Glossary / Combine

Combine

Combine is the futures industry’s term for its evaluation phase, functionally equivalent to a CFD prop firm’s challenge: a trader must hit a profit target within the firm’s risk rules to earn a funded account.

The name comes from the NFL scouting combine, a deliberate branding choice by the futures funding industry to distance itself from the ‘challenge’ language associated with CFD prop firms, though the underlying mechanics are broadly comparable.