Track record of Funding Traders and Sure Leverage Funding

901 Pennsylvania Ave Suite #3-440, Miami Beach, FL 33139

Al Shohada Road 10055, Al Hamra Industrial Zone-FZ, 10055, Ras Al Khaimah, U.A.E.

Stan

Sebastian Ness

United States

United Arab Emirates

2022

2023

Liquidity Provider

• 2-Step Pro: Refund bonus on first payout.
• 1-Step Pro: Refund bonus on second payout.
• Instant Funding: Not eligible for refund bonus.
• 150% Refund Add-On available: receive 150% of challenge fee back after first payout.
• 2-Step Day and Swing: Refund bonus on second payout.

Historically, standard challenges were non-refundable. A newer rule states that evaluation fees purchased after January 9, 2026 are refundable on the 4th payout, while older purchases remain non-refundable.

Pro and 2-Step Day/Swing accounts

• Default: first payout 21 days after first trade on funded account; subsequent payouts every 21 days.
• With 14-Day Payout Add-On: first payout 14 days after first trade; subsequent every 14 days.

Instant Funded accounts

• First payout 7 days after the first trade on the funded account; subsequent every 7 days.
• With On-Demand Payout Add-On: request payouts any time once eligibility requirements are met.

Minimum payout: $200 via Rise (bank transfer), $50 via Crypto (USDT-ERC20).

1 Step Evaluation and 2 Step

• Instant payout request once requirements are met.

Instant Funding Static

• Base schedule every 14 days.
• Promotional instant requests may apply.

Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later

• Every 14 days.

EA Challenge

• First payout after 4 weeks, then every 2 weeks.

Futures Style

• Instant Funding: payout eligible after 5 days.
• 1 Step Pro Evaluation: payout eligible after 3 days.

Instant Funding Zero

• Every 14 days. No minimum trading-day requirement; meeting the buffer from a single trade does not make payout processing immediate.

Payout requests processed within 2 business days (excluding holidays and weekends). If not, traders receive $1,000 ($500 cash + $500 account credits).

Payouts are processed within 24 business hours or the trader receives an extra 10% on the profit split.

$200 via Rise / $50 via Crypto

$100 minimum withdrawal. Lower withdrawals may be processed on request with fees deducted.

• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: $250 / $500 / $750 / $1,000 minimum payout on $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.

2% payout fee or a $10 minimum transaction fee per payout.

• Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no payout cap.
• Other funded products: usually capped at 5% of the initial balance per payout cycle, depending on the program.

• Standard challenge accounts: 1:50
• Funded phase: 1:30
• EA Challenge during challenge phase: 1:100

1:20

Gold is included in the firm's general leverage framework.

Oil: 1:10

• 1-Step Pro & Instant Funding: 1:20
• 2-Step Pro: 1:15
• 2-Step Day and Swing: Nasdaq and DAX 1:30, Dow and Nikkei 1:40, S&P 1:25, UK100 1:20, other indices 1:15

Available as a 'Swap-free, Zero Commissions' add-on for Pro accounts. Removes $3/lot commission and enables swap-free trading.

Revive Feature (2-Step Pro, Phase 1 only)

Continue your Phase 1 challenge from the progress already achieved instead of restarting. Available only if the account was in overall profit at the moment of breach. Available for 48 hours after breach, one-time use only.

Cost = Paid account price + (Paid account price × % of profit target achieved).

Restrictions

• Only available in Phase 1 (not Phase 2)
• Only one recovery action per account (Revive OR Reset, not both)
• If the account fails again after using Revive or Reset, the account is permanently failed
• Using Revive removes payout refund eligibility

Only the 1 Step Evaluation documents a free reset, available if the funded account is lost within 10 days. Futures Style Instant Funding and Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation show reset availability; no reset fee is stated publicly. Other listed products do not include a free reset.

• Swap-free, Zero Commissions (Pro accounts)
• 14-Day Payout (Pro accounts)
• 100% Profit Split
• 30% Consistency Score
• 30% News Trading (Pro accounts)
• Hold Through News, 15% (Instant Funded only)
• On-Demand Payout (Instant Funded only)
• Double-Up (free second challenge upon funding)
• 150% Refund
• Daily Drawdown Shield, 20% (evaluation only; one Daily Loss Limit breach does not fail the account)
• No Minimum Trading Days, 25% (1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro10; removes the requirement at every stage)

• +10% Profit Split (+15%)
• Weekly payout (+20%)
• +10% Profit Split + Weekly payout (+30%)
• News trading: Instant Funding Static and 1 Step
• Instant Funding Zero: remove daily drawdown (+30%), static maximum drawdown (+50%), or both (+80%). Percentages apply to the base account price.

Account grows by 25% (of original balance) every 2 consecutive profitable months with at least 8% total profit. Maximum account size: $2,000,000. Extra +25% bonus after 3 months active.

• 1-Step Pro: 10% trailing. Trails higher as account balance increases.
• 2-Step Pro PRO10: 10% static. Fixed, does not trail.
• Instant Funding: 6% trailing until 3% profit is made, then locks at initial account size.

Instant Flex: trailing max loss keeps trailing and does not lock at the initial balance.

• 2-Step Day and Swing: static. Fixed, does not trail.

• 1 Step Evaluation: 10% maximum drawdown, trailing on end-of-day (EOD) high-watermark.
• EA Challenge uses trailing high-watermark logic.
• 2 Step and Free Challenge use static maximum drawdown.
• Instant Funding Static uses static drawdown.
• Instant Funding Zero: trailing from the highest recorded equity by default, or static if selected at purchase. After payout, the balance resets to the starting balance; withdrawing all profit above the buffer can breach the trailing drawdown.
• Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later funded phase use trailing high-watermark logic.
• Futures Style Instant Funding: EOD maximum-loss limit of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $5,000 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: EOD maximum-loss limit of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500 for $25K / $50K / $100K / $150K.

80% default profit split (trader/firm 80/20) on the existing Pro and regular Instant Funded account types; excludes Instant Flex.

• 90% Profit Split available as a checkout add-on
• 100% Profit Split available as a checkout add-on

2-Step Day and Swing

• Day: 80%, up to 90% or 100% with add-ons
• Swing: 70% on the 1st payout, 80% on the 2nd, 90% from the 3rd; restarts at 70% on a new account or reset; no split add-ons

• 1 Step Evaluation: 90%
• 2 Step: 80%
• Instant Funding Static: scales from 50% to 80%
• Instant Funding Zero: 70% from the first payout
• Instant Funding Trailing: 80% from the first payout
• EA Challenge: scales from 50% to 80%
• Buy Now, Pay Later: 80%
• Futures Style Instant Funding: 90%
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: 90%
• Free Challenge funded outcome: 50%

Free $1,000 Try Out on the 1-Step Pro, not available from the regular sign-up. TheGodFunded users can claim it here: get your free Try Out. New users only, one per person, MT5. Passing it gives a real funded account with an 80% split and a $500 lifetime payout cap.

A Free Challenge exists, but it still requires a small activation fee of $1 to $5 and converts into a $5,000 2 Step account if passed.

• 1-Step Pro: 3%. Based on starting day's balance.
• 2-Step Pro PRO10: 5%. Based on starting day's balance.
• Instant Funding: 3%. Based on higher of starting day's balance or equity.

Instant Flex: no daily loss limit.

• 2-Step Day and Swing: based on starting day's balance.

Daily drawdown resets at 5 PM EST and is generally recalculated from the higher of balance or equity using the product's initial-balance loss allowance.

• Futures Style Instant Funding: no daily limit on $25K; $1,200 / $2,100 / $3,000 on $50K / $100K / $150K.

• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: no daily limit on $25K; $1,200 / $1,800 / $2,700 on $50K / $100K / $150K.

• Instant Funding Zero: daily drawdown can be removed at purchase.

• Pro accounts: Maximum $300,000 in funded accounts.
• Instant Funded: Capped at $400,000 across all instant funded accounts.
• Unlimited evaluation accounts allowed.

• Only for funded accounts.
• Both accounts must have the same payout schedule and profit split.
• Accounts must not have been traded and must be at initial balance.

No limit

No time limits are stated for the 1 Step and 2 Step evaluations. No broader firm-wide maximum duration rule was documented for the other active products reviewed.

• 1-Step Pro: 2 trading days (challenge and funded)
• 2-Step Pro: 4 trading days per phase (8 total for challenge), 2 trading days funded
• Instant Funding: No minimum
• Optional No Minimum Trading Days add-on: removes these requirements at every stage on 1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro10; +25% of base price
• 2-Step Day: no minimum in Phase 1 and 2; 4 trading days on funded before each payout
• 2-Step Swing: 4 trading days per phase, 2 trading days funded

Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no minimum trading days.

FT Points and Challenge Convert let KYC-verified traders use an approved payout to buy a new account immediately or convert it into points for a later purchase. $1 of payout converts to 2.2 FT Points; each point covers $1 of listed account price, an effective 55% discount. The conversion is final; any unused payout balance follows the normal payout method.

2-Step Pro10

• Phase 1 (Challenge): minimum 4 trading days
• Phase 2 (Challenge): minimum 4 trading days
• Funded Phase: minimum 2 trading days

1-Step

• Phase 1 (Challenge): minimum 2 trading days
• Funded Phase: minimum 2 trading days

Instant Funded

• No minimum trading days requirement.

Optional add-on

• No Minimum Trading Days removes the requirement at every stage on 1-Step Pro and 2-Step Pro10; +25% of base price.

Soft-breached profit is deducted at payout review. If deductions reduce profit to zero or below, the payout is denied and the account is reset.

EAs and Bots permitted ONLY if focused on risk management (e.g. position size calculators, auto position size execution bots).

Not allowed

• Off-the-shelf EAs purchased/downloaded online (unless solely for risk management)
• EAs that automatically place trades (unless developed personally by the trader)
• Grid Trading EAs/Bots
• Hedge Trading EAs/Bots

AI-generated EAs
Allowed if the trader fully understands the code (strategy, entry/exit logic, risk parameters) and can explain it to the Risk Team.

EAs are generally prohibited, except on the EA Challenge where they are allowed only during the challenge phase and prohibited once funded.

Scalping is not completely banned, but tick scalping is prohibited and trades should generally remain open for more than 2 minutes.

• Pro accounts: Maximum 2% risk per trade idea (of initial balance).
• Instant Funding: Maximum 1% floating PnL loss (of initial balance, all active trades combined).
• Instant Funding lot size limit: 20 lots per trade maximum.

Instant Flex: maximum 1% risk per trade.

Allowed: copy trading between your own FundingTraders Pro accounts; copying trades from your own accounts on other brokers/firms into your FundingTraders account.

Not allowed: copying trades from accounts owned by other traders; sharing signals with other traders.

Challenge phase

• News trading fully permitted, no restrictions.

Funded phase: Pro and 2-Step Day/Swing accounts

• News trading allowed but max 30% of total profits can come from news-influenced trades.
• News Trade window: 5 minutes before / 5 minutes after high-impact (Red Folder) event.
• If the 30% limit is exceeded, payout processing is delayed until additional trades bring the percentage back under the limit.
• Trades held for 5+ hours before a high-impact news release are NOT considered News Trades.

Funded phase: Instant Funded accounts

• News trading is strictly prohibited by default: having any open trades during a high-impact news event results in account termination.
• Timing restriction: no opening, closing or triggering pending orders within 5 minutes before / 5 minutes after a high-impact news event (10-minute window). Applies even with the add-on.
• Optional Hold Through News (15% Add-On): allows positions opened outside the 10-minute window to be held through high-impact events without breaching the account.

For new accounts purchased after the rule change announced on 30 September 2026, trading high-impact (red-folder) news is prohibited during the 5 minutes before and after the event. A news trading add-on is available at checkout for Instant Funding Static and 1 Step. Accounts purchased before the change retain their previous news trading permissions.

The 30-day inactivity period begins on the day the account is purchased, not from last activity. If no trades are placed within this period, the account is automatically failed for inactivity and permanently closed (no restoration). Applies to Challenge and Funded accounts.

At least one open trade or pending order is required every 30 days to keep the account active.

Pro accounts (1-Step & 2-Step)

Default: Largest profit day must not exceed 50% of total profits. With 30% Consistency Score Add-On: threshold increases to 30%.

Instant Funding

Largest profit day must not exceed 15% of total profits.

Instant Flex: 15% consistency score.

Profit Consistency Rule

• 1 Step Evaluation: no single trading day can make up 50% or more of total profits, in both evaluation and funded phases.
• 2 Step, Instant Funding Static and EA Challenge: a trading day cannot equal or exceed 25% of total profit for the payout period.
• Instant Funding Lite: 15%.
• Instant Funding Trailing and Buy Now, Pay Later: 20%.
• Instant Funding Zero under the new terms announced on August 20, 2026: no consistency rule.
• Futures Style 1 Step Pro Evaluation: none in evaluation; 40% in funded status.

There is no lot size consistency rule.

Weekend holding permitted on all account types (Pro and Instant Funded) except 2-Step Day. Positions can be held across the weekend on all instruments, including crypto. No forced Friday flatten. Gap risk and widened spreads around the Asian open still apply; swap fees still charged.

2-Step Day

• Forex, gold, indices and oil positions are closed automatically at 16:55 New York time every day, including Friday; not a breach
• Crypto positions can stay open overnight and over the weekend

2-Step Swing

• Overnight and weekend holding allowed on all markets

• Grid trading (3+ positions same pair/direction)
• Hedge trading
• Arbitrage, latency trading
• High-frequency trading (trades ≤15 seconds)
• Reverse trading across accounts
• Account rolling/stacking (risking all on multiple accounts)
• Overleveraged trades (>30% margin on single trade)
• One-sided trading (stacking positions to hit targets)

• Tick scalping / ultra-short trades
• High-frequency trading (HFT)
• Latency arbitrage
• Reverse arbitrage
• Martingale
• Account management
• Third-party copy trading or mirrored group trading
• Exploiting pricing, execution, latency or platform errors
• Manipulative hedging patterns designed to game payouts or risk limits