2-Step Advanced Challenge

Balanced Conditions to Get Funded Fast.

A balanced 2-Step prop firm challenge to help you get funded fast. This 2-Step challenge offers higher max and daily drawdown limits than our 1-Step challenge, giving you more flexibility to demonstrate your trading ability. Pass both steps, complete our risk review, and get access to your funded account where you can withdraw real-world funds from simulated profits. Keep up to 100% payout split and get paid from day one. Perfect for day traders and swing traders who value balanced conditions and sustainable growth.

Balanced Conditions to Get Funded Fast.

A balanced 2-Step prop firm challenge to help you get funded fast. This 2-Step challenge offers higher max and daily drawdown limits than our 1-Step challenge, giving you more flexibility to demonstrate your trading ability. Pass both steps, complete our risk review, and get access to your funded account where you can withdraw real-world funds from simulated profits. Keep up to 100% payout split and get paid from day one. Perfect for day traders and swing traders who value balanced conditions and sustainable growth.

Choose Your 2-Step Challenge Account Size 

Select your starting balance and trading platform below. All 2-Step Advanced challenge accounts include up to 100% payout split and access to MetaTrader 5, cTrader, DxTrade, and Match Trader.

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Step 1 – Challenge Phase 1

10% Simulated Profit Target

10% Max Drawdown

5% Daily Drawdown Limit

Step 2 – Challenge Phase 2

5% Simulated Profit Target

10% Max Drawdown

5% Daily Drawdown Limit

Your Funded Account

After completing Step 2 of the challenge, you gain access to your funded account. Withdraw real-world funds from your simulated profits from day one, and then every seven days. No waiting period – just pass the 2-Step challenge and start earning real payouts from your trusted prop trading firm.

Payout Split & Fast Withdrawals

Withdraw simulated profits from your funded account starting at an 80% payout split. As you hit milestones, increase your split to 90% and ultimately 100%. Reach 20% simulated profit to unlock 90% payout split, and reach 30% simulated profit for 100% payout split.

Request withdrawals easily through your FT+ Dashboard. Withdraw any simulated profit above $50 minimum. Make your first withdrawal on day one, then request payouts every 7 days. Get funded fast and paid faster with our 2-Step challenge – the fastest route to real payouts in prop trading.

Withdraw simulated profits from your funded account starting at an 80% payout split. As you hit milestones, increase your split to 90% and ultimately 100%. Reach 20% simulated profit to unlock 90% payout split, and reach 30% simulated profit for 100% payout split.

Request withdrawals easily through your FT+ Dashboard. Withdraw any simulated profit above $50 minimum. Make your first withdrawal on day one, then request payouts every 7 days. Get funded fast and paid faster with our 2-Step challenge – the fastest route to real payouts in prop trading.

Drawdown Rules for 2-Step Advanced Challenge


Our 2-Step challenge has clear, fair drawdown rules to protect simulated capital and your trading progress. We use both hard rules and soft rules.

Breaking a hard rule results in account closure. Breaking a soft rule never closes your account – the system simply closes any position that breaches the soft rule. Trade with confidence knowing the rules are transparent and designed for your success.

Our 2-Step challenge has clear, fair drawdown rules to protect simulated capital and your trading progress. We use both hard rules and soft rules.

Breaking a hard rule results in account closure. Breaking a soft rule never closes your account – the system simply closes any position that breaches the soft rule. Trade with confidence knowing the rules are transparent and designed for your success.

  • Hard Rules
  • Do not breach our Daily Simulated Loss limit of 5%
  • Do not breach our Maximum Simulated Loss limit of 10%
  • Soft Rules
  • Do not hold trades during weekends. (All trades will be automatically closed by 16:30 EST on Friday).

Daily Simulated Loss


Daily Simulated Loss will start at 5% of the original account size. Then, with each new trading day, it will become 5% of the prior day’s balance. This update happens when the server’s clock hits 23:59 and prevents you from losing too much in a single day. The best way to explain the daily loss limit is by example:

Daily loss limit starts at 5% of the original account and updates to 5% of the prior day’s balance at 23:59 server time.

Daily Simulated Loss Help Center
  • Day Example 1
  • Previous Day Starting Balance at 23:59 = $100,000
  • Daily Simulated Loss Limit = $5,000 (5%)
  • $100,000 – $5,000 = $95,000
  • Day Example 2
  • Previous Day Starting Balance at 23:59 = $106,000
  • Daily Loss Limit (5%) = $5,300
  • $106,000 – $5,300 = $100,700
Note: If the trader has winning trades in a given day, the amount those winning trades make is added to the daily simulated loss allowance for that day

Relative Maximum Simulation Loss


Our Relative Maximum Simulated Loss works by trailing by 10% of the initial simulated balance from the high water mark. The high water mark is measured using the simulated account balance. Once the maximum simulated loss has reached the initial balance, it no longer trails. The best way to explain the total trailing maximum simulated loss is by example:

Relative Maximum Simulated Loss trails 10% from the high water mark until it reaches the initial balance, then stops trailing.

Maximum Simulated Loss Help Center
  • Example 1
  • Starting Balance = $100,000
  • Total Maximum Simulated Loss Limit = $10,000 (10%)
  • 10% of $100,000 = $10,000. $100,000 – $10,000 = $90,000
  • Example 2
  • Day Starting Simulated Balance = $111,000
  • Total Maximum Simulated Loss Limit = $11,000
  • As your balance has exceeded $110,000, the drawdown has become static at $100,000. $111,000 – $11,000 = $100,000
You can learn about Relative Maximum Simulated Loss here

FT+ Trader Account Drawdown


On a FT+ Trader account, once you have reached 10% simulated profit, the maximum simulated loss no longer trails and the total simulated account size becomes your lowest point of loss. This means if you are on a $100,000 simulated account and you achieve $111,000 you would now have a total simulated maximum loss allowance of 11%. In this example, your account can not go below $100,000 once $110,000 is achieved. Please be aware that when you come to withdraw your simulated profits, you should leave a sensible amount in your account to cover any loss you might expect. This is because your simulated account cannot fall below the total allocated to you (in this example that would be $100,000).

On an FT+ Trader account, after 10% simulated profit, the Maximum Simulated Loss locks, setting the total drawdown allowance at the highest achieved balance minus 10%.

Drawdown Help Center
  • Example 1
  • Simulated Balance in account = $115,000
  • Total Simulated Maximum Loss Limit = $15,000
  • Trader withdraws simulated $6000. Trader gets $4800 (80%)
  • Account size is now $109,000
  • $109,000 – $100,000 = $9000
  • Trader has a $9000 total simulated maximum loss allowance or 9%.
  • Example 2
  • Simulated Balance in account = $110,000
  • Total Simulated Maximum Loss Limit = $10,000
  • Trader withdraws simulated $10,000. Trader gets $8000 (80%).
  • Account size is now $100,000
  • $100,000 – $100,000 = $0
  • Trader has no maximum simulated loss allowance, the account would no longer be tradable, and would be closed.
You can learn about Relative Maximum Simulated Loss here

Need Help?
24/7 Support for Traders

Visit our Help Center for answers to common questions about funded challenges, payouts, and trading rules. Learn how to set up your account, understand scaling, and navigate platforms like MetaTrader 5, cTrader, DxTrade, and Match Trader. Still need help? Our live chat team is available 24/7 to support you every step of the way.

What's Allowed on The 2-Step Advanced Challenge

We pride ourselves on transparent rules and maximum trading flexibility. Our 2-Step challenge allows:

  • Trading and holding overnight
  • Unlimited time to complete the evaluation phases
  • Any strategies including Expert Advisors (Providing they do not utilise arbitraging methods)
  • Day trading, scalping, hedging, and swing trading

 

Learn more about the 2-Step Advanced challenge rules and requirements in our Help Center.

We pride ourselves on being simple, transparent and trustworthy. As such we like to give our traders as much flexibility as possible. This is why we allow:

  • Trading and holding overnight
  • Unlimited time to complete the evaluation phases
  • Any strategies including Expert Advisors (except those using arbitrage)
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Does My 2-Step Challenge Account Expire?

Your account does not have a time limit to complete any evaluation, or trade on your FT+ Trader account. However, your account would expire in the event that you do not place at least one trade in any 30-day period. Placing at least one trade, means both open and close of a position, to register activity on your account.



This provision is in place due to our partnered brokers, and is to ensure that the servers remain outage free and run as smoothly as possible.

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Industry-Leading Scaling Plan for 2-Step Advanced Challenge

Scale your funded account up to $2,500,000 in simulated capital – the best scaling plan in prop trading.

Scale your funded account up to $2,500,000 in simulated capital – the best scaling plan in prop trading.

  • Your closed balance on your FT+ Trader simulated live account must hit the scaling target for your account (see scale table).
  • No open trades at the time of scaling request (account will be disabled while the scale is actioned, and re-enabled once complete).
  • To scale up, you must have 10% simulated profit in your closed balance. Each level requires 10% new profit, with no carryover from previous levels. Skipping levels isn’t allowed.
  • Subject to risk review upon scaling request.
2-Step Advanced Challenge Help Center

Key Features of the 2-Step Challenge Scaling Plan

  • No time restriction
  • You can use your simulated profit to fund your next scale up
  • You can choose to withdraw your simulated profit – subject to your new static maximum simulated loss limit
  • Static maximum simulated loss limit always locked at scaled account size 

The idea of scaling is that it gives customers much greater buying power, not more drawdown. This way, we can make scaling on the Advanced Trader Program simple without additional parameters. 

How to Scale Your Funded Account

Reach the required simulated profit target (20% for 2-Step challenge). Close all open trades, then submit a support ticket requesting to scale up. Allow up to 2 business days for completion.

Scaling increases your buying power to pursue larger simulated gains. All scaling requests go through our standard risk review policy to ensure you’re demonstrating strong risk management. This protects both you and the sustainability of our 2-Step challenge program.

Scaling Flexibility on 2-Step Challenge

  • You can request to scale as often as once a day every day all the way up to $5,000,000 (subject to having purchased the enhanced scaling add-on at checkout)
  • You can request to scale on this program without fulfilling additional consistency rules
  • You can request to scale as soon as you have reached 20% simulated profit in your ‘FT+ Trader’ account

Withdrawals

You can withdraw before or after scaling, but withdrawals reduce your simulated account balance and do not count towards the balance required for scaling.

Scaling Example for 2-Step Advanced Challenge

You have a simulated $100,000 account, and you hit the 20% profit target required to scale. You now have an account with a simulated $120,000 that is ready to scale. These are the steps taken to scale your account:

  1. Ensure that you have no active trades and that you have the simulation profit target amount in your account – In this example, you would need $120,000 in your account.
  2. Raise a support ticket and request to scale up your account.
  3. We will temporarily disable your account access and, subject to a favourable Risk Review, we will increase the simulated funds in your account. In this example, we would increase the account to $220,000 from $120,000. Note that once this process has been started by support, it can take up to 48 business hours to complete.
  4. We respond back to you letting you know that your existing account has been scaled up and is ready to trade again.

In this example, assuming you do not withdraw, if you have a simulated balance of $120,000 you can request to scale to a simulated starting size of $200,000. You would have the same amount of simulated profit on the new account, so the balance would be $220,000. ($20,000 in this example). The new static maximum simulated loss limit has been changed to reflect the new account starting size of $200,000.

In this example, you would now need to make an additional simulated $20,000 of profit to be able to scale on the simulated $200,000 level to the next level of $400,000. You would be free to withdraw simulated profit as suits your circumstances and trading risk profile.

  • Funded Account Starting Balance
  • $25,000*
  • $50,000*
  • $100,000*
  • $200,000*
  • $400,000*
  • $800,000*
  • $1,600,000*
  • $2,500,000*
  • Profit Required to scale
  • 20%
  • 20%
  • 20%
  • 20%
  • 20%
  • 20%
  • 20%
  • –
  • Balance Required For Next Level
  • $30,000
  • $60,000
  • $120,000
  • $240,000
  • $480,000
  • $960,000
  • $1,920,000
  • –
*plus the profit you made from the last level

Markets Available on Instant Funding within our Simulated-Live Environment

Trade a wide range of market instruments on your instant funded account. We continuously update available markets to give funded traders more opportunities.

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