Terms & Conditions

These Terms and Conditions form a binding agreement between you and Connect Funded, a firm operating from the Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (referred to here as Connect Funded, the firm, we or us). They apply from the moment you create an account, purchase an evaluation, or otherwise use any part of the platform.

By registering you confirm that you have read these terms, the Risk Disclosure, the Privacy Policy, the AML and KYC Policy and the Refund Policy, and that you accept all of them. Where one of those documents deals with a subject in more detail than this one, the more specific document governs that subject.

Connect Funded is not a bank, a broker-dealer, an investment adviser or a licensed provider of regulated financial services, and nothing on the platform is an offer of securities, an offer of investment management, or personal financial advice.

You may register only if you are at least 18 years old, have full legal capacity to enter into this agreement, and are not resident in, a national of, or acting on behalf of any person in a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive sanctions or otherwise listed as restricted in our AML and KYC Policy.

You must register in your own legal name, using an email address you control, and provide accurate information at registration and at verification. One natural person may hold one registered profile. Accounts opened using another person's identity, or using details that cannot be verified, will be closed.

You are responsible for the security of your credentials and for every action taken through your profile. Notify us immediately if you believe your credentials have been compromised.

• Minimum age 18, with full legal capacity
• Registration in your own legal name only
• One registered profile per natural person
• Accurate details at registration and at verification

Evaluation accounts operate in a simulated trading environment. Orders are executed against live streamed pricing sourced from our liquidity providers, but they are not routed to an external market and they create no position in any underlying instrument. Your performance is measured; no third-party market exposure is created by you.

Funded accounts are traded under an arrangement with the firm in respect of the firm's own capital. You are not depositing money for trading, you do not hold or own the capital allocated to you, and you have no proprietary claim to it. What you acquire on reaching funded status is a contractual right to a share of the net profit produced under the rules in force, calculated and paid as described below.

Because you never deposit trading capital, your financial exposure to the programme is limited to the fees you pay. The Risk Disclosure explains the risks that remain.

An evaluation is purchased by paying a one-off fee for the tier you select. The published tiers are $10,000 at $99, $25,000 at $189, $50,000 at $299, $100,000 at $499 and $200,000 at $899. Optional add-ons may be purchased at the time of checkout and are priced as a proportion of the base fee.

Card, mobile wallet and cryptocurrency payments activate the account as soon as authorisation or the required network confirmations clear. Bank transfers activate on receipt of cleared funds. Payment must be made from an instrument held in your own name; third-party payments are rejected and may result in closure of the account.

Prices are quoted in United States dollars. Where your payment provider converts from another currency, the conversion rate and any charge applied by that provider are matters between you and them.

Each evaluation consists of two phases. Phase 1 requires a profit of between 8% and 10% of the starting balance depending on tier. Phase 2 requires half of that figure, between 4% and 5%. Both phases run under identical risk limits.

A minimum of four trading days must be recorded in each phase. A trading day is any calendar day, measured in UTC, on which at least one position is opened. There is no maximum duration on either phase and no calendar deadline of any kind.

Progression from Phase 1 to Phase 2 is automatic on reaching the target with all rules satisfied. Progression from Phase 2 to a funded account additionally requires successful completion of identity verification under the AML and KYC Policy.

• Phase 1 profit target: 8% to 10% of starting balance, by tier
• Phase 2 profit target: 4% to 5% of starting balance, by tier
• Minimum four trading days per phase, measured in UTC
• No time limit and no calendar deadline on either phase

Two hard limits apply to every account on every tier, in evaluation and after funding. The maximum daily drawdown is 5%, measured against the higher of the starting balance or the account equity recorded at the 00:00 UTC daily reset. The maximum overall drawdown is 10%, measured against the initial account balance and static rather than trailing.

Both limits are assessed against equity and therefore include unrealised profit and loss on open positions. A limit can be breached without any position having been closed.

Enforcement is automatic and occurs at the platform at the moment of breach. Breached accounts are closed immediately and cannot be reinstated. We do not exercise discretion in favour of a trader who has breached, and we do not apply discretion against a trader who has not; a breach is a measured event, not a judgement.

Where a breach is caused by a demonstrable pricing error, a platform malfunction or an erroneous execution attributable to us, you may raise a dispute under the section on dispute resolution below and the risk desk will review the underlying execution records.

Expert advisors, custom indicators, algorithmic execution, hedging within a single account, news trading and holding positions over the weekend are all permitted on every tier. What is prohibited is a narrower category: strategies that extract value from the pricing mechanism or from the structure of the programme rather than from the market.

Where a prohibited practice is identified, the affected accounts may be suspended pending review, any profit attributable to the practice may be voided, and the accounts may be closed without refund. Repeated or deliberate abuse will result in permanent exclusion from the programme.

• Latency arbitrage, or any strategy exploiting delay between our feed and another venue
• Tick scalping against quotes that are known or suspected to be stale
• Reverse or group hedging, where opposing exposure is held across accounts or between traders to guarantee that one account passes
• Coordinated trading across multiple profiles designed to defeat the allocation cap
• Exploiting a demonstrable pricing error, platform malfunction or feed outage rather than reporting it
• Trading on the basis of information obtained through unauthorised access to any Connect Funded system
• Account sharing, or permitting any person other than the registered holder to trade the account

On reaching funded status you become entitled to a share of the net profit generated on the account. The share is 80% on the $10,000 and $25,000 tiers, 85% on the $50,000 and $100,000 tiers, and 90% on the $200,000 Professional tier, unless a purchased add-on or a scaling milestone has raised it.

Payout requests may be made on a bi-weekly cycle, or weekly on the Professional tier. Approved requests are released within 24 to 48 hours of approval, with settlement time thereafter depending on the rail you have chosen. Connect Funded absorbs the processing fee on every method; charges applied by your own bank, card issuer or wallet provider are yours.

Net profit is calculated on closed positions only. Open positions are excluded from a payout calculation and remain subject to the drawdown limits. Where a payout is approved, the account balance is reduced by the full profit distributed, and the overall drawdown floor is recalculated from the resulting balance.

The evaluation fee you paid for an account that reaches funded status is reimbursed alongside your first approved payout, as described in the Refund Policy.

A funded account that returns 10% cumulatively across two consecutive payout cycles qualifies for a scaling review. On approval the allocated capital doubles and the profit split steps up by up to five percentage points, to a maximum of 90%. A split raised by scaling is never subsequently reduced.

Scaling continues on the same basis up to a ceiling of $2,000,000 in allocated capital per trader. Scaling approvals are made by the risk desk and take account of the consistency of the returns, not only their size.

Outside the scaling plan, a trader may hold a maximum of $400,000 in combined starting allocation across all accounts. Copy trading between accounts held by the same registered trader is permitted provided combined exposure remains within that cap.

Access to MetaTrader 5, cTrader and the Web Terminal is provided for the sole purpose of trading your Connect Funded accounts, and is subject to the licence terms of the respective platform providers. Market data displayed on the website and inside the platforms is indicative, is provided for information only, and is not a dealable quote.

We use third-party providers for pricing, charting, payment processing, identity verification and communications. We select those providers with care but we do not control them, and we are not responsible for interruptions, errors or delays originating with them.

We may carry out maintenance, apply updates, or suspend access temporarily where necessary to protect the integrity of the platform. Where a suspension is planned we will give notice through the client portal.

All content on the Connect Funded website and in the client portal, including the rulebook, the Trading Academy courses and glossary, the desk notes, the interface designs, the logotype and the Connect Funded name, is owned by the firm or licensed to it, and is protected by copyright, trade mark and database rights.

You are granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to access and use that content for your own trading and study. You may not reproduce, redistribute, publish, sell, scrape, or use it to train a machine learning model, and you may not remove any proprietary notice from it.

Where you submit content to us, including support correspondence, testimonials and feedback, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use it for the operation and improvement of the service. We will not publish your name alongside a testimonial without your consent.

You may close your profile at any time by writing to support. Closure does not entitle you to a refund except where the Refund Policy provides for one, and it does not extinguish a payout already approved.

We may suspend or terminate access immediately where a hard risk limit has been breached, where a prohibited practice is identified, where verification cannot be completed, where a sanctions or AML control is triggered, where a chargeback is raised on a delivered evaluation, or where you materially breach these terms.

On termination for cause, unpaid profit attributable to the conduct concerned may be withheld. Profit properly earned before the conduct concerned, and already approved for payout, will be paid.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Subject to that, Connect Funded is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, for loss of profit, revenue, goodwill or anticipated savings, or for loss arising from your reliance on indicative market data, educational content or any commentary published by the desk. Our total aggregate liability to you in connection with the programme is limited to the total fees you have paid to us in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

You agree to indemnify Connect Funded against loss arising from your breach of these terms, your infringement of a third-party right, or your use of the platform in a manner prohibited by them.

We may amend these terms to reflect changes in the programme, in the technology, or in the law. Material changes will be notified through the client portal and by email to the address on your profile at least fourteen days before they take effect.

Rules governing an evaluation already purchased do not change to your detriment during that evaluation. A change to a profit target, a drawdown limit or a profit split applies to accounts opened after the change takes effect, unless the change is in your favour.

The date at the top of this document is the date of the most recent revision. Continuing to use the platform after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the amended terms.

These terms and any non-contractual obligation arising out of them are governed by the laws applicable in the Dubai International Financial Centre.

Before commencing proceedings you agree to raise the matter with us in writing, through the client portal or by email, and to allow thirty days for it to be investigated and answered. Most disputes concern a specific execution or a specific automated decision, and both can be resolved from records we hold.

Where a dispute cannot be resolved that way, the courts of the Dubai International Financial Centre have exclusive jurisdiction. Nothing in this section prevents either party from seeking urgent injunctive relief in any competent court.

Notices to Connect Funded should be sent to support@connectfunded.com, or through a ticket in the client portal, which produces a timestamped record for both parties. Commercial and partnership notices should be sent to sales@connectfunded.com.

Notices to you will be sent to the email address registered on your profile and posted in the client portal. It is your responsibility to keep that address current.