Platforms and execution: BrightFunded Futures vs. E8 Markets Futures

Building A1, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

100 Crescent Ct, Unit 700, Dallas, Texas 75201, US

Jelle Dijkstra

Dylan Elchami

United Arab Emirates

United States

2023

2021

Prime Program requires Risk approval: eligible after 5 payouts on one account (the SIM account maximum), 10 across accounts, or 20% profit on one account. Only accounts with at least one payout move to Live. Choose Live or a cash-out of 50% of MLL per eligible account within 24 hours; no answer means Live. SIM accounts close and evaluations pause. Cash-out or a Live breach: 21 days without new purchases or resuming evaluations. Live starts at $0 with real capital, EOD drawdown, 80% split, daily payouts and no consistency rule. One Live trader per household; other household members cannot hold SIM Funded accounts.

Challenge and SimFi Performance accounts are simulated. Futures market data is sourced from CME.

• BrightPlus: up to one approved payout per session; first payout from 24 hours after the first trade. Each subsequent payout requires fresh closed profit of 1% of the original account size.
• BrightCore: winning-day cycles, counted again from the next full session after each payout.

• Signature Futures: on demand once all payout requirements are met.
• Zero Starter and Zero Max: daily, minimum $100.

Processing within 24 business hours of the request.

Per request: 25K $1,000; 50K $2,000; 100K $3,000; 150K $4,000.

• BrightPlus: also limited to the balance above the buffer.
• BrightCore: the lowest of the size cap, 50% of current profit, and balance minus (starting balance + $100). The 2x addon doubles only the size cap.

E8 Signature Futures

E8 Zero Starter

• $50K: $1,000
• $100K: $1,600
• $200K: $2,100

E8 Zero Max

• $50K: $3,000
• $100K: $5,000
• $200K: $7,000

Signature Futures and Zero allow a maximum of 5 payouts per account; after the fifth, the account closes and a free Challenge of the same size is issued.

Minimum request: $250, before the profit split.

$100

At least 18 or the higher local age of majority. Sumsub KYC and a signed contract before SIM Funded activation, within 24 hours of completing both. One profile per person. The minimum trade duration rule must be met in each payout cycle. USDC on ERC-20 or bank transfer.

Payouts require successful onboarding and KYC with WorkMarket or Rise. If neither provider accepts the trader, E8 cannot process the payout.

E8 charges no payout fee. WorkMarket or Rise may charge a processing fee depending on the selected withdrawal method.

Per contract, per side, USD, all fees included: ES/NQ/RTY/YM 2.88; MES/MNQ/M2K/MYM 0.95; NKD/ZC/ZL/ZW 3.65; 6A/6B/6C/6E/6J/6N/6S/NG 3.10; M6A/M6B/M6E 0.84; CL 3.00; MCL 1.20; QM 2.70; QG 2.00; GC/SI/HG/PL 3.15; MGC 1.30; HE/LE 3.60; ZS/ZM 3.63. Round trip: twice these rates.

After a breach, within the time shown on the dashboard. Restarts evaluation even from SIM Funded, keeping the account number and addons. Costs 55% of the current list price including addons; addons cannot change and the hedging warning is not restored.

After an account fails, a 10% discount is available for 7 days to retry the same account size and settings.

Optional at purchase, with additive surcharges on the base price: 100% Profit Split +20%; 2x Payout Cap +40%; BrightCore only, 3 Day Payout Cycle +20%. Targets, drawdown and contracts do not change.

Zero Starter and Zero Max allow the payout share to be increased from the 80% base configuration to 100% at checkout.

• BrightPlus: intraday trailing on peak equity, including open profit. In SIM it locks at starting balance + $100 once equity reaches the buffer.
• BrightCore: trailing on the highest closing balance, updated between 4:45 and 5:59 PM ET. In SIM it locks at starting balance + $100 on the first approved payout, even if previously higher.
  No lock during evaluation. Touching the floor with live equity breaches the account at any time.

EOD Dynamic Drawdown based on the highest end-of-day balance. Intraday equity does not move it. It locks permanently at the initial balance level.

The split applies to each requested amount; the full request is deducted from the account balance.

• Signature Futures: 80%.
• Zero Starter/Max: 80% base; 100% can be selected at checkout.

No separate daily loss limit.

• Signature Challenge: none.
• Signature Performance: 2% Daily Pause (soft breach; trading resumes the next day).
• Zero Challenge and Performance: none.

• Challenge stage: unlimited accounts.
• Signature Futures: up to 5 active Performance accounts.
• Zero Starter/Max: up to 3 active Performance accounts. Limits apply per household.

BrightPlus: starting balance + MLL + $100, retained after every payout. Only closed profit counts. Falling below pauses payouts without breaching the account. BrightCore has no such buffer.

Signature requires leaving a non-withdrawable buffer equal to the EOD Dynamic Drawdown before payouts. On Zero, any profit left after a payout remains as buffer and cannot be requested in a later cycle.

Up to 5 active SIM Funded accounts across all plans and sizes. Unlimited evaluations. With all 5 slots used, another evaluation pass waits until a slot opens.

No time limit, subject to inactivity rules.

Unlimited, but the account closes after 7 days of inactivity.

No explicit minimum. Consistency requires at least 2 sessions on BrightPlus and 3 on BrightCore in practice.

• Signature Futures: can pass in 1 day.
• Zero Starter/Max: earliest pass in 3 days because of the 40% Best Day rule.

Trade2Earn: activity earns BrightTokens redeemable for perks and evaluations, with no cash value. On Live, Prime Ladder pays bonuses every 10 winning days through Diamond (80 days); Prime Trader at 90 is status only. Total bonuses per account: 25K $5,000; 50K $10,000; 100K $20,000; 150K $30,000. Losing days and payouts preserve progress; an account breach resets it.

• BrightPlus: no winning-day requirement.
• BrightCore SIM: 5 per payout, or 3 with the addon. Minimum closed net profit per session: 25K $100; 50K $200; 100K and 150K $300. Days need not be consecutive; at most one per session.

• Signature: 5 profitable days between payouts after the first payout; a profitable day requires at least 0.3% realized profit.
• Zero Starter/Max: no minimum profitable days in Performance.

No activation fee or recurring subscription.

Only Zero Performance accounts scale contract allowance. At 1.5% locked profit the first level unlocks the next day; at 3% the second level unlocks. Signature and Zero Challenge contract limits do not scale.

One-time fee. No subscription.

Only exclusively self-authored software with no third-party access. It must not mirror another trader, be a black box or run simultaneously at other firms. Source-code review may be required.

Semi-automated and fully automated trading, including bots, AI tools and HFT above 300 trades per day, is prohibited on Futures.

VPN/VPS allowed without concealing identity or location or bypassing country restrictions. Only the owner may trade the account.

Prohibited within and across your accounts, including different expiries, mini/micro and correlated instruments in the same group. First occurrence: warning, positions closed and profit removed while losses remain. Second: account breach. One warning per evaluation and one over the lifetime of SIM, not renewed by payouts or resets. Both accounts are penalized for a cross-account hedge.

Futures accounts use a netting system. Hedging across multiple accounts or users is prohibited.

More than 50% of net winning-trade profit must come from trades held longer than 15 seconds. Partial fills count separately. Equality is insufficient. Noncompliance delays passing or blocks payouts without breaching the account; the calculation restarts after each payout. Exploitative tick scalping and HFT are prohibited.

At least 50% of total profit must come from trades held for 10 seconds or longer.

Only between your BrightFunded accounts within the same profile. Copying others, signals or group trading is a hard breach.

Allowed only between accounts owned by the same trader. Team trading, signals and copying another trader are prohibited.

Open a new trade every 30 calendar days in evaluation and every 7 trading sessions in SIM, excluding holidays. Closing, editing and unfilled pending orders do not count. Advance warning; missing the deadline deactivates the account as a hard breach.

The account closes after 7 days without opening and closing at least one trade.

Evaluation only: best session / total net profit, up to 50% on BrightPlus and 40% on BrightCore. Includes commissions and losing days. Recalculated at session close; equality is allowed. Delays passing without breaching the account. Does not apply in SIM.

• Zero Challenge: 40% Best Day rule; if the best day exceeds 40% of total profit, the effective target increases.
• Zero Performance: no consistency rule.
• Signature Challenge: no consistency rule.
• Signature Performance: 35% Best Day rule for payout eligibility.

Exploiting simulated prices, latency, fills or liquidity; arbitrage, spoofing, layering, abusive HFT, oversized one-way bets, account rolling, third-party management and risk or size changes inconsistent with normal trading. Terms allow affected profits to be removed, extra limits imposed or accounts closed.

• Exploiting gaps, illiquid markets, pricing errors or slow data feeds
• Semi-automated or fully automated trading, bots, AI tools and HFT above 300 trades/day
• Trading within 2% of a CME product lock limit
• Irresponsible or all-or-nothing trading
• Hedging across accounts or users
• Tick scalping where less than 50% of profit comes from trades held at least 10 seconds
• Trading anything other than the front-month contract
• Account rolling and strategies that are not reproducible in real markets

Automatic close at 4:45 PM ET, Monday to Friday, without a breach for auto-close. CME session runs from 6:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET the next day; holiday cutoffs may be earlier.

All positions are forcibly closed every trading day at 15:10 CT. Trading is permitted from 17:00 to 15:10 CT.

There is no fixed percentage risk cap, but irresponsible, all-or-nothing or disproportionate risk-taking can trigger review or account termination.