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

AquaFunded vs FundingPips

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 AquaFunded — its floor sits $2,000 above the floor at FundingPips.

	AquaFunded United Arab Emirates	FundingPips Comoros Union
Disclosure score	Well documented	Fully documented
Challenge from	Not yet verified	$29 stated floor
Plan compared	2 Step Standard	2 Step Standard
Model	2-Step	2-Step
Profit target	8% → 5%	8% → 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 higher of opening balance or opening equity, on equity, including floating P/L. Resets 00:00 Platform Time (UTC+3)
Maximum loss limit	8% Static floor, from initial balance	10% Static floor, from initial balance
Consistency	Not yet verified	35% — best day as a share of total profit (Payout eligibility)
Stop loss	Not yet verified	Not required
Best profit split	90% Bi-weekly	100% Monthly
Weekend holding	Allowed	Temporarily not allowed
News trading	Restricted window	Restricted window
Inactivity breach	30 days	30 days
Retroactive rule changes	0	0
Operator jurisdiction	United Arab Emirates	Comoros Union
Regulator disclosed	Not yet verified	Comoros — IBC Regulation Act 2014 Bfx2024004
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.	FATF and EU/UN sanctions list countries, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates

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.