- 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‑Step right 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 practice purposes.
Within the Free Trial, you can test some of our Trading Applications and rece...
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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 Trading Objectives.You will benefit from our proprietary FTMO trading solution with very low commi...
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What happens next depends on whether you are participating in theFTMO Challenge: 1‑Step or theFTMO Challenge: 2‑Step, as each product follows a different structure.
FTMO Challenge: 2‑Step
After you pass all the Trading Objectives in 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 trade on the account, as all Trading Objectives are marked as passed.
We will be automatically notified that ...
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What is FTMO Challenge: 1‑Step and how does it differ from FTMO Challenge: 2‑Step?
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 evaluation is completed ...
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Australian clients have access to the FTMO Account Swing with up to 1:30 leverage, which uniquely offers no restrictions on news trading or holding trades over the weekend. Should Australian clients meet the criteria as Professional traders they become eligible for the FTMO Account with 1:100 leverage, where specific rules regarding news and weekend trading restrictions are applicable.
Only our professional FTMO Traders trading with 1:100 leverage are NOT allowed to execute any new trade or c...
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Australian clients holding an FTMO Account Swing are not required to close their positions overnight or during the weekend.
However, if you become a professional trader and get a FTMO Account with 1:100 leverage, we require you to close your positions just before the markets close for the weekend or if the rollover (market break) is longer than 2 hours. Our Australian professional FTMO Traders having the FTMO Account with 1:100 leverage must respect the market timings. Every asset class and i...
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