AquaFutures Rules: Drawdown, Consistency Rule, Scaling and Every Account

AquaFutures rules for the Flex Daily Loss, Flex No Daily Loss, Daily, Standard and Instant accounts, plus the live account and the rules that end accounts first. AquaFutures (also written Aqua Futures, and now sold as AquaFunded Futures on aquafunded.com) is a futures prop firm with one-phase evaluations and an Instant account with no evaluation. Every current account uses an end-of-day trailing drawdown, a daily loss limit that pauses rather than ends the account (except on Flex No Daily Loss, which has none), and full position size from day one. Where the accounts really differ is the consistency rule: 50% in the Flex challenge, 40% in the Daily evaluation, 40% on Standard funded accounts and 20% on every Instant payout. This page covers each rule with dollar values for every account size, drawdown and consistency calculators, the scaling question, banned strategies, the older account rules and the places where AquaFutures’ own pages disagree.

AquaFutures Rule Checks

How AquaFutures Accounts Work

AquaFutures launched as a standalone futures site (aquafutures.io) in late 2024 and now sits inside AquaFunded, the Dubai-based CFD prop firm: aquafutures.io redirects to aquafunded.com/futures, and newer help articles say “AquaFunded Futures”. You pay a one-time fee for a simulated futures account. On Flex, Daily and Standard you pass a single evaluation phase and move to a simulated funded account after a review; on Instant you trade a funded account from the start. There is no activation fee and no monthly fee on any current account, and profits on funded accounts are paid at a 90% split. A small number of traders are later promoted to a live account with real CME execution.

Once you hit the target, AquaFutures promises a verdict of Pass, Fail or Reset within 24 business hours (Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 4 PM Central), followed by identity checks before the funded account is issued. Trading runs through Tradovate (with NinjaTrader and TradingView connected through it) or DeepCharts; the checkout prices both the same. List prices are shown in each account section below; on the check date the site also displayed a 25% code (AUTUMN, no expiry published), so checkout prices were lower.

Source: AquaFutures aquafunded.com/futures plan selector and checkout data and Flex Daily Loss FAQ (updated October 5, 2026) and Rapid Review Guarantee and Platform Overview and AquaFunded Futures Live Account (updated October 5, 2026) – plan selector, model overview, review guarantee, platforms and live account – checked October 11, 2026.

AquaFutures Accounts Side by Side

The five accounts on sale on the check date. Dollar values for every size follow in each account’s own section.

Rules that apply to every account: positions closed at 3:10 PM CT, the 10-second microscalping test, fewer than 100 trades a day, no bots, no hedging, copy trading only between your own accounts, the 2% price-limit buffer and 7-day inactivity.

Source: AquaFutures Flex Daily Loss FAQ (updated October 5, 2026) and Flex No Daily Loss FAQ (updated October 5, 2026) and Daily Account Rules and Standard Account Rules and Instant Account Rules and AquaFunded Futures Live Account (updated October 5, 2026) – quick-overview tables and model rules – checked October 11, 2026.

AquaFutures Flex Daily Loss Rules

One phase with a 6% target and a 50% consistency rule in the challenge, a soft daily loss limit in both stages, and an end-of-day trailing drawdown that locks at your starting balance. Once funded there is no consistency rule; payouts need 5 winning days.

• Consistency: your best challenge day cannot be more than 50% of total challenge profit. AquaFutures’ example: a $2,000 best day needs $4,000 total. With the $3,000 target, the fastest pass is two days of $1,500.
• The drawdown floor trails your end-of-day balance and locks at the starting balance: $48,000 at the start on 50K, $49,000 after a $51,000 close, locked at $50,000 once you close at $52,000 or higher.
• Hitting the daily loss limit stops trading for the rest of the day; it is not a breach. The $1,200 limit on 50K is more than half the $2,000 drawdown, so one bad day can still leave little room.
• From the second payout on, you also need net profit of $1,000 / $1,250 / $1,500 since the last approved payout.
• Up to 5 funded Flex Daily Loss accounts can be active at once.

Source: AquaFutures Flex Daily Loss FAQ (updated October 5, 2026) and aquafunded.com/futures plan selector and checkout data – parameters, consistency, drawdown and reward sections; list prices – checked October 11, 2026.

AquaFutures Flex No Daily Loss Rules

The same targets, drawdown and 50% challenge consistency as Flex Daily Loss, but no daily loss limit at all. The trade-off sits on the funded side: a fixed reward cap, three rewards per account, one funded account at a time and no path to live.

• After the third approved reward the funded account closes. “There is no fourth reward cycle.”
• With no daily loss limit, the only loss line is the trailing drawdown: on a new 50K account a single $2,000 losing day ends it.
• Hedging between your own accounts (opposite positions in the same or correlated contracts) is prohibited and can breach every account involved.
• Flex No Daily Loss does not include scaling and cannot be promoted to live.
• The plan data behind the aquafunded.com/futures selector titles this account “One Step Flex DLL” while its daily-loss row reads “None”. Check that the rules panel says “None” before you pay if this is the account you want.

Source: AquaFutures Flex No Daily Loss FAQ (updated October 5, 2026) and aquafunded.com/futures plan selector and checkout data – parameters, reward structure, hedging and path-to-live answers; selector plan data – checked October 11, 2026.

AquaFutures Daily Account Rules

A one-phase evaluation with a 40% consistency rule, then a funded account with no consistency rule that can pay out every eligible day, capped per day and paid only from profit above a buffer.

• Consistency: your best evaluation day cannot be more than 40% of total evaluation profit. AquaFutures’ example: with a $1,500 best day you need more than $3,750 in total.
• With a $3,000 target and a 40% cap, the fastest pass is three days (for example $1,000, $1,000 and $1,000).
• Payouts come only from profit above the threshold: a 50K account at