Prop Firm Information Differences: FTMO & FundingPips

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Field FTMO Active FundingPips Active
Data Source PropFirmMatch.com PropFirmMatch.com
Official Site ftmo.com fundingpips.com
📁 Firm Overview
Broker Institutional Liquidity Provider Liquidity Provider
Platform cTrader, DXtrade, MT4, MT5 cTrader, Match Trader, MT5
Payment Methods Apple Pay, Bank Transfer, Credit/Debit Card, Crypto, Google Pay, Nuvei, PayPal, Skrill Apple Pay, Astropay, Bank Transfer, Credit/Debit Card, Crypto, Google Pay, Neteller, PayPal, Paysafe Card, Skrill
Payout Methods Bank Transfer, Crypto, Mastercard, Skrill, Visa Direct Bank Transfer, Crypto, Mastercard, Riseworks, Visa Direct
📁 Instruments and Assets
Type of Instruments CFD CFD
Assets Crypto, Energy, FX, Indices, Metals, Stocks Crypto, Energy, FX, Indices, Metals
📁 Leverage
Leverage Info 2-Steps
  • FX: 1:100
  • Metals: 1:30
  • Indices: 1:50
  • Energy: 1:30
  • Crypto: 1:3
  • Stocks: 1:3
Instant
  • FX: 1:50
  • Metals: 1:20
  • Indices: 1:20
  • Energy: 1:10
  • Crypto: 1:2

1-Step
  • FX: 1:30
  • Metals: 1:10
  • Indices: 1:5
  • Energy: 1:10
  • Crypto: 1:1

2-Steps
  • FX: 1:100
  • Metals: 1:30
  • Indices: 1:20
  • Energy: 1:10
  • Crypto: 1:2
📁 Commissions
Commission Info
  • FX: $5 per lot
  • Metals: 0.0014%/Volume
  • Indices: $0
  • Energy: $0
  • Crypto: 0.0650%/Volume
  • Stocks: 0.0040%/Volume
  • FX: FP Zero: $7 per lot | 1-Step, 2-Step & 2-Step Pro: $5 per lot
  • Metals: FP Zero: $7 per lot | 1-Step, 2-Step & 2-Step Pro: $5 per lot
  • Indices: No commission
  • Energy: No commission
  • Crypto: FP Zero, 1-Step, 2-Step & 2-Step Pro: 0.04% commission
📁 Consistency Rules
Consistency Info None Applicable only for FundingPips Zero Accounts
  • Your biggest winning day must not exceed 15% of your total profits.
  • You must maintain a 15% consistency score in order to request a reward.
📁 Firm Rules
Firm Rules Info Australian traders
  • Clients in Australia can use FTMO services which are facilitated via our affiliated VRGK entity as https://ftmo.com/au/
USA Traders
  • Clients in the United States of America can use FTMO services facilitated via our affiliated entity at https://ftmo.oanda.com
Min trading days
  • Evaluation: 4 days | Funded: None
News Trading
  • Allowed: Swing accounts (Both funded and evaluation phase), non-swing accounts (Evaluation phase only)
  • Not allowed: Non-swing accounts (Funded stage only) within 2 minutes before or after high-impact news.
Weekend Trades
  • Holding trades over the weekend and over a market rollover period longer than 2 hours is prohibited for funded traders (non-swing accounts). Standard Market hours are available on trading platforms and at : https://ftmo.com/en/symbols/ . All changes to standard market hours are announced in the Trading Updates section: https://ftmo.com/en/trading-updates/
Capital Allocation Limit
  • FTMO Traders; 400k max capital per strategy per person. Accounts with identical trading strategies exceeding $400,000 allocated capital may be suspended. Prime Status; 600k. Supreme Prime Status; 1Million
Third-Party Trading
  • Your account must not be traded by any third party.
Position Sizes
  • Opening significantly larger position sizes or substantially different numbers of positions compared to other trades is prohibited.
1%–1.5% Risk Guidance Rule
  • FTMO recommends risking no more than 1%–1.5% of your initial account balance per trade, helping traders avoid high-risk behavior that may trigger risk monitoring, warnings, or protective restrictions intended to prevent gambling-style trading.
Forbidden Trading PracticesMultiple Profile Accounts
  • Opening multiple profile accounts is prohibited.
Copy Trading
  • Allowed, copying other traders is strictly prohibited, you are the only one managing your accounts, and you respect the 400,000 simulated USD maximum capital allocation rule.
EAs
  • Third Party EAs are strictly prohibited
Inactivity rule
  • You must open at least one trade every 30 days to prevent account termination due to inactivity. Alternatively, you can request to freeze your account for 7 days to 6 months to avoid termination.
Max Single Position Loss (Zero):
  • Not risking more than 1% per trade or trade idea.
3% Rule
  • No single loss should exceed 3% of your account size.
  • Splitting up a trade into multiple positions will be counted as one single trade.
  • Opening a new position in the same direction within 5 minutes after closing a losing trade is considered part of the same trade idea.
Above is only applicable to 1 Step, 2 Step and 2 Step Pro Models.
Copy Trading
  • You can copy trades between your own FundingPips accounts (i.e., accounts registered under the same individual). For external copy trading, a FundingPips account may only act as a master to an external slave account.
  • FundingPips' partnership with Prop Firm One enables you to extend your copy trading capabilities even further. PF1 allows traders to seamlessly copy trades across different proprietary firm accounts within a single platform, offering increased flexibility and a broader range of opportunities. This means that, in addition to FundingPips’ internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching FundingPips’ core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com .
News Trading
1 Step, 2 Step, 2 Step Pro
  • Evaluation Phase: Allowed
  • Funded Account: Profits from trades opened less than 5 hrs before and closed 5 min before or after high-impact news will not be counted.
  • Note: Traders who choose the On Demand reward cycle for 1 step and 2 Step models will be allowed to trade during news without any restrictions.
FundingPips Zero
  • News trading is not allowed.
Weekend Trades
1 Step, 2 Step, 2 Step Pro
  • Allowed
FundingPips Zero
  • Holding trades over the weekend is not allowed.
Capital Allocation Limit
  • Standard account sizes are $25,000, $50,000, or $100,000. You can merge or scale up to a combined maximum of $300,000 across multiple accounts.
Expert Advisor (EA)
  • EAs are allowed as long as it functions as a trade or risk manager. Using any other third-party Expert Advisor is not allowed.
Inactivity Rule
  • You must open and close at least one trade within 30 consecutive days.
Minimum Profitable Days
  • 7 profitable days by the end of each 30-day, Failure to meet this requirement by the end of any 30days period will result in a rule violation. Applicable only to FundingPips Zero Accounts.
Forbidden Strategies
  • Gap trading, server spamming, latency arbitrage, hedging, long-short arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, server execution, and opposite account trading are prohibited.
📁 Payout Policy
Payout Policy Info Profit split
  • 80%
Payout cycle
  • 14 Days
Minimum withdrawal amount
  • $20 for Bank Wire and $50 for Crypto
Scaling Plan
  • Requirements: Minimum of 4 months cycle, at least 10% total net simulated profit, Process at least 2 rewards, Positive account balance at scale-up
  • Benefits: Account size increases by 25% with each scaling cycle. Rewards upgraded to 90%, with a $2M scale-up cap. Continuous increases apply when criteria are met.
FTMO Premium Programme
The minimum payout amount is 1% of the initial balance, with no maximum limit.
1-Step Model:
  • Tuesday (60% Split), Bi-weekly (80% Split), On-Demand (90% Split) , Monthly (100% Split)
2-Step Model:
  • Tuesday (60% Split), Bi-weekly (80% Split), On-Demand (90% Split) , Monthly (100% Split)
FundingPips Pro:
  • Weekly (80% Split)
FundingPips Zero:
  • Bi-weekly (95% Split)
Scaling (Hot Seat):
  • On-Demand (100% Split)
To qualify for the On-Demand (90%) reward cycle for 1 step, FundingPips Pro and 2 step model, you must meet the following:
  • A 35% consistency score must be achieved, meaning no single trading day can account for more than 35% of the total profit. Resets after each reward.
  • The minimum reward amount for On Demand is 2% of the initial balance.
📁 Restricted Countries
Countries List Afghanistan, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bouvet Island, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cook Islands, Crimea (Region of Ukraine), Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini (fmr. "Swaziland"), Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Myanmar (Burma), Nauru, Niger, Niue, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Regions of Ukraine: Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk, Republic of the Congo (Congo Brazzaville), Russia, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Tokelau, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Western Sahara, Zaporizhzhia (Region of Ukraine) Iran, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam

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