FAQ

Make sure you read every single FAQ below! There isn’t a single hidden rule.
Getting Started
Step-by-step rules to help you begin your trading journey with us.
ARE THERE ANY HIDDEN RULES AND HOW DO I LOSE AN ACCOUNT?

We don’t have a single hidden rule. We’ve outlined everything as clearly as possible for you!
Whether you are on an evaluation account or a funded account, nothing changes. The rules are the same.

The only way you can breach your account are the three points below:

  • Hitting your Max Loss
  • Hitting your Daily Max Loss
  • Inactivity of 30 days (if you do not place a trade at least once every 30 days on your account, we will consider the account inactive and the account will be breached) – you are free to place a 0.01 lot (open then close) to keep your account active if you don’t see anything you like in the markets.

The 5% Daily Loss Limit is the absolute maximum your account can lose on any given day. For your reference, understand that the Daily Loss Limit is calculated using the previous day balance which resets at 5 PM EST. 

For Example: if your prior day’s end of day balance (5pm EST) was $100,000, your account would violate the daily stop loss limit if your equity reached $95,000 during the day. On another hand, if your floating equity is +$8,000 on a $100,000 account, your new day (5pm EST) max loss is still based on your balance from the PREVIOUS day ($100,000). So, your daily loss limit would still be $95,000 and not 5% of $108,000; unless the following day, your end of day balance closes at $108,000. Then that would apply on the day after.

You can if you purchase the add-on! For our Swing Traders, when buying an account, you can click “hold positions over the weekend” as an add-on, to be able to do so.

Without that, we require all trades to be closed by 3:45pm EST on Friday. Any trades left open after this time will automatically be closed. Note, this is only a soft breach and you will be able to continue trading once the markets reopen.

Forex – 1 lot = $100k notional
Index – 1 lot = 1 Contracts
Silver – 1 lot = 5000 ounces
Gold – 1 lot = 100 ounces
Oil – 1 lot = 100 barrels

Depending on what type of trader you are, we have a customizable challenge for you! On the checkout page, you will have the ability to choose to pay extra for “upgrades” in your evaluation, so it completely fits your style. These upgrades will include the following and will see a price increase as addressed below:

  1. Hold over the weekend – 10% price increase
  2. 90% Account Gain – 20% price increase

So if you want a higher account gain, there’s no reason not to add it on. If you’re a swing trader, there’s no reason not to add it on!

Note: You don’t HAVE to have this add-on. You can either choose to have one add-on, both add-ons or neither.

Charges come across in the name of Dashboardanalytix.com.

With regard to the concept of ‘limits’ this is where we stand at present:

  • $1 million max per person (can be made up of multiple assessments, provided none are the same size at the same time).
  • $1 million max per strategy/EA (can be made up of multiple assessments, provided none are the same size at the same time). Note: This applies to “off-shelf” EA’s (EA’s purchased from the market and used by many) We are seeking to fund independent and unique strategies not 1 that is the exact same across the board. Otherwise, that would defeat the purpose of us trying to find great traders.


There is NO limit to how many accounts you may have (as long as it’s within the $1 million limit). We provide prop firm funding and there is NO limit for compounding. Up to $1 million of initial funding, then grow the account to any balance you desire – yes, even $10 million, $20 million, and so on.

When trading a Funded Account for our firm, you are treated as an independent contractor. As a result, you are responsible for any and all taxes on your gains.

Affiliates are given credit for introducing new Customers to your firm:

  1. Customers are registered to an affiliate during Customer Registration (i.e., when the Customer account is created). This is a separate process from Checkout.
  2. A Customer who creates an account that is NOT registered to an affiliate cannot be registered to an affiliate at a later point. At this point, they are no longer a new customer and therefore the affiliate has not introduced them to your firm.


A Customer who is registered to an affiliate will remain registered forever. An affiliate will receive affiliate credit for ALL orders from that customer for their lifetime.

Here, we offer a 2 step challenge and a 1 step challenge.

2 step gives you a higher max loss (8%) on your trading, whereas a 1 step is lower (6%). However, you only need to pass the evaluation 1 time (on a 1-step) and twice on a 2 step.

Once you pass your Assessment, you will receive an email with instructions on how to access and complete your Trader Agreement. Once the agreement is completed and supporting documentation is provided, your Funded Account will be created, funded and issued to you typically within 24-48 business hours.
No. We operate at an arm’s length with the Broker. All market pricing and trade executions are provided by the Broker and are not changed or modified by us. Additionally, we do not mark up transaction costs established by the Broker through adjusting bid-offer spreads, markups/markdowns, commission charges or swaps.

For purposes of managing risk and minimizing transaction costs, we may offset or negate market risk and act as the direct counterparty to certain trades initiated in the Account. Such trades are executed at prices provided by the Broker. 

This framework is intended to ensure you receive real market execution on your trades, while simultaneously allowing us to manage risk dynamically by routing existing positions or future orders to third parties for execution as we deem appropriate. We believe that such real market execution and dynamic risk management would not be possible or as cost-effective if trades were executed in simulated accounts. Regardless of whether we act as a counterparty to your trades, the gain or loss on your Funded Account is not calculated differently.

However, when we act as the counterparty to your trades, there is an inherent potential conflict of interest because your trades do not result in net gain or loss to us, as your trades would if we were not the direct counterparty.

We have risk management software that is synced with the accounts we create. This allows us to analyze your performance in real time for achievements or rule violations. As such, you must use an account that we provide to you.
You must be at least 18 years of age, or the applicable minimum legal age in your country, to purchase an assessment.
Your trader dashboard! Which you will receive access to upon purchasing a challenge. The dashboard is updated every time we calculate metrics, which occurs roughly every 60 seconds. It is your responsibility to monitor your breach levels.
Our technology is currently integrated with DXtrade, MatchTrader & cTrader platforms via GooeyTrade.
You can trade any products streamed by the Liquidity Provider into the available platforms, as such products may change from time to time. This includes FX pairs and CFD Indices, Commodities, Metals, and Cryptocurrencies.

Trading hours are set by the Broker. We do not have any control over the trading hours!

Please note that holidays can have an impact on available trading hours. Always make sure to check when you’re trading.

We use the RAW accounts from the Broker. These accounts have commission charges for Forex. The other products do not carry a commission.

Subject to compliance with applicable laws and regulations, traders from all countries, excluding OFAC listed countries, can take part in our program.

Here is a list of all the restricted countries:

PK – Pakistan
RU – Russia
CU – Cuba
SD – Sudan
SO – Somalia
IR – Iran
LB – Lebanon
SY – Syria
LY – Libya
VN – Vietnam
RO – Romania

General Rules
Information and rules you need to know when joining PrimeTime Funding.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A HARD BREACH AND SOFT BREACH RULE?

A soft breach means that we (the company) will close all trades once a rule has been violated. You will NOT lose your account in this instance. You can still continue to trade.

A hard breach means that you violated either the Daily Loss Limit or Max Drawdown rule in which case, you will lose your funded account.

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. You can open a trade using a 0.01 lot size and close it immediately to keep up the activity if you desire to do so.
We reserve the right to limit the number of open positions you may enter or maintain in the Funded Account at any time, and to revise in response to market conditions the drawdown levels at which trading in the Funded Account will be halted. We or the Broker reserve the right to refuse to accept any order.
We allow profile merging, but not trading accounts. The only exception would be if a customer has multiple funded accounts on the same platform. In this case, we can under some circumstances combine into a single larger funded account.
If you were banned by another firm due to reasons beyond your control, such as the firm engaging in unethical practices or having operational issues, this does not automatically disqualify you from using our services. We evaluate each case individually and focus on the behavior of the trader, not the circumstances related to other firms. Therefore, you are welcome to try buying challenges with us, even if you were banned by other proprietary trading firms. While we are aware that other firms may have their own blacklisting policies, we do not share or cross-reference blacklists with other firms unless the behavior in question involves serious violations of terms and conditions or fraudulent activity. We handle blacklisting internally and independently, ensuring that decisions are made based on our own Terms and Conditions and the evidence we have on hand.

Trading within 3 minutes before or after a News Event is prohibited. If the Company determines that
trading has, in fact, occurred during the News Event. Any traders identified as having trading during a
News Event during the challenge phase are subject to having those trades removed, having the leverage
on their account reduced or having their account breached altogether. The Company has sole and
absolute discretion in determining what constitutes a News Event.

Personal EAs are acceptable, however commercial EAs, those designed for passing challenges or involving copy trading are not permitted.

Yes. As long as you are trading within the permitted leverage and lot size (seen in your dashboard upon purchase) you may hedge positions on both sides. We want to give you wide capital trading opportunities.
Yes, we do. All trading accounts will be suspended after 30 consecutive days of inactivity.
Challenge Account Rules
Specific regulations for participating in our Challenges.
HOW DO YOU CALCULATE THE 5% DAILY LOSS LIMIT?

The 5% Max Loss is static and calculated only on your initial balance.

For example, on a $100,000 account during a 1-Phase challenge, the account can only be breached if it goes below $94,000 (6%). So if your balance grows to $107,000 on a $100,000 account, the Max Loss is still $94,000 (6% from the original balance).

Important Note: The Max Loss moves to the INITIAL BALANCE after the first withdrawal – incentivizing all funded traders to compound and grow their accounts before withdrawing huge earnings. We don’t want traders here who just want to “YOLO” trades. See the example below. 

Example: If you have a $100,000 account, the Max Loss Breach level would be $92,000 (8% of the Initial Balance on a 2-Step Challenge). If you then traded your account up to $134,000 ($34,000 Gain), the Max Loss Breach level would still be $92,000, which gives you $42,000 off a buffer to work with. 

If you then decide to withdraw $10,000 as profit, upon your first withdrawal, the Max Loss locks in at the original account balance (in this case, $100,000 because it’s a $100k account). So after withdrawing $10,000, your account will have a balance of $124,000 and the breach level is now $100,000, meaning you now have a buffer of $24,000. Similarly, if you withdrew ALL of the $34,000, your account balance would now be back at the original $100,000 which is also the BREACH level, meaning you would lose your funded account. Please read the rest to understand why we have this rule.

Further Example: If you continued to compound your $100,000 all the way to $200,000, the Max Loss Breach Level is still $92,000. However, if you then withdrew $50,000 profit, the Max Loss will lock in at $100,000, meaning you would now have $50,000 as a buffer (Max Loss). This is great because most rules have their max loss always ALWAYS being a percentage of the NEW balance.

Example: On most Prop Firms, if you were to scale that $100,000 to $200,000, your max loss would be 8% of the NEW $200,000. Not 8% of $100,000. So you don’t have as much room as you think once you start making money. On top of that, if for some reason, you were to breach the account after having the $100,000 of gains in there, almost all Props would just say “it is what it is. Oh well.” And you’d have to start over! Here, you’d still be paid your portion of what was left in the account. So trust me, we know what we’re doing. We’re helping traders. 

We have included this rule to incentivize our funded traders to compound their accounts, to ensure that they have a hefty buffer and can pay themselves out as they see fit. This way neither the company nor the trader is ever at risk.

Funded Account Rules
Essential guidelines for managing and trading your funded account effectively.
WHAT ARE THE RULES FOR THE FUNDED ACCOUNT?
Everything is the same rule-wise for whether you’re currently being evaluated, or you currently have a funded account! The only difference is, with a Funded Account, there is no profit target.

Once you pass the Assessment, we provide you with a live account, backed by our capital. The capital in your Funded Account is notional and may not match the amount of capital on deposit with the Broker. 

A Funded Account is notionally funded when actual funds in the account (i.e., the equity in a Funded Account represented by the amount of capital) differs from the nominal account size (i.e., the size of the Funded Account that establishes the initial account value and level of trading). Notional funds are the difference between nominal account size and actual capital in a Funded Account.

Use of notional funding does not change the trading level or that the account may trade in any manner differently than if notional funds were not used. In particular, the same conditions and rules applicable to a soft breach, hard breach, Daily Loss Limit, Max Loss and position limits apply.

NO, NO, NO. You will still be paid a portion of your gains no matter what, unlike other Firms.

For example, if you have a $100,000 account and you grow that account to $140,000, if you have a hard breach, we would close the account. From the $40,000 in gains in your Funded Account, you would be paid your portion! Which is a GAME changer.

Your first withdrawal can be requested at any time. Afterwards, you can request a withdrawal of the gains in your account every 30 days.

This is why it’s important to compound your account and why our max loss locks at the initial balance.

You are also prohibited from using any trading strategy that is expressly prohibited by the Company or the Brokers it uses. Such prohibited trading (“Prohibited Trading”) shall include, but not be limited to:

  • Exploiting errors or latency in the pricing and/or platform(s) provided by the Broker
  • Utilizing non-public and/or insider information
  • Front-running of trades placed elsewhere
  • Trading in any way that jeopardizes the relationship that the Company has with a Broker or may result in the canceling of trades
  • Trading in any way that creates regulatory issues for the Broker
  • Utilizing any third-party strategy, off-the-shelf strategy or one marketed to pass challenge accounts
  • Utilizing one strategy to pass an assessment and then utilizing a different strategy in a funded account, as determined by the Company in cooperation with Prop Account, LLC at their discretion
  • Utilizing Martingale or any average-down trading strategies, which are often not indicative of consistently profitable trading practices
  • Attempting to arbitrage an assessment account with another account with the Company or any third-party company, as determined by the Company in its sole and absolute discretion
  • “All-inning” – excessive risk-taking over and over again on one or over the span of multiple accounts


If the Company detects that your trading constitutes Prohibited Trading, your participation in the program will be terminated and may include forfeiture of any fees paid to the Company. Additionally, and before any Trader shall receive a funded account, the trading activity of the Trader under these Terms and Conditions shall be reviewed by both the Company and the Broker to determine whether such trading activity constitutes Prohibited Trading. In the case of Prohibited Trading, the Trader shall not receive a funded account.

Additionally, the Company reserves the right to disallow or block any Trader from participating in the program for any reason, in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion.

To view all Prohibited Uses, please review our Terms and Conditions here: https://dashboardanalytix.com/client-terms-and-policies/?v=7516fd43adaa

Dashboard
An overview of the tools and features available in your trading dashboard.
HOW DO I REQUEST A WITHDRAWAL OF MY GAINS?
Easily! Traders can request a withdrawal of the gains in their Funded Account at any time in their trader dashboard, but no more frequently than once per thirty (30) days. So, if you make gains in your Funded Account, you can request a withdrawal. When you are ready to withdraw the gains from your Funded Account, click the “Withdraw Profits” button in your trader dashboard and enter the amount to withdraw.
Payouts
Detailed information on how and when you can withdraw your earnings from our Prop Firm.
WHAT ARE THE PAYOUT OPTIONS?

You have options. 

Bank Transfers with Riseworks:

We’re integrated with Riseworks. If you select Riseworks as your payout option and provide a valid email address, you will receive a link to create your account. Once set up, you can transfer your payouts directly to your bank account.

Wallet Withdrawals:

We can process payments to your existing wallet via Columis.

We always try to process your requests as soon as possible, which is within 48 business hours of the request (but typically within 24 hours).