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…

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…

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