Is Maven's Standard 1-Step payout gated by the trailing floor or the Two-Step static loss?
Maven Trading Standard 1-Step Challenge pays an 80% profit split on a 10-day cycle. The first-payout day is not recorded in the verified rule set. The 5% trailing equity floor — not the Two-Step product's 8% static max loss — is what actually gates whether you keep the profit long enough to withdraw. Run your own numbers in the free calculator at run your own book against Maven Trading — free.
Numbers first: 80% split · 10-day cycle · 5% trailing equity. Answer first: Maven Trading's Standard 1-Step Challenge pays an 80% split on a 10-day cycle. The first-payout day is not recorded. What gates a withdrawal is a 5% trailing loss off the highest equity watermark, plus a 3% daily loss that fails the account. Maven's Two-Step is a different product with an 8% static max loss. Mixing those two pages is how this rule set was first misread — including by us — until a 2026-07-31 recheck put each figure back on the product that states it.
The payout terms
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Product | Standard 1-Step Challenge |
| Profit split | 80% to the trader |
| Payout cycle | every 10 days |
| First payout after | Not recorded |
| Fee refund at first payout | Not recorded |
| Consistency-gated | No |
| Profit target to pass | 8% of initial |
Split and cycle are the same at every size we hold. Two gaps sit next to them. The first-payout day is not recorded in every sized file (2k–100k): Maven's terms, FAQs and the Standard 1-Step page do not state how many days pass before the first withdrawal. The 10-day cycle is the interval once you are in the payout rhythm, not a stand-in for that missing clock. Fee and fee-refund at first payout are also unset. Before those terms apply you pass a single phase at an 8% profit target — no second evaluation step. That is why Maven's neighbouring Two-Step page is expensive to mis-copy.
Do not mix the two products — that is the whole finding
Maven publishes more than one challenge. This page is only the Standard 1-Step Challenge. The Two-Step (the same terms document also uses Two-Step Omo wording) is a different product. Maven's FAQ comparison table puts them on adjacent rows:
Standard 1-Step Challenge — max drawdown 5% trailing off your highest watermark of equity. Single phase. Target 8%. Daily loss 3% of the higher of equity or balance at 00:00 UTC+0. On breach: fail.
Two-Step — max drawdown 8% static from the initial balance. Two phases. That static 8% does not trail. It is not this page's rule and not the floor the simulator loads for Maven's 1-Step.
We know the mix-up is easy because we made it. The 2026-07-30 two-pass read disagreed on five fields at once. Pass A quoted a terms paragraph that names itself “a single-phase program” with 8% / 5% trailing / 3% daily. Pass B quoted a two-step-shaped structure, a 4% daily figure, an 8% static max loss that “does not trail,” and a tooltip that said “two-step.” Five fields, one direction: a different Maven tab.
A 2026-07-31 recheck sent two fresh readers at the raw HTML: is the 1-Step's max loss trailing or static? Both said trailing, 5%, highest equity watermark. Both named the cause: the Two-Step's static-8% sentence sits one line away, and the FAQ table lists “Two Step Challenge: Max Drawdown: 8% (Static)” beside “One Step Challenge: Max Drawdown: 5% (trailing off your highest watermark of equity).” The 1-Step's 8% / 3% / 5% rates were re-confirmed from that table and from Maven's Standard 1-Step page. On a $10,000 1-Step the mix-up leaves a floor at $9,200 that never moves. The 1-Step you bought starts at $9,500 and then climbs under every new equity high.
The numbers, by account size
Every Standard 1-Step size shares one shape — 8% target, 3% daily fail, 5% trailing equity floor, 80% split, 10-day cycle. Dollars scale off the initial balance. Six sizes:
| Account | Profit target (8%) | Daily loss (3%, fail) | Trailing max loss (5%) | Split |
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| 2k | $160 | $60 | $100 | 80% |
| 5k | $400 | $150 | $250 | 80% |
| 10k | $800 | $300 | $500 | 80% |
| 20k | $1,600 | $600 | $1,000 | 80% |
| 50k | $4,000 | $1,500 | $2,500 | 80% |
| 100k | $8,000 | $3,000 | $5,000 | 80% |
Daily loss is 3% of the higher of equity or balance at 00:00 UTC. Trailing dollars are 5% of the initial balance sitting under the highest equity watermark once a new high prints. Cycle and split do not change with size. First-payout day remains unset at every size.
What actually gates a Maven 1-Step payout
The 80% split pays on profit you still have when a withdrawal is due. Two published limits can end the account first. Both are a fail on breach, not a session lockout. Maven's FAQ, captured by both original readers: “If your challenge or funded account hits any of the drawdown limits then your account will be breached.”
Daily loss — 3%, fail, includes open trades. Each day the allowance is 3% of the higher of equity or balance at 00:00 UTC+0. A day that starts at $10,400 is allowed $312, not a lifetime $300 off the original $10,000. The check includes unrealized P&L. Touch it and the challenge ends. Daily loss, in full.
Trailing max loss — 5% off the highest equity watermark, intraday. This is the 1-Step overall floor, and it is the figure the Two-Step mix-up replaces with a static 8%. Maven's terms: “a 5% maximum trailing loss limit.” The FAQ table: “trailing off your highest watermark of equity.” The corpus models intraday equity, open positions included — reader A described it as trailing in real time — so an open position can breach it. The floor rises with a new equity high and does not come back down; no lock is recorded. Trailing drawdown, in full.
Worked example — $10,000 Standard 1-Step (corpus 5% of initial as a trailing cushion)
- Start $10,000. 1-Step floor $9,500. Daily fail line $300 (3% of the day-start print). The Two-Step mix-up is a static $9,200 that never moves — the other product.
- Equity high $10,600. 1-Step floor trails to $10,100 and stays there. $600 of profit, $500 of room. The misread static 8% would still show $1,400 of room to $9,200.
- Next UTC day starts at $10,400. Daily line re-anchors to $312. Trailing floor does not reset: still $10,100.
- An unrealized dip to $10,050 fails the 1-Step. You are still $50 above start. Under the Two-Step's static 8% you would have thought $1,150 of room remained. It did not. The 1-Step does not wait for the close.
Question: after a new equity high on the 1-Step, is your floor still the Two-Step's static 8% line — or has it climbed under you?
Answer: it has climbed. Wine is the 1-Step: $9,500 at the open, then $10,100 once equity prints $10,600 — a $500 cushion, 5% of initial as the corpus stores it. The dashed $9,200 line is the Two-Step's static 8%, copied onto this product in an earlier read. It never moves, and it is not yours. Floor dollars are sourced; the equity path is illustrative.
An 80% split on a 10-day cycle is real, and it is the same at every size. It pays only if the 1-Step's trailing 5% — not the Two-Step's static 8% — has left you an account. Banking toward the 8% target is what tightens that floor. A later give-back, including from an open trade, can end the account while you are still green versus the start.
What the documentation does not settle
The first-payout day. Every sized file records no first-payout day. We do not fill that gap from a forum or a neighbouring firm's calendar. If your Maven agreement states a first-withdrawal window, that document is the authority. The 10-day cycle is the figure we do hold.
Minimum trading days. Reader A found no stated minimum. Reader B reported 4 days with no supporting quote — and that reader is the one whose other fields had come from the Two-Step tab. The stricter candidate was not adopted. Modeled value: none.
Fixed-dollar trailing cushion versus a recalculating percentage. The corpus stores the trailing dollar amount as 5% of initial ($500 on 10k) and trails that dollar gap under the watermark. Maven's FAQ also shows a $1,000 / 3% example that re-derives the cushion as a percent of the new high ($30 → $33). That is not a sold 1-Step size, and 3% is not this product's 5%. Whether the 1-Step recalculates 5% of each new high, or trails a fixed $500, is unestablished. The worked example and figure above use the corpus dollar cushion and say so.
Intraday versus end-of-day. No first-party sentence we captured says “tested continuously” in those words. Equity-intraday is derived from the trailing type plus reader A's “in real time.” Treat an open-position breach as the conservative case. The trailing page notes the simulator currently ratchets on closed trades; the two clocks are not identical.
Working backwards: free path before you mix Maven 1-Step with Two-Step loss math.
Numbers first: 80% / 10-day / 5% trailing equity on Standard 1-Step. Answer first: run Maven Trading against your own numbers in the free calculator before treating Two-Step's static 8% as the same gate.
Run Maven Trading in the simulator — freeQuestions traders ask about Maven 1-Step payouts
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What is Maven Trading Standard 1-Step Challenge's profit split?
80% to the trader at every size the corpus carries for this product (2k–100k). Same figure on every size — not a ceiling that scales with a plan.
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How often does Maven Trading Standard 1-Step Challenge pay out?
Payouts cycle every 10 days. The verified rule set does not record a first-payout day count, so we do not publish one.
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Is Maven 1-Step's max loss the 8% static figure?
No. That 8% static maximum loss belongs to Maven's Two-Step. The Standard 1-Step Challenge is a 5% trailing loss off the highest equity watermark, tested intraday. A 2026-07-31 recheck settled this after an earlier read mixed the two products.
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What actually ends a Maven 1-Step account before you can withdraw?
Two loss limits, both a fail on breach, both counting unrealized P&L. Daily loss is 3% of the higher of equity or balance at 00:00 UTC. Maximum loss is a 5% trailing floor off the highest equity watermark. Hitting either ends the challenge.
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When can you take your first Maven 1-Step payout?
We do not guess. The first-payout day is not recorded in any sized file. The cycle once you are in the payout rhythm is 10 days; the wait before the first withdrawal is not recorded.
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Does Maven's Standard 1-Step Challenge have a consistency rule?
No. Both independent reads recorded “Consistency score No” on the 1-Step product page. A 4-day minimum was reported without a supporting quote and was not adopted.
Rules change without notice; the firm's own documentation is always the final authority. This page is independent research, not investment or trading advice, and PropSurvival is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Maven Trading.