How much freedom you get at FTMO and Velotrade

Praga 1, Calle Purkynova 2121/3, 110 00, Czech Republic

Hong Kong

Otakar Suffner

Gianluca Pizzituti

Czech Republic

Hong Kong

2015

2025

Liquidity Provider

(Only 2-Step Challenge) Full refound after first payout

No standard fee refund after passing. The terms exclude refunds once the platform is accessed or the first trade is placed, except where required by law.

100%

14 days

First, after 14 calendar days from the first funded trade and completion of the required profitable days. Then weekly on request. Paid in USDC or USDT on Arbitrum; each payout is publicly verifiable on Arbiscan.

• Bank transfer: $20
• Crypto: $50

USD 100

Variable network fee, deducted from the withdrawal and shown when requesting it.

Processing within 24 hours of approval. Trading is halted during the preceding review, which may take longer during busy periods.

First and second withdrawals: capped at 20 times the challenge fee actually paid. The excess is forfeited. No cap from the third withdrawal. Full withdrawals only; the starting balance is restored afterwards without moving the drawdown floor.

• Standard: 100:1
• Swing: 30:1

Evaluation / funded: majors 50:1 / 30:1; minors 30:1 / 20:1; exotics 20:1 / 10:1.

• Standard: 30:1
• Swing: 9:1

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

• Standard: 50:1
• Swing: 15:1

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

• Standard: 3.33:1
• Swing: 1:1

Evaluation 5:1; funded 3:1.

• Standard: 3.33:1
• Swing: 1:1

Evaluation / funded: BTC 10:1 / 5:1; ETH and SOL 6:1 / 5:1; XRP, HYPE, DOGE, BNB, BCH, SUI, XAUT and ADA 3:1 / 2:1; remaining crypto 2:1 / 2:1.

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

Evaluation 6:1; funded 5:1.

Overnight funding is 0.05% of notional, the same for longs and shorts. Crypto, stocks, indices and commodities: 00:30 UTC, including weekends. Forex: 21:00 UTC, triple on Wednesday and no separate Saturday or Sunday charge.

Profit-share upgrade available at purchase. Variants and their prices are shown in the challenges.

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 months cycle
• At least 10% total net simulated profit in the 4-months trading window, date to date
• Process at least 2 rewards
• Positive account balance at the time of scale-up

Benefits

• Upgraded reward to 90%
• $2M scale-up cap
• Continuous increase when criteria are met

No published scaling plan. Increasing capital requires additional accounts within the maximum allocation.

• 1-Step: End-of-day trailing
• 2-Step: Static
• Instant: Intraday trailing on closed balance. It does not reset after a Reward withdrawal.

Static against each phase's starting balance, including funded accounts. It does not trail profits or move with payouts. Balance and floor reset at the start of the second phase. Equity reaching or falling below the floor, including floating losses, closes the account.

90%

Free read-only DXtrade guest access to view instruments and prices, without trading. Sprint offers challenge prizes, with award-specific profit splits and payout caps.

Equity based

Recalculated at 00:30 UTC from the higher of balance or equity at that moment. Floating profit can raise the reference; the resulting floor is monitored against real-time equity. Reaching or falling below it breaches the account.

Unlimited

No completion deadline; the inactivity rule still applies.

• 1-Step: 0 days
• 2-Step Phase 1 and 2: 4 days
• Instant: 0 days

Five qualifying days, not necessarily consecutive, per evaluation phase. The count resets on funding and must be met again before the first payout, but not subsequent payouts.

No resets or standard free retakes. A failed challenge requires a new purchase.

One registered profile and verified identity. Multiple challenges and funded accounts may sit under that profile; each is assessed separately and results cannot offset one another.

A qualifying day requires net realised profit of at least 0.8% of the starting balance. Days run from 00:30 to 00:30 UTC. Holding a position open does not add days.

Self-built or publicly available commercial EAs, bots and AI are allowed in evaluation and funded accounts. REST and WebSocket API included without fee or approval; no FIX or L2/L3 depth through the API. MT4/MT5 EAs need a bridge or adaptation. Private, exclusive or bespoke signals are prohibited.

VPNs, VPSs and IP changes are allowed. Only the verified owner may trade; access sharing remains prohibited.

Only within the same account. Cross-account, cross-platform and cross-firm hedging is prohibited, including via copiers. First offence involving one trade: trades closed and a one-time warning per user; multiple trades or repetition: permanent closure.

Optional. A triggered Stop Loss exits at market and may slip. Stop Limit orders are disabled.

Ordinary scalping is allowed; tick scalping, HFT and pricing or latency exploitation are prohibited.

No general numeric per-trade cap. Leverage, equity limits and the ban on abusive risk still apply. Single stocks have per-company and total exposure limits published on the platform, with possible short restrictions.

Only between accounts owned by the same trader. Public signal services and commercial EAs are allowed without subscriber coordination. Copying other people's accounts, third-party management and private, exclusive or bespoke signals are prohibited.

Standard

Not allowed to execute any new trade or close an existing trade (including stop loss or take profit) on the targeted instrument in the window of 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after the release of the below news announcements.

Swing

No restrictions.

Macro news trading is allowed. For single stocks, close from 24 hours before to 24 hours after earnings and ex-dividend events. Close before other corporate actions announced at least one day in advance; reopen when normal trading resumes.

30 days

Deactivated after 30 calendar days without valid activity, counted from assignment or the latest trade close. A trade held at least 60 seconds qualifies; open positions pause the timer and pending orders do not count. One support-requested reactivation is available within six months; afterwards it may be treated as a hard breach.

• 1-Step: To pass the FTMO Challenge: 1-Step or to be eligible for a Reward on an FTMO Account, your profit from the Best Day must not represent more than 50% of your total profit.
• 2-Step: No consistency rule.
• Instant: To be eligible for a Reward, your Best Day must not represent more than 30% of your total profit. The count restarts from zero after each Reward.

No cap on a winning day's share of profit; qualifying-day requirements and prohibited strategies still apply.

Standard

In an FTMO Challenge or Verification, you don't have to close your positions during the weekend. However, once you become an FTMO Trader and get an FTMO Account, you are required to close your positions just before the markets close for the weekend or if the rollover (market break) is longer than 2 hours.

Swing

No restrictions.

Allowed, including forex. Single stocks may have size limits, weekend bans or mandatory out-of-hours closure by instrument. Equity limits and overnight costs continue to apply.

• Overleveraging
• Overexposure
• One-sided bets
• Account Rolling

Martingale, grid, arbitrage, tick scalping, HFT, latency or error exploitation, private or bespoke signals, account sharing, insider information, coordinated risk elimination and account rolling. Abusive overleveraging, correlated overexposure and repeatedly adding to losing positions are also prohibited. Profits may be removed, payouts withheld or accounts closed.