FTMO rules and how to track them in Edgetrail

FTMO rules per account type

Percent of the initial simulated capital. After passing, the FTMO Account keeps the daily and maximum loss but has no profit target and no minimum days. Source: FTMO Trading Objectives, checked on 22 October 2026.

How FTMO measures the daily loss

FTMO recalculates the limit every day at 00:00 CE(S)T: the balance at that moment minus the daily percentage of the initial capital (on day one the initial capital itself). During the day your equity – balance plus open profit and loss, swaps and commissions – must not fall below it.

Example, $100,000 2-Step: the balance at midnight is $102,000, the limit is $5,000, so equity has to stay above $97,000 until the next midnight. On the 1-Step the limit is $3,000 and the floor $99,000.

How the maximum loss works

• 2-Step (static): equity must never fall below 90% of the initial capital – $90,000 on a $100,000 account, no matter how high the account has been.
• 1-Step (trailing at the end of the day): the floor is 10% below the highest midnight balance (or the initial capital, if higher) and can only rise. A midnight balance of $104,000 lifts it to $94,000. It resets to 90% of the initial capital when a reward is withdrawn and a new account is issued.
• Instant (trailing during the day): the floor moves up when a trade closes at a new balance high and does not reset after a reward.

The profit target counts only with all positions closed.

Settings in Edgetrail’s prop firm mode

For the FTMO Account after passing, keep the same loss limits and set Profit target and Minimum trading days to 0.

Step by step

1. Open Settings (gear icon) and, under Features, switch on Prop firm challenge. The challenge start is set to today.
2. Fill in Name (optional), Account size, Max daily loss, Max drawdown, Drawdown type (Static or Trailing), Profit target and Minimum trading days from the table above.
3. Set Challenge start to the first day of the phase, so earlier trades do not count.
4. Enter 0 to switch a rule off. An empty field falls back to the default (5% daily, 10% drawdown, 10% target, 4 days).
5. The dashboard now shows the profit target, what is left for today, the drawdown buffer and the trading days. After each save, Edgetrail warns once per level and day at 75% and at 100% of the daily limit and of the drawdown buffer.

Where Edgetrail and FTMO count differently

Edgetrail’s daily limit is the same 5% or 3% of the account size, applied to the sum of the day’s realised results – the same number as FTMO’s as long as no position stays open over midnight. In 1-Step trailing mode Edgetrail moves the floor after each closed trade, not only at midnight, so during the day it is stricter than FTMO; once your highest balance passes $110,000 (on $100,000) it is looser, because it stops at the starting balance. The drawdown calculator lets you check the floor with your own highest midnight balance.

Other firms and tools

Firms often mean different things by the same words, so read the rules of the firm you actually trade with. Also written up with dated sources: HyroTrader rules (Zero-, One- and Two-Step, with equity measured at 00:00 UTC) and Breakout rules (Classic, Pro, Turbo and Spark, with a daily limit that moves with the balance). How static, intraday-trailing and end-of-day-trailing floors move is worked through day by day in trailing vs static drawdown; where your floor sits today shows the drawdown calculator, and how likely a losing streak reaches it at your risk per trade shows the risk of ruin calculator. What to look for in a journal for a challenge is in trading journals for prop firms.

What Edgetrail does not check

• Open positions. Edgetrail counts only realised results of closed trades, after fees, including partial exits on the day they happen. The firm counts open profit and loss as well.
• The firm’s day boundary. A day in Edgetrail ends at midnight in your device’s local time.
• One account by name. Every trade in the account currency since the challenge start counts. If you trade a second account in the same currency during the same period, it counts too.
• FTMO’s trading days. FTMO counts a day (CE(S)T) on which you open a position; Edgetrail counts days with a closed trade or partial exit.
• The Best Day rule. On the 1-Step (orders from 12 October 2026) the best day may be at most 50% of total profit, on the Instant account 30%. Edgetrail does not compute it; FTMO says exceeding it is not a breach, you keep trading until the ratio fits.
• The 1-Step trailing above 110%. FTMO keeps raising the limit with every higher midnight balance; Edgetrail’s trailing floor stops at the starting balance.
• Sync with the firm. There is no sync with prop firm platforms; trades come in via CSV import, by hand or through the exchange imports.

Sources

• FTMO: Trading Objectives

Checked on 22 October 2026 on the firm’s own pages. The firm’s current rules and your agreement are always authoritative; prop firms change their rules often. Edgetrail is not affiliated with any prop firm. FTMO changed its 1-Step consistency rule for orders from 12 October 2026 – a reason to check the page again before each new challenge.

Updated: 4 November 2026