What is FTMO?
FTMO is the world’s best-known proprietary trading firm. You pass an evaluation Challenge and, if successful, trade the firm’s capital (up to $200,000), keeping 80-90% of profits.
How the Challenge works
The process has two phases (Challenge and Verification) where you must hit a profit target while respecting the risk limits: 10% maximum drawdown and 5% maximum daily loss. Pass, and you get the funded account.
Rules and payouts
An 80-90% profit split with payouts every 14 days. A scaling plan grows your capital up to $2 million based on consistency.
Final verdict
FTMO earns 9.3/10. The most established and trusted prop firm, ideal for skilled traders without their own capital.
AI automation
To build trading bots compatible with FTMO, see our guides on automated trading with Python, the pre-trained models in ONNX Trading Bot and the AI agents in OpenClaw Trading Bot.