Firm rules compared

Daily loss 2–5% and max loss 6–12% static, depending on the model.

• 2-Step Standard: 3% or 5% daily, 10% max. 2-Step Pro: 3% daily, 6% max.
• 2-Step Flex: 4% daily, 12% max. 1-Step Flex: 2% or 3% daily, 12% max.
• The daily limit is taken from the higher of the day's opening balance or equity.

Free during the evaluation. On Master accounts, profit is deducted from trades opened or closed 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news.

• Trades opened 5 hours or more before the news are exempt.
• Deliberately trading the news spike can close the account, even in evaluation.
• Zero accounts: no trades open within 10 minutes of high-impact news.

Allowed during the evaluation. On Master accounts, open trades are closed automatically every night unless you bought the Swing add-on.

• Auto-close runs 21:45–22:00 UTC in winter and 20:45–21:00 UTC in summer. It is not a breach.
• Zero accounts: holding anything over the weekend closes the account.

Third-party EAs are allowed only as a trade or risk manager.

• Full automation is allowed only with your own EA and proof that you own it.
• No EAs at all in the Monthly Competition.

Only between your own FundingPips accounts, or from FundingPips out to an external account.

• Copying signals or other traders into a FundingPips account is banned.
• Use the investor (read-only) password when you set up the copier.

For On-Demand payouts, no day can be more than 35% of total profit, and you need 7 profitable days (0.5% or more each).

• Zero accounts: 15% consistency score and 7 profitable days of 0.25% or more.

2-Step Standard: 3 days per phase. 2-Step Flex: 1 day per phase. 2-Step Pro and 1-Step Flex: none.

• Opening and closing a 0.01 lot is enough to count a day on Pro and Flex.

No closed trade in 30 days breaches the account.

• A trade only counts once it's closed. Leaving one open doesn't reset the timer.

Hedging, gap trading, HFT, tick scalping, latency arbitrage, opposite-account trading and account management by others.

• Any of these ends the account immediately.
• Your IP region should stay consistent. If you trade while travelling, keep proof such as a boarding pass.

Daily loss: 4% of the starting balance (3% on the 300K Nitro). Max loss: 6% trailing on 1-Step Nitro, 10% static on 2-Step Plus.

• The daily limit resets at 5 PM New York time and includes open trades.
• Nitro's trailing limit stops moving once you're 6% in profit. It then stays at your starting balance.

Allowed on every program.

• News scalping (opening and closing within seconds around FOMC, NFP or CPI) is banned.

You can hold trades overnight and over the weekend on every program.

Trading bots are allowed on all accounts and phases.

• Banned bots: HFT, news scalping, tick scalping, arbitrage and bots that exploit the demo server.

Trade copiers are allowed as long as the trades are your own.

• You can copy from your own accounts, even at other firms or brokers.
• Copying signals or other traders, or running the same bot as another FTM trader, is banned.

1-Step Nitro: your best day can't be more than 50% of the profit target in the challenge, or 45% of total profit when funded. 2-Step Plus: no consistency rule.

• If you go over, you just keep trading until your best day is back under the limit.

1-Step Nitro challenge: none. 2-Step Plus: 3 days per phase. Funded accounts: 5 days before a payout.

• On funded accounts, only days with at least 0.5% profit count.

Trades must stay open for at least 1 minute.

• Funded: profit from trades under 1 minute is removed (no breach).
• Challenge: if those trades make over 20% of the target profit, you have to redo the challenge.

30 days without trading can close the account.

• Planned holidays can be excused if you tell support in advance.

Hedging or martingale across several accounts, group trading, account management services, arbitrage, HFT and tick scalping.

• Hedging, martingale and layering are fine inside a single account.
• Several traders in one household must tell the verification team first.

Depends on the plan. Alpha Pro 10%: 5% daily loss and 10% static max loss.

• Alpha One and Alpha Direct use a trailing max loss that follows your highest balance.
• The daily limit resets at 00:00 GMT+2.
• Funded accounts bought after 21 July 2026: max 2–3% open loss on any one asset (1% on Alpha Direct).

Free during evaluations. Funded accounts can't open or close trades 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news.

• Profits from those trades are removed, but the account stays open.
• Trades opened before the window can stay open.
• Alpha Swing: 2 minutes either side, and trades must last over 2 minutes.

Overnight is allowed on every plan. Weekend holding is allowed on Swing, One and Three, and during Alpha Pro evaluations.

• Not allowed on Alpha Pro funded accounts or Alpha Direct. On Alpha Pro funded, weekend-trade profits are removed.

MT5 only, and only as trade or risk management tools.

• Fully automated bots are banned.
• Every EA needs approval: choose "Enable EA" at checkout and send the file to support.

Allowed from your own accounts, after you tell support.

• Send support the master and slave account numbers before you start.
• Copying other traders or signals counts as group trading and is banned.

No consistency score is listed in their help center.

Alpha Pro, Swing and Three: 3 days per phase. Alpha One: 1 day.

• There's no maximum time limit.

Your average trade must last more than 2 minutes.

• At least 50% of the profit must come from trades longer than 2 minutes.
• Break it in evaluation and you restart from Phase 1. Funded: profits are removed.

30 days without trading closes the account for good.

• Logging in doesn't count. You need to place a trade.

Arbitrage, HFT, latency trading, hedging across accounts, position spamming, signal following and account management.

• Hedging inside one account is allowed, but not to lock in a price.

E8 One: 4% daily loss and 6% trailing max loss. E8 Pro: 2.5% daily loss and 6% static max loss (default settings).

• You can change the drawdown at checkout, and the price changes with it.
• E8 One's trailing limit moves up only when you close a profit, and stops at your starting balance.
• E8 Pro has a 2% daily profit cap: you can make more, but only 2% a day counts.

E8 Pro: allowed at all times. E8 One: free in the challenge, but funded accounts can't open or close trades 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news.

• Profits from E8 One trades in that window are removed when you request a payout.
• Only the instruments affected by the news are restricted.

Overnight and weekend holding are allowed on E8 One and E8 Pro.

• On E8 Signature, every trade is closed at 23:00 server time.

Any EA is allowed, as long as other traders aren't running the same one.

• E8 recommends using your own EA, since shared EAs can get accounts closed.

Allowed between any accounts that belong to you, at E8 or elsewhere.

• Copying other traders, trading as a team or using signal services is banned.

E8 One funded accounts: no single day can be more than 40% of your total profit. E8 Pro: no consistency rule.

• E8 Pro payouts need at least 1% profit, and you can request one every day.

None. You can pass in a single day, with no time limit.

No more than 50% of your trades can be held for under 1 minute.

• Max 50 lots per order (20 on gold), 100 open orders, and 2,000 trades per day.

Place and close at least one trade every 60 days, or the account is closed.

• Even a 0.01 lot trade counts.
• Tell support before a long trip.

Hedging across accounts (even your own), risking your whole daily limit on one trade, team trading and signal services.

• Hedging inside one account is allowed.
• One profile per person, and the allocation limit is shared by everyone in the same household.

Stellar 2-Step: 5% daily loss and 10% max loss, both from the starting balance.

• The daily limit resets at 00:00 server time and counts open trades, swaps and fees.
• Funded accounts: your total open risk can't go over 3% of the starting balance at any time.

Free during challenges. On funded accounts, only 40% of the profit counts from trades opened or closed 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news.

• It only applies to news that affects the symbol you trade.
• Losses in that window stay fully on your account.

Overnight and weekend holding are allowed on Stellar accounts.

• Swaps are charged and count toward the daily loss.

EAs are allowed.

• Don't pass with an EA and then trade manually on the funded account, or the other way round.
• HFT, grid, tick-scalping and latency bots are banned.

Only between your own challenge accounts, up to $300K in total.

• Not to or from funded accounts, and never with other people.
• Cloud copiers such as Social Trader Tools or Duplikum are banned.

For On-Demand payouts, your best day can't be more than 40% of total profit.

• Keep the same strategy, assets and risk size when you move from challenge to funded.

Stellar 2-Step: 5 trading days per phase, with no time limit.

Quick Strike: profitable trades closed within 30 seconds can't make 30% or more of your profit.

• You get a warning at 20%.
• Challenge: progress is paused until you're back under 30%. Funded: that profit is removed.

No trade for 30 days and the account is deactivated.

• Weekends and holidays count toward the 30 days.

Grid trading, arbitrage, tick scalping, HFT, hedging across accounts, account rolling and account management by others.

• Also banned: more than 200 trades in a day, and trading the 00:00–02:00 settlement window.
• Hedging inside one account is allowed.

Depends on the model. 1-Step Standard: 3% daily, 6% trailing. 2-Step Standard: 5% daily, 8% static.

• 1-Step Flex: 3% daily, 12% static. 2-Step Pro: 5% daily, 10% trailing. 2-Step Elite: 4% daily, 12% static.
• The daily limit resets at 00:00 UTC from the higher of balance or equity.
• WaveStop on funded 1-Step Standard, 2-Step Standard and 2-Step Pro: open trades are all closed at −2%.

Allowed, but profit from trades opened or closed 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news is capped at 0.5% of the starting balance per payout cycle.

• Anything above the cap is removed, with no breach.
• FOMC speeches and statements count too.

You can hold trades overnight and over the weekend, with no restrictions.

EAs are allowed if they're part of your own strategy.

• No max lot size, and no stop loss required.

Allowed between your own accounts: AquaFunded to AquaFunded, funded to evaluation, or to and from external accounts.

• The accounts must all be legally yours.

None on the 1-Step and 2-Step challenges listed here.

• Instant funding has one: 15% on Standard and 20% on Pro. 1-Step Pro has one too.

1-Step Standard, 2-Step Standard and 2-Step Elite: 3 days. 1-Step Flex and 2-Step Pro: none in the evaluation, 3 days when funded.

• Only days with at least 0.5% profit count.
• No time limit.

Trades held under 2 minutes can be treated as tick scalping.

• On funded accounts, profit from those trades may be removed.

Place at least one trade every 30 days, or the account is breached.

• The clock starts from your first trade.

Tick scalping, HFT, arbitrage, delayed data feeds, and using more than 80% of your margin on one trade.

• Profits from trades over the 80% margin limit are deducted.
• Hedging inside one account and martingale are allowed.
• Don't change the platform password they send you.