FTMO Scaling Plan

FTMO Scaling Plan Conditions

FTMO Accounts are updated every four months. A trader must produce at least 10% of net profit (20% if he or she is an aggressive account trader) over four consecutive months for a capital increase (i.e., an average net profit of at least 2.5% per month for a normal account type or 5% for an aggressive account type).

Additionally, the trader must process at least two payouts within four months. A trader's account balance should be above the initial account balance (in profit) at the time of scaling up.

With each Profit Split, the eligibility is automatically evaluated and a breakdown of the progress and requirements is provided to our FTMO Traders. During your Payout process, you will have the option of scaling up your account if you meet the requirements. We will automatically assign a scaled-up FTMO Account to you during your next trading period if you confirm that you wish to scale-up your account.

In addition, the basis for calculating loss limits will change accordingly, but the calculation of loss limits remains the same (5% Max Daily Loss/10% Max Loss of initial account balance after scaling up). After another 4 months, if the trader meets the account growth criteria, in addition to receiving the two payouts, they will be eligible to receive a further 25% increase in the demo capital. Demo capital increases are capped at $2M per trader ($1M for aggressive accounts).

The Profit Split Ratio for FTMO Traders on the scale-up plan has been upgraded to 90/10. Accounts that are newly scaled-up are eligible for the increased profit split, not accounts that have been merged into accounts that are already scaled-up. When merging a non-scaled-up and scaled-up account, the Profit Split ratio will change to 80/20.

Standard accounts can be scaled only up to the limit of $2,000,000, while Aggressive FTMO accounts can be scaled up to $1,000,000.

The profit split ratio for traders who have scaled their accounts will be 90% of all profits generated. However, this applies only to newly scaled accounts, not to newly merged accounts with scaled accounts, where the profit split is 80/20.

Scaling Plan Highlights

Example of Scaling Plan FTMO

To understand how the FTMO scaling plan works, it helps to look at an example. Let’s go over the conditions once more. If you’re trading profitably, you can use FTMO’s growth plan to get a 25% capital increase every four months. To be eligible for an increase, you will need at least 10% in profits over the last four months (that means an average of 2.5% profit a month) with two out of the four months ending positive.

To scale your account, you need to do nothing more than comply with the above rules, as the verification process is done automatically, and you are even shown a breakdown of progress based on the requirements.

After 4 months, if you comply with the rules of escalation to the next level, you will be eligible again for a new capital increase of 25% of the initial balance, and so on in each cycle.

For example, if your initial balance is $400,000, you could end up with $500.000 after 4 months. After 8 months, your balance could be $600,000. After 12 months, it could reach $700,000 and $800,000 after 16 months.