FuturesElite is a futures prop firm that sells one-step evaluations and instant funded accounts from $25K to $150K. Your outcome depends less on headline price than on which of its five programs you buy. Elite (with or without a daily loss limit), Prime and Nitro use the same evaluation targets and drawdowns but pay out under different rules. Instant skips the evaluation, pays a lower split and adds its own consistency and activity requirements.
Its main strengths are an end-of-day drawdown that tolerates intraday swings and locks at the starting balance early, an Elite program with no profit goal, and daily payouts on Prime and Nitro once a buffer is built. The trade-offs are per-request caps and buffers that slow large withdrawals, a strict scalping definition, an Instant program that stacks extra requirements on a higher fee, and a short track record.
Who operates FuturesElite
FuturesElite is operated by Quantum SRL. The firm is based in Italy and launched in November 2024, so its history is short. FuturesElite claims on its home page to have paid out $9.5M+ to traders with an average payout time of 24 hours, and both are the firm’s own figures.
Trading is limited to futures, with sessions following the CME schedule described below. Supported platforms are Tradovate, WealthCharts, NinjaTrader, Quantower, ATAS, Volumetrica and DeepCharts.
Programs and what you pay
Each program is sold at $25K, $50K, $100K and $150K for a one-time fee per account. Two cost points are not obvious from the price alone:
- Elite with DLL is cheaper than Elite without DLL at every size. You pay less in exchange for accepting a daily loss limit on top of the trailing drawdown.
- Instant costs roughly two to three times the one-step price for the same account size, because you skip the evaluation entirely.
Evaluation targets and drawdown
For the four one-step programs (Elite without DLL, Elite with DLL, Prime and Nitro), the targets and maximum loss are the same:
| Account | Profit target | Max loss (EOD trailing) |
|---|---|---|
| $25K | $1,250 | $1,000 |
| $50K | $3,000 | $2,000 |
| $100K | $6,000 | $3,000 |
| $150K | $9,000 | $4,500 |
There is no minimum number of trading days to pass. The ratio of target to drawdown gets harder as the account grows: at $25K you must make $1,250 within $1,000 of room, while at $100K and $150K the target is twice the drawdown.
Instant accounts have no profit target because there is no evaluation. Their maximum drawdown is set at 5% of current balance, including profits, which the firm illustrates as $2,500 on a $50,000 account and $5,000 on a $100,000 account. Note that the $50K Instant drawdown is tighter than the $50K one-step figure.
How the trailing drawdown works
The drawdown is measured on end-of-day balance, not intraday equity. An open position can dip below the trailing level during the session without breaching, as long as the day closes above it. The trailing level then moves up with closing balance.
It stops trailing once your profit equals the maximum drawdown amount or once you submit your first payout request, whichever comes first. At that point it locks at the initial account balance, and any later drop below that balance breaches the account.
On a hypothetical $50K account with a $2,000 drawdown, the floor locks at $50,000 once you close a day at $52,000 or request a payout. After that, you can only lose profit built above the starting balance.
Position size limits
Contract caps scale with account size and differ slightly by program. At $25K the limit is 2 minis or 20 micros. At $50K it is usually 4 minis (40 micros), with one program allowing more. At $100K it ranges from 6 to 8 minis, and at $150K from 10 to 12 minis. Micros count at ten per mini.
Payout rules by program
The split is 90% on Elite, Prime and Nitro funded accounts and 80% on Instant accounts.
Elite (with and without DLL)
Elite is built around winning days rather than a profit goal. To qualify for each payout you need six profitable trading days, each meeting a minimum daily profit, plus at least $1 of net profit in the current cycle. Your balance must sit above where it was after your previous payout, or above the starting balance for a first payout.
Two Elite terms conflict in the firm’s own materials, so confirm them for your account size before counting qualifying days. One version sets the daily minimum at $250 per winning day without DLL and $350 with DLL at every size; another gives $100 at $25K, $150 at $50K, $250 at $100K and $350 at $150K. And although Elite funded accounts are stated to have no consistency rule, a separate funded-stage rule with no program attached bars any single day from reaching 40% of total profit.
Each request is capped at 50% of the profit remaining on the account, and also at a fixed amount:
- Without DLL: $1,000 (25K), $2,000 (50K), $2,500 (100K), $3,000 (150K) per request.
- With DLL: the same $1,000 and $2,000 at 25K and 50K. At $100K the cap is $2,500 for the first payout and $2,900 after. At $150K it is $3,000 for the first payout and $3,900 after.
On larger accounts, the with-DLL version pays out more per request after the first withdrawal, which offsets the daily loss limit.
Prime
Prime pays on a daily frequency once you build a buffer above the starting balance. The buffer is $2,100 at $50K, $3,100 at $100K and $4,600 at $150K, and you cannot withdraw from inside it. Payout caps step up over the first three payouts:
| Account | 1st payout | 2nd payout | 3rd payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| $25K | $1,000 | $1,500 | $1,500 |
| $50K | $2,000 | $2,500 | $2,800 |
| $100K | $2,500 | $3,000 | $3,500 |
| $150K | $3,000 | $3,500 | $3,800 |
Nitro
Nitro is also daily, with a buffer of $1,100 (25K), $2,100 (50K), $3,100 (100K) or $4,600 (150K) that cannot be withdrawn. The minimum withdrawal is $500, and you need at least $1 of net profit in the cycle under the same balance test as Elite. Caps are flat per request: $1,000, $2,000, $2,500 and $2,800 from smallest to largest account.
Nitro also sets a daily ceiling on simulated profit. If you reach $4,000 (25K), $6,000 (50K), $8,000 (100K) or $10,000 (150K) in a single day, the account is moved to live trading automatically.
Instant
Each Instant payout requires ten profitable trading days, each meeting a daily minimum of $75 (25K), $150 (50K), $250 (100K) or $350 (150K), plus the consistency requirement and compliance with the general rules. You must also reach the payout profit goal again every cycle: $1,750 at $25K, $3,500 at $50K, $7,000 at $100K and $10,000 at $150K. Profits from scalping trades do not count toward it.
You can withdraw up to 50% of total profits per cycle, within these caps:
| Account | 1st payout | 2nd payout | 3rd payout |
|---|---|---|---|
| $25K | $1,000 | $2,500 | $3,000 |
| $50K | $1,500 | $2,500 | $3,000 |
| $100K | $2,500 | $4,000 | $4,500 |
| $150K | $3,500 | $4,600 | $5,000 |
The Instant consistency score loosens as you progress. It is 20% for the first and second payouts, 25% for the third and 30% for the fourth. At 20%, no single session can account for more than a fifth of total profit. On a $50K account aiming for its $3,500 goal, that works out to no more than $700 from one day, assuming the goal is exactly met.
Trading rules that can cost you an account
Consistency during evaluation
On evaluation accounts, no single day’s profit can exceed 40% or 50% of total profit, depending on the plan.
Session hours and overnight holding
The trading day runs from 6:00 PM EST to 4:55 PM EST the next day. The market is closed from Friday 4:55 PM to the Sunday 6:00 PM open, plus announced holiday closures.
Overnight positions are not allowed. Anything still open at 4:55 PM EST is liquidated automatically. You also cannot trade any product within 2% of a CME price limit.
News trading
News restrictions apply to all funded accounts. You must be flat 2 minutes before a release and cannot reopen until 2 minutes after the news ends. The firm treats the event itself as lasting 2 minutes, so the blocked window totals 6 minutes.
A trade inside the window is voided rather than treated as a hard breach. Straddles, strangles and other setups designed to capture news volatility are prohibited.
Microscalping
A trade counts as scalping if it is held under roughly 10 seconds (the firm cites 11 seconds as the minimum) or captures 1 point or less on NQ, or the equivalent on other contracts.
- In evaluation: if scalping profit exceeds 50% of the target, the account will not be upgraded to funded.
- On funded accounts: scalping is not a violation, and it is not removed from the payout request. It is deducted from your remaining profit buffer instead. If the scalped amount is larger than that buffer, the account is breached.
Inactivity
The standard rule ends an account after 29 days without a trade. Instant accounts bought after November 23, 2025 must trade at least once every 7 days or they breach. A terminated account can be recovered by settling outstanding payments, and pauses for special reasons need prior contact with support.
Prohibited practices
The firm bans a range of behavior and may close an account without warning, void the related profits and re-review passed evaluations:
- fully automated trading with bots or AI;
- stacking multiple limit orders at one price to manipulate fills;
- targeting isolated fills in gapped or illiquid markets;
- using tight brackets to exploit the absence of slippage;
- “flipping,” meaning repeated cycles of payout request then breach;
- buying many challenges and trading them recklessly hoping one passes;
- hedging or reverse trading across accounts, users or within one challenge;
- group trading or coordinating strategies with others.
Copying trades between your own accounts is allowed without restriction. Copying another trader’s account is not. Different traders sharing one IP address is prohibited, and logging in from several countries can be flagged as account sharing.
Dollar-cost averaging into positions is permitted as long as it is not your primary strategy.
Giveaway accounts follow the same rules with four fixed differences, regardless of plan or size:
- an 8% profit target;
- a 2% payout cap;
- 21 days between payouts;
- a 50% consistency rule during the challenge phase only.
Trustpilot reviews
FuturesElite has 392 Trustpilot reviews with a 4-star rating, as of 13 November 2026. The distribution is lopsided toward the extremes: 302 five-star and 54 one-star reviews, with few in between. Recent reviews include praise for named support staff and an allegation that a trader who passed was rejected at KYC with no refund. KYC approval stands between a passed evaluation and a payout.
How we checked FuturesElite
We visited futureselite.com on 13 November 2026, connecting from Tallinn, Estonia. Our visit began on the home page, then we scrolled to the footer and followed the About Us and Terms and Conditions links. After that we read the Instant and Evaluation account pages in full. The Start Challenge button did not lead to a checkout. It sent us to a sign-in page, so buying a challenge appears to require an account first. We did not register, pay or trade. A live chat widget sat on the home page, but nobody on our team used it.
The rules were readable without logging in. The Instant account page sets the maximum drawdown at 5% of current balance, profits included, and illustrates it as $2,500 on a $50,000 account. That page also caps any single session at 20% of total profits and allows news trading around FOMC, CPI and NFP. Evaluation resets run from $49 for a 50K Starter to $239 for a 150K Pro. The terms offer a refund of the paid amount minus a $75.00 USD fee if requested within 14 days with no trading. The home page claims $9.5M+ paid out to traders and a 24hrs average payout time. Both are the firm’s own numbers.
The Instant page names the operator as Quantum SRL, Corso G. Matteotti 61, Latina 04100, with the number 03095010595. No page we opened claimed a licence or regulator, and we saw no risk warning. With no licence to look up, there was no register record to check.
On Trustpilot, read on 13 November 2026, FuturesElite scored 4/5 from 392 reviews, with 78% five-star and 14% one-star. The company has claimed its profile and had replied to 1 of the 8 newest reviews. The domain was registered on 2023-09-27. Its first Wayback Machine capture dates from 2018-08-06, which may belong to an earlier owner. We could not confirm the payout totals, and we did not match Quantum SRL against an Italian company record, so treat both as unverified.
Who it may suit
The one-step programs fit intraday traders who close by the afternoon, avoid news windows and hold trades longer than a few seconds. Choose Elite if you prefer winning-day payouts without a funded consistency rule. Choose Prime or Nitro if you want daily payouts and can carry a buffer.
Instant suits traders willing to pay more to skip evaluation and who trade steadily enough to meet both the weekly activity rule and the consistency score.
Alternatives
| Provider | Score | Fee | Split | Payouts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.1/10 | $399 | — | — | Review | |
| 6.6/10 | $550 | 80% | 5 business days | Review | |
| 6.8/10 | $509 | 80% | 14 days | Review |