FTMO rules 2026: drawdown, payout, news

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.

• FTMO Futures uses a different rule set and a different South Africa status