FTMO Prop Firm Details

Instant

• No single trading day can account for more than 30% of total profit at payouts.

1-Step standard

• Evaluation & Funded: No single trading day can account for more than 50% of total profit to pass the evaluation or at payouts.

Key rules

• Australian traders: Clients in Australia can use FTMO services which are facilitated via FTMO affiliated entity at https://ftmo.com/au/
• USA Traders: Clients in the United States of America can use FTMO services facilitated via our affiliated entity at https://ftmo.oanda.com

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Min trading days

2-Step Standard & 2- Step Swing

• Evaluation: 4 days | Funded: None

1-Step Standard

• None - 2 days based on the 50% Consistency rule

Instant

• None - 4 days based on the 30% Consistency rule

News Trading

2-Step Swing

• Allowed on both evaluation & funded with no restrictions

Instant, 1-Step Standard & 2-Step Standard

Evaluation:

• Allowed with no restrictions

Funded:

• On the targeted instruments, it is not permitted to open or close any trades, including pending orders (such as Stop Loss or Take Profit), within a time window starting 2 minutes before and ending 2 minutes after the release of high-impact news events. Violating this may result in termination of an FTMO Account / FTMO Instant Account.

Overnight and Weekend Holding

2-Step Swing

• Allowed on both evaluation & funded with no restrictions

Instant, 1-Step Standard & 2-Step Standard

Evaluation:

• Allowed with no restrictions

Funded:

• Holding trades over the weekend and over a market rollover period longer than 2 hours is prohibited. Violating may result in termination of an FTMO Account / FTMO Instant Account.

Crypto Trading on Weekends:

• Allowed on all account types with no restrictions

Third-Party Trading:

• Your account must not be traded by any third party.

Position Sizes:

• Opening significantly larger position sizes or substantially different numbers of positions compared to other trades is prohibited.

1%–1.5% Risk Guidance Rule

• FTMO recommends risking no more than 1%–1.5% of your initial account balance per trade, helping traders avoid high-risk behavior that may trigger risk monitoring, warnings, or protective restrictions intended to prevent gambling-style trading.

Forbidden Trading Practices:

• FTMO reserves the right to determine at its discretion if certain trades, practices, strategies, or situations are considered forbidden trading practices: Overleveraging, Overexposure, One-Sided bets, Account Rolling; https://ftmo.com/en/gambling-is-not-the-right-way-to-make-money/
• Forbidden Trading practices explained

Multiple Profile Accounts:*

• Opening multiple profile accounts is prohibited.

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Copy Trading

• Allowed, Copying other traders is strictly prohibited, you are the only one managing your accounts, and you respect the 400,000 simulated USD maximum capital allocation rule.

EAs:

• EAs are allowed. Max 2,000 server requests per day. Popular 3rd party EAs risk exceeding the 400k max capital allocation limit strategy, which may result in denial or suspension of the FTMO account.

Inactivity

• 30 days (You must open at least one trade every 30 days to prevent account termination due to inactivity. Alternatively, you can request to freeze your account for 7 days to 6 months to avoid termination.)

VPN/VPS Policy:

• Trading while travelling and the use of VPN/VPS is generally allowed. The only exception: traders must avoid logging into MetaTrader or cTrader from the United States, or setting their VPN/VPS geolocation to the US.

Profit splits

2-Step Standard & 2-Step Swing:

• 80%

Instant & 1-Step Standard:

• 90%

payout cycle:

• 14 Days across all programs

Instant Trailing Balance Drawdown on Withdrawal

• The Max Loss Limit does not reset or lock at the initial balance, it keeps trailing. Since withdrawing a Reward lowers your balance but not the limit, you must keep enough buffer to stay above it, as withdrawing below the limit breaches the account.

1-Step Standard Drawdown Reset

• The 1-Step Standard EOD Trailing drawdown resets after every withdrawal.

Minimum withdrawal Amount:

• $20 for Bank Wire and $50 for Crypto
• Note: Payouts via Visa Direct / Mastercard Send are capped at $20,000 and Skrill at $3,000. Bank transfer & Crypto payouts have no limit.

Scaling Plan

• Requirements: Minimum of 4 months cycle, At least 10% total net simulated profit, Process at least 2 rewards, Positive account balance at scale-up
• Benefits: Account Size increases by 25% in each scaling cycle, Upgraded reward to 90% (valid for 2-Step only), $2M scale-up cap, Continuous increase when criteria are met

FTMO Premium Programme

• https://ftmo.com/en/premium-programme/