Program Rules for IC Funded Evaluations
(February 2026)
The IC Funded Challenge currently offer both 2-Step and 1-Step programs. Below are the respective Challenge fees and virtual funding levels for each program.
2 Step Professional Program
The IC Funded 2 Step Professional Program consists of two distinct phases designed to evaluate both profitability and consistency. Traders must meet the profit targets in each phase while respecting daily and overall drawdown limits to advance to a funded account.
2 Step Performance Consistency Guideline (Soft Rule)
A soft rule is a guideline used to support fair risk review and trader education. For Step 1, we expect that no single trading day represents more than 45% of the total profits generated in that step. This guideline does not automatically fail an account on its own; however, repeated or extreme deviations may trigger a review by our Risk Management team. This guideline applies to Step 1 only and does not apply to Step 2 or the funded stage.
1 Step Accelerated Program
The IC Funded 1 Step Accelerated Programfollows an accelerated structure with a single phase, strict drawdown limits, and clear rules designed to evaluate disciplined trading.
Funded Stage Rules
Once funded, traders follow the rules below for profit split, payout eligibility, drawdown limits, and risk review guidelines.
Shared Rules & Forbidden Practices
All IC Funded Challenges follow a shared rule set. The restrictions below are designed to keep Challenges fair and ensure funded trading can be replicated responsibly.
- A Profitable Day is a day where closed positions generate at least 0.5% of the initial balance in profit.
- Accounts may be closed after 30 consecutive days without opening or closing trades.
- Trading behavior should remain consistent from evaluation to funded phases.
- Stop Loss orders are recommended, but not mandatory on every position.
- One Step traders must close all open positions before the weekend.
- Two Step traders may hold positions over the weekend within risk limits.
- News trading is allowed, but traders must manage increased volatility, spreads, and slippage around major events.
- Copy trading signals or mirroring trades between accounts is prohibited.
- EAs are permitted only if they do not copy trades and you own/control the source logic.
- The most recent challenge fee is refunded together with the first profit share payout, provided there is a profit share.
- Ultra-high order rates or micro-duration trading that cannot be reliably replicated on funded execution is prohibited.
- Very short-term micro-move scalping designed to exploit quote updates/spread flicker is not aligned with sustainable trading discipline.
- Exploiting delays between price feeds, venues, or execution routing to capture stale quotes is prohibited.
- Progressively increasing size to “recover losses” (martingale) or systematic grid averaging can create uncontrolled exposure and is prohibited.
- Any manipulative order placement intended to mislead market microstructure or simulate false liquidity is prohibited.
- Strategies designed to exploit guaranteed fills, off-market pricing, or execution anomalies are not permitted.
- Running opposite positions across accounts (or coordinating with others) to neutralize risk and game evaluation conditions is prohibited.
- Only the approved trader may trade the account. Sharing credentials, selling logins, or outsourcing trading is prohibited.
- All-in or extreme risk behavior that resembles gambling and does not reflect repeatable trading is prohibited.
*Our Risk Management team reserves the right to issue warnings or impose additional restrictions at any time if they determine that a trader's strategy presents a risk to the firm.
*Our Risk Management team also reserves the right to terminate any account at any time if we believe the strategy or setup employed by the trader is intended for exploitation. Accounts using VPS, scripts, or other automated strategies are more likely to be subject to investigation and potential termination.