- You can earn up to 90% of your simulated profits as a reward.
- Receive a 100% refund of your initial fee with your first reward withdrawal.
- Grow with FTMO through the Scaling Plan and Premium Program
How It Works
Become an FTMO Trader. This guide covers what you need to know about simulated trading with FTMO.
FTMO Challenge
Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size
Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.
Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size
Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.
Trade and Achieve a 10% Profit Target
Example: With a $100,000 simulated account, reach $10,000 Profit Target without exceeding 5% ($5,000) Maximum Daily Loss or 10% ($10,000) Maximum Loss.
Trade and Achieve a 10% Profit Target
Example: With a $100,000 simulated account, reach $10,000 Profit Target without exceeding 5% ($5,000) Maximum Daily Loss or 10% ($10,000) Maximum Loss.
Verification
Continue with Your Simulated Account
You’ll use the same account size as in the FTMO Challenge.
Continue with Your Simulated Account
You’ll use the same account size as in the FTMO Challenge.
Trade and Achieve 5% Profit Target
Reach the 5% Profit Target while staying within the same risk limits.
Trade and Achieve 5% Profit Target
Reach the 5% Profit Target while staying within the same risk limits.
FTMO Account
Congratulations! You’re Now an FTMO Trader.
You keep trading with simulated capital, but now you earn a share of your simulated profits.
Congratulations! You’re Now an FTMO Trader.
You keep trading with simulated capital, but now you earn a share of your simulated profits.
Show Your Best in Every Trade
There’s no Profit Target apart from your own. Just follow the risk limits and earn your rewards.
Show Your Best in Every Trade
There’s no Profit Target apart from your own. Just follow the risk limits and earn your rewards.
Withdraw Your Rewards
Request withdrawals using the approved payment methods.
- You can earn up to 90% of your simulated profits as a reward.
- Receive a 100% refund of your initial fee with your first reward withdrawal.
- Grow with FTMO through the Scaling Plan and Premium Program
Withdraw Your Rewards
Request withdrawals using the approved payment methods.
FTMO Challenge
Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size
Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.
Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size
Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.
Pass a 1-Step evaluation
Prove your trading skills, fulfil all Trading Objectives and progress to your FTMO Account in a single phase Evaluation Process.
Pass a 1-Step evaluation
Prove your trading skills, fulfil all Trading Objectives and progress to your FTMO Account in a single phase Evaluation Process.
FTMO Account
Congratulations! You’re now an FTMO Trader.
You keep trading with simulated capital, but now you earn a share of your simulated profits.
Congratulations! You’re now an FTMO Trader.
You keep trading with simulated capital, but now you earn a share of your simulated profits.
Show Your Best in Every Trade
There’s no Profit Target apart from your own. Just follow the risk limits and earn your rewards.
Show Your Best in Every Trade
There’s no Profit Target apart from your own. Just follow the risk limits and earn your rewards.
Withdraw Your Rewards
Request withdrawals using the approved payment methods.
- Your reward on your FTMO Account is 90% of your simulated profits. Now it is up to you and your performance.
- Grow with FTMO through the Scaling Plan and Premium Programme
Withdraw Your Rewards
Request withdrawals using the approved payment methods.
- Your reward on your FTMO Account is 90% of your simulated profits. Now it is up to you and your performance.
- Grow with FTMO through the Scaling Plan and Premium Programme
All steps comparison in a single table.
All steps comparison in a single table.
Frequently Asked Questions
Find your answers here!
Before you decide to start an FTMO Challenge, we want to make sure that you understand how the process works and what is expected from you.
After you sign up, you can either start the FTMO Challenge: 1-Step or the FTMO Challenge: 2-Stepright away, or— as we usually recommend — begin with our Free Trial. The Free Trial is a free, simplified version of the FTMO Challenge experience designed for pra... Read more
To become an FTMO Trader, you must successfully meet the conditions of one of our two products: FTMO Challenge: 1-Step or FTMO Challenge: 2-Step. Each product follows a different structure, which is outlined below.
FTMO Challenge: 2-Step
The FTMO Challenge: 2-Step consists of a two-step process.
Phase 1: FTMO Challenge
A demo account with fictitious capital where you trade according to our Read more
What happens next depends on whether you are participating in the FTMO Challenge: 1-Step or the FTMO Challenge: 2-Step, as each product follows a different structure.
FTMO Challenge: 2-Step
After you pass all the Trading Objectivesin your FTMO Challenge: 2-Step, you will see a notification in your Account MetriX informing you about your success. At this point, you no longer need to tr... Read more
FTMO Challenge: 1-Step is a simplified evaluation product that consists of a single evaluation phase. Unlike FTMO Challenge: 2-Step, it does not include a separate Verification phase.
From the perspective of Trading Objectives, the two products are structured differently. More detailed information about the specific Trading Objectives is available on the Trading Objectives page.
The evaluat... Read more
Rules for trading during macroeconomic news releases differ depending on whether you are participating in the FTMO Challenge: 1-Step, the FTMO Challenge: 2-Step, or already trading on an FTMO Account.
Within the FTMO Challenge: 1-Step, you may trade freely during all macroeconomic news releases without any restrictions. After successfully meeting the conditions of the FTMO Challenge: 1-Step and tran... Read more
Overnight and weekend position restrictions apply only to the Standard account type. The Swing account type does not have any restrictions on holding positions overnight over the weekend, or during news releases.
For Standard accounts, these restrictions apply only once you start trading on an FTMO Account. They do not apply during the Evaluation phase.
Evaluation phase (Standard account)... Read more
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