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56 Alekou Konstantinou, Strovolos, 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus

Algaroud Center, 2nd Floor, Office 101-05, Dubai, UAE

Revin Zabala

Sean Bainton

Cyprus

United Arab Emirates

2024

2021

Full refund after 3rd payout. Not available for Instant Funding Accounts and 1-step Nitro X Accounts

5% processing fee on crypto payouts (covers blockchain costs, liquidity swaps, and infrastructure). Only TRC20 USDT supported for crypto payouts.

100%

110%

On Demand, provided you have met these specific criteria:

• Consistency Rule
• Minimum Payout Amount of 1% of Initial Balance (Before-Split)
• Minimum Trading Days

• 1 Step Nano: up to weekly
• 2 Step Nano: bi-weekly
• Other products: 14 days

The 24-hour payout guarantee ensures that you are eligible to receive your full payout within 24 business hours of your payout request. If Funded Trader Markets fail to meet this time frame, they will double the requested payout and issue a free account of the same size. This guarantee is only applicable for payouts up to $1000.

Payouts processed within 24 business hours (Mon 9 AM – Fri 5 PM Dubai time). If they miss this window you automatically receive a 100% profit split on that payout (no Blue Guardian cut). Delays caused by compliance checks, risk reviews or pending KYC do not qualify.

• 2-Step Prime: $15,000 per month
• 1-Step Nitro X: $5,000 per account and request, and required to leave a buffer of 50% of the profits
• Crypto payouts: $5,000 per transaction (TRC20 USDT only)

2 Step Nano: 2% of the initial balance per payout ($500 on $25K, $1,000 on $50K, $2,000 on $100K and $4,000 on $200K).

• 1-Step Nitro X: Must make at least a 3% profit before withdrawal
• All other accounts: 1% of initial balance

$100 in crypto, $500 via Rise (bank transfer). On 1 Step Standard and Instant accounts, once you reach 6% profit and the trailing drawdown locks at breakeven, a 1% buffer must remain in the account.

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

• Evaluation: 20:1
• Funded: 10:1

• BTC, ETH: 5:1
• Other crypto: 2:1

All accounts are swap free

A reset gives a trader who has violated their account rules (such as exceeding the Daily or Overall Loss Limit) the ability to restore the account to its original starting balance paying a fee, and begin trading again.

1-Step Nitro X (Evaluation Phase)

• Reset Limit: Unlimited
• Reset Window: Within 30 days of the original purchase date

1-Step Nitro and 1-Step Nitro X (Funded Phase)

• Reset Limit: One-time only

Instant Standard

• Reset Limit: One-time only
• Reset Window: Within 24 hours after the breach

90% Profit Split (2-Step Plus): It has no cost on money but Shield Risk Protocol will apply now on evaluation phase as well

• Instant, 1-Step: Trailing
• 2-Step: Static

• Instant, Guardian X, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Nano, 2 Step Pro, Crypto: Trailing
• 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Classic, 2 Step Nano, 3 Step: Static

Instant Standard, Instant Pro

• 1st payout: 50%
• 2nd payout: 60%
• 3rd payout: 70%
• 4th payout and next: 80%

Instant Plus

80%

2-Step Plus

70% (up to 90% with 2-Step Plus add-on)

1-Step Nitro

90% for the first $10,000 and 80% after that

1-Step Nitro X

100%

• Existing 1, 2 and 3 Step programs: 85%
• 1 Step Nano and 2 Step Nano: up to 100%
• Instant: 80%
• Instant Starter: 90%
• With add-on: 90%

If your Simulated Funded account with Funded Trader Markets is in profit but has been breached, you may still qualify for a withdrawal with a 50% split, provided the following conditions are met:

• Stop Loss Usage: Every trade had an SL in place.
• Loss Limits: No single position incurred a loss exceeding 1% of the account's initial balance.

Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark

Based on highest value between balance and equity

Evaluations

• 2-Step Plus: $200,000
• 1-Step Nitro: $300,000
• 1-Step Nitro X: $150,000

Instant Funding

• Instant Standard: $100,000
• Instant Pro: $100,000
• Instant Plus: $100,000

Same-type funded accounts can be merged up to $400,000 ($200,000 cap on Instant). Cross-merging different types (e.g. 2 Step Standard with 2 Step Pro) is NOT allowed. Both accounts must be at break-even (no profit, no loss) at merge time. Beyond the merge cap, the Scaling Plan can take total allocation up to $2,000,000. Guardian X and Instant accounts are NOT eligible for scaling.

Unlimited

No limit

1 Step Nano: no minimum during the evaluation; 5 days when funded.

1-Step Nitro / 1-Step Nitro X

• Evaluation: no minimum days.
• Funded Simulation: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit count.

2-Step Plus

• Evaluation: 3 minimum days per phase.
• Funded Simulation: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit.

Instant Standard / Pro / Plus

• Payout eligibility: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit count.
• Instant Pro: trading-day requirement can be removed with a checkout add-on.

• Instant, 2 Step Standard, Guardian X: 5 days with 0.5% profit or more
• 1 Step, 2 Step Classic, 3 Step, Crypto: 3 days with 0.5% profit or more
• 2 Step Classic: 4 days with 0.5% profit or more

Hedging is allowed within a single account. Hedging across multiple accounts (yours or others') is NOT allowed.

Minimum holding time of 2 minutes. Trades closed in under 2 minutes are flagged as tick scalping and count as a rule violation, whether closed manually or by automated systems. Average trade duration should stay above 1–2 minutes. Scalping itself is allowed as long as you stay above the 2-minute floor.

Martingale and layering are allowed per account (increasing position size after a loss, or opening multiple positions in the same direction at different price levels). Running these strategies across multiple accounts simultaneously is prohibited and counts as abusive behavior.

Shield Risk Protocol

Maximum Floating Loss Limits

• Instant Plus, 2-Step Plus: Maximum floating loss = 1% of account balance

Breach Consequences

• Breach it once = 80% profit split drops to 50%
• Breach it repeatedly = payout share reduces permanently to 40%, 30% and finally 20%

Built-in Copy Trading lets traders link their own FTM accounts and mirror trades, including from Evaluation to Funded phases. Available across supported platforms. Account sharing and group trading remain prohibited.

Manual copy trading is allowed ONLY between accounts legally owned by the same person (e.g. between your own Evaluation and Funded accounts, or between your Blue Guardian account and external accounts in your name). NOT allowed:

• Copying trades from other traders' accounts.
• Third-party copiers that involve accounts not legally yours.
• Having a third party manage your trades.

Instant Funding users may also use third-party copiers, provided all accounts belong to the same user.

News trading is allowed on Challenge, Guardian X and Instant Starter.

It is NOT allowed on Instant Standard and Funded accounts. On those, do not open or close trades within 5 minutes before or 5 minutes after a red folder (high-impact) release. Profits made during that window or significantly influenced by the news will be removed, even without an account violation. Same 5-minute window applies around FOMC speeches, statements and news events on Funded accounts.

Note: Instant Standard accounts purchased after November 13, 2025 cannot do news trading at all.

Accounts inactive for 30 days are subject to closure.

30 days

Instant (all)

• If a single day's profit is more than 20% of your total profit in the Instant Funding Account, you have to keep trading until the best day profit is less than 20% of the total profit.

1-Step Nitro

50% on evaluation phase and 45% on funded phase

1-Step Nitro X

25% on funded phase

2-Step Plus

No consistency rule on evaluation. No consistency rule on funded phase.

Consistency rule applies to: 1 Step Nano evaluation and funded (50%), 2 Step Nano funded (50%), 2 Step Pro funded (25%), Guardian X and Instant Standard funded (20%), Instant Starter funded (15%), $300K and $400K Instant funded (15%).

Does NOT apply to: 2 Step Nano evaluation, 1 Step Standard, 1 Step Pro, 2 Step Standard, 2 Step Classic, 3 Step funded accounts, nor to any other challenge phase.

Calculation: a single trading day cannot equal or exceed the threshold of total profits in the payout cycle. If exceeded, the payout button is blocked until the highest day drops below the threshold. Violating it does NOT terminate the account.

• Using Manipulative Software or Techniques
• Non-Standard Trading Practices
• Using External or Slow Data Feeds
• Exploiting Service Errors
• Manipulative Trading
• Hedging Across Accounts
• Account Management Services
• Group Trading
• High-Frequency Trading
• News Scalping
• Arbitrage Trading
• Multi-Account Reverse Trading
• Tick Scalping
• Internal Reverse Trading
• Group Hedging
• Account Management Services
• Account Sharing

• Platform or data freezing exploits (using a Demo Server error).
• Use of delayed data feed or trading on delayed charts.
• Tick scalping (trades closed under 2 minutes), high-frequency trading, arbitrage bots.
• Reverse arbitrage, latency arbitrage, hedge arbitrage and any emulators.
• Hedging between accounts (within one account is fine).
• Password changes (the password sent by email is the only one accepted).
• Gambling: any trading where margin usage exceeds 80% on running trades.
• Shared devices, VPS or accounts: each trader must use only their personal device. Shared usage across accounts results in payout disqualification, suspension or termination.
• Bypassing copy-trading or signal-trading rules using VPN/VPS.
• Account inactivity: at least 1 trade every 30 days (otherwise breach).