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At FTMO Australia , we want to give you options. That’s why we offer the flexibility to tailor your experience and choose between MT4, MT5, and cTrader. Pick the professional trading platform that suits you best.
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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 receive a shortened analysis of your trading performance. You may repeat the Free Trial multiple times to make sure you are fully prepared before starting either the FTMO Challenge: 1‑Step or the FTMO Challenge: 2‑Step.
Once you are ready to start an FTMO Challenge, you can configure your account here.
Please note that it is not possible to obtain an FTMO Account based on your performance in the Free Trial or on any external trading track record. To become an FTMO Trader, you must successfully meet the conditions of the selected product — FTMO Challenge: 1‑Step or FTMO Challenge: 2‑Step.
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.
The FTMO Challenge: 2‑Step consists of a two-step process.
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 commissions and spreads. If you successfully meet all requirements, you will proceed to the second and final step.
A demo account with fictitious capital where you verify your performance and consistency one last time. The rules in the Verification stage are simpler. For a detailed explanation of the rules, please visit the Trading Objectives page.
After you successfully pass the Verification stage, your trading results will be reviewed. Upon successful review, you may get the opportunity to become an FTMO Trader.
The FTMO Challenge: 1‑Step follows a different structure and does not include a second step.
In this product, you trade on a single demo account with fictitious capital and must meet all applicable Trading Objectives. Once your trading results are reviewed and approved, you may get the opportunity to become an FTMO Trader.
To conclude a contract for your FTMO Account, we will ask you to complete your identification where you will have to provide us with documents and information required by law. The conclusion of the contract is dependent on the finalisation of identification procedures in accordance with the FTMO Australia internal policies.
FTMO does not provide services to persons in/from selected countries specified here, persons listed on sanctions lists, persons with criminal records related to financial crime or terrorism, persons below 18 years of age, company trusts, or persons previously banned due to breaches of FTMO contractual requirements. If any of these circumstances are detected after an FTMO Account Agreement has been concluded, FTMO reserves the right to terminate the contract.
Please note that an FTMO Account is not granted based on any past trading track record.
What happens next depends on whether you are participating in the FTMO Challenge: 1‑Step or theFTMO Challenge: 2‑Step, as each product follows a different structure.
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 you have passed your FTMO Challenge: 2‑Step and will proceed to evaluate your trading results accordingly.
After approximately 1‑2 business days, we will send you new account login
credentials for the Verification stage.
The FTMO Challenge: 1‑Step does not include a Verification stage.
After you successfully pass all the Trading Objectives,
you will see a notification in your Account MetriX confirming that the Trading Objectives have been passed.
Once your trading results are reviewed and approved, you will be contacted
with the next steps related to obtaining an FTMO Account.
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 once all applicable Trading Objectives are met (Trading Objectives) and the results are reviewed. Afterwards, the trader may proceed directly to the FTMO Identity (KYC) process and, if approved, gain access to an FTMO Account.
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 close an existing trade on the targeted (as per the table) instrument in the window of 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after the release of the below news announcements. To clarify, we define executing a trade as opening or closing either a pending order (including stop loss or a take profit) or market execution in the simulated trading environment. You are allowed to hold your trade(s) on the targeted instrument(s) that were opened more than 2 minutes before the restricted news event. Be reminded that if your Stop Loss or Take Profit is activated/filled during the restricted time window of 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after, it may be taken as a violation of the FTMO Account Agreement. Other non-targeted instruments can be traded normally. E.g. You can trade EURGBP or AUDNZD during the US – NFP release. However, you should not open or close USDJPY or GBPUSD during the window of 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after the NFP release.
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 its respective instruments might have different trading hours that have to be adhered to.
Standard market hours are visible in the trading platforms and at our Symbols site, however, trading hours are routinely subject to changes based on major holidays or other events. All changes to standard market hours are announced in the Trading Updates section and we highly recommend visiting this page regularly.
section and we highly recommend visiting this page regularly.
In MetaTrader, when you open the Market Watch (Ctrl+M), right-click on the instrument of your interest, and choose ‘Specification’. In the dialogue window, scroll down and you can see the ‘Trade’ hours of the subject instrument. These are the standard market hours applicable most days (unless specified otherwise in the Trading Updates).
In the cTrader platform, open Markets – right‑click on the instrument of your interest, and choose ‘Market Symbol’. The trade hours will be displayed in the same dialogue window.
If you trade cryptocurrencies, some can be traded during specific hours of the weekend as well.
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