Why deadlines break traders.
A 30-day evaluation window rewards a very specific pathology: if you're behind at day 20, you have to force. Position size creeps up. Setups get looser. Risk per trade doubles because "there's no other way to hit the target in time." That's not evaluating a trader — it's filtering for the ones willing to gamble.
Remove the deadline and the pathology disappears. You take the trades your system produces, at the size your system calls for. If a month is quiet, you sit through it. The target arrives on its own.
Our policy, in one paragraph.
No time limit on any program — Evaluation, Instant Funded, or Pay After Passing. No expiry on the account. The only timing rule is a minimum of 3 trading days before an evaluation can be marked as passed and before each payout request on a funded account.
How this changes evaluation strategy.
Without a deadline, the correct playbook is boring: risk a small fraction of the daily drawdown per trade, wait for setups that meet your entry criteria, and cut anything that doesn't work quickly. On a $50,000 account with an 8% max drawdown, that's $4,000 of runway. Risking 1% per trade gives you dozens of attempts to compound the 10% target. Risk 5% per trade and you're one bad day from breach — regardless of how long you have.
Use the drawdown simulator and position sizer to price your risk before you send the order.
What still applies.
Drawdown rules do not care about time. Daily drawdown resets at 00:00 UTC every day the account is open. Max overall drawdown trails your highest closed-equity peak and never loosens. Removing the deadline gives you room to trade well — it does not remove the floor.