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Opens ftmo.com, the domain we read this firm’s rules on.

2
account models
$79
cheapest challenge
11
official sources

72% of this sheet is answered

53 with a value, 18 the firm does not publish, 26 not verified, 1 we cannot read

47 captures from 11 official sources, the oldest read 95 days ago

Firm data

Jurisdiction
Czechia
no source link
Years operating
10 years
no source link
Account models
2
Max allocation
$400,000
no source link
Server request cap
2000 per day
sourceAug 14, 2026
Mandatory stop loss
Not required
no source link
Not verified
○ 8 fields
  • Maximum trades per day
  • Platforms
  • Inactivity
  • Minimum time in market
  • Daily forced close
  • Simulated capital
  • Broker behind it
  • Consistency (firm-wide)
The firm may publish these on its own site. We show them apart because they are not verified at the source.

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Who they accept

Identity check
FTMO Identity, before you get the FTMO account
How you can pay
see the payment methods FAQ
  • minimum age and restricted countries: not yet read on their site

The lines without quotation marks are ours, not the firm’s: notes the census took while reading their page. Only what sits inside quotation marks is the firm’s own wording.

Where you live decides whether you can buy at all. A price table has no column for that. Published as the firm publishes it, with the page it was read on.

sourceAug 11, 2026

On-chain payouts

Paid to traders, measured on-chain

This firm does not appear in the on-chain payout aggregator.

Only 39 of the 102 firms in the census appear in the on-chain aggregator. A firm that pays by bank transfer does not show up here, and that does not mean it does not pay. It means this figure cannot be checked on a blockchain.

Expressly prohibited8

Recorded in Spanish. We store a reading of these practices rather than the firm’s literal wording, so this is a paraphrase and not a quote. The source link beside each block is the firm’s own page.

  • Exploiting faults in the service: wrongly displayed prices or delays in updating them
  • Simultaneous opposite positions across several connected accounts or with other traders. Hedging within a single account is allowed
  • Software, AI or ultra-high-speed tools that give an unfair edge
  • Gap trading: opening positions within the 2 hours before a market close of 2+ hours, or during scheduled news or major economic data affecting the relevant markets
  • EAs that generate more than 2,000 requests a day
  • Splitting profit artificially with hedging to dodge the Best Day Rule
  • Unrealistic position size: opening substantially larger positions, or a substantially larger or smaller number of positions, than the account's typical activity
  • Giving third parties access to the account or accessing someone else's
no source link

Firm-wide rules

RuleWhat the firm saysSource
News tradingrestrictedno source link
Holding over the weekendnot allowedIn the evaluation you can hold overnight and over the weekend with any account type. On an FTMO Standard account you have to close shortly before the weekly close, or if the rollover lasts more than 2 hoursno source link
Holding overnightallowedsourceAug 14, 2026
Robots and expert advisorsallowedno source link
Hedging in the same accountallowedsourceAug 14, 2026
Hedging across accountsnot allowedsourceAug 14, 2026
Trading via VPNallowedsourceAug 14, 2026
Using a VPSallowedsourceAug 14, 2026
Not verified○ 6 rules
  • Hedging against outside
  • Copying across your accounts
  • Copying someone else
  • HFT
  • Several accounts at once
  • Risk cap per trade
The firm may publish these on its own site. We show them apart because they are not verified at the source.

These are the rules the firm publishes for all its accounts. Where a specific model says otherwise, the model wins, and it appears below with its own source.

The 2 account models

FTMO Challenge 2-Step

2 steps

Before you buy

Only what can close your account, taken from the census. Every line with its source. There is no severity ranking and no recommendation. What fits you depends on how you trade.

Prices

Careful: this firm publishes its prices in euros, not in dollars. It stays out of cross-firm price comparisons until there is a conversion with its date.

Account sizePrice
$10,000€89
$25,000€250
$50,000€345
$100,000€540
$200,000€1,080
sourceJul 27, 2026

Fee refundreturned once you get a funded account«with the first profit withdrawal»sourceAug 11, 2026

Scaling plan

  • Scaling Plan and Premium Programme (detail pending)

Read, not quoted. This is our reading of the rule, not the firm’s own wording, and it is recorded in Spanish. Treat it as a paraphrase. It carries no source link, so there is nothing here to check it against.

no source link

What disqualifies you

Drawdown type
Static, from the starting balance
sourceAug 11, 2026
Maximum total loss
10%sourceAug 11, 2026
Maximum daily loss
5%sourceAug 11, 2026
Phase 1 target
10%no source link
Phase 2 target
5%
no source link
Minimum trading days
4

any day on which you open at least one position

no source link
Consistency rule
The Best Day rule (50%) is exclusive to the 1-Step mode
Profit split
80%
sourceAug 11, 2026
your equity the floor: below it, account closed$100,000 account. The floor starts at $90,000, because the firm publishes 10%.This floor never reaches the curve, so the account survives.The curve never changes, only the floor does. A demonstration of the rule, not a market simulation. Try other numbers

Your odds of passing FTMO Challenge 2-Step

Getting paid

  • bank transfer
  • Visa Direct / Mastercard Send
  • Skrill
  • crypto
First payout after
14 days
Fee on your payout
none, they say so
  • They take: 1-2 business days of review and 1-2 business days more after the invoice is approved

sourceAug 11, 2026

Rules

News trading

Silence window2 min before, 2 min after

In evaluationallowedsourceAug 10, 2026
In a funded accountrestrictedno source link

Holding over the weekend

In evaluationallowedsourceAug 10, 2026
In a funded accountnot allowedIn the evaluation you can hold overnight and over the weekend with any account type. On an FTMO Standard account you have to close shortly before the weekly close, or if the rollover lasts more than 2 hoursno source link

Robots and expert advisors

In evaluationallowedsourceAug 10, 2026
In a funded accountallowedsourceAug 10, 2026
FTMO Challenge 1-Step

FTMO Challenge 1-Step

1 step

Before you buy

Prices

Careful: this firm publishes its prices in euros, not in dollars. It stays out of cross-firm price comparisons until there is a conversion with its date.

Account sizePrice
$10,000€79
$25,000€199
$50,000€319
$100,000€499
$200,000€999
sourceAug 14, 2026

Fee refundnot returned«NOT refunded»sourceAug 11, 2026

What disqualifies you

Drawdown type
Trailing on the end-of-day balance

End-of-day trailing on the highest balance reached; it can only go up. When you withdraw the reward it goes back to 90% of the balance

sourceAug 11, 2026
Maximum total loss
10%sourceAug 11, 2026End-of-day trailing on the highest balance reached; it can only go up. When you withdraw the reward it goes back to 90% of the balance
Maximum daily loss
3%sourceAug 11, 2026
Phase 1 target
10%no source link
Minimum trading days
not verified
Consistency rule
50%
sourceAug 11, 2026
When it applies
the source has a value we cannot classify both: the 1-Step Challenge (to pass) and the 1-Step FTMO Account (to get paid)
Profit split
90%
sourceAug 11, 2026
your equity the floor: below it, account closed$100,000 account. The floor starts at $90,000, because the firm publishes 10%.This floor never reaches the curve, so the account survives.

Your odds of passing FTMO Challenge 1-Step

Getting paid

  • bank transfer
  • Visa Direct / Mastercard Send
  • Skrill
  • crypto
First payout after
14 days
Fee on your payout
none, they say so
  • They take: 1-2 business days of review and 1-2 business days more after the invoice is approved

sourceAug 11, 2026

If you break it It is not a rule violation: it forces you to keep trading until you meet it sourceAug 11, 2026

Rules

News trading

Silence window2 min before, 2 min after

In evaluationallowedsourceAug 10, 2026
In a funded accountrestrictedno source link

Holding over the weekend

In evaluationallowedsourceAug 10, 2026
In a funded accountnot allowedIn the evaluation you can hold overnight and over the weekend with any account type. On an FTMO Standard account you have to close shortly before the weekly close, or if the rollover lasts more than 2 hoursno source link

Robots and expert advisors

In evaluationallowedsourceAug 10, 2026
In a funded accountallowedsourceAug 10, 2026

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Questions about FTMO

Is FTMO worth checking, and where do these numbers come from?

We do not rate firms. What we can tell you is what it publishes and where we read it: 2 account models on this page, 11 official pages of theirs cited, and 47 dated readings behind the figures. Anything they do not publish is shown as a gap, not filled in.

How long has FTMO been operating?

10 years, by their own account. Only 35 of the 102 firms in the census publish it. It is not a guarantee of anything, but a firm that has been paying for years is a different bet from one that opened last quarter.

How much does a FTMO challenge cost?

From $79 for a $10,000 account up to $1,080 for a $200,000 one, across their 2 models. A cheap fee on a small account is not a cheap account, so the table on this page keeps size and price together, and every figure links to the page it was read on. The fee buys the attempt, not the account.

Can you trade the news at FTMO?

With conditions. FTMO allows it but fences it, usually with a window of minutes either side of a high-impact release. The condition is what matters, so read it on their page before you size a position around a number.

Can you hold positions over the weekend at FTMO?

No. FTMO requires positions to be flat before the weekend close. If your strategy holds for days, this rule alone rules the firm out, and it is easier to check now than on a Friday evening.

Does FTMO allow bots and expert advisors?

Yes. FTMO allows automated trading on a funded account. Worth pairing with their rules on copy trading and on running the same strategy across accounts, which are separate rules and often stricter.

What profit split does FTMO pay?

Up to 90% on their best model, not on all of them, so check the model you are buying in the table above. A split only pays out if you also clear their payout conditions.

What does FTMO forbid outright?

8 practices that they name themselves. They are listed on this page with their own wording, because the wording is the rule: “high-frequency” and “latency arbitrage” are not the same thing.

The 11 sources

#Page and date readWhat it backs
1sourceAug 14, 2026read 2 timesprices of the two models in their five sizes, the payout currency measured against the selector, and the 100K discount on the 2-Step
2sourceAug 10, 2026read 2 timesnews: +-2 min on the FTMO Standard account only
3sourceAug 14, 2026VPN and VPS: allowed, except to geolocate in the US
4sourceAug 14, 2026read 2 timesovernight yes within the week; weekends and rollovers longer than 2h no; the Swing has no limits
5sourceJul 26, 2026overnight and weekend by phase
6sourceAug 11, 2026
7sourceAug 11, 2026
8sourceAug 10, 2026EAs and algorithmic trading allowed
9sourceAug 14, 2026read 2 timesthe full list of forbidden practices: the hedging parenthesis and the cap of 2,000 requests a day
10sourceJul 26, 2026account sizes, split, fee refund

Each one is an official page of this firm that we opened, dated. Figures shown above as “no source link” come from a field our census records without one.