The Trading Pit 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

CFD Prime: balance based, recalculated at 16:15 CT from the previous day's closing balance, commissions included; the account is breached if equity falls below the limit. 3% on one phase, 5% on two phase up to $20K, 4% on two phase $50K and $100K. CFDs Instant: no daily drawdown.

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.

CFD Prime: static from the starting balance on most sizes; on one phase $100K and $200K and two phase $100K accounts bought from 29 April 2026 it trails the end of day closed balance until it reaches the starting balance, then stays fixed. CFDs Instant: 6% trailing on the highest balance until it reaches the starting balance, then fixed.

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.

CFD Prime challenge builder lists 3 minimum trading days for $5K to $200K accounts and 3 minimum profitable days (each at least 0.5% of initial balance) for $2.5K accounts. Earning phase: 3 trading days on one phase $100K and $200K accounts created from 6 July 2026; older help articles cite 3 profitable days or 5 trading days depending on purchase date.

Allowed on CFD Prime accounts up to $50K and on all CFDs Instant accounts. On Prime $100K and $200K accounts, opening trades or having pending orders triggered within 2 minutes before or after high impact news is prohibited in both challenge and earning phases; positions opened earlier may be closed.

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 CFD Prime accounts. CFDs Instant allows weekend holding except commodities, energies, metals and crypto, which are closed automatically 10 minutes before the Friday close.

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

Own EAs allowed provided they do not copy signals that are not the trader's own, use latency, reverse or hedge arbitrage, HFT or emulators, or trade the news window on Prime $100K and $200K accounts. Copy trading allowed only between CFD accounts owned by the same user (including from the trader's own external master account); copying between different clients or from third party signals is prohibited. Hedging across accounts prohibited.

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.

CFD Prime: 50% Best Day rule (best day no more than 50% of positive days' profit) on one phase $100K and $200K accounts created from 6 July 2026, in challenge and earning phases; exceeding it is not a breach, the trader keeps trading. CFDs Instant: best day may not exceed 30% ($5K to $20K), 25% ($50K) or 20% ($100K) of total profit before a payout.

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.

CFD Prime: first reward can be requested 14 days after receiving the earning account once minimum day and consistency requirements are met; requests are reviewed within one working day and processed within 24 hours on business days. CFDs Instant: each reward capped at the lower of 50% of realised profit or $2,500 ($5K to $20K), $3,500 ($50K) or $4,500 ($100K). KYC must be completed before the first reward, and a 1% fee is deducted from each reward.

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.

CFD Prime on the TTP platform and cTrader: forex 1:50, indices 1:15, commodities 1:10, stocks 1:2, crypto 1:2 (partner broker accounts: indices 1:10). CFDs Instant: forex 1:30, metals, oils and indices 1:7.5, crypto and stocks 1:2.

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.

CFD Prime: account balance increases by 25% once the earning account has been active at least two months, has received at least two payouts and has made at least 10% total profit; every fourth scale up resets the base for the next 25% steps. Active Prime earning accounts are limited to eight with a combined initial balance of $400,000. No scaling plan is listed for CFDs Instant, and each user may hold at most two Instant accounts.

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.