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1 Step Origin (Forex)

The 1 Step Account is designed for traders seeking a simple and direct path to funded accounts. It is ideal for disciplined traders who want to demonstrate their skills quickly without the complexity of multi-stage evaluations

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Evaluation Rules

Evaluation rules define the profit and risk targets traders must meet.

  • Profit Target: 10% – Traders need to achieve this net gain to pass the evaluation.

  • Minimum Trading Days: 5 – Ensures traders show consistency over multiple sessions.

  • Daily Loss Limit: 4% – Daily drawdown must not exceed 4% from recorded value, calculated based on recorded balance.

  • Max Drawdown: 7% – Trailing drawdown must not exceed 7%, calculated from highest equity with no floor limit.

  • Inactivity Period: 30 days

  • Expert Advisors (EAs): Allowed​

Stage Rules

Stage rules describe the structure of the evaluation.

  • Single-stage evaluation

  • Trader must meet the profit target without exceeding daily or maximum drawdown limits


Criteria for the Payout

Minimum profitable days for the payout: 5

  • A profitable day is considered as a day where the realized closed PnL equals to 0.3% or more.

  • You have to achieve profitable days between each payout cycle. After requesting a payout, your previously achieved profitable days will reset to 0.

Defines how profits are shared after successfully completing the evaluation.

  • Profit Split: 80% – Traders keep 80% of the profits generated.

  • Minimum Payout: $100 – Even small profits are distributed.

Example:


If a trader reaches a $10,000 account and generates a profit of $500, the payout is calculated as:
$500 × 80% = $400 payout to the trader

Trading Hours

​Trading hours for monitoring compliance with evaluation rules.

  • Forex trading hours: 24/5

  • Daily drawdown measured from 23:00 CET – 22:59:59 CET next day​


News Trading

Rules for trading around high-impact news events.

  • Allowed, but avoid trading 5 minutes before/after major news

  • Encourages market awareness and risk management

  • However, please note that High-impact news can lead to extreme market volatility, and slippages may occur (as they would if this were a live market), and that the user is ultimately responsible.

  • More information can be accessed in the article here.

Copy Trading Rules

Guidelines for automated or copied trading.

  • Allowed only on trader’s own accounts

  • Must comply with all risk and evaluation rules

Available Leverage

  • Leverage by Asset Class

    • Forex Majors/Minors: 1:30

    • Forex Exotics: 1:20

    • indices: 1:15

Refund

The fee is 100% refundable, subject to performance conditions. The evaluation fee refund will be processed and credited together with your second profit withdrawal (2nd Payout) during the funded account stage.
More information can be accessed in the article here.



There are other rules regarding the Hedging policies, all-or-nothing Trading and Irresponsible Trading in Simulated Accounts. All these additional rules with detailed explanations can be accessed here.

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