Futures Firms Comparator

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

30 N Gould St STE 4000, Sheridan, WY 82801

Dylan Elchami

Osvaldo Guimarães

United States

United States

2021

2016

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

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

On Demand and processed on Wednesday

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.

LiveSim® Gauntlet Mini™

• Max Withdrawal: $4,000 (Requires $5,000 in total profit).
• Profit Split: The firm takes a 20% share (deducted monthly or at each withdrawal).

LiveSim® Trader Career Path®

• Max Withdrawal: The program's profit target minus 20%.
• Deductions: No monthly deductions; the 20% is only taken from the target amount.

$100

$100

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

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

Variable Pricing ($25K–$50K Accounts)

Reset fees for these entry-level accounts fluctuate according to current promotions and are consistently priced lower than a brand-new subscription:

• TCP25 (Trader Career Path® 25K)
• TCP50 (Trader Career Path® 50K)
• GAU50 (Gauntlet Mini™ 50K)

Fixed Pricing ($100K–$200K Accounts)

Reset fees for these higher-balance accounts remain constant and are not affected by promotional offers:

• TCP100 (Trader Career Path® 100K) – $100
• GAU100 (Gauntlet Mini™ 100K) – $100
• GAU150 (Gauntlet Mini™ 150K) – $130
• GAU200 (Gauntlet Mini™ 200K) – $155

A complimentary free reset is added after each monthly renewal of your subscription. You can use these free resets at any time while your subscription is active, accumulate more than one, but any unused resets will be forfeited if you cancel.

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.

• Evaluation and LiveSim: EOD (End Of Day balance)
• Live: Trailing

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

• $25K–$200K accounts: 80/20 if the profit reaches or exceeds the threshold set for the account size; 50/50 if it is below the threshold.
• Trader Career Path® $400K accounts: fixed 60/40.

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

Both Trading Path Career and Gauntlet Mini have daily drawdown limits. On the funded phase, daily drawdown can be removed upon request after the lower threshold of the trader's maximum drawdown reaches the account's starting balance.

• 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.

Maximum of 3 funded accounts. Only one of them can be LiveSim

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

Unlimited

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

None. No minimum trading days are required to pass the evaluation, nor on LiveSim®/Live funded accounts.

No activation fee or recurring subscription.

Montly fee and Lifetime activation fee

• 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 minimum trading days on either Trader Career Path® or The Gauntlet Mini™. The evaluation can be passed as soon as the profit goal is reached.

One-time fee. No subscription.

Montly fee

• 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

• Exploiting platform errors.
• Disruptive trading or spoofing.
• Excessive daily contracts.
• Collusion and manipulation.
• AI or high-speed abuse.
• Unrealistic market behavior.
• Exploiting technical flaws.
• Bypassing restrictions.
• Trading for others.