• Soft breach means that we will close all trades that have violated the rule. However, you can continue trading in your Instant Funded Account. This links to the inactivity rule. • Hard breach means that you violated the Daily Loss Limit or Max Drawdown rule, or Inactivity rule. These rules constitute a hard breach. In the event you have a hard breach, you will have your Funded Account taken away.

The Maximum Drawdown is initially set at 8% and trails (using CLOSED BALANCE - NOT equity) your account until you have achieved a 8% return in your account. Once you have achieved the 8% return, the Maximum Trailing Drawdown no longer trails and is permanently locked in at your starting balance. Example: If your starting balance is $100,000, you can drawdown to $92,000 before you would violate the Maximum Trailing Drawdown rule. Then for example let's say you take your account to $102,000 in CLOSED BALANCE. This is your new high-water mark, which would mean your new Maximum Trailing Drawdown would be $94,000. Next, let's say you take your account to $108,000 in CLOSED BALANCE, which would be your new high-water mark. At this point your Maximum Trailing Drawdown would be locked in at your starting balance of $100,000. So, regardless of how high your account goes, you would only breach this rule if your account drew back down to $100,000 (note, you can still violate the daily drawdown). For example, if you take your account to $170,000, as long as you do not drawdown more than 5% in any given day, you would only breach if your account equity reaches $100,000.

The Daily Loss Limit is the maximum amount an account may lose in a single trading day. This limit resets each day at 5:00 PM EST. The Daily Loss Limit is calculated using the greater of the prior day’s end of day balance, which includes closed P&L only, OR the prior day’s end of day equity, which includes both balance and any open P&L. This approach ensures that unrealized gains at the end of the trading day are properly reflected when determining the allowable loss for the following session. If a trader finishes the day with open positions that are in profit, the account equity will be higher than the balance, and equity will be used to calculate the Daily Loss Limit. If a trader finishes the day with no open positions, balance and equity are the same, and the balance will be used. If a trader finishes the day with open positions that are in a loss, equity will be lower than balance, and the balance will be used. Example: A trader has a $100,000 account with a 5 percent Daily Loss Limit. At the 5:00 PM EST reset, the account balance is $100,000 and there are open positions in profit, resulting in account equity of $102,000. Because the equity is higher than the balance, the Daily Loss Limit is calculated using the $102,000 equity value. Five percent of $102,000 is $5,100, meaning the account will violate the Daily Loss Limit if intraday equity reaches $96,900 at any point during the next trading day. If the trader had no open positions, or open positions that were in a loss, the Daily Loss Limit would instead be based on the $100,000 balance, resulting in a breach level of $95,000.

NO! Vertex funding accounts do not have consistency rules of any kind.

As Standard* we require all trades to be closed by 3:45 PM EST on the last trading day of the week, typically Friday. However, in cases where markets close early or are not open on a Friday, it is the trader’s responsibility to ensure all trades are closed before the weekend based on the adjusted market schedule. Any trades left open after this time will be automatically closed. Note, this is considered a soft breach, and you will be able to continue trading once the markets reopen. * Weekend holding is available at checkout as an optional upgrade.

Yes. If you do not place a trade at least once every 30 days on your account, we will consider you inactive and your account will be breached. Please ensure you trade at least once per 30 days.