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Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
901 Pennsylvania Ave Suite #3-440, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Stan
Saint Lucia
United States
2026
2022
Prime 1 Step and Prime 2 Step only: the fee is refunded in full once the account has been funded for 30 days and is in profit. Edge and Instant have no refund.
- 2-Step Pro: Refund bonus on first payout.
- 1-Step Pro: Refund bonus on second payout.
- Instant Funding: Not eligible for refund bonus.
- 150% Refund Add-On available: receive 150% of challenge fee back after first payout.
- 2-Step Day and Swing: Refund bonus on second payout.
No fixed fee published. Any processing or network fee is shown before you confirm; bank and network charges are paid by the trader.
First payout on demand once funded (on Instant, after the first trade). Then every 7 days; every 14 on Instant Go.
Pro and 2-Step Day/Swing accounts
- Default: first payout 21 days after first trade on funded account; subsequent payouts every 21 days.
- With 14-Day Payout Add-On: first payout 14 days after first trade; subsequent every 14 days.
Instant Funded accounts
- First payout 7 days after the first trade on the funded account; subsequent every 7 days.
- With On-Demand Payout Add-On: request payouts any time once eligibility requirements are met.
Minimum payout: $200 via Rise (bank transfer), $50 via Crypto (USDT-ERC20).
No guaranteed time: the payout policy neither promises nor estimates one. Every request gets an automatic receipt and every payout a verifiable certificate.
Payout requests processed within 2 business days (excluding holidays and weekends). If not, traders receive $1,000 ($500 cash + $500 account credits).
Only with the Weekend Holding add-on. Without it, crypto positions are also closed at 4:45 PM New York time on Friday.
At most $2,000 per account in any 7 days; the rest stays on the account for the next request.
Edge 1 Step and Prime 1 Step: 1% of the starting balance, at most $100. Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: no minimum. Instant: 1% of the starting balance. Crypto payouts: at least $100.
$200 via Rise / $50 via Crypto
Edge 1 Step, Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: 1:100. Prime 1 Step: 1:50. Instant Pro: 1:33. Instant Go: 1:25.
Edge 1 Step, Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: 1:100. Prime 1 Step: 1:50. Instant Pro: 1:33. Instant Go: 1:25.
1:20
Edge 1 Step, Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: 1:100. Prime 1 Step: 1:50. Instant Pro: 1:33. Instant Go: 1:25.
Oil: 1:10
Edge 1 Step, Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: 1:100. Prime 1 Step: 1:50. Instant Pro: 1:33. Instant Go: 1:25.
- 1-Step Pro & Instant Funding: 1:20
- 2-Step Pro: 1:15
- 2-Step Day and Swing: Nasdaq and DAX 1:30, Dow and Nikkei 1:40, S&P 1:25, UK100 1:20, other indices 1:15
Edge 1 Step, Edge 2 Step and Prime 2 Step: 1:100. Prime 1 Step: 1:50. Instant Pro: 1:33. Instant Go: 1:25.
Edge and Instant: $5 per lot round turn. Prime: $4.
Edge and Instant: $6 per lot round turn. Prime: $5.
Edge and Instant: 0.06% of the trade value, round turn. Prime: 0.045%.
Paid add-on with a fixed price per size, from $9 (2.5K) to $146 (200K). Reviewed if profit comes mainly from positions held through the rollover.
Available as a 'Swap-free, Zero Commissions' add-on for Pro accounts. Removes $3/lot commission and enables swap-free trading.
Voluntary evaluation reset with no open positions: a new account at 20% off the current price. After a breach, a paid restart for 7 days. Funded accounts can buy a reset while under 10% of the max loss has been used.
Revive Feature (2-Step Pro, Phase 1 only)
Continue your Phase 1 challenge from the progress already achieved instead of restarting. Available only if the account was in overall profit at the moment of breach. Available for 48 hours after breach, one-time use only.
Cost = Paid account price + (Paid account price × % of profit target achieved).
Restrictions
- Only available in Phase 1 (not Phase 2)
- Only one recovery action per account (Revive OR Reset, not both)
- If the account fails again after using Revive or Reset, the account is permanently failed
- Using Revive removes payout refund eligibility
Weekend Holding (20% of the fee) and Swap-Free (fixed price per size). Bought with the account and non-refundable.
- Swap-free, Zero Commissions (Pro accounts)
- 14-Day Payout (Pro accounts)
- 100% Profit Split
- 30% Consistency Score
- 30% News Trading (Pro accounts)
- Hold Through News, 15% (Instant Funded only)
- On-Demand Payout (Instant Funded only)
- Double-Up (free second challenge upon funding)
- 150% Refund
- Daily Drawdown Shield, 20% (evaluation only; one Daily Loss Limit breach does not fail the account)
- No Minimum Trading Days, 25% (1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro10; removes the requirement at every stage)
Automatic 90-day cycles: +30% size (up to 680K; 340K on Instant) and +5 split points. They require 50 trades, 12% net (1 Step), 10% (2 Step) or 15% (Instant), 2 of 3 profitable months (all 3 on Instant and Prime), no trade above 7.5% of profit (5% on Instant and Prime) and no warning.
Account grows by 25% (of original balance) every 2 consecutive profitable months with at least 8% total profit. Maximum account size: $2,000,000. Extra +25% bonus after 3 months active.
Static on every plan: the floor stays fixed below the starting balance and is measured on equity, floating loss included. Touching it ends the account.
- 1-Step Pro: 10% trailing. Trails higher as account balance increases.
- 2-Step Pro PRO10: 10% static. Fixed, does not trail.
- Instant Funding: 6% trailing until 3% profit is made, then locks at initial account size.
Instant Flex: trailing max loss keeps trailing and does not lock at the initial balance.
- 2-Step Day and Swing: static. Fixed, does not trail.
Edge rises 5 points per scaling cycle up to 95%; Instant Pro up to 90%; Instant Go up to 85%. Prime moves to 100% after 30 days funded and does not rise with scaling. Each strike pays the next payout at 10%.
80% default profit split (trader/firm 80/20) on the existing Pro and regular Instant Funded account types; excludes Instant Flex.
- 90% Profit Split available as a checkout add-on
- 100% Profit Split available as a checkout add-on
2-Step Day and Swing
- Day: 80%, up to 90% or 100% with add-ons
- Swing: 70% on the 1st payout, 80% on the 2nd, 90% from the 3rd; restarts at 70% on a new account or reset; no split add-ons
One free Edge 1 Step 100K for 14 days under the paid rules, after KYC approval. It never funds or pays out; passing it gives a 20% code valid for 30 days.
Free $1,000 Try Out on the 1-Step Pro, not available from the regular sign-up. TheGodFunded users can claim it here: get your free Try Out. New users only, one per person, MT5. Passing it gives a real funded account with an 80% split and a $500 lifetime payout cap.
Measured from the previous day's closing balance (5 PM New York), floating loss included. Touching it ends the account.
- 1-Step Pro: 3%. Based on starting day's balance.
- 2-Step Pro PRO10: 5%. Based on starting day's balance.
- Instant Funding: 3%. Based on higher of starting day's balance or equity.
Instant Flex: no daily loss limit.
- 2-Step Day and Swing: based on starting day's balance.
$1.5M per person across all CFD and futures accounts.
- Pro accounts: Maximum $300,000 in funded accounts.
- Instant Funded: Capped at $400,000 across all instant funded accounts.
- Unlimited evaluation accounts allowed.
One user per person, with as many accounts as the $1.5M limit allows. Up to 5 accounts per order, with a 10% to 25% bundle discount.
- Only for funded accounts.
- Both accounts must have the same payout schedule and profit split.
- Accounts must not have been traded and must be at initial balance.
No time limit in the evaluation or once funded.
No limit
- 1-Step Pro: 2 trading days (challenge and funded)
- 2-Step Pro: 4 trading days per phase (8 total for challenge), 2 trading days funded
- Instant Funding: No minimum
- Optional No Minimum Trading Days add-on: removes these requirements at every stage on 1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro10; +25% of base price
- 2-Step Day: no minimum in Phase 1 and 2; 4 trading days on funded before each payout
- 2-Step Swing: 4 trading days per phase, 2 trading days funded
FT Points and Challenge Convert let KYC-verified traders use an approved payout to buy a new account immediately or convert it into points for a later purchase. $1 of payout converts to 2.2 FT Points; each point covers $1 of listed account price, an effective 55% discount. The conversion is final; any unused payout balance follows the normal payout method.
Profitable day: a close at +0.5% of the account size. To pass, 3 on 1 Step and 2 per phase on 2 Step. Before each payout: 3 (1 Step), 2 (2 Step), 5 (Instant Go) and none on Instant Pro.
2-Step Pro10
- Phase 1 (Challenge): minimum 4 trading days
- Phase 2 (Challenge): minimum 4 trading days
- Funded Phase: minimum 2 trading days
1-Step
- Phase 1 (Challenge): minimum 2 trading days
- Funded Phase: minimum 2 trading days
Instant Funded
- No minimum trading days requirement.
Optional add-on
- No Minimum Trading Days removes the requirement at every stage on 1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro10; +25% of base price.
Only EAs the trader developed and controls, and can explain and show running. Bought, rented or subscription bots are prohibited.
EAs and Bots permitted ONLY if focused on risk management (e.g. position size calculators, auto position size execution bots).
Not allowed
- Off-the-shelf EAs purchased/downloaded online (unless solely for risk management)
- EAs that automatically place trades (unless developed personally by the trader)
- Grid Trading EAs/Bots
- Hedge Trading EAs/Bots
AI-generated EAs
Allowed if the trader fully understands the code (strategy, entry/exit logic, risk parameters) and can explain it to the Risk Team.
Hiding your location with a VPN, proxy or remote desktop is prohibited and triggers a new identity check. Your own EA on a VPS is allowed if disclosed.
Within one account, yes. Prohibited across accounts, yours or others', and against other firms or brokers.
Yes. Once funded, trades under 120 seconds may make at most 20% of profit from the tenth closed trade; above that, payouts pause until it is back under. Not measured in the evaluation.
Grid and martingale strategies that add exposure into losses are prohibited.
Max. Exposure: open notional may not exceed 5,000% of the balance at 2.5K down to 1,000% at 200K. Funded accounts also have a max floating loss per trade. Each gives a warning that, if the account is in profit, resets it to the starting balance; the second ends the account. Instant: max 1.5% floating loss per symbol.
- Pro accounts: Maximum 2% risk per trade idea (of initial balance).
- Instant Funding: Maximum 1% floating PnL loss (of initial balance, all active trades combined).
- Instant Funding lot size limit: 20 lots per trade maximum.
Instant Flex: maximum 1% risk per trade.
Only to copy your own trading: between your own CFD accounts or from your own master account at another broker or firm. Signals and third-party accounts are prohibited.
Allowed: copy trading between your own FundingTraders Pro accounts; copying trades from your own accounts on other brokers/firms into your FundingTraders account.
Not allowed: copying trades from accounts owned by other traders; sharing signals with other traders.
Allowed at every stage. Straddling is prohibited: opposite or offsetting positions on the same or correlated instruments within 15 minutes of a red or amber release; the risk desk reviews it.
Challenge phase
- News trading fully permitted, no restrictions.
Funded phase: Pro and 2-Step Day/Swing accounts
- News trading allowed but max 30% of total profits can come from news-influenced trades.
- News Trade window: 5 minutes before / 5 minutes after high-impact (Red Folder) event.
- If the 30% limit is exceeded, payout processing is delayed until additional trades bring the percentage back under the limit.
- Trades held for 5+ hours before a high-impact news release are NOT considered News Trades.
Funded phase: Instant Funded accounts
- News trading is strictly prohibited by default: having any open trades during a high-impact news event results in account termination.
- Timing restriction: no opening, closing or triggering pending orders within 5 minutes before / 5 minutes after a high-impact news event (10-minute window). Applies even with the add-on.
- Optional Hold Through News (15% Add-On): allows positions opened outside the 10-minute window to be held through high-impact events without breaching the account.
30 days without a closed trade ends the account.
The 30-day inactivity period begins on the day the account is purchased, not from last activity. If no trades are placed within this period, the account is automatically failed for inactivity and permanently closed (no restoration). Applies to Challenge and Funded accounts.
No best-day rule. A single trade may not exceed 60% of profit; if it does, payouts pause until it is back under. On funded Prime, every 7 days the trade count and volume per instrument must stay within ±25% of the average, or the account moves to a standard funded account.
Pro accounts (1-Step & 2-Step)
Default: Largest profit day must not exceed 50% of total profits. With 30% Consistency Score Add-On: threshold increases to 30%.
Instant Funding
Largest profit day must not exceed 15% of total profits.
Instant Flex: 15% consistency score.
Only with the add-on. Without it, positions are closed at 4:45 PM New York time on Friday: the first time is a warning, the second ends the account.
Weekend holding permitted on all account types (Pro and Instant Funded) except 2-Step Day. Positions can be held across the weekend on all instruments, including crypto. No forced Friday flatten. Gap risk and widened spreads around the Asian open still apply; swap fees still charged.
2-Step Day
- Forex, gold, indices and oil positions are closed automatically at 16:55 New York time every day, including Friday; not a breach
- Crypto positions can stay open overnight and over the weekend
2-Step Swing
- Overnight and weekend holding allowed on all markets
Latency or price-error arbitrage, hedging across accounts or firms, coordinated trading, third-party management, bought bots, gap exploitation, grid and martingale, doubling size after a loss the same day, swap-free abuse and churning accounts. At most 20% of profit may come from the 21:00 to 22:59 UTC window.
- Grid trading (3+ positions same pair/direction)
- Hedge trading
- Arbitrage, latency trading
- High-frequency trading (trades ≤15 seconds)
- Reverse trading across accounts
- Account rolling/stacking (risking all on multiple accounts)
- Overleveraged trades (>30% margin on single trade)
- One-sided trading (stacking positions to hit targets)




















