CFD & Forex · USD 100,000
FTMO rules 2026: drawdown, payout, news
The published drawdown, daily loss, consistency, payout cadence, and news rule for FTMO. A dash was not on the page we checked.
Key rules at a glance
- Drawdown How far the account can fall before it fails. A static floor stays put. A trailing floor follows profit.
- Static 10%
- Daily loss The loss that ends the day. Soft means you can keep trading. Hard means the account stops.
- 5% daily
- Consistency A cap on how much profit can come from one day, or a daily profit cap that deletes the extra.
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- Payout How often you can request a withdrawal, plus any wait, cap, or profit you must leave in.
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- News Whether a news release can block the order or take back most of the profit.
- 2-min news ban
Country availability
- South Africa: Not on checked list · Not in the CFD restriction table.
Who can join · checked 9 November 2026. Full country list was not on the page we checked.
Profit is not approval. The payout number is only the start. Here is what gets checked before it becomes money in your account. Get it free → Standard funded account
Funded
Preflight Rule-Risk Score
n/a until every input is checked. 4 of 6 scored · 2 unknown. Method
- Drawdown mechanics 0 / 25
Static 10% / $10,000. Initial floor $90,000. Scored 0.
- Starting loss cushion 0 / 20
Starting allowance is 10% of USD 100,000. Scored 0.
- Daily limit 5 / 15
5% of the initial balance, $5,000, taken from the balance at 00:00 CE(S)T and monitored on equity. Not 5% of current balance. Scored 5. The page does not call this a soft pause.
- News execution 15 / 15
Standard account: no execution on affected instruments within 2 minutes before or after selected releases, including stop-loss, take-profit, and pending orders. Scored 15. Swing is exempt. The challenge rule is a different row.
- Profit distribution n/a
n/a. No explicit statement that 2-Step Standard has no consistency rule. The 1-Step 50% figure is not used.
- Payout gates n/a
n/a. Frequency and split were not verified. A guessed reward URL was not used.
Challenge and Verification
Evaluation
Preflight Rule-Risk Score
n/a until every input is checked. 4 of 6 scored · 1 unknown · 1 not applicable. Method
- Drawdown mechanics 0 / 25
Same static 10% / $10,000 published for the programme. Scored 0.
- Starting loss cushion 0 / 20
Starting allowance 10%. Scored 0.
- Daily limit 5 / 15
Same 5% of initial / $5,000 daily rule. Scored 5.
- News execution 0 / 15
Challenge and Verification are exempt from the news execution ban. Scored 0 for this stage.
- Profit distribution n/a
n/a. Same gap as the Standard row. The 1-Step 50% rule is not this programme.
- Payout gates Not applicable
Not applicable. Challenge and Verification are not payout stages. Funded reward terms were not verified on a separate page either.
Notes, changes, open questions
Loss floor
Worked example on USD 100,000. The published maximum loss is a static 10%, which is $10,000. The initial floor is $90,000.
Equity includes floating profit and loss, swaps, and commissions. The nominal balance is not a statement of usable capital.
Daily reset
The daily loss is 5% of the initial balance, $5,000 on this size. It is subtracted from the balance at the daily reset, 00:00 CE(S)T, and then monitored on equity.
Do not describe it as 5% of the current balance. A reset can reduce the equity room you had a minute earlier. This page does not add a SAST conversion the source check did not publish.
News
Challenge and Verification are exempt from the news execution ban. Swing accounts are exempt too.
A Standard FTMO Account cannot execute on affected instruments within 2 minutes before or after selected releases. That includes stop-loss, take-profit, and pending-order execution.
Passing an evaluation that allowed news does not leave you with the same permission on the Standard account.
Rules
- Programme
- CFD 2-Step Standard, USD 100,000. Not the 1-Step programme, and not FTMO Futures.
- Targets
- 10% in the challenge, then 5% in verification. Four minimum trading days in each phase.
- Maximum loss
- Static 10% / $10,000. Initial floor $90,000.
- Daily loss
- 5% of initial / $5,000, from the balance at 00:00 CE(S)T, watched on equity.
- Consistency
- n/a for this 2-step row. The 1-Step 50% rule is a different programme.
- Payout
- n/a. Frequency and profit split were not on a verified reward page.
Watch-outs
- The news rule changes after you pass. An evaluation can be traded through a release that would be a breach on the Standard account, including an order that was already working.
- The daily loss is anchored to the reset balance, not to whatever equity you have mid-session. A midnight reset can shrink the room that floating profit had created.
- This row does not say how often a Standard account is paid, or at what split. Treat any payout claim from a third-party page as unchecked.
Changes
Check note Not a change to this 2-step row. A 1-Step change was verified separately. From 12 October 2026, 1-Step consistency applies to orders and merges: the best day must be at most 50% of total net profit, replacing the older positive-days calculation. Do not copy that 50% onto 2-Step Standard. Consistency for this row stays n/a.
Still open
- Consistency for 2-Step Standard. No explicit 'none' statement was verified.
- Payout frequency and split. A guessed reward URL was not used.
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Sources
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