Trading Update | 8 Oct 2026

All times hereafter are expressed in MetaTrader platform time — GMT+3.

Best Day Rule is replaced by the Consistency rule

From Monday, 12 October 2026, 9:00, the Consistency rule will replace the Best Day Rule for all new orders of the 1-Step FTMO Challenge created on or after this date.

The same replacement applies to all FTMO Accounts (1-Step) merged on or after 12 October 2026.

Accounts from orders created before 12 October 2026, 9:00, stay under the Best Day Rule. This doesn’t change when you pass the FTMO Challenge, withdraw a Reward, or receive a subsequent FTMO Account as a result.

How the two rules differ

• The Best Day Rule compares your Best Day with your Positive Days’ Profit only. Positive Days’ Profit only counts the P&L from days that closed with a positive daily P&L.
• The Consistency rule compares your Best Day with your total profit. Total profit counts the P&L from all trading days, including days that closed with a loss.

Both rules measure your Best Day against the profit you make. The goal is to verify that your trading approach is consistent.

Neither rule can be breached. If you don’t meet the consistency requirement, you simply keep trading until you do.

Why we’re making this change

We’re making this change to more closely align the rules’ logic across our offering. The Consistency rule is stricter, and we want to be clear about that. Consistent performance is built across all trading days, and the days that go against you are part of that picture.

The full Consistency rule description will be on the Trading Objectives page once the change takes effect. You’ll also see your Consistency Rule results in Account MetriX.

Weekend Maintenance

We will perform scheduled maintenance on all trading platforms (MT4, MT5, TradingView, and cTrader) on Saturday, 10 Oct 2026, between 10:00 and 12:00.

IT Maintenance

On Saturday, 10 Oct 2026, between 10:00 and 11:30, our IT teams will perform infrastructure optimisation of supporting systems, which will cause disruptions to some parts of our services.

• The Client Area will be inaccessible or experience disruptions, resulting in temporary unavailability of services such as Account MetriX, KYC, payouts, billing, new order purchases, and others.
• Automatic email communication may experience delays during the maintenance period, but all emails will be sent once the maintenance is complete.
• Our web pages will be operational.
• Our chat and email support will be available during this time, but due to system disruptions, their ability to assist with account- or order-specific queries will be limited. We kindly ask you for patience during this time.

During the maintenance window above, trading on the specified platforms will be disabled, and access may be fully restricted.

Hong Kong Chung Yeung Festival

Due to the Chung Yeung Festival holiday in Hong Kong, HK50.cash will be closed whole day on Monday, 19 Oct 2026.

Overnight rollover swaps are subject to regular changes and adjustments, reflecting, among other things, interest rate differentials and dividend adjustments. If you are holding positions overnight, please be reminded that it is your responsibility to check these swaps in the contract specification for each symbol, and to adjust (if needed) and manage your positions accordingly. FTMO is not responsible for trading results affected by swap changes or adjustments.

The situation in Ukraine – geopolitical development, sanctions, and markets

Due to the war in Ukraine, traders can experience increased uncertainty in the markets, accompanied by increased volatility on many assets, along with the possibility of price spikes, whipsaws, flash crashes, spread widening and liquidity supply issues. Traders are advised to pay extra caution while trading during these times. Risk management and capital preservation should be the key focus of every trader, just as being aware and adaptive to the market conditions that might be unpredictable or risky.

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Unfortunately, at this time, we are not allowed to process payments to regions of Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine and our clients from there, as per the latest sanctions imposed in connection with the war in Ukraine. There are also sanctions targeting some Russian banks and high-profile individuals. We are not allowed to process any payouts to clients and banks on the sanction list. Payouts to our clients from/in the subject locations, or being subject to the sanctions list, will be possible once the imposed sanctions are lifted. Crypto payouts are included in the restrictions.