Finotive Futures

25K Account
Daily drawdown: None
Maximum drawdown: $1,000
Pass target: $1,200


50K Account
Daily drawdown: $1,250 (soft breach)
Maximum drawdown: $2,000
Pass target: $3,000


100K Account
Daily drawdown: $2,000 (soft breach)
Maximum drawdown: $3,000
Pass target: $6,000


150K Account
Daily drawdown: $3,000 (soft breach)
Maximum drawdown: $4,500
Pass target: $9,000


Breach types:
Exceeding the daily drawdown is a soft breach: open positions are closed and trading is disabled for the rest of the day, but the account does not permanently fail.
Exceeding maximum drawdown is a hard breach and immediately fails the account.

25K Account
Daily drawdown: $500 (soft breach)
Maximum drawdown: $1,250


50K Account
Daily drawdown: $1,250 (soft breach)
Maximum drawdown: $2,500


100K Account
Daily drawdown: $2,500 (soft breach)
Maximum drawdown: $4,000


150K Account
Daily drawdown: $3,750 (soft breach)
Maximum drawdown: $5,000


Breach types:
Exceeding the daily drawdown is a soft breach: open positions are closed and trading is disabled for the rest of the day, but the account does not permanently fail.
Exceeding maximum drawdown is a hard breach and immediately fails the account.

Evaluation: Trading during news is allowed.


Funded and Instant accounts: News trading is restricted.
Opening or closing positions, or triggering orders, is prohibited from two minutes before until two minutes after a high-impact news release.
A position opened before the restricted window may remain open.
Profits from a violating trade may be removed, while losses remain on the account.

Profit split: 90% to the trader.
Payout frequency: on demand after all requirements are met.


Profit Buffer: The buffer must be reached and permanently maintained; the buffer itself cannot be withdrawn.
25K: $1,000 | 50K: $2,000 | 100K: $3,000 | 150K: $4,500.
Each payout cycle also requires additional profit equal to 1% of the original account size above the buffer: $250, $500, $1,000 or $1,500 respectively.


Profitable days: 3 profitable trading days per payout cycle, each with at least 0.25% realised profit based on the original account size.
Consistency: The best trading day may not exceed 40% of total profit in the current payout cycle.
Minimum payout: $500 before profit split.


First payout caps: 25K: $1,000 | 50K: $2,000 | 100K: $2,500 | 150K: $3,000.
Second and later payout caps: 25K: $1,500 | 50K: $2,500 | 100K: $3,000 | 150K: $3,500.
All open positions must be closed before requesting a payout.
Payouts are normally processed within 24–48 hours. After approval, the amount is deducted from the account within minutes and credited through Finotive Pay.

Profit split: 90% to the trader.
Payout frequency: on demand after all requirements are met.


Payout Milestone: The milestone must be reached for every new payout request.
25K: $1,450 | 50K: $3,000 | 100K: $5,000 | 150K: $8,000.


Profitable days: 5 profitable trading days per payout cycle, each with at least 0.25% realised profit based on the original account size.
Consistency: The best trading day may not exceed 20% of total profit in the current payout cycle.
Minimum payout: $500 before profit split.
Payout caps: 25K: $1,000 | 50K: $2,000 | 100K: $3,000 | 150K: $4,000.
All open positions must be closed before requesting a payout.
Payouts are normally processed within 24–48 hours. After approval, the amount is deducted from the account within minutes and credited through Finotive Pay.

Overnight holding is not allowed. All positions must be closed before the end of the trading session; Finotive Futures automatically closes remaining positions five minutes before the daily close, at 15:55 CT.
Weekend holding is also prohibited. No position may be carried from Friday's close to Sunday's market reopening.

Breach types: Daily drawdown is a soft breach: positions are closed and trading is disabled for the rest of the day. Maximum drawdown is a hard breach and fails the account.
There is no fixed daily profit cap, but the best day may not exceed 40% of total profit when a funded payout is requested.


Drawdown lock: One-Step uses EOD trailing drawdown based on the highest end-of-day balance. It rises until it reaches the initial account balance, then locks there.
Example: a 50K account starts with a $48,000 threshold. If it closes at $52,000, the threshold reaches $50,000 and locks.


Evaluation Reset: A discounted reset may be purchased within 14 calendar days after failure; after that, a new evaluation is required.
Funded Reset: A funded reset may be purchased within 14 calendar days. Up to two funded resets are allowed before the first payout, each costing five times the evaluation fee for that account size.
No separate activation fee is charged after passing the One-Step evaluation.

The Profit Buffer is retained in the funded account as protection and is not withdrawable.
25K: $1,000 | 50K: $2,000 | 100K: $3,000 | 150K: $4,500.
Once the buffer is first reached, maximum drawdown reaches the initial balance and locks.
A payout requires additional profit equal to 1% of the initial balance above the buffer. This requirement resets for every payout request.
If profit falls below the buffer, the buffer and the additional required profit must be rebuilt before the account is eligible again.

One-Step uses EOD trailing drawdown during both evaluation and funded stages.
The threshold is calculated from the highest end-of-day closing balance. It only moves upward and never falls after a losing day.
It stops permanently once it reaches the initial account balance.
For a 50K account, the threshold starts at $48,000 and rises with new closing-balance highs until it locks at $50,000.
Open-position intraday equity highs do not move this EOD threshold.

The rule applies only after moving to a funded account; it does not apply during the One-Step evaluation.
The best trading day may not exceed 40% of total profit in the current payout cycle.
Example: with $2,000 total cycle profit, the best day may not exceed $800.
The rule is checked at payout. Missing it does not fail the account; continue trading until the percentage falls within the limit.

Daily drawdown is a soft breach: positions are closed and trading is disabled for the rest of the day. Maximum drawdown is a hard breach and fails the account.
Instant uses intraday trailing drawdown based on the highest equity reached, including unrealised floating profit.
Example: on a 50K account, if equity reaches $53,000, maximum drawdown rises to $50,500.
There is no fixed daily profit cap, but the best day may not exceed 20% of total profit at payout.
Instant has no conventional reset. After failure, the same size may be repurchased at a discounted price within 3 calendar days; after that, a new account must be bought at the standard or then-current discounted price.
There is no additional activation fee.

The Payout Milestone is the minimum accumulated profit required before requesting a payout.
25K: $1,450 | 50K: $3,000 | 100K: $5,000 | 150K: $8,000.
The milestone must be reached again for every later payout request.
It is a payout-eligibility condition, not an evaluation target, because Instant has no evaluation stage.

The threshold follows the highest intraday equity, including unrealised open-position profit. It only moves upward until it reaches the initial account balance, then locks there permanently.
Drawdown amounts: 25K: $1,250 | 50K: $2,500 | 100K: $4,000 | 150K: $5,000.
On a 50K account the threshold starts at $47,500; equity highs of $51,000 and $52,000 move it to $48,500 and $49,500. At $52,500 equity it reaches $50,000 and locks.
A payout reduces the protection above the locked threshold. If a 50K account reaches $55,000 and withdraws the full $5,000, the balance returns to the $50,000 threshold and any further equity decline may fail the account. Leaving a profit cushion is recommended.

Trading bots, EAs and personal automated strategies are allowed when they reflect the trader's normal approach.
Automation may not exploit system weaknesses, latency, or price-data discrepancies, or manipulate the simulated environment.
Finotive Futures may request proof that the trader owns and controls the bot or automated strategy.

Copy trading is allowed only between Finotive Futures accounts owned by the same trader.
Copying another trader or using trades from any external or third-party source is prohibited.

Hedging inside the same account is allowed as part of a normal strategy, including opposing Mini and Micro positions on the same contract or opposing positions in different contracts.
Hedging across separate accounts is strictly prohibited, including across your own accounts, another trader's account, or another prop firm, and may not be used to neutralise market risk or lock profits artificially.

Responsible Martingale use is allowed. Position size may be increased after a realised loss, and contracts may be added to an open losing position.
All contract, daily drawdown and maximum drawdown limits still apply.
Aggressive use that creates excessive risk or resembles gambling may be reviewed under prohibited-trading rules.

Microscalping is allowed but may not be the primary source of account profit.
No more than 50% of total profit may come from trades held for less than 30 seconds; at least 50% must come from trades held 30 seconds or longer.
Example: on $2,000 total profit, $900 from sub-30-second trades is 45% and compliant; $1,200 is 60% and not compliant.
If the percentage exceeds 50%, continue earning through longer trades until it returns within the limit. The rule must be met before progressing or requesting a payout.

One-Step Funded: 25K: $1,000 first / $1,500 later | 50K: $2,000 first / $2,500 later | 100K: $2,500 first / $3,000 later | 150K: $3,000 first / $3,500 later.
Instant: 25K: $1,000 | 50K: $2,000 | 100K: $3,000 | 150K: $4,000 per payout.
The minimum payout is $500 for every account type and size, calculated before profit split.
Profit above the cap remains in the account and carries into the next payout cycle.

The main session runs from Sunday 17:00 CT to Friday 16:00 CT.
Daily maintenance runs from 16:00 to 17:00 CT and trading is unavailable.
Open positions are automatically closed at 15:55 CT. Positions may not be held through maintenance, overnight, or over the weekend.
Avoid waiting until the final moment because unexpected execution near the close may cause a violation or disqualification.

One-Step has no completion deadline. Funding begins once the target and evaluation conditions are met.
There is no evaluation consistency rule or minimum trading-day requirement, so the challenge may be passed in one trading day.
Instant has no evaluation and starts funded on day one after purchase and KYC completion.

A trader may own unlimited accounts, subject to a maximum combined funded capital of $1,000,000.
There is no limit on the number of One-Step evaluations.
The $1,000,000 cap includes all One-Step Funded and Instant accounts combined.

Accounts use a one-time purchase fee with no monthly subscription, automatic renewal, or recurring charge.
An account has no fixed expiry and ends only after a rule failure or 15 consecutive calendar days without activity.
Starting again after failure or inactivity requires purchasing a reset; resets are neither automatic nor free.

KYC must be completed through the dashboard with accurate, complete and current information.
Finotive Futures may verify payment-method ownership, sanctions status, location and residential address before enabling services or processing payouts.
Enhanced KYC may include identity re-verification, payment proof, device/location checks, or a compliance/risk call. It must be completed within 72 hours unless a different deadline is provided in writing.
KYC must use a stable, consistent and unmasked connection. VPN, proxy or location-masking tools may cause verification failure, payout rejection, or account closure.
Finotive Futures does not issue tax forms such as Form 1099. Traders are responsible for reporting and paying their own tax obligations.

The payout amount is not deducted when the request is submitted; it is deducted within minutes after approval.
Trading before approval may cause rejection if the balance falls into the Profit Buffer. After approval, falling below the buffer may expose the account to a drawdown breach.
Treat the requested amount as already removed from the moment the request is sent and avoid risking profit allocated to the payout.

Trading must reflect genuine market participation. Methods designed to exploit the simulated environment or obtain an unrealistic advantage are prohibited.


Immediate account-closure violations:
Exploiting latency, bad prices, or market-data errors; cross-platform or cross-exchange arbitrage intended to create a risk-free outcome; account sharing or trading for another person; sharing one device across different traders; spoofing, layering, fake orders or other market manipulation; and HFT, tick scalping or intensive order automation used to exploit speed, platform defects or simulated execution.
Profits may be forfeited and pending payouts denied depending on the violation.


Risk and compliance review violations:
Cross-account or cross-platform hedging; coordinated group trading; copying another trader manually or through mirror/copy tools; queue-priority manipulation using identical limit orders; abnormal trade-volume inflation; token trades opened only to count a trading day; strategies dependent on guaranteed bid/ask fills, zero slippage or other conditions not reproducible in live futures; gambling-style account cycling; news straddling around tier-one releases such as NFP, FOMC or CPI; and gap or thin-liquidity exploitation.
Review outcomes may include a warning, profit removal, payout denial, suspension, evaluation failure, funded-account termination, or a permanent ban.
Repeated or unexplained IP changes, VPN/proxy use, or logins from multiple unfamiliar locations may trigger enhanced KYC and temporarily restrict trading until compliance approval.

Live transition is not automatic and is subject to Finotive Futures risk-team review.
Review may begin after the fifth payout, or earlier for exceptional performance or high payout totals. A fifth payout does not guarantee transition.
Both One-Step Funded and Instant accounts are eligible; no separate Live program or new challenge is required.
More than one eligible funded account may be converted, producing a separate Live Account for each. Every funded account must have completed at least one payout.

A Live Account starts with a real balance of $0. The source account size determines drawdown and contract limits.
Drawdown: 25K: $1,000 | 50K: $2,000 | 100K: $3,000 | 150K: $4,500.
Live uses EOD drawdown updated from the end-of-day balance. There is no separate daily loss limit and no consistency rule.
Contract limits depend on account size and realised profit under the Live Scaling Plan.

The $0 starting balance must first build a protective Buffer equal to the account drawdown: $1,000, $2,000, $3,000 or $4,500 for 25K, 50K, 100K and 150K respectively.
During buffer building, EOD drawdown follows the end-of-day balance. Once the required buffer is reached, drawdown reaches $0 and locks.
Only realised profit above the buffer is withdrawable. Example: on a 50K-derived Live Account, a $3,000 balance contains the $2,000 buffer plus $1,000 eligible profit.
The trader receives 90% and the company 10%. Eligible payouts are available daily, with no consistency rule.
If the balance falls below the buffer, payout eligibility pauses until the required protection is rebuilt.

On the first Live transition, a Live Bonus becomes available after reaching the required real-account profit level.
25K: $1,000 target / $1,000 bonus | 50K: $2,000 / $2,000 | 100K: $3,000 / $3,000 | 150K: $4,500 / $4,500.
Reaching the target completes the buffer, locks drawdown at $0, and makes the bonus available.
The Live Bonus is paid 100% to the trader and is not subject to the 90/10 split.
If several eligible accounts move to Live in the first transition, each can earn its own bonus.
The bonus is paid only once on the first Live transition. Normal payouts are profit above the buffer and remain subject to the 90/10 split.

Live contract limits depend on account size and current profit. Limits rise or fall with profit and are updated at the end of each trading day. They also vary by exchange, with lower limits for some high-volatility contracts.

Warning: Attempts to bypass scaling limits are prohibited. Position sizes are monitored, and repeated trading above the allowed limit may trigger account review and additional action.

After a Live Account fails, the trader may return and purchase a new evaluation.
A standard two-week waiting period applies before a new purchase is allowed.
After the wait, the trader may qualify again through evaluation, funded trading and a future Live review.
Repeated Live failures caused by reckless trading, excessive risk or gambling-like behaviour may result in a longer waiting period. The risk team determines the additional wait and future eligibility.