A test product, labeled as one.
Finotive has introduced LaunchPad, a new initiative for trialing limited financial products before deciding whether to roll them out permanently. Solo FX is the first release under that program: a two-phase simulated evaluation focused exclusively on Forex, with several operational restrictions from Finotive's other programs removed.
Calling something experimental upfront is a reasonable way to signal that terms might shift, but it also means the product is more likely to have rough edges than an established offering. That turns out to be the case here.
The core structure, and what's been stripped out.
Solo FX runs a 10% profit target in Phase 1 and 5% in Phase 2, with a 10% static maximum drawdown and a 5% static daily drawdown recalculated at 17:00 New York time. The product covers Forex pairs only, no metals, indices, energies, commodities, stocks or crypto, runs on MetaTrader 5, and caps leverage at 1:33.
What's notable is what Finotive removed relative to its other programs: no consistency rule, no required stop losses, no profit concentration restrictions, and no minimum trade duration. Rules against latency arbitrage, execution abuse and manipulation still apply, along with a ban on EAs, automated execution, and using a VPN or proxy to mask location. In the funded stage, the profit split is 80% with payouts every 7 days, though the first withdrawal requires 14 calendar days and a minimum of 4 profitable days, each defined as at least 0.5% profit. A floating drawdown limit of 2.5% of the initial balance, calculated per symbol, reduces the reward to 10% if breached.
Two places where the dashboard and the contract don't match.
News straddling: the dashboard prohibits it, but the specific terms appear to deactivate that restriction. Finotive's own guidance is to confirm the point with technical support before relying on either version.
Fee refund timing: promotional material says the refund lands after 30 days in a funded state with profit. The legal terms, Schedule 10A-1, say it's processed upon approval of the first payout request instead, a meaningfully different timeline for anyone budgeting around it.
Finotive's own hierarchy resolves the ambiguity in principle: the legal terms take precedence over the dashboard whenever the two disagree. In practice, that means a trader reading only the dashboard, which is the more visible and more frequently checked surface, could walk away with the wrong expectation on either point.
A short window, with a hard cap.
Solo FX is available for 14 calendar days or until an aggregate balance of $20 million is reached, whichever comes first. Current pricing carries a 50% discount with code LAUNCHPAD1:
| Account size | Discounted price |
|---|---|
| $2,500 | $12.50 |
| $5,000 | $22.50 |
| $10,000 | $40.00 |
| $25,000 | $102.50 |
Maximum accumulated rewards per account are capped at $50,000.
Experimental products need clearer terms, not looser ones.
Stripping out a consistency rule, stop-loss requirement and minimum trade duration is a real simplification, and it's a fair thing for a firm to test in a limited pilot before deciding whether to keep it. But simplifying the trading rules doesn't excuse leaving the payout and news-trading terms unresolved between two official documents, especially in a product explicitly marketed as untested.
The firm has effectively told traders which document wins when the two conflict. That's useful, but it's still on the trader to know a conflict exists in the first place, since neither the dashboard nor the promotional page flags the discrepancy on its own.
Questions, answered.
Sources
- The Godfunded, Finotive launches Solo FX, its first experimental challenge under the LaunchPad program, September 12, 2026.
