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Base price: $625
Base price · no live code
Base price: $269/mo
Base price · no live code
Cost
Base price
$625
$269/mo
Account size
$150K
$150K
Profit split
100%
90% trader / 10% firm
Evaluation rules
Profit target
6% in one step; no time limit
Evaluation only — 50K $3,000; 100K $6,000; 150K $9,000. No profit target on Sim-Funded.
Max drawdown
3% end-of-day trailing
EOD trailing, locks at Initial Simulated Capital — 50K $3,000; 100K $4,500; 150K $6,000. Equity cannot hit the limit. The limit only rises. After a breach, pay a Reset Fee or wait for the next monthly subscription.
Daily loss limit
$1,000 / $1,500 / $2,250 for $50K / $100K / $150K, hard breach
Hard daily loss on Evaluation and Sim-Funded — 50K $1,000; 100K $1,500; 150K $2,000. Hitting it fails the Evaluation or permanently terminates the Sim-Funded account.
Min trading days
None to pass; one profitable day of 0.5%+ between payouts
None on Evaluation — accounts are assessed after the trading day ends. Payout eligibility is separate.
Funded rules
Funded drawdown
3% EOD trailing; funded daily limit $1,000 / $1,250 / $1,500
Same EOD trailing max drawdown as Evaluation, locked at Initial Simulated Capital. Hard daily loss continues on Sim-Funded.
Consistency rule
Best day 50% or less of total profit to pass
50% Best Day during Evaluation — not a hard breach; keep trading until Best Day is ≤ 50% of total profit.
Consistency rule (funded)
None
None — no Consistency Rule on the Sim-Funded Account
News trading (challenge)
Allowed: positions no longer have to be flattened for news, in evaluation or funded
Allowed, provided the trade is not a Forbidden Trading Practice. News-event concentration that is inconsistent with broader trading can still fail the risk-management standard.
News trading (funded)
Allowed: positions no longer have to be flattened for news, in evaluation or funded
Allowed, provided the trade is not a Forbidden Trading Practice. News-event concentration that is inconsistent with broader trading can still fail the risk-management standard.
Max live balance
Up to $4,000,000 across all Alpha Funded accounts
Max 3 concurrent Sim-Funded accounts; up to $450,000 simulated capital. Live Funded is invite-only.
Scaling plan
Not recorded
Sim-Funded only; scales with EOD profit above Initial Simulated Capital and scales back down if that profit falls. 50K starts at 2 contracts (up to 5): $0–999 → 2; $1,000–1,999 → 3; $2,000+ → 5. 100K starts at 4 (up to 10): $0–999 → 4; $1,000–1,999 → 5; $2,000–2,999 → 8; $3,000+ → 10. 150K starts at 6 (up to 15): $0–999 → 6; $1,000–1,999 → 8; $2,000–2,999 → 10; $3,000–4,499 → 12; $4,500+ → 15. Evaluation uses the full size cap (5 / 10 / 15) with no scaling.
Options & add-ons
Customizable at checkout
Not recorded
Monthly subscription. Reset is a paid restart, not a checkout add-on. Live Funded is invite-only and is not a purchasable product.
Payouts
Payout frequency
Daily
Every 5 days
First payout
Daily, after a 0.5%+ profitable day
5 separate days at or above the daily minimum (50K $200; 100K $300; 150K $500). Withdraw 100% of profit, still subject to the per-size cap. Minimum request $20; at least 50% of the request must be new-cycle profit.
Min days to payout
1 profitable day of 0.5%+
5 qualifying days
Processing time
24 business hours after approval
After FTMO approval in the Client Area; paid in USD. No published processing-time SLA.
Refund policy
No refund program on futures accounts is published
Monthly subscription; no activation fee. A Reset Fee is a paid restart of the same size (Growth $109 / $159 / $219; Pro $129 / $189 / $259). No pass-fee refund is documented.
Payout methods
Rise (crypto, ACH or wire)
WiseRevolut bank wireVisa DirectMastercard Send
Trading rules
Weekend holding
Allowed
Not allowed. Flat and cancel resting orders before 4:10 p.m. ET or session close, whichever is sooner. The platform auto-liquidates leftovers; relying on that is a Forbidden Trading Practice.
Overnight holding
Allowed
Not allowed. A trading day runs 6:00 p.m. ET to 4:10 p.m. ET the next calendar day. No hold past market close.
Hedging
Prohibited, within one account and across accounts
Opposite positions are allowed on a single account only. Offsetting across FTMO accounts, other firms, or other people is prohibited.
Copy trading
Allowed only between accounts you own; no signal services or copying anyone else
Copying another trader (signals, master accounts, or copiers) is prohibited. Copying across your own accounts is permitted if each account independently complies with every rule.
Expert advisors (EAs)
HFT and software built for an unfair speed advantage are prohibited
Automated trading is permitted except high-frequency, latency-arbitrage, or other abusive systems. The trader is responsible for bot errors. Third-party access to the account is prohibited.
Other restrictions
Prohibited: account stacking or draining, grid, martingale, tick scalping (trades of ~30 seconds or less), latency or reverse arbitrage, hedging within or across accounts, max size into news or macro reports for unrealistic fills, trading outside the best bid/offer, HFT or speed software, signal copying and account management. Not available in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, India, China or Myanmar, or to sanctioned persons.
No trading within 2% of a CME daily price limit; no hold past session close; no exploiting sim/feed errors; no third-party account access. News-event concentration that is inconsistent with broader trading can fail the risk-management standard. Sim-Funded inactivity: warning after 30 days, closed after a further 30. See Forbidden Trading Practices.
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