Orion Funded Prop Firm Details

Orion Zero:

• A 20% best-day consistency rule applies during each payout cycle.

Orion Nova:

• A 20% best-day consistency rule applies during the funded stage.

Prohibited Practices

Gap trade:

• Opening trades specifically to exploit price gaps around scheduled market-moving news, economic events or earnings releases, or within 2 hours of a market closure lasting at least 2 hours, is prohibited.

Overload the server with automation:

• EAs or trading robots generating more than 2,000 server requests per day, including opening, modifying or closing orders, are prohibited.

Circumvent the Best Day Rule:

• Artificially spreading profits across multiple trading days without proportionally distributing market risk to bypass the Best Day Rule is prohibited.

Find out more: Other prohibited practices

Risk Limit

Risk management rules:

• Opening positions substantially larger than those normally traded is not considered standard risk management.
• Opening significantly more or fewer positions than the trader's usual trading pattern is not considered standard risk management.
• Repeatedly increasing risk per trade in a way that concentrates cumulative exposure in one instrument or correlated instruments is not considered standard risk management.

Trading Conditions

News Trading:

• During evaluation, there are no timing restrictions on opening, closing or modifying individual trades around high-impact news.
• Orion Nova, Orion Standard & Orion Select: On funded accounts, opening, closing or modifying trades and orders is prohibited from 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after a high-impact news event. Existing positions may remain open without modification.
• Orion Swing: No restricted news-trading window applies.
• Orion Zero: News trading is permitted within the specified timing window, but trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news receive a 50% profit split instead of 80%.
• News trading as a strategy is prohibited across all programs and phases, including evaluation. This includes directional bets based on anticipated news, option-style structures around events and systematically trading around releases to exploit volatility.
• Violations: Profits generated from prohibited news trading may be adjusted, deducted or voided. Repeated violations may result in account deactivation.

Copy Trading:

• Manual copying between personally owned Orion accounts is permitted. Automated copying and external trade replication services are prohibited.

Expert Advisors (EAs):

• EAs are permitted for risk and trade management, including position sizing, protective orders and partial closures. Third-party EAs, signal generators and autonomous trading systems are prohibited.

Inactivity Rules:

• Evaluation and funded accounts expire after 30 consecutive calendar days without trading activity.

Overnight and Weekend Holding:

• Overnight and weekend holding is permitted.

Shared across all programs

• Standard Profit Split: 80%, increasing to 90% after qualifying for the Scaling Plan.
• Payout Frequency: Every 14 calendar days
• Refundable Fee: The original program fee is returned after four eligible reward requests.
• Minimum Withdrawal: $100.

Orion Zero:

• Payout Condition: A 20% best-day consistency rule applies.
• Profit Buffer: The first 3% of account profit must remain as a withdrawal buffer.
• News Trading: Trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before or after a high-impact news event receive a 50% reward split.

Orion Nova:

• Payout Condition: A 20% best-day consistency rule applies during the funded stage.
• Profit Buffer: The first 3% of account profit must remain as a withdrawal buffer.

Orion Standard, Orion Swing & Orion Select:

• See Shared across all programs.