FundedNext

1. Challenge Phase
Full freedom: there are no news-trading restrictions, and profits are counted in full without adjustment.
2. Funded Account (FundedNext)
The 10-minute rule—5 minutes before and 5 minutes after a high-impact event—applies as follows:
Profits: only 40% of the profit generated during this period is recognized.
Losses: counted in full at 100%, with no reduction.
Execution: the rule covers manually opening or closing trades and pending-order triggers, including SL and TP.
Note: The firm is not responsible for market volatility or trading losses during news events.

The 10-minute rule—5 minutes before and 5 minutes after a high-impact event—applies as follows:
Profits: only 40% of the profit generated during this period is recognized.
Losses: counted in full at 100%, with no reduction.
Execution: the rule covers manually opening or closing trades and pending-order triggers, including SL and TP.
Note: The firm is not responsible for market volatility or trading losses during news events.

On-Demand Payouts at FundedNext
FundedNext offers On-Demand Payouts as an optional add-on for all Stellar Challenges except Stellar Instant, allowing the trader to request a payout without waiting for the standard payout cycle, subject to specific conditions.

Eligible Accounts:
All Stellar Challenges, except Stellar Instant.

Add-on Cost:
The add-on costs 5% on top of the base evaluation fee.

On-Demand Payout Eligibility:
A payout request becomes available after achieving 2% profit on the FundedNext funded account.

Consistency Rule:
After passing the evaluation and moving to the funded account, a 40% Consistency Rule, meaning the best trading day must not exceed 40% of total generated profits.

Our View at ApexPropFirms:
This option suits traders who want more flexibility and do not want to be restricted by standard payout cycles. However, it is a paid add-on and becomes available only after achieving 2% growth on the funded account while complying with the 40%.

Payouts every 5 days; minimum payout: $20.

The first payout is available after 21 days; subsequent payouts are bi-weekly. Minimum payout: $20.

Payouts are available at any time after reaching 5% profit. If profit is below 5%, payouts are bi-weekly. Minimum payout: 1% of the account size.

Overnight and weekend holding:
Overnight and weekend holding is allowed on all accounts.

FundedNext Copy Trading Rules

1. Allowed — only between your own evaluation accounts:
• Copy trading is available only between Challenge accounts owned by the same person.
• The setup must use one Master account and one Slave account.
• The combined capital of copied accounts must not exceed $300,000.
• Copying tools may be used only through your own VPS.

2. Strictly prohibited:
• Copying between a Challenge account and a Funded account.
• Copying between live Funded accounts.
• Copying between accounts owned by different people, including friends or relatives.
• Cloud-based copy services such as Social Trader Tools, Duplikum, or Traders Connect.

3. How violations are detected:
The firm uses monitoring systems to identify matching entries, lot sizes, timing, and synchronized trading patterns.

Consequence:
A violation may result in a warning or immediate closure of the affected accounts.

EA and Trading Bot Rules

1. Allowed:
• Expert Advisors and indicators may be used on MT4 and MT5.
• They may be used during both the evaluation and Funded stages without technical restrictions.

2. Conditions and restrictions:
• EA settings must be customized so the setup is unique and not duplicated directly from its source.
• The same automated strategy may not be repeated across multiple accounts; the maximum allocation per bot is $300,000.
• Bots designed only to pass evaluations automatically or manipulate results are prohibited.

3. Important notices:
• Prohibited bots include Prop Pilot, Gold OneShot, Forex Flex, and similar systems.
• Automated trading is not supported on cTrader or Match-Trader.
• A violation may reset the current phase as a soft breach; repeated violations may close the account.

VPN and VPS Rules

Allowed:
• A VPN or VPS may be used to improve connection speed and stability.
• A paid VPN with a Dedicated IP, or a private VPS, is recommended to avoid sharing an IP with other traders.

Strictly prohibited:
• Connecting through an IP located in a restricted country.
• Hiding your real location or providing false information to bypass restrictions.

Important:
A free VPN normally provides a shared IP and may expose the account to review or investigation. Use these tools only to improve connectivity, not to disguise your geographical identity.

Professional Scaling Plan

Benefits:
• A 25% capital increase in each scaling cycle, up to $4,000,000.
• Profit split can increase to 90%.
• A 15% performance reward plus a free $100K Challenge account.
• A 12% discount on new accounts and Pro Trader status.

Eligibility:
• Complete 4 successful payouts.
• Achieve at least 4% profit in each payout cycle.
• Maintain continuous trading activity for at least 2 months.

Instant Account Scaling Plan

Upgrade rule:
You move to the next Tier whenever your cumulative approved payouts equal 10% of your current account balance.

Upgrade benefits:
• At every new Tier, an amount equal to the original account size is added to the balance.
• The profit split increases to 80%.

Scaling limit:
• The plan allows up to 10 upgrades, meaning the account can reach up to 10 times its original size.
• Example: a $10K account can scale to a maximum of $100K.

Summary:
Withdraw 10% of the current balance → advance to the next Tier → receive additional funding and a higher profit split.

Funded Account Merging Rules

Core requirements:
• Merging is available only for Funded accounts of the same program type, with a maximum combined balance of $300,000.
• All open positions must be closed before submitting the request.
• Free promotional accounts, including BOGO or Double Up accounts, and accounts with a negative balance cannot be merged.

After merging:
• The lower profit split applies. For example, merging a 90% account with an 80% account results in an 80% profit split.
• If either account is on MT5, the merged account will use MT5.

Important:
• A scaled account cannot be merged with a standard, unscaled account.
• The profit split may later be improved through the scaling plan after four months from the merge.

An account is permanently closed if no trade is placed for 60 days. If a trader passes the evaluation, receives a Funded account, and does not complete the required KYC within 30 days, the Funded account is also permanently closed.

Paid add-ons available during checkout:
• Increase the profit split to 95% on evaluation accounts.
• Set the minimum trading days to 0 days.
• Receive the first payout after 2 weeks instead of 21 days on Two-Step accounts.
• Convert the account to a swap-free account.
• Enable Expert Advisors and VPS access.

Required documents:
• A valid national ID, passport, or driving licence.
• A live selfie verification.

Device and Connection Rules

1. Device ownership:
• Trade only from personal devices that you own.
• Logging in from another person's device, including a friend's, relative's, or colleague's device, is strictly prohibited.
• Device sharing may lead to account closure.

2. Network and IP policy:
• You may use home Wi-Fi, mobile data, or public internet.
• The IP address must not originate from a restricted country.

3. VPN and VPS:
• A VPN is allowed only when the selected location is not restricted.
• Any connection appearing from a restricted region, even through a VPN, may trigger strict compliance action.

4. Restricted-country enforcement:
The system automatically applies restrictions to any login originating from a listed restricted country.

5. If a violation is detected:
The Compliance team will send an official email. The trader must respond promptly and provide the requested explanation so the case can be reviewed.

Prohibited Strategies and Practices at FundedNext

1. Prohibited trading methods:
FundedNext prohibits strategies based on excessive risk or abnormal market/platform conditions, including:
• Gambling behaviour, oversized positions, or high risk without a clear risk-management plan.
• Quick Strike trading: intensive trades opened and closed within seconds to generate repeated small profits unnaturally.
• High-Frequency Trading (HFT).
• Arbitrage, including latency or price-feed exploitation.
• Tick scalping or abusive automated grid trading.

2. Account or environment manipulation:
• Group hedging or coordinated opposite positions across different accounts.
• Copying from accounts owned by other traders.
• Account cycling intended to bypass program rules.
• Exploiting frozen prices, server failures, execution errors, or other technical faults.
• Sharing an account, credentials, device, or trading environment with another party.

3. Technical restrictions and excessive activity:
• Hyperactivity above 200 trades or more than 2,000 server messages per day may lead to account closure.
• One-sided betting without a logical trading plan or clear risk management is prohibited.
• Exploiting low-liquidity or abnormal execution conditions is prohibited.

4. Allowed with conditions:
• Disciplined manual or automated trading based on a genuine strategy and sound risk management.
• Non-abusive EAs and bots that comply with all firm rules.
• Copy trading only between your own accounts, up to a total allocation of $300,000.

Summary:
Any attempt to exploit technical weaknesses, bypass rules, or trade with unsustainable risk is prohibited. The purpose of these rules is to maintain a fair, professional, and sustainable trading environment.

Risk Management and Gambling-Behaviour Policy

1. What is considered gambling behaviour?
• Using extremely large lot sizes without a clear risk plan.
• Risking a large percentage of the account on one trade or one correlated trade idea.
• Excessive reliance on leverage without a structured strategy.
• Trading conservatively during the evaluation, then switching to materially higher risk on the Funded account.

2. The 3% risk-limit rule:
Following the removal of the 70% margin rule, the 3% risk limit remains active on accounts where it applies. Open potential risk must not exceed 3% of the initial balance at any time. Risk is calculated from position size and stop-loss placement and may combine positions linked to the same trade idea, even when split into several orders.

3. Consequences:
• First violation: formal warning and removal of profits generated by the violating trades from the current payout cycle.
• Second violation: the violating profits are removed and the account may be moved to a lower 1% risk limit.
• Once the account is moved to the 1% limit, all future trades must comply with it.

Important:
Removing the 70% margin rule does not permit random or excessive risk. Stop-loss discipline and appropriate position sizing remain essential. These rules are intended to support long-term professional trading and protect the account from unmanaged exposure.