Aqua Futures — Verification Record

This is the complete, dated record of every independent verification pass this corpus has run against Aqua Futures's own published rules, beyond the initial read: what was checked, what the check found, what changed, and what was preserved for the record even where two readings disagreed. See how a number gets checked twice for the method behind every entry below.

• 2026-07-30 Correction applied

  Two independent readers, each working blind to the other’s output and to the stored value

  Field-by-field: 2 corrected (2 fields touched this pass).

  Operator-directed targeted recheck of the standing $1,000-vs-$1,500 self-contradiction. BOTH original disputed pages are now dead: the entire aquafutures.io domain (root + both help-center article URLs + a spot-checked blog path) 301-redirects to a single merged page, https://www.aquafunded.com/futures — a brand/domain consolidation (Aqua Futures -> AquaFunded), confirmed via direct HTTP requests by two independent readers, not an AI-summarized fetch. Wayback Machine metadata (checked by reader B) shows both original articles were still live as of 2026-05-16, so this is a recent change, not old link rot. On the surviving page, both readers independently parsed the RAW HTML/DOM of the 25K Beginner one-step account card (explicitly avoiding AI-summarized re-fetches, which had separately produced ungrounded/hallucinated numbers like '3%/6%' or '$2,000/$1,250' that matched no row in the page's actual embedded data) and found exactly one unambiguous 'Maximum Loss' value: $1,000. $1,500 IS present on the same card but labels a DIFFERENT field (Profit Target) - a plausible mechanical origin for the historical mix-up if the two now-dead source articles quoted different fields, though this is offered as a neutral observation, not a proven causal story. Correction: amount_pct 6->4, amount_abs 1500->1000 (this corpus's stored 25K max drawdown). golden/daily-25k.json's max_dd_floor recomputed accordingly (23500->24000). Flagged for a follow-up check, not yet acted on: the Aqua Futures -> AquaFunded rebrand may reflect a broader product restructure (this task only re-verified the one disputed drawdown field, not the full ruleset) - a dedicated full re-source of this firm under its current AquaFunded branding is recommended as a follow-up, matching this corpus's standing rule that a firm-identity change is a different kind of decision than a single-field value correction.

  Sources consulted: https://www.aquafunded.com/futures, https://help.aquafutures.io/en/articles/12020785-beginner-account-overview (dead — 301 to aquafunded.com/futures), https://help.aquafutures.io/en/articles/10080194-maximum-drawdown (dead — 301 to aquafunded.com/futures) — checked 2026-07-30
• 2026-07-22 Correction applied

  Two independent readers, each working blind to the other’s output and to the stored value

  Field-by-field: 5 confirmed · 1 corrected · 1 preserved for the record (7 fields touched this pass).

  Both blind passes agree on the full ladder: target 6% ($1,500/$3,000/$6,000/$9,000), max drawdown $2,500/$3,500/$5,000 at 50/100/150k, daily loss $600/$1,250/$2,500/$3,750, EOD trailing off highest end-of-day balance locking at start+$100, min 0 eval days, consistency 40% both stages (raise-until-compliant, not a breach). Correction entered: 25k daily loss $625->$600. Our $625 was 2.5% (the flat-ladder assumption); the firm publishes $600 (2.4%) - the same per-size interpolation defect class as Phidias. Both passes read "$600" verbatim. Not entered — both readings preserved for the record: 25k max drawdown - the firm states two different values across its own pages ($1,000 in the Beginner overview table + homepage card vs $1,500 in the Maximum Drawdown article prose example). Both passes found the contradiction. Our corpus holds $1,500 (matches the article); the product surfaces say $1,000. Not arbitrated; preserved and flagged. Note the 50k/100k/150k DD are NOT proportional (5%/3.5%/3.33%).

  Sources consulted: https://www.aquafutures.io/, https://help.aquafutures.io/en/articles/15382780-beginner-account-overview, https://help.aquafutures.io/en/articles/15159450-maximum-drawdown, https://help.aquafutures.io/en/articles/15159447-consistency-rule — checked 2026-07-22

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