How It Works

Become an FTMO Verified Prop Trader. This guide covers what you need to know about simulated trading with FTMO.

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FTMO Challenge

Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size

Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.

Start FTMO Challenge

Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.

Start FTMO Challenge

Trade and Achieve a 10% Profit Target

Example: With a $100,000 simulated account, reach $10,000 Profit Target without exceeding 5% ($5,000) Maximum Daily Loss or 10% ($10,000) Maximum Loss.

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Trade and Achieve a 10% Profit Target Example: With a $100,000 simulated account, reach $10,000 Profit Target without exceeding 5% ($5,000) Maximum Daily Loss or 10% ($10,000) Maximum Loss.

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Verification

Continue with Your Simulated Account

You’ll use the same account size as in the FTMO Challenge.

Continue with Your Simulated Account You’ll use the same account size as in the FTMO Challenge.

Trade and Achieve 5% Profit Target

Reach the 5% Profit Target while staying within the same risk limits.

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Trade and Achieve 5% Profit Target Reach the 5% Profit Target while staying within the same risk limits.

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FTMO Rewards Account

Congratulations! You’re Now an FTMO Verified Prop Trader.

You keep trading with simulated capital, but now you earn a share of your simulated profits.

Congratulations! You’re Now an FTMO Verified Prop Trader. You keep trading with simulated capital, but now you earn a share of your simulated profits.

Show Your Best in Every Trade

There’s no Profit Target apart from your own. Just follow the risk limits and earn your rewards.

Show Your Best in Every Trade There’s no Profit Target apart from your own. Just follow the risk limits and earn your rewards.

Withdraw Your Rewards

Request withdrawals using the approved payment methods.

You can earn up to 90% of your simulated profits as a reward.
Receive a 100% refund of your initial fee with your first reward withdrawal.
Grow with FTMO through the Scaling Plan and Premium Program

Withdraw Your Rewards Request withdrawals using the approved payment methods.

You can earn up to 90% of your simulated profits as a reward.
Receive a 100% refund of your initial fee with your first reward withdrawal.
Grow with FTMO through the Scaling Plan and Premium Program

FTMO Challenge

Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size

Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.

Start FTMO Challenge

Choose Your FTMO Challenge Size Select from $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, or $200,000 simulated accounts.

Start FTMO Challenge

Trade and Prove Your Skills in a 1-Step Evaluation

Trade with simulated capital, follow risk rules and fullfill all Trading objectives.

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Trade and Prove Your Skills in a 1-Step Evaluation Trade with simulated capital, follow risk rules and fullfill all Trading objectives.

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FTMO Rewards Account

Congratulations! You’re Now an FTMO Verified Prop Trader.

You keep trading with simulated capital, but now you earn a share of your simulated profits.

Congratulations! You’re Now an FTMO Verified Prop Trader. You keep trading with simulated capital, but now you earn a share of your simulated profits.

Show Your Best in Every Trade

There’s no Profit Target apart from your own. Just follow the risk limits and earn your rewards.

Show Your Best in Every Trade There’s no Profit Target apart from your own. Just follow the risk limits and earn your rewards.

Withdraw Your Rewards

Request withdrawals using the approved payment methods.

Your reward on your FTMO Account is 90% of your simulated profits. Now it is up to you and your performance.
Grow with FTMO through the Scaling Plan and Premium Program

Withdraw Your Rewards Request withdrawals using the approved payment methods.

Your reward on your FTMO Account is 90% of your simulated profits. Now it is up to you and your performance.
Grow with FTMO through the Scaling Plan and Premium Program

FTMO Instant Account

Choose Your Account Size

Select from $5,000, $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, or $100,000 in simulated capital.

Get Started

Choose Your Account Size Select from $5,000, $10,000, $25,000, $50,000, or $100,000 in simulated capital.

Get Started

Put Your Strategy to Work

The only Profit Target is your own. Trade within the risk limits and work towards your Reward from day one.

Put Your Strategy to Work The only Profit Target is your own. Trade within the risk limits and work towards your Reward from day one.

Withdraw Your Rewards

Build up simulated profit on your account, meet the Trading Objectives and applicable eligibility requirements, request a withdrawal, and keep the vast majority as a Reward.

Keep 90% of the simulated profits you generate.

Withdraw Your Rewards Build up simulated profit on your account, meet the Trading Objectives and applicable eligibility requirements, request a withdrawal, and keep the vast majority as a Reward.

Keep 90% of the simulated profits you generate.

FTMO Instant Account Focus on your simulated profits from day one

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FTMO 1-Step Account Focus on your simulated profits from day one

Free Trial Trade with FTMO

FTMO 2-Step Account Focus on your simulated profits from day one

Free Trial Trade with FTMO

All phases comparison in a single table.

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All phases comparison in a single table.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Before you decide to accept an FTMO Challenge: 1-Step or FTMO Challenge: 2-Step, we want to make sure that you know what you are up against.

After you sign up, you can either start an FTMO Challenge: 1-Step or FTMO Challenge: 2-Step right away or, as we usually recommend, start with our Free Trial, which is a free version of our FTMO Challenge intended for practicing purposes. In the Free Trial, you will also have the possibility to…

After you pass all the Trading Objectives in your FTMO Challenge, your Account MetriX will display a notification indicating that the objectives have been met. At this stage, you no longer need to continue using the FTMO Challenge account. We will be automatically alerted that you have passed the Trading Objectives and will proceed to evaluate your results.

The next steps depend on your specific Evaluation Process type:

FTMO Challenge: 2-Step: After the successful evaluation of your results…

Restrictions for trading during selected news releases apply only to the Standard account type. The Swing account type does not have any restrictions on trading during any news releases.

For Standard type accounts, these restrictions apply only once you start trading on an FTMO Rewards Account. They do not apply during the Evaluation Process.

Evaluation Process

While trading during the Evaluation Process, the restriction does not apply regardless of the account type (Standard account or Swing). You may…

An FTMO Verified Prop Trader is someone who has successfully completed Evaluation Process, and has also completed the FTMO Identity process (KYC/KYB) and signed the Signal Provider Agreement. Only after completing these steps does the participant advance to the FTMO Verified Prop Trader stage.

This role is referred to contractually as a Signal Provider. While our Signal Providers never actually trade on live markets, their trades in a simulated environment are monitored and may be used for further independent trading…

Our system allows you to modify certain parameters of your account, provided that no trade has been placed on the current account. For FTMO Rewards Accounts, the modification can be processed after each Reward withdrawal.

Available modification for FTMO Challenge: 1-Step or subsequent FTMO Rewards Account:

Platform modification
Modification of the Swing account type to the Standard account type (change from Standard to Swing is not possible)

Available modification for FTMO Challenge: 2-Step or subsequent FTMO Rewards Account:

Platform modification
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Overnight and weekend position restrictions apply only to the Standard account type. The Swing account type does not have any restrictions on holding positions overnight or over the weekend.

For Standard accounts, these restrictions apply only once you start trading on an FTMO Rewards Account. They do not apply during the Evaluation Process.

Evaluation Process

While trading during the Evaluation Process, the restriction does not apply regardless of the account type (Standard account or Swing). You are allowed…

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