What are the 1-Step Challenge rules?

The 1-Step Challenge is one evaluation phase. Reach the target, trade the minimum number of days, break no rule, and the account goes to review. Here is every number on a $10,000 account.

Both loss floors apply at the same time. Whichever is higher at any moment is the one that can end the account first.

Daily floor = yesterday’s closed balance × (1 − 5%). On the first day of a $10,000 account it is $9,500, so the day may lose $500. If you close a day at $10,400, the next floor is $9,880.

The reference is closed balance, but the breach test is equity: open losses, commissions and swaps all count. A trade that sits at the floor breaches the account even if it would have recovered. Open profit, on the other hand, does not raise the reference until you close it.

The day resets at 17:00 New York time. A position held through the reset carries its open loss into the new day.

The max-loss floor starts 10% below your starting balance: $9,000 on $10,000. It then follows your highest closed balance up, dollar for dollar. Close a trade for +$400 and the floor rises by $400.

It stops rising once your closed profit reaches +10%. On $10,000 that means a best closed balance of $11,000; from then on the floor stays at $10,000. The trailing lesson in this course walks through it step by step.

• News: you cannot open new FX or metal positions from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after high-impact news. Closing is always allowed. The Allow News Trading add-on lifts this rule. On accounts bought from 22 October 2026 with the News Trading add-on, only 50% of the profit from trades opened or closed inside a news window counts toward payouts; losses count in full.
• Weekends: holding positions over the weekend needs the Weekend Holding add-on.
• Activity: place at least one trade every 30 days, or the account becomes inactive.
• Style: expert advisors only by agreement, so write to support first; copy trading is allowed, between your own accounts and from other traders or signal services, as long as the trades follow the trading rules: no martingale, no opposite trades across accounts or firms, no all-in bets. Scalping, high-frequency trading and hedging are not.
• Stop loss: not required by the rules, but it is the simplest way to keep one trade from reaching the daily floor. There is no open-risk limit: the daily and maximum loss limits apply. On funded accounts the Terminal reminds you when your open trades could lose more than 5% of your balance. One order, and all open positions together, can be up to 40 times the account size in trade value.

Hitting the target on screen is not the finish line by itself. The account also needs the minimum trading days and no breach. Then it is reviewed, you complete identity verification and the trader agreement in the MyFundedCapital Dashboard, and the funded account is issued.

On the funded account there is no profit target. The same loss floors stay in place, and a 35% consistency rule starts to apply: no single day may make up more than 35% of your total profit. It does not apply during the evaluation.

Before your first trade, write four numbers on a note next to your screen: your starting balance, the first daily floor, the first max-loss floor and the lock level. On $10,000 that is $10,000, $9,500, $9,000 and $11,000. Every later decision in this course starts from those four lines.