Futures Firms Comparator

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

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

Dylan Elchami

Abdullah Jayed

United States

United Arab Emirates

2021

2022

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

Up to 3.5% processing fee on all withdrawals.

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

• 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

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

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.

• 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

$100

$250 minimum for all withdrawal methods.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

No activation fee or recurring subscription.

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

• 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.

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.

One-time fee. No subscription.

One-time fee (no monthly subscription).

• 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

• 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