Terms and Conditions

These terms govern use of https://aetherfunded.com and the Aether Funded evaluation program (“Services”). By creating an account, buying a Test, or using the Control Center, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the Services.

Aether Funded (“Aether,” “we,” “us”) is the trade name of 18170380 Canada Inc., an evaluation desk operated from Canada. The Services are a paid, simulated futures evaluation. We do not hold or manage client trading capital, we do not accept deposits to be traded in live markets, and we do not route orders to an exchange on your behalf. Fees you pay are for access to the evaluation, not a brokerage deposit.

We are not a dealer, adviser, futures commission merchant, introducing broker, or exchange. Nothing on the site is an offer of securities, a solicitation to trade futures for a customer account, or investment, tax, or legal advice. If we ever enable live market access for an account, we will say so in writing first. That would be a different service.

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a contract. You are responsible for whether evaluation trading is lawful where you live. We may refuse, suspend, or close an account at our discretion, including where we cannot reasonably serve a jurisdiction.

A Test is a paid, simulated evaluation. Passing requires the published rules on the rules page: a 6% profit target, end-of-day trailing drawdown, 50% consistency (which raises the remaining target rather than failing the account), and at least five trading days. Open positions and working orders are flattened at 4:59pm ET; holding through that close does not fail the account. A flatten fill that hits the trailing drawdown still fails. Overnight Globex hours after the 6:00pm ET reopen, including Asia, are the next session and are allowed. Maximum contracts and the other rules on the rules page also apply and can fail an account.

A passed Test may be activated as Funded. Funded is still a simulated evaluation account on the same desk. It is not live buying power and not a customer brokerage account. Funded accounts fail on hitting the trailing drawdown and exceeding max contracts. Positions are flattened at 4:59pm ET; that flatten can still hit the drawdown. Consistency and the profit target do not fail a Funded account. After a platform login is issued, 30 calendar days with no closed trade fails an Active Test, and 14 calendar days fails an Active Funded account so it can be released. A paid reset starts a new inactivity clock.

Trades, prices, and balances in the Control Center are simulated. They may differ from live exchange markets. We may change how simulation is recorded.

Third-party platform names on the site are not a partnership, endorsement, or a promise of access. You will not receive a third-party login until we can provision one.

Test fees are one-time charges for that evaluation, billed by our payment processor. A Test reset is a separate one-time charge at 60% of that size’s published Test fee. It restarts an eligible Test as an Active Test and clears its trades. Test resets are available on failed Tests and Active Tests, with no count limit. A passed Test must be activated as Funded rather than reset. A Funded reset is a separate higher charge ($449 on $25k, $649 on $50k, $999 on $100k, $1,499 on $150k). It is available only on a failed Funded account, at most 3 times per account. A Funded reset clears the trades and the account stays Funded. A Funded account closed to take the drawdown buffer cannot be reset. Unless required by law or we agree in writing, Test and reset fees are non-refundable once applied. No refund if you fail, do not use the login, change your mind, or do not receive a payout. Chargebacks or payment disputes may result in immediate closure of related accounts and denial of related payouts. The full Refund Policy is on its own page. Promo codes apply to Tests only, once per account, and do not apply to resets.

Eligible Funded profit may be requested as a payout only on Funded accounts that have not failed, when the account is flat (no open position or working order). We will not flatten the account for you. We audit platform equity and the account state when you request. If that audit passes, profit comes off the seat and the request is accepted for sending; if it fails we refuse the request. Available balance is 90% of profit earned after Funded activation (Test profit is not payable), minus amounts already approved, the per-request size cap on each of the first 3 payouts, and a safety buffer so the simulated balance stays at least $750 / $1,500 / $2,500 / $3,500 above the Funded starting balance on $25k / $50k / $100k / $150k after those payouts. A regular payout of $900 removes $1,000 from the Funded balance on approval (your 90% plus our 10%) and the matching trading-platform balance. The size caps are $500 on $25k, $1,500 on $50k, $2,500 on $100k, and $3,000 on $150k, each of the first 3 payouts. After the third payout that size cap is removed; the 90% split still applies to regular (stay-Funded) payouts. A regular payout must leave that size’s cushion above the Funded starting balance. To take the leftover you close. A close pays any amount you could have requested while staying Funded plus 50% of the cushion leftover; the house keeps the rest of that leftover; the Funded account is closed if that request passes audit, cannot trade, and cannot be reset — a new Test must be purchased. Each payout and a close require five winning Funded days on that account — a calendar day with at least one closed Funded trade and profit after you activate, and after the last approved payout. Activating does not count the Test session that day. You must verify the email on the account and pass an identity review before activating Funded and before a payout is accepted. A regular payout must be at least $250. Best Funded day must stay under 40% of Funded-period profit before the first move, then 50% after (this does not fail the account). Sending requires a payout destination on file; the name on the destination must match the verified legal name. We may refuse a request or not send an accepted payout for rule breaches, inconsistent activity, identity or payment issues, news-window breaches, or suspected abuse.

A payout is a discretionary performance payment from us, paid from firm funds, tied to a simulated evaluation. It is not a withdrawal of money you deposited, not exchange-cleared capital, and not a brokerage cash balance. We never hold your trading funds. Before you activate Funded we review your identity from the legal name, country, and government photo ID you submit. You do this once per login. We may reuse those details for the simulated trading-platform data form. Approved amounts are sent to the Wise, US bank, or Canadian bank destination you save in the Control Center. Timing depends on review and the payment rail.

You will not share accounts, manipulate trades, exploit delays or bugs, use the site to launder funds, or abuse promotions. You will not tick-scalp a delayed feed, run latency or gap exploits, or hedge / reverse-copy across your own or related accounts. One person or household may hold at most five open accounts (Active or Passed). On Funded you must be flat from one minute before through one minute after FOMC, NFP, and CPI; holding into that window or opening or closing in it can fail the account or void a payout. We may flatten, lock, or fail accounts that we reasonably believe violate these terms or the published rules.

The site, Control Center, and Aether marks are ours. You may not copy the product, scrape the service, or present Aether as your own firm.

The Services are provided “as is.” Simulated results are not a guarantee of live results, funding, or payouts. To the fullest extent allowed by law, Aether is not liable for lost profits, lost data, or indirect damages. Our total liability for a claim is limited to the Test fees you paid us in the 90 days before the claim.

These terms are governed by the laws of Canada, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Courts in Canada have exclusive jurisdiction, except where applicable consumer law gives you a right to sue where you live.

We may update these terms. The date at the top is the effective date. Continued use after a change is acceptance of the new terms. Questions: the contact form.