FTMO — Funded Stage Rules & AI Trust Score

Hidden Rules & Critical Conditions

• Trader-facing accounts are fully simulated [Critical]: FTMO states explicitly that all provided accounts are demo accounts with fictitious funds, and that FTMO companies do not act as a broker or accept deposits. This language appears in the site footer on every page.
• Funded trading is stricter than evaluation [Warning]: News trading and weekend holding are unrestricted during the evaluation phases, but standard funded accounts activate a ±2 minute news blackout window and require all positions to be closed before the weekend or before any rollover longer than 2 hours.
• 1-Step Best Day Rule caps payout flexibility [Warning]: The 1-Step FTMO Account carries a 50% Best Day Rule. If any single trading day accounts for more than 50% of total profits, the excess cannot be used toward the reward without redistributing gains across additional days.
• Reward rollover not available for 1-Step: Keeping rewards on the account to build a larger drawdown buffer is available only to traders who qualified through FTMO Challenge: 2-Step. 1-Step rewards cannot be carried over to a subsequent FTMO Account.
• Supreme Status removes the daily loss rule entirely: FTMO's Premium Programme Supreme Status — available to qualifying Prime-tier traders with an active $400K account — removes the Maximum Daily Loss limit from the funded account. The firm confirms this on the Premium Programme page: 'No Maximum Daily Loss' is listed as a Supreme Status benefit.