FTMO Futures rules, read from FTMO’s own pages as markup on 31 August 2026. FTMO sells two products under one brand and they do not share a rulebook. This page covers FTMO Futures only, the CME futures product launched in beta in 2026. None of it applies to the FTMO CFD Challenge, which has its own contract, its own forbidden practices page and its own rules page.
FTMO Futures Rules
Rules last changed
31 August 2026
See the change log below
Last verified against FTMO Futures’s published rules
6 September 2026
Checked every Sunday
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The short answers
Which document actually binds you?
The FTMO Futures Evaluation Terms and Conditions, and there are two of them. If you live outside the United States you contract with FTMO Evaluation Global s.r.o. under Czech law. If you live in the United States you contract with JV Prop Corporation, a Delaware company, under New York law, with AAA arbitration in New York, a class action waiver and a one year deadline to bring a claim.
Neither document is on ftmo.com in HTML. Both are PDFs hosted on Google Cloud Storage and surfaced through tabs on the terms page. Both carry the date 31 August 2026, and no archive of superseded versions is published.
Is the contract that governs your payouts published?
No. Payouts are governed by the FTMO Futures Sim-Funded Account Terms and Conditions, a separate agreement with a separate company, FTMO Trading Global s.r.o. It is signed inside the client area after identity checks and it is not published anywhere on the site. FTMO offers a sample by email on request.
Every payout figure on this page therefore comes from FTMO’s rules and marketing pages, not from the contract that will actually decide whether you are paid.
Why do prop firms have drawdown limits at all?
Because the account is simulated and the firm is selling access to it, the drawdown limit is the only thing standing between the firm and a customer who takes an enormous position because the downside is a subscription fee. It is a risk control on the product, not a reflection of money at risk in a market.
What separates a fair limit from a punishing one is whether it stops moving. FTMO Futures uses an end-of-day trailing limit that rises with your best closing balance and then locks permanently once it reaches your starting balance. It never trails you into profit, which is the version traders should want.
Can you hold a position overnight or over the weekend?
No, at any stage. Every position and every resting order, including stop losses and brackets, must be closed before 4:10 p.m. ET each day. Anything left is liquidated by the platform, and FTMO tells you not to rely on that happening.
Holding past the close is one of the eight numbered forbidden practices, so it is a conduct breach and not merely an automatic flatten.
What does the beta label mean for the rules you bought?
FTMO’s beta page says the trading objectives you purchased are guaranteed, will not change on an account you are already trading, and that new objectives or prices apply only to new purchases.
The contract says something different. Clause 5.7 reserves the right to modify, change, replace, add, suspend, withdraw or remove any element of the services at any time without compensation, and the definitions clause makes trading objectives updatable. The contract binds. The beta page is a promise, not a term.
Can the consistency rule fail you?
No. On the Evaluation your single best day must be no more than 40% of total profit on Growth, or 50% on Pro. FTMO states plainly that exceeding it is not a breach: you simply keep trading until the ratio comes back into line.
There is no consistency rule on the Sim-Funded Account.
Who cannot sign up?
FTMO publishes a 101 entry list of restricted countries for the futures product, plus a categorical exclusion for Iran, Syria, Myanmar and North Korea with a narrow EEA residency exception, plus five excluded US states: Arkansas, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana and South Carolina.
A further 35 country list blocks the Live Funded Account only. Traders in those countries can still hold a Sim-Funded Account and take payouts.
The rules that apply whichever account you buy
These come from the Evaluation terms, the forbidden trading practices page and the futures FAQ. Where two of them disagree, both are shown.
How the limits are calculated
Verified 31 August 2026Calculated at the start of each trading day as the highest closing balance of any previous day, or the starting balance if that is higher, less the maximum loss amount. It can only rise. Your equity, including open profit and loss and commissions, is what has to stay above it.
Once the limit reaches your starting balance it locks there permanently, so the floor never follows you into profit. On a $50,000 Growth account that means a $48,000 floor on day one, rising to $50,000 and then stopping. That is the better of the two designs futures firms use, and it is worth understanding before comparing FTMO’s price with a firm whose floor trails your intraday equity instead. Almost every funded futures product stops its floor somewhere, usually at the starting balance or a hundred dollars above it, so this is FTMO landing in the better camp rather than doing something the sector does not.
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Start of day balance less the daily loss amount, measured against intraday equity. Unlike the maximum loss, it moves both ways, so a losing day lowers tomorrow’s limit.
On Growth it exists only on the Sim-Funded Account and it is soft: positions are closed, trading is locked for the rest of the day, and you carry on the next session. On Pro it is hard in both phases, and hitting it ends the account.
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6:00 p.m. ET to 4:10 p.m. ET the following calendar day. That is also when the daily loss limit resets, and the point by which everything must be flat.
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FTMO publishes three different answers on its own pages: after the end of the trading day, at 5:05 p.m. ET, and at 4:10 p.m. ET. All three are live at the time of checking. None is in the contract.
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Conduct and what happens when FTMO decides you broke it
Verified 31 August 2026Exploiting the simulated environment; relying on the platform’s drawdown protection as your only exit; hedging or offsetting risk across accounts; copying another trader; automated systems that manipulate or gain an unfair advantage, including high frequency and latency arbitrage; opening a position within 2% of a CME daily price limit; holding anything past the end of the trading day; and trading in a way inconsistent with live futures market standards.
Automated trading and expert advisors are permitted. Copy trading across your own accounts is permitted. Copying anyone else is not, and FTMO warns that using a widely sold third party expert advisor risks being refused a Sim-Funded Account because it requires a strategy that is yours.
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Clause 7.3 of the terms goes further than the published page: any simulated trading that knowingly or unknowingly produces results which could not reasonably be achieved in live market trading is a forbidden practice, in FTMO’s words, irrespective of whether it is expressly listed on the website. Clause 7.4 reserves to FTMO the sole discretion to decide what qualifies.
Every prop firm needs an anti-abuse catch-all, and the level of cheating this sector has absorbed makes that reasonable. It is still the clause a trader should read before assuming the numbered list is the whole rulebook.
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Clause 7.7 runs to nine measures, from treating the conduct as a failure to meet the objectives, through cutting your contract limits, cancelling or reclassifying individual trades, terminating every service across the FTMO group, to telling FTMO Trading to cancel your Sim-Funded accounts and any rewards under them. Clause 7.8 says FTMO will try to notify you but is not required to do so first. Clause 7.10 rules out compensation and any refund.
There is no published warning system, no strike count, and no statement about whether anything resets after a payout. Nor is there any published appeal against a breach finding, a termination or a refused payout. The only route in the documents is the general complaints clause, answered within 30 days, and for EU consumers the Czech Trade Inspection Authority.
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Separate from the eight practices, FTMO names three patterns to avoid: inconsistent position sizing, concentrating trading around scheduled economic events, and trading materially differently on the Sim-Funded Account than you did on the Evaluation. All three are judged against your behaviour across all your accounts.
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Payouts
Verified 31 August 2026Qualifying days first, then the share of profit you may request, then the payout cap, then the 90% ratio. On a Growth 50K account the largest sum that can reach you in one payout is $2,500 capped, at 90%, so $2,250, and only if at least half of the request is profit made in the current cycle.
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Confirming the request closes all open positions and orders, deducts the amount from the account balance and puts the payout into FTMO’s approval queue. You can resume trading immediately. Once approved you confirm an invoice in the client area. Payment is in US dollars via Wise, Revolut bank wire, Visa Direct or Mastercard Send, which is unavailable to US clients.
No approval or payment turnaround is published for the futures product.
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The third step is a real money account, offered by invitation at the discretion of FTMO’s trading department rather than applied for. Payouts become daily with no cap, at the same 90/10, after clearing a one time buffer, and a market data fee applies.
The buffer amount is not published. Neither is the account size, its drawdown, the market data fee, nor the terms of the account. The word buffer does not appear on the rules page or the comparison table at all.
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Who FTMO will sell to, and on what terms
Verified 31 August 2026Three separate FAQ answers say registrations are accepted from natural persons only, that companies and self employed individuals are not allowed, and that business verification is unavailable. Clause 1.1.2 of both contracts sets out eligibility conditions for a legal entity, and clause 7.1.3 governs how a legal entity may share access with its top management. Both positions are live.
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Unlocked after you pass, usually cleared in under a business day, with a government photo identity document showing nationality and a proof of address no older than six months. Driving licences are not accepted from non US residents. US traders verify by social security number first, need a US tax identification number to be paid at all, must file a W-9 before a first payout, and must receive into a fully licensed bank rather than a fintech such as Wise or Chime.
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Charged on purchase and on the same calendar day each month until you pass, cancel or are terminated. FTMO gives 14 days’ notice of a price change. A failed renewal pauses access immediately and preserves the account state for a 48 hour grace period, after which the account is closed. A reset does not move the billing date.
This is a subscription, not a one off fee, so the real cost of an evaluation is the monthly price multiplied by however long it takes, plus any resets. That is a materially different pricing model from the CFD side of the same brand and it is the number to compare on.
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A Sim-Funded Account with no trading for 30 consecutive days gets an automated warning and is closed after a further 30. There is no inactivity rule on the Evaluation and none on a Live Funded Account. The rule appears only on the forbidden practices page: neither contract mentions inactivity.
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Every programme, side by side
Growth and Pro share one single phase Evaluation and one 90/10 split. They differ on the daily loss limit, the consistency threshold, how much of your profit you may request, the payout cap and the price.
| Rule | Growth 50K | Growth 100K | Growth 150K | Pro 50K | Pro 100K | Pro 150K |
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| Evaluation phases | One, then a Sim-Funded Account | One, then a Sim-Funded Account | One, then a Sim-Funded Account | One, then a Sim-Funded Account | One, then a Sim-Funded Account | One, then a Sim-Funded Account |
| Profit target | $3,000 | $6,000 | $9,000, but the page’s own worked example gives the wrong passing balance. See the note below the table | $3,000 | $6,000 | $9,000 |
| Daily loss limit | None in the Evaluation. Soft $1,000 on the Sim-Funded Account | None in the Evaluation. Soft $2,000 on the Sim-Funded Account | None in the Evaluation. Soft $3,000 on the Sim-Funded Account | $1,000, hard, in both phases | $1,500, hard, in both phases | $2,000, hard, in both phases |
| Maximum loss | $2,000 | $3,500 | $5,000 | $3,000 | $4,500 | $6,000 |
| Does the maximum loss trail | Yes, on the previous highest end-of-day closing balance, and it locks permanently once it reaches the starting balance | Yes, on the previous highest end-of-day closing balance, and it locks permanently once it reaches the starting balance | Yes, on the previous highest end-of-day closing balance, and it locks permanently once it reaches the starting balance | Yes, on the previous highest end-of-day closing balance, and it locks permanently once it reaches the starting balance | Yes, on the previous highest end-of-day closing balance, and it locks permanently once it reaches the starting balance | Yes, on the previous highest end-of-day closing balance, and it locks permanently once it reaches the starting balance |
| What the limits are measured on | Equity, meaning balance plus open position profit and loss less commissions. The trading day runs 6:00 p.m. ET to 4:10 p.m. ET | Equity, meaning balance plus open position profit and loss less commissions. The trading day runs 6:00 p.m. ET to 4:10 p.m. ET | Equity, meaning balance plus open position profit and loss less commissions. The trading day runs 6:00 p.m. ET to 4:10 p.m. ET | Equity, meaning balance plus open position profit and loss less commissions. The trading day runs 6:00 p.m. ET to 4:10 p.m. ET | Equity, meaning balance plus open position profit and loss less commissions. The trading day runs 6:00 p.m. ET to 4:10 p.m. ET | Equity, meaning balance plus open position profit and loss less commissions. The trading day runs 6:00 p.m. ET to 4:10 p.m. ET |
| Minimum trading days | None published as an objective. FTMO’s FAQ says the consistency rule makes three the practical minimum | None published as an objective. FTMO’s FAQ says the consistency rule makes three the practical minimum | None published as an objective. FTMO’s FAQ says the consistency rule makes three the practical minimum | None published as an objective. FTMO’s FAQ says the consistency rule makes two the practical minimum | None published as an objective. FTMO’s FAQ says the consistency rule makes two the practical minimum | None published as an objective. FTMO’s FAQ says the consistency rule makes two the practical minimum |
| Time limit | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Consistency rule | Best day no more than 40% of total profit, Evaluation only. Cannot be breached, only outgrown | Best day no more than 40% of total profit, Evaluation only. Cannot be breached, only outgrown | Best day no more than 40% of total profit, Evaluation only. Cannot be breached, only outgrown | Best day no more than 50% of total profit, Evaluation only. Cannot be breached, only outgrown | Best day no more than 50% of total profit, Evaluation only. Cannot be breached, only outgrown | Best day no more than 50% of total profit, Evaluation only. Cannot be breached, only outgrown |
| Profit split | 90/10 in the trader’s favour | 90/10 in the trader’s favour | 90/10 in the trader’s favour | 90/10 in the trader’s favour | 90/10 in the trader’s favour | 90/10 in the trader’s favour |
| What unlocks a payout | 4 qualifying days, each with $150 or more in closed profit | 4 qualifying days, each with $250 or more in closed profit | 4 qualifying days, each with $300 or more in closed profit | 5 qualifying days, each with $200 or more in closed profit | 5 qualifying days, each with $300 or more in closed profit | 5 qualifying days, each with $500 or more in closed profit |
| Payout cycle | Marketed as every 4 days. The rules page counts qualifying days instead and never defines the cycle. See the note below the table | Marketed as every 4 days. The rules page counts qualifying days instead and never defines the cycle. See the note below the table | Marketed as every 4 days. The rules page counts qualifying days instead and never defines the cycle. See the note below the table | Marketed as every 5 days. The rules page counts qualifying days instead and never defines the cycle. See the note below the table | Marketed as every 5 days. The rules page counts qualifying days instead and never defines the cycle. See the note below the table | Marketed as every 5 days. The rules page counts qualifying days instead and never defines the cycle. See the note below the table |
| Payout cap per request | $2,500 | $3,000 | $4,000 | $5,000 | $6,000 | $8,000 |
| Share of profit you may request | 50% | 50% | 50% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| New profit condition | At least 50% of any request must be profit made in the current cycle | At least 50% of any request must be profit made in the current cycle | At least 50% of any request must be profit made in the current cycle | At least 50% of any request must be profit made in the current cycle | At least 50% of any request must be profit made in the current cycle | At least 50% of any request must be profit made in the current cycle |
| Minimum payout | $20 | $20 | $20 | $20 | $20 | $20 |
| Fee | $119 a month | $169 a month | $229 a month | $139 a month | $199 a month | $269 a month |
| Reset | $109, unlimited | $159, unlimited | $219, unlimited | $129, unlimited | $189, unlimited | $259, unlimited |
| Fee refund | None. The subscription stops on passing rather than being refunded. A 14 day cooling off period exists in the Global terms only, and only before your first simulated trade | None. The subscription stops on passing rather than being refunded. A 14 day cooling off period exists in the Global terms only, and only before your first simulated trade | None. The subscription stops on passing rather than being refunded. A 14 day cooling off period exists in the Global terms only, and only before your first simulated trade | None. The subscription stops on passing rather than being refunded. A 14 day cooling off period exists in the Global terms only, and only before your first simulated trade | None. The subscription stops on passing rather than being refunded. A 14 day cooling off period exists in the Global terms only, and only before your first simulated trade | None. The subscription stops on passing rather than being refunded. A 14 day cooling off period exists in the Global terms only, and only before your first simulated trade |
| Contracts in the Evaluation | 5 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| Contracts once funded | Starts at 2, scales to 5 on end-of-day profit, and falls back again if profit falls | Starts at 4, scales to 10 on end-of-day profit, and falls back again if profit falls | Starts at 6, scales to 15 on end-of-day profit, and falls back again if profit falls | Starts at 2, scales to 5 on end-of-day profit, and falls back again if profit falls | Starts at 4, scales to 10 on end-of-day profit, and falls back again if profit falls | Starts at 6, scales to 15 on end-of-day profit, and falls back again if profit falls |
| Overnight and weekend holding | Not permitted at any stage. Every position and resting order must be closed before 4:10 p.m. ET each day | Not permitted at any stage. Every position and resting order must be closed before 4:10 p.m. ET each day | Not permitted at any stage. Every position and resting order must be closed before 4:10 p.m. ET each day | Not permitted at any stage. Every position and resting order must be closed before 4:10 p.m. ET each day | Not permitted at any stage. Every position and resting order must be closed before 4:10 p.m. ET each day | Not permitted at any stage. Every position and resting order must be closed before 4:10 p.m. ET each day |
| News trading | Allowed, with no special restriction, but a risk management standard on the forbidden practices page cuts across it. See the note below the table | Allowed, with no special restriction, but a risk management standard on the forbidden practices page cuts across it. See the note below the table | Allowed, with no special restriction, but a risk management standard on the forbidden practices page cuts across it. See the note below the table | Allowed, with no special restriction, but a risk management standard on the forbidden practices page cuts across it. See the note below the table | Allowed, with no special restriction, but a risk management standard on the forbidden practices page cuts across it. See the note below the table | Allowed, with no special restriction, but a risk management standard on the forbidden practices page cuts across it. See the note below the table |
| Accounts you may hold | Unlimited Evaluations, each separately billed. Up to 3 Sim-Funded accounts at once across both products | Unlimited Evaluations, each separately billed. Up to 3 Sim-Funded accounts at once across both products | Unlimited Evaluations, each separately billed. Up to 3 Sim-Funded accounts at once across both products | Unlimited Evaluations, each separately billed. Up to 3 Sim-Funded accounts at once across both products | Unlimited Evaluations, each separately billed. Up to 3 Sim-Funded accounts at once across both products | Unlimited Evaluations, each separately billed. Up to 3 Sim-Funded accounts at once across both products |
| Commission | $0.50 per side on minis, $0.20 per side on micros, plus exchange and NFA fees | $0.50 per side on minis, $0.20 per side on micros, plus exchange and NFA fees | $0.50 per side on minis, $0.20 per side on micros, plus exchange and NFA fees | $0.50 per side on minis, $0.20 per side on micros, plus exchange and NFA fees | $0.50 per side on minis, $0.20 per side on micros, plus exchange and NFA fees | $0.50 per side on minis, $0.20 per side on micros, plus exchange and NFA fees |
Sources: Futures Trading Objectives and Rules · Futures comparison table · How it works · Futures Terms and Conditions, Global
What the table cannot show
The profit target card for Growth 150K reads, verbatim, “Example Profit Target = $9,000 Balance required for passing = $109,000”. On a $150,000 account a $9,000 target is a $159,000 balance, which is exactly what the Pro 150K card on the same page says. The $109,000 figure is in the served markup, not a rendering artefact.
It is a typing error rather than a rule, and the rule itself is clear. It is published on the page a trader is told to read before buying, on the largest and most expensive account, and it has been left there. We publish it because a trader who takes the page at its word will believe they have passed $50,000 early.
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The marketing says get paid every 4 days on Growth and every 5 on Pro. The rules page says something different: you need 4 or 5 qualifying days, each clearing a minimum closed profit, within a payout cycle. Those are not the same rule. Four qualifying days need not be four consecutive days, and a day that makes $149 on a Growth 50K account is not one of them.
The term payout cycle is used throughout the rules page and defined nowhere on it. When a cycle starts, how long it runs and when it resets are not published, which also makes the 50% new profit condition impossible to plan around precisely.
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The product page badge says news trading allowed, and the FAQ says it is allowed in any phase with no special news restrictions. The forbidden practices page lists News-Event Concentration, concentrating activity around scheduled economic events in a pattern inconsistent with your broader trading, among the standards you must meet.
Both are FTMO’s own words. In practice the FAQ permission is qualified by the phrase provided you do not engage in any forbidden trading practices, and the concentration standard sits on that page. A trader whose strategy is news is relying on a permission that another FTMO page can withdraw.
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You pass the Evaluation with a limit of 5, 10 or 15 contracts. The Sim-Funded Account starts you at 2, 4 or 6, and you scale back up on end-of-day profit milestones. The ladder is reversible, so a losing day returns you to the lower limit the next day.
The comparison table does not show this. It lists the Sim-Funded maximum as 5, 10 and 15, the same as the Evaluation, with no starting figure. The rules page shows it as 2 to 5, 4 to 10 and 6 to 15. A trader sizing a strategy off the comparison table will be sizing off a limit they do not have on day one.
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The site wide call to action says up to $450,000 in simulated capital, which is three 150K accounts. The accounts FAQ says there is no maximum total capital allocation across your accounts and that the limit is simply the number of Sim-Funded accounts. Since the cap is three accounts, both can be read as true, but they point at different ceilings and only one is on the buy page.
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The beta page promises that the trading objectives you purchased are guaranteed and protected by FTMO, will remain unchanged on your account, and that new objectives or prices apply only to new purchases. Clause 5.7 of the terms reserves the right to modify, change, replace, add, suspend, withdraw or remove any element of the services at any time without compensation, and the definitions clause says the trading objectives may be updated from time to time.
We have no evidence FTMO has changed objectives mid account, and its record on the CFD side is the reason to think it will not. The point is narrower: the promise lives on a marketing page and the contract says otherwise, so it is a commitment of reputation rather than a term you could enforce.
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Outside the United States you contract with FTMO Evaluation Global s.r.o., Czech identification number 092 13 651, under Czech law and Czech courts, with a 14 day consumer cooling off period before your first trade and a right to reject a change of terms.
In the United States you contract with JV Prop Corporation of 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware, under New York law, with AAA consumer arbitration in New York, a class action waiver, a jury waiver and a one year limit on bringing a claim. There is no cooling off clause in that document, so only the blanket no refund term applies, and changes to the terms take effect on continued use rather than on notice. The imprint lists no company number, registered agent or officers for JV Prop Corporation, and Delaware is itself one of the five US states FTMO will not sell futures into.
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Passing hands you to a different company. Outside the US that is FTMO Trading Global s.r.o., identification number 094 18 415, under the FTMO Futures Sim-Funded Account Terms and Conditions. The Evaluation terms say the agreement between you and FTMO Trading is solely between you and FTMO Trading.
That agreement is not on the site. The terms and policies index lists nine documents, three of them futures, and it is not among them. FTMO will send a sample by email on request. Everything in the payout rows above therefore comes from marketing and rules pages rather than from the contract that governs the payment.
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What has changed
No changes to FTMO Futures's published rules have been recorded since this page was first verified on 6 September 2026. This page is re-checked against FTMO Futures's own pages every Sunday, and any change will be logged here with the previous and new wording.
How this page is maintained
Every figure here was read from FTMO’s own pages as markup, in a browser, on 31 August 2026, including both terms and conditions PDFs in full. Where two of FTMO’s documents disagree, both are shown and the binding one is named.
FTMO Futures is in beta and the terms are moving. Both futures contracts were uploaded on 28 August 2026 and carry the date 31 August 2026. No archive of superseded versions is published, and the product’s own trading updates page carries no entries, so there is no way to see from the outside what changed or when. We will re-read this product more often than a settled one for that reason.
This page covers the futures product only. FTMO’s CFD Challenge is a separate contract with separate rules and is covered on its own FTMO rules page.
Right of reply
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We do not accept payment to change or remove anything, and a commercial relationship makes no difference either way.