Futures
FTMO Growth
$150,000 account
Selected public offer only. Buyer eligibility and other variants are outside this comparison.
Sources checked 19 September – 24 October 2026. Reviewed by a site member and AI assistants. Release pfw-release-2026-10-24-pilot-2, approved 24 October 2026. Each source shows the date it was last checked.
Costs
List price
List price: $229 per month
Conditions and limits. $229 per month. No activation fee; the platform and level 1 market data are included.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures plans and pricing (checked 23 October 2026); FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 23 October 2026); FTMO · Futures FAQ: One-time fee or subscription? (checked 22 October 2026).
About this rule. The advertised base price of the selected account and how it is billed. A temporary public offer, available without a code, is shown beside it with any conditions the firm states, while a recent check confirms it; codes, optional purchases and unverified buyer charges are excluded.
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Fee per $1,000 of opening risk
Fee per $1,000 of opening risk: $45.80 to $91.601 or 2 charges in 30 days
Conditions and limits. The subscription may be charged once or twice in a 30-day attempt ($229 to $458), depending on when you pass. Checkout requires a login, so other buyer charges have not been verified.
How this is calculated. (List price × charges in a 30-day attempt + activation fee + platform and data fees), in US dollars, divided by the opening loss allowance and multiplied by 1,000.
- List price
- $229 per month
- Charges in a 30-day attempt
- 1 to 2
- Activation fee
- None
- Platform and data fees
- None
- Opening loss allowance
- $5,000
- Result
- $45.80 to $91.60
A monthly subscription can be charged once or twice in 30 days, depending on when the evaluation is passed and renewed.
Promotions, coupons and optional add-ons are excluded.
Final buyer charges such as taxes or payment fees are not verified.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures plans and pricing (checked 23 October 2026); FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 23 October 2026); FTMO · Futures FAQ: One-time fee or subscription? (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. The advertised base cost of a 30-day attempt in US dollars, divided by the opening loss allowance and multiplied by 1,000. A cost scenario for comparing accounts, not an all-in price.
Activation fee
Activation fee: None
Official sources: FTMO · Futures FAQ: One-time fee or subscription? (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures plans and pricing (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. A mandatory charge to activate a funded account after passing, if any.
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Platform and data fees
Platform and data fees: None
Official source: FTMO · Futures FAQ: One-time fee or subscription? (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. Mandatory platform or market-data charges on top of the list price, if any.
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Read the guide: What market data is included, and what costs extra?
Payout processing fees
Payout processing fees: Fees for the payout methods are not established. We do not assume there are none.Partly unknown
Partly unknown. Part of this rule is not established by the firm's published material. The known parts are shown; the rest is left open rather than guessed.
Official source: FTMO · Futures FAQ: Withdrawing a payout (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. Charges deducted when a payout is sent, which depend on the payment method.
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Read the guide: How do payout processing fees affect cash received?
Evaluation & risk
Opening loss allowance
Opening loss allowance: $5,000
How this is calculated. Opening balance minus the opening total-loss floor.
- opening balance
- $150,000
- opening total-loss floor
- $145,000
- Result
- $5,000
Daily loss limits and any trailing of the floor after the opening are separate rules.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures plans and pricing (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. How much the account can lose from its opening balance before the total-loss rule is broken, using the smallest allowance across the required evaluation phases. An account bought without an evaluation uses its funded account's allowance. It is not daily headroom, live capital or a pass probability.
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Read the guide: How do you calculate the opening loss allowance?
Difficulty ratio
Difficulty ratio: 1.80
How this is calculated. For each required evaluation phase, the profit target divided by that phase's opening loss allowance. The results are added.
- profit target
- 6% of $150,000 = $9,000
- opening loss allowance
- $5,000
- Result
- 1.80
This describes the shape of the evaluation; it is not a pass probability.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures plans and pricing (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. Each required phase's profit target divided by that phase's opening loss allowance, added together. More target per dollar of allowed loss gives a higher number; an account bought without an evaluation has no target, so its ratio is 0. It describes the shape of the evaluation, not the chance of passing.
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Evaluation route
Evaluation route: The Growth plan (not Pro), without a reset (FTMO sells one for $219). One evaluation, then the simulated funded account, with level 1 market data.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures plans and pricing (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures FAQ: Market data (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. The exact variant compared here and the stages between purchase and a funded account.
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Read the guide: What do one-step, two-step, three-step, and instant funding mean?
Profit targets
Profit targets: 6%
Conditions and limits. $9,000. The best closed-profit day may be at most 40% of the total closed profit during the evaluation; above that, more profit is needed.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures plans and pricing (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. The profit each required evaluation phase must reach, as a share of the opening balance. An account bought without an evaluation has none.
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Read the guide: How does the journey from purchase to payout work?
Loss mechanics
Loss mechanics: $5,000 EOD trailing; Maximum Drawdown Limit starts at $145,000 and never falls. Touching floor breaches.
Official source: FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. How the maximum loss limit is set and how it trails or locks as the account grows.
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Read the guide: How do static, EOD, and intraday overall max loss differ?
Minimum days and time limits
Minimum days and time limits: No minimum number of trading days outside the Consistency Rule, under which the Evaluation takes at least 3 trading days. No maximum time limit: the Evaluation continues while the monthly subscription is active.
Official source: FTMO · Futures FAQ: How long it takes to become an FTMO Trader (checked 15 October 2026).
About this rule. The minimum number of trading or profitable days each evaluation phase requires, including any minimum the firm states a consistency rule sets, any time limit for passing, and any inactivity period after which the account is closed.
Daily loss and contract limits
Daily loss and contract limits: No daily loss limit during the evaluation. The funded account has a $3,000 soft daily stop. Up to 15 minis (or 150 micros) in the evaluation; the funded account starts at 6 minis and scales to 15.
Official source: FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. Two limits: any daily loss limit, and the most contracts the account may hold at once, counting minis and micros as the firm states.
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Read the guide: How do daily-loss rules compare across prop firms?
Read the guide: How does the firm count contracts toward the limit?
Payouts
First and later payouts
First and later payouts: A payout can be requested once 4 trading days in the payout cycle have each ended with at least $300 of closed profit. A day below $300 does not count; trading continues until 4 days qualify. The same applies to every payout cycle.
Official source: FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. When the first payout can be requested and how often later requests are allowed. Waiting periods, qualifying days, review and payment are separate clocks.
Payout minimums and caps
Payout minimums and caps: Gross request ≥$20; up to 50% of profit, payout cap $4,000. ≥50% must be new profit. Then 90% share.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures FAQ: Withdrawing a payout (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. The smallest request allowed and any limit on how much can be withdrawn per request or cycle.
Funded consistency rules
Funded consistency rules: None on the funded account. The evaluation has its own consistency rule.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures plans and pricing (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. Rules on how profit must be spread across days or trades before a funded payout, and any required profitable days.
After a payout
After a payout: The request is deducted from the balance when submitted. Profit you do not withdraw stays available for later payouts, and the loss floor does not move down.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures FAQ: Withdrawing a payout (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. What changes on the account after a payout, such as how the loss limit resets or when the account closes.
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Read the guide: How do actual programs handle the post-payout threshold?
Published processing time
Published processing time: FTMO does not publish a maximum time for approval. The invoice follows approval, and the time for payment to arrive is separate.Partly unknown
Partly unknown. Part of this rule is not established by the firm's published material. The known parts are shown; the rest is left open rather than guessed.
Official source: FTMO · Futures FAQ: Withdrawing a payout (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. How long the firm says review and payment take after a request. These are published estimates, not measured times.
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Read the guide: What do “24-hour,” “instant,” and “on-demand” payouts mean?
Refunds
Fee refund with a reward
Fee refund with a reward: The Growth plan does not offer a fee reimbursement.Interpretation
Interpretation. This is our reading of the firm's wording, not an explicit statement by the firm.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures FAQ: One-time fee or subscription? (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures evaluation terms and conditions (PDF) (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. Whether and when the challenge fee is paid back after a successful payout.
Cancellation refund
Cancellation refund: Consumers can cancel within 14 days if they have not traded. Otherwise the subscription ends at the end of the billing period.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures evaluation terms and conditions (PDF) (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures FAQ: Can I cancel my subscription? (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. Whether a purchase can be cancelled and refunded, and on what conditions.
Trading rules
News and overnight holding
News and overnight holding: News trading is allowed. Positions must be closed by 4:10 pm ET, or earlier on shortened sessions, and cannot be held over the weekend.News trading: allowed in both stages.Overnight and weekend holding: prohibited in both stages.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures FAQ: Holding past the close and over the weekend (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures FAQ: Trading the news (checked 4 October 2026).
News trading by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Allowed. No news restriction in any phase. Concentrating trades around scheduled events in a way unlike your other trading breaks FTMO's risk standards.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures FAQ: Trading the news (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures forbidden trading practices (checked 4 October 2026).
Overnight and weekend holding by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Prohibited. All positions must be closed and resting orders cancelled by 4:10 pm ET, or the earlier market close, every trading day; anything left open is closed automatically.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures FAQ: Holding past the close and over the weekend (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures forbidden trading practices (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. Restrictions around scheduled news and whether positions can be held past the session close.
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Read the guide: How do futures programs handle session-to-session holding?
Expert advisors and copying
Expert advisors and copying: Expert advisors and other automated trading are allowed, but not high-frequency or latency-arbitrage strategies, and a third-party EA others use can cost you the Sim-Funded Account. Copying trades between your own accounts is allowed if each account follows its own rules; copying another trader and offsetting risk across accounts are not.Expert advisors: allowed in both stages.Copying your own trades: allowed in both stages.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures FAQ: Instruments and allowed strategies (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures forbidden trading practices (checked 4 October 2026).
Expert advisors by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Allowed. Automated trading is allowed, but not high-frequency or latency-arbitrage strategies. A third-party EA that others use can cost you the Sim-Funded Account.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures FAQ: Instruments and allowed strategies (checked 4 October 2026); FTMO · Futures forbidden trading practices (checked 4 October 2026).
Copying your own trades by stage
- Evaluation and funded
- Allowed. You may copy trades between your own accounts if each account follows its own rules. Copying another trader or signals, and offsetting risk across accounts, are prohibited.
Official source: FTMO · Futures forbidden trading practices (checked 4 October 2026).
About this rule. Whether automated strategies are allowed and whether trades can be copied between your own accounts.
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Read the guide: Automation and copying: what actually needs permission?
Platforms & eligibility
Platforms
Platforms: NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView, all with the same login.
Official source: FTMO · Futures FAQ: Trading platforms (checked 3 October 2026).
About this rule. The platforms the firm offers in this market, with any extra charge or country limit it states. It is the firm's list for all its accounts in the market.
Platform access and eligibility
Platform access and eligibility: Tradovate, NinjaTrader and TradingView. All stages are simulated. Open to traders aged 18 or over, with country and US state conditions.
Official sources: FTMO · Futures FAQ: Trading platforms (checked 6 October 2026); FTMO · Futures FAQ: Who can join? (checked 6 October 2026); FTMO · Futures trading objectives and rules (Growth, 150K) (checked 6 October 2026).
About this rule. Who can buy the account: age, identity checks and country restrictions, and any platform limits by country.
Ratings
Not rated. Overall program scores and reliability ratings are not published yet; the figures above are measurements of stated terms, not a verdict.