Long-term Growth and Professional Transition: Funded Futures Family vs. Goat Funded Futures

28780 Single Oak Dr, 325, Temecula, California 92590, US

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

Manuel Meraz

United States

Hong Kong

Professional Stage accounts use real capital. Pro environment runs on Tradovate; Live Market Execution environment runs on Rithmic.

Simulated Funded Accounts

• Prime: Every 3 trading days
• Classic: Every 7 trading days
• Premier / Elite: Every 5 trading days
• Velocity Standard: Every 3 trading days
• Velocity Daily Payout Add-On: Daily (1x per day)
• Straight To Funded (S2F): Every 7 trading days
• S2F Accelerate: Eligible for payout after 5 trading days
• Base Plan: Daily (1x per trading day)

Professional Stage Accounts

• Daily withdrawal requests permitted.

Lab Plans

• Lab Sniper 25K: daily payouts once eligible.
• Lab Accelerate 25K: 5 qualifying days per payout.
• Lab Payday 50K: 7 qualifying days per payout.

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.

Simulated Funded Accounts: Max Payout Per Request

• Prime: Payout 1 ($1,000-$3,500), Payout 2+ ($1,500-$4,000)
• Classic: Payout 1 ($1,750-$3,000), Payout 2+ ($2,000-$6,000)
• Premier / Elite: Payout 1 ($1,750-$3,000), Payout 2+ ($2,000-$6,500)
• Velocity Standard: $750-$3,250 per request
• Velocity Daily Payout Add-On: $600-$2,500 per request
• S2F: Payout 1 ($1,000-$3,000), Payout 2+ ($1,000-$3,500)
• S2F Accelerate $50K: Payout 1 ($1,250), Payout 2 ($1,250), Payout 3+ ($1,500)
• Base Plan: $1,000 per request

Professional Stage Accounts

• No maximum withdrawal amount, limited only by available profits above the required buffer.

Lab Plans

• Sniper 25K: payouts 1-2 up to $500 each; payout 3 onward up to $1,000 each.
• Accelerate 25K: up to $500 per payout.
• Payday 50K: payouts 1-2 up to $1,000 each; payout 3 onward up to $1,250 each.

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

• Base Plan: $500.
• Other plans: $250.

$500 across all account sizes

Base Plan

• No qualifying trading days required
• Keep at least $4,000 after withdrawal
• Earn at least $1 in new net profit between payouts

Lab Plans

• Sniper 25K: $2,500 profit required between payouts.
• Payday 50K: $3,000 profit required between payouts.

• 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.

Commission depends on the trading platform used

• NinjaTrader: standard NinjaTrader/CME exchange and clearing fees apply. Check NinjaTrader's commission schedule for exact rates per contract.
• Tradovate: standard Tradovate platform and exchange fees apply. See Tradovate's pricing page for per-contract rates.
• TradingView (via Tradovate): fees are determined by the connected broker (Tradovate). Refer to Tradovate for exact rates.
• WealthCharts: standard exchange and clearing fees apply. Verify with WealthCharts for specific per-contract pricing.

Evaluation Accounts

• Unlimited resets at discounted fees. Fees vary by plan and account size.

Simulated Funded Accounts

• Maximum of 3 resets per funded account.
  Lab Straight to Funded accounts cannot be reset.

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.

Daily Payout Add-On available for Velocity Plan: enables daily payout requests (1x per day) with no consistency rule and no minimum trading day requirement.

Scaling plan applies to Simulated Funded and Professional Stage accounts. In Sim Funded, position size increases with realized profit (end-of-day). In Professional Stage, scaling is decided case-by-case by the Live Desk based on EOD realized results.
Lab Sniper 25K and Accelerate 25K have fixed position limits and no scaling plan. Lab Payday 50K has a scaling plan.

Points-based rewards program (no formal tiers). Earn points by passing challenges, withdrawing, social engagement and trading milestones. Redeem for perks such as:

• +5% profit split on withdrawal (150 points)
• Faster 24h withdrawals (150 points)
• Account scaling +10% size (200 points)
• +$500 extra max drawdown (200 points)
• Free $25K / $50K challenge accounts (350 / 500 points)

Evaluation Phase

• Prime / Classic / Premier EOD: End-of-Day trailing drawdown based on realized gains.
• Elite / Premier Intraday: Intraday trailing drawdown based on unrealized gains.
• S2F Standard: End-of-Day drawdown.
• S2F Accelerate: Intraday trailing drawdown with no ceiling.
• Velocity: End-of-Day drawdown.
• Base Plan: $2,000 End-of-Day trailing drawdown based on the highest End-of-Day balance.

Simulated Funded Phase

• End-of-Day drawdown on all plans except S2F Accelerate and Base Plan. Except for Lab Sniper 25K, once an End-of-Day account reaches the buffer zone (e.g., $52,000 for $50K account), the drawdown becomes static at the initial balance.
• S2F Accelerate: Intraday trailing drawdown with no ceiling.
• Base Plan: $2,000 intraday trailing drawdown that locks once the account reaches $2,000 in profit.

Professional Stage

• End-of-Position (EoP) drawdown: adjusts only when a position is closed in profit. Drawdown locks at a static threshold once fully recovered (e.g., $50,100 for $50K account).

Lab Plans, Straight to Funded

• Sniper 25K: EOD trailing drawdown that never locks.
• Accelerate 25K: intraday trailing drawdown that never locks.
• Payday 50K: EOD trailing drawdown locks at the initial balance once the EOD balance reaches the initial balance plus the maximum drawdown.

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.

Simulated Funded Accounts

• 90% trader / 10% firm

Professional Stage Accounts

• 80% trader / 20% firm

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)

Evaluation & Simulated Funded Accounts

• Except for Lab Payday 50K, no explicit daily loss limit (DLL) during evaluation or simulated funded phase. However, the 2% CME price limit rule applies.

Professional Stage Accounts

• Daily Loss Limit (DLL) applies and is tied to the current scaling tier.

Lab Plans

• Sniper 25K and Accelerate 25K: no daily loss limit.
• Payday 50K: a daily loss limit applies; exceeding it is a hard breach. The amount is shown in the challenge catalogue.

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.

Up to 4 Simm Funded Accounts

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.

Classic / Premier / Elite / S2F Standard / Velocity: Buffer Required

• A buffer must be maintained at all times. The account balance cannot drop below the buffer level after withdrawal. The buffer equals the drawdown level + $100.

Base Plan

• Keep at least $4,000 in the account after every payout.

Premier Plus (accounts purchased after 4/7/26)

• No buffer requirement. Net profit rule applies: account must have at least $1 more than the balance requested previously.

Lab Accelerate 25K

• $1,100 payout buffer; only profits above this buffer can be requested.

GOAT Daily funded buffer: $25K $1,100 · $50K $2,100 · $100K $3,100 · $150K $4,600.

No time limit. Traders can take as long as needed to meet the profit target.

No time limit on any plan.

• Classic Evaluation: Minimum 2 trading days to pass.
• Prime: Minimum 1 trading day to pass. Standard and Max differ only in position limits and price.
• Premier: Choose a 1-Day Pass or 2-Day Pass at checkout. The selected minimum applies to the evaluation.
• Elite and Velocity: Minimum 1 trading day to pass.
• Funded payouts: 7 qualifying trading days ($200+ profit) for Classic / Premier / Elite / S2F Standard. 3 qualifying days for Prime. 5 qualifying days for Premier Plus accounts purchased after April 7, 2026.
• Lab Sniper 25K, Accelerate 25K and Payday 50K bypass evaluation. Their funded payout day requirements are listed under minimum profitable days.

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 subscription fee on funded accounts. No activation fee on Prime, Premier, and Velocity. Classic and Base Plan have an activation fee.
Lab Sniper 25K, Accelerate 25K and Payday 50K use a one-time purchase fee with no activation or recurring funded fee.

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.

Payout Requirements (Simulated Funded)

• Except for plans without a qualifying-day requirement, each payout cycle requires a minimum number of qualifying trading days with at least $200 realized profit per day.
• Classic / Premier / Elite / S2F Standard: 7 qualifying days per payout.
• Prime: 3 qualifying days per payout.
• Premier Plus (after 4/7/26): 5 qualifying days per payout.

Professional Stage

• A Qualified Trading Day is defined as a day with at least $200 in realized profit, used to determine withdrawal stage eligibility.

Lab Plans

• Sniper 25K: no qualifying-day minimum; payout profit requirements still apply.
• Accelerate 25K: 5 qualifying days per payout, each with at least $200 profit.
• Payday 50K: 7 qualifying days per payout, each with at least $200 profit.

Scaling applies to Simulated Funded and S2F Standard accounts based on end-of-day realized profit. Position size increases progressively as profit thresholds are met. S2F Accelerate does not use a scaling plan.

Premier Plus Simulated Funded

• Accounts purchased before September 9, 2026 use the legacy scaling plan, with maximums of 3 minis / 30 micros on 25K, 5 / 50 on 50K, 10 / 100 on 100K and 15 / 150 on 150K.
• Accounts purchased from September 9, 2026 have fixed maximums of 2 minis / 20 micros on 25K, 4 / 40 on 50K, 6 / 60 on 100K and 10 / 100 on 150K.

Base Plan Simulated Funded

• Position size changes with the account balance after trades are closed. $1,000 allows 1 mini / 10 micros, $2,000 allows 2 / 20 and $4,000 allows 4 / 40, up to 15 minis / 150 micros.

Lab Plans

• Sniper 25K and Accelerate 25K: no position size scaling.
• Payday 50K: position size scaling applies.

Contract limits (mini / micro) scale with account size and plan:

EOD Challenge

• $50K: 5 / 50
• $100K: 9 / 90
• $150K: 12 / 120

Sprint Challenge

• $25K: 3 / 30
• $50K: 5 / 50
• $100K: 7 / 70

FLEX Challenge

• $50K: 3 / 30
• $100K: 5 / 50
• $150K: 8 / 80

Instant Funded

• $25K: 3 / 30
• $50K: 4 / 40
• $75K: 5 / 50
• $100K: 6 / 60
• $150K: 8 / 80

Monthly subscription for Prime, Premier (Intraday and EOD), Velocity, and Classic. Base Plan uses a one-time evaluation fee. Straight To Funded (S2F) uses a one-time fee and bypasses evaluation.

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

Personal automated strategies and EAs are allowed, provided they are consistent with the trader's style and do not exploit system vulnerabilities, latency, or data feed anomalies. Strategies designed to manipulate the simulated environment are prohibited.

VPNs and VPSs are allowed for trading activities on the trading platform. They must not be used to access or log in to the FFF account dashboard. Use is at the trader's own discretion and risk.

Manual scalping allowed. Tick scalping and trades closed within 2 minutes have their profits deducted (micro-scalping rule).

Copy trading between your own accounts is allowed (e.g. between multiple GFF accounts in your name). Bundle discounts (2 or 3 accounts) are available and you can copy trades to all simultaneously. Cross-user copy trading is not addressed in the helpcenter.

Evaluation phase (EOD, Sprint, FLEX)
No news trading restrictions.

Funded phase (all account types including Instant)
2-minute buffer around high-impact news events. Within 2 min before/after release you cannot open, close or trigger pending orders. Positions opened before the window may be held through the event.

Microscalping rule
EOD, Sprint, Instant: profits from trades closed within 2 minutes of opening are deducted (not a breach but profits invalid).
FLEX: microscalping rule does NOT apply.

At least 1 trade per week (Monday-Friday) lasting minimum 10 seconds is required per account. Accounts idle for 2 consecutive weeks are marked inactive and automatically closed without restoration.

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.

Classic Evaluation

• 50% consistency rule applies: no more than 50% of the total profit target can be achieved in a single day.

Base Plan

• Evaluation: 40% consistency rule.
• Simulated Funded: no consistency rule.

Simulated Funded Accounts (Classic / Premier / Elite / S2F / Velocity: before 4/7/26)

• Payouts 1-3: 40% maximum per trading day
• Payouts 4-5: 45% maximum per trading day
• Payouts 6+: 50% maximum per trading day

S2F

• Standard: 25% daily consistency applies.
• Accelerate 50K: 25% lifetime consistency applies.

Prime Simulated Funded

• 40% lifetime consistency rule.

Premier Plus Simulated Funded

• Accounts purchased before September 9, 2026: no consistency rule.
• Accounts purchased from September 9, 2026: 40% consistency rule.
• Promotional giveaway accounts: 40% consistency rule.

Professional Stage

• No consistency rule.

Lab Plans

• Sniper 25K: no consistency rule.
• Accelerate 25K: 25% consistency requirement.
• Payday 50K: 40% consistency requirement.

No single day can represent more than:

• EOD Challenge — Evaluation: 50% of total profits. Funded: 30% during a payout period.
• Sprint Challenge — Evaluation: 50%. Funded: 35%.
• FLEX Challenge — Evaluation: 50%. Funded: none.
• Instant Funded — 20% (the tightest of all plans).
• Instant Lite — 15% for the 1st payout, 20% for the 2nd, 25% from the 3rd onwards.
• GOAT Daily — Evaluation: 40%. Funded: none.

Violating the rule blocks the next payout but does not close the account.

Overnight holding NOT permitted (all account types). All positions must be closed before the end of the trading session. Weekend holding also NOT permitted.

• Bots / algorithmic trading
• Hedging
• Trading within 2% of CME price limits
• Straddles / strangles exploiting news volatility
• Excessive Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) into losing positions
• Micro-scalping: over 50% of trades and over 50% of profits must come from positions held longer than 20 seconds
• Unauthorized group trading / signal services

• 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.

Overnight trading is allowed. All positions must be closed by 4:15 PM EST daily (automatic close if not closed manually). Trading resumes at 6:00 PM EST. Weekend trading is not permitted; all positions must be closed before Friday 4:15 PM EST.