FTMO Futures Rules: Pro and Growth Explained
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The FTMO Futures rules split across two plans, and it pays to know which set you'll be trading under before you choose. Pro and Growth share the same profit targets and the same three account sizes, then handle daily losses, drawdown, and payouts differently. Here is how both work, from the evaluation to payouts.
How FTMO Futures Accounts Work
FTMO is entering futures with two plans, Pro and Growth, each available at 50k, 100k, and 150k. Every account starts as an evaluation on a simulated account. Pass it and you move to a simulated funded account, where you can earn payouts. After that comes a live funded account backed by FTMO's capital, offered by invitation only.
Both plans are sold as a monthly subscription that runs during the evaluation. Once you pass, the monthly fee stops, and there is no activation fee to start. If you breach a rule during the evaluation, you can pay a reset fee to start again or wait for your next monthly subscription.
You can trade 30 futures contracts across metals, energies, equity indices, cryptocurrencies, and FX, split into 19 E-minis and 11 micros. Supported trading platforms include Tradovate, NinjaTrader, and TradingView. You can hold up to three sim-funded accounts at once, and they can be mixed across both plans and account sizes. There is no limit on how many evaluations you run at the same time, and each one carries its own monthly subscription.
FTMO Futures Rules: Pro vs Growth
FTMO positions Pro for experienced traders and Growth for a wider group, and the rules back that up. Pro gives you more drawdown room to reach the same profit target and pays out 100% of what you withdraw, but a hard daily loss limit applies in both stages and ends the account if you hit it. Growth holds you to a tighter drawdown and a 50% withdrawal share, with no daily loss limit during the evaluation at all. Both plans run the same three account sizes and the same profit targets. Here is how the rules stack up side by side.
Rule | Pro | Growth |
|---|---|---|
Account sizes | 50k, 100k, 150k | 50k, 100k, 150k |
Profit target | $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000 | $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000 |
Max drawdown | $3,000 / $4,500 / $6,000 | $2,000 / $3,500 / $5,000 |
Drawdown type | EOD trailing | EOD trailing |
Daily loss limit, evaluation | $1,000 / $1,500 / $2,000, hard | None |
Daily loss limit, funded | $1,000 / $1,500 / $2,000, hard | $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000, soft |
Consistency rule, evaluation | 50% | 40% |
Minimum trading days | None | None |
Inactivity, funded | Warning at 30 days, closed at 60 | Warning at 30 days, closed at 60 |
Max contracts, funded | 2 to 5 minis / 4 to 10 minis / 6 to 15 minis | 2 to 5 minis / 4 to 10 minis / 6 to 15 minis |
Profit split | 90/10 | 90/10 |
Withdrawal share | 100% | 50% |
Payout eligibility | 5 days at $200+ / $300+ / $500+ | 4 days at $150+ / $250+ / $300+ |
Payout frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days |
Payout cap | $5,000 / $6,000 / $8,000 | $2,500 / $3,000 / $4,000 |
FTMO Futures Pro Plan Rules
FTMO's Pro plan runs at 50k, 100k, and 150k. The daily loss limit and maximum drawdown are the same in the evaluation and the funded account, so the risk rules you trade under during the evaluation are the ones you keep when funded.
FTMO Futures Pro Evaluation Rules
Rule | 50k | 100k | 150k |
|---|---|---|---|
Profit target | $3,000 | $6,000 | $9,000 |
Max drawdown (EOD trailing) | $3,000 | $4,500 | $6,000 |
Target to drawdown ratio | 1:1 | 1.33:1 | 1.5:1 |
Daily loss limit | $1,000, hard | $1,500, hard | $2,000, hard |
Consistency rule | 50% | 50% | 50% |
Max contracts | 5 | 10 | 15 |
To pass a Pro evaluation, reach the profit target without hitting the maximum drawdown or the daily loss limit, and keep your best single day under 50% of your total profit. There is no minimum number of trading days.
The daily loss limit is hard at every account size, which means hitting it ends the account rather than stopping you for the day.
The maximum drawdown trails on your highest daily closing balance and is set at the start of each trading day. It only ever moves up, so a lower close does not pull it back down, and once it reaches your starting balance it locks there. Your equity is checked against the floor constantly, so an open position moving against you can breach it before you close the trade.
How much drawdown you get depends on the account size. At 50k the profit target and the maximum drawdown are both $3,000, so you have as much room to lose as you need to gain. That evens out less on the larger accounts, where a 100k account asks for $6,000 in profit against $4,500 of drawdown and a 150k account asks for $9,000 against $6,000.
FTMO Futures Pro Funded Account Rules
Pass the evaluation and you move to a sim-funded account, where the consistency rule drops away and everything else carries over.
Rule | 50k | 100k | 150k |
|---|---|---|---|
Max drawdown (EOD trailing) | $3,000 | $4,500 | $6,000 |
Daily loss limit | $1,000, hard | $1,500, hard | $2,000, hard |
Consistency rule | None | None | None |
Inactivity | Warning at 30 days, closed at 60 | Warning at 30 days, closed at 60 | Warning at 30 days, closed at 60 |
Max contracts | 2 to 5 minis | 4 to 10 minis | 6 to 15 minis |
Your drawdown and daily loss limit work exactly the same way they did in the evaluation, and breaching either one on a sim-funded account terminates it permanently.
Contract limits work differently once you are funded. The evaluation gives you a flat cap, while a sim-funded account starts lower and climbs as your profit builds. Payout terms depend on your account size. The scaling and payout sections cover both in full.
FTMO Futures Growth Plan Rules
FTMO's Growth plan runs at 50k, 100k, and 150k. It uses the same profit targets as Pro against a tighter maximum drawdown, and the daily loss limit works differently in each stage: there is none during the evaluation, and a soft one once you are funded.
FTMO Futures Growth Evaluation Rules
Rule | 50k | 100k | 150k |
|---|---|---|---|
Profit target | $3,000 | $6,000 | $9,000 |
Max drawdown (EOD trailing) | $2,000 | $3,500 | $5,000 |
Target to drawdown ratio | 1.5:1 | 1.7:1 | 1.8:1 |
Daily loss limit | None | None | None |
Consistency rule | 40% | 40% | 40% |
Max contracts | 5 | 10 | 15 |
To pass a Growth evaluation, reach the profit target without hitting the maximum drawdown, and keep your best single day under 40% of your total profit. There is no minimum number of trading days. Growth has no daily loss limit during the evaluation, so the maximum drawdown is the only rule that can end the account.
The maximum drawdown trails on your highest daily closing balance and is set at the start of each trading day. It only ever moves up and once it reaches your starting balance it locks there. Your equity is checked against the floor constantly, so an open position moving against you can breach it before you close the trade.
FTMO Futures Growth Funded Account Rules
Pass the evaluation and you move to a sim-funded account, where the consistency rule drops away and you pick up a daily loss limit for the first time.
Rule | 50k | 100k | 150k |
|---|---|---|---|
Max drawdown (EOD trailing) | $2,000 | $3,500 | $5,000 |
Daily loss limit | $1,000, soft | $2,000, soft | $3,000, soft |
Consistency rule | None | None | None |
Inactivity | Warning at 30 days, closed at 60 | Warning at 30 days, closed at 60 | Warning at 30 days, closed at 60 |
Max contracts | 2 to 5 minis | 4 to 10 minis | 6 to 15 minis |
Your drawdown works exactly the same way it did in the evaluation, and hitting it terminates the account. The daily loss limit is soft, which means hitting it costs you the rest of the day rather than the account. Your open positions close and trading resumes next session.
Contract limits work differently once you are funded, starting lower than the evaluation cap and climbing as your profit builds. Payout terms depend on your account size. The scaling and payout sections cover both in full.
FTMO Futures Drawdown Rules and Loss Limits
Both plans run the same drawdown mechanic, and differ on the daily loss limit and the consistency rule.
How the EOD Trailing Drawdown Works
Your end of day trailing drawdown sets a floor under your account, and that floor only ever moves up. It comes from your highest daily closing balance, so it is determined at the 4:10 p.m. ET close, but it does not take effect until the next trading day begins at 6:00 p.m. ET. From then it holds at that level for the whole session. Your equity, which counts your balance plus any open position P&L minus commissions, has to stay above it at every moment. Touch the floor and it is a breach, which fails the evaluation or terminates a funded account depending on where you are.
Take a 100k Pro account with a $4,500 maximum drawdown. You start at $100,000, so your floor sits at $95,500. Finish a day at $102,000 and the floor moves up to $97,500. Finish the next day at $101,000 and the floor stays at $97,500, because it is set from your highest daily closing balance so far rather than your most recent one.
The floor keeps climbing until it reaches your starting balance, then stops. On that 100k account, once you close a day at $104,500 the floor locks at $100,000 and never moves again. From that point you are only ever risking your own profit, since dropping below your starting balance ends the account.
Hard and Soft Daily Loss Limits
Your daily loss limit is a fixed number your equity cannot touch that day. At the start of each trading day FTMO takes your opening balance and subtracts the limit amount, so on a 50k Pro account with a $1,000 limit, opening at $53,000 sets the level at $52,000 for that day. It resets every trading day against your new balance, which means the room stays the same while the level moves up or down with your account. Because it is measured on equity, an open position moving against you can hit it before you close the trade.
Pro's hard daily loss limit applies in both stages, and hitting it ends the account. Growth has no daily loss limit during the evaluation and a soft one once you are funded, which closes your open positions and suspends trading for the rest of that day. Pro is the plan where a single session can end the run, and Growth is the more forgiving one on a bad day.
The Consistency Rule
The consistency rule caps how much of your profit can come from one day. Pro sets that cap at 50%, Growth at 40%, and it applies during the evaluation only.
Say you hit the $3,000 target on a 50k Pro account, and your single best day made $2,000 of it. That day is 67% of your total profit, over the 50% cap, so you cannot pass yet. Keep trading to $4,000 in total and that same $2,000 day drops to 50%, which clears it. Going over does not fail the account, it just holds up the pass.
The rule is easy to fall short of without noticing, since it depends on a ratio between your best day and a total that moves every session. Tanto syncs your fills from FTMO automatically and lays out each day's closed P&L on a calendar, so you can see your best day against your running total without rebuilding the math yourself. It keeps separate history per account too, which matters if you are running an evaluation and a sim-funded account at the same time.
FTMO Futures Payout Rules
FTMO Futures payouts run on a 90/10 split, and both plans unlock them the same way. The plans differ on how many qualifying days you need, how much of your profit you can request, and how much any single payout can be.
Rule | Pro (50k / 100k / 150k) | Growth (50k / 100k / 150k) |
|---|---|---|
Payout eligibility | 5 days at $200+ / $300+ / $500+ | 4 days at $150+ / $250+ / $300+ |
Payout frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days |
Withdrawable amount | 100% of profit | 50% of profit |
Payout cap per request | $5,000 / $6,000 / $8,000 | $2,500 / $3,000 / $4,000 |
Min new profit per request | 50% | 50% |
Payout ratio | 90/10 | 90/10 |
Minimum payout | $20 | $20 |
Each plan's payout terms match the risk it asks you to carry. Pro holds you to a hard daily loss limit on the sim-funded account, where one breach ends it permanently, and it pays back all of your profit against the higher cap. Growth gives you the softer version, where a bad day closes your positions and the account survives, and half your profit stays in the account.
Payout Eligibility
To become eligible for payouts, you need a set number of qualifying days within the payout cycle. A qualifying day is a trading day where your closed P&L finishes at or above your plan's threshold. On a Pro 50k that is five days at $200 or more, on a Growth 50k four days at $150.
Each day either clears the threshold or it doesn't. Post $250, $310, $180, $400, and $220 on a Pro 50k and only four days qualify, because the $180 day came in under $200. The four that cleared still count, so you keep trading until a fifth one does. Once you take a payout the count resets to zero, and any extra qualifying days you banked do not carry into the next cycle.
How Much You Can Request
Four things set the size of your payout. The first is the withdrawable amount, which is how much of your profit you can request. Pro lets you request 100% of your profit and Growth 50%.
The second is the payout cap, which is the most you can take in one request no matter how much profit you have. On a Pro 100k that cap is $6,000, so $9,000 in profit means you request $6,000 and the rest carries forward to the next cycle.
The third is the minimum new profit rule. At least 50% of what you request has to be profit you made in the current payout cycle rather than profit carried over from before. Keep $4,000 from a previous cycle, make $800 in this one, and the most you can request is $1,600.
The fourth is the payout ratio. The 90/10 split applies to whatever you requested. Take a Growth 100k holding $5,000 in profit: half of it is withdrawable, so you can request $2,500, that clears the $3,000 cap, and 90% of it means $2,250 reaches you.
One thing to watch on Pro. Once your drawdown floor has locked at your starting balance, requesting all of your profit drops your balance to that floor and breaches it. FTMO flags this directly. Growth cannot hit this, since only half your profit is withdrawable.
Payouts are paid in USD through Wise, Revolut bank wire, or instant transfer via Visa Direct and Mastercard Send. Mastercard Send is not available to US clients, and US traders file a W-9 and show proof they own the receiving account before their first request.
FTMO Futures Scaling Plan
Your contract limit is fixed during the evaluation and moves once you are funded. Both FTMO Futures evaluations cap you at 5 contracts on a 50k, 10 on a 100k, and 15 on a 150k. A funded account starts lower and climbs through tiers based on your end of day profit above your starting balance.
EOD profit above starting balance | 50k | 100k | 150k |
|---|---|---|---|
$0 to $999 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
$1,000 to $1,999 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
$2,000 to $2,999 | 5 | 8 | 10 |
$3,000 to $4,499 | 5 | 10 | 12 |
$4,500 and above | 5 | 10 | 15 |
Figures are standards or minis, and ten micros count as one of those. A 50k account at the base tier can hold 2 standards or minis, 20 micros, or any mix inside that limit, so 1 standard plus 10 micros works. The cap applies to what you hold at any one time across all instruments.
More profit means a higher tier, but the change only lands at the close. A good morning does not buy you more size that afternoon, it buys it for tomorrow.
The tier also moves down. On a 100k account you start with 4 contracts. Close a day at $102,500 and the next session gives you 8. Give back $700 the following day and you close at $101,800, which puts you back to 5 for the session after that.
Payouts feed into this too. Taking a payout lowers your balance, which lowers your profit above the starting balance, which can drop your tier. Withdraw everything you have made and you go back to the base tier, since there is no excess profit left to support a higher one.
FTMO Futures Live Funded Account Rules
The stage after sim-funded is a live funded account backed by FTMO's capital, and it is invite only. FTMO's Trading Department reviews your sim-funded trading and contacts you directly if they offer it.
Max drawdown is the only trading objective left at this stage, and the inactivity rule does not apply.
Payouts change too. Before your first payout you clear a one-time buffer, which is equal to the maximum drawdown on your account type. On a Pro 50k that is $3,000. After that you can request a payout daily, withdrawing your profit above the buffer with no payout cap, and the split stays at 90/10.
A market data fee applies for live market data, with one exchange covered. Live funded is not available in every country, so check FTMO's help center if that affects you.
Prohibited Trading Practices on FTMO Futures
FTMO splits these into two: strategies you cannot use, and standards your trading has to meet.
Forbidden Strategies
Exploiting the platform. Using errors in pricing, data feeds, or anything specific to a simulated environment that would not exist in a live futures market.
No independent risk management. Relying on the platform's drawdown protection as your only exit rather than managing risk yourself.
Hedging across accounts. Offsetting risk across accounts, whether they are yours, held elsewhere, or coordinated with other people. Opposite positions on a single account are allowed, across accounts they are not.
Copy trading from others. Following another trader's decisions through signal services, master accounts, trade copiers, or any manual arrangement is not allowed. You can copy across your own accounts, as long as each one meets every rule on its own.
Third-party access. Letting anyone else trade your account, or trading someone else's, paid or otherwise.
Prohibited automation. High-frequency strategies and latency arbitrage. Automated trading itself is allowed, and you are responsible for whatever your systems do.
CME price limits. Opening a position when price is within 2% of the CME daily price limit for that contract.
Holding past the close. Carrying any position or resting order past the end of the trading day.
Trading inconsistent with live markets. Overleveraging, one-sided bets, account rolling, or anything else that would not be replicable with real capital.
Risk Management Standards
Your trading has to look like the same trader throughout. FTMO names three patterns it watches: position sizes that jump around relative to how you normally size, trading clustered around news events when that is not your usual pattern, and trading your sim-funded account materially differently from how you traded the evaluation.
News trading is not banned, but news event concentration is. Clustering your activity around scheduled economic events when the rest of your trading does not look like that is what FTMO flags.
Exchange rules apply on top of all this. Anything CME prohibits, including spoofing, layering, and wash trading, is prohibited here whether or not FTMO lists it. Breaches can mean trades removed, the account terminated, rewards forfeited, or a permanent ban, depending on what happened and whether it has happened before.
Other FTMO Futures Rules
Trading hours. A trading day runs from 6:00 p.m. ET to 4:10 p.m. ET the following calendar day. Your drawdown floor and daily loss limit are both set from your balance at the 6:00 p.m. start, and qualifying days are counted at the 4:10 p.m. close.
No overnight or weekend holding. You cannot carry anything past the close. FTMO flattens open positions and cancels resting orders at 4:10 p.m. ET.
Inactivity. On a sim-funded account, thirty consecutive days without a trade triggers an automated warning, and another thirty days after that closes it. Evaluations and live funded accounts have no inactivity rule.
Minimum trading days. There are none, though the consistency rule means you cannot pass on a single day, since your best day can only account for 50% of your profit on Pro and 40% on Growth. Payouts have their own requirement once you are funded, in qualifying days.
Account limits. Three sim-funded accounts at a time, mixed across plans and sizes however you like, with no cap on total capital. Evaluations are unlimited, each on its own subscription. Running extra accounts through separate registrations is not allowed.
Registrations. FTMO Futures accepts natural persons only. If you are registered with FTMO as a business or self-employed, you need to contact them before starting.
Automated trading. Allowed, with high-frequency strategies and latency arbitrage the exceptions. Whatever your system does is your responsibility.
Bottom Line
The FTMO Futures rules come down to which risk you would rather carry. Pro gives you more drawdown room and pays back everything you earn, but a hard daily loss limit sits under you in both stages and one breach ends the account. Growth takes the daily loss limit off the table during the evaluation and softens it when funded, at the cost of a tighter drawdown and half your profit staying in the account. Both run the same EOD trailing drawdown, the same 90/10 split, and the same rule that your best day cannot carry your evaluation. Rules can change, so check FTMO's help center for the most up to date rules.
By Team Tanto · Last updated: September 17, 2026