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

Alpha Capital Group vs City Traders Imperium

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.

What differs most.

They calculate the daily loss limit from different reference points, so the percentages are not directly comparable.
City Traders Imperium has no consistency rule on this plan; Alpha Capital Group does.

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 $4,000 above the floor at City Traders Imperium. The two daily-loss floors are measured from different reference points, so they only line up on day one. From day two they move apart.

	Alpha Capital Group United Kingdom	City Traders Imperium Comoros Union
Disclosure score	Well documented	Partially documented
Challenge from	$27 stated floor	$39 list, USD
Plan compared	Alpha One	2-Step Challenge
Model	1-Step	2-Step
Profit target	10%	10% → 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 balance recorded at day start, on balance, closed trades only
Maximum loss limit	6% , from the highest end-of-day balance	10% Static floor, from initial balance
Consistency	40% — best day as a share of total profit (Payout eligibility)	No consistency rule
Stop loss	Not yet verified	Not required
Best profit split	80% On-demand	80% Funded (start)
Weekend holding	Allowed	Allowed
News trading	Not yet verified	Allowed
Inactivity breach	30 days	Not yet verified
Retroactive rule changes	0	0
Operator jurisdiction	United Kingdom	Comoros Union (Anjouan)
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.	North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Russia, and any individual under international sanctions (site footer, 5 named).

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 verified 7 September 2026.

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.