How It Works

Become an FTMO Trader. This guide covers what you need to know about simulated trading with FTMO.

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FTMO Challenge

Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size

Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.

Start FTMO Challenge

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.

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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.

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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.

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

FTMO Challenge

Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size

Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.

Start FTMO Challenge

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.

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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

Start Your FTMO Challenge Today Pick your FTMO Challenge size and start

FTMO Challenge Free Trial

All phases comparison in a single table.

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All phases comparison in a single table.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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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…

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: 1-Step

The FTMO Challenge: 1-Step does not include a Verification phase. After you successfully pass all the Trading Objectives in your FTMO Challenge, you will see a notification in your Account MetriX confirming that the Trading Objectives have been passed and your account is set for review.

Once your results are verified,…

Restrictions for trading during selected news releases apply only to the Standard account type. The Swing account type have no restrictions on trading 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 Process.

Evaluation Process

While trading during the Evaluation Process, the restriction does not apply regardless of the account type (Standard account or Swing). You may trade freely during all…

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…

Our system allows you to modify certain parameters of your account, provided that no trade has been placed on the current account. For FTMO Accounts, the modification can be processed after each Reward withdrawal.

Available modification for FTMO Challenge: 1-Step or subsequent FTMO Account:

Platform modification

The modification from the Standard account type to the Swing account type is unavailable because the Swing account type is not offered for the FTMO Challenge: 1-Step.

Available modification for FTMO Challenge: 2-Step or…

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 or over the weekend.

For Standard accounts, these restrictions apply only once you start trading on an FTMO Account. They do not apply during the Evaluation Process.

Evaluation Process

While trading during the Evaluation Process, the restriction does not apply regardless of the account type (Standard account or Swing). You are allowed…

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