FTMO
FTMO at a glance
Read from FTMO's own site; inputs last verified Sep 14, 2026. Terms change — confirm on the firm's site before you buy.
FTMO is a forex prop firm based in Prague · Czech Republic, founded 2015. Its evaluation uses a static drawdown of 10% with a profit target of 10% / 5% per phase, and funded traders keep a 90% profit split. Payout processing is quoted at 1 day. Trading is on MT4, MT5, cTrader, TradingView, on accounts from $10K to $200K, with evaluations from €89.
- Profit target
- 10% / 5%
- per phase
- Payout processing
- 1 day
- The wire itself — the last step, not the whole wait
- Evaluation from
- €89
- Cheapest listed evaluation; see the cost panel for the full bill · what this means →
- Platforms
- MT4, MT5, cTrader, TradingView
- Account sizes
- $10K, $25K, $50K, $100K, $200K
- News trading : yes
- Weekend holding : yes
- EAs / bots : yes
- Scaling plan : yes
- Same-day payouts : yes
True cost to first payout
Normalised to a $50K account. One-time purchase — no recurring billing.
at least €345to reach a funded account
- Entry feeThe price to buy the evaluation
- €345
- Monthly feeRecurring while the evaluation is open
- None
- Activation feeCharged once, on passing, to open the funded account
- Not verified
Not verified means we haven't confirmed that figure on the firm's own pages yet — the gap is ours, not theirs. Until we do, treat the total above as a floor.
2-Step 50k at its €345 one-time list price. FTMO states the fee is 100% refundable with your first payout. Also offers a 1-Step path and free trials. Prices are in euros; other tiers are €89 (10k) to €1,080 (200k).
See the screenshot we took on Jul 13, 2026, 19:56 UTC — Choose Your FTMO Challenge: 2-Step price row (EUR), captured logged out so it shows the public price, not a personalised one. Check it against the live page↗
The PFM Score, broken down
Three weighted pillars, computed from this firm's official-site facts. No firm can buy a better rank — ever.
No trader sentiment is in this score, and we publish no star ratings — self-selected reviews can't be made representative, however carefully each one is checked. Why →
Latest on FTMO
Sourced updates, newest first. All news →
FTMO: static 10% drawdown on MT5, cTrader and DXtrade
FTMO's challenge pairs a static maximum loss with a 90% split and roughly next-day payouts. Corrected 14 September 2026: this described the CFD challenge, not FTMO Futures.
FTMO adds TradingView trading via OANDA (US clients)
FTMO clients in the US can now place simulated FTMO trades directly from TradingView through the OANDA broker profile, without switching platforms.
FTMO completes its acquisition of OANDA
FTMO closed its acquisition of the regulated broker OANDA on 2 December 2025 — after roughly eight months and sign-off from five regulators — giving the prop firm a global, licensed brokerage arm (OANDA is licensed across eight markets).
FTMO, head to head
Metric by metric against a single rival, from each firm's own site.
Where FTMO ranks
Every ranking FTMO qualifies for by its own published terms, and its position in each. All rankings →
- #2 of 13Forex
- #2 of 8Static drawdown
- #2 of 25Fastest payouts
- #2 of 25Highest profit split
- #2 of 10Same-day payouts
- #15 of 25Cheapest evaluation
- #2 of 16One-time fee
- #2 of 21News trading allowed
- #2 of 13Weekend holding allowed
- #2 of 20EAs & bots allowed
- #2 of 23Scaling plan
- #1 of 11TradingView
- #2 of 12MetaTrader 5
- #2 of 9cTrader
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