CFD Prop Firms

Funded Trading Plus offers Instant, Express, Classic and Activation simulated programs on MT5 and Match-Trader. Standard split is 80%, with eligible upgrades to 90%; Activation stays at 80%. Classic uses static drawdown and a daily 3% symbol-loss rule. Activation changes from static challenge drawdown to equity trailing when funded and requires 25% consistency for payouts.

The Concept Trading is an Australian firm running five account families on MetaTrader 5 and TradeLocker, with static drawdown, no daily drawdown and no consistency rule - a genuinely permissive rule set. The headline numbers are the problem. The advertised 90% split is 50% at every level except the last one, and while the homepage sells weekly payouts, clause 12.17 of the binding terms allows only one payout per calendar month.

Alpha Capital offers One, Pro, Swing and Three evaluations plus instant-qualified Direct. Pro, Swing and Three use static maximum drawdowns; One and Direct trail the highest balance. Standard splits are 80%, with eligible 90% purchase-time upgrades and 90% included on Direct. Duration, risk and payout conditions need to match the trading strategy.

FTMO (FTMO s.r.o., Prague) is the sector's most established simulated-funding firm, running a 2-Step and a newer 1-Step challenge. The most important fact is one almost every review gets backwards: the 2-Step fee is refunded 100% with your first payout, while the 1-Step fee is NON-REFUNDABLE. Net entry costs depend on the number of attempts, fees paid and whether the first eligible reward is reached. The 2-Step uses a STATIC 10% drawdown; the 1-Step uses an end-of-day TRAILING drawdown, a 3% daily loss, a 50% Best Day Rule displayed in Account MetriX — and the maximum-loss floor resets to 90% of initial capital when a reward is withdrawn and a new account is provided. FTMO charges no withdrawal commission, has no consistency rules on the 2-Step, and scales to $2,000,000. Scaling is subject to eligibility; a discounted CFD reset policy has not been verified here.

The5ers (Five Percent Online Ltd, a UK company — but contracted under Israeli law with exclusive jurisdiction in Tel Aviv) runs four CFD programmes: Bootcamp, Hyper Growth, Pro Growth and High Stakes. Its real strengths are genuine: drawdown is STATIC on every CFD programme, the split scales to 100% for free rather than as a paid add-on, and High Stakes offers 1:100 leverage. But two things are widely misreported. First, a 3.5% commission is taken from EVERY cash withdrawal — Rise, crypto and bank transfer alike; the only 0% route is non-convertible Hub Credit. Second, the celebrated ~70% fee refund is High Stakes only, is paid as account equity rather than cash, and is itself subject to that 3.5% on the way out. High Stakes qualifying days require 0.5% of initial balance using the lower of midnight balance and equity, less the previous day’s balance. Floating losses can reduce that result below the threshold; they do not automatically invalidate the day.