E8 Futures - Futures Prop Firm Details

• E8 Signature: 35% (Funded only)
• E8 Zero: 40% (Evaluation only)

Minimum days:

• No

News:

• Yes - Signature and Zero, both stages.

EAs/bots/AI/semi-automation/HFT:

• No

Copying:

• Yes - own accounts only

Inactivity:

• one opened and closed trade every 7 days

Trading:

• 17:15-15:10 CT. Auto-close: Yes - 15:10 CT

Tick scalping:

• at least 50% of profit from trades held 10+ seconds

Positions within 2% of a product lock limit:

• No

Prohibited:

• illiquid/gapped-market exploitation, slow-feed/price errors, all-or-nothing trading, cross-account hedging, account rolling, illiquid-hour micro-scalping, wrong-month contracts, trader cooperation and CME-rule breaches.

Violations:

• termination/refund, possible funded-account denial/closure and lost profits; restrictions or withheld payouts may apply.

Signature (purchased after 2026-10-01 17:00 UTC):

• Payout caps, requests 1-2 / 3-4:
  • 25K - $1000 / $1250
  • 50K - $1250 / $2000
  • 100K - $2000 / $3000
  • 150K - $3000 / $3500

Signature buffer, 25K/50K/100K/150K:

• $1000/$2000/$3000/$4500
• No withdrawals from buffer.

Zero Starter cap per request:

• 25K - $600
• 50K - $1000
• 100K - $1500
• 150K - $2000

Zero Max cap per request:

• 25K - $1500
• 50K - $3000
• 100K - $5000
• 200K - $7000

Four payouts, then a free same-size Challenge. Accounts bought before the cutoff retain five payouts and prior caps.

Payouts use current-cycle profits; retained profits remain as buffer.