Futures Firms Comparator

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

RM 1205, 12/f. Beverly Hse 93-107 Lockhart Rd Wan Chai Hong Kong

Dylan Elchami

United States

Hong Kong

2021

2024

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.

EOD Challenge
Every 7 winning days (a winning day = net P&L ≥ 0.2% of account balance).

Sprint Challenge
Every 5 winning days.

FLEX Challenge
Every 5 winning days.

Instant Funded
Every 7 winning days. Minimum 10 calendar days before first payout. After first payout, must surpass previous equity high before next request.

GOAT Daily
Payout requests every 24 hours once funded.

Minimum payout: $500 across all sizes.

Payouts processed within 2 business days. A $500 bonus is automatically applied if processing exceeds this SLA.

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.

Caps grow with each payout number. FLEX Challenge does not publish caps.

EOD Challenge

• 1st: $50K $1,500 · $100K $2,000 · $150K $2,500
• 2nd: $50K $2,000 · $100K $2,750 · $150K $3,250
• 3rd: $50K $2,500 · $100K $3,250 · $150K $3,750
• 4th+: $50K $2,750 · $100K $3,750 · $150K $4,250

Sprint Challenge

• 1st: $25K $800 · $50K $1,500 · $100K $2,500
• 2nd: $25K $1,000 · $50K $1,750 · $100K $3,000
• 3rd: $25K $1,200 · $50K $2,000 · $100K $3,500
• 4th+: $25K $1,500 · $50K $2,500 · $100K $4,500

Instant Funded (per cycle)

• $25K: $1,000 · $50K: $2,000 · $75K: $3,000 · $100K: $3,000 · $150K: $4,000

GOAT Daily

• Per payout: $25K $650 · $50K $1,000 · $100K $1,500 · $150K $2,500

$100

$500 across all account sizes

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

• EOD Challenge: 7 winning days.
• Sprint Challenge: 5 winning days.
• Instant Funded: 7 winning days and minimum 10 calendar days before the first payout.
• GOAT Daily: no winning-day requirement once funded.
• A winning day requires net P&L of at least 0.2% of account balance.
• Payout submission windows (excluding GOAT Daily): 5th–8th and 20th–23rd of each month.
• Instant Funded requires exceeding the previous equity high for subsequent payouts.

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

Available on evaluation plans (EOD, Sprint, FLEX). Reset fees:

• EOD: $50K $59 · $100K $109 · $150K $159
• Sprint: $25K $46 · $50K $69 · $100K $99
• FLEX: $50K $74 · $100K $124 · $150K $174

Instant Funded and Instant Lite accounts cannot be reset.

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.

EOD Challenge

• EOD Trailing — locks at starting balance once balance is restored
• $50K: $2,000 (4%) | $100K: $3,000 (3%) | $150K: $4,500 (3%)

Sprint Challenge

• EOD Trailing — locks at starting balance once balance is restored
• $25K: $1,000 (4%) | $50K: $2,000 (4%) | $100K: $3,000 (3%)

FLEX Challenge

• EOD Trailing Max DD — locks at starting balance

Instant Funded

• Intraday Trailing — locks at starting balance once balance is reached
• $25K: $1,250 (5%) | $50K: $2,500 (5%) | $75K: $3,750 (5%) | $100K: $5,000 (5%) | $150K: $7,500 (5%)

Instant Lite

• EOD Trailing — locks at starting balance
• $25K: $1,000 | $50K: $1,750 | $100K: $3,000

GOAT Daily

• Evaluation: EOD trailing; locks at starting balance + $100.
• Funded: intraday trailing.

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

EOD Challenge

• 80% by default
• 90% with optional Profit Share Add-On (+20% of challenge price)

FLEX Challenge

• 80% by default
• 90% with optional Profit Share Add-On (+20% of challenge price)

Sprint Challenge

• 100% on the first $10,000 in payouts
• 90% after the first $10,000

Instant Funded

• 100% on the first $10,000 in payouts
• 90% after the first $10,000

Instant Lite

• 90% from the first payout (no add-on required)

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

EOD Challenge

• Evaluation: no daily loss limit
• Funded: soft breach 2.5% of starting balance ($50K: $1,250 | $100K: $2,500 | $150K: $3,750)

Sprint Challenge

• No daily loss limit (evaluation or funded)

FLEX Challenge

• No daily loss limit (evaluation or funded)

Instant Funded

• 3% of starting balance (soft breach — account pauses until next trading day)
• $25K: $750 | $50K: $1,500 | $75K: $2,250 | $100K: $3,000 | $150K: $4,500

Instant Lite

• $25K: none | $50K: $1,000 | $100K: $2,000

GOAT Daily

• Evaluation and funded: $25K $500 · $50K $1,000 · $100K $1,500 · $150K $2,250.
• Soft breach: positions are closed and trading is paused for the day.

• 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.

Initial account sizes up to $150,000. Scaling via rewards program can grow allocation beyond that, with documented brand-wide payouts of $18M+ and up to $750,000 available across plans.

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

No time limit on any plan.

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

FLEX Challenge requires 2 trading days. EOD, Sprint and Instant Funded have no minimum trading days.

GOAT Daily: no minimum trading days once funded.

No activation fee or recurring subscription.

No activation fee after passing — you keep 100% of the funded account access without any extra payment. Instant Funded is a one-time fee that grants funded-account access immediately, without an evaluation phase.

• 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.

One-time fee. No subscription.

One-time fee. No monthly subscription and no recurring charges. EOD, Sprint and FLEX Challenge are paid up-front to enter the evaluation phase.

• EOD Challenge: none during evaluation; 2.5% soft breach when funded.
• Sprint Challenge: none in either phase.
• FLEX Challenge: none in either phase.
• Instant Funded: 3% soft breach.

15 consecutive days without trades results in account breach. Applies to both evaluation and funded accounts. Once breached, account cannot be reinstated and fees are non-refundable. Notify support in advance if you plan to be away.

• 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

• Tick scalping and other extremely short-duration trading.
• Trades closed within 2 minutes — profits are deducted (micro-scalping rule).
• Unrealistic execution that relies on simulated market conditions (slippage, liquidity, partial fills) not replicable in live.
• Holding positions overnight or over the weekend.
• Trading affected instruments inside the 2-minute high-impact news buffer on funded accounts.