FTMO Prop Firm Details

1-Step standard Best Day Rule

• Evaluation & Funded: No single trading day can account for more than 50% of the total profit

Key rules

Australian Traders

• Clients in Australia can use FTMO services which are facilitated via our affiliated VRGK entity as 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

Minimum Trading Days

2-Step Standard & 2-Step Swing

• 4 days - Evaluation: 4 days | Funded: None

1-Step Standard

• None - 2 days based on 50% Consistency rule

News Trading

• Allowed: Swing accounts (Both funded and evaluation phase), Standard accounts (Evaluation phase only)
• Not allowed: Standard accounts (Funded stage only)
• On the targeted instruments, it is not permitted to open or close any trades, including pending orders (including Stop Loss or Take Profit), within a time window starting 2 minutes before and ending 2 minutes after the release of selected news announcements.

Weekend Trades

• Holding trades over the weekend and over a market rollover period longer than 2 hours is prohibited for funded traders (Standard accounts only). Standard Market hours are available on trading platforms and at: https://ftmo.com/en/symbols/. All changes to standard market hours are announced in the Trading Updates section: https://ftmo.com/en/trading-updates/

Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Allowed on all account types with no restrictions

Capital Allocation Limit

• FTMO Traders; 400k max capital per strategy per person. Accounts with identical trading strategies exceeding $400,000 allocated capital may be suspended. Prime Status; 600k. Supreme Prime Status; 1Million

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: https://ftmo.com/en/forbidden-trading-practices

Multiple Profile Accounts

• Opening multiple profile accounts is prohibited.

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 Rule

• 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 split

• 2-Step Standard & 2-Step Swing: 80%
• 1-Step Standard: 90%

Payout cycle

• 14 Days

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% with each scaling cycle. Rewards upgraded to 90% (valid for 2-Step only), with a $2M scale-up cap. Continuous increases apply when criteria are met.

FTMO Premium Programme

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