Five evaluations, one firm, one rule that decides them
Every Maven challenge with a daily limit fails 91–100%. The one without fails 2%.
Maven Trading sell evaluations at one, two and three phases, with total profit targets running from 4% to 14%. Neither the phase count nor the target orders them by difficulty. One field does, exactly: how many consecutive losses the daily loss limit allows before the attempt is over.
Sort by that and the odds fall into line with no exceptions — 2 losses, 3 losses, 4 losses, 4 losses, 10 losses, giving >99%, 93%, 92%, 91%, 2%. The gap between the hardest and the easiest thing on one price list is 98 percentage points.
The five, ordered by how long a losing run may run
| Programme | Phases | Total target | Daily cap | Overall | Losses | $100K | Fails |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard 3-Step | 3 | 9% | 2% | 3% | 2 | $270 | >99% |
| Standard 1-Step | 1 | 8% | 3% | 5% | 3 | $342 | 93% |
| Two Step Omo | 2 | 14% | 4% | 8% | 4 | $284 | 92% |
| Standard 2-Step | 2 | 13% | 4% | 8% | 4 | $396 | 91% |
| Buy Now, Pay Later | 1 | 4% | none | 10% | 10 | not published | 2% |
At 1% risk per trade, a 40% win rate and 2R winners. Read the losses column and the fails column together: they are one ordering. Read the target column against either and it tells you nothing — Standard 3-Step asks 9% and is the hardest; Standard 2-Step asks 13% and is the easiest of the four that publish a cap.
Maven Trading — FAQ — read 2026-08-23
Why the daily limit and not the target
A profit target is something you work towards; a daily loss limit is something that ends the attempt. At 1% risk per trade, Standard 3-Step’s 2% cap is reached after 2 consecutive losses and Standard 2-Step’s 4% after 4. On every one of the four, the daily cap binds long before the overall drawdown does — the 3% and 8% figures beside them never get the chance to matter.
The chance of a losing run reaching a given length falls away exponentially, not linearly. So each extra loss the cap allows is worth far more than the extra profit the target costs, and two products whose targets differ by 4 percentage points can sit 9 points apart on the only question a reader is asking. The rule itself is worth reading once; it is the field this site keeps finding at the centre of an unexplained gap.
That is not peculiar to Maven. FundedNext’s three Stellar rungs line up by daily cap in exactly the same way, and their profit targets run backwards against it. What is peculiar to Maven is the size of it: five products on one price list, 98 points wide.
The 2% figure has a condition attached
Buy Now, Pay Later earns that number by an absence Maven state plainly rather than omit: the evaluation has no daily drawdown limit, and no minimum trading days. The 10% static cap is the only hard risk limit in it.
The evaluation is not what you go on to trade. Maven publish a 4% end-of-day daily limit on the funded account, which does not exist during the evaluation, along with Profit Rebuild — the funded loss limit re-anchors to the original balance after each withdrawal, so taking money out does not enlarge the buffer. The figure in the table measures the evaluation, and the evaluation alone.
And it has no price in the table because Maven do not publish one per account size: $5 starts any size and the balance falls due on passing. Recording the $5 as the fee would make this the cheapest funded account on this site by an order of magnitude, off a number that is a deposit.
The two Maven challenges this table cannot rank
Maven also sell two one-step evaluations settled on event contracts from Kalshi or Polymarket rather than on currency pairs. The measure in the table above assumes a 2R winner and a 40% win rate — a stop and a target on an FX position. A contract bought at 19% odds for about $0.19 is not that, so their figures are here rather than in the ordering, and they are not comparable with it.
| Programme | Target | Overall | Drawdown | Fails, on FX assumptions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One-Step Essential | 9% | 3% | trailing-intraday | 95% |
| One-Step Elite | 9% | 5% | static | 59% |
Both also carry a rule with no equivalent anywhere else on this site: no more than 3% of the starting balance may be made from any one question, and profit beyond that is removed. And Essential’s overall drawdown is published as two different numbers — 3% in the FAQ, 5% on two product cards. The stricter figure is the one recorded, which errs against the firm rather than against a reader sizing risk. Check it at source before paying.
What this does not measure
- · The M2 Account Saver, which runs on the funded account and can halve the 80% split permanently on a first 2% open-position drawdown, and deactivates the account on a second. It applies to the Standard programmes and to Buy Now, Pay Later. Nothing in the table above sees it.
- · Minimum trading days. Standard 3-Step none, Standard 1-Step none, Two Step Omo 4, Standard 2-Step 3, Buy Now, Pay Later none. Two Step Omo’s four must each be profitable by at least 0.5%, and they override the profit target.
- · The two instant products. Instant Funding and Mini have no evaluation to fail, so this measure has nothing to bite on. Mini closes after one payout and gives you 24 hours from your first trade to earn it.
- · Assumes each trade is independent. Correlated positions — three majors against the dollar — lose together and count as one.
- · Assumes every trade risks the same amount. Raising size after a loss shortens the streak you can survive.
- · Uses your stated win rate. If that came from a demo account or a good month, the figure below is optimistic.
- · Whether Maven pay. No published rule answers that.
On the numbers above
Maven Trading — Buy Now, Pay Later
It comes out ahead on the chance a losing streak ends the attempt, at 1% risk per trade, at 2% — 89 percentage points clear of Maven Trading's Standard 2-Step, the next best.
This is computed from the published rules, not chosen. Whichever programme wins that calculation appears here, including firms we earn nothing from, and it changes when the rules do. It says nothing about the fee, what changes once funded, or whether the firm pays.
One thing to know before you act on it: Maven Trading does not publish a fee for this programme by account size, so what it costs cannot be shown here. Any “from” price beside it in a table on this site is the cheapest across everything that firm sells, not the price of this.
Questions
- What is the pass rate on a Maven Trading challenge?
- Maven do not publish one, and this page does not claim to know it. What it computes is narrower and checkable: the chance a losing run ends the attempt before the target is reached, at 1% risk per trade with a 40% win rate and 2R winners. On that measure the four evaluations carrying a daily loss limit end between 91% and 100% of the time, and Buy Now, Pay Later — the one with no daily limit — ends 2% of the time. A real pass rate would also count people who never place a trade, change their risk, or run out of patience.
- Which Maven challenge is easiest to pass?
- Buy Now, Pay Later, and not narrowly: 2% against 91% for the next one. It asks the least profit of the five, 4%, against the widest overall drawdown, 10% — and it publishes no daily loss limit at all, so a losing run has 10 trades before the drawdown ends it rather than 4. Read the rest of this page before buying on that number: the evaluation is not what you go on to trade.
- Is the Standard 3-Step harder because it has three phases?
- It is the hardest of the five, but the phase count is not why. Three phases at 3% each is 9% of profit in total — less than the 13% the 2-Step asks. What makes it hardest is the 2% daily limit, the tightest Maven sell: at 1% risk per trade that ends the attempt after 2 consecutive losses. Two losing trades in a day is an ordinary morning.
- Why is Maven’s Buy Now Pay Later so much easier than everything else they sell?
- Because of one absent rule. Maven state it rather than omit it: the evaluation has no daily drawdown limit. Every other evaluation they sell is ended by its daily cap long before its overall drawdown matters, and this one is not — the 10% overall cap is the only hard limit in it, which at 1% risk is 10 consecutive losses instead of 4. The catch is on the other side of passing: a 4% end-of-day daily limit appears once funded, along with rules that did not exist during the evaluation.
- What does the Buy Now Pay Later challenge cost?
- Five dollars up front and the balance on passing, and Maven do not publish that balance per account size. No fee ladder is recorded here for that reason: printing the $5 alone would make this the cheapest route to a funded account on this site by an order of magnitude, off a number that is a deposit rather than a price.
- Why are the Prediction Markets challenges not in the table?
- Because the measure would not mean the same thing. Those two are settled on event contracts from Kalshi or Polymarket, priced like binaries — a position at 19% odds costs about $0.19. The figure in the table assumes a 2R winner and a 40% win rate, which describes a stop and a target on a currency pair. Their rules are on Maven Trading's own page here and the computed figures are stated below the table, separately, so nobody reads them as comparable.