FTMO Futures review

FTMO’s own Futures commission is $0.50 per side on minis and $0.20 per side on micros. Exchange and NFA fees sit on top of that. Micros count 1:10 versus minis for contract limits; commission is charged per contract, not scaled as a bundle.

FTMO Futures offers two single-phase Evaluation products, Growth and Pro, each available in $50K, $100K, and $150K account sizes. Evaluation accounts use simulated capital. Eligibility to pass is assessed after the end of the trading day at 4:10 p.m. ET. After the Evaluation is passed, the trader must complete FTMO Identity/KYC and sign the FTMO Futures Sim-Funded Account Terms & Conditions before the matching Sim-Funded Account is issued. Identity review is typically under one business day for a personal registration and up to three business days for a company registration. There is no activation fee. Evaluations are billed monthly and may be reset for a reduced reset fee. There is no limit on the number of Evaluation accounts a trader may hold, but traders may hold a maximum of three concurrent Sim-Funded Accounts across all FTMO Futures account sizes and product types.

A trading day runs from 6:00 p.m. ET through 4:10 p.m. ET the following calendar day. FTMO Futures does not permit positions or resting orders to remain open through the market close. All positions and orders must be closed or cancelled before 4:10 p.m. ET or the applicable instrument’s earlier market close. Remaining positions and orders may be automatically liquidated or cancelled by the platform. News trading is permitted during all phases with no special news-event restriction. VPN/VPS use and trading while travelling are allowed provided the trader remains in sole control of the account and is not residing in a jurisdiction where the relevant FTMO Futures product is unavailable. Live Funded eligibility is narrower than Sim-Funded eligibility and uses a separate restricted-country list.

Discretionary trading, algorithmic trading and Expert Advisors are permitted as long as the strategy represents legitimate, live-replicable trading and does not violate FTMO’s Forbidden Trading Practices. Third-party EAs may create compliance risk if other traders use the same strategy, as copy trading across registrations is prohibited and FTMO requires traders to use a unique strategy. Trading practices designed to exploit the simulated environment or otherwise depart from genuine market trading may result in account action or termination.

FTMO Futures currently offers futures contracts across major CME Group markets. Mini and micro contracts are supported, with micros counting toward contract limits at a 1:10 ratio relative to minis. Evaluation contract limits are 5 minis/50 micros on $50K accounts, 10 minis/100 micros on $100K accounts, and 15 minis/150 micros on $150K accounts. Sim-Funded Accounts begin with lower contract limits and scale upward based on end-of-day profit above the Initial Simulated Capital, up to the applicable Evaluation maximum. FTMO charges its own commission of $0.50 per side on mini contracts and $0.20 per side on micro contracts, in addition to applicable exchange and NFA fees.

Both Growth and Pro use an End-of-Day Trailing Maximum Drawdown. The drawdown is calculated from the highest end-of-day account balance and may only move upward. Once the trailing drawdown reaches the Initial Simulated Capital, it permanently locks at that level. The Maximum Drawdown is enforced against account equity, including Balance + Open Positions P&L − Commissions. Breaching the Maximum Drawdown is a hard violation and results in account termination.

FTMO may later transition selected high-performing Sim-Funded traders to a Live Funded Account, but this transition is entirely at FTMO’s discretion and is not based on a published mandatory payout, profit, or time threshold.

The Consistency Rule applies only during the Evaluation phase. Growth Evaluations use a 40% consistency rule, meaning no single trading day may account for more than 40% of total accumulated profit when the trader completes the Evaluation. Pro Evaluations use a 50% consistency rule. The Consistency Rule cannot itself fail the Evaluation. If a trader exceeds the permitted percentage, the Evaluation remains active and the trader must continue generating profit until the best trading day falls within the applicable percentage. There is no Consistency Rule on any Sim-Funded Account. There is otherwise no required minimum number of Evaluation trading days. Because of the Evaluation consistency requirements, the theoretical minimum time to pass is three trading days for Growth and two trading days for Pro.

Growth Evaluations have no Daily Loss Limit. Once Sim-Funded, Growth accounts use a soft Daily Loss Limit of $1,000 on the $50K account, $2,000 on the $100K account, and $3,000 on the $150K account. The Daily Loss Limit is calculated at the start of each trading day from that day’s opening account balance. If account equity reaches the applicable Growth Daily Loss Limit, all open positions are automatically closed and trading is suspended for the remainder of the trading day. The account is not terminated and trading resumes at the beginning of the next session.

Pro accounts use a hard Daily Loss Limit during both the Evaluation and Sim-Funded phases. The hard Daily Loss Limits are $1,000 for the $50K account, $1,500 for the $100K account, and $2,000 for the $150K account. The limit is calculated from the account balance at the start of each trading day and is enforced against equity, including Balance + Open Positions P&L − Commissions. If equity reaches the applicable Pro Daily Loss Limit at any point during the trading day, the account is immediately and permanently terminated.

Unlike the Maximum Drawdown, the Daily Loss Limit may move both higher and lower from one trading day to the next because it is recalculated from each day’s opening balance.

All FTMO Futures payouts are available from the Sim-Funded Account stage. Sim-Funded Accounts have no Profit Target and no Consistency Rule. FTMO Futures uses a 90/10 payout ratio, with the trader receiving 90% of the approved payout request. The minimum payout request is $20. Payouts are processed in USD and may be received through Wise, Revolut bank wire, Visa Direct, or Mastercard Send, although Mastercard Send is unavailable to U.S. clients. U.S. clients must also submit an IRS Form W-9 and proof of ownership of the U.S. receiving account before the first payout request.

Growth traders become payout eligible after completing four Qualifying Days within the current payout cycle. A Qualifying Day requires at least $150 in closed daily P&L on the $50K account, $250 on the $100K account, or $300 on the $150K account. Growth permits withdrawal of up to 50% of available profit above the Initial Simulated Capital. The per-request payout caps are $2,500 on the $50K account, $3,000 on the $100K account, and $4,000 on the $150K account. Any remaining profit stays in the account and may be carried forward for use in a later payout request.

Pro traders become payout eligible after completing five Qualifying Days within the current payout cycle. A Qualifying Day requires at least $200 in closed daily P&L on the $50K account, $300 on the $100K account, or $500 on the $150K account. Pro permits withdrawal of up to 100% of available profit above the Initial Simulated Capital, subject to the payout cap. The per-request payout caps are $5,000 on the $50K account, $6,000 on the $100K account, and $8,000 on the $150K account.

For both Growth and Pro, at least 50% of every requested payout must consist of new profit generated during the current payout cycle rather than carried-over profit from a previous cycle. Carried-over profit may still be included in a payout request, but it cannot represent more than 50% of that request. Profit remaining above the Initial Simulated Capital after a payout remains available for future cycles, subject to the same payout eligibility, new-profit, withdrawal-percentage and payout-cap requirements.

When a trader confirms a payout request, FTMO closes all open positions and pending orders and displays the available payout amount. The requested amount is deducted from the Sim-Funded Account balance and submitted for FTMO approval. The trader may resume trading immediately while the payout is pending. Once approved, the trader completes the payout process through the Client Area.