FTMO Futures Explained (2026): Growth vs Pro, Rules, Real Costs

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TL;DR: FTMO Futures is the futures program FTMO launched on September 17, 2026. You pick one of two plans, Growth or Pro, pass a single-phase Evaluation on CME futures in a $50K, $100K or $150K account, and then trade a Sim-Funded account that pays out 90% of what you withdraw. It is billed as a monthly subscription from $119, which stops the day you pass. News trading and automated strategies are allowed; holding anything past 4:10 p.m. ET is not. We rate it with a Propfirmito Score: 85.5/100 (A) on the Growth plan. During FTMO’s current official promotion, code RAMESCO30 takes 30% off a new $50K Growth or Pro plan, once per client, through mid-November 2026.

Prefer to watch? Here is the 90-second version: the two plans, the rules that matter, and what RAMESCO30 does to the $50K prices.

The setup: why this review exists

FTMO is the most recognisable name in prop trading. It has run its CFD challenges out of Prague since 2015 and says it has paid more than $650 million in rewards. For years the one thing it did not offer was futures. Futures traders went to US-based specialists, and FTMO stayed in the MetaTrader world. That changed in September 2026, when FTMO put out a press release announcing FTMO Futures with two plans and its own rulebook.

A launch like this attracts a lot of noise, and most of it is recycled from FTMO’s forex product. The rules are not the same. So for this review I went through the FTMO Futures pages on ftmo.com one by one: the pricing table, the comparison table, the full Trading Objectives and Rules page, the Forbidden Trading Practices page, and about twenty of the Futures FAQ articles. Every price, limit and rule below comes from those pages, read on October 20, 2026. Where FTMO doesn’t say something, I say that instead of filling the gap.

One thing up front, because it shapes the rest. FTMO Futures is one month old. The brand is old. The futures product is not. Keep both of those facts in your head while you read.

What FTMO Futures actually is (and what it isn’t)

FTMO Futures is a simulated futures evaluation. You trade CME Group contracts on a demo account fed with live CME market data. Hit the profit target without breaking the drawdown rules and you move to a Sim-Funded Account. That account is still simulated, but profits on it are paid to you as a reward. The very best Sim-Funded traders can be invited by FTMO’s Trading Department to a Live Funded Account. You can’t apply for that step; FTMO decides.

It is not FTMO’s CFD product with a futures skin. The platforms are different (NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView instead of MetaTrader and cTrader). The pricing model is different (a monthly subscription instead of a one-off fee). The drawdown is different (end-of-day trailing instead of static). And the daily schedule is different: every position must be flat by 4:10 p.m. Eastern time. If you know FTMO from forex, expect to relearn most of the details.

It is also not a separate company. FTMO Futures runs under FTMO s.r.o. in Prague, led by CEO Otakar Šuffner, and US residents are served through JV Prop Corporation, an FTMO US entity incorporated in Delaware. It shares FTMO’s Trustpilot profile, which showed 4.8 out of 5 from 55,939 reviews on the day I checked. Most of those reviews predate the futures launch, so read that number as a verdict on FTMO, not on this product.

The two plans, side by side

Both plans use the same single-phase Evaluation and the same profit targets: $3,000 on the $50K, $6,000 on the $100K and $9,000 on the $150K. That is 6% across the board. After that they split.

Growth is the cheaper plan. There is no daily loss limit during the Evaluation at all. Once you are funded, a soft daily limit appears: if your equity hits it, FTMO closes your positions and locks you out for the rest of the day, but the account survives. The catch is on the payout side, where each request can include at most 50% of your profit.

Pro costs about $20 to $40 more per month. It gives you more drawdown room, higher payout caps and full withdrawals, and in exchange it adds a hard daily loss limit in both phases. Breach it on a funded Pro account and the account is gone.

Feature	Growth	Pro
Monthly fee ($50K / $100K / $150K)	$119 / $169 / $229	$139 / $199 / $269
Profit target	$3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000	$3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000
Max drawdown (EOD trailing)	$2,000 / $3,500 / $5,000	$3,000 / $4,500 / $6,000
Daily loss limit, Evaluation	None	$1,000 / $1,500 / $2,000 (hard)
Daily loss limit, funded	$1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 (soft)	$1,000 / $1,500 / $2,000 (hard)
Consistency rule (Evaluation only)	40%	50%
Withdrawable per request	Up to 50% of profit	Up to 100% of profit
Payout frequency	Every 4 days	Every 5 days
Payout cap per request	$2,500 / $3,000 / $4,000	$5,000 / $6,000 / $8,000
Reset fee	$109 / $159 / $219	$129 / $189 / $259

What it costs, and what you actually end up paying

The subscription is the part people misread. You are charged when you buy the Evaluation and again on the same date every month while it stays active. It ends in three ways: you pass, you cancel, or a payment fails. When you pass, FTMO cancels the subscription for you and the Sim-Funded account costs nothing. There’s no activation fee after passing, a charge some futures firms still add (BluSky’s Launch plan, for example).

So the real price depends on how fast you pass. A $50K Growth trader who passes inside the first month pays $119, or $83.30 with code RAMESCO30 during the current promotion. One who needs three months pays $357 at the standard price. If you blow the account, the subscription keeps running and FTMO gives you a fresh account on your next billing date. If you don’t want to wait, the reset fee ($109 on the $50K Growth) restarts you straight away. The reset is non-refundable and does not move your billing date.

Trading costs sit on top. FTMO charges $0.50 per side on mini and standard contracts and $0.20 per side on micros, plus exchange and NFA fees, which FTMO points you to CME’s own pages for rather than listing.

About discounts: FTMO does not offer permanent discounts, and it does not hand affiliates a standing discount code. What it does run are official, dated campaigns on specific products, entered in the Discount field at checkout. One is live as I write this: code RAMESCO30 takes 30% off a new Growth or Pro $50K plan, so $83.30 instead of $119 or $97.30 instead of $139, once per client, through mid-November 2026. It does not touch the $100K and $150K plans or FTMO’s CFD challenges, and FTMO’s terms do not say that later monthly renewals are discounted. If a site promises you a permanent percentage off FTMO Futures, be suspicious.

What they got right

News trading is simply allowed. FTMO’s FAQ says news trading is permitted in any phase with no special news restrictions. That isn’t universal: some futures firms we cover, BluSky for one, don’t allow news trading on funded accounts. Here the only caveat is the general one: concentrating your trading around scheduled events in a way that doesn’t match the rest of your activity can be flagged as poor risk management.

The drawdown locks. The maximum drawdown is end-of-day trailing, recalculated each morning from your highest closing balance. Once that limit climbs to your starting balance, it stops there for good. On a $50K Growth account, that happens when you close a day at $52,000 or higher. From then on, the account can only fail if you lose back below $50,000. Intraday swings don’t move the limit, which is a real relief compared with intraday trailing models.

Automated trading is fine. FTMO says it has no reason to restrict discretionary, algorithmic or EA-based strategies, as long as they would work on a real account. High-frequency strategies and latency arbitrage are banned. FTMO also warns that third-party EAs are risky because other traders may run the same one, and copying trades across different people is forbidden.

No consistency rule once funded. The consistency rule exists only in the Evaluation. On the Sim-Funded account there is no profit target and no consistency rule, only the drawdown, the daily limit and the payout conditions.

Support is FTMO’s support. 24/7 live chat, WhatsApp, phone and email, plus FTMO’s Discord community and its free academy. That infrastructure is older and bigger than anything a new futures firm can put together.

What’s strange or annoying

You can’t hold anything overnight. All positions and resting orders, stop-losses included, must be gone by 4:10 p.m. ET or the market close, whichever comes first. The platform will liquidate what’s left, but FTMO tells you not to rely on that. If you swing trade futures, FTMO Futures is the wrong product.

Growth’s 50% withdrawal limit. On the cheaper plan you can never take more than half of your profit in one request, and anything you leave in the account carries into the next cycle. Combine that with a rule that at least 50% of each request must be fresh profit from the current cycle, and Growth turns into a slow, steady payout machine rather than a way to bank a big week.

The consistency rule can stretch your target. Growth requires your best day to be no more than 40% of total profit. FTMO’s own example: make $2,000 on day one and $1,000 on day two on a $50K account, and you’ve hit the $3,000 target, but your best day is 66.7% of profit. If that day stays your best, you need $5,000 in total before you pass. It’s not a breach, you just keep trading, but it changes how fast a single strong session gets you through.

Pro’s full withdrawals come with a warning. FTMO’s payout FAQ tells Pro traders to check the payout conditions so they don’t break the maximum drawdown by requesting a full withdrawal. Once the drawdown has locked at your starting balance, pulling every dollar of profit leaves you with no room at all. Full withdrawals are possible; full withdrawals without thinking are not.

It’s new. The futures product has no payout history of its own yet. FTMO’s record is strong, and the payout rules are written out in unusual detail, but a month is a month.

A payout, worked out

Take a $50K Growth Sim-Funded account that has built $4,000 of profit above the $50,000 starting balance in the current cycle, with four qualifying days of at least $150 each. Growth lets you request up to 50%, so $2,000. That’s under the $2,500 cap. The 90/10 payout ratio then applies, and you receive $1,800. The other $2,000 stays in the account for a later request.

Now the same $4,000 on a $50K Pro account, with five qualifying days of at least $200. Pro lets you request all $4,000, under the $5,000 cap, and you receive $3,600. The difference between the two plans is not the split, which is identical. It’s how much of your profit you’re allowed to take at once.

Platforms and markets

All three platforms, NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView, are included with every account and share one login. Accounts are in US dollars with no leverage. The instrument list is short and focused: 30 CME Group contracts, 19 standard or mini and 11 micro. You get the main equity indices (ES, NQ, YM, RTY and their micros, plus Nikkei), metals (gold, silver, copper, platinum), energy (crude oil, natural gas), the major currency futures (eight minis and three micros), and Micro Bitcoin and Micro Ether. There are no agricultural contracts and no interest-rate futures on the list.

Restricted countries

FTMO Futures does not accept residents of 104 countries and territories. The list is longer than many people will expect and includes Australia, China, Indonesia, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Kenya, Jordan and Monaco, along with the usual sanctioned jurisdictions. US residents are accepted except in Arkansas, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana and South Carolina, and to get paid they need a US tax ID, an IRS Form W-9 and an account at a licensed US bank. Fintech accounts such as Wise or Chime don’t qualify.

A second, separate list covers countries whose residents can trade Sim-Funded accounts and receive payouts but can’t move to a Live Funded Account. It includes Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Malta, Turkey, South Africa, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, among others. The full lists are on our overview page.

Who I’d tell to skip FTMO Futures

Skip it if you hold trades overnight or over the weekend. The daily flat rule is absolute. Skip it if you hate subscriptions and want to pay once and know your total cost. Skip it if you want to pull all of your profit out quickly on a cheap plan, because Growth won’t let you and Pro costs more. And skip it, obviously, if you live in one of the 104 restricted countries. Australia being on that list will surprise people.

If you’re an intraday futures trader who wants a well-known firm behind the account, trades the news, or runs your own automated strategy, it’s a strong fit.

Frequently asked questions

Is FTMO Futures the same company as FTMO?

Yes. FTMO Futures is FTMO’s futures program, run by FTMO s.r.o. in Prague. US clients are served by JV Prop Corporation, an FTMO US entity in Delaware. It launched on September 17, 2026.

How much does FTMO Futures cost?

Growth costs $119, $169 or $229 per month and Pro $139, $199 or $269 per month for the $50K, $100K and $150K accounts. There’s no activation fee, and the subscription is cancelled automatically when you pass.

Is there an FTMO Futures discount code?

Yes, during the current official FTMO promotion: code RAMESCO30 gives 30% off a new Growth or Pro $50K plan, once per client, through mid-November 2026. It goes in the Discount field at checkout and does not apply to the $100K and $150K plans or to FTMO’s CFD products. Outside an official campaign there is no FTMO Futures discount code.

What is the profit split at FTMO Futures?

Both plans use a 90/10 payout ratio. Growth lets you request up to 50% of your profit per payout; Pro lets you request up to 100%.

Can I hold positions overnight with FTMO Futures?

No. All positions and resting orders must be closed by 4:10 p.m. ET or the market close, whichever comes first, on every trading day.

Can US traders use FTMO Futures?

Yes, except residents of Arkansas, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana and South Carolina. US traders need a US tax ID, an IRS Form W-9 and a US bank account at a licensed bank to receive payouts.

My verdict

FTMO Futures earns a Propfirmito Score: 85.5/100 (A), scored on the Growth plan. The shape of that score is easy to read. Trust and payouts score at the top because FTMO is behind it. Trading conditions and passability score high thanks to news trading, automated trading, a locking end-of-day drawdown and no consistency rule once funded. It loses points on cost structure, since the subscription keeps billing until you pass, and on access, because 104 countries are excluded.

For an intraday futures trader it’s one of the cleanest rulebooks I’ve read: every limit has a worked example on FTMO’s site, and the few traps (the daily flat rule, Growth’s 50% cap, Pro’s full-withdrawal warning) are written down rather than hidden. The honest caveat is age. The rules are mature; the product is a month old. If FTMO’s futures payouts look like its CFD payouts a year from now, this will be an easy recommendation. Everything above was checked against ftmo.com on October 20, 2026. If any of it changes, our corrections log will record it.

Related on Propfirmito: the full FTMO Futures review and rules breakdown, every price with the code on the FTMO Futures discount code page, the FTMO Futures offer page, our prop firm matcher to compare it with firms that accept your country, and how we score every firm in our methodology. Spot something out of date? Tell us via the corrections log.

Sources: ftmo.com/en/futures (pricing, comparison table, trading objectives and rules, forbidden trading practices, how it works) and the FTMO Futures FAQ (eligibility, live funded eligibility, platforms, instruments and commissions, news trading, overnight holding, subscription, cancellation, Growth vs Pro, affiliate code, office and contact). Launch date from FTMO’s press release. Trustpilot figures from trustpilot.com/review/ftmo.com. Last verified: October 20, 2026.