The real cost of BrightFunded and Goat Funded Trader

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Full refund after 4th payout

7 days

• Biweekly
• Evaluation accounts can be purchased with an add-on to get the first payout On Demand with 40% profit split
• Standard Instant Funding have 'Triple payday' rewards, allowing traders to withdraw profits every 10 days.
• Instant Premium: every 10 days
• Instant HERO: every 14 days
• Instant Daily: first request 24 hours after purchase, then daily.

If the payout takes longer than promised (2 business days), the trader automatically receives an extra $500 reward, guarantee.

No limit

Other models: for the first two requests, up to 6% of the initial balance. Instant Daily: up to 3% of the initial balance per request.

Other models: $100. Instant Daily: 1% of the initial balance per request.

• Evaluation phases: 100:1
• Funded phase: 50:1

• Evaluation phases: 20:1
• Funded phase: 10:1

• Evaluation phases: 20:1
• Funded phase: 10:1

• Evaluation phases: 20:1
• Funded phase: 10:1

• Evaluation phases: 2:1
• Funded phase: 2:1

• Evaluation phases: 5:1
• Funded phase: 5:1

With add-on

If you don’t complete a challenge, you can restart it at any time with a 12% discount. You’ll also get a single-use coupon that gives you 10% off any program.

Reset: buy a Reset to continue from the phase where you breached instead of starting over — it issues a new account at that phase (Funded reset gives a new Funded account, no re-evaluation). Available any time, or within 14 days of a breach. Each phase can be reset once. Price is a % of the original Challenge: Phase 1 −7%; Phase 2 +45–50%; Phase 3 +80%; Funded +50–175% (Instant: −7%).

• Bi-weeky payouts (+15%)
• Weekly payouts (25%)
• 90% Profit Split (+20%)
• 100% Challenge Refund (+10%)
• No minimum trading days (+15%)
• Swap-Free (+10%)

• Payout On Demand (+15%)
• 100% Profit Split (+20%)
• Both add-ons (+30%)

If you meet the requirements of the scaling plan, your funded star account will be increased by 30% of its original size.

• Every funded star account goes through an evaluation over a period of four consecutive months.
• You must be profitable in at least two out of those four months, with a minimum total gain of 10% during the entire four-month period.
• You must also successfully complete at least two payout requests on your funded star account.
• When the scale-up takes place, the balance of the funded star account must be at breakeven or in profit.
• There are no restrictions on upside balance.

Static

• 1-Step, 2-Step: Static
• Instant Funding: Trailing
• Instant Premium: EOD high-watermark; not recalculated intraday or downward
• Instant Daily: intraday trailing on peak balance/equity. Locks at the initial balance when reached or at the first payout, whichever comes first; never resets. Withdrawing down to the initial balance breaches the account.

80%

Profit split varies by product; see challenges. Add-ons may offer a higher split.

• Instant Daily: base split in the catalogue; 70% on payouts 3 and 4, 80% from payout 5.

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

Most models: highest balance or equity recorded at end of day (EOD high-watermark).

• Instant HERO: daily starting balance at 5 PM EST.
• Instant Daily: none.

$400,000 on every country except Pakistan, where the maximum is $50,000

• Accounts can only be merged into sizes that currently offered
• Only accounts in the Funded Stage are eligible for merging.
• The accounts to be merged must have the same add-ons.
• Merging is only possible if you request it before we send the Funded Account for the first time or after a payout.

Merging available on eligible accounts. Instant Daily cannot merge with any account.

Unlimited

Other models: unlimited. Instant Daily: account closes automatically after 30 days.

Evalution Phases: 5 days

Instant HERO: 6 non-consecutive valid trading days before payout, with at least 0.5% profit each.

• Instant Daily: none.

Trade2Earn is a BrightFunded program that rewards traders based on their trading volume, not just their profits. For every trade you make on Challenge or Funded accounts, you earn BrightFunded Tokens that can be exchanged for exclusive perks.

Available perks

• More Drawdown – Greater flexibility and margin for error.
• Lower Profit Targets – Easier to pass evaluations.

Token calculation

• Forex, indices, commodities: 0.2 tokens / $100,000 volume
• Crypto: 0.2 tokens / $20,000 volume

The GOAT Points Program rewards traders for both purchases and trading activities:

• You earn 1 point for every $1 spent and can gain additional points by completing trading tasks.
• Points are credited instantly and can be tracked in your Trader Dashboard. You can redeem them for valuable perks such as free accounts, extra leverage, increased drawdown, and account size boosts.
• There's no limit to how many points you can earn, and all GFT traders are automatically enrolled.

• 3 days with 0.5% profit on all phases of evaluation accounts
• 5 days with 0.5% profit on Instant Funding accounts other than Instant Daily
• Instant Premium: 5 days with 0.5% profit (not necessarily consecutive)
• Instant Daily: no minimum profitable days.

Funded accounts only: minimum holding time of 1 minute for purchases from 6 October 2026 at 00:00 UTC; 2 minutes for earlier purchases, including their resets. Funded accounts follow the original challenge purchase date. Profits from shorter trades are excluded from payouts; losses still count. This is not an account breach. Evaluation accounts are exempt.

• Instant HERO: 1% maximum floating loss; breach closes the account.
• The firm may impose a 1% risk-per-trade-idea limit after excessive risk-taking.
• Instant Daily: combined floating loss across all open positions must stay below 1% of the initial balance; touching the limit closes the account.

Allowed between your own GFT accounts only through Goat Copier, GFT's own trade copier: funded to funded, challenge to challenge, and challenge to funded in either direction. Applies to existing and new accounts. Any other trade copier or third-party tool is prohibited, as is copying other traders, or copying between GFT and personal broker accounts or accounts at another prop firm.

Trading 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after the event is prohibited ( this is a soft breach and will not result in your account being breached).

Trading during this window will result in a deduction of the profit that you made on that particular trade.

Executed trades during this period that lead to a loss won't be compensated.

Executing a trade refers to initiating or closing a market order, as well as triggering any pending order, including stop-loss and take-profit instructions.

Trades opened or closed (manually or by stop loss, take profit or pending orders) within 5 minutes before or after a high-impact news release (red folder on ForexFactory.com or Myfxbook.com) have a maximum profit per trade: 3% of the initial balance on accounts purchased from 10 November 2026, and 1% on accounts purchased earlier. Funded accounts and resets follow the original challenge purchase date. Applies to challenge and funded accounts; only profit above the cap is removed and it is not a breach.

30 days

30 Days

• Instant Goat: A single day cannot represent more than 15% of your total earnings when requesting a withdrawal.
• Instant Premium: no consistency rule.
• Instant HERO: no single day can represent 15% or more of total profits during a payout period.
• Instant Daily: no daily profit consistency requirement. For payouts, the largest winning trade must be at least the largest losing trade, net of commission/swap; checked since purchase or the last payout. Partial closes count separately.

• Hedging across multiple accounts
• Exploiting Service Errors or Platform Delays.
• Using External or Delayed Data Feeds.
• Coordinated or Multi-Account Manipulation.
• Violating Platform or Provider Terms.
• Use of Automated Software, AI, or High-Speed Trading Tools.
• Trading During High-Impact News or Events.
• Risk-Abusive Trading: Overleveraging, Overexposure, One-Sided Bets, and Account Rolling.
• Abusive Strategy Types: Grid Trading, Arbitrage, Tick Scalping, High-Frequency Trading (HFT).

• All or nothing
• Exploit broker/platform errors
• Use insider/non-public info
• Front-run other trades
• Excessively risky strategies
• Hedging across accounts
• Third-party EAs/strategies
• Switch strategies post-assessment
• Martingale/grid strategies banned