The best ratio on this site, and the worst odds
E8 Pro gives you as much rope as road, and two trades to use it
8% profit against an 8% drawdown is a difficulty ratio of 1.00 — it allows exactly as much loss as it asks profit, and only 3 of the 51 programmes here compute softer. E8 Pro is also the hardest programme to pass anywhere in this data, at >99%.
Its daily loss cap is 2.5%. At 1% risk per trade that is 2 consecutive losing trades, and the 8% the ratio is computed from never comes into play at all. E8 One, with a drawdown half the size that also trails, computes at 86%.
Every published field
| E8 One | E8 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Profit target | 6% | 8% |
| Maximum overall loss | 4% | 8% |
| Difficulty ratio | 1.50 | 1.00 — as much rope as road |
| Maximum daily loss | 3% | 2.5% — tightest on this site |
| Drawdown type | Trailing, closed balance | Static |
| Losses that end the attempt | 3 | 2 |
| Profit split | Up to 100% | 80%, or 100% as a paid add-on |
| Fees published | Not for this configuration | 8 sizes, from $32 |
E8 Markets Help Center — product overview — read 2026-08-05
The limiting case for the difficulty ratio
This site introduced the difficulty ratio because no firm publishes it and it is the right first number to look at. E8 Pro is where looking at it alone goes furthest wrong: the fraction says a challenge that gives back everything it asks for, the outcome says harder than any other in the data.
The reason is structural rather than particular to E8. A ratio divides the profit target by the OVERALL drawdown, and the overall drawdown is not what ends most attempts — the daily cap is. Put a 2.5% daily cap under an 8% drawdown and the larger number is decoration; you are out at 2 losses with 3% of the drawdown still unused.
Other pages here find the ratio failing in other ways — Fidelcrest double both sides so it cancels, and Funding Pips hide it behind a product name. This is the same measure at its most flattering, on the programme it describes worst.
At smaller risk per trade
E8 Pro is the clearest argument on this site for sizing well below 1%, because its cap is tight enough that every halving of risk buys a meaningful number of extra losses.
| Risk per trade | E8 One | E8 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| 1% | 86% 3 losses | >99% 2 losses |
| 0.5% | 49% 6 losses | 80% 5 losses |
| 0.25% | 6% 12 losses | 20% 10 losses |
Run it at your own win rate, and see the figure every programme needs.
What this does not measure
- · E8 Pro counts only 2% of profit per day toward the target, and the cap persists on the funded account. That lengthens the attempt rather than ending it, so it is not in these figures and it is not nothing.
- · E8 One applies a best-day rule on the funded account: no day above 40% of total profit for payout purposes.
- · Both close an account left without a trade for 60 days.
- · Assumes each trade is independent. Correlated positions — three majors against the dollar — lose together and count as one.
- · Assumes every trade risks the same amount. Raising size after a loss shortens the streak you can survive.
- · Uses your stated win rate. If that came from a demo account or a good month, the figure below is optimistic.
- · Whether E8 pay. No published rule answers that, and E8 describe their payouts as discretionary.
On the numbers above
E8 Markets — E8 One
It comes out ahead on the chance a losing streak ends the attempt, at 1% risk per trade, at 86% — 13 percentage points clear of E8 Markets' E8 Pro, the next best.
This is computed from the published rules, not chosen. Whichever programme wins that calculation appears here, including firms we earn nothing from, and it changes when the rules do. It says nothing about the daily profit cap, the fee, or whether the firm pays.
Questions
- What is the difference between E8 One and E8 Pro?
- E8 One asks 6% against a 4% drawdown that trails your highest closed balance, with a 3% daily cap. E8 Pro asks 8% against a static 8%, with a 2.5% daily cap. Pro's drawdown is twice the size and does not trail, which on the two fields most comparisons show makes it the softer product.
- Which is easier to pass?
- E8 One, by 13 points. At 1% risk per trade with a 40% win rate at 2R, E8 Pro's 2.5% daily cap ends the attempt after 2 consecutive losing trades — the tightest figure anywhere in this data — where E8 One allows 3. Its 8% drawdown never comes into play, because you are out long before you approach it.
- E8 Pro allows as much loss as it asks profit. How is it the hardest?
- Because the ratio compares two published percentages and cannot see the cap that ends you. 8% profit against 8% drawdown is 1.00 — as much rope as road, and softer than all but 3 of the 51 programmes here. The 2.5% daily limit is not in that fraction, and it is the only number that matters: 2 losing trades in a row and the 8% is irrelevant.
- Is two losing trades in a row really enough to fail?
- At 1% risk per trade, yes: 2.5% divided by 1% is 2 full-risk losses, and the firm publishes that breaching the daily limit ends the attempt. It is the clearest case on this site for sizing below 1% — at 0.25% the same programme allows 10 losses and computes at 20%.
- Why is no fee shown for E8 One?
- Because E8 do not publish one for this configuration. Their pricing article prices a different standard setup at checkout — a 9% target — rather than the 6%-target product the rules article describes, so the two cannot be matched with confidence. E8 Pro is priced across eight sizes and those are recorded. A figure we cannot attach to the right product is not recorded at all.