Five days and 200 fills versus three days and a lot cap
Stellar 2-Step: 5%/10%, 8%/5%, five days, $549, day-start with equity check. Alpha Pro: 5%/10%, 8%/5% or 10%/5%, three days, $497, higher of at 00:00 ACG GMT+2/GMT+3. If you bought Alpha 8%/5% Pro, hurdles match and you sit two fewer days for $52 less, without a 15% evaluation share. If you bought 10%/5% Pro, Ajman is the easier hurdle. Alpha One 4%/6% EOD trail is the cousin of Stellar 1-Step only in "one step" language. Stellar 1-Step is static 6%. Alpha One trails. Read that twice.
ACG higher-of midnight is meaner on held winners than Stellar's day-start-plus-check. Flatten London first on overnight gold. Fill-heavy sessions flatten Ajman first. Those clocks and counters will not fail on the same tick unless you copy the same burst onto both sockets.
Raw spreads and on-demand 40% versus a 15% rebate and a 21-day wait
Alpha: ACG raw tape, funded lot cap, duration majority rule, 2,000 messages, Pro funded 2-minute news, Swing SKU, weekends on Pro/Swing, bi-weekly or on-demand 40%, 80% split, MT5/cTrader/DXtrade, no MT4. FundedNext: 15% challenge share, day 21 first funded payout, $1,000 late SLA, 80% to 95%, MT4 included, funded 5-minute news unless add-on, weekends on Stellar, 200 fills. MT4 desks stay in Ajman. DXtrade desks stay in London. cTrader exists on both. Short bursts fail Alpha. 201 fills fail FundedNext. On-demand 40% fails large Alpha days. Stellar 2-Step has no 40% CFD consistency cap.
Grids and martingale fail Alpha by policy. Identical EA allocation above $300K fails FundedNext. A public pass-bot fails both. A 12-minute London open scalp is legal at both if lots and fills stay sane. A 20-second gold burst is an Alpha problem first.
Who should buy ACG, and who should buy the rebate
Pick Alpha Pro 8%/5% if raw tape, minutes-to-hours holds, and a lot cap you will obey are the brief. Pick FundedNext if 15% of evaluation PnL, MT4, five-day structure, or a static 6% 1-Step is the brief, under 180 fills. Do not pick Alpha On-Demand if one day is half your month. Do not pick Stellar to run 25 lots of gold because FTMO-style size "felt normal." Size 0.50% on both 5% dailies, then cap Alpha lots in software.
London 2021 versus Ajman 2022 is a short heritage gap. Duration versus fills is the identity gap. 15% rebate versus raw spreads is the money gap. Flatten both midnights. Then pick tape versus rebate. Do not pick both identities with one EA map.
Lot ceiling in London, fill ceiling in Ajman
Set Venasri Equity Guard at 4.25% daily on both, add an Alpha gross lot ceiling and a 38% best-day warning if On-Demand is on, add a 180-fill warning on FundedNext, and pre-flatten Alpha at ACG midnight above $1,500 float. No lot copy. No fill-rate copy.
Venasri's free prop firm risk guard closes both if either 5% daily is approached. Prefer Alpha for the tape. Prefer FundedNext for the 15% share and MT4. The guard's extra job is lot versus fill isolation so one gold burst cannot trip both desks' pet rules in the same minute.
