How It Works
Become an FTMO Trader in just three focused steps. This guide covers what you need to know about simulated trading with FTMO.
FTMO Challenge
Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size
Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.
Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size
Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.
Make Your First Trade
Log in to the platform and place your first simulated trade.
Make Your First Trade
Log in to the platform and place your first simulated trade.
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.
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.
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
All steps comparison in a single table.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find your answers here!
Before you decide to accept an FTMO Challenge, we want to make sure that you know what you are up against.
After you sign up, you can either start an FTMO Challenge right away or, as we usually recommend, start with our Free Trial, which is a free version of our FTMO Challenge intended for practicing purposes. In the Free Trial, you will also have the possibility to test some of our Trading Applications and you will also receive a shortened analysis version of your performance in the Free Tri...
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Apart from the exceptions listed below, we accept clients globally, as depicted in the accompanying map.
No specific qualifications are required. All clients must be over the age of 18. Whether you are a beginner or already know your way around trading and are interested in improving yourself, then you’re the person we’re looking for. Whether you're a beginner or already an experienced trader looking to improve, you're welcome to join. FTMO offers its services worldwide in over 140 countries...
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After you pass all the Trading Objectives in your FTMO Challenge, your Account MetriX will display a notification indicating that the objectives have been met. At this stage, you no longer need to continue using the FTMO Challenge account. We will be automatically alerted that you have passed your FTMO Challenge, and we will proceed to evaluate your results accordingly.
After successful evaluation of your results, approximately after 1-2 business days, we will then send you the new account lo...
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In order to become an FTMO Trader, you will have to pass our 2-step Evaluation Process.
Step 1: FTMO Challenge
A demo account with fictitious capital where you will have to trade according to our Trading Objectives. You will have superior account conditions in the form of our own FTMO solution with very low commissions and spreads. If you manage to pass all requirements, you will proceed to the second and final step of the evaluation.
Step 2: Verification
A demo account with fictitious c...
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We are headquartered in the heart of Europe and our office is conveniently located right in the historical centre of Prague, easily accessible by all means. The address is Prague 1, Purkynova str. 2121/3, 110 00, Czech Republic, you’ll find us at the top of the Quadrio office building If you wish to visit us, let us know in advance so we can inform our reception and we will be happy to meet up with you and show you around.
You can also contact us through a contact form, email, our 24/7 Live C...
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Our FTMO Challenge is the first step of our Evaluation Process. Before you can get your FTMO Account, we need to be sure you can trade responsibly and manage risk properly as, in the future, we can use your simulated trades performed via the FTMO Account when trading on our own account on real financial markets. The FTMO Challenge stage has reasonable rules, where the Profit Target is in balance with the drawdown we allow you to take. We call these rules Trading Objectives.
There is no time l...
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