Lux Trading Firm vs Orion Funded

Orion Zero, Orion Nova $5K (USD 7 registration fee plus USD 69 activation fee after passing), Orion Nova $10K (USD 7 registration fee plus USD 109 activation fee after passing), Orion Nova $25K (USD 7 registration fee plus USD 209 activation fee after passing), Orion Nova $50K (USD 7 registration fee plus USD 349 activation fee after passing), Orion Nova $100K (USD 7 registration fee plus USD 669 activation fee after passing), Orion Nova $200K (USD 7 registration fee plus USD 1,099 activation fee after passing), Orion Standard, Orion Swing

3% on Zero and Standard, 5% on Swing, 4% in the Nova evaluation and 3% on funded Nova. Measured from the greater of the previous day's closing balance or closing equity, resets at midnight UTC, and counts floating losses, swaps and commissions.

Static 6% of the starting balance on every current account (for example a fixed floor of $94,000 on $100K, $376,000 on $400K and $940,000 on $1M); the floor does not rise with profit. The limit scales with the account at each funded stage. Accounts activated before 22 September 2025 stay on the older rules, which used a 6% relative drawdown from the highest balance.

Static for Orion Standard (6%) and Orion Swing (8%), fixed from the initial balance. Trailing lock for Orion Zero (6%) and Orion Nova (8% in evaluation, 5% funded): the floor follows the balance upward and locks at the funded starting balance once the first payout is approved.

Not prohibited, but news bracketing (pending buy and sell orders placed around high impact releases) is banned, and stop losses cannot be adjusted from 30 seconds before to 30 seconds after a news event.

No timing restrictions during any evaluation, but news trading used as a strategy is prohibited on all programs. Funded Nova and Standard accounts may not open, close or modify trades from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after a high impact event. Funded Swing accounts have no restriction. Orion Zero allows it, but trades opened or closed within 5 minutes of a high impact event are rewarded at 50% instead of 80%.

Overnight and weekend holding allowed on every program in evaluation and funded stages. Opening trades specifically to capture price gaps is prohibited.

Copy trading and trade mirroring tools are allowed within the risk rules, including copying trades into the Match Trader account from another broker or prop firm; up to 5 evaluation accounts may copy trade between themselves. Up to 5 Insta accounts, which cannot hold similar or correlated trades at the same time or copy each other. High frequency trading (more than 2,500 server messages in 24 hours) and fully automated systems that create excessive trades are prohibited, as are arbitrage and news bracketing.

EAs are permitted only for risk and trade management (stop loss, take profit, break even, trailing stops, partial closes, position sizing, drawdown protection). Third party EAs, signal generating or autonomous bots, HFT, tick scalping and automated copy trading are prohibited, and automation above 2,000 server requests a day is not allowed. Copy trading is allowed only between accounts owned by the same person; external copy services are prohibited.

Risk consistency: a fixed percentage of remaining risk capital (current balance minus the drawdown floor) must be risked on every trade throughout a stage, up to a maximum of 5%. Single trade profit limit: a position, counted together with same direction or correlated positions, may realise no more than 5% of the stage profit target ($500 on the $100K evaluation). A stop loss must be set before every entry.

Best Day Rule of 20% on Orion Zero and on funded Orion Nova accounts: the best single day may not exceed 20% of total profit in the reward cycle before a reward can be requested. No Best Day Rule on Standard, Swing or the Nova evaluation.

After passing the one step evaluation, the fee is refunded once the risk desk approves the pass, and profit on the funded account can be withdrawn whenever the balance is in profit. Insta accounts are paid after reaching the 12% target with no rule breaches and no open positions, following a risk desk review.

The first reward can be requested only after the first 14 day period has passed, even if the account is already in profit, and the minimum request is $100. On Zero and Nova funded accounts the first 3% of profit is a buffer that cannot be withdrawn. Approved rewards carry a 48 hour processing guarantee (full reward plus program fee refund if missed, subject to listed exclusions). Program fee refunded on the fourth successful reward.

On demand: a withdrawal can be requested at any time while the funded account balance is in profit, with all positions closed. Withdrawn profit still counts towards the 10% scaling target.

Not stated in the current rules. The July 2026 symbol list shows a 1% margin requirement on forex, indices, commodities and metals, 10% on stocks and 20% on crypto.

Zero, Nova and Standard: forex 1:100, indices 1:50, metals 1:30. Swing: forex 1:30, indices 1:15, metals 1:9. Commodities 1:3.3 and stocks and crypto 1:1 on all programs. Leverage is preset and cannot be changed by the trader.

Each 10% gained on a funded account moves it to the next stage, up to a $10,000,000 Fund Manager stage. $100K: $200K, $400K, $1M, $2.5M, then $10M. $400K: $1M, $2.5M, then $10M. $1M: $2.5M, then $10M. The 6% maximum loss grows with each stage. Insta accounts do not scale.

Available on all funded programs. Qualifying requires a 15% return over a rolling three month period, at least two of three months positive and at least three reward requests. Each qualifying cycle adds 25% to the account balance and moves the split to 90%, up to a maximum allocation of $4,000,000.