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

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 Practices

• FTMO reserves the right to determine at its discretion if certain trades, practices, strategies, or situations are considered forbidden trading practices: https://ftmo.com/en/gambling-is-not-the-right-way-to-make-money/

Forbidden trading practices per T&Cs

• Price Feed Exploitation, External/Slow Data Feed Trading, Coordinated or Manipulative Trading, Trading Platform Violations, Unauthorized Automation or AI Trading, News & Gap Trading, Unrealistic or Harmful Trading Behavior

Multiple 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

Minimum trading days

• 4 days

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.)