Alpha Capital

Payout Frequency

Alpha Capital offers two payout schedules for qualified accounts, depending on the payout type selected at checkout:

• Bi-Weekly: performance-fee requests are available every 14 days (starting 14 days after the initial trade on the qualified account). The first request requires a minimum of 5 trading days using the same trading strategy, and the minimum withdrawal is $100 gross profits.
• On-Demand: traders can request a payout at any time once they have at least 2% gross profit in the account and meet the 40% Best Day Rule (no single day contributes more than 40% of total profits).

Plan availability: Alpha Pro and Alpha Three can be purchased with Bi-Weekly or On-Demand payouts; Alpha Swing and Alpha One are offered with On-Demand payouts.

Alpha Capital Group offers five evaluation tracks, each with defined profit targets, drawdown limits and minimum trading-day requirements:

• Alpha One (1 Step): 10% profit target, 4% daily drawdown and 6% trailing max drawdown (high-water mark model). Minimum 1 trading day to complete the evaluation. Weekend holds are allowed, and performance fees are On-Demand.
• Alpha Pro 6% (2 Step): 6% profit target in Phase 1 and 6% in Phase 2, with a 3% daily drawdown (calculated from the higher of end-of-day balance or equity) and a 6% static max drawdown. Minimum 3 trading days per phase. Weekend holds are allowed in evaluation, but not on the qualified stage. Bi-Weekly or On-Demand performance fee options at checkout.
• Alpha Pro 8% / Pro 10% (2 Step): Phase 1 target is either 8% (Pro8) or 10% (Pro10), Phase 2 target is 5%. Daily drawdown is balance-based (4% Pro8 / 5% Pro10) with static max drawdown (8% Pro8 / 10% Pro10). Minimum 3 trading days per phase. Weekend holds are allowed in evaluation, but not on the qualified stage. Bi-Weekly or On-Demand performance fee options at checkout.
• Alpha Swing (2 Step): 10% Phase 1 and 5% Phase 2 targets, 5% daily drawdown (balance-based) and 10% static max drawdown, with reduced lot exposure versus Pro. Designed for longer-term trading with weekend holds allowed and a more permissive approach to news trading. Swing accounts are offered with On-Demand performance fees.
• Alpha Three (3 Step): 8% / 4% / 4% targets across three phases, 4% daily drawdown (from the higher of end-of-day balance or equity) and 6% static max drawdown. Minimum 3 trading days per phase. Weekend holds are allowed. Bi-Weekly or On-Demand performance fee options at checkout.

Weekend holding rules depend on the plan and stage.

• Alpha Pro: holding trades over the weekend is allowed during the Evaluation phase, but is not allowed on the Qualified Analyst account stage (treated as a soft breach with profits removed).
• Alpha Swing / Alpha One / Alpha Three: weekend holding is allowed during both the Evaluation phase and on the Qualified Analyst account stage.

Swap/rollover charges still apply when positions are held over weekends.

Copy trading is allowed but tightly controlled. Alpha Capital permits copy trading only where the trader can provide proof of ownership of the master account (e.g., account number/investor password/server) when requested. Copy trading between two Alpha Capital accounts can also be permitted with both account numbers disclosed.

Copy trading is currently supported on MT5 only; copying trades on or from cTrader, DXTrade or TradeLocker is not possible. Only one master account can be connected at a time, and copying other traders or group trading arrangements is prohibited.

Expert Advisors (EAs) are permitted on MT5 accounts, provided they comply with Alpha Capital’s rules. Traders must enable the EA feature at checkout and contact support for approval; Alpha Capital may request the EA's EX5 file and MQ5 market link for review.

EAs are not supported on TradeLocker, DXTrade or cTrader accounts. Automated strategies that attempt to exploit unrealistic fills or use high-frequency/latency-style execution are prohibited.

Alpha Capital prohibits strategies and behaviours that are designed to exploit pricing/execution or that breach its fair-use and risk policies, including:

• Arbitrage, latency trading, front-running and other attempts to exploit unrealistic fills or price feeds.
• High-frequency trading and ultra-short-term execution patterns that do not reflect sustainable trading.
• Reverse trading and group hedging (including coordinated trading across multiple accounts).
• Order-block / order-book spamming (entering multiple orders in a short period of time).
• Group trading, signal-following schemes, or account-management services.
• Hedging across separate Alpha Capital accounts (hedging is only allowed within the same instrument on the same account).
• "All or nothing" / gambling behaviour, including sudden outsized lot-size changes relative to the account’s normal average.

Violations can result in profit removal, assessment failure, qualified account termination and/or a platform ban, depending on severity.

Refund Policy

Alpha Capital Group states that all assessment plans are non-refundable, including after successfully passing an evaluation.

3 Percent Rule

Alpha Capital Group does not advertise a fixed "3% per trade" rule. Instead, it controls risk through its daily drawdown and maximum drawdown limits and through behaviour-based monitoring.

In particular, qualified accounts can be moved into a Risk Management Group if the trading approach is deemed high-risk (including consistently losing or risking 2% or more in a single trade or in a sequence of trades closed around the same time). The firm also enforces an anti-gambling policy against "all or nothing" behaviour and sudden, outsized lot-size changes relative to the account’s normal average.

Consistency Rules

Alpha Capital’s main consistency requirements are tied to its performance-fee (payout) options:

• On-Demand payouts: require the 40% Best Day Rule (no single trading day can contribute more than 40% of total profits) and a minimum of 2% gross profit in the account before requesting a withdrawal.
• Bi-Weekly payouts: are available every 14 days, and the first performance-fee request requires a minimum of 5 trading days using the same trading strategy. The stated minimum withdrawal is $100 in gross profits.

Payout Processing

Performance-fee requests are submitted via the Alpha Capital dashboard and are processed and paid within about 2 business days once approved. Traders must close all trades before requesting, and the account remains locked while the balance is reset.

Scaling requests (where applicable) are handled separately and are typically completed within 24–48 business hours.

Account limits: Alpha Capital states there is no purchase limit for assessment accounts, but qualified funding is capped at $400,000 per household across Alpha Pro, Swing, One and Three plans.

Strategy-based cap: on Qualified Analyst accounts, the maximum allocation per trading strategy is $300,000, where a "strategy" is defined by the assets traded (and Alpha Capital may treat correlated assets as the same strategy).

Account merging: accounts can be merged after at least one successful payout (plan-dependent), up to a maximum of 3 accounts, and only within the same plan type. Accounts in the Risk Management Group are not eligible for merging.

Alpha Capital requires identity verification (KYC) after passing an assessment and before issuing Qualified Analyst account credentials. Traders complete KYC via a third-party provider (Veriff) and must also provide the necessary withdrawal/payment details; qualified credentials are typically issued within a maximum of 2 working days after completing KYC.

Payment details may be cross-checked against the verified identity, and third-party payments are not accepted.

Other Risk Rules

• Inactivity: accounts are deactivated after 30 consecutive days without trading activity.
• 2-minute trade duration rule: the average duration of all trades must exceed 2 minutes, and at least 50% of targeted (evaluation) or requested (qualified) profits must come from trades held longer than 2 minutes; breaches can trigger a reset or profit removal depending on stage.
• News restrictions on qualified accounts: Pro accounts have a no-execution window around specific high-impact announcements (2 minutes each side for Pro8/10; 5 minutes each side for Pro6, One and Three). Swing accounts allow news trading but trades initiated inside a 4-minute window must last longer than 2 minutes.
• Weekend rules: weekend holding is allowed on evaluation accounts, but Alpha Pro qualified accounts do not allow holding trades over the weekend (violations are treated as a soft breach with profits removed). Swing, One and Three allow weekend holds on qualified accounts.
• Prohibited behaviours: the firm prohibits strategies that attempt to exploit unrealistic fills or prices (e.g., arbitrage/latency/front-running/high-frequency trading), order-book spamming, reverse trading/group hedging, and group trading or signal-following patterns.
• Hedging & stacking: hedging is allowed within the same instrument on the same account, but hedging across two Alpha Capital accounts is prohibited; opening 3+ trades (stacking) is permitted.
• Payments & compliance: third-party payments are not accepted, and payment details are cross-checked against the trader’s verified identity during KYC.
• Allocation controls: while there is no purchase limit for evaluation accounts, qualified accounts are capped at $400,000 per household before capital growth, with a $300,000 per-strategy (asset-based) cap.

Through ACG Markets, Alpha Capital Group advertises an institutional-style simulated environment with ultra-low latency execution and RAW spreads starting from around 0.1 (plus commission on RAW accounts). Standard accounts are commission-free but typically have wider all-in spreads.

As with any CFD environment, live spreads can widen during illiquid sessions and around major news events.

Orders are executed in ACG Markets' simulated institutional trading environment, designed to mirror real-market liquidity and execution conditions. Slippage can occur, particularly during high-impact news and fast markets, and losses incurred during news-related volatility remain the trader’s responsibility.

Trades deemed to be exploiting unrealistic fills/prices (e.g., latency/arbitrage-style execution) can be invalidated and profits removed.

Alpha Capital does not list "martingale" as a standalone permitted strategy. In practice, martingale-style progression systems (increasing risk aggressively after losses) can fall under the firm’s anti-gambling / "all or nothing" policy and risk monitoring (e.g., significant lot-size changes vs. the account’s average), which may lead to profit removal or account termination.

Alpha Capital applies maximum lot exposure limits on Qualified Analyst accounts (assessed per open position, not per trade idea). Limits depend on plan and account size:

• Alpha Pro / Alpha One / Alpha Three: $5k=2.5 lots, $10k=5, $25k=10, $50k=20, $100k=40, $200k=80, $300k=120.
• Alpha Swing: $5k=1.25 lots, $10k=2.5, $25k=5, $50k=10, $100k=20, $200k=40, $300k=60.

Accounts placed into the Pro Risk Management Group have reduced lot exposure limits (e.g., matching the lower Swing-style ladder). Repeated lot-limit violations can result in performance-fee forfeiture and account deactivation.