A $170 fee gap that buys $1,000 of daily air and two extra days
Stellar 2-Step: 5% daily, 10% static, 8% then 5%, five days, $549, day-start with equity check at GMT+2/GMT+3. Maven 2-Step: 4% daily, 8% static, 8% then 5%, zero days, $379, higher of at 00:00 server time. Combined hurdle ties at 13%. Calendar and air do not. Stellar 1-Step static 6% is the one-step Maven shoppers should compare with Maven 1-Step 3% daily / 5% trail, not with Maven 2-Step. Instant Maven 3% trail is not Stellar 2-Step. Keep the SKUs honest.
Overnight winners lift Maven more mechanically because higher-of is explicit. FundedNext still checks equity at rollover. Flatten both. If you scale into a level, Maven funded fails first at 1% to 2% float. If you fire 220 gold fills, FundedNext fails first at 200 trades. Those two death modes almost never overlap, which is why copying one EA onto both books is how people discover a third death mode: both at once.
Fifteen percent of evaluation PnL versus a 10-business-day 80%
FundedNext pays 15% of challenge gains, then first funded cash after 21 days (5 on 1-Step), then bi-weekly with a $1,000 late-payout SLA, splits 80% to 95%. Maven pays 80% every 10 business days and pays nothing for evaluation profit. If you print 8% in Phase 1, Ajman writes a cheque Dubai-style rivals do not. If you fail Phase 1, that 15% never exists and you still spent $549 instead of $379. The rebate is for people who pass.
News: FundedNext challenge allowed, funded 5-minute unless add-on. Maven funded 2 to 5 minutes. Weekends on both 2-Steps. Platforms: FundedNext includes MT4. Maven includes TradeLocker and not MT4. MT4 desks stay in Ajman. TradeLocker desks stay at Maven. EAs: FundedNext when the option is on, with 200 fills / 2,000 messages / $300K per EA. Maven personal non-HFT, no martingale/grid/latency, plus the idea cap. Tick grids die twice.
Who should buy the rebate, and who should buy the retry price
Pick FundedNext if 15% of evaluation PnL, MT4, a static 6% 1-Step, or a late-payout SLA is the brief, and you stay under 180 fills. Pick Maven if $379, zero days, and a 0.40% hard-stop process with no scale-ins is the brief. Do not pick Maven Instant to skip Stellar's five days; you bought a 3% trail. Do not pick Stellar Lite's 8% max thinking it is Maven 8% with a 15% rebate; read Lite's own daily. Size Maven at 0.35% to 0.45% and Stellar at 0.50%.
UAE 2022 versus Maven 2022 is a heritage tie. 200 fills versus idea cap is the mechanical fork. $549 versus $379 is the invoice fork. 5% versus 4% daily is the survival fork. Rank survival first if you already blow dailies. Rank the rebate first if you already pass 2-Steps cold.
180-fill warning in Ajman, 1.4% symbol cap at Maven
Set Venasri Equity Guard at 4.25% daily on FundedNext with a 180-fill warning, and 3.25% daily plus 1.4% per-symbol float on Maven. Pre-flatten Maven at its midnight above $1,200 float. Step-filter trails so neither 2,000-message pool dies. No lot copy from Stellar 0.50% onto Maven.
Venasri's free prop firm risk guard closes both if either daily is approached. Prefer FundedNext for the 15% share and MT4. Prefer Maven for a cheap zero-day retry. The guard exists so the rebate EA cannot spend Maven's idea cap on the same gold thesis.
