once approved, funds leave within 24 to 48 hours. Crypto usually lands the same day, e-wallets within 24 hours, cards and bank transfers in one to three business days depending on the rail.
We absorb the fee
Connect Funded pays the processing cost on every payout method, including network fees on crypto. The figure you request is the figure that leaves us. Your own bank or wallet provider may still apply a charge at their end.
Your fee comes back
The evaluation fee you paid is refunded in full on top of your first payout on any account that reaches funded status. It is not credit and it is not a discount on a future purchase — it is returned to you as money.
A trader on the $100,000 Advanced account closes their first 14-day cycle $6,000 up in net realised profit. The split on that tier is 85%, so the payout is $5,100. Because it is the first payout, the $499 evaluation fee is refunded alongside it.
Net realised profit means closed positions only. An open winner is not counted until you close it, and the processing fee on the transfer is ours, not yours.
- Received
- $5,599
- 5,100 profit share + 499 fee refund
From purchase to first payout.
Realistic elapsed time, stage by stage. The fast column assumes everything lands the first time; the typical column is what most traders actually see.
| Stage | Fastest | Typical | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purchase to credentials | Minutes | Minutes | Instant on card, wallet and crypto. One to two business days if you send a bank transfer. |
| Phase 1 | 4 trading days | 3 to 5 weeks | The floor is four trading days. Most traders who pass take considerably longer, because there is no reason to rush. |
| Phase 2 | 4 trading days | 2 to 4 weeks | A lower target under identical limits, so it usually resolves faster than Phase 1. |
| KYC review | A few hours | Same business day | Upload your documents during Phase 2 and this step disappears from the critical path entirely. |
| Funded account issued | Same day | Within 1 business day | Same platform, same credentials, new balance and a live payout cycle. |
| First payout cycle | 7 days | 14 days | Seven days on Professional or with the weekly add-on, otherwise fourteen. |
| Payout release | 24 hours | 24 to 48 hours | Measured from approval, not from the moment you click request. |
Fastest realistic path
About four weeks
Eight trading days across both phases is roughly twelve calendar days. Add a day to issue the funded account, fourteen for the first cycle and two to release the transfer, and money is in your hands around day twenty-nine.
Typical path
Eight to twelve weeks
Which is the more honest number. Nobody who trades their normal size hits a 10% target in four sessions, and the traders who try are the ones who meet the daily floor on the way.
You are four steps from a funded account.
Pick a size, pass two phases, verify once, get paid every cycle. The fee comes back with your first payout.