Prop Firm Information Differences: FTMO & QT Funded

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Field FTMO Active QT Funded Active
Data Source PropFirmMatch.com PropFirmMatch.com
Official Site ftmo.com qtfunded.com
📁 Firm Overview
Broker Institutional Liquidity Provider Quant Tekel
Platform cTrader, DXtrade, MT4, MT5 cTrader, MT5, TradeLocker
Payment Methods Apple Pay, Bank Transfer, Credit/Debit Card, Crypto, Google Pay, Nuvei, PayPal, Skrill Apple Pay, Credit/Debit Card, Crypto, Google Pay, Local Payment Methods, PayPal, UPI Payment
Payout Methods Bank Transfer, Crypto, Mastercard, Skrill, Visa Direct Crypto
📁 Instruments and Assets
Type of Instruments CFD CFD
Assets Crypto, Energy, FX, Indices, Metals, Stocks Crypto, FX, Indices, Metals, Other Commodities
📁 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: 1:15
  • Indices: 1:20
  • Crypto: 1:1
  • Other Commodities: 1:20

2-Steps
  • FX: 1:100
  • Metals: 1:35
  • Indices: 1:35
  • Crypto: 1:2.5
  • Other Commodities: 1:35

3-Steps
  • FX: 1:50
  • Metals: 1:15
  • Indices: 1:20
  • Crypto: 1:1
  • Other Commodities: 1:20
📁 Commissions
Commission Info
  • FX: $5 per lot
  • Metals: 0.0014%/Volume
  • Indices: $0
  • Energy: $0
  • Crypto: 0.0650%/Volume
  • Stocks: 0.0040%/Volume
  • FX: QT Power, QT Prime (Raw spread), QT Ultra & QT Instant: $4 per lot | QT Prime (Variable spread): No commission
  • Metals: QT Power, QT Prime (Raw spread), QT Ultra & QT Instant: $4 per lot | QT Prime (Variable spread): No commission
  • Indices: QT Prime (Raw spread), QT Ultra & QT Instant: $4 per lot | QT Power & QT Prime (Variable spread): No commission
  • Crypto: QT Power, QT Prime (Raw spread), QT Ultra & QT Instant: $4 per lot | QT Prime (Variable spread): No commission
  • Other Commodities: QT Prime (Raw spread), QT Power and QT Instant - $0 on Oil | QT Ultra - $4 on Oil | QT Prime (Variable spread) - No commissions across all trading instruments
📁 Consistency Rules
Consistency Info None QT PRIME(2 & 3 STEP):
  • Optional (35% consistency score Only compulsory with on demand payout & 100% profit split)
QT Power:
  • Both Challenge and Funded Accounts must maintain a 35% consistency score.
QT Instant:
  • No single trading day’s profit can exceed 25% of total profits at withdrawal time.
📁 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.
GENERAL RULES
Expert Advisors (EA) & Trade Copiers
  • Pre-Approval for EA: Only Risk Management EAs are allowed which must go through a pre-approval process at [email protected] .
  • Trade Copiers: Web-based and software trade copiers are permitted upon requesting approval via [email protected] . However, if the trader's account is flagged for any reason, the firm may request additional information about the master account and the trade copier.
  • Any use of Unauthorized EAs and/or Trade Copiers without approval WILL result in account forfeit.
Copy Trading & Allocation Rule
  • Traders are permitted to copy trades only between accounts personally owned by them, including brokerage or other prop firm accounts
  • Total Max Allocation
  • Extra Accounts Beyond Allocation
  • QT Instant Funding
  • QTFunded's 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 QTFunded’s internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching QTFunded’s core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit https://propfirmone.com .
  • No Group Trading: If multiple traders are detected using the same EA and placing identical trades, the account will be flagged for violating No Group Trading rules, which may lead to account closure.
Excessive Exposure
  • Risking more than 75% of your daily or max drawdown limits/lot limits within their open positions will face the penalty of having their evaluations reset to phase 1 at the event of an evaluation pass.
Prohibited Trading Strategies
  • Latency Trading, Arbitrage Trading, High-Frequency Trading: Includes tick scalping, reverse trading, group hedging, order book spamming, flooding the server with messages due to incorrect use of an algorithm, and one-sided betting.
  • Excessive One-Sided Positions: These can disrupt liquidity and create unnatural price movements.
  • Toxic Behaviors: Any trading behaviors deemed toxic by the Risk Department (these will be communicated to you).
  • All-or-Nothing Approach: https://qtfunded.kb.help/prohibited-trading-strategies
  • Account Management Services: Not allowed. All trades must be conducted by the account holder. Expert Advisors (EAs) require prior review and approval.
Inactivity rule
  • If no trading activity occurs for 30 consecutive days, the account will be breached and deleted and cannot be reinstated.
Code of Conduct
  • No use of offensive or profane language
  • No racism or discriminatory remarks
  • No abusive or threatening behavior
  • No harassment of staff
  • No public negativity intended to damage the community
  • No actions that deliberately create fear, uncertainty, or discontent
  • Any dishonest or toxic behaviors
  • Violations of this code of conduct will result in immediate action, including removal from our platforms and a permanent ban from our services as well as forfeiture of any accounts held with us and accrued simulated profit.
VPN/VPS/IP/Device Rules
  • The use of VPNs and VPS is permitted; however, account credentials must be protected at all times.
  • Multiple IP addresses and devices are allowed, all trading activity must be conducted solely by the verified account holder who completed the KYC process
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QT PRIME
Minimum trading days
  • Evaluation: 4 trading days per phase
  • Funded: 4 trading days with at least 2 profitable days with a minimum of 0.5% profit each.(Applies only to the first payout cycle and does not apply to Prime On-Demand)
  • Trading activity should reflect a consistent strategy and realistic trade sizing across these days
News Rule
  • Evaluation: Allowed with No Restrictions
  • Funded: Restrictions of 5 minutes before or after high Impact News. You may hold or trigger orders placed 5+ minutes before news, but opening, closing, modifying trades, or editing/canceling orders within 5 minutes before/after or during news is strictly prohibited — violations result in a hard breach.
  • QT PRIME ON-DEMAND DOES NOT have the news rule applied
Gambling Rules
  • Evaluation: No set risk restriction but must abide to the 75% Over exposure - restriction stated in General rules.
  • Funded: Funded traders must not expose more than 2.5% of their initial account balance at any one time.
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QT POWER
Minimum Trading Days
  • Evaluation: 4 trading days is required for each phase.
  • Funded: No minimum Trading days
News Rule
  • Evaluation: Allowed
  • Funded: Allowed
Max Risk per Trade
  • The maximum risk per trade or overall open positions is 2% of the accounts balance (Hard Breach)
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QT INSTANT
Minimum Trading Days
  • Traders must trade for at least 5 separate trading days before requesting a withdrawal.
News Trading
  • Restrictions of 5 minutes before or after high Impact News. You may hold or trigger orders placed 5+ minutes before news, but opening, closing, modifying trades, or editing/canceling orders within 5 minutes before/after or during news is strictly prohibited — violations result in a hard breach.
MAX RISK RULE
  • 2% max risk allowed - violation of this is a HARD BREACH
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QT ULTRA
  • Minimum Trading Days
  • Evaluation: 5 trading days is required for each phase.
  • Funded: 5 profitable trading days of at least 0.25% Profit each day
News Trading
  • Evaluation: Allowed
  • Funded: Restrictions of 5 minutes before or after high Impact News. You may hold or trigger orders placed 5+ minutes before news, but opening, closing, modifying trades, or editing/canceling orders within 5 minutes before/after or during news is strictly prohibited — violations result in a hard breach.
Max Risk Rule
  • Traders must not expose more than 1.5% of their initial account balance at any one time.
📁 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
QT Instant
  • Traders are eligible for an 80% profit split on their account every 14 days.
  • 5% minimum profit generated and a 25% Consistency score to be eligible for payout
QT Prime
  • Bi-weekly Payouts with 80% profit split, 90% with Add-on | On Demand(with 35% consistency score, A Minimum of 3% to be requested & 100% profit split)
QT Power
  • Payout on demand is now standard for all QT Power accounts (minimum requirements and a 35% consistency score must be met) with 80% profit split), 90% with Add-on.
QT Ultra
  • Profit split of 80%.
  • 15% of the challenge phase's target profit is paid on first payout.
  • The first payout is on a 21 day cycle and then 14 days for the subsequent payouts.
  • Minimum withdrawal is 2% of the account size
Minimum Payout
  • (QT Instant, Prime & Power): 1% or $100 whichever is higher | QT Ultra: 2% of the account size.
Note: If you miss the payout request day, you must complete another payout cycle and complete the requirements again to make the new cycle eligible for payout - please contact the Risk team via live chat to have your payout date adjusted.
Scaling Plan
📁 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) Belarus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Pakistan, South Korea, Syria

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FTMO

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QT Funded

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