Ten Futures Prop Firms Compared: Costs, Rules and Payouts

One-time evaluation purchase with 30 calendar days of access. Activate the Performance Account within 7 calendar days after passing. Current package-specific fees must be confirmed at checkout.

Evaluation limit. Performance Account daily loss limits follow the funded tier system.

Evaluation None

Funded Best profitable day must be strictly below 50% of total profit in the payout cycle. Exactly 50% is not eligible.

Performance Account: 5 qualifying profitable days, the size-specific minimum balance, safety net and below-50% consistency rule. Minimum request $500. Each account closes after its sixth payout.

Performance Account: 5 qualifying days at $200+ net per day. Minimum balance to request $52,600; minimum request $500. Payouts 1–6 capped at $1,500, $2,000, $2,500, $2,500, $3,000, $3,000. Best day strictly below 50% of cycle profit. Account closes after payout 6.

General PA payment guide: usually 5–11 business days to receive funds. Review within 2 business days; transfer and bank processing follow. This guide also contains legacy eligibility wording; current EOD/Intraday eligibility is listed separately.

Minimum $500. Maximum 6 payouts per Performance Account, then it closes. Per-request caps depend on size and payout number; see the account-size details.

Contract limits rise with account size: 4, 6, 8, 12 minis in the evaluation at 25K, 50K, 100K and 150K, and 2, 4, 6, 10 minis on the funded account. Up to 20 funded accounts.

One-time account fee; no monthly account subscription or funded activation fee. Prices read from the official configurator on 12 October 2026. Prices use daily loss limit OFF. DLL ON is a different configuration with different promotional and reset prices.

Firm states LucidFlex evaluation and funded accounts use an “End-of-Day Drawdown (EOD Drawdown)” system to calculate the Max Loss Limit (MLL). The MLL rises with the account's highest END-OF-DAY closing balance only; it does not trail intraday. Once the account exceeds the Initial Trail Balance the MLL “locks and no longer moves”, locking at starting balance + $100. Initial Trail Balance / Locked MLL Balance by size: 25K $26,100 / $25,100; 50K $52,100 / $50,100; 100K $103,100 / $100,100; 150K $154,600 / $150,100. On a payout request the MLL adjusts to the Locked MLL Balance. Breach occurs when balance reaches the MLL threshold.

DLL OFF evaluation selected; the funded Flex program has no daily loss limit.

Evaluation 50% — "Largest Single Day Profit / Account Profit = Consistency Percentage", must be 50% or less to upgrade to funded. Firm notes a built-in cushion whose size varies by actual daily profits.

Funded None

Two criteria: (1) earn a minimum daily profit on 5 separate days during the payout cycle — $100/day on 25K, $150/day on 50K, $200/day on 100K, $250/day on 150K; (2) “Traders must have positive net profit (even just $1) during each payout cycle”. Firm states “There is no buffer balance that must be maintained” and “There is no fixed payout window, you may request a payout any day”.

5 days at $150+/day; max payout 50% of profit up to $2,000

Minimum $500 per request. Maximum per request is 50% of profit, capped at $1,000 (25K), $2,000 (50K), $2,500 (100K), $3,000 (150K). “Traders may take up to 5 payouts from each LucidFlex account”.

CQG data feed: NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView. Rithmic data feed: MotiveWave, Quantower, Tradesea, Sierra Chart, Jigsaw, Bookmap, ATAS, R|Trader Pro, MultiCharts. Firm states “All listed platforms work with all Lucid account types”.

Restricted countries (ineligible as citizen or resident): Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma/Myanmar, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Crimea, Cuba, Congo Republic (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Donetsk, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Haiti, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kherson, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luhansk, Mali, Mauritius, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Korea, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Sevastopol, Seychelles, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe. The official Rules and Guidelines hub lists prohibited-conduct articles titled “Prohibited: Microscalping”, “Prohibited: Hedging”, “Prohibited: High Frequency Trading”, plus “Trade with Integrity”, “Inactivity Policy”, “Other Trading Activities” and “Allowed Trading Times” — the bodies of those articles were not fetched, so the exact thresholds are unverified. Max contracts: 2 mini / 20 micros (25K), 4 mini / 40 micros (50K), 6 mini / 60 micros (100K), 10 mini / 100 micros (150K).

This is a one-time fee that buys a 30-day access window, NOT a recurring subscription. The pricing page shows '$145 one-time' alongside 'Access valid for 30 days'. Help Center (Payment > Account Cancellation): 'There is nothing to cancel. Your account is paid once and expires automatically at the end of its access period - no renewal and no recurring charge.' Help Center (Qualification > Reset): 'A reset does not extend your 30-day access period.' Separately, a Master Account activation fee is charged once on passing (see activation), and professional market-data status costs professional data fees are separate (see Platforms).

The model is chosen at purchase and 'is locked for the life of the account'. Option 1 (No Scaling / Trailing Drawdown): 'The trailing drawdown follows your account's highest value throughout the trading day, including both realized and unrealized (open) profits. It is calculated in real time and includes commissions.' It moves up on new highs and never moves back down; falling below the threshold suspends the account. Option 2 (EOD): 'The End-of-Day (EOD) drawdown is updated once per trading day, after the market closes... based only on your closing account balance. Intraday fluctuations do not affect your threshold.' WHEN TRAILING STOPS: on the Qualification Account itself the help centre does not state a stop point; on the Master Account that follows, 'the trailing drawdown stops moving once it reaches your starting balance + $100. From that point, it becomes permanently fixed.' Master lock table: 25K drawdown $1,500, initial threshold $23,500, permanent threshold $25,100, account value required to lock $26,600; 50K $2,500 / $47,500 / $50,100 / $52,600; 100K $3,000 / $97,000 / $100,100 / $103,100; 150K $4,500 / $145,500 / $150,100 / $154,600.

Evaluation Not confirmed.

Funded 40% - applies to every payout request on the Master Account. 'Your most profitable trading day must not represent more than 40% of your Total P&L for the applicable payout period. Consistency Percentage = Best Day P&L / Total P&L x 100.' Failing it is not a breach: 'the account is not closed; no trading rule is considered violated; the trader may continue trading to increase Total P&L.' For the first payout the Safety Threshold Reserve is included in the calculation.

Master Account stage. To submit a payout request the trader must: complete at least 10 individual trading days; request at least $1,000; maintain the required Safety Threshold Reserve; meet the 40% Consistency Rule; and submit all required payout and tax documents. 'For each subsequent payout, another 10 trading days must be completed after the previous payout period has been completed.' Safety Threshold Reserve (the minimum that must remain above the starting balance after a payout): 25K $1,600, 50K $2,600, 100K $3,100, 150K $4,600. The account must hold enough profit to cover both the reserve and the requested amount - worked example for a 50K Master: '$50,000 + $2,600 + $1,000 = $53,600'. Documents: Bulenox Withdrawal Information Form plus valid ID; W-9 for U.S. persons or W-8BEN for non-U.S. persons, signed by hand ('Electronic signatures cannot be accepted').

Contract limit 7 (Option 1). Option 2 scaling: up to $1,500 = 2, $1,501-$4,000 = 4, $4,001+ = 7. Master max payout for payouts 1-3: $1,500. Safety Threshold Reserve $2,600. Drawdown locks permanently at $50,100 once account value reaches $52,600.

'Payouts are processed once a week, on Wednesdays. To be included in the following Wednesday's processing cycle, submit your payout request by 11:59 PM CT on Friday.' Weekends, public holidays and the days between request and the Wednesday processing date do not count toward the next 10-trading-day requirement. Methods: ACH transfer / wire transfer, or PayPal. 'Bulenox does not charge a transfer fee. However, the receiving bank, intermediary bank or PayPal may apply its own fees.'

100% of the first $10,000 paid out from the profile, then 90% to the trader / 10% to Bulenox. 'You receive 100% of the first $10,000 paid from your profile.' The first $10,000 is counted once per trader across all Fast Track and Master accounts. The 10% commission is applied when the payout is transferred.

Minimum payout $1,000. Maximum payout applies only to the first three payouts: 25K $1,000, 50K $1,500, 100K $1,750, 150K $2,000. 'After the third payout, there is no maximum payout limit', though the $1,000 minimum, 10 trading days, Safety Threshold Reserve and 40% consistency rule continue to apply. Up to five active Master-level accounts in total (Master, Fast Track and Momentum Master in any combination); Qualification Accounts are unlimited.

Rithmic feed; supported platforms include NinjaTrader, R|Trader Pro, Quantower, Sierra Chart, MultiCharts and ATAS. Non-professional data is included. The current Rithmic connection article quotes professional data at $112 per exchange per month. Third-party API/composite connections add $100 per month.

Trading session 5:00 PM to 4:00 PM CT the following day; all positions must be closed by 3:59 PM CT; 'Holding positions overnight is strictly prohibited.' News trading is explicitly allowed: 'Trade straight through the economic calendar - CPI, FOMC, NFP and every other release. No blackout windows, no forced position closing, no penalties.' Bots, algorithms and trade copiers are permitted, but 'Confirm permitted automation under the current agreement.' One Bulenox profile and one Rithmic User ID per trader - 'Creating multiple profiles or using multiple User IDs is not permitted and may result in account suspension.' Master Accounts require at least one trade per week; more than a week of inactivity without notice may put the account on hold or disable it. Exceeding the drawdown threshold closes the account (reaching the daily loss limit only pauses the day). Restricted countries (verbatim list from the FAQ, 'subject to change at any time'): Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Burma (Myanmar), Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curacao, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guinea, Haiti, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Macedonia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Martin, Senegal, Serbia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British), Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

One-time challenge fee, “no recurring charges”. Described on the site as the “Most Affordable Futures model”.

The Maximum Loss Limit updates at end of day and floating losses can still breach it intraday. The threshold locks at starting balance + $100 (not when the account balance merely reaches that amount). The first withdrawal locks/resets the threshold to this level. Consult the current MLL article for the reference balance used by the selected product.

Evaluation 40%

Funded None — the funded-stage rules article states there is "no Consistency Rule" on the Flex FundedNext account.

Funded stage: 5 “Benchmark Days” plus a minimum of $500 profit per cycle. A Benchmark Day is a trading day meeting a profit threshold of $200 for the 50K and 100K accounts, or $250 for the 150K account.

Max $1,500 per cycle, up to 50% of profit. Benchmark Day threshold $200. Min withdrawal $250.

FundedNext states it processes the reward within 24 hours of submission. This is processing/transfer initiation, not guaranteed bank receipt. Brand Promise exclusions include bank transfers, incorrect payout details and external-provider delays.

Minimum withdrawal $250. Maximum per cycle is “Up to 50% of profit”, capped by account size at $1,500 (50K), $2,500 (100K), $4,000 (150K). Maximum of 5 Performance Rewards — “account concludes after 5 Performance Rewards”.

Account breach conditions listed: exceeding contract limits, micro-scalping at or above 40%, prohibited strategies, and Maximum Loss Limit violation. News trading is stated as allowed. Restricted countries for FundedNext Futures account purchase: Afghanistan, Albania, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Bouvet Island, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Fiji, Guinea-Bissau, Grenada, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, North Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar, Palestinian Territory (Occupied), Rwanda, Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen. FundedNext states the restrictions are “based on regulatory requirements, compliance considerations, and operational feasibility” and may change.

Monthly Test subscription; continues after a breach until cancelled. Passing automatically cancels the Test subscription. A reset does not change the renewal date. Current official prices read on 12 October 2026; public NOFEE40 offer advertises 40% off for the active subscription and waiver of the standard $130 PRO activation fee. No discounted amount is inferred from the percentage.

End-of-day trailing. TPT states the drawdown for test accounts is calculated only at the end of the trading day, not during open trades, and the dashboard shows it as 'Minimum Account Balance'. The Minimum Account Balance starts at (account size minus the maximum trailing drawdown) and follows your highest end-of-day balance upward only; it stops trailing permanently once it reaches the original starting balance. Despite being an end-of-day calculation, TPT states the account is immediately liquidated if the balance drops to the Minimum Account Balance at any time, through realized or unrealized losses. This figure and mode differ by phase: the same dollar drawdown carries into PRO but is then computed intraday (trailing unrealized profit in real time), and PRO+ returns to an end-of-day calculation.

Evaluation Best profitable day strictly below 50% of total net profit; exactly 50% is not sufficient.

Funded None

Chosen at signup, tied to the data feed you pick (CQG or Rithmic), and switchable between compatible platforms mid-subscription without notifying TPT. CQG feed: TradingView, NinjaTrader, Tradovate. Rithmic feed: Bookmap, MultiCharts, MotiveWave, Trade Navigator, R|Trader, VolFix, ATAS, Investor R/T, Quantower, Finamark, Jigsaw Trader. Free during the test: TradingView (Basic plan only, with possible data delays), NinjaTrader, Tradovate, R|Trader, Quantower. The homepage advertises '15+ available trading platforms'.

Trading window 6 PM Eastern to 5 PM Eastern; the trading day ends at 5 PM ET and TPT automatically closes any open position at 4:55 PM ET; positions cannot be carried from one trading day into the next; trades opened at or after 6 PM ET count toward the next trading day; missing a holiday-adjusted close results in liquidation. Products: most futures on CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX; no stocks, options, forex, crypto or CFDs. News rule does NOT apply in the Test - TPT states test accounts are free to trade through all news events. No minimum hold time is published. No trading bots or algos of any kind; all trades must be manually executed. Trade copiers are permitted only across accounts you own and control, and only from TPT's approved list (Tradesyncer, TradeCopia, Affordable Indicators, Replikanto Flowbot Compliance Edition only, and platform-native copier tools); the trader is responsible for copier-caused violations. No counter positions - opposite positions in the same or closely related products (e.g. ES/MES, NQ/MNQ, YM/MYM) across accounts under the same beneficial control cause automatic liquidation and profit forfeiture. Positions must be exited before a CME limit up/down is reached. No daily loss rule: TPT's own Test/PRO/PRO+ table lists the daily loss rule as 'None' for all three account types. No scaling plan. Unlimited test accounts may be held and traded simultaneously; test accounts purchased with credits are valid for 60 days and are not eligible for promotions. Commissions $4.50 per round trip per futures contract and $1.50 per round trip per micro contract, set by TPT, applying to both Test and PRO. Restricted countries are published and access from them - including via VPN - is prohibited; the list includes Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Croatia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard and Mc Donald Islands, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe; TPT notes the list is subject to change.

The official subscriptions article states Elite Daily accounts are “recurring monthly subscriptions” that renew “on the same date each month, not after 30 days” and that the subscription “will automatically end once you have passed the evaluation”, though manual cancellation is required if you fail. Prices recorded below are the LIST prices shown on the pricing page; the page simultaneously advertised 60% off with code “WC”.

Firm states the Max Loss Limit “does NOT trail intraday” and instead “updates after the trading session closes” based on the end-of-day balance. It trails up with new end-of-day highs, never down. Once the account grows sufficiently the drawdown “locks in at your starting balance + $100” and stops trailing upward. Official example: a $100K funded account with a $2,500 MLL starts with a breach level of $97,500; if the account closes at $108,000 the new breach level locks at $100,100. IMPORTANT: the MLL differs between phases — evaluation is $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500 while funded is $1,000 / $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,500 for 25K / 50K / 100K / 150K. The sizes table below records the EVALUATION figure.

Evaluation 40% — "No single trading day may account for more than 40%" of total profit, evaluation only.

Funded None

None on evaluation — firm states “although there is no minimum day requirement” the 40% consistency rule still applies. Funded phase requires 1 minimum trading day.

Evaluation: no payouts. Funded: “yes, daily (every 24 hours, provided all payout conditions are met)”. A fixed buffer must remain in the account at all times: minimum balance $26,500 (25K), $52,500 (50K), $103,500 (100K), $154,500 (150K). A 50% progression rule applies: “After your first payout, at least 50% of every future payout request must come from new profits” generated since the previous payout. Firm-wide, a verified Rise account linked to your profile is now required to request a payout.

Buffer minimum balance $52,500; max payout per request $1,000; funded MLL $2,000

Pricing page states processing is “Less than 12 hours on average”. Payout platforms are crypto and bank transfer via Rise; a verified Rise account is required. No fee schedule for payouts was published on the pages fetched.

90% to the trader / 10% to the firm. The official profit-split article states this applies to “all Sim Funded accounts at Top One Futures” and that the firm does “not currently offer a way to increase it further”.

Minimum payout $500. Maximum per request: $750 (25K), $1,000 (50K), $1,500 (100K), $2,250 (150K). These caps apply while in the Sim Funded stage, until the account moves to Live. The firm does not state a cap on the number of payouts.

Help centre states platform choice is “Tradovate / NinjaTrader or BlackArrow” and that the platform selected at checkout is permanent for that account. The pricing page instead lists Tradovate, NinjaTrader, MetaTrader 5 and TradingView (see conflicts).

Trading window 6:00 PM EST to 4:10 PM EST next day, Monday-Friday, with a daily break 5:00 PM-6:00 PM EST; weekend trading strictly prohibited. All open trades are automatically closed at 4:10 PM EST and positions not closed manually are forcibly liquidated. Minimum trade time 10 seconds (“10.01 seconds being acceptable”). Automated trading and Expert Advisors are not allowed; hedging between accounts is prohibited. Funded phase has a news trading rule (2-minute rule). 14-day inactivity rule. Maximum 3 evaluation / 5 funded accounts per the pricing page; the Elite Daily overview states 5 funded accounts per trader. Max contracts: 1 (25K), 3 (50K), 5 (100K), 7 (150K) minis. Restricted countries (prohibited from accessing services; placing trades while physically located there is “a hard breach of your account”): Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antarctica, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Crimea, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, East Timor, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestine/Palestinian Territory, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe. IP address restrictions and payment-method ownership verification policies also apply.

Store shows “One-time payment” and the plan data field is “billing”: “one_time”. Article 1.3: “Every account is a one-time payment. There is no subscription and nothing renews.” Article 1.4 lists the account fee as “$148 to $750, one-time — Paid once when you buy an evaluation account.” Evaluation commissions and fees are charged against the sim balance: “During your evaluation period, the fees and commissions WILL be calculated and applied to your evaluation SIM balance”.

Store label: “Drawdown Type — EOD (End of Day)”; “Drawdown Lock — Locks at starting balance + $100”. Article 3.1: “Standard MAX accounts use an End-of-Day (EOD) trailing drawdown that updates once at the END of each trading session, not after each trade. The drawdown level adjusts based on your account balance at the session close. Intraday losses beyond the DLL are managed by the soft breach lockout, not the drawdown.” Also: “The trailing drawdown is a floor that follows your account balance upward as you profit, but never moves down. If your account balance falls to or below the trailing drawdown level, your account is failed and must be reset or restarted.” Trailing stops permanently once the floor reaches starting balance + $100 (Article 2.5 example for a 50K: “locks its trailing drawdown at $50,100 — from then on the trader can never be drawn below $50,100, no matter how high the balance climbs”). The same EOD drawdown applies in the evaluation and in the sim-funded account, where the drawdown amount doubles as the required buffer.

Evaluation 40% — Article 3.6: "The rule compares your BEST SINGLE SESSION profit to your TOTAL PROFIT TARGET. If one session exceeds the allowed percentage of the profit target, your profit target increases until consistency is restored. This does NOT immediately fail your account — it raises the bar." Worked example given for a 50K with a $3,000 target: "40% = $1,200 maximum for any single session. If you make $1,500 in one day, your new profit target increases to approximately $3,750".

Funded 40% at the sim-funded stage — "your best day must be at or below 40% of your total profit since your last payout" (Article 2.6). Article 5.2: the consistency profit tally "resets to $0" after each payout but "Best day does NOT reset. Your highest single-day net P&L on record carries forward and continues to be used in every future consistency calculation." Article 4.3 and Article 3.6 both state there is NO consistency rule once the account is Live-Funded.

5 winning days to pass — Article 2.3: “To pass the Standard MAX evaluation, a trader must complete 5 winning days.” A winning day requires end-of-session net profit at or above a per-size threshold ($100 / $150 / $200 / $250 / $300). “Net profit is measured at the END of the trading session (4:50 PM EST flat), not at any intraday peak. A day where you were up $200 intraday but closed at $80 net does NOT count as a winning day for a $25K account.” No winning-day requirement applies to payouts on a funded MAX Standard account (Article 5.4: “Standard MAX — Funded | NO — not required for payouts”).

Sim-funded MAX Standard withdrawal checklist (Article 5.2), all items must be true at the moment the request is reviewed: (1) “Buffer is fully built”; (2) “Account balance is $500+ above the buffer level”; (3) “Consistency is 40% or below”; (4) “Withdrawal amount is at least $500”; (5) “Withdrawal amount does not exceed the per-account cap”; (6) “Cumulative withdrawal (all accounts) does not exceed $10,000 per payout”. The buffer equals the account's EOD drawdown amount (Article 2.3: “Buffer Amount: Equal to the account's EOD drawdown from the evaluation”), so a 50K account must climb from $50,000 to $52,000 before any profit is withdrawable. No winning-day count is required for MAX Standard payouts. Article 5.1 adds: “Do not trade your account until your account balance has been adjusted. If you trade on the account before the funds are sent, your payout will be declined.” Live-Funded accounts have no consistency rule and no payout cap. Only profit earned since the last payout may be withdrawn (first payout: since funding).

Buffer $2,000; balance must be $500+ above the $52,000 buffer level. Caps $1,500 (payouts 1–3) then $2,000 (payout 4+). Winning day = $150 net.

Sim-funded: up to 3 business days to process a request (Article 5.5); ACH, PayPal or bank wire. FFN Institution eligible payouts are processed the same business day under the current live rules. These are processing times, not guaranteed bank receipt.

80% to the trader at the sim-funded stage — Article 4.3: “Standard MAX Sim-Funded — 80% trader / 20% FFN”. Once moved to Live-Funded: “90% trader / 10% FFN”. Public FAQ wording: “Sim Funded Pro Account ... has an 80/20 profit split”; “Live Funded Pro Account: No consistency rule, daily same day payouts with no maximum. This account has a 90/10 profit split”.

Minimum request $500 (“Requests below $500 will not be processed”). Per-account caps are tiered by that account's own payout count (Article 5.3, “effective April 20, 2026”): 25K $1,000 then $1,200; 50K $1,500 then $2,000; 100K $2,000 then $2,500; 150K $2,500 then $3,000; 250K $3,000 then $3,500 (payouts 1–3, then payout 4+). On top of that: “no single user may withdraw more than $10,000 total across all funded accounts in a single payout event” — “Which Cap Applies? Always the lesser of the two.” Promotion Review triggers on the 4th payout request on one account or the 10th across accounts since the last review. All sim-funded accounts close; evaluations remain open. The requested payout is processed separately under the normal rules. Promotion is not guaranteed.

Rithmic: Onyx, Quantower (FundX), MotiveWave and EdgeProX. CQG: Nexus Trader / Nexus Connect. Live FFN Institution: Onyx or directly with the broker; market data and commissions are paid from the live balance, with current fees marked TBD in Article 4.3.

Restricted countries (Article 12.1 — “Trading with FFN is prohibited in the following countries”): Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Burma (Myanmar), Central African Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Mali, Nauru, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen. TRADING HOURS: day-trade only — must be flat (“no open positions and no pending orders”) by 4:50 PM EST, reopen 6:00 PM EST; Friday 4:50 PM to Sunday 6:00 PM closed. “POSITIONS OPEN AT MARKET CLOSE = ACCOUNT FAILURE” — the system auto-flattens at 4:50 but on holiday early closes the trader is responsible and “your account will be liquidated and considered failed”. NEWS: T1 news trading is permitted in the evaluation (“YES — does not blow the account”) but prohibited in sim-funded and live-funded — “If you hold a position through a T1 news event in an Exhibition or Funded account, the account is immediately liquidated. You will NOT be eligible for funding, and ALL profits in the account are forfeited. This cannot be reversed. There is no appeal process.” Must be flat 1 minute before, during, and 1 minute after each T1 event; T1 = CPI, FOMC rate decisions and minutes, NFP, GDP (plus EIA for energy traders and agricultural reports for ag traders). “You must make use of Financial Juice news calendar — no other news calendar is accepted.” HEDGING: prohibited in every stage — “at no time can you go long on one product and short on another. A micro and a mini contract are considered different products”. AUTOMATION: “Automated trading is allowed but at the discretion of FFN. Any traders implementing HFT trading bots or attempting to exploit the simulated environment will lose access to their account.” HFT rule (Article 3.8): “No more than 30% of trades placed within a single trading session may have a round-trip duration of at or under 5 seconds” — breach means “Account is considered failed. The account and all profits are forfeited immediately. There is no appeal process.” CONTRACT LIMITS: “If you exceed your contract limits at ANY point (evaluation, exhibition, or funded), the account is failed immediately”; funded contract limits scale automatically up or down after each session, based on the end-of-day balance; the new limit applies next session.” COPY TRADING: max 10 accounts per user, max 5 copy-traded simultaneously; breach means “All copy-traded accounts lose funding eligibility and must be reset”. Only 5 funded accounts may be active at once. INDEPENDENT TRADING (Article 3.7): coordinated/mirrored trading across users, signal-service synchronised execution, trade copiers replicating another trader, sharing Rithmic credentials, account-management or challenge-passing services, shared VPS, and IP overlap with another trader's accounts are all prohibited. INACTIVITY: “you must complete at least 3 qualifying trading days within every 29-day period” (a qualifying day closes with a realized profit or loss of at least $5) or the account “is automatically cancelled” — this applies to blown accounts too. CLOSING ACCOUNTS: “If you choose to close your accounts, you will forfeit your profits on any accounts closed. This includes funded accounts.” The current live Institution requires positions closed before 4:44 PM ET; the 4:50 PM ET cutoff refers to sim accounts. Funded scaling is automatic under Article 3.5. Inactivity: Article 6.5 requires 3 days with at least $5 realized profit or loss in every 29 days; the Skip the Eval article instead describes 30 days without trades, so follow the stricter stated requirement pending clarification.

One-time evaluation fee; no monthly account subscription. Fee refunded after the third payout. Swing prices are labelled Summer Plan on the official site.

Published maximum loss: 4%, referenced to highest midnight balance/equity. The official example is mathematically inconsistent with that wording. Following a withdrawal, the dedicated FAQ says the limit resets to 4% below the remaining balance. Confirm the exact threshold in the provider dashboard.

The official Day Trade article describes a single 4% maximum loss instead of a separate daily cap. Its drawdown explanation conflicts with parts of the FAQ; confirm the live threshold in the dashboard.

Evaluation 40% per position; continue trading if a position exceeds 40% of total profit.

Funded 40% per position.

Funded account at least 14 days old; reach at least 4% profit from initial balance and satisfy per-position consistency. Withdrawals every 14 days; cycle restarts after scaling.

Initial funded profit threshold: $2,000; per-request cap $1,500.

25K: $1,250 cap per request. 50K: cap is 3% of initial balance ($1,500 before scaling). Cash payout methods carry a 3.5% fee. A separate minimum payout is not confirmed.

News trading allowed. No weekend holding. Arbitrage and high-frequency trades lasting only seconds are prohibited. Up to five futures accounts simultaneously. Day Trade positions close at least 10 minutes before market close.

Monthly evaluation subscription continues after a breach until cancelled. Breached accounts receive a new account at renewal. A paid reset does not change the billing date. No funded activation fee.

Equity must remain above the threshold at all times. Threshold follows the highest end-of-day balance and locks at initial capital. Sim-funded accounts also use EOD drawdown; a withdrawal must not breach the threshold.

No daily loss limit in evaluation. Sim-funded soft limit: $1,000; trading is paused for the remainder of the day.

Evaluation 40% maximum best-day share of total evaluation net profit. Exceeding it requires additional profit, not automatic failure.

Funded None

3 trading days at the earliest, due to the consistency rule; no separate minimum-day rule or maximum duration while subscribed.

4 qualifying days at $150+ each; request cap $2,500 before the 90% split. Sim-funded contracts scale from 2 up to 5 minis (10 micros = 1 mini).

Subject to approval and invoice confirmation. Instant card withdrawal is offered after approval; no universal processing deadline is confirmed.

News trading allowed. Close positions and cancel resting orders before 4:10 p.m. ET or earlier market close. Unlimited evaluations; maximum three simultaneous sim-funded accounts across product types.

Current pricing and cancellation FAQ: one-time purchase, no automatic monthly renewal; extend 30 days manually. Promotional extension price is not guaranteed. Performance account fees are charged annually in EUR.

Threshold follows highest closing balance, including fees, and locks at initial capital. Unrealized gains do not raise the threshold; touching it breaches the account.

No evaluation DLL. Performance account hard daily limit: $1,250 (50% of initial drawdown).

Evaluation Not confirmed.

Funded Best day must not exceed 40% of profit in the reward cycle.

At least four profitable days and 40% best-day consistency, plus the size-specific withdrawal threshold. Retain at least $100 above that threshold after withdrawal. Conditions reset after an approved or rejected request.

Profit threshold $3,000; retain threshold plus $100 after payout. Initial payout cap $2,000; increases described in FAQ.

Official pages conflict: within 48 hours versus Friday requests processed Tuesday. Receipt may take up to five business days; confirm the schedule with the provider.

Minimum $900 trader share. First four approved payouts have size-dependent caps; FAQ says caps rise by 10% per approved payout. From payout five, uncapped subject to all other rules.

Close all positions/orders by 3:15 p.m. Chicago time; no trading until 5 p.m. News allowed. Unlimited evaluations; up to seven Performance Accounts. Opposing-account hedging, erratic sizing and gambling practices prohibited.