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EquityEdge rules, explained

The rules that can fail a EquityEdge account or cost you a payout, for each of its 7 programmes: daily loss, maximum loss, news, weekends and payouts. Checked against EquityEdge’s own pages on 26 October 2026.

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1-Step Legacy

4% daily · 6% trailing max loss · 10% target

Account sizes
$2,500, $5K, $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K
Profit target
Evaluation 10%
Minimum trading days
Evaluation 2 days
Daily loss limit
4% of the higher of the day’s opening balance or equity. Hitting it fails the account. The day resets at 22:00 UK time.
Maximum loss
6%, trailing the highest balance reached.
News, evaluation
No trading 2 minutes either side of high-impact news. Doing so can fail the account.
News, Qualified Trader
Profit from trades opened or closed within 2 minutes of high-impact news is removed. The account isn’t failed.
Weekend holding
Allowed.
Payouts
Every 14 days 80%.
Also note
A 2-minute average trade duration applies (not in Flagship evaluations). The trailing max loss follows the highest balance or equity. Payouts need $125 profit.

Source: equityedge.io, checked 26 October 2026.

1-Step Swift

3% daily · 5% trailing max loss · 8% target

Account sizes
$2,500, $5K, $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K
Profit target
Evaluation 8%
Minimum trading days
Evaluation 2 days
Daily loss limit
3% of the higher of the day’s opening balance or equity. Hitting it fails the account. The day resets at 22:00 UK time.
Maximum loss
5%, trailing the highest balance reached.
News, evaluation
No trading 2 minutes either side of high-impact news. Doing so can fail the account.
News, Qualified Trader
Profit from trades opened or closed within 2 minutes of high-impact news is removed. The account isn’t failed.
Weekend holding
Allowed.
Payouts
Every 14 days 80%.
Also note
A 2-minute average trade duration applies (not in Flagship evaluations). The trailing max loss follows the highest balance or equity. Payouts need $125 profit.

Source: equityedge.io, checked 26 October 2026.

1-Step Flagship

4% daily · 6% trailing max loss · 10% target

Account sizes
$2,500, $5K, $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K, $200K
Profit target
Evaluation 10%
Minimum trading days
Evaluation 2 days
Daily loss limit
4% of the higher of the day’s opening balance or equity. Hitting it fails the account. The day resets at 22:00 UK time.
Maximum loss
6%, trailing the highest balance reached.
News, evaluation
Allowed.
News, Qualified Trader
Profit from trades opened or closed within 5 minutes of high-impact news is removed. The account isn’t failed.
Weekend holding
Allowed.
Payouts
Every 14 days 80%.
Also note
A 2-minute average trade duration applies (not in Flagship evaluations). The trailing max loss follows the highest balance or equity. Payouts need $125 profit.

Source: equityedge.io, checked 26 October 2026.

2-Step Legacy

5% daily · 10% static max loss · 10% then 5% target

Account sizes
$2,500, $5K, $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K
Profit target
Phase 1 10% · Phase 2 5%
Minimum trading days
Phase 1 2 days · Phase 2 2 days
Daily loss limit
5% of the higher of the day’s opening balance or equity. Hitting it fails the account. The day resets at 22:00 UK time.
Maximum loss
10% of the starting balance. The floor never moves.
News, evaluation
No trading 2 minutes either side of high-impact news. Doing so can fail the account.
News, Qualified Trader
Profit from trades opened or closed within 2 minutes of high-impact news is removed. The account isn’t failed.
Weekend holding
Allowed.
Payouts
Every 14 days 80%.
Also note
A 2-minute average trade duration applies (not in Flagship evaluations). The trailing max loss follows the highest balance or equity. Payouts need $125 profit.

Source: equityedge.io, checked 26 October 2026.

2-Step Swift

4% daily · 8% static max loss · 8% then 5% target

Account sizes
$2,500, $5K, $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K
Profit target
Phase 1 8% · Phase 2 5%
Minimum trading days
Phase 1 2 days · Phase 2 2 days
Daily loss limit
4% of the higher of the day’s opening balance or equity. Hitting it fails the account. The day resets at 22:00 UK time.
Maximum loss
8% of the starting balance. The floor never moves.
News, evaluation
No trading 2 minutes either side of high-impact news. Doing so can fail the account.
News, Qualified Trader
Profit from trades opened or closed within 2 minutes of high-impact news is removed. The account isn’t failed.
Weekend holding
Allowed.
Payouts
Every 14 days 80%.
Also note
A 2-minute average trade duration applies (not in Flagship evaluations). The trailing max loss follows the highest balance or equity. Payouts need $125 profit.

Source: equityedge.io, checked 26 October 2026.

2-Step Flagship

4% daily · 10% static max loss · 8% then 5% target

Account sizes
$2,500, $5K, $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K, $200K
Profit target
Phase 1 8% · Phase 2 5%
Minimum trading days
Phase 1 3 days · Phase 2 3 days
Daily loss limit
4% of the higher of the day’s opening balance or equity. Hitting it fails the account. The day resets at 22:00 UK time.
Maximum loss
10% of the starting balance. The floor never moves.
News, evaluation
Allowed.
News, Qualified Trader
Profit from trades opened or closed within 5 minutes of high-impact news is removed. The account isn’t failed.
Weekend holding
Allowed.
Payouts
Every 14 days 80%.
Also note
A 2-minute average trade duration applies (not in Flagship evaluations). The trailing max loss follows the highest balance or equity. Payouts need $125 profit.

Source: equityedge.io, checked 26 October 2026.

Instant

3% daily · 5% trailing max loss · 1% max risk per trade

Account sizes
$2,500, $5K, $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K, $200K, $300K
Profit target
None. The account is funded from the start.
Daily loss limit
3% of the higher of the day’s opening balance or equity. Hitting it fails the account. The day resets at 22:00 UK time.
Maximum loss
5%, trailing the highest balance reached.
News, Instant
Profit from trades opened or closed within 8 minutes of high-impact news is removed. The account isn’t failed.
Weekend holding
Not allowed. Holding over the weekend can fail the account.
Other limits
Combined floating loss on open trades may not reach 1% of the account. 30 days without a trade ends the account.
Payouts
Every 14 days 90%, best day under 15% of total profit.
Also note
The first 3% of profit is a safety buffer; a payout needs $125 on top of it. The biggest losing trade must not be larger than the biggest winning trade. Max loss resets to the initial balance after a payout.

Source: equityedge.io, checked 26 October 2026.

Trading EquityEdge with PAYOUT

PAYOUT holds these rules for every EquityEdge programme above and checks each trade against them before it goes in. EquityEdge’s web terminal opens inside PAYOUT.

Daily loss limit
3–5% a day
Max loss
5–10% · static or trailing
Max open risk
1% of the account at risk at once
Risk per trade idea
Capped on funded accounts
Consistency
Best day under 15% of profit
Weekend holding
Warns on Friday · blocks new trades 2 hours before the close
Your daily stop
Your own limit, tighter than the firm’s
No hedging
No buy and sell open on the same pair
No one-sided bets
Under 2% of the account on one direction, across correlated pairs
Cooling off
2 min after any exit · 30 min before the same side again

Not checked by PAYOUT: news windows. Keep an eye on these yourself.

EquityEdge doesn’t publish index contract sizes on its site; check MT5’s specification.

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