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

AquaFunded vs Goat Funded Trader

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 Goat Funded Trader. 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	Goat Funded Trader Hong Kong
Disclosure score	Well documented	Fully documented
Challenge from	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Plan compared	2 Step Standard	2-Step Standard
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 higher of the previous day’s closing balance or closing equity, on balance or equity. Resets 5:00 PM EST
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	100% With 100% split add-on
Weekend holding	Allowed	Not yet verified
News trading	Restricted window	Restricted window
Inactivity breach	30 days	30 days
Retroactive rule changes	0	0
Operator jurisdiction	United Arab Emirates	Hong Kong
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.	Afghanistan, Belarus, Central African Republic, Chile, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and Al-Qaida, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, Senegal, Singapore, Somalia, South Korea, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe (help centre, dated 27 July 2026). Hong Kong appears on this list while the contracting company is registered in Hong Kong. MetaTrader 5 is stated as not intended for US citizens or residents.

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.