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2-Step
5% daily · 10% static max loss · 10% then 5% target
- Account sizes
- $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K, $200K
- Profit target
- Challenge 10% · Verification 5%
- Minimum trading days
- Challenge 4 days · Verification 4 days
- Daily loss limit
- 5% of the starting balance, counted from the day’s opening balance. Hitting it fails the account. The day resets at CE(S)T.
- Maximum loss
- 10% of the starting balance. The floor never moves.
- News, evaluation
- Allowed.
- News, FTMO Account
- No trading 2 minutes either side of high-impact news. Doing so can fail the account.
- Weekend holding
- Evaluation: Allowed. FTMO Account: Not allowed. Holding over the weekend can fail the account.
- Payouts
- Every 14 days 80%.
Source: ftmo.com, checked 26 October 2026.
2-Step Swing
5% daily · 10% static max loss · 10% then 5% target · news and weekends allowed
- Account sizes
- $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K, $200K
- Profit target
- Challenge 10% · Verification 5%
- Minimum trading days
- Challenge 4 days · Verification 4 days
- Daily loss limit
- 5% of the starting balance, counted from the day’s opening balance. Hitting it fails the account. The day resets at CE(S)T.
- Maximum loss
- 10% of the starting balance. The floor never moves.
- News, evaluation
- Allowed.
- News, FTMO Account
- Allowed.
- Weekend holding
- Allowed.
- Payouts
- Every 14 days 80%.
Source: ftmo.com, checked 26 October 2026.
1-Step
3% daily · 10% max loss trailing on end-of-day balance · 10% target
- Account sizes
- $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K, $200K
- Profit target
- Challenge 10%
- Daily loss limit
- 3% of the starting balance, counted from the day’s opening balance. Hitting it fails the account. The day resets at CE(S)T.
- Maximum loss
- 10%, trailing the highest end-of-day balance.
- Consistency
- Your best day must stay under 50% of total profit.
- News, evaluation
- Allowed.
- News, FTMO Account
- No trading 2 minutes either side of high-impact news. Doing so can fail the account.
- Weekend holding
- Evaluation: Allowed. FTMO Account: Not allowed. Holding over the weekend can fail the account.
- Payouts
- Every 14 days 90%, best day under 50% of total profit.
- Also note
- Consistency (50% of total profit) applies to accounts ordered from 12 Oct 2026; older accounts use the Best Day Rule (50% of positive days’ profit). The max loss resets after each reward.
Source: ftmo.com, checked 26 October 2026.
Instant
3% daily · 10% trailing max loss · no evaluation
- Account sizes
- $5K, $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K
- Profit target
- None. The account is funded from the start.
- Daily loss limit
- 3% of the starting balance, counted from the day’s opening balance. Hitting it fails the account. The day resets at CE(S)T.
- Maximum loss
- 10%, trailing the highest balance reached.
- Consistency
- Your best day must stay under 30% of total profit.
- News, FTMO Instant Account
- No trading 2 minutes either side of high-impact news. Doing so can fail the account.
- Weekend holding
- Not allowed. Holding over the weekend can fail the account.
- Payouts
- Every 14 days 90%, best day under 30% of total profit.
- Also note
- The max loss does not reset after a reward: once the balance passes 110% of the starting capital, a withdrawal can breach it.
Source: ftmo.com, checked 26 October 2026.
Trading FTMO with PAYOUT
PAYOUT holds these rules for every FTMO programme above and checks each trade against them before it goes in. FTMO’s web terminal opens inside PAYOUT.
- Daily loss limit
- 3–5% a day
- Max loss
- 10% · static or trailing
- Consistency
- Best day under 30–50% of profit
- Weekend holding
- Warns on Friday · blocks new trades 2 hours before the close
- Your daily stop
- Your own limit, tighter than the firm’s
- No hedging
- No buy and sell open on the same pair
- No one-sided bets
- Under 2% of the account on one direction, across correlated pairs
- Cooling off
- 2 min after any exit · 30 min before the same side again
Not checked by PAYOUT: news windows. Keep an eye on these yourself.
FTMO lists US30, US100 and US500 at contract size 1: $1 per point per lot.
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