For Traders
For Traders offers up to $1 million in funding and a moderate hidden rules score — which is a combination that deserves careful T&C reading before you get excited about the number on the homepage. The pass rate is decent. The rulebook is worth your full attention.
(11% of complaints)
Who Is This Firm For?
About For Traders
Not overly restrictive, not overly loose.
More like a firm that tries to give you flexibility… while still keeping a close eye on how you use it.
The rules are generally clear.
But like always, the details start to matter once you actually trade.
- Founded
- 2023
- Max Allocation
- $100,000
- Leverage
- 1:100
- Commissions
- $3/lot
Pros
- - Overnight and weekend holding fully allowed across all account types
- - News trading unrestricted during evaluation phase
- - 180-day total window on 3-Step challenge — 60 days per phase, no unnecessary pressure
- - Copy trading from For Traders account as master allowed
- - 3 profitable days minimum per phase — one of the lower requirements in the industry
- - Code of Conduct explicitly documented — clear expectations beyond just trading rules
Cons
- - Instant Drawdown Protection: first -2% floating trigger permanently reduces split to 50%
- - Second trigger terminates account — same two-strike system as Blue Guardian
- - Instant accounts: 7-day inactivity window — one of the shortest in the industry
- - No trade can exceed 70% of profit target — single-trade strategies explicitly blocked
- - Max 40% margin per direction/instrument — limits aggressive position sizing
- - Fully automated EAs prohibited — decision-assisting tools only
Not bad, not great
Been through a challenge reset and a payout cycle with them. Their dashboard is functional but definitely showing its age. Trade here if the conditions fit your style. Otherwise keep shopping.— Verified Trader (sophie h.) See all reviews
The -2% floating loss cap applies across all open positions simultaneously — not per trade. Monitor your total floating PnL actively, not just individual trades. The 70% profit target rule means if your target is $1,000, no single trade can make more than $700 of it — plan your position sizing accordingly. Instant accounts have only 7 days before inactivity termination — if you're not ready to trade, don't activate the account yet.
Trading Conditions
Drawdown System
- Instant Drawdown Protection: max floating loss -2% of starting balance at any time
- First breach: trades closed, account continues, profit split reduced to 50% permanently
- Second breach: account terminated
- Max 40% margin usage per direction/instrument
- No single trade can exceed 70% of the profit target
- Instant accounts inactivity: 7 days — account terminated
- Standard programs inactivity: 30 days — account terminated
High-Frequency & Fast Trading
- Not Allowed:
- HFT and tick scalping
- Arbitrage of any kind
- Grid and martingale strategies
- Fully automated self-trading bots
- Group or signal trading
- Overleveraging and one-sided betting
- Account rolling
Low Liquidity & Timing
- Evaluation phase: news trading fully allowed — no restrictions
- Funded accounts: no opening trades 5 minutes before/after high-impact news
- Profits from trades opened in news window: removed
- Holding through news: allowed — only opening new positions restricted
- Overnight holding: fully allowed on all account types
- Weekend holding: fully allowed on all account types
- 3-Step Challenge: 180 days total, 60 days per phase
Loss-Chasing & Gambling
- Not Allowed:
- Single trade exceeding 70% of profit target
- One-sided betting and overleveraging
- Account rolling
- Hedging across accounts
- Impersonation, harassment or payment dispute abuse
- Instant accounts: account terminated after 7 consecutive days without a trade
Risk Management
- Instant Drawdown Protection: -2% floating loss cap across all open positions simultaneously
- Copy trading: allowed between own For Traders accounts and from For Traders as master
- Copying into For Traders account from external: not allowed
- EAs: decision-assisting tools allowed — fully automated bots prohibited
- Instant accounts: 7 profitable days required (≥0.5% each) before payout
- Instant Pro: no minimum trading days
- Evaluation and funded (Fast, Classic, Strike): 3 profitable days per phase
For Traders – Trading Conditions
Expert Advisors (EAs)
- - Allowed only if they assist your decisions
- - Fully automated or self-trading bots → not allowed
So you can have tools.
You just can’t outsource your brain entirely.
Copy Trading
- - Allowed:
- - Between your own For Traders accounts
- - From your For Traders account (as master)
- Not allowed:
- - Copying into a For Traders account
You can lead your own system.
You just can’t plug into someone else’s.
News Trading
- - Evaluation Phase:
- - No restrictions
- - Funded Accounts:
- - Cannot open trades 5 minutes before/after news
- - Profits from trades opened in that window → removed
You can hold trades through news.
Just don’t try to time the explosion.
Instant Drawdown Protection
- - Max floating loss: -2% of starting balance
Violations:
- - 1st → Trades closed, account continues, profit split reduced to 50%
- - 2nd → Account terminated
This is basically a safety net…
that also doubles as a warning system.
Risk & Execution Rules
- - Max 40% margin usage per direction/instrument
- - No trade can exceed 70% of the profit target
Example:
If your plan is:
“One trade and I’m done”
→ This rule is specifically waiting for you.
Minimum Trading Days
- - 7 profitable days (≥0.5% each)
- - No minimum
Evaluation & Funded (Fast, Classic, Strike):
- - 3 profitable days per phase
So yes, they want consistency…
but they’re not dragging it out unnecessarily.
Trade Behavior Restrictions
Not allowed:
- - HFT / Arbitrage / Tick scalping
- - Grid / Martingale
- - Hedging
- - Overleveraging
- - One-sided betting
- - Account rolling
- - Group or signal trading
- - Fully automated bots
At this point, it’s the usual list.
Nothing surprising, just covering all the “creative shortcuts.”
Inactivity Rules
- - Instant accounts:
- - 7 days inactivity → account terminated
- - Other programs:
- - 30 days inactivity → terminated
So depending on the account, you either:
- - take a short break
or - - apparently take no break at all
Time Limit (3-Step Challenge)
- - Total: 180 days
- - 60 days per phase
Reasonable enough.
No unnecessary pressure here.
Overnight & Weekend Holding
- - Allowed
A small but important plus.
No hidden complications here.
Code of Conduct
Not allowed:
- - Harassment, threats, or toxic behavior
- - Spamming or system abuse
- - Impersonation
- - Payment disputes abuse
Final Take
For Traders sits comfortably in the middle:
- - Clear rules
- - Decent flexibility
- - Some strict areas around execution and behavior
Nothing feels overly aggressive.
Nothing feels overly relaxed either.
If your style is:
- - Structured
- - Moderately paced
- - Not dependent on extremes
You’ll likely have a smooth experience.
If it leans toward:
- - High-risk, single-trade strategies
- - Fast execution
- - Or heavy automation
You’ll start noticing where the boundaries are pretty quickly.
Features & Support
Fast Futures
Step 1 5.0%
Step 2 N/A
Instant Futures
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
Fast
Step 1 9.0%
Step 2 N/A
Classic
Step 1 8.0%
Step 2 5.0%
Strike
Step 1 4.0%
Step 2 4.0%
Instant
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
One-Step Static
Step 1 10.0%
Step 2 N/A
Fast Futures
Step 1 6.0%
Step 2 N/A
Instant Futures
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
Pay After Pass
Step 1 2.0%
Step 2 N/A
Fast
Step 1 9.0%
Step 2 N/A
Classic
Step 1 8.0%
Step 2 5.0%
Strike
Step 1 4.0%
Step 2 4.0%
Instant
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
One-Step Static
Step 1 10.0%
Step 2 N/A
Fast Futures
Step 1 6.0%
Step 2 N/A
Instant Futures
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
Pay After Pass
Step 1 2.0%
Step 2 N/A
Fast
Step 1 9.0%
Step 2 N/A
Classic
Step 1 8.0%
Step 2 5.0%
Strike
Step 1 4.0%
Step 2 4.0%
Instant
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
Instant Pro
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
One-Step Static
Step 1 10.0%
Step 2 N/A
Fast
Step 1 9.0%
Step 2 N/A
Classic
Step 1 8.0%
Step 2 5.0%
Strike
Step 1 4.0%
Step 2 4.0%
Instant
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
Instant Pro
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
One-Step Static
Step 1 10.0%
Step 2 N/A
Fast
Step 1 9.0%
Step 2 N/A
Classic
Step 1 8.0%
Step 2 5.0%
Strike
Step 1 4.0%
Step 2 4.0%
Instant
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
Instant Pro
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
One-Step Static
Step 1 10.0%
Step 2 N/A
Instant
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
Instant Pro
Step 1 0.0%
Step 2 0.0%
support actually replies
Went with the smallest account size to keep the risk low while i learned. verification took one round of documents and they didnt ask me for ten random things. kyc was painless, uploaded my id and got verified the same afternoon. crypto and wire both supported, i did wire and it hit my bank in two business days. they refunded my eval fee when i got funded which was a nice surprise. this is the one i recommend when people ask where to start.
they actually pay
Took the plunge after lurking their subreddit for a couple weeks. the daily loss limit gives you enough room to actually trade your plan instead of choking you out. spreads are fine, nothing crazy … nothing terrible … it is a prop firm not a charity. the dashboard shows my drawdown buffer in real time so i never have to guess how much room is left. would i recommend? yeah, as long as you can follow rules.
honestly impressed
my prop firm group chat would not shut up about them so i caved. teh rules are written in plain english so i actually knew what id get banned for before i started. the challenge target felt achievable with proper risk … not some gambling threshold. slippage outside of high impact news is basically a non issue for me. four payotus in … never once had to chase them … that earns the recommendation. bro
paid on time every time
been curious about these guys since they launched. the mobile app stays synced with desktop so i can check positions on the go without lag. their dashboard is genuinely useful, learned stuff about my own trading just looking at it. i like that the daily loss limit resets at a sane hour for my timezone. i traded indices mostly and the spreads on those were perfectly fine. passed clean, withdrew clean, came back and did it again.
low key impressed
Signed up after seeing them everywhere on twitter, figured why not. i appreciated that they email you before a rule change instead of springing it. the demo and funded feeds matched closely enough that i trusted my backtests. there is a discord and staff actually show up in it occasionally. repeat customer here so take that for what it is worth.
would sign up again
My first funded account ever was with these guys so i am a bit biased. support replied way faster than my actual broker which is kinda sad when you think about it. i requested a payout three times and all three landed inside teh promised window. reset on a blown challenge was free which saved me from buying a whole new account. man the verification email came instantly instead of the usual 24 hour wait. sticking around until they give me a reason not to.
fast payouts, dated ui
Needed a new firm after my last one shut down. payout came through with zero fees deducted, what i requested is what i received. the challenge timer is generous, i never felt rushed into bad trades. platform was stable the whole time, no random disconnects during news. overnight swaps are charged but they are upfront about the numbers. they let me run my algo as long as it is not some latency arbitrage exploit. sticking with them for now, they earned it.
in it for the long haul
picked this firm becuase they supported my exact strategy. my market orders fill basically where i click, slippage has been almost nothing so far. execution during london open is tight enough to scalp if you are into that. ive done three withdrawals now and every single one landed on schedule no excuses. thier reset option after a breach is cheaper than buying a whole new eval. tbh
funded in two weeks
I am a swing trader so the overnight and weekend rules mattered most to me. honestly the rules made my retail trading better too, forced discipline and all that. the trailing drawdown is reasonable if you size your positions like an adult. been with them six months and the payout reliability is the main reason im still here. the leverage is sensible … enough to work with but not enough to wreck yourself by accident. took my withdrawal seriously and processed it without a single hoop.
hit or miss honestly
Picked this one up after a buddy kept raving about it. passing was easier than the funded account which flips the difficulty on its head. the dashboard looks clean but half the stats i actually want arent on it. their discord support is quicker than email which kind of tells you where the priority is. support solved my issue in the end but the first two answers were copy paste. depends entirely on whether you mind a slow back office.
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