FTMO vs FundedNext

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Forex / CFD

Forex / CFD

2015

2022

2

2-step, 1-step

2

2-step, 1-step

Priced in EUR

not converted to USD

$59.99

smallest account $6K

Priced in EUR

$549.99

$10K – $200K

5 sizes

$6K – $200K

6 sizes

Yes

Evaluation fee is returned with the first payout.

Yes

CFD challenge accounts refund the base fee on the first funded payout.

One-time fee

no clock on the evaluation

One-time fee

no clock on the evaluation

10% → 5%

FTMO Challenge (2-Step)

8% → 5%

Stellar 2-Step

10%

FTMO Challenge (2-Step)

10%

Stellar 2-Step

5%

balance based

5%

balance based

Static

Static

4

5

Unlimited

Unlimited

1:100

1:100

90%

included

80%

included; paid upgrade available: 95%

Bi-weekly

on FTMO Challenge (2-Step)

Weekly

on Stellar 1-Step

14 days

Varies by programme

$20

$20 on Stellar CFD accounts; $250 on Futures Flex

Yes

FTMO publishes aggregate payout statistics on its own site.

Not independently verified by PropScouting

None on some plans

tightest elsewhere 50% - breach raises the target

None

no programme carries a cap

Restricted

News trading is unrestricted during the evaluation. On a Standard FTMO Account you may not open or close trades on the affected instruments from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after selected high-impact releases, though positions opened earlier can be held through them. Swing accounts have no news restriction.

Restricted

News trading is allowed during the Stellar 2-Step challenge. On the funded account, only 40% of profit made within five minutes either side of a listed high-impact release is counted. FundedNext's futures accounts have no news trading restriction.

Allowed

EAs and algorithmic trading are allowed if the trading is legitimate and could be replicated on a live account. A third-party EA risks breaching the maximum capital allocation when other traders run the same strategy, and an EA that sends more than 2,000 server requests a day is a forbidden practice.

Restricted

On CFD accounts, EAs and bots are allowed only on MT4 and MT5 accounts below $50,000, with a paid EA add-on. Accounts of $50,000 and above, and all cTrader and Match-Trader accounts, must be traded manually. Each EA must run its own strategy, capped at $300,000, and EAs built to pass prop challenges are banned. On futures accounts, EAs and bots are allowed in the challenge and once funded if each is set up for your own strategy and does not place identical trades across accounts; EAs linked to apps such as Telegram or WhatsApp, latency abuse and order flooding are banned.

Restricted

Accounts are for personal use only: no third party may trade your account or trade in coordination with you. Running an identical strategy across several accounts is subject to the $400,000 maximum capital allocation.

Restricted

On CFD accounts, copying is allowed between your own FundedNext challenge accounts, up to $300,000 combined with one account set as the master. Copying between accounts owned by different people, including family and friends or through cloud copy tools, is prohibited. On futures accounts, you may copy between your own FundedNext accounts and your own accounts at other prop firms, registered in the same name; signal services and group trading are prohibited.

Restricted

Positions may be held over the weekend during the evaluation and on Swing accounts. A Standard FTMO Account must be flat shortly before the weekend market close.

Allowed

Positions may be held over the weekend on Stellar 1-Step, 2-Step and Lite accounts, in the challenge and once funded. Futures positions must be closed by 3:10 PM CT every trading day, so none are held over the weekend.

Restricted

Positions may be held overnight during the evaluation and on Swing accounts. On a Standard FTMO Account they must be closed before any market break (rollover) lasting longer than two hours.

Allowed

Positions may be held overnight on every CFD account type. Swap charges apply on swap accounts and count toward the daily loss. Futures positions still open at 3:10 PM CT are closed automatically, and trading reopens at 5:00 PM CT.

Restricted

Opposite positions are allowed within a single account. Holding them across connected accounts or with other traders is forbidden, as is hedging used to spread profit across days to get round the Best Day Rule.

Restricted

On CFD accounts, hedging is allowed only within the same account; hedging or group hedging across accounts is prohibited. On futures accounts, offsetting positions in the same or a correlated contract are prohibited within one account and across accounts, as is coordinating opposite trades with other traders.

MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader +2

MetaTrader 4 · MetaTrader 5 · cTrader · DXtrade · TradingView

MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader +2

MetaTrader 4 · MetaTrader 5 · cTrader · Match-Trader · TradingView

Forex, Indices, Metals, Commodities +2

Forex · Indices · Metals · Commodities · Crypto · Stocks

Forex, Indices, Metals, Crypto +1

Forex · Indices · Metals · Crypto · Commodities

Bank transfer, Crypto, Skrill, Visa Direct, Mastercard Send

Crypto, Rise, Bank transfer

Yes

The split rises from 80% to 90% once the Scaling Plan or Premium Programme conditions are met, and the Scaling Plan increases allocated capital once payout milestones are met.

Yes

Qualifying traders move to FundedNext Pro, where the account grows by 25% each qualifying cycle, up to $4M.

75 listed

FTMO excludes nationals and residents of Iran, Syria, Myanmar and North Korea, though nationals of the first three can be accepted with proof of residency and a bank account in the European Economic Area. The rest of the list is a risk-based exclusion by country of residence. Clients in the United States are served by FTMO US, and clients in Australia through an affiliated FTMO entity.

20 listed

These are the countries FundedNext's CFD help centre lists, covering residents and citizens; its futures help centre lists them too. Futures accounts also cannot be bought from Afghanistan, Albania, Antarctica, Burkina Faso, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Mali, the Palestinian Territories, Russia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, Venezuela or Yemen. US residents cannot use MetaTrader-based products such as the Stellar Instant account, and MetaTrader accounts may not be accessed from a US IP address.

25 Sept 2026

25 Sept 2026