FTMO US provides services of simulated trading and educational tools for traders. The objective of FTMO US is to provide traders with conditions as similar as possible to the real market in all parts of the Evaluation Process, Free Trial, and the FTMO Rewards Account. In the Free Trial, you can check the trading setup and try it out for free, and we always recommend our participants to try it before jumping into the Evaluation Process.

Are there differences in the execution of the simulated trades for different participants?

All trade execution settings are the same for all participants regardless of whether it is Free Trial, FTMO Challenge and Verification or FTMO Rewards Account. In certain cases, exceptions may be introduced during the Free Trial stage, where we occasionally test new features or product adjustments to better simulate the ever-changing conditions of the financial markets, but any such changes will always be clearly communicated in advance.

We do not differentiate against any group of participants. All participants benefit from the same quality of trade execution and account settings on a trading platform, regardless of whether they are using a Free Trial, FTMO Challenge, Verification, or FTMO Rewards Account, and regardless of their trading performance.

We offer Simulation execution or Demo-trading, where we are using real-time market data feeds from active market maker participants and trying to mirror real-market execution. There are many technical factors beyond our control that may affect trade execution. These mainly include differences between how an individual trading platform is set up, geographical location from/to the the trading infrastructure, systems load, internet connection quality, order flow queue etc. These factors are inherent to the technology solution used and are beyond our control.

Why does FTMO US charge a commission on some asset classes?

In order to best emulate how financial markets operate and in line with market standards, we also include simulated commissions when executing trades (i.e. the respective simulated commission affects the amount of the simulated capital on the FTMO Rewards Account). All commissions applied to each symbol can be found by anyone on our website and on the trading platform. This is another important aspect of getting as close as possible to how the real market works and testing trading skills in the most accurate conditions, as if they were trading in the real market. We pride ourselves on having one of the industry’s lowest and most competitive commission structures.

Does FTMO US apply hidden markups or added slippage?

No, we do not add hidden markups to prices, and we do not artificially introduce slippage. All orders are executed using a Fill or Kill (FOK) model with market depth.

Orders are only filled if the full requested size can be executed at a single price level. If the full size is not available at one price level, the full order is rejected. This ensures transparent execution and allows participants to see the available volume bands and know exactly what price they will receive if the order is filled.

Slippage, whether positive or negative, can still occur naturally and is not influenced to favour or disadvantage any participant. All trade executions follow the same rules and are handled without intervention or bias.

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