Detailed Comparison: Funded Trader Markets vs Maven (2025)

56 Alekou Konstantinou, Strovolos, 2024, Nicosia, Cyprus

Maven EDU – FZCO. Office #001, Building A1, Dubai Silicon Oasis, Dubai Digital Park, Dubai – UAE

Revin Zabala

Jon Alexander

Cyprus

Saint Lucia

2024

2022

Full refund after 3rd payout. Not available for Instant Funding Accounts and 1-step Nitro X Accounts

Full refund after 3rd payment

5% processing fee on crypto payouts (covers blockchain costs, liquidity swaps, and infrastructure). Only TRC20 USDT supported for crypto payouts.

100%

110%

On Demand, provided you have met these specific criteria:

• Consistency Rule
• Minimum Payout Amount of 1% of Initial Balance (Before-Split)
• Minimum Trading Days

Infinity Plus: requests any day, including weekends, once eligible. Requests require review and approval; trading pauses during review.

10 days

The 24-hour payout guarantee ensures that you are eligible to receive your full payout within 24 business hours of your payout request. If Funded Trader Markets fail to meet this time frame, they will double the requested payout and issue a free account of the same size. This guarantee is only applicable for payouts up to $1000.

• 2-Step Prime: $15,000 per month
• 1-Step Nitro X: $5,000 per account and request, and required to leave a buffer of 50% of the profits
• Crypto payouts: $5,000 per transaction (TRC20 USDT only)

Infinity Plus: no cap per payout and no mandatory balance buffer. After the first approved payout, the loss floor is the initial balance; a withdrawal must not cause balance or equity to touch that floor.

• $10,000 per 30-day rolling cycle (per trader)
• Once your total profit is over $5,000, no single trade or single trading day can account for more than 50% of your total profit for that payout period. If one trade/day does exceed 50%, they will reduce that profit down to the 50% limit.
• After passing $5,000 in payouts, you must complete a risk interview with one of their analysts.If you don't attend, your payout will not be processed.

• 1-Step Nitro X: Must make at least a 3% profit before withdrawal
• All other accounts: 1% of initial balance

Infinity Plus: minimum request $50; balance must be at least 1% above initial capital to request. No additional new-profit requirement between consecutive requests.

Instant, Mini: 3% profit

• BTC, ETH: 5:1
• Other crypto: 2:1

All accounts are swap free

A reset gives a trader who has violated their account rules (such as exceeding the Daily or Overall Loss Limit) the ability to restore the account to its original starting balance paying a fee, and begin trading again.

1-Step Nitro X (Evaluation Phase)

• Reset Limit: Unlimited
• Reset Window: Within 30 days of the original purchase date

1-Step Nitro and 1-Step Nitro X (Funded Phase)

• Reset Limit: One-time only

Instant Standard

• Reset Limit: One-time only
• Reset Window: Within 24 hours after the breach

The Buyback feature lets you get back on a funded account in minutes without taking any more challenges

• $2,000 Account = $200
• $5,000 Account = $400
• $10,000 Account = $750
• $20,000 Account = $1,400
• $50,000 Account = $3,500
• $100,000 Account = $6,000

90% Profit Split (2-Step Plus): It has no cost on money but Shield Risk Protocol will apply now on evaluation phase as well

Infinity Plus: upgrade for 1-Step Infinity; removes the mandatory payout buffer, payout caps and additional profit requirement between consecutive requests.

In order to scale, the trader must profit 10% over the course of 4 months (2.5% per month). The trader is also required to process at least 1 payout per month. Afterwards, the trader’s account will be rewarded with a 25% increase.The function is repeatable, up to $1,000,000.

The max withdrawal cap scales alongside with the scaling plan. The max withdrawal does not scale along.

• Instant, 1-Step: Trailing
• 2-Step: Static

Infinity Plus: static floor during evaluation and until the first approved funded payout. It then moves once to the initial balance and stays there permanently; touching it with balance or equity breaches the account.

• Two Step, Three Step: Static
• One Step, Instant, Mini: Trailing

Instant Standard, Instant Pro

• 1st payout: 50%
• 2nd payout: 60%
• 3rd payout: 70%
• 4th payout and next: 80%

Instant Plus

80%

2-Step Plus

70% (up to 90% with 2-Step Plus add-on)

1-Step Nitro

90% for the first $10,000 and 80% after that

1-Step Nitro X

100%

80%

If your Simulated Funded account with Funded Trader Markets is in profit but has been breached, you may still qualify for a withdrawal with a 50% split, provided the following conditions are met:

• Stop Loss Usage: Every trade had an SL in place.
• Loss Limits: No single position incurred a loss exceeding 1% of the account's initial balance.

Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark

Infinity Plus: daily loss allowance is based on initial capital; the daily stop-out resets at 5 PM ET from the higher end-of-day balance or equity.

Highest balance or equity recorded at the end of the day (EOD high-watermark)

Evaluations

• 2-Step Plus: $200,000
• 1-Step Nitro: $300,000
• 1-Step Nitro X: $150,000

Instant Funding

• Instant Standard: $100,000
• Instant Pro: $100,000
• Instant Plus: $100,000

Infinity Plus: maximum allocation $20,000. Combined 1-Step Infinity and Infinity Plus allocation: $60,000.

Infinity Plus: no minimum trading days in evaluation or funded.

1-Step Nitro / 1-Step Nitro X

• Evaluation: no minimum days.
• Funded Simulation: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit count.

2-Step Plus

• Evaluation: 3 minimum days per phase.
• Funded Simulation: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit.

Instant Standard / Pro / Plus

• Payout eligibility: 5 minimum days, only days with ≥0.5% profit count.
• Instant Pro: trading-day requirement can be removed with a checkout add-on.

Two Step: 3 minimum profitable days of 0.5% on each phase

Not allowed to have more than 50% of the trades open for less than 1 minute

Martingale and layering are allowed per account (increasing position size after a loss, or opening multiple positions in the same direction at different price levels). Running these strategies across multiple accounts simultaneously is prohibited and counts as abusive behavior.

Shield Risk Protocol

Maximum Floating Loss Limits

• Instant Plus, 2-Step Plus: Maximum floating loss = 1% of account balance

Breach Consequences

• Breach it once = 80% profit split drops to 50%
• Breach it repeatedly = payout share reduces permanently to 40%, 30% and finally 20%

Infinity Plus: no additional risk limits; daily and overall drawdown limits still apply.

Instant, Mini:
Your account must never exceed a 1% drawdown in floating PnL. This refers to the gap between your balance and equity; if it surpasses that limit, the account will be considered breached.

Built-in Copy Trading lets traders link their own FTM accounts and mirror trades, including from Evaluation to Funded phases. Available across supported platforms. Account sharing and group trading remain prohibited.

Only manual copying allowed

Traders cannot open or close trades 2 minutes either side of a red folder news event release. The two-minute window includes trades hitting TP, profit target and pending orders.

Accounts inactive for 30 days are subject to closure.

Instant (all)

• If a single day's profit is more than 20% of your total profit in the Instant Funding Account, you have to keep trading until the best day profit is less than 20% of the total profit.

1-Step Nitro

50% on evaluation phase and 45% on funded phase

1-Step Nitro X

25% on funded phase

2-Step Plus

No consistency rule on evaluation. No consistency rule on funded phase.

Infinity Plus: no consistency rule in evaluation or funded.

Instant, Mini:

• You're allowed to withdraw from your instant account only when your consistency score is at 20% or lower.
• The score is determined by the formula: (your largest winning day / total profit) * 100%.
• If your consistency score is above 20%, you must continue trading until it drops below that threshold.

• Using Manipulative Software or Techniques
• Non-Standard Trading Practices
• Using External or Slow Data Feeds
• Exploiting Service Errors
• Manipulative Trading
• Hedging Across Accounts
• Account Management Services
• Group Trading
• High-Frequency Trading
• News Scalping
• Arbitrage Trading
• Multi-Account Reverse Trading
• Tick Scalping
• Internal Reverse Trading
• Group Hedging
• Account Management Services
• Account Sharing

• High-Frequency Trading
• Toxic Trading Order Flow
• Long/Short arbitrage
• Reverse arbitrage
• Tick scalping
• Reverse/Group Hedging
• Gambling
• All-in