For Traders (fortraders.com) is a prop trading firm run by FT Trading Ltd. in the United Arab Emirates, launched in June 2023. It sells paid evaluations in forex, crypto and futures, with account sizes up to $200,000 and total allocation up to $300,000. Every customer account is a demo account trading virtual money. Your capital at risk is the challenge fee, and payouts are the firm’s reward for simulated performance.
Terms vary heavily by program. Drawdown type, consistency percentage, minimum days, inactivity window, payout frequency and leverage all depend on which model you buy. Overall, the firm offers low entry costs, no evaluation time limit and a wide choice of platforms and markets. Against that sit a 2% floating loss cap on most funded accounts, judgment-based prohibitions and a $15,000 per-cycle payout cap.
Programs and How Their Numbers Differ
Evaluations come as Pay After Pass, Fast, Fast Static, Classic and Fast Pro, across 30 configurations. The firm also runs Instant and Instant Pro models.
Pay After Pass (1 step). You pay a reduced fee upfront and the rest only after you pass. The $25K to $200K configurations have a 2% profit target, 3% daily loss, 6% trailing max loss, no minimum trading days and on-demand payouts at an 80% split.
Fast (1 step). One version ($6K to $100K) has a 9% target, 3% daily loss, 6% trailing max loss and 3 minimum days. A second version ($6K to $50K) has a 10% target with the same loss limits and 6 minimum days. Both pay at 80% on a 14-day cycle.
Fast Static (1 step). This has a 10% target, 3% daily loss and 6% max loss. The max loss is static, so the floor does not trail your equity. It has 3 minimum days and 14-day payouts.
Classic (2 steps). Phase 1 targets 8% and Phase 2 targets 5%, with a 4% daily loss and 8% static max loss. Like Fast Static, it requires 3 minimum days and pays every 14 days.
Fast Pro. The $25K account has a 6% target, no daily loss limit, a 4% trailing end-of-day max loss, 4 minimum days, a 90% split and on-demand payouts. Some configurations use a $2,500 trailing end-of-day max loss, a futures-style drawdown.
Instant and Instant Pro. These skip the evaluation and carry the strictest activity and consistency rules, covered below.
The profit-target-to-drawdown ratio is a quick read of difficulty. On Fast you must make 9% before losing 6%. On Classic you must make 8% before losing 8%, which leaves more room per unit of target.
Several terms are unclear or conflicting, so confirm them before you buy:
- Whether the 2% Pay After Pass target, promoted as a limited-time reduction from 4%, is still in force.
- Which Fast version you are buying: 9% target with 3 minimum days, or 10% with 6.
- Whether Forex Instant uses the 20% or the 15% consistency rule.
- What the daily loss reset is measured from.
- Whether the $2 per lot commission is per side or round trip.
Drawdown Rules
Trailing vs. Static Max Loss
A static max loss sits at a fixed level below the starting balance. On a hypothetical $100K Classic account with an 8% static max loss, the account fails if equity reaches $92,000, regardless of any profit made first. The 4% daily loss works out to $4,000 per day.
A trailing max loss moves up as the account makes new highs. On a hypothetical $100K Fast account with a 6% trailing limit, the floor starts at $94,000. If the account reaches $104,000, the floor follows it up toward $98,000. Profit you have already made can be lost before you hit the limit. Fast Pro’s limit trails on an end-of-day basis, so the floor updates from closing values rather than intraday peaks.
The Drawdown Lock After First Payout
For Pay After Pass, Fast, Instant and Instant Pro, the trailing max drawdown never rises above the initial balance. It locks there after the first payout. Withdrawals count as a loss in the drawdown calculation. Suppose a hypothetical $100K account sits at $105,000 with the floor locked at $100,000. Withdrawing profit lowers equity toward that floor and shrinks your cushion for the next trade. The firm itself advises keeping a safety cushion when requesting payouts.
The 2% Floating Loss Cap on Funded Accounts
All funded accounts except Instant Pro carry a real-time limit on open losses. Floating loss must not reach 2% of the starting balance. On a hypothetical $50K funded account that is $1,000 of combined unrealized loss across open positions.
- First violation: all open trades are closed immediately. The account stays active, but the profit split drops to 50%.
- Second violation: all open trades are closed and the account is terminated.
This cap is separate from the daily and max loss limits. Several correlated positions held through a drawdown can trigger it while both of those limits are intact, so position sizing on a funded account has to keep open risk under 2%, below the 3% or 4% daily figure.
Consistency, Minimum Days and Inactivity
Consistency Rules
Consistency percentages vary by program: 20% (Pay After Pass, Forex Instant), 15% (Forex Instant, Crypto Instant, Futures Instant), 35% (Crypto Fast Pro) and 40% (Futures Fast, Futures Fast Pro).
Your best trading day’s profit must stay under the stated share of total profit. Under the 15% version, if one day exceeds the threshold, you keep trading until the share falls back below it. The 20% version applies to funded accounts only. In a hypothetical example under a 20% rule, with $5,000 total profit no single day can account for $1,000 or more. If your best day made $1,500, total profit must grow past $7,500 before that day drops under 20%.
Minimum Trading Days
The rule varies by program:
- Fast, Fast Static and Classic: 3 profitable days in each phase, each with profit of at least 0.5% of the starting balance (6 days on one Fast version).
- Instant: 7 profitable days at the same 0.5% threshold.
- Instant Pro and Pay After Pass: none.
Inactivity
Accounts with no meaningful trading activity are terminated. The window is counted from the time the last position closes:
- 30 days: Pay After Pass, Fast, Fast Static, Classic, Crypto Fast, Crypto Fast Pro
- 7 days: Forex Instant, Crypto Instant, Futures Fast, Futures Fast Pro, Futures Instant
There is no overall time limit to pass an evaluation, but on the 7-day models a week away from the charts can end the account.
Trading Permissions and Prohibited Practices
News trading. There are no restrictions during evaluations. On funded and instant accounts you may hold trades through high-impact news. You may not open positions within 5 minutes before or after a release, and profits from such trades are deducted.
Expert advisors. EAs are allowed only if they assist your own trading decisions. Fully automated or self-trading EAs and bots are prohibited.
Copy trading. You may copy between your For Traders accounts and from a For Traders account (as master) to your own external accounts, including other prop firms or personal accounts. Copying trades into a For Traders account is prohibited.
Weekend holding. Allowed.
Minimum hold time. Every trade must stay open at least 5 seconds. Shorter trades can be flagged as high-frequency trading.
The prohibited list covers high-frequency trading, latency, reverse and tick arbitrage, grid trading, tick scalping, martingale, hedging, account rolling, group and signal trading, copying other people’s signals, third-party account operation, automated bots, overleveraging, gambling and one-sided betting. The last two depend on the firm’s interpretation rather than a numeric threshold, so large directional bets around events carry review risk even inside the loss limits.
The firm also has a code of conduct. It bans spreading false or harmful information, threats, sharing private communication, payment disputes, harassment, spamming, persistent begging, system abuse and impersonating staff.
Payouts
Split. Profit splits range from 60% to 90%, set as follows:
- A standard 80% split.
- On some models, a choice of 90% at a higher fee or 70% at a lower one.
- A 70% start that rises 5% per payout to a 90% ceiling.
- A 60% start that rises 10% per payout to a 90% ceiling.
The two escalating tiers require a 3% payout buffer. Only profit above the buffer is withdrawable.
In a hypothetical example, a $100K account at $108,000 with a 3% buffer has $5,000 eligible for withdrawal, since only profit above $103,000 counts. At an 80% split you would receive $4,000; at a 60% starting split, $3,000.
Frequency. Instant, Instant Pro, Fast, Fast Static and Classic pay on a 14-day cycle. Pay After Pass and Fast Pro pay on demand, subject to the 3% buffer and a 20% consistency rule.
Processing and limits.
- Processing time: 48 hours.
- Minimum payout: $100.
- Payout cap: $15,000 per cycle on all programs.
- Methods: bank transfer and USDC on ERC20.
Processing fees are $50 for Rise Pay and $25 for direct USDC transfers, a meaningful share of a small first withdrawal.
Costs
Standard challenges are listed from $46 for a $5K 24/7 Trading Fast account and $49 for a $6K Forex Fast account, with lower prices of $39 and $41 shown beside them, and Pay After Pass starts at $9. Prices scale with account size, and the static-drawdown and 2-step models cost more than Fast at the same size. Fees are one-time per challenge, and the code TRADE15 gives 15% off.
Trading commission is $2 per lot. If it is charged per side rather than round trip, a strategy trading many lots a day pays double per trade.
The firm runs a loyalty club with five XP tiers: Starter, Rising Star, Elite, VIP and Legend. You earn XP by trading, completing tasks, joining tournaments and staying active. Higher tiers unlock purchase cashback, account scale-up, lower profit targets, increased drawdown and a higher profit share.
Platforms, Instruments and Leverage
You can trade on MetaTrader 5, cTrader or TradeLocker. Instruments include forex, gold, silver, indices, commodities, stock CFDs, crypto and futures.
Leverage depends on the program and the instrument:
- Forex Challenge: 1:125
- Forex Master: 1:30
- Forex Fast Static: 1:20
- BTCUSD and ETHUSD: 1:5
- Other crypto pairs: 1:2
- Crypto Fast Pro: 1:20
Metals, energy and indices carry lower leverage caps than FX on the 1-step and 2-step models, and Instant accounts have tighter caps than evaluations.
Crypto comes in two forms. Forex challenges include BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and BNB alongside currency pairs, while the dedicated crypto challenges cover what the firm says is more than 70 coins. Futures traders should weigh the trailing end-of-day structure and the 7-day inactivity window on Futures Fast and Futures Instant.
Restricted Countries
Residents of these countries and regions cannot sign up:
- Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar
- Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan and South Sudan
- North Korea and Cuba
- The Russian Federation and Belarus
- The Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine
Trustpilot Profile
The Trustpilot rating is 4.1 from 1,847 reviews, with 73% five-star and 19% one-star, leaving only a small share in the two- to four-star range. Reviewers mostly rate the firm at either end of the scale.
Strengths and Trade-offs
What works in the trader’s favor
- No time limit on evaluations, and weekend holding is allowed.
- Pay After Pass lowers the upfront cost.
- On several models the trailing drawdown locks at the initial balance after the first payout.
- News trading is unrestricted during evaluations.
- A choice of MT5, cTrader or TradeLocker, with forex, crypto and futures under one firm.
What works against it
- The 2% floating loss cap on most funded accounts sits below the daily loss limit, and one breach cuts the split to 50%.
- Judgment-based prohibitions such as one-sided betting and overleveraging.
- The $15,000 per-cycle cap, the 3% buffer on some tiers and processing fees limit what you can withdraw at once.
- A 7-day inactivity window on Instant and some futures models.
How we checked For Traders
We visited fortraders.com on 13 November 2026, connecting from Tallinn, Estonia. We opened the home page, the About Us page, the Terms & Conditions, the tournament terms and the challenge listings, then scrolled to the footer. The footer names FT Trading Ltd. and BLN Tech Club FZCO in Dubai with Registration No. DMCC196633, alongside an address in Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia. The terms carry a different number. There, BLN TECH CLUB FZCO is named as the service provider, with license no. DMCC-882990. We saw no risk warning on the pages we opened.
The challenges page lists prices openly. A $6K Forex Fast account showed $49 with $41 printed beside it, and a $100K Forex Classic showed $599 next to $509. The home page advertises a $2 per lot commission and a 48-hour payout guarantee. Then we clicked “Buy Challenge.” It took us to app.fortraders.com, which asks for a sign-up or login before any price or payment step. We stopped there. We did not buy a challenge or open an account.
We did not run a register search. Neither DMCC number points to a register we can query, so both stand only as the site states them. On 13 November 2026, Trustpilot showed 4.1/5 from 1,847 reviews, with 73% five-star and 19% one-star ratings. The company had replied to none of the 8 newest reviews. The Wayback Machine first captured the domain on 2003-08-22. That capture may predate the current brand, since the firm’s own FAQ says it was founded in 2023.
Some things remain open. We could not confirm either registration number independently. The program rules we collected were not quoted word for word on the pages we read, so treat the drawdown, target and split figures as the firm’s own claims until you see them in your account terms.
Who It May Suit
For Traders fits discretionary traders who size positions conservatively and can keep open risk under 2% of the starting balance on a funded account. Pay After Pass and the smaller Fast accounts suit traders who want low entry cost, and Fast Static or Classic suit those who prefer a static floor. It is a poor fit for fully automated strategies, scalpers holding trades for only a few seconds, grid or martingale systems, and anyone whose returns come from a few outsized days.
Alternatives
| Provider | Score | Fee | Split | Payouts | |
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| 3.5/10 | $69 | 80% | Sunday 11:59 PM IST to Monday 12 PM IST | Review | |
| 7.0/10 | $44 | up to 100% | 14 or 30 Days | Review | |
| 5.8/10 | $531 | 85% | Bi-weekly | Weekly with add-on | Review |