Our flagship since 2015 and the industry standard. A two-phase Evaluation Process designed to strengthen your discipline.
The FTMO Challenge is the first phase. It’s a test of your trading skills with clear, structured rules. Your goal is to show consistent and responsible trading.
Verification is a second phase. You’ll follow the same rules as before, but with a lower Profit Target. This phase is designed to verify consistency.
After successfully completing the Identity Verification and consenting to the FTMO Account Agreement, you become an FTMO Trader with FTMO Account (2-Step).
Here are the Trading Objectives for 2-Step FTMO Challenge. Detailed description can be found here.
10% + 5%
10% + 5%
100%
100%
Up to 90%
Up to 90%
10%
5%
4 Days
Unlimited
Complete FTMO’s Trading Objectives to become eligible to gain your demo FTMO Account.
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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…
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 commissions and…
After you pass all the Trading Objectives in your FTMO Challenge, you will see a notification in your Account MetriX informing you about your success, and you won’t need to trade the account anymore as your Trading Objectives are marked as passed. We will be automatically alerted that you have passed your FTMO Challenge and we will proceed to evaluate your trading results accordingly.
After approximately 1-2 business days, we will then send you the new account login credentials for…
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…
Rules for trading during macroeconomic news releases differ depending on whether you are participating in the Evaluation Process or already trading on an FTMO Account.
FTMO Challenge: 1-Step
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 transitioning to an FTMO Account, the standard rules for trading during selected macroeconomic news releases apply, as described below.
FTMO Challenge:…
In an FTMO Challenge or Verification, you don’t have to. During these stages, you can keep your positions open overnight and over the weekend as well.
However, once you become an FTMO Trader and get an FTMO Account, 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 FTMO Traders having the FTMO Account must respect the market timings. Every asset class and…
