Alpha Futures Prop Firm Review

Updated and verified on 27 September 2026

Evaluation and Qualified-account loss guards, consistency, news restrictions and payout limits checked against official policies on 27 September 2026.

Pricing snapshot

Every figure below is the list price read from Alpha Futures’ pricing tabs on 17 September 2026. Read the billing column carefully, because this firm mixes two models: Zero, Standard and Advanced are charged monthly for as long as you hold the evaluation, while Direct is a single payment. A 50% discount code, APP50, was live on that date to mark the launch of the mobile app.

Who runs Alpha Futures

Alpha Futures is operated by ALPHA FUTURES LIMITED, company number 15655643, registered office 1 Allied Business Centre, Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden, England, AL5 4UT. That is a real Companies House registration in a real jurisdiction, and it puts Alpha Futures in a small minority of the firms on this site, most of which are registered in Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Anjouan or the Comoros.

A UK registration is not a licence and Alpha Futures does not claim it is. The accounts are simulated, the firm publishes the standard CFTC Rule 4.41 hypothetical-performance disclosure, and its own wording is blunt: “any references to trading, analysts, revenue, and profit throughout the website are references to virtual trading, revenues, and profits”. What a UK company number does give you is a named entity with filing obligations and an address that can be served, which is a meaningfully different position from an Anjouan shelf licence.

Alpha Futures sits inside the Alpha Group, alongside Alpha Capital Group and ACG Markets. That matters for the reputation section below, and it also explains the Alpha Prime programme, which routes the firm’s strongest traders into a separate structure with a London trading floor.

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Braulio Rivera Godoy

Securities trader based in Madrid, Spain, who studied at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador. He has traded funded accounts since 2022, starting with MyForexFunds and later passing challenges with Funding Pips in 2024 and Alpha Futures in 2025.

Alpha Futures is my most recent firm, and I passed with them in June 2025. I appreciate their straightforward approach, reasonable drawdown rules, and responsive customer support. If you are looking for a no-nonsense firm with clear expectations, Alpha Futures is a solid choice.

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Published 13 August 2026

The four account types

Alpha Futures runs a one-step evaluation on three of its four account types, and no evaluation at all on the fourth. The differences are in the consistency rule, the daily loss handling and the minimum trading days, and they change the character of the account completely.

Zero

The permissive one. No evaluation consistency rule, a minimum of 1 trading day, and a Daily Loss Guard rather than a hard daily loss limit. Profit targets are 6% of the account size at every tier. Position limits are the tightest in the range: 1 mini or 10 micros on 25K, rising to 6 minis or 60 micros on 100K.

Prices are $89 a month for 25K, $139 for 50K and $279 for 100K, with resets at $79, $119 and $249. Maximum drawdown is $1,000, $2,000 and $3,000, and the Daily Loss Guard sits at $500, $1,000 and $2,000.

The trade-off is on the funded side: Zero, Standard and Direct Qualified accounts have news restrictions: no order execution within two minutes before or after relevant high-impact ForexFactory red-folder events. Holding a position through the release is permitted. Zero Qualified also requires 40% consistency for payouts.

Standard

The middle option and, on the numbers, the one to think hardest about. Profit targets stay at 6%, minimum trading days rise to 2, there is no Daily Loss Guard during evaluation, and position limits jump to 5 minis or 50 micros on 50K. Standard Qualified accounts have a Daily Loss Guard of $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 on 50K / 100K / 150K, and 40% payout consistency.

It is paid for with a 50% consistency rule, the strictest in the range. No single day may account for more than half of your profit. On a $3,000 target that means no day may contribute more than $1,500, which in futures is easy to breach by accident on a good session.

Prices are $129 a month for 50K, $239 for 100K and $349 for 150K, with resets at $109, $199 and $289. Maximum drawdown is $2,000, $3,000 and $4,500.

Advanced

Harder targets, tighter drawdown, looser consistency. Targets rise to 8%, the minimum is 3 trading days, there is no Daily Loss Guard, and the consistency rule relaxes to 40%. Maximum drawdown tightens to 3.5% of the account at every size: $1,750 on 50K, $3,500 on 100K and $5,250 on 150K.

Prices are $209 a month for 50K, $349 for 100K and $489 for 150K, with resets at $189, $319 and $449. The compensation for the harder pass is on the funded side: Advanced Qualified accounts have no news trading restriction at all.

Direct

No evaluation. You buy a Qualified account and start, for a single payment rather than a subscription. Prices are $349 for 25K, $519 for 50K, $689 for 100K and $859 for 150K.

Direct swaps the evaluation for a different payout gate. There is a withdrawal profit target, higher for the first payout than for later ones ($1,500 then $1,000 on 25K, rising to $9,000 then $6,000 on 150K), a 20% consistency rule, a Daily Loss Guard that locks trading until the next trading day rather than automatically failing the account, and an end-of-day Maximum Loss Limit. There is no winning-day requirement, and no scaling plan.

The one number to weigh is the payout cap, which on Direct is lower than the firm’s $15,000 headline: $1,000 on 25K, $2,000 on 50K, $2,500 on 100K and $3,000 on 150K per cycle.

Rules at a glance

The table describes evaluation rules for Zero, Standard and Advanced, and Qualified rules for Direct. Standard and Zero Qualified accounts require 40% payout consistency; Advanced Qualified has none. A Daily Loss Guard is a trading-day lockout, not an automatic account failure.

Read on 17 September 2026 from Alpha Futures’ pricing tabs. There are no news trading restrictions on any evaluation account or on Advanced Qualified accounts. Zero, Standard and Direct Qualified accounts prohibit order execution within two minutes before or after relevant high-impact news; holding through the event is permitted. Most account types pay a 90% performance split.

Payouts: account-specific limits

Official sources: payout policy, Standard rules, news policy, and maximum loss limit.

Two mechanics here are better than the futures-prop norm, and they are the strongest reason to consider this firm.

The Maximum Loss Limit is an end-of-day trailing floor that stops at the starting balance. A withdrawal does not automatically reset that floor. However, the withdrawal reduces the account balance and therefore reduces the distance to the floor; it does not preserve the same loss cushion. Touching the floor, including with unrealized losses, breaches the account.

The second is the cap. Alpha Futures allows withdrawals of up to $15,000 in performance fees per cycle, which it claims is the largest cap in the industry. That $15,000 maximum applies to every Advanced Qualified size, with a $1,000 minimum request. Zero caps are $1,000 / $1,500 / $2,500 for 25K / 50K / 100K, with a $200 minimum. Standard caps are $3,000 / $4,000 / $5,000 for 50K / 100K / 150K, with a $500 minimum. Direct caps range from $1,000 to $3,000 by size, with a $500 minimum. Requests are debited from the account in full; the trader receives 90%.

The mechanics differ by account type. On Zero, Standard and Advanced, Qualified traders can request a performance fee up to 4 times per month, after every 5 winning trading days of $200 profit or more. On Direct, there is no winning-day requirement; you clear a withdrawal profit target and a 20% consistency rule instead. On Zero, Standard and Advanced you may withdraw up to 50% of your profit per request, with the remainder left in the account as drawdown protection, and requests are processed in 48 business hours or less.

The performance split is 90% on most account types. Read the Alpha Prime section below before you treat 90% as the end of the story.

Alpha Prime, and the split that goes down

Once a Qualified account reaches +$40,000 in payable balance, or after 5 payout cycles, Alpha Futures reviews your history for its Alpha Prime programme. You then choose between two routes, and both pay less than the 90% you were on.

Alpha Prime pays a 60% performance split plus a 12-month monthly salary, weekly strategy calls and access to the firm’s London trading floor. Generic Live pays an 80% split with no salary and none of the Prime resources.

This is disclosed in the FAQ rather than on the pricing page, and it is worth understanding before you scale. Trading well enough to hit $40,000 in payable balance moves you from a 90% share to either 80%, or to 60% with a salary attached. Whether that is a promotion or a pay cut depends entirely on the size of the salary, which the firm does not publish.

Platforms and instruments

Alpha Futures offers five platforms: AlphaTrader, its own in-house platform, which uses TradingView charts, autoloads the front contract, supports one-click trading with drag-to-set stops and targets, and is commission free apart from regulatory fees; TradingView, with connectivity powered by Plus500 and available at checkout on every plan; WealthCharts, with InvestPulse AI; and Quantower. A mobile app, Alpha Trader, launched in September 2026 with market search, execution, order tracking, charts and copy trading.

Being commission free on the firm’s own platform is a genuine cost advantage in futures, where round-turn commissions on a high-frequency strategy add up faster than most evaluation fees. If you intend to trade actively, price the commission saving against the monthly subscription before you compare headline fees.

Instruments are futures: equity and index, currency, metals and crypto futures. This is not a forex or CFD firm and there are no spot FX pairs, stocks or ETFs.

Reputation, and a claim that does not match the profile

Alpha Futures advertises a 4.9 out of 5 Trustpilot rating on its homepage, and its FAQ states “we hold a 4.9 / 5 rating on Trustpilot with over 17,000 reviews”.

We checked the Trustpilot profile for alpha-futures.com on 17 September 2026. It holds 4.4 out of 5 from 5,961 reviews, on a profile claimed in July 2024 with a paid Trustpilot subscription. The distribution is 86% five star, 3% four star, under 1% three star, under 1% two star and 9% one star. The firm replies to 67% of negative reviews.

A 4.4 from nearly 6,000 reviews with a 9% one-star share is a good profile by the standards of this industry. It is not 4.9, and it is not 17,000 reviews. We are not going to speculate about where the 17,000 figure comes from, but we will point out the adjacent fact a buyer should know: the group’s sister brand, Alpha Capital Group, carries 21,710 Trustpilot reviews and its rating is currently unavailable on the Trustpilot official website.

None of that says anything about whether Alpha Futures pays. It does say that the numbers on the homepage should not be the numbers you rely on, and that if you are assessing this firm you should assess the group.

The firm’s other self-reported figures are $70M in performance fees paid, 175,000+ qualified analysts and 140+ countries. None of these is audited.

Who it suits, and who should look elsewhere

It suits you if you trade futures and intend to withdraw regularly. The MLL not resetting on withdrawal is the most trader-friendly rule on this page, and over several cycles it is worth more than a percentage point of split.

It suits you if you want a counterparty with a real corporate footprint. A UK Companies House registration with a served address is a different risk profile from the offshore registrations most of this sector uses.

It suits you if you trade an active, high-frequency style. Commission-free execution on AlphaTrader, apart from regulatory fees, is a material saving that most competitors do not offer.

It suits you if you want to pass quickly and cheaply. A Zero 25K at $89 for one month, with a one-day evaluation minimum and no evaluation consistency rule, is about as low-friction as a futures evaluation gets.

Look elsewhere if you trade forex, stocks or CFDs. This is a futures-only firm.

Look elsewhere if you dislike subscriptions. Three of the four account types bill monthly for as long as you hold the evaluation, and a slow trader on a 150K Advanced account is paying $489 every month until they pass.

Distinguish evaluation from payout consistency. Standard evaluation uses 50% and Advanced evaluation 40%. Qualified Standard and Zero require 40%, Advanced Qualified has no consistency requirement, and Direct requires 20%. A lower percentage is more restrictive, so Direct is not the easier option for a trader whose profits concentrate in a few sessions.

Be careful about the 90%. It is real until you are successful, at which point Alpha Prime moves you to 60% with a salary or 80% without one. Model both before you scale.

Our verdict

Alpha Futures is one of the better-built futures prop firms we have looked at, and the reasons are mechanical rather than promotional. A Maximum Loss Limit that survives your withdrawal, a $15,000 payout cap, 48-hour processing, commission-free execution on its own platform and a real UK registration add up to a product designed by people who understand what actually frustrates futures traders.

The pricing structure is more honest than it first appears, too: publishing the reset cost next to the evaluation cost, and charging no activation fee, is the kind of detail that saves arguments later.

What we cannot let pass is the Trustpilot claim. Advertising 4.9 from 17,000 reviews while your own profile reads 4.4 from 5,961 is the sort of thing that makes a reader discount everything else on the page, including the parts that are true and genuinely good. Combined with a sister brand whose rating Trustpilot has made unavailable, it is a reason to read the group carefully rather than the brand alone.

If you trade futures and you want to be paid regularly, Alpha Futures belongs on your shortlist. Start on a Zero account, which has no evaluation consistency rule and a one-day evaluation minimum, find out whether the payout process works for you, and only then decide whether the bigger accounts are worth the subscription.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Alpha Futures regulated?

No. Alpha Futures Limited is a UK company registered at Companies House under number 15655643, with a registered office in Harpenden, England, but a company registration is not a financial licence. All accounts operate inside a simulated trading environment and traders earn a performance fee based on simulated profits. The firm publishes the standard CFTC Rule 4.41 hypothetical-performance disclosure.

What is the difference between Zero, Standard, Advanced and Direct?

Zero evaluation has no consistency requirement; Standard evaluation uses 50% and Advanced 40%. Qualified Zero and Standard require 40% payout consistency, while Advanced Qualified has none. Standard has no evaluation Daily Loss Guard but does have one when Qualified. Direct skips evaluation and requires a withdrawal profit target plus 20% consistency, with a Daily Loss Guard.

Is Alpha Futures a monthly subscription?

Partly. Zero, Standard and Advanced are billed monthly for as long as you hold the evaluation, with no activation fee. Direct is a single one-time payment. Resets are priced separately and published next to each plan.

How do Alpha Futures payouts work?

On Zero, Standard and Advanced, Qualified traders can request a performance fee up to four times per month, after every five winning trading days of $200 profit or more. On Direct there is no winning-day requirement; you clear a withdrawal profit target and a 20% consistency rule. Zero, Standard and Advanced allow up to 50% of profit per request, with the remainder staying in the account as drawdown protection, and requests are processed in 48 business hours or less.

Does the Maximum Loss Limit reset when I withdraw?

A withdrawal does not automatically reset the Maximum Loss Limit floor. It does reduce the balance, so the remaining loss cushion shrinks. The floor trails end-of-day highs until reaching the starting balance; touching it with realized or unrealized losses breaches the account.

What is the maximum payout per cycle?

Advanced Qualified requests range from $1,000 to $15,000 on every size. Zero caps are $1,000/$1,500/$2,500 for 25K/50K/100K, with a $200 minimum. Standard caps are $3,000/$4,000/$5,000 for 50K/100K/150K, with a $500 minimum. Direct caps are $1,000/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000 for 25K/50K/100K/150K, with a $500 minimum. The trader receives 90% of the request.

Can I trade news with Alpha Futures?

Evaluations and Advanced Qualified accounts have no news restriction, subject to prohibited practices. Zero, Standard and Direct Qualified accounts may hold positions through news but may not execute orders within two minutes before or after relevant ForexFactory red-folder events. For speeches, the window applies to the listed start time.

What platforms does Alpha Futures support?

AlphaTrader, its own in-house platform, which is commission free apart from regulatory fees; TradingView, with connectivity powered by Plus500 and available at checkout on every plan; WealthCharts; Quantower; and DeepChart. A mobile app launched in September 2026.

What is Alpha Prime?

An invite tier. Once a Qualified account reaches $40,000 in payable balance, or after five payout cycles, the firm reviews your trading history. You can then choose the Alpha Prime Program, which pays a 60% performance split plus a 12-month monthly salary, weekly strategy calls and access to the London trading floor, or the Generic Live Program, which pays 80% with no salary and none of the Prime resources. Both are below the 90% most account types start on.

What is Alpha Futures’ Trustpilot rating?

The Trustpilot profile for alpha-futures.com showed 4.4 out of 5 from 5,961 reviews on 17 September 2026, distributed 86% five star, 3% four star, under 1% three star, under 1% two star and 9% one star, with a 67% reply rate to negative reviews. The firm’s own website advertises 4.9 out of 5 from over 17,000 reviews, which does not match that profile. Its sister brand Alpha Capital Group has 21,710 reviews and its rating is currently unavailable on the Trustpilot official website.