FTMO Futures Review 2026

Quick Facts

Score Breakdown

Total: 80/100. FTMO Futures scores particularly well for rule transparency, its one-step structure and its use of end-of-day rather than intraday trailing drawdown. The main deductions are the recurring Evaluation subscription, funded-stage payout restrictions, Pro’s hard Daily Loss Limit and the Futures product’s short operating history.

Our Verdict in 60 Seconds

FTMO Futures gets several fundamentals right. Both Growth and Pro use a single Evaluation phase with no maximum time limit. Maximum drawdown is recalculated from previous end-of-day balances rather than following every intraday unrealised high, and news trading is permitted during both Evaluation and Sim-Funded stages. Platform support is also relevant to active futures traders, with NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView currently available.

Growth is the programme we would analyse first for most traders. There is no Daily Loss Limit during Evaluation. Once Sim-Funded, the daily rule becomes a soft restriction: reaching the limit closes positions and pauses trading for the session rather than automatically terminating the account. Its main weakness is payout access because only 50% of available profit can be requested during each payout cycle.

Pro reverses that trade-off. It provides a larger Maximum Drawdown allowance and traders can request up to 100% of available profit, subject to the published payout limits. However, its Daily Loss Limit is a hard rule during both Evaluation and Sim-Funded trading. Traders who regularly experience large losing sessions therefore need to be particularly careful with Pro.

Compare FTMO Futures

FTMO Futures is a separate product from FTMO’s forex and CFD challenges. Read our FTMO review for the CFD product, or use the prop firm comparison tool to compare current programmes. US traders can also review our prop firms for US traders guide, although individual Futures eligibility rules still need to be checked separately.

FTMO Futures Company Overview

FTMO Futures launched on 17 September 2026 as FTMO’s dedicated futures product. It should be analysed separately from FTMO’s better-known forex and CFD evaluations because the pricing model, trading platforms, drawdown methodology, account progression and payout rules are different.

FTMO identifies FTMO Evaluation Global s.r.o. in Prague for its non-US operations, while the US Futures programme is operated separately through JV Prop Corporation, a Delaware corporation. The Evaluation and Sim-Funded stages use simulated trading accounts. FTMO may invite selected traders to a separate Live Funded Account using real capital, but passing the Evaluation does not guarantee that transition.

Company registration should not be confused with financial regulation of the prop evaluation service. This review therefore treats FTMO’s identifiable entities, documentation and operating history as transparency signals rather than describing the Futures evaluation product as a regulated brokerage account.

FTMO Futures Pros and Cons

Who Is FTMO Futures For?

FTMO Futures is most naturally suited to intraday futures traders. If your normal trading process involves opening and closing positions within the futures session, maintaining controlled position sizes and avoiding exposure through the daily close, the core structure fits that behaviour reasonably well.

• Growth: better suited to traders who prioritise softer daily-risk rules. There is no Evaluation Daily Loss Limit, while the Sim-Funded Daily Loss Limit is soft rather than an immediate account-ending breach.
• Pro: better suited to traders who already control daily downside tightly and value greater Maximum Drawdown room, higher payout caps and the ability to request up to 100% of available profit.
• News traders: potentially suitable because FTMO permits news trading across its Futures stages, subject to the wider risk-management and prohibited-practice rules.
• Algorithmic traders: potentially suitable when the automation represents a legitimate and independently controlled strategy rather than HFT, latency exploitation or third-party signal copying.

Who should avoid FTMO Futures?

FTMO Futures is a poor fit for traders whose strategy requires holding positions beyond the applicable daily market close. It is also less attractive to traders who strongly prefer one-time Evaluation pricing, traders who depend on third-party signal copying or cross-account hedging, and Australian residents because Australia is currently on the published restricted-country list.

Pro deserves additional caution if your strategy sometimes produces large losing sessions. Its Daily Loss Limit is a hard rule in both Evaluation and Sim-Funded trading. The larger Maximum Drawdown allowance does not make Pro automatically more forgiving.

FTMO Futures Growth vs Pro

FTMO Futures currently has two principal routes: Growth and Pro. Both are one-step Evaluations, but the risk and payout trade-offs differ materially. The table below separates the standard published conditions checked on 11 October 2026.

Growth

Growth is the lower-priced route and the easier programme to manage from a daily-loss perspective. During Evaluation there is no Daily Loss Limit. A trader can still fail by breaching the Maximum Drawdown or another hard rule, but a poor individual trading day does not create a separate Daily Loss breach.

Once Sim-Funded, Growth introduces a soft Daily Loss Limit. Reaching the threshold closes positions and suspends trading until the next trading day rather than automatically terminating the account. That makes Growth particularly relevant to traders whose strategy occasionally produces a difficult session but remains controlled within the overall Maximum Drawdown.

The compromise comes at payout. Growth traders can request up to 50% of available profit per payout cycle, and programme-specific payout caps still apply.

Pro

Pro gives the trader more Maximum Drawdown room at every account size. A $100,000 Pro Evaluation, for example, starts with $4,500 of Maximum Drawdown allowance compared with $3,500 on Growth.

The trade-off is the hard Daily Loss Limit. On the $100,000 Pro account that limit is $1,500. Breaching it can terminate the Evaluation or Sim-Funded account rather than merely pausing trading for the rest of the session.

Pro becomes more attractive at the payout stage because traders can request up to 100% of available profit, subject to the published limits, and its maximum payout per request is higher than Growth at equivalent account sizes.

Evaluation, Sim-Funded & Live Funded

This is one of the most important distinctions in an FTMO Futures review. Passing the Evaluation does not mean every trader immediately receives a live brokerage account funded with real capital.

1. Evaluation

Growth or Pro is traded in a simulated environment. The trader must reach the relevant Profit Target, satisfy the Evaluation consistency requirement and avoid any applicable hard rule breaches. There is no maximum Evaluation time limit, although the monthly subscription continues while the Evaluation remains active.

2. Sim-Funded Account

After FTMO confirms that the Evaluation has been passed, the trader completes KYC and signs the relevant Sim-Funded terms. FTMO states that the post-Evaluation review normally takes approximately 1–3 business days. The Sim-Funded account still uses simulated capital, but eligible traders can request real monetary payouts under the published reward rules.

3. Live Funded Account

A Live Funded Account is invitation-only. FTMO says a limited group of top-performing and consistent Futures traders may be invited by its Trading Department after building a suitable track record. The Live stage uses real capital, but it should be treated as a potential later opportunity rather than the standard automatic result of passing Growth or Pro.

Drawdown & Risk Rules

The central FTMO Futures risk rule is the End-of-Day Trailing Maximum Drawdown. This differs materially from an intraday trailing threshold because an unrealised intraday high does not immediately drag the Maximum Drawdown floor upwards.

At the start of each trading day, FTMO considers the highest account balance recorded at the close of a previous trading day, or initial capital when that is higher, and subtracts the relevant Maximum Drawdown amount. The threshold can move upwards after profitable closing balances but cannot move back down. Once it reaches the initial account balance, it locks there permanently.

Worked example: $100,000 Growth

A $100,000 Growth account has a $3,500 Maximum Drawdown. Initially, the loss floor is therefore $96,500.

If the account finishes a later trading day at $102,500, the following day’s Maximum Drawdown threshold becomes $99,000: $102,500 minus $3,500.

If the highest end-of-day balance subsequently reaches $104,000, subtracting $3,500 would mathematically produce $100,500. FTMO instead locks the Maximum Drawdown threshold at the initial $100,000 balance. From that point the loss floor no longer trails upwards.

Growth Daily Loss Limit

Growth has no Daily Loss Limit during Evaluation. Once Sim-Funded, a soft daily limit applies: $1,000 on 50K, $2,000 on 100K and $3,000 on 150K. Reaching the soft threshold closes positions and pauses trading for the remainder of the session, provided the trader has not also breached the hard Maximum Drawdown.

Pro Daily Loss Limit

Pro uses a hard Daily Loss Limit during both Evaluation and Sim-Funded trading: $1,000 on 50K, $1,500 on 100K and $2,000 on 150K. Breaching that hard limit can terminate the account.

If you want to test how these thresholds interact with your normal risk per trade, use our drawdown calculator before choosing a programme.

Trading Rules & Restrictions

FTMO Futures allows a reasonably broad range of normal discretionary and algorithmic futures trading, but several restrictions matter to strategy fit. The most important difference from many CFD programmes is the requirement to be flat around the daily futures market close.

FTMO also prohibits methods designed to exploit simulated-market characteristics, delayed pricing, account rolling or other behaviour that it considers unrealistic or non-replicable with real capital.

News trading remains allowed, but that permission does not override FTMO’s broader risk-management policy. An unusually aggressive concentration of risk around economic releases can still be examined against the firm’s general trading-practice rules.

Payout System & Reliability

FTMO Futures publishes relatively detailed payout eligibility rules, but payout access differs substantially between Growth and Pro. It is therefore important to separate eligibility to request a payout from the wider question of payout reliability.

The Evaluation stage does not pay withdrawals. Payout eligibility starts after a trader passes the Evaluation, completes the required verification process, signs the Sim-Funded terms and begins trading the Sim-Funded account.

Growth payouts

Growth requires four qualifying trading days during the payout cycle. The required profit per qualifying day is $150 on 50K, $250 on 100K and $300 on 150K.

Per-request payout caps are $2,500, $3,000 and $4,000 respectively. Growth traders can request up to 50% of available profit during each payout cycle.

Pro payouts

Pro requires five qualifying trading days. A qualifying day must make at least $200 on 50K, $300 on 100K or $500 on 150K.

Per-request payout caps are $5,000, $6,000 and $8,000. Pro allows traders to request up to 100% of available profit, although withdrawing aggressively can reduce the remaining cushion above the Maximum Drawdown threshold.

Rules common to Growth and Pro

• Published payout ratio: 90% trader / 10% FTMO.
• Minimum payout request: $20.
• No Sim-Funded consistency rule.
• FTMO’s current comparison documentation requires sufficient new profit relative to the payout being requested.
• Published payout methods include Wise, Revolut bank wire, Visa Direct and Mastercard Send.
• Mastercard Send is not available to US clients.
• US traders have additional tax and bank-account verification requirements.

When a payout request is confirmed, open positions and pending orders are closed and the requested amount is deducted from the Sim-Funded balance while the payout is reviewed. The trader can then resume trading on the remaining account balance.

Evaluation Fairness

The strongest fairness feature is that both products require only one Evaluation stage and publish no overall Evaluation time limit. Traders are therefore not forced to chase the Profit Target inside a short fixed calendar window.

The consistency requirement is also less punitive than a hard breach. Growth requires the trader’s best day to represent no more than 40% of total Evaluation profit, while Pro uses 50%. If a trader temporarily exceeds the percentage, the account is not automatically failed; additional profitable trading can bring the ratio back within the required range.

The main deduction is economic rather than purely trading-related. Because the Evaluation renews monthly, traders who take longer to pass continue paying the subscription while the account remains active. That can encourage traders to focus on passing speed even though the programme itself has no maximum time limit.

For a structured approach to evaluation risk, see our guide to passing a prop firm challenge.

FTMO Futures Pricing & Value

FTMO Futures uses a monthly Evaluation subscription rather than the one-time standard fee used by some futures competitors. The figures below are the published standard prices checked on 11 October 2026 and deliberately exclude temporary promotions.

What is included by default?

The standard Evaluation subscription includes the Evaluation account, supported platform access and market data. There is no separate activation fee after passing, and FTMO does not charge the Evaluation subscription once the trader progresses to the Sim-Funded stage.

Optional costs — separate from the default programme

The main optional cost is an Evaluation Reset. A reset restarts the Evaluation under the original conditions. It should not be added to the advertised starting fee because traders do not need to purchase one by default.

FTMO states that purchasing a reset does not change the underlying monthly billing date and that Reset Fees are non-refundable.

FTMO Futures does not currently advertise a menu of paid rule add-ons that turns Pro conditions into Growth conditions or vice versa. Growth and Pro should therefore be compared as separate standard products rather than describing the stronger feature from either programme as a paid add-on available to every trader.

Platforms, Futures Markets & Trading Costs

FTMO Futures currently supports NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView. This is completely separate from the MetaTrader/cTrader-style platform discussion associated with FTMO’s CFD business and reinforces why the Futures product deserves its own review.

The current instrument list contains 30 futures contracts: 19 mini or E-mini contracts and 11 micro contracts. Available markets include equity indices, metals, energy products, currency futures and micro cryptocurrency futures such as Micro Bitcoin and Micro Ether.

Published FTMO commissions are currently $0.50 per side for mini contracts and $0.20 per side for micro contracts. Exchange and NFA fees are separate and can change independently.

Maximum Evaluation contract quantities are 5 contracts on 50K, 10 on 100K and 15 on 150K. Micros use a 10:1 equivalence against minis. Sim-Funded buying power scales separately according to the account conditions rather than automatically providing unlimited exposure.

FTMO permits unlimited concurrent Evaluations, each requiring its own subscription, but only three Sim-Funded accounts can be active at once. Three $150,000 accounts therefore represent up to $450,000 of nominal simulated capital. That figure is account allocation, not cash owned or freely withdrawable by the trader.

PropFirmsCompare has not independently benchmarked FTMO Futures execution speed, slippage, order fills or platform uptime, so we do not treat those characteristics as measured advantages.

Transparency, Support & Reputation

FTMO Futures scores strongly for documentation. Pricing, programme differences, drawdown calculations, payout qualification, prohibited behaviour, platform support and geographic restrictions are all covered in dedicated official Futures documentation rather than being left solely to marketing copy.

The main transparency qualification is product age. FTMO itself has a substantially longer operating history, but the Futures product launched only in September 2026. Company-level reputation should therefore not be used to imply that the Futures programme already has the same product-specific track record.

Trustpilot snapshot: FTMO’s main Trustpilot profile showed approximately 4.8/5 from 54,252 reviews when checked on 11 October 2026. This is a brand-wide public-review snapshot, not an FTMO Futures-specific score, and it should not be treated as proof that a particular payout request will be approved.

Customer Support

FTMO currently publishes 24/7 live chat and email support, WhatsApp support and weekday telephone support. It also advertises multilingual support. We have not conducted a controlled Futures-specific response-time test for this review, so these are published support channels rather than measured support-performance results.

Country Availability

FTMO Futures accepts natural persons aged 18 or over, subject to its residency, identity and compliance requirements. Country eligibility differs from some of FTMO’s other products, so traders should not assume that access to FTMO’s CFD service automatically means access to FTMO Futures.

• United Kingdom: currently eligible under the published Futures restrictions.
• United States: generally available, but residents of Arkansas, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana and South Carolina are currently excluded.
• Canada: not on the current published restricted-residency list.
• Australia: currently restricted from FTMO Futures.
• Europe: availability depends on residence. Some countries can use Sim-Funded accounts but are excluded from Live Funded transition.

US payout recipients also have additional W-9, Tax Identification Number and qualifying bank-account verification requirements. Traders should verify their exact country and state eligibility immediately before purchasing.

FTMO Futures Strategy Compatibility Matrix

Before purchasing, use the position size calculator to decide how much of the actual drawdown allowance — rather than the headline account balance — you are prepared to risk on each trade.

Best FTMO Futures Alternatives

The alternatives below solve specific FTMO Futures weaknesses rather than simply being popular futures firms.

1. Take Profit Trader — for earlier and more frequent withdrawal access

Take Profit Trader is worth comparing if Growth’s 50% withdrawal limit or FTMO’s qualifying-day payout structure is the main concern. Its funded structure can provide earlier and more frequent payout access, although the drawdown and news-trading rules differ materially from FTMO Futures.

2. My Funded Futures — if recurring Evaluation billing is the main issue

My Funded Futures is relevant for traders who specifically want to avoid FTMO’s monthly Evaluation subscription. Its newer Evaluation pricing uses a one-time payment structure on current products, but traders still need to compare funded-stage payout buffers, account rules and inactivity conditions before assuming it offers better overall value.

3. Topstep — if lower Evaluation entry cost and more funded accounts matter

Topstep is worth investigating when FTMO’s monthly starting price or three-account Sim-Funded limit is the main weakness. Topstep’s current structure can provide a lower monthly Evaluation entry price and more funded accounts, although activation-fee and payout conditions depend on the selected route.

4. Apex Trader Funding — if you prefer one-time Evaluation pricing

Apex Trader Funding is another alternative for traders who dislike recurring Evaluation subscriptions or FTMO’s Evaluation consistency rule. Its current account generation uses different fee, time-window and funded-stage payout conditions, so the absence of one FTMO restriction should not be treated as automatic overall superiority.

Where an individual review is not yet available on PropFirmsCompare, use the prop firm comparison tool rather than comparing firms from headline marketing claims alone.

Final Verdict: Is FTMO Futures Worth It?

FTMO Futures is a credible new futures evaluation product, but the strongest reason to choose it is its rule structure, not simply the FTMO name. Growth combines a one-step Evaluation, no Evaluation Daily Loss Limit, end-of-day trailing drawdown and a soft funded-stage Daily Loss Limit. For many disciplined intraday traders, that is the more forgiving of the two routes.

Pro is more attractive if larger Maximum Drawdown allowances and greater payout access matter more. The trade-off is meaningful: the Daily Loss Limit is hard. A trader who repeatedly approaches that limit should not choose Pro merely because the payout cap is higher.

Both products are primarily designed around intraday futures trading. Traders who need to hold positions overnight, Australian residents and traders who strongly prefer one-time Evaluation fees should compare alternatives.

The main reason the score stops at 80/100 is product maturity. FTMO has a long wider operating history, but FTMO Futures only launched on 17 September 2026. It should build its own longer product-specific record before that history is treated as equivalent to FTMO’s established CFD operation.

FTMO Futures Review FAQs

Sources Checked for This Review

• FTMO — FTMO Futures launch announcement
• FTMO Futures — Growth vs Pro comparison table
• FTMO Futures — Trading Objectives and Rules
• FTMO Futures — Growth and Pro differences
• FTMO Futures — Consistency Rule
• FTMO Futures — Evaluation subscription and billing
• FTMO Futures — Sim-Funded payout process
• FTMO Futures — Forbidden Trading Practices
• FTMO Futures — Instruments and commissions
• FTMO Futures — News trading rules
• FTMO Futures — Overnight and weekend holding
• FTMO Futures — Evaluation to funded-stage journey
• FTMO Futures — Country and trader eligibility
• FTMO Futures — Live Funded eligibility
• FTMO — Support and contact information
• FTMO — Legal entities and imprint
• Trustpilot — FTMO public review profile