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BrightFunded 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 BrightFunded — 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.

	BrightFunded 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 Bright	2-Step Challenge
Model	2-Step	2-Step
Profit target	8% → 5%	10% → 5%
Daily loss limit	4% of initial balance, on balance or equity. Resets 23:30–23:59 CET rollover window	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	No consistency rule	No consistency rule
Stop loss	Not yet verified	Not required
Best profit split	90% With 90% add-on	80% Funded (start)
Weekend holding	Not yet verified	Allowed
News trading	Not yet verified	Allowed
Inactivity breach	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Retroactive rule changes	0	0
Operator jurisdiction	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Comoros Union (Anjouan)
Regulator disclosed	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Restricted countries	Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Vietnam (T&C, clause 2). MetaTrader 5 products additionally not offered to residents of the United States and the United Arab Emirates.	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.