The rules that decide whether you keep the account are not on the pricing page

The minimum-days row means more than it says

28 rules · 28 programmes · 13 firms

56 of the 112 programmes publish a minimum-days figure, and the row is identical whatever it means. On 28 of them it means something a losing week cannot satisfy by trading more: the days must be profitable, and several attach a size to the profit. On 4 the figure is also per phase rather than per attempt, so the real requirement is the published number multiplied by the number of phases — 10 at HyroTrader's Two-Step Challenge, 6 at City Traders Imperium's 2-Step Challenge, 8 at Audacity Capital's Ability Challenge and 6 at FXIFY's Two Phase — Pro (Static).

• The5ers · Pro Growth Minimum days are profitable days: closed profit of at least 0.5% of the initial balance each.
• The5ers · High Stakes Minimum days are profitable days: closed profit of at least 0.5% of the initial balance each.
• HyroTrader · One-Step Challenge A day counts toward the five only if a trade of at least 5% of the balance is closed and its result is at least 1% of the trade value.
• HyroTrader · Two-Step Challenge Five trading days are required PER PHASE — the firm says ten in total.
• City Traders Imperium · 1-Step Challenge The three days must be PROFITABLE days — the firm’s own table reads "Min Profitable Trading Days 3". That is a harder requirement than the trading-day minimums other firms publish, because a losing week cannot satisfy it by trading more.
• City Traders Imperium · 2-Step Challenge Three PROFITABLE days are required in each phase, six in total.
• Audacity Capital · Ability Challenge Four minimum trading days in each phase, eight in total.
• Audacity Capital · FTP (Instant Funding) Five minimum trading days, of which at least three must be profitable.
• FXIFY · Three Phase Fifteen minimum trading days, the most on this site, and FXIFY prints the total itself rather than leaving it to be multiplied out from the per-phase figure.
• FXIFY · Two Phase — Pro (Static) The three days are PROFITABLE days and are published per phase — "3 profitable trading days per phase in order to pass the challenge" — with a 0.5% profit condition attached. FXIFY never print a six-day total, so six would be our arithmetic rather than their figure, and the field records what they publish.
• FXIFY · Two Phase — Standard (Trailing) Ten minimum trading days, and FXIFY print the total rather than leaving it to be inferred: "a total of 10 minimum trading days across both stages".
• FXIFY · Lightning Challenge CONTRADICTION on the minimum trading days, which is why none is recorded: the rule table gives three in the assessment column while the FAQ says three are required on the funded phase and only recommended on the challenge.
• For Traders · Pay After Pass (Forex) The only programme here with no day requirement at all: "No minimum profitable days required — on either the Challenge or the Master account."
• For Traders · Classic (Forex) Six minimum trading days, the most of any For Traders programme, against three on the Fast lines and none on Pay After Pass.
• Funding Traders · 2-Step Pro (PRO10) The four minimum trading days are published on the homepage tab; the Terms of Service state a different requirement for passing, which the reading did not reconcile.
• Moneta Funded · Instant Funding No evaluation and no minimum trading days, so the caps are the entire product.
• Maven Trading · Two Step Omo The four minimum days must be PROFITABLE days worth at least 0.5% each, in every phase including the funded one, and they override the profit target.
• Maven Trading · Buy Now, Pay Later The evaluation has no daily limit at all and no minimum trading days, both stated as such rather than omitted. The 10% static cap is the only hard risk limit in it.
• Maven Trading · Prediction Markets One-Step Essential No daily limit and no minimum trading days, both stated affirmatively.
• OneFunded · Core Challenge A best-day consistency cap applies at the two largest sizes only — 50% on the $100,000 and $200,000 — and it never breaches the account: "This rule doesn’t breach your account. It only means you need to continue trading so that your new profitable days dilute the impact of your biggest day."
• OneFunded · Flash Challenge A single minimum trading day, the lowest requirement of the three evaluations here.
• OneFunded · Value Challenge The firm’s cheapest evaluation, and it asks the most trading days of the three: four against Core’s three and Flash’s one.
• DNA Funded · 2 Phase The five minimum trading days apply to EACH phase separately: the Rules PDF lists "2 Phase: -Evaluation: 5 days -Verification: 5 days".
• Blueberry Funded · 1-Step (Legacy) Minimum trading days apply to the evaluation AND to each payout cycle: "1 Step Plan — Phase 1: 3 days, Earnings Account: 3 days".
• Blueberry Funded · Synthetic 2-Step Minimum trading days apply to both evaluation phases: "Phase 1 & 2: Minimum of 3 trading days."
• Blueberry Funded · Instant Elite Five active trading days gate payouts only. There is nothing to pass, so no minimum is recorded.
• Blueberry Funded · Instant Lite No minimum trading days, and unusually no payout minimum either: "Minimum trading days | None".
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later No minimum trading days to pass: "There is no minimum trading day requirement to pass the evaluation." Five PROFITABLE days are required on the funded account before a payout, a day counting only where it makes at least 0.5% of the initial balance.

Which positions may be held, and which tools may be run

23 rules · 17 programmes · 9 firms

17 programmes record a rule about what may be held over a weekend or which tools may be run. 2 run the other way and grants a permission the same firm withholds from its other programmes, which is the same fact read from the other side. These are the rules most easily broken by accident, because nothing in the platform stops you.

• Funding Pips · FundingPips Zero Holding any position over the weekend terminates the account.
• City Traders Imperium · 1-Step Challenge The only CTI programme that permits third-party expert advisors and Martingale; the other three allow personal EAs only and forbid Martingale.
• Maven Trading · Two Step Omo News trading is unrestricted in both evaluation phases, a real divergence from the Standard programmes.
• Maven Trading · Two Step Omo A 150-second minimum hold applies to every trade, and trades closed sooner do not count toward progress.
• Breakout · 1-Step Turbo News trading and weekend holds are unrestricted: "There is no rule or restriction on news trading" and "We allow for holding positions over the weekend."
• Crypto Fund Trader · 2 Phases Evaluation News trading is allowed — "Yes. News trading is allowed" — as are overnight and weekend holds.
• OneFunded · Core Challenge UNRECONCILED CONTRADICTION on news trading. The help centre permits it — "Clients are permitted to open, modify, and close positions" during the five minutes either side of high-impact news — while Terms clause 13.14 forbids exactly that: "the Client is strictly prohibited from closing, modifying, or partially closing any positions during the restricted period."
• OneFunded · Core Challenge Expert advisors are allowed only with prior approval and only as assistants: "EAs that execute trades automatically on behalf of the client are not allowed."
• DNA Funded · 1 Phase Minimum 60 seconds per trade. Scalping, defined as opening and closing within 30 seconds, is not allowed in the funded stage.
• DNA Funded · 1 Phase News: no executions, opening or closing, within 5 minutes either side of a high-impact event on the funded account. High-impact means marked red on the FXStreet calendar.
• DNA Funded · 1 Phase Weekend holding is allowed on this programme, subject to the site-wide rule that only cryptocurrencies may be traded at the weekend — everything else may be held but not executed.
• DNA Funded · 2 Phase Weekend holding allowed, expert advisors allowed, minimum 60 seconds per trade.
• DNA Funded · Rapid (10 Days) WEEKEND TRADING IS PROHIBITED here, unlike on the 1 Phase and 2 Phase: the Rules PDF lists "Rapid: Not allowed" and adds that weekend trading is strictly prohibited for this programme.
• DNA Funded · Rapid (10 Days) The same 5% payout profit cap, 30% daily distribution cap, 60-second minimum hold and 5-minute news window as the rest of the range.
• Blueberry Funded · Flex 1-Step Weekend holding is banned on this product alone: "Weekend holding is permitted on all account types except Flex 1-Step, across all phases including post-evaluation."
• Blueberry Funded · 1-Step (Legacy) The news rule is stricter than Flex’s in one respect — you may not CLOSE either: "you must refrain from opening or closing trades 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after".
• Blueberry Funded · Prime 2-Step The news rule is looser than elsewhere here — only OPENING is restricted: "Do not open new trades within 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after a scheduled high-impact news release."
• Blueberry Funded · Synthetic 2-Step Restricted to synthetic indices; forex and other markets are not tradable on it. The checkout carries the warning explicitly.
• Blueberry Funded · Synthetic 2-Step EA CONTRADICTION: the plan overview says "EA Trading | No" while the firm’s own Trading Evaluation Outline says otherwise for the same product.
• Blueberry Funded · Instant Lite Overnight holding is a documented trap here, because the daily floor recalculates upward: carrying floating profit into the next session raises the level your equity may not fall below.
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later Minimum holding time of 2 minutes; a trade closed sooner may be flagged as tick scalping. News trading is allowed during the challenge and not on the funded account. Overnight and weekend holding, expert advisors and trade copiers between your own accounts are all allowed.
• Blue Guardian · 1 Step News trading is allowed during the evaluation and NOT on the funded account. The firm publishes both in the same rules panel, one column apart.
• Blue Guardian · 2 Step Standard News trading is allowed during the evaluation and not on the funded account.

Consistency: how much of the profit one day may supply

18 rules · 16 programmes · 10 firms

The rule the industry calls a consistency rule. Each firm sets its own share and measures it against a different base — total profit, total net result, profit that counts toward the target — so the 16 here are not variants of one standard. The cost is time: the profit has to be produced across days, which means more trades, which means more exposure to the daily limit. One of them is recorded against payouts on the funded account rather than against the evaluation — E8 Markets' E8 One — so 15 of the 16 can decide whether a challenge is passed at all. 13 of those 17 publish no minimum number of trading days, so the field a buyer would read to learn that the profit must be spread out is the one field that says it need not be.

• FTMO · 1-Step Best-day rule: a single trading day may not exceed 50% of the total profit made on profitable days.
• E8 Markets · E8 One On the funded account: a best-day rule (no day above 40% of total profit) applies to payouts.
• E8 Markets · E8 Pro Only 2% of profit per day counts toward the target, and the cap persists on the funded account.
• HyroTrader · One-Step Challenge Evaluation only: no single day may contribute more than 40% of the total net result; the excess does not count toward the target.
• FXIFY · Two Phase — Classic (Static) A 25% consistency rule applies on the funded account and to neither assessment phase.
• For Traders · Pay After Pass (Forex) The funded account is a different product from the challenge: a 20% consistency rule, a 2% floating-loss protection and a five-minute news window all appear only there.
• Moneta Funded · Instant Funding The consistency rule caps what one day may contribute to a payout; it does not breach the account.
• Maven Trading · Mini CONTRADICTION the firm has not reconciled on the consistency rule: the paid Mini publishes a 15% cap on the largest winning trade as a share of total profit, and the promotional Mini publishes something different.
• Maven Trading · Prediction Markets One-Step Essential No profit target once funded, no consistency rule and no news restriction.
• Maven Trading · Prediction Markets One-Step Elite No daily limit, no minimum trading days, no consistency rule and no news restriction, all stated affirmatively.
• DNA Funded · 1 Phase A daily consistency cap runs at payout rather than as a breach: no single calendar day may contribute more than 30% of the requested payout, and profit above that is deducted from the request without failing the account.
• Blueberry Funded · Flex 1-Step No minimum trading days to pass: "Minimum trading days | None to pass." A payout condition can apply if the profit concentration rule is triggered.
• Blueberry Funded · Flex 1-Step A profit concentration check applied once, at the moment you pass rather than at every payout: if a single trade idea accounted for more than 60% of the profit target, the funded account carries a payout condition.
• Blueberry Funded · Flex 1-Step No consistency rule, stated as such: "Flex 1-Step, purchased from 17 August 2026 | None".
• Blueberry Funded · Prime 2-Step Deliberately the firm’s leanest ruleset. No consistency rule: "Consistency rule | None". No risk-per-trade cap: "Risk per trade idea | No limit".
• Blueberry Funded · Synthetic 2-Step CONSISTENCY CONTRADICTION: the help centre publishes a 30% funded consistency rule for this plan while the plan overview elsewhere states none.
• Blueberry Funded · Instant Lite A 15% consistency check runs at payout: the best single trading day may account for no more than 15% of the profit behind the request.
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later Consistency on the funded account: no day above 20% of total profit.

Trade, or the account closes on its own

16 rules · 16 programmes · 6 firms

One of the commonest rules in this group, and the one with no cell anywhere to put it in. It costs nothing until it costs the fee in full: an account left alone through the window is closed, expired or breached depending on the firm, with the evaluation unfinished. At the $25K size, which 13 of the 16 sell, these cost $95 to $210. The other 3 publish no fee at that size, so nothing of theirs is folded into the range.

• FundedNext · Stellar 1-Step Accounts inactive for 60 days are closed.
• FundedNext · Stellar 2-Step Accounts inactive for 60 days are closed.
• FundedNext · Stellar Lite Accounts inactive for 60 days are closed.
• FundedNext · Stellar Instant Accounts inactive for 60 days are closed.
• The5ers · Hyper Growth Accounts inactive for more than 30 consecutive days expire.
• The5ers · High Stakes Accounts without trading activity for more than 30 consecutive days are closed.
• The5ers · Bootcamp Accounts without activity for more than 30 consecutive days are closed.
• Funding Pips · 2 Step Standard Accounts with no completed trade for 30 consecutive days are breached.
• Funding Pips · 2 Step Pro Accounts with no completed trade for 30 consecutive days are breached.
• Funding Pips · 2 Step Flex Accounts with no completed trade for 30 consecutive days are breached.
• Funding Pips · 1 Step Flex Accounts with no completed trade for 30 consecutive days are breached.
• Funding Pips · FundingPips Zero Accounts with no completed trade for 30 consecutive days are breached.
• E8 Markets · E8 One At least one trade must be placed and closed every 60 days or the account is disabled.
• E8 Markets · E8 Pro At least one trade must be placed and closed every 60 days or the account is disabled.
• FXIFY · One Phase One trade every 60 days or the account is hard-breached for inactivity.
• DNA Funded · 1 Phase Thirty days without trading closes the account, and the maximum aggregate allocation across all accounts is $600,000.

What a single trade may risk, must carry, or may earn

16 rules · 13 programmes · 9 firms

The risk-per-trade table on this site computes the position size each programme needs and assumes the size is yours to choose. On these 13 it is not: the firm caps what one trade may risk, requires a stop before entry, or caps what one trade may earn. A cap on what a trade may earn is the same rule as a best-day cap pointed at a single position instead of a session. On one of them — Funding Pips' 1 Step Flex — the recorded cap binds the funded account rather than the evaluation.

• Funding Pips · 1 Step Flex On the funded account, a floating loss of 1% on one trade idea draws a warning; four warnings close the account.
• Lux Trading Firm · 1-Step Evaluation — $100K Risk per trade is capped by the rules at 5% of remaining risk capital — balance minus the drawdown floor — not of the balance. Early on that is 5% of 6%, so roughly 0.3% of the account, and it tightens as the floor is approached.
• Lux Trading Firm · 1-Step Evaluation — $100K A stop loss must be placed BEFORE entering, and trading without one is a rule breach that can fail the evaluation.
• Lux Trading Firm · 1-Step Evaluation — $100K No single position may realise more than 5% of the profit target: $500 of the $10,000 needed here. Correlated positions in the same direction count as one trade, and closing and reopening does not reset the cap.
• Lux Trading Firm · 1-Step Evaluation — $400K Single-trade profit cap: $2,400.
• Lux Trading Firm · 1-Step Evaluation — $1M Single-trade profit cap: $7,500.
• Hola Prime · 1-Step Prime Maximum risk of 2% of the initial balance on any one trade.
• Moneta Funded · 1-Step Challenge A 1.5% maximum floating loss applies on the funded account and can be lifted, but not by waiting: the firm requires 14 days AND 20 trades on a separate funded account.
• Maven Trading · Standard 3-Step The 2% daily limit is the tightest Maven sell, and at 1% risk per trade it ends the attempt after two consecutive losses.
• Crypto Fund Trader · 2 Phases Evaluation A hard profit cap runs alongside the loss caps: "The maximum simulated profit allowed per day and/or per trade is $10,000." Trades breaching it may be closed and the excess removed.
• Crypto Fund Trader · 2 Phases Evaluation Reverse trading is restricted rather than banned outright: opposite positions held open simultaneously for 60 seconds or longer are not allowed, and hedging across two accounts is prohibited.
• Blueberry Funded · Flex 1-Step Risk per trade idea is capped at 1% and enforced in BOTH the evaluation and the funded account, on a two-strike mechanism unique to this product: the first breach closes the positions and records a violation while the account continues, the second closes the account.
• Blueberry Funded · 1-Step (Legacy) No risk-per-trade-idea limit during the evaluation; a flat 1.5% applies on the funded account only.
• Blueberry Funded · Instant Lite A flat 1.5% risk per trade idea, stricter than the Flex 1-Step’s two-strike version: "Reaching the limit is a hard breach and closes the account. There is no warning and no strike system."
• Era Trade · 2-Step Challenge A cap no other firm on this site publishes: "MAX DRAWDOWN PER TRADE IDEA — 2%". It sits in the same rules block as the daily and overall limits, and the firm does not say what breaching it does.
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later Guardian Shield runs on the funded account and closes trades at a floating loss of 1% — half the 2% threshold on every other Blue Guardian plan.

Where a clock, not a cap, is the product

4 rules · 3 programmes · 2 firms

• FXIFY · Lightning Challenge Seven calendar days to reach the target, the shortest window on this site after Maven’s 24-hour Mini: "a maximum of 7 calendar days to reach the profit target (5 trading days)". The five is a cap on trading days inside the seven-day window, not the window itself.
• FXIFY · Lightning Challenge A 5% target against a 4% drawdown inside a week, with a 3% daily limit deciding it three full-risk losses in.
• Maven Trading · Mini THE 24-HOUR CLOCK IS THE WHOLE PRODUCT: "You have 24 hours to trade on the account. The timer starts once you’ve placed your first trade. You must submit your payout within the 24-hour period."
• Maven Trading · Two Step Omo The 180-day cap covers both evaluation phases together: "there is no separate deadline per phase."

What happens the first time you break a rule

3 rules · 3 programmes · 3 firms

• FXIFY · Instant Funding — Standard Breaching the daily limit is not a soft breach, and FXIFY answer that question directly: "Does Daily loss limit count as soft breach? No, this would be a hard breach."
• OneFunded · Core Challenge Max Exposure: combined floating loss on one trade idea is capped at 3% of equity up to $50,000 and 2% above it, with correlated instruments aggregated — a NAS100, US30 and SPX500 buy count as one idea. First and second breaches are warnings, the third is final.
• Blueberry Funded · Prime 2-Step Breach handling is graduated rather than automatic, unlike the Instant products: "Minor or first-time violations usually result in a warning... The account stays active."

The leverage you qualify on is not always the leverage you trade

3 rules · 3 programmes · 2 firms

• Blueberry Funded · Flex 1-Step Leverage 1:30 on FX, 1:10 on metals, indices and commodities, 1:2 on crypto. Payouts every 14 days, minimum request 1% of the initial balance. Thirty consecutive days without a closed trade closes the account.
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later Leverage is capped at 1:30, the lowest of any Blue Guardian plan.
• Blue Guardian · 1 Step Evaluation leverage is 1:100 and funded leverage 1:50 — the account you qualify on is not the account you trade.

The rules change once you have passed

2 rules · 2 programmes · 2 firms

The rules you pass under are not always the rules you then trade under. 2 programmes record a different cap on the funded account from the one in the evaluation, and not always in the same direction — a limit the evaluation does not carry, or a limit it carries loosened. These cannot end an attempt, which is why they are counted apart from the 114 above that can. Every figure on this site is the evaluation’s, because the evaluation is what is being bought.

• The5ers · Bootcamp The funded stage adds a 3% daily pause and a 4% max loss; the evaluation steps publish no daily limit.
• Alpha Capital Group · Alpha One 6% The daily limit rises to 4% on the qualified account; the 3% recorded here is the evaluation rule.

Where the funded account is not the account you qualified on

2 rules · 1 programme · 1 firm

• Maven Trading · Buy Now, Pay Later THE RULES CHANGE SHARPLY ONCE FUNDED, and the loose evaluation is not what you go on to trade: a 4% end-of-day daily limit appears, along with rules that do not exist during the evaluation.
• Maven Trading · Buy Now, Pay Later Profit Rebuild anchors the funded loss limit to the original balance after each withdrawal, so taking money out does not enlarge the buffer.

Platform limits that are not rules but change execution

1 rule · 1 programme · 1 firm

• Breakout · 1-Step Turbo A platform limitation rather than a rule, but it changes execution: take-profit orders cannot be taken in partials on a single position, and partial fills are not supported.

The profit split is not the split you start on

31 rules · 30 programmes · 16 firms

72 of the 112 programmes publish a profit split. 23 of those carry a recorded rule about that split — what it starts at, what it takes to reach, which payout cycle it belongs to, or what the higher one costs as a paid add-on. The published figure is sometimes the one you are paid from the first payout and sometimes the far end of a ladder, and the pricing page prints the same number either way. It is the figure this industry advertises hardest and the one most often finished somewhere else.

• FundedNext · Stellar Instant Reward share starts at 70% and rises to 80% from the third tier.
• The5ers · Pro Growth The profit split starts at 75%; a published maximum was not stated on the pages read.
• Funding Pips · FundingPips Zero Rewards unlock after seven profitable days (0.25% or more each) in a rolling 30-day window; 95% split.
• Alpha Capital Group · Alpha Swing Profit split is on-demand payouts only.
• E8 Markets · E8 One Payout share climbs 80% → 90% → 100% across payouts.
• E8 Markets · E8 Pro Payouts are requestable daily from 1% profit; the firm describes them as discretionary performance-based incentives.
• City Traders Imperium · Instant Funding You start on half the advertised account size, and the profit share starts at 50% rather than the 80% the challenges pay. Reaching the full size and a 70% share means clearing the first 10% milestone.
• City Traders Imperium · Direct Funding The same product as Instant Funding without the half-sized start: full balance from day one and a 70% profit share from the first trade, for roughly three times the fee at the same traded size.
• Lux Trading Firm · INSTA Not instant funding in the usual sense. The account is a demo, there is a 12% target to reach, and what passing buys is a payment — 80% of the target — rather than a funded account: "INSTA accounts do not scale."
• Audacity Capital · Ability Challenge The profit share starts at 75%, rises to 85% for withdrawing over 10% profit within 30 days, and reaches 90% only after the account has doubled twice with consistent 10%-plus profits.
• FXIFY · Two Phase — Pro (Static) The only FXIFY programme with a profit split published as a plain figure rather than as an upgrade.
• FXIFY · Two Phase — Classic (Static) A PUBLISHED SPLIT CONTRADICTION, and the only place on the site where 100% appears. The feature value reads "Performance split: up to 100%" while the description on that same object reads "80% to the trader as standard. Or upgrade at the checkout for a 90% split", and the site’s own payouts section caps it at 90%. FXIFY’s checkout ties 100% to accepting monthly payouts rather than to an add-on, but fxify.com never says so. Recorded as no published maximum.
• FXIFY · Instant Funding — Lite The base profit split is 80% with 90% sold as a checkout upgrade, so no unpaid maximum is published.
• For Traders · Pay After Pass (Forex) A split-fee product, and the firm publishes BOTH halves per size rather than only the one you pay today: entry $29 / activation $189 at $25,000, $39 / $329 at $50,000, $49 / $489 at $100,000. The entry half is currently discounted to a flat $9 on the two smaller sizes.
• For Traders · Instant (Forex) The profit split starts at 70% and rises by 5% with each reward, so the headline figure is a first rung rather than a ceiling. Recorded as no published maximum for that reason.
• For Traders · Instant Pro (Forex) CONTRADICTION on where the profit split stops. The rules page says "With every payout your share increases by 10%, up to 100%"; the help centre article for this same product publishes a different ceiling. Recorded as no published maximum rather than picking one.
• For Traders · Instant (Crypto) The profit split starts at 70% and rises 5% per reward, so the published figure is a first rung rather than a ceiling.
• Funding Traders · 2-Step Pro (PRO6) PAYOUT CADENCE IS PUBLISHED TWO WAYS: Terms of Service section 7.1 says every 14 days, while the homepage card, the checkout and a June 2026 announcement all say 7.
• Funding Traders · 2-Step Pro (PRO6) The profit split is sold rather than given: 90% costs 20% on top of the fee and 100% costs 30%.
• Funding Traders · 2-Step Pro (PRO10) The same three-way weekend contradiction and the same two published payout cadences as the rest of the range.
• Funding Traders · 1-Step Pro The same three-way weekend contradiction and two payout cadences as the rest of the range.
• Maven Trading · Standard 1-Step The M2 Account Saver runs on the funded account and can halve the split permanently: it triggers when open-position drawdown reaches 2% of the balance, and a second trigger deactivates the account. The 80% headline is fragile for that reason.
• Maven Trading · Standard 2-Step The M2 Account Saver applies here too, so the 80% split can be cut to 50% permanently on a first 2% open-position breach.
• Maven Trading · Mini Three percent of profit is needed to withdraw anything, at a 70% split.
• Maven Trading · Two Step Omo Withdrawal caps step up rather than being flat: 6% of balance on the first payout, 8% on the second, uncapped after that.
• Maven Trading · Buy Now, Pay Later The M2 Account Saver cuts the split to 50% permanently on a first 2% open-position breach and deactivates the account on a second.
• Crypto Fund Trader · 2 Phases Evaluation Payout cadence is not a pass condition: the first request comes after trading at least 15 days, or alternatively every 30 calendar days.
• Blueberry Funded · 1-Step (Legacy) The profit split is explicitly flat at 80%: "There are no tiered structures, scaling milestones, or additional delays." It is recorded as null only because the sitewide scaling programme advertises up to 90%.
• Blueberry Funded · Prime 2-Step Base profit split 80%, payout cycle 14 days. Recorded as null because the scaling programme advertises up to 90% behind 10% net profit over three consecutive cycles.
• Era Trade · 2-Step Challenge Payouts are bounded at both ends: the minimum is 1% of the initial balance and the maximum 10% of it per payout.
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later The profit split is 85% with a 90% add-on, priced at $1.50 beside the $10 at checkout. The same checkout also sells a "100% profit split" add-on, which the rules article does not mention.

When the fee comes back, and whether

25 rules · 24 programmes · 12 firms

13 of the 112 programmes are recorded as refunding the fee on passing, and that single field is what the cost page nets out of a three-attempt total. On 6 of them the firm’s own rule says the money arrives with a later reward or payout instead — after passing, after funding, and after the funded account has produced something. Across the 4 that publish a price at the $25K size, that is $677.97 of fee counted as returned by an arithmetic that has no way to know when. Audacity Capital's Ability Challenge and Ability One defer it too and publish no price at that size, so they are not in that figure. The reverse also happens: Funding Pips' 2 Step Standard is recorded as not refunding on passing — correctly, since the fee returns several rewards into the funded account instead. A yes/no column cannot hold either case.

• FTMO · 1-Step The fee is not refunded on passing — unlike the 2-Step, whose fee returns with the first payout.
• FundedNext · Stellar 1-Step The fee refund arrives with the third reward, not on passing.
• FundedNext · Stellar 2-Step The fee refund arrives with the first reward.
• FundedNext · Stellar Lite The fee refund arrives with the third reward, not on passing.
• The5ers · High Stakes The fee refund is shown at Step 2, alongside a $2 reward for completing Step 1.
• The5ers · Bootcamp The fee comes in two parts, and the second is the opposite of a refund: $22/$95/$225 to start, then $50/$205/$350 more on passing — $72/$300/$575 all in.
• Funding Pips · 2 Step Standard The registration fee is refunded at the fourth reward on the funded account, not on passing.
• Funding Pips · 2 Step Pro Not eligible for the fourth-reward registration-fee refund.
• Funding Pips · 2 Step Flex Not eligible for the fourth-reward registration-fee refund.
• Lux Trading Firm · 1-Step Evaluation — $100K The fee is refunded in full on passing, after a risk-desk review, and is otherwise non-refundable from the moment the login details are emailed.
• Lux Trading Firm · INSTA The fee is not refunded on passing or on failing.
• Audacity Capital · Ability Challenge The refund is not paid on passing but with the first payout, and only "provided the payout amount exceeds the fees". Passing and then never reaching that payout means no refund.
• Audacity Capital · Ability One The refund is published as applying to this programme, but its mechanics — paid with the first payout, and only if that payout exceeds the fee — are published only for the Ability Challenge.
• Audacity Capital · FTP (Instant Funding) The fee is not refundable: "Refunds only apply to the Ability challenge and Ability one program."
• Hola Prime · 1-Step Prime The fee refund arrives in four 25% installments with the first four payouts, not on passing.
• FXIFY · Two Phase — Classic (Static) NO REFUND AT ALL, unlike every other FXIFY programme: "No Refunds are not issued with withdrawals for the Static Two-Phase account type." It is the only one carrying no refundable-fee row.
• FXIFY · Two Phase — Standard (Trailing) The fee comes back at the FIRST WITHDRAWAL rather than on passing: "Receive 100% of the cost of the assessment fee. This is paid out when a trader makes their first withdrawal."
• FXIFY · One Phase Breaching any parameter forfeits the fee as well as the account: "the account will be automatically invalid... The initial fee that was paid will also be forfeited."
• For Traders · Pay After Pass (Forex) The entry fee is not refundable whatever happens: "The entry fee covers access to the evaluation environment and is non-refundable regardless of outcome."
• Maven Trading · Mini A single payout and then the account closes: "Only one - it’s a single payout model. After your first withdrawal, your account will be closed."
• OneFunded · Core Challenge The fee comes back, but not for passing: "Core: Yes, 100% refundable, reimbursed with your first payout after you become a OneFunded Trader." That payout needs fourteen days since the first funded position and a minimum balance, so the money returns weeks after the evaluation ends and only if you are still trading. Fail and nothing is returned.
• OneFunded · Core Challenge One trade every 60 days during the evaluation and every 30 once funded, or the account closes "with no eligibility for refunds".
• OneFunded · Flash Challenge No fee refund on this programme: the reimbursement offer covers Core only.
• OneFunded · Value Challenge No fee refund on this programme.
• Era Trade · 2-Step Challenge The fee refund is not a refund on passing. The rules block reads "CHALLENGE FEE REFUND — на 3 выплату" — on the third payout — so it arrives well after funding rather than at the end of the evaluation, and only if you are still there.

Choices made at checkout that lock a rule

14 rules · 12 programmes · 7 firms

A checkout choice that cannot be changed afterwards, on 12 programmes at 7 firms. Most of them fix the split or the payout cycle. One goes further and replaces a trailing daily limit with a fixed one — a change to the rule the model reads, sold as an upgrade. Whatever the comparison table said about these programmes, it described one configuration of them.

• Funding Pips · 2 Step Standard Reward cycle is chosen per payout: weekly at 60%, bi-weekly at 80%, monthly at 100%, or on demand at 90%.
• Funding Pips · 2 Step Pro Weekly reward cycle at a flat 80% split.
• Funding Pips · 2 Step Flex The split is chosen at purchase and locked: 85% with no minimum days, or 95% requiring three profitable days of at least 0.5% per phase.
• Funding Pips · 2 Step Flex Bi-weekly reward cycle.
• Funding Pips · 1 Step Flex Bi-weekly reward cycle at 85%.
• Alpha Capital Group · Alpha One 10% A 90% split is sold as a paid add-on at purchase (about 10% of the plan price); the standard split is 80%.
• E8 Markets · E8 Pro A 100% payout share is sold as a paid add-on at purchase; the standard share is 80%.
• E8 Markets · E8 Pro The swap-free option adds 10% to the price, and cTrader adds $10 on accounts under $100.
• HyroTrader · One-Step Challenge A paid Swing upgrade replaces the trailing daily limit with one fixed at the day’s opening equity.
• Hola Prime · 1-Step Prime Fees above are the monthly-payout plans, which carry the 95% split; bi-weekly and on-demand plans are cheaper — $49 to $1,599 across the same sizes — and pay 80%.
• Crypto Fund Trader · 2 Phases Evaluation PAID ADD-ONS CHANGE THE RULE NUMBERS THEMSELVES, which is unusual: "Daily Drawdown 6%: This add-on costs 15% of the evaluation price and increases the daily loss limit to 6%." The figures above are the product as sold without add-ons.
• DNA Funded · 2 Phase The same 5% profit cap on the first three payouts, the same 30% daily distribution cap at payout, and the same paid add-ons as the 1 Phase.
• DNA Funded · Rapid (10 Days) A paid Demo Reset add-on is offered on this programme at 50% on top of the initial fee.
• DNA Funded · Instant Funding EXPERT ADVISORS ARE PROHIBITED on this programme alone; the 1 Phase, 2 Phase and Rapid all allow them. Weekend trading is prohibited too, and no Demo Reset add-on is offered.

Where the cheaper programme is also the roomier one

11 rules · 11 programmes · 6 firms

• FXIFY · Three Phase Fifteen percent of profit asked against five percent of drawdown is a difficulty ratio of 3.00, and it is the cheapest programme FXIFY sell at every size.
• FXIFY · Instant Funding — Lite The cheapest funded account FXIFY sell, from $19, and the tightest: a 3% daily limit inside a 4% drawdown.
• For Traders · Fast (Forex) The cheapest way to a $100,000 account among the up-front challenges here, at $351 against Classic’s $434 and Fast Static’s $449.
• For Traders · Fast Static (Forex) A static 6% is what the extra money buys: banked profit stays as room beneath you rather than lifting the floor with you.
• For Traders · Instant Pro (Forex) Dearest of the instant products by a wide margin — $629 for a $25,000 account against $169 on the ordinary Instant.
• For Traders · Fast Pro (Crypto) The cheapest route to a $100,000 account anywhere in the range, at $216.
• Moneta Funded · 2-Step Challenge (lower-cost) The same targets as the standard 2-Step at roughly thirty percent less money, in exchange for one point less daily room and two points less overall. Cheaper and tighter, which is the honest version of that trade.
• Moneta Funded · Instant Funding Pro The most expensive product on this site at every size — $5,300 for a $100,000 account, against $750 for the same firm’s standard instant funding. What the money buys is room: four points of daily limit against three, and eight of overall against five.
• Breakout · 1-Step Classic Dearest of the three at every shared size while asking less profit than Pro — $800 against $545 at $100,000.
• OneFunded · Flash Challenge Dearer than the two-phase Core at every size while allowing four points less drawdown — $56 against $35 at $5,000, $899 against $799 at $200,000.
• DNA Funded · 2 Phase Cheaper than the 1 Phase at every account size — $49 against $59 at $5,000, $1,079 against $1,209 at $200,000 — while allowing a larger daily limit and a larger overall drawdown. All three of the firm’s own sources publish it that way.

A failed attempt is sold a cheaper next one

10 rules · 10 programmes · 4 firms

The second attempt is not always priced like the first. 10 programmes at 4 firms sell a discounted reset to an account that has just been breached. Where the conditions are recorded they are a window to claim it in and exclusions by account size; where they are not, the discount is all the record carries. Three attempts at the $25K size across the 7 of them with an evaluation and a price at that size comes to $3,540 at full fee, which is what the cost page charges you. With the discount taken it is less — so that figure is an upper bound for these, and the conditions in the rule decide by how much.

• Funding Pips · 2 Step Standard A breached account can be reset at a discount within seven days: 15% off the evaluation, 7% off the funded account ($100K accounts excluded).
• Funding Pips · 2 Step Pro A breached account can be reset at a discount within seven days: 15% off the evaluation, 7% off the funded account ($100K accounts and above excluded).
• Funding Pips · 2 Step Flex A breached account can be reset at a discount within seven days: 15% off the evaluation, 7% off the funded account ($100K accounts excluded).
• Funding Pips · 1 Step Flex A breached account can be reset at a discount within seven days: 15% off the evaluation, 7% off the funded account ($100K accounts excluded).
• Funding Pips · FundingPips Zero A breached account can be reset at a discount within seven days: 15% off the evaluation, 7% off the funded account ($100K accounts and above excluded).
• City Traders Imperium · Instant Funding Nothing is refundable on this programme either, and the reset discount is 10% rather than the challenges’ 15%.
• DNA Funded · 1 Phase A profit cap applies to the first three approved payouts: "During the funded stage, a 5% profit cap applies to your first three approved pay-outs. Profits above this limit aren’t withdrawable and will be removed when your account resets to the original balance." A paid Profit Booster raises it to 7.5%.
• Blueberry Funded · Prime 2-Step Resets are available once per account within 7 days of a breach: phase one at 30% off, phase two at the original price, funded at twice the challenge price.
• Blueberry Funded · Synthetic 2-Step Not eligible for account resets: "Resets are available on Prime and Flex 1-Step accounts only."
• Blueberry Funded · Instant Elite Base profit split 80%, stated as flat for this product. Payouts every 14 days on $100 minimum realised profit. High-impact news trading is not permitted, and the product is not eligible for resets.

Where the firm’s own trading costs eat the profit target

3 rules · 3 programmes · 1 firm

• Breakout · 1-Step Turbo Real trading costs run against the profit target, and matter most here given the 3% floor: "Our trading fees are 0.04% per side" and "A swap fee of 0.033% per open position per day applies on positions held overnight." Neither is in the figures above.
• Breakout · 1-Step Pro Trading fees of 0.04% per side and a 0.033% daily swap on positions held overnight run against the target, and are not in the figures above.
• Breakout · 1-Step Classic Trading fees of 0.04% per side and a 0.033% daily swap run against the target and are not in the figures above.

When the fee is actually charged

3 rules · 2 programmes · 2 firms

• For Traders · Pay After Pass (Forex) The activation fee is time-limited: "Activation fee must be paid within 5 days from passing or account will be cancelled." The Terms and Conditions never fill the number in — clause 6.4 reads "within [X] days" — so the five days come from the help centre alone.
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later The $10 is an activation fee, not the price: "Once the challenge has been successfully completed, traders simply pay the remaining balance to receive their funded account." The figure the firm shows struck through beside the $10 is that balance — $52 on the $5K account up to $1,033 on the $200K. Fail and you have spent $10.
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later What falls due on passing is worded two ways. The rules article says you "pay the remaining balance"; the plan page says "The full challenge fee (equivalent to what other firms charge upfront) is only charged once you successfully complete the challenge objectives." On the $100K account that is either $676 or $686, depending which sentence governs.

Which products an advertised bonus does not cover

2 rules · 2 programmes · 1 firm

• For Traders · Pay After Pass (Forex) The challenge-fee-back bonus that applies to the ordinary challenges is explicitly excluded here.
• For Traders · Instant (Forex) The challenge-fee-back bonus does not apply to instant accounts.

What has to be true before you can take money out

2 rules · 2 programmes · 1 firm

• Moneta Funded · 1-Step Challenge The payout gate is stricter than the cadence suggests: 14 days since your first trade, an available profit of $500 or more, AND no payout in the prior 14 days. A fortnightly cycle with a floor attached is not a fortnightly cycle.
• Moneta Funded · 2-Step Challenge The same payout gate as the 1-Step: 14 days since the first trade, $500 available profit, and no payout in the previous 14 days.

What the drawdown percentage is measured against

56 rules · 47 programmes · 19 firms

The largest category on this page, and the one that changes the arithmetic most. The same daily limit measured from the day’s opening balance, from the higher of balance and equity, from the previous day’s close, or from the highest equity the account touched during the session is four different rules printed as one number. The recorded drawdown type carries part of this; these 56 rules carry the rest.

• Funding Pips · 2 Step Standard The daily limit is 5% of the higher of the day’s opening balance and opening equity.
• Funding Pips · FundingPips Zero The trailing cap follows the highest recorded equity and locks at the starting size once equity reaches +5%; it never resets, including after rewards.
• Alpha Capital Group · Alpha One 10% Drawdown trails the high-water mark and locks at the starting balance once +6% is reached.
• Alpha Capital Group · Alpha One 6% Drawdown locks at the starting balance once reached.
• Funded Trading Plus · 1-Step Express The 6% trail stops once it reaches the starting balance: "Once the maximum simulated loss has reached the initial simulated balance, it no longer trails." Treating the trail as permanent overstates the difficulty after the first 6% of profit is banked.
• Funded Trading Plus · 2-Step Classic Explicitly static: "a Static Drawdown program … not affected by any simulated profits or gains".
• Funded Trading Plus · Instant The 6% trail locks at the starting balance, as on the 1-Step Express.
• HyroTrader · One-Step Challenge The 4% daily limit trails: "The standard daily drawdown is trailing, as it is calculated from the highest equity point reached during the day, including unrealized P&L." The firm’s own example fails a $5,000 account that peaked at $5,200 and fell back to $5,000 — level on the day, and out.
• HyroTrader · Two-Step Challenge The 5% daily limit trails the day’s equity high, as on the one-step.
• Fidelcrest · Pro Trader — Normal Trailing per the rules page: "Current Equity / Highest Recorded Balance x 100% = must be over 95% at all times". The general terms word the same cap against INITIAL capital, which would make it static. The firm publishes both; this records what the rules page says.
• City Traders Imperium · 1-Step Challenge The trail never stops, so 5% is the most that can ever be given back from the peak balance no matter how far the account has run. Withdrawals are excluded from the watermark.
• City Traders Imperium · 2-Step Challenge Both caps are measured on closed balance, not equity: "CTI checks only closed trades against the limits." An open position at a floating loss cannot breach either one, which is a materially easier rule than the equity-based version most firms use.
• City Traders Imperium · 2-Step Challenge The daily cap is 5% of the start-of-day balance and the overall cap 10% of the initial balance — neither moves with profit.
• City Traders Imperium · Direct Funding Same 6% static drawdown, same absence of a daily limit, same scaling ladder.
• Audacity Capital · Ability Challenge The daily limit is fixed at rollover (00:00 GMT+2) from the higher of balance and equity, then held for the day: "Even if equity rises to $110,000 during the trading day, the daily limit stays at $92,500 until the next rollover." A floating profit carried through rollover therefore RAISES the floor you must stay above, and the firm’s own scenario fails an account on exactly that.
• Audacity Capital · Ability One Ten percent to make against a 6% total drawdown, with the tightest daily limit on this site: 3%, measured from the higher of the day’s opening balance and equity.
• Audacity Capital · Ability One Both caps are static and measured from the initial balance: "No trailing drawdown nonsense. Your floor stays fixed based on initial balance."
• Audacity Capital · FTP (Instant Funding) The 5% daily limit trails the highest equity the account has reached, per the knowledge centre, while the page selling it promises "a static drawdown" with "nothing that tightens as you start to profit". Both are published; they cannot both be true.
• Hola Prime · 1-Step Prime The daily limit is measured against the previous day’s closing balance, not the starting balance.
• FXIFY · Two Phase — Standard (Trailing) Priced identically to the Classic variant at every shared size while trailing instead of staying static, and asking its targets the other way round: 10% then 5% against Classic’s 5% then 10%.
• FXIFY · One Phase The trail stops permanently once 6% of profit is banked, and the floor locks at the starting balance: "Once you have achieved 6% in your account the max trailing locks in at your starting balance, and no longer trails."
• FXIFY · One Phase IT ALSO LOCKS ON A WITHDRAWAL, which is the trap: taking the full profit out leaves no buffer above the locked floor, and the next losing trade breaches.
• FXIFY · One Phase The daily limit is measured from the previous day’s 5pm EST balance, so it does not follow the session high.
• For Traders · Fast (Forex) The drawdown trails the highest closed balance, so banking profit raises the floor rather than buying room.
• For Traders · Fast Static (Forex) The same caps as Fast with a static drawdown instead of a trailing one, and a point more profit asked for it. The premium runs from 28% to 53% depending on size rather than at a steady rate — 42, 41, 28, 53 and 28 percent across the five.
• For Traders · Instant (Forex) No evaluation, so the caps are the whole product: 3% daily inside a 5% drawdown trailing the highest closed balance.
• For Traders · Instant Pro (Forex) No daily loss limit is published for this programme, so the 6% trailing drawdown is the only cap.
• For Traders · Fast Pro (Crypto) No daily loss limit at all, so the 4% end-of-day trailing drawdown is the only way to fail — one cap instead of two, on the tightest overall figure the firm sells.
• Funding Traders · 1-Step Pro The drawdown trails the highest closed balance, so banking profit raises the floor by the same amount rather than buying room.
• Funding Traders · Instant Funding No evaluation, so the caps are the whole product: 3% daily inside a 6% drawdown that trails the highest closed balance.
• Moneta Funded · Instant Funding Pro Still a trailing-intraday drawdown, so the extra room is measured from the equity high rather than from where you started.
• Moneta Funded · Phoenix Instant The only Moneta instant product with a STATIC drawdown; the others all trail the equity high inside the session. That is what the price is buying, and it is a bigger difference than the percentages suggest.
• Maven Trading · Standard 2-Step The only Standard programme with a static drawdown; the 1-Step and the Instant products trail inside the session.
• Maven Trading · Instant Funding No evaluation and no profit target, so the caps are the entire product: a 2% daily limit inside a 3% drawdown that follows the equity high within the session.
• Maven Trading · Mini A 1% maximum floating loss applies, measured as the gap between equity and balance.
• Maven Trading · Prediction Markets One-Step Elite The same 9% target as Essential against a static 5% rather than a trailing 3%, at roughly two thirds more money — which is the whole difference between the two.
• Breakout · 1-Step Turbo The daily limit is measured from the day-open BALANCE and fixed for the following 24 hours, so it does not follow the day’s equity high.
• Breakout · 1-Step Turbo Both limits are tested against EQUITY including floating profit and loss, so an open position alone can breach either.
• Breakout · 1-Step Pro The daily limit is measured from the day-open balance and fixed for 24 hours; both limits are tested against equity including floating profit and loss.
• Breakout · 1-Step Classic News trading and weekend holds are unrestricted, and the daily limit is measured from the day-open balance rather than the session high.
• Crypto Fund Trader · 2 Phases Evaluation The daily limit is measured from the day-open balance rather than from the day’s equity high.
• OneFunded · Core Challenge Drawdown is equity-based throughout, so an open position alone can breach it: "Floating losses immediately affect drawdown / Open positions can trigger breaches / Equity, not balance, determines rule compliance."
• OneFunded · Flash Challenge The same equity-based drawdown, max-exposure ladder and margin-utilisation rules as the rest of the range.
• DNA Funded · 1 Phase CONTRADICTION in the drawdown FAQ’s own worked example: it defines the lifetime drawdown as a fixed percentage of the initial balance, then illustrates it with a figure anchored to the previous day’s equity, which is the daily-drawdown formula. The static reading is the one the Rules PDF supports.
• DNA Funded · Instant Funding THE FIRM PUBLISHES TWO INCOMPATIBLE METHODS for how this trailing limit moves, and on a grown account they differ by hundreds of dollars of room. The Rules PDF makes it a FIXED DOLLAR gap: "The drawdown limit is set as a fixed dollar amount, calculated as a percentage of the starting balance in an Account, and moves up as it makes profits" — its worked example holds a constant $250 gap as the account runs from $10,000 to $11,000. The drawdown FAQ instead recomputes the percentage against the new high, taking a $10,000 account with a $9,600 floor to a $10,560 floor at $11,000, a $440 gap. The firm has not reconciled them.
• DNA Funded · Instant Funding There is no daily loss limit at all, and the firm says so rather than omitting it: "Note: daily drawdown is not applicable for instant funding." The 4% trailing figure is the only loss limit on the product.
• DNA Funded · Instant Funding The floor never moves back down: "the drawdown limit never moves back down - if the equity in an Account falls, the limit stays where it was."
• DNA Funded · Instant Funding MINOR TENSION on the trailing basis: the Rules PDF general conditions block states "Drawdown Type: Balance based" while the programme-specific text describes equity following the high.
• Blueberry Funded · 1-Step (Legacy) The daily limit resets at 5:00 PM EST and is anchored to the day’s opening rather than to the intraday high: "It is set at a fixed 4% of your starting balance."
• Blueberry Funded · Synthetic 2-Step The daily limit resets at 5:00 PM EST and is anchored to the start of the day, taking the higher of balance or equity at that moment.
• Blueberry Funded · Instant Elite A flat 1.5% risk per trade idea measured from the initial account size, including merged and scaled accounts. Reaching it is a hard breach and closes the account immediately.
• Blueberry Funded · Instant Lite The drawdown follows the equity high including open positions and then freezes at the starting balance once 4% of profit is banked — the firm calls it a trailing lock.
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later The 8% trail stops. "If your account reaches 8% of your Initial balance your trailing Drawdown will lock in at your starting balance", after which a fixed 1% buffer is added so that withdrawing every dollar of profit cannot breach the account. The same article then says the trail runs "unless you achieve 6% from your Initial balance" — the firm publishes both 8% and 6% as the threshold, twice against once.
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later The daily limit is not calculated from where the day opened. It resets at 5pm EST and is measured from the HIGHER of balance or equity at that moment, so an open floating profit at the reset raises the next day’s floor. The firm’s own worked example: $2,000 floating profit on a $100K account at 5pm sets the next day’s floor at $98,000 rather than $96,000. Its marketing page describes the same rule as "measured from the day’s starting balance".
• Blue Guardian · 2 Step Standard The only Blue Guardian programme with a static drawdown, and the firm says so in as many words: "Static Drawdown".
• Blue Guardian · 2 Step Pro Sold as "the most affordable two-phase model". It is cheaper than 2 Step Standard on every account size, asks two percentage points more profit in phase one, and replaces the static drawdown with one that trails the highest balance.

Where the firm publishes two different answers

18 rules · 18 programmes · 13 firms

Filed here are the rules whose subject is the disagreement itself. Counted across every category, 17 of the 375 record a firm publishing two different answers to the same question — on 13 programmes at 9 firms. That is the figure worth carrying away, because it is not a rule you can plan around: what you do is ask their support in writing, before paying.

• E8 Markets · E8 One No fee is recorded: the firm’s pricing article prices a different “standard configuration at checkout” (a 9% target, $48–$1,998 by size) than the 6%-target preset its product article describes and this record follows.
• Funded Trading Plus · 1-Step Express The firm publishes three different reset times for the daily limit — 23:59 server time on this page, 16:59 EST in its daily-drawdown article, 17:00 EST on the Instant page. The percentages agree everywhere; only the moment does not.
• HyroTrader · One-Step Challenge The published rules page states no time limit; the general terms state 30 calendar days for the Challenge and 60 for Verification. The firm has not reconciled them.
• Fidelcrest · Pro Trader — Normal The firm publishes three different formulas for measuring the daily loss. The 5% figure is identical in all three.
• Audacity Capital · Ability Challenge What breaching the daily limit does is published for the evaluation stages by worked example — "the Account is violated" — but the firm’s general guidance hedges it as "paused or breached (depending on the stage)" without saying which stage is which.
• Audacity Capital · FTP (Instant Funding) The firm advertises this programme as "$5,000 to $50,000" in one place and "whether you start at $5,000 or $60,000" in another.
• Funding Traders · 2-Step Pro (PRO6) THREE-WAY CONTRADICTION ON THE WEEKEND RULE, and this one fails accounts. The Terms of Service say "Not allowed. All trades must be closed by market close on Friday"; the General Guidelines say at least one hour before market close on Friday; a third surface differs again. A rule that ends an evaluation should not have three published versions.
• Funding Traders · Instant Funding The News Holding add-on is priced two ways by the firm: its own article says 15% of the fee, its checkout charges 20%.
• Moneta Funded · Phoenix Instant The firm designates it a scaling programme, and its own product listing gives it a profit target while its programme article does not. Recorded with no phases because it is sold as instant funding.
• Maven Trading · Prediction Markets One-Step Essential UNRECONCILED CONTRADICTION ON THE DRAWDOWN, and it is the figure everything here is computed from. The FAQ says 3%; two product cards say 5%. The stricter 3% is recorded because this field cannot hold an absence, so the figure errs against the firm rather than against a reader sizing risk. Check it at the source before paying.
• Breakout · 1-Step Turbo UNRECONCILED CONTRADICTION on the rules page itself: the banner across the top advertises leverage the Available Leverage section of the same page does not offer.
• OneFunded · Core Challenge UNRECONCILED CONTRADICTION on what the daily limit is a percentage OF. One help article says "Your account may not lose more than a defined percentage of your Start-of-Day Equity" and works the example off $102,000 of start-of-day equity; another says "Daily Drawdown Limit is fixed to initial account balance and is not changing together with equity changes" and works it off the $5,000 initial balance. The percentage is 5% either way; once you are in profit the dollar allowance is not.
• DNA Funded · 1 Phase CONTRADICTION on funded-stage payout days: one answer requires trades opened on 5 different days, another on the same page says "at least three different days". This affects payout eligibility rather than the pass requirement above.
• DNA Funded · 2 Phase Carries the same two published contradictions as the 1 Phase: three against five funded-stage payout days, and a daily-drawdown worked example printed under the total-drawdown heading.
• Blueberry Funded · 1-Step (Legacy) PRICE CONTRADICTION on two rows: the pricing page publishes $82.50 for the $10K and $302.50 for the $50K, and the checkout charges different figures.
• Blueberry Funded · Instant Elite SIZE CONTRADICTION: the guide lists allocations up to $100,000 while the store sells only $2.5K to $50K.
• Blueberry Funded · Instant Lite STALE-PAGE CONTRADICTION: an older general article still lists five days for this product.
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later The firm publishes two different entry prices on one page. The hero reads "Start your challenge for just $5 today" and its own button, three words later, reads "Start for $10"; the comparison table below says "$5 Setup fee only" while the how-it-works block says "Pay a $10 setup fee". Every row of its price table, and the checkout itself, says $10.

Where the daily limit swallows the profit target

8 rules · 8 programmes · 5 firms

• For Traders · Pay After Pass (Forex) A 2% profit target is the smallest on this site, and the 3% daily limit rather than the 6% drawdown is what ends the attempt.
• For Traders · Classic (Forex) The roomiest caps the firm sells on an up-front challenge: four points of daily limit inside eight overall.
• Funding Traders · 2-Step Pro (PRO6) Six percent asked twice against a six percent drawdown — a difficulty ratio of 2.00, and the tightest daily limit the firm sells at 3%.
• Funding Traders · 1-Step Pro Ten percent of profit against a ten percent drawdown is a difficulty ratio of 1.00 — as much rope as road — and the 3% daily limit is what actually decides it, three full-risk losses in.
• Breakout · 1-Step Pro Asks the most profit of the three plans, 12%, against the middle drawdown.
• OneFunded · Instant Funding The tightest daily limit OneFunded sell, 3%, against a static 6% overall.
• Blue Guardian · Buy Now Pay Later The 4% daily loss limit and the 4% profit target are the same number. One bad day is the entire target.
• Blue Guardian · Instant No evaluation — the drawdown is the only constraint, and it starts at 3% daily, the tightest daily limit the firm sells.

The target on the page is not a target

7 rules · 7 programmes · 7 firms

7 programmes state in their own rules that there is nothing to pass: the account is funded from day one and the drawdown is the whole product. 2 of them print a percentage where a profit target would go anyway, and it is not one — it is a scaling milestone on an account that is already funded. Every ranking on this site excludes these products for exactly that reason, and says so rather than dropping them.

• FundedNext · Stellar Instant No profit target — the account is live from day one.
• Funded Trading Plus · Instant No evaluation: "there is no evaluation for this program". The 10% on that page is a scaling target, not a profit target.
• City Traders Imperium · Instant Funding No evaluation: "funded from day one". The 10% is a scaling milestone that doubles the balance, not a target to pass.
• Audacity Capital · FTP (Instant Funding) No evaluation and no profit target — the drawdown rules are the whole product.
• OneFunded · Instant Funding No evaluation and no profit target — the account is funded from day one, so the caps are the whole product.
• DNA Funded · Instant Funding Nothing here is a pass requirement — the account starts funded. The five-day minimum gates payout eligibility only.
• Blueberry Funded · Instant Elite Instant funding: no evaluation and no profit target, which is why it carries no phases.

Where one cap does the work of two

5 rules · 4 programmes · 2 firms

• FXIFY · Three Phase The 5% daily limit EQUALS the 5% overall drawdown, so on day one both caps sit on the same point and there is no second rope behind the first until profit is banked.
• FXIFY · Instant Funding — Standard The 8% daily limit EQUALS the 8% overall drawdown, so both caps sit on the same point until profit is banked — the same shape as Breakout’s Turbo, at eight points instead of three.
• Breakout · 1-Step Turbo NOTE THE SHAPE OF THIS PLAN: the 3% overall drawdown EQUALS the 3% daily loss limit, so on day one of a fresh account the two limits sit on exactly the same point. There is no second cap behind the first until profit is banked.
• Breakout · 1-Step Turbo The firm markets it as the cheapest and tightest: "The lowest one-time fee at every account size. The trade-off is the tightest buffer: 3% max drawdown."
• Breakout · 1-Step Classic The roomiest of the three and the only one capped at $100,000: "The Classic plan has wider drawdown room which is capped at $100K." Turbo and Pro reach $200,000.

How the target is split across the phases

4 rules · 4 programmes · 3 firms

• FXIFY · Two Phase — Pro (Static) Phase 2 asks DOUBLE Phase 1, 8% after 4%: the light half first and the hard half once you are committed.
• Moneta Funded · 2-Step Challenge Phase 2 asks DOUBLE Phase 1, 10% after 5%, which only Maven Trading’s Two Step Omo also does. The easy half comes first and the hard half comes after you have already paid attention for three trading days.
• Maven Trading · Standard 3-Step Three percent asked three times against a three percent drawdown: the smallest per-phase target on this site paired with one of the smallest caps.
• Maven Trading · Two Step Omo Phase 2 asks MORE than Phase 1, 8% after 6%, which no other programme on this site does, and the firm says it is deliberate: "The higher Phase 2 target (8% vs 6%) ensures consistency."

Where the instrument is not what you expect

4 rules · 2 programmes · 1 firm

• Maven Trading · Prediction Markets One-Step Essential Settled on event contracts rather than FX: "The data feed comes from MatchTrade and follows the markets on Kalshi or Polymarket." Contracts are priced like binaries, so a position at 19% odds costs about $0.19.
• Maven Trading · Prediction Markets One-Step Essential A PER-QUESTION PROFIT CAP with no equivalent anywhere else on this site: no more than 3% of the starting balance may be generated from any one question, and profit beyond that is removed.
• Maven Trading · Prediction Markets One-Step Elite Settled on event contracts from Kalshi or Polymarket rather than on FX, priced like binary contracts.
• Maven Trading · Prediction Markets One-Step Elite The same per-question cap: no more than 3% of the starting balance from any one question.

Where a firm states there is no daily limit at all

1 rule · 1 programme · 1 firm

• Blueberry Funded · Instant Elite There is no daily limit at all, and the firm says so rather than omitting it: "There is no daily drawdown limit on Instant Elite."