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56 Alekou Konstantinou, Strovolos, 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus

Goldcrest Executive Building, Office No. 1210, JLT, Cluster C, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Revin Zabala

Jakub Rož

Cyprus

United Arab Emirates

2024

2023

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

Pay After Pass: pay activation fee only after passing. No traditional refund.

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

• Crypto ($100 – $399): $25
• Rise ($400 or more): $50

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

Every 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.

48 hours: if not paid within 48h, 100% profit split

• 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)

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

• Minimum: $100 in For Traders wallet
• Maximum per cycle (bi-weekly): $15,000 on most accounts
• Withdrawal fees:
  · $100-$399 (crypto): $25
  · $400+ (Rise: bank/local/crypto): $50

• Challenge accounts (evaluation phase): 1:125
• Master accounts (Fast/Classic/Strike): 1:30
• Master accounts (Fast Static): 1:20
• Master accounts (Instant Pro): 1:10

• Challenge: 1:40 (gold/silver part of FX leverage 1:125)
• Master: 1:10

• Challenge: 1:40
• Master: 1:10

• Challenge: 1:20
• Master: 1:10
• Instant Pro: 1:5
• Fast Static: 1:10

• 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

Scaling unlocked through the Loyalty Program (5 tiers: Starter, Rising Star, Pro, VIP, Legend). Increments depend on tier. Applies to all account types.

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

• Forex Fast: 6% trailing
• Forex Fast Static: 6% balance-based static
• Forex Classic: 8% or 10% (depending on order)
• Forex Strike: 5% from initial balance
• Forex Pay After Pass: 6% trailing
• Forex Instant: 5% trailing
• Forex Instant Pro: 6% trailing

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%

• Forex evaluation products (Fast, Fast Static, Classic, Strike and Pay After Pass): 80% or according to the selected order
• Forex Instant: starts at 70% and increases by 5% with each reward, up to 90%
• Forex Instant Pro: starts at 60% and increases by 10% with each reward, up to 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

• Forex Fast/Fast Static/Strike/Pay After Pass: 3% (Fast: from previous day equity; Fast Static: from previous day balance/equity; Strike: fixed from initial)
• Forex Classic: 4% or 3% (depending on order)
• Forex Instant: 3% of starting balance
• Forex Instant Pro: none

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

$300,000 combined across all Master Accounts and Instant Models (Forex + Crypto + Futures shared cap). No allocation limit during Challenge phase.

Unlimited

• Three Step: 60 per phase
• Rest of accounts: No limit

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.

• Forex Fast: 3 profitable days (0.5% of starting balance each)
• Forex Classic: 3 profitable days per phase
• Forex Strike: 3 profitable days per phase
• Forex Instant: 7 profitable days
• Forex Instant Pro: not required

EAs allowed only as decision-support tools (alerts, partial management, predefined rules). Fully autonomous trading bots are prohibited.

Cross-account hedging (opposing positions on the same instrument across accounts) is forbidden.

Manual scalping allowed with a minimum 5-second hold per trade. Tick scalping and HFT are forbidden.

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.

Martingale strategies (doubling position size after losses) are classified as gambling and forbidden.

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%

Open trades: maximum 3% risk on a single position.

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.

Outbound copy trading (from your For Traders account to external accounts) is allowed. Inbound copy trading from external sources is strictly forbidden.

Forex: no new positions within 5 minutes before/after high-impact news events. Existing positions can be held through news.

Accounts inactive for 30 days are subject to closure.

• Forex Fast / Fast Static / Classic / Strike / Pay After Pass (Challenge & Master): 30 days
• Forex Instant / Instant Pro: 7 days

Days counted from the moment a position is CLOSED, not opened. Minimal 0.01-lot trades to game the rule don't count.

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.

• Forex Fast: no consistency rule on Challenge; consistency on Master varies.
• Forex Pay After Pass Master: best day cannot exceed 20% of total profit.
• Forex Instant: best day cannot exceed 15% of total profit.
• General gambling rule: passing via a single trade exceeding 70% of profit target is forbidden.

Weekend holds are unrestricted across all account types.

• 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

• Arbitrage (latency, reverse, statistical)
• HFT (High Frequency Trading)
• Grid trading
• Tick scalping
• Fully autonomous bots/EAs
• Cross-account hedging
• Gambling behaviors (overleveraging, all-in trades > 70% of profit target)
• Martingale
• Inbound copy trading and signal services
• Group/signal trading from Telegram, Discord etc.