FTMO Futures

FTMO Futures is a futures prop firm product run by FTMO, the Prague-based proprietary trading firm operating since 2015. FTMO Futures gives traders a simulated futures account from $50,000 to $150,000 after a single Evaluation phase, and pays a share of the simulated profits they generate. FTMO announced FTMO Futures as live on 31 August 2026 and published its futures rules pages the same day.

FTMO Futures is a separate product from the FTMO CFD business, with its own site section, its own rules pages, its own social accounts and its own subscription pricing. Nothing you know from the FTMO Challenge carries over. The 10% static drawdown, the 80% split and the refundable fee are all CFD mechanics, and FTMO Futures shares none of them. Our FTMO review covers the CFD side separately.

The path runs three stages. FTMO Futures starts you on an Evaluation account, moves you to a Sim-Funded Account where payouts become available, and reserves a Live Funded Account for traders FTMO invites after reviewing their Sim-Funded record. FTMO Futures sets no time limit and no minimum trading day requirement on the Evaluation.

FTMO Futures is in beta, and FTMO has published what that covers. FTMO guarantees the Trading Objectives and price you bought stay unchanged for the life of your Evaluation and your Sim-Funded Account. Any new objectives or prices FTMO releases apply only to new purchases. FTMO also states that traders may hit bugs, technical issues and temporary platform interruptions while the system is stress-tested.

That is a stronger beta commitment than most firms give, and it removes the worst risk in buying an early-access product, which is a rule changing under you mid-evaluation. It does not remove execution risk. A platform interruption during an open position on an account with a hard daily loss limit is a real cost, and FTMO publishes no compensation policy for it. Pro traders carry that risk with a $1,000 hard cutout sitting under them at the $50,000 size.

The second cost of beta is evidence. FTMO Futures has processed no publicly documented payouts, holds no Trustpilot presence of its own, and has no Reddit or forum record. Every number in this review comes from FTMO's own published rules, read on 7 September 2026. None of it is confirmed by a trader who has been through a full cycle, because as of this date nobody has.

FTMO Futures charges a monthly subscription with no activation fee. Growth is the cheaper product with softer rules and a lower payout ceiling. Pro costs more, applies a hard daily loss limit, and lets you withdraw all of your profit rather than half. Every figure below is confirmed against the FTMO Futures Trading Objectives page as of 7 September 2026.

The profit target is 6% of starting capital across every size and both products. That is unusually flat. Most futures firms scale the target percentage down as size goes up, so a trader comparing FTMO Futures at $150,000 against a cheaper $150,000 account elsewhere should check the target in dollars rather than in percent.

The subscription is the part that catches people out. FTMO states the subscription stays active even after a breach. Breach in week one on a Growth $50,000 and you are not out $119 once. You either wait for the next billing date to receive a fresh account, which costs another $119 and burns the rest of the month, or you pay the $109 reset fee to restart immediately. FTMO confirms that a reset does not alter your billing cycle, so the $119 still lands on its original date. A trader who resets twice in one month on a Growth $50,000 spends $337 before passing anything.

The FTMO Futures Evaluation has no time limit, no minimum trading days and a 6% profit target. FTMO Futures assesses accounts for passing after the end of the trading day, and FTMO defines a trading day as the period beginning at 6:00 p.m. ET and ending at 4:10 p.m. ET on the following calendar day.

The drawdown rule is the best thing on this page

FTMO Futures applies an end-of-day trailing maximum drawdown. FTMO Futures recalculates the limit at the start of each trading day as the highest balance recorded at the close of any preceding trading day, minus the drawdown amount. The limit only ever increases. Once your closing balance rises high enough that the calculated limit would pass your starting capital, the limit locks at starting capital for good.

This is materially softer than the intraday trailing drawdown used by several large US futures firms. Unrealised profit on an open position never raises your floor at FTMO Futures. You can run a trade $4,000 in profit at 2 p.m., give the whole thing back, and your drawdown limit sits exactly where it was at the open. The trader this protects is the one who scales into winners and lets runners go, because that is the trader an intraday trailing floor punishes hardest.

The lock is the second half of it. On a Growth $50,000, one closing balance of $52,000 or higher fixes your floor at $50,000 permanently. From that point you hold a full $50,000 static floor and every dollar above it is free cushion. Getting to that first good close is the whole game on a Growth account.

The rule bites in one place. FTMO checks the limit against your equity at any point during the day, and FTMO defines equity as balance plus open position profit and loss, minus commissions. So the floor updates only at the close, and you can breach it at 10:04 a.m. on an open trade. Intraday drawdown kills you. Intraday profit does nothing for you until you close the day.

Pro adds a hard daily loss limit

Growth accounts carry no daily loss limit during the Evaluation. Pro accounts carry a hard one of $1,000, $1,500 or $2,000 by size, and FTMO states that hitting it makes the Evaluation unsuccessful. FTMO calculates the limit from your balance at the start of each trading day, and unlike the maximum drawdown it can move down as well as up. On a Pro $50,000 that is a 2% daily ceiling against a 6% target, which means a single bad session ends a run that might have needed three weeks. Traders who take one high-conviction trade a day and size it properly can live inside that. Traders who revenge-trade a loss cannot.

The Consistency Rule is a gate, not a breach

FTMO Futures caps your single best trading day at 40% of total profit on Growth and 50% on Pro, measured on closed profit and loss at the end of the trading day. FTMO states plainly that exceeding it is not treated as a rule breach. It blocks the pass until you trade enough additional profit to bring the ratio back under the cap.

FTMO's own worked example shows how expensive that gets. Close day one up $2,000 and day two up $1,000 on a Growth $50,000, and your best day is 66.7% of a $3,000 total. You have hit the profit target and you cannot pass. If day one stays your best day, your total profit now needs to reach $5,000. Every one of those extra sessions is a session where the drawdown can take the account. A single outsized win day on a Growth account can be the most expensive thing that happens to you.

Pro's 50% cap is the more forgiving of the two, which is worth setting against Pro's hard daily loss limit if your edge concentrates into a few sessions a month.

Contract limits

FTMO Futures caps Evaluation positions at 5 contracts on the $50,000, 10 on the $100,000 and 15 on the $150,000, counted across all instruments held at any one time. One standard or mini counts as one contract and ten micros count as one. So the $50,000 Evaluation allows 5 minis, 50 micros, or any mix inside the limit.

Pass the Evaluation and FTMO Futures moves you to a Sim-Funded Account of the same size. FTMO Futures drops the profit target and the Consistency Rule at this stage. The maximum drawdown stays and now terminates the account on a breach, and the daily loss limit changes character depending on which product you bought.

The soft daily loss limit on Growth is the single biggest reason to pay less rather than more here. A Growth trader who hits the limit loses the day. A Pro trader who hits it loses the account and starts again from an Evaluation. Pro buys you a wider maximum drawdown and full withdrawals, and charges for it with the most unforgiving rule in the whole product.

The three-account cap also sets the ceiling on the whole product. Three concurrent Sim-Funded Accounts at $150,000 each puts maximum simulated capital at $450,000, which is the figure FTMO publishes. FTMO sets no limit on how many Evaluations you run at once, and each one carries its own monthly subscription.

Contract limits drop when you get funded

FTMO Futures starts the Sim-Funded Account at 2 contracts on the $50,000, 4 on the $100,000 and 6 on the $150,000, then scales the limit on end-of-day profit above starting capital.

Read that against the Evaluation limits and the trap is obvious. You pass a $50,000 Evaluation trading up to 5 contracts, then get funded and can only trade 2. Your position size is cut by 60% at the exact moment your results start paying you, and it does not come back until you have banked $2,000 in end-of-day profit. Any strategy tested at 5 contracts during the Evaluation needs re-testing at 2 before it earns a payout.

The scaling also runs backwards. FTMO's own example takes a $50,000 account that has scaled to 5 contracts, drops the end-of-day balance back to $50,000, and cuts the limit to 2 contracts the next trading day. Contract capacity at FTMO Futures follows your equity in both directions.

FTMO Futures uses a 90/10 payout ratio, which sits at the top of the range for futures prop firms. FTMO applies the 90% to the amount you are permitted to request, not to your total profit. Four separate rules narrow that amount before the ratio touches it.

Run a real case. A Growth $50,000 trader accumulates $4,000 above starting capital. The 50% withdrawable rule allows a request of $2,000, which sits under the $2,500 cap so the cap does not bite. The 90/10 ratio pays out $1,800. The trader keeps $1,800 of $4,000 in that cycle, or 45%, with the rest held in the account for the next one. The headline number is 90%. The number that reaches the bank on the first request is 45%.

The same $4,000 on a Pro $50,000 pays out $3,600, because Pro allows the full amount and the $5,000 cap does not bite. That difference is what the extra $20 per month and the hard daily loss limit buy.

The qualifying day floor is the rule that catches grinders. A Growth $50,000 trader needs four separate days closing at $150 or better. FTMO's own example fails a trader on a $120 day, with the other three days clearing the threshold. Six green days of $90 each count for nothing. FTMO reviews qualifying days at the end of the trading day on closed profit and loss only, so a day carried by an open runner does not count until you close it.

The 50% new profit rule caps how much old profit you can drag into a request. Carry $2,000 from a previous cycle, generate $400 of new profit, and the maximum you can request is $800, being the $400 new plus $400 matched from the old. Sitting on profit does not make it withdrawable faster.

When your first payout can actually happen

FTMO publishes three different answers to this across three of its own pages, and they do not agree. The FTMO Futures Trading Objectives page states the qualifying day requirement without naming a cycle length. The FTMO Futures how-it-works page states that traders can request a payout every 4 days on Growth and every 5 on Pro. The FTMO payout FAQ states that the first payout can be requested 14 days after the first trade on the Sim-Funded Account.

All three were live on 7 September 2026. The reading that makes all three true is a one-time 14-day wait before the first payout, with the 4 or 5 qualifying days governing every cycle after that. FTMO does not state this anywhere, so treat it as unconfirmed. Plan for 14 days to your first payout rather than 4, because that is the longest of the three published figures and the one that appears in FTMO's own payout FAQ.

FTMO Futures does not allow positions to be held over the market close. FTMO requires every position closed and every resting order cancelled, including stop-loss orders, limit orders and bracket orders, before 4:10 p.m. ET or the relevant market close, whichever comes sooner, on each trading day. That rules out swing futures at FTMO Futures completely, and it applies on both Growth and Pro, in the Evaluation and on the Sim-Funded Account.

The detail worth reading twice is what FTMO says about the safety net. FTMO states that positions or orders left open at session close will be automatically liquidated or cancelled by the trading platform, and that traders should not rely on that function. FTMO is telling you the auto-flatten exists and telling you not to plan around it. Anyone treating 4:10 p.m. ET as a soft deadline the platform will handle is trading against FTMO's own written warning.

This is the sharpest difference between FTMO Futures and the FTMO CFD product. On the CFD side, FTMO permits overnight and weekend holding throughout the Evaluation Process regardless of account type, and the FTMO Swing account carries no overnight or weekend restriction at all. None of that reaches FTMO Futures. If you hold positions overnight, the FTMO brand is not the point of comparison, and our best futures prop firms guide covers the two firms on our list that permit it.

The cancellation clause catches people who think flat means flat. A resting bracket order on a closed position still counts. Cancel the orders as well as closing the trades.

FTMO Futures runs on two platforms, FTMO Tradovate and FTMO NinjaTrader, and platform login is handled through Tradovate credentials on either route.

FTMO Futures lists 30 instruments across metals, energies, equity indices, cryptocurrencies and FX, split into 19 mini and E-mini contracts and 11 micro contracts. Traders work with live CME market data during both the Evaluation and the Sim-Funded Account. Thirty instruments is narrower than several established futures firms, so check your specific contract is on FTMO's list before subscribing.

Total trading cost at FTMO Futures has three parts: FTMO's commission, exchange fees and NFA fees. FTMO sets only the first one. Exchange and NFA fees are set by the exchanges and the regulator, so they apply identically whichever prop firm you use, and any firm advertising a headline commission without them is quoting an incomplete number. FTMO does not publish its per-side commission on the futures overview or rules pages, so confirm it at checkout.

FTMO Futures applies a separate Forbidden Trading Practices policy to every FTMO Futures account, in every phase and on both Growth and Pro. FTMO states that breaching it may result in account termination or other action under the applicable Terms and Conditions, and FTMO publishes the full list on its own FTMO Futures Forbidden Trading Practices page.

The policy is separate from the FTMO CFD version, which matters if you already trade the FTMO Challenge. A practice permitted on the CFD side is not automatically permitted on FTMO Futures. Read the futures page rather than assuming the rules carry across, particularly if you run multiple accounts, copy trades between them, or use any automated execution.

FTMO documents this more thoroughly than most futures firms, which is a point in its favour. A published, phase-independent forbidden practices policy is easier to comply with than a vague clause buried in terms.

FTMO Futures runs a third tier above Sim-Funded called the Live Funded Account, backed by FTMO capital rather than simulated capital. FTMO Futures offers it by invitation only, after FTMO reviews your Sim-Funded trading. Maximum drawdown is the only Trading Objective that remains at this tier.

Live Funded traders clear a one-time buffer before the first payout, after which it is gone permanently. Once the buffer is cleared, FTMO Futures allows daily payout requests on profit above the buffer with no payout cap, still at the 90/10 ratio. A market data fee applies for live exchange data, and FTMO covers one exchange.

FTMO does not publish the buffer amount, the invitation criteria, or the market data fee for additional exchanges. Nobody has reached this tier, since the Sim-Funded Account has existed for a matter of days. Treat the Live Funded Account as a stated roadmap rather than a feature you can plan around.

FTMO Futures is operated by FTMO, a Prague-based prop firm that has run since 2015 from Quadrio offices at Purkynova 2121/3 and reports 4.5 million customers, $650 million paid in rewards, and a 4.8 out of 5 Trustpilot rating. FTMO completed its acquisition of OANDA from CVC in December 2025, which added regulated broker infrastructure to the group. FTMO Futures itself opened in beta on 31 August 2026 and holds no payout record of its own.

Both of those statements are true at once, and a trader deciding whether to subscribe should weigh them separately rather than reading the Trustpilot score as evidence about the futures product. The record belongs to FTMO's CFD business. FTMO Futures has its own track record, and as of 7 September 2026 that record is days long and contains no completed payout cycles.

FTMO discloses that all FTMO Futures accounts are simulated and all capital is fictitious, including on the Sim-Funded Account where payouts are real money paid on simulated performance. FTMO states plainly that FTMO companies do not act as a broker and accept no deposits, and that the platform and data feed are powered by liquidity providers. That disclosure sits on the site rather than buried in terms, which is the standard we want to see. For the general checklist we apply, see our guide on whether prop firms are legit.

Prop firms do not require a financial licence, so the absence of a regulator is not a mark against FTMO Futures. What matters here is evidence, and the evidence for the futures product does not exist yet. We will re-audit this page once documented FTMO Futures payouts appear.

FTMO Futures competes with firms that have been paying futures traders for years. The closest structural match is TradeDay, which also runs monthly subscriptions across $50,000, $100,000 and $150,000, also uses an end-of-day trailing floor that locks at starting capital, and also forbids overnight holding. The table compares the $50,000 size, because that is where most traders start and where the rule differences bite hardest.

What you actually take home on the first payout

Profit split is the number every firm advertises and the number that decides least. Payout caps, withdrawable percentages and split tiers all cut the figure before it reaches your bank. Below is the same trade for all four: a $50,000 account, $4,000 in profit above starting capital, first request.

Three of the four advertise 90%. Only one pays it on the first request. FTMO Futures Pro is the strongest of the four on this single metric, and the price of that is the $1,000 hard daily loss limit sitting under the account, which ends the whole thing permanently the first time you hit it. FTMO Futures Growth at 45% still beats TradeDay Fast Pass at 30%, because Fast Pass caps each request at $1,500 before the 80/20 split applies.

The wider futures market

Past those two, the comparison depends on what you are optimising for. My Funded Futures attacks FTMO's headline directly with 100% on the first $10,000 withdrawn. Savius has been paying traders since 2013, the longest record in futures prop, and charges for it with an intraday trailing floor that tracks peak equity including unrealised profit, the exact model FTMO's locking EOD floor is built to beat. Alpha Futures and Swiss Firmup both run one-step EOD evaluations on a one-time fee, which removes the compounding cost that makes a failed FTMO Futures month expensive twice over. Our best futures prop firms ranking covers all four, and the prop firm comparison tool puts the rule sets side by side. The full directory sits at our prop firm reviews hub.

FTMO Futures vs FTMO CFD

The two share a brand and share almost nothing else, which is the comparison most readers actually need.

FTMO Futures publishes a rule set that beats most futures firms on the two mechanics that decide accounts, being an end-of-day trailing drawdown that locks at starting capital and no time limit on the Evaluation. FTMO Futures also has no payout track record, which is the single thing that most separates a good rule sheet from a good prop firm.

The score reflects verified rules only. It is not a payout reliability rating, because no payout evidence exists on 7 September 2026. If you subscribe now you are buying an eleven-year-old company's promise on a product one week old, with a written guarantee that your objectives and price will not change mid-evaluation.

The practical read: Growth at $50,000 for $119 per month is the sensible entry, because the soft daily loss limit on the Sim-Funded Account means a bad session costs you a day rather than the account, and because 45% effective on the first payout still beats losing the account outright. Move to Pro once you have seen the platform behave and want the full withdrawal. We will re-check this page and update the score once FTMO Futures payouts are documented.