How FTMO
Futures Works

From your first Evaluation to daily payouts on a Live Funded Account. Here's exactly how the journey works, step by step.

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Step 1 Evaluation

Step 2 Sim-Funded

Step 3 Live Funded

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Evaluation

Trade Futures in a simulated environment, hit your Profit Target, and stay within the Trading Objectives. There's no time limit. Prove your discipline in Evaluation to move on to your Sim-Funded Account to access payouts.

Pick Your Account

Choose Pro or Growth and a size from $50K to $150K. A bigger size means a bigger target and higher limits.

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Pick Your Account

Choose Pro or Growth and a size from $50K to $150K. A bigger size means a bigger target and higher limits.

Hit the Profit Target

Reach your target while respecting the risk rules:

Stay within your Max Drawdown. Pro accounts also have a Hard Daily Loss Limit.
Consistency Rule: your best day counts for max 50% of total profit on Pro, 40% on Growth.

Hit the Profit Target

Reach your target while respecting the risk rules:

Stay within your Max Drawdown. Pro accounts also have a Hard Daily Loss Limit.
Consistency Rule: your best day counts for max 50% of total profit on Pro, 40% on Growth.

Progress at Your Own Pace

Take the time you need. No minimum trading days, one monthly subscription, and an Evaluation reset for a reduced fee if you need to start over.

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Progress at Your Own Pace

Take the time you need. No minimum trading days, one monthly subscription, and an Evaluation reset for a reduced fee if you need to start over.

Sim-Funded Account

Successfully pass the Evaluation and you're upgraded to a Sim-Funded Account. Same simulated environment, but now you earn real payouts. No targets, no consistency rule. Just trade within the risk limits.

Trade Within the Risk Limits

No Profit Target and no Consistency Rule. Your Max Drawdown still applies. Growth gets a softer Daily Loss Limit, Pro keeps a hard one.

Trade Within the Risk Limits

No Profit Target and no Consistency Rule. Your Max Drawdown still applies. Growth gets a softer Daily Loss Limit, Pro keeps a hard one.

Withdraw Your Profits

Earn real payouts based on your consistent performance.

Hit 5 qualifying days on Pro, 4 on Growth, each above a minimum daily profit.
Keep 90% of the simulated profits you generate.
Request a payout every 5 days on Pro, every 4 on Growth, up to your payout cap.

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Withdraw Your Profits

Earn real payouts based on your consistent performance.

Hit 5 qualifying days on Pro, 4 on Growth, each above a minimum daily profit.
Keep 90% of the simulated profits you generate.
Request a payout every 5 days on Pro, every 4 on Growth, up to your payout cap.

Live Funded Account

Reach the top step. Move to a Live Funded Account backed by FTMO capital and reach daily payouts. The only Trading Objective left is your Max Drawdown.

Not automatic: the Live Funded Account is offered by invitation only, after FTMO validates your Sim-Funded trading.

Clear the One-Time Buffer

Before your first payout you clear a one-time buffer on your account. Then it's gone for good.

Clear the One-Time Buffer

Before your first payout you clear a one-time buffer on your account. Then it's gone for good.

Daily Payouts

Once your buffer is cleared, you can request a payout daily.

Withdraw your profit above the buffer daily, with no payout cap.
Your payout ratio stays 90 / 10.
A market data fee applies for access to live market data - we cover one exchange for you.

Daily Payouts

Once your buffer is cleared, you can request a payout daily.

Withdraw your profit above the buffer daily, with no payout cap.
Your payout ratio stays 90 / 10.
A market data fee applies for access to live market data - we cover one exchange for you.

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Frequently Asked Questions

An FTMO Trader is an FTMO client who holds a Sim-Funded Account and is eligible to receive monetary payouts.

An FTMO Live Funded Trader is an FTMO client who manages a Live Funded Account.

The journey to becoming an FTMO Trader or an FTMO Live Funded Trader is as follows:

Phase 1: Evaluation

You trade on a simulated futures account and must meet all its Trading Objectives, such as the Profit Target and Consistency Rule, without breaching your Max Drawdown…

Evaluations

There is no limit on the number of Evaluations you can run at once, and each account runs on its own monthly subscription.

Sim-Funded Accounts

You can hold up to three Sim-Funded Accounts at the same time, shared across the Growth and Pro products.

There is no maximum total capital allocation across your accounts; the limit is simply the maximum number of Sim-Funded Accounts. Holding more accounts through multiple separate registrations is not permitted.

Apart from the exceptions listed below, FTMO Futures is available to clients globally, and we accept registrations from natural persons only.

If you are already registered with FTMO as a self-employed person or a legal entity, please contact us at [email protected] for more information on the next steps.

No specific qualifications are required. Whether you are a beginner or already know your way around trading and are interested in improving yourself, you're the person we're looking for.

FTMO Futures availability…

An FTMO Trader can request a payout from a Sim-Funded Account once the conditions outlined on the Trading Objectives and Rules page are met. Please familiarise yourself with those payout conditions to understand them all and prevent violating the Maximum Drawdown on a Pro Sim-Funded Account by requesting a full withdrawal.

Upon confirming the withdrawal request in the Client Area, all open positions and pending orders are closed, and a calculator displays the available payout. After the trader completes the…

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