FTMO has spent over a decade building its name on CFD challenges. That changes with FTMO Futures, a beta product that puts the Prague firm into the same ring as Topstep, Apex, and Tradeify for the first time.
The launch is a real structural move, not a rebrand. FTMO built two separate account types for it, Growth and Pro, both trading simulated CME futures on live CME market data through Tradovate, NinjaTrader, or TradingView.
How It’s Structured
- Account sizes: $50K to $150K, with FTMO saying total simulated capital access can reach $450K
- Growth: softer rules, monthly pricing from $119, payout caps starting at $2,500, a 40% consistency rule on the evaluation, and a soft daily loss limit once funded
- Pro: full 100% withdrawals, higher payout caps up to $8,000, a hard daily loss limit, and 50% evaluation consistency
- Risk model: EOD trailing drawdown on both, no consistency rule at all once you’re in the Sim-Funded stage
- Reward share: 90% of simulated profits
- Path to real money: Evaluation, then a Sim-Funded Account with payouts every 4-5 days, then an invite-only Live Funded stage using FTMO’s own capital, not automatic
This launches alongside FTMO’s return to serving US-based traders, which it had paused since early 2024 alongside The5ers. Both moves follow MetaQuotes restricting MT4/MT5 access for a chunk of US-facing prop platforms last year, which pushed several CFD-first firms to either rebuild around different infrastructure or expand into markets MetaQuotes doesn’t touch. Futures is one of those markets.
Why It Matters
FTMO isn’t a scrappy new entrant testing the waters. It’s one of the largest names in the funded account business, and it’s brought its actual playbook into futures rather than slapping a new label on someone else’s model: no consistency rule after evaluation, EOD trailing drawdown instead of intraday, and a genuine 100%-withdrawal tier on Pro. That’s a meaningfully different rule set than what Apex or Topstep run, and it gives futures traders a real third option built by a firm with a long payout track record on the CFD side.
The catch is the word “beta.” Pricing, rules, and account structures are explicitly subject to change while FTMO tests the product, and the Live Funded stage is invitation-only rather than automatic, which is a step more conservative than most futures-only competitors.
Our Take
Growth vs. Pro comes down to the same trade-off you’ll find across most futures firms: softer entry rules and lower payout caps versus full withdrawals and higher caps but stricter daily loss limits. What actually sets FTMO Futures apart is dropping the consistency rule the moment you’re funded, something most futures props still enforce well past evaluation. If that holds through the full public release, it’s a genuine point in FTMO’s favor for anyone who trades unevenly day to day. Just don’t treat beta pricing and rules as final; verify current terms directly on FTMO’s futures pages before buying in.
This is FTMO’s second major structural change of 2026, after rolling out a 1-Step Evaluation on the CFD side back in February. Between the two moves, FTMO’s playbook this year has been speed and access over sticking to its original 2-step model.
Sources: FTMO official futures pages (ftmo.com/en/futures), Finance Magnates. Verified 9 September 2026.
