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FundedNext Futures logoFundedNext Futures
Headquarters

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

Office No. 7, AI Robotics HUB, C1 Building, AFZ, Ajman, United Arab Emirates

CEO

Sean Bainton

Abdullah Jayed

Country

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

Foundation

2021

2022

Banned Countries
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Afghanistan, Albania, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Bouvet Island, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Fiji, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Rwanda, Russian Federation, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen
Assets
Indices
Refund
Payout Fee

2% processing fee on all withdrawals (Riseworks).

Up to 3.5% processing fee on all withdrawals.

Platforms
Tradovate, ProjectX, Volsys, DeepCharts
Tradovate, NinjaTrader, Tradingview
Demo Account
Unknown
Payout Methods
Transfer, Crypto
Crypto, Rise
Live Account
Payment Methods
Card, Crypto, ApplePay, GooglePay
Card, Crypto, PayPal, Skrill, ApplePay, GooglePay
Payout Frequency
  • Standard: every 3 days, from 3 days after the first trade
  • Reserve: instant payout once eligible (5 winning days)
  • Express: daily payouts
  • Direct: instant payout from day one
  • Flex: Reward withdrawals every 5 days once eligible
  • Legacy: Reward withdrawals every 5 benchmark days
  • Rapid: Reward withdrawals every 3 days
  • Bolt: Daily rewards from day one of eligibility
Payout Guarantee

Payouts processed within 24 business hours. If Blue Guardian misses that window through a delay on their end, you receive an extra 10% profit share on that payout. Does not apply on weekends or bank holidays, nor to delays from compliance or risk reviews, Rise onboarding or a pending trader response.

Brand Promise: Performance Reward processed within 24 hours, or $1,000 extra added to your reward.

Minimum Withdrawal

$500 across all account types.

$250 minimum for all withdrawal methods.

Brokers
Tradovate, NinjaTrader
Maximum Withdrawal
  • USDT (TRC20 / ERC20) or USDC (ERC20) via RiseWorks: up to $1,000 per withdrawal
  • USDT (ERC20) / USDC (ERC20) without RiseWorks: up to $1,000,000 per withdrawal

Rapid FundedNext Account (per cycle, lifted after 5 withdrawals)

  • $25K: $800
  • $50K: $1,500
  • $100K: $2,500

Legacy FundedNext Account (before 30 Benchmark Days: max 50% of profit)

  • $25K: up to $3,000
  • $50K: up to $6,000
  • $100K: up to $6,000

After caps are lifted, withdraw 100% of profits with no limit.

Flex FundedNext Account (per cycle; account concludes after 5 Performance Reward withdrawals)

  • $50K: up to 50% of profit, max $1,500
  • $100K: up to 50% of profit, max $2,500
  • $150K: up to 50% of profit, max $4,000
Commission
Account Reset

Unlimited resets at no additional cost. Resets within 7 days keep the same Challenge Account; resets after 7 days provide a new one.

Add-ons
Instant
One Step
Account scaling
Two Steps
Max Drawdown

Trailing end-of-day (EOD) on all plans. Values per plan and size:

  • Standard $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,500 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $5,000
  • Reserve $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500
  • Express $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,000 / $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,500
  • Direct $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,500 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $4,500

Once the trailing drawdown reaches the starting balance, it locks and stops trailing.

On Direct the drawdown becomes static after the account exceeds the initial trail balance or after the first payout request. After any approved payout the drawdown floor locks at starting balance + $100 on every plan.

Trailing end-of-day (EOD) system. Locks at the initial account balance and never decreases.

Profit Split

90% on all funded accounts and plans.

A payout delayed beyond the 24-business-hour guarantee adds an extra 10% profit share on that payout.

  • Flex: 95% Reward Share by default for new and existing accounts, with no paid add-on.
  • Other Futures challenges: 80% Reward Share.
dailyDrawdown

Soft breach on every plan: open trades are closed automatically and the account is disabled for the rest of the day, then reinstated the next trading day.

  • Standard $25K: none. $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000
  • Reserve: configurable at checkout. Traders can choose no daily loss limit or a soft DLL of $600 / $1,200 / $1,700 / $3,000 on $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K. The price varies depending on the selected option
  • Express challenge $25K: none. $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,000 / $1,250 / $1,750
  • Express funded $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $500 / $1,000 / $1,250 / $1,750
  • Direct $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K: $1,000 / $1,250 / $2,500 / $3,000

Daily loss limit only on Bolt Challenge ($1,000 soft breach for $50K account). Flex, Legacy and Rapid have no daily loss limit.

Three Steps
Max Allocation
150,000
mandatoryBuffer
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Minimum Trading Days
  • No minimum trading days on evaluation. Standard can be passed in as little as one trading day
  • Express with the optional 50% consistency add-on can qualify after 2 green days
  • Funded: one trade every 7 days to keep the account active
Funded Phase Pricing Model

No activation

Free. No activation fee or recurring charges on the FundedNext Account.

Minimum Profitable Days
  • Standard: no minimum. First payout 3 days after the first trade
  • Reserve: 5 winning days before each payout, with a minimum of $100 / $150 / $200 / $250 profit per day on $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K. Winning days reset after every payout
  • Express: no minimum
  • Direct: no minimum

Rapid FundedNext Account

  • No Benchmark Day requirement. First withdrawal eligible after 3 days if conditions are met.

Legacy FundedNext Account

  • Minimum 5 Benchmark Days before first withdrawal.
  • Benchmark Day profit thresholds: $100 ($25K account) / $200 ($50K and $100K accounts).
  • After 30 Benchmark Days: withdrawal cap and 50% profit limit are removed.

Flex FundedNext Account

  • 5 Benchmark Days per withdrawal: $200/day ($50K and $100K) / $250/day ($150K).
  • Minimum $500 profit in the current cycle.
Position size scaling
Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

One-time fee

One-time fee (no monthly subscription).

Free Trial
Merge Accounts
Maximum Trading Days

No time limit. Trade at your own pace until the profit target is met.

Expert Advisor (EA)
VPN
Hedging
Requires Stop Loss
Scalping
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
allowsMartingale
Maximum Risk Limit
Copy Trading
News Trading
hasInactivityRule

At least one trade every 7 days on funded accounts.

Consistency Rule
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Hold Weekend
Prohibited Strategies
  • Automated scalping systems exceeding 200 trades per day.
  • AI, bots and fully automated trading mechanisms (all account types).
  • Hands-off, continuous day-and-night trading or complete automation.
  • Placing multiple limit orders at the same price to manipulate fills.
  • Strategies aimed at exploiting isolated fills in low-liquidity or gapped markets.
  • Using tight brackets or absence of slippage in the simulated market for favorable fills.
  • Trading during tier 1 economic data releases.
  • Coordinated trading across unconnected accounts (identical or opposing strategies).
  • Microscalping (trades held seconds with minimal margins).
  • Trading within 2% of a CME price limit.
  • Trading without a stop loss, relying on the trailing threshold to close trades.
  • Platform error exploitation
  • Account sharing
  • Account rolling
  • Multi-order spam / coordinated trading exploits
  • Abusing slow data feed
  • Account flipping / inconsistent contract execution
  • Spoofing
  • Layering / order book shaping
  • Exploiting bracket strategies (tight brackets / no slippage)
  • Grid trading
  • Wash trading
  • Latency arbitrage
  • Reverse hedging
  • Hedging with correlated instruments
  • Trading in gapped or illiquid markets
  • Trading within 2% of CME price limits
  • Unauthorized copy or group trading
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