1-Step Challenge
CFD · Single Phase Evaluation
Updated November 2026
- 📈Profit Target
- 📉Maximum Daily Drawdown
- 🛡️Maximum Overall Drawdown
- 📅Minimum Trading Days
- 🛡️Guardian Shield Protection (1% Floating Reset)
- 📰News Trading
- 🌙Overnight & Weekend Holding
- 🤖Expert Advisor (EA) Rules
- 👥Copy Trading
- ⚖️Consistency Rule
- 📊Risk Management Rules
- 🚫Prohibited Trading Strategies
- 📚Maximum Open Positions
- 🚀Funded Account Stage
- 🏆Reward Structure
- 🗓️Payout Schedule & Minimum Withdrawal
- ⚠️Account Termination Policy
The FundedXCore 1-Step Challenge is designed for traders who want a simple but professional path to a funded account. Traders only need to complete one evaluation phase by achieving the profit target while maintaining proper risk management.
Profit Target
To successfully pass the challenge, traders must achieve a 10% profit target. Once the target is reached and all rules are satisfied, the account moves to the funded stage.
Maximum Daily Drawdown
Daily loss limit: 5% of Initial Account Balance. The daily drawdown is fixed and does not increase with profits.
Maximum Overall Drawdown
Overall loss limit: 10% of Initial Account Balance. The account fails if equity or balance reaches $9,000 on a $10,000 account. The static drawdown includes floating losses, closed losses, swap charges and commission. The drawdown level never moves upward after profits.
Minimum Trading Days
Minimum requirement: 5 trading days. A trading day counts when the minimum profit achieved is 0.5%. Trading days do not need to be consecutive.
Guardian Shield Protection (1% Floating Reset)
Guardian Shield applies to every FundedXcore account type. If any single open trade's floating loss reaches 1% of the starting balance, that trade is automatically closed to protect the account.
- First Trigger — Soft warning. Profit split reduced to 50%.
- Second Trigger — Permanent account breach.
News Trading
News trading is allowed with restrictions.
- Opening trades within 2 minutes before high-impact news is prohibited.
- Closing trades within 2 minutes after high-impact news only to exploit volatility is prohibited.
- Using news spikes for account manipulation is prohibited.
- Taking advantage of abnormal spreads or liquidity gaps is prohibited.
- Existing positions may remain open during news events.
Overnight & Weekend Holding
Allowed. Traders can hold positions overnight and during weekends.
Expert Advisor (EA) Rules
EAs are allowed.
- Allowed: personal automated strategies, risk management tools, trading assistants.
- Not allowed: HFT systems, latency arbitrage, price-feed exploitation, platform manipulation.
Copy Trading
Copy trading is allowed only between accounts legally owned by the same trader.
- Allowed: Your own FundedXCore accounts and your own personal trading accounts.
- Not allowed: Copying another trader, signal group copying, account sharing, or trading on behalf of someone else.
Consistency Rule
A 30% Consistency Rule applies. Your highest profitable trading day should not represent more than 30% of your total profit target.
If exceeded: the account will not fail — continue trading until the consistency requirement is achieved.
Risk Management Rules
FundedXCore recommends a maximum risk per trade of 2%. Multiple positions on the same setup will be calculated as one combined risk. Excessive risk behaviour may result in account review.
Prohibited Trading Strategies
The following strategies are strictly prohibited:
- Martingale — increasing lot size after losses, doubling positions, recovery-based systems, revenge trading.
- Grid Trading Abuse — unlimited averaging, adding multiple losing positions, creating uncontrolled floating exposure.
- HFT & Arbitrage — latency arbitrage, tick manipulation, price-feed exploitation, execution delay exploitation.
- Gambling — all-in trades, extreme leverage, random high-risk positions, single-trade challenge attempts.
Maximum Open Positions
Maximum open positions: 10. Highly correlated trades may be considered as one trading idea.
Funded Account Stage
After successfully completing the 1-Step Challenge, traders receive:
- FundedXCore Funded Account.
- Profit share up to 90%.
- Reward eligibility and scaling opportunities.
Reward Structure
Starting profit split: 80% trader share. Can increase up to 90% based on consistent performance, risk management and successful reward cycles.
Payout Schedule & Minimum Withdrawal
Reward cycle every 14 days · Processing within 24 business hours · Withdrawal methods: Crypto or Rise.
- Minimum Withdrawal — $50 (applies to all payout methods).
Account Termination Policy
FundedXCore reserves the right to review or terminate accounts involved in HFT abuse, Martingale strategies, account sharing, fraudulent activity, platform exploitation or rule bypass methods.
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