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

AquaFunded 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.

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 AquaFunded — its floor sits $2,000 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.

	AquaFunded United Arab Emirates	City Traders Imperium Comoros Union
Disclosure score	Well documented	Partially documented
Challenge from	Not yet verified	$39 list, USD
Plan compared	2 Step Standard	2-Step Challenge
Model	2-Step	2-Step
Profit target	8% → 5%	10% → 5%
Daily loss limit	5% of the higher of opening balance or opening equity, on equity, including floating P/L. Resets 17:00 EST	5% of the balance recorded at day start, on balance, closed trades only
Maximum loss limit	8% Static floor, from initial balance	10% Static floor, from initial balance
Consistency	Not yet verified	No consistency rule
Stop loss	Not yet verified	Not required
Best profit split	90% Bi-weekly	80% Funded (start)
Weekend holding	Allowed	Allowed
News trading	Restricted window	Allowed
Inactivity breach	30 days	Not yet verified
Retroactive rule changes	0	0
Operator jurisdiction	United Arab Emirates	Comoros Union (Anjouan)
Regulator disclosed	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Restricted countries	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.	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 re-checked 10 September 2026; the oldest record on this page was checked 7 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.