Side by side · verified from each firm's own pages

Alpha Capital Group vs AquaFunded

Rules placed next to each other, with the calculation basis written out — because two firms quoting the same percentage can be measuring completely different things.

Account closed
Trading day over, account survives
Room to lose on day one
Profit still needed to pass phase one

Drawn to scale from each plan's own published numbers, on the plan compared in the table below. Day one is the only day on which every daily-loss basis agrees, which is what makes the two bars honestly comparable at all. On day one the account closes first at Alpha Capital Group — its floor sits $2,000 above the floor at AquaFunded.

	Alpha Capital Group United Kingdom	AquaFunded United Arab Emirates
Disclosure score	Well documented	Well documented
Challenge from	$27 stated floor	Not yet verified
Plan compared	Alpha One	2 Step Standard
Model	1-Step	2-Step
Profit target	10%	8% → 5%
Daily loss limit	4% of the higher of opening balance or opening equity, on equity, including floating P/L. Resets 00:00 GMT+3	5% of the higher of opening balance or opening equity, on equity, including floating P/L. Resets 17:00 EST
Maximum loss limit	6% , from the highest end-of-day balance	8% Static floor, from initial balance
Consistency	40% — best day as a share of total profit (Payout eligibility)	Not yet verified
Stop loss	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Best profit split	80% On-demand	90% Bi-weekly
Weekend holding	Allowed	Allowed
News trading	Not yet verified	Restricted window
Inactivity breach	30 days	30 days
Retroactive rule changes	0	0
Operator jurisdiction	United Kingdom	United Arab Emirates
Regulator disclosed	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Restricted countries	Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Cuba, DR Congo, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen (21, from the firm's checkout list dated 2026-07-23). US residents: no MT5, cTrader closed to new US customers.	Cuba, Iran, Syria, Vietnam, Kenya, Albania, Algeria, North Korea, Senegal, Myanmar, Russia, Belarus, Sudan, South Sudan, Venezuela, Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk (18 named by the firm, help centre article dated 7 July 2026). A further nine — Thailand, Brazil, Bulgaria, Japan, Jordan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines — may trade instant-funding models only, capped at $50,000 funded per trader.

Only the first recorded plan of each firm is shown here. Full plan detail, sources and everything we could not verify are on each firm's page. Last re-checked 10 September 2026; the oldest record on this page was checked 4 September 2026. Each firm page carries its own date.

Not yet verified is not No. Where a cell reads "Not yet verified", we could not confirm the rule from the firm's own terms or help centre. It is not a claim that the rule does not exist.