Side by side · verified from each firm's own pages

Alpha Capital Group vs E8 Markets

Rules placed next to each other, with the calculation basis written out — because two firms quoting the same percentage can be measuring completely different things.

What differs most.

They calculate the daily loss limit from different reference points, so the percentages are not directly comparable.

Account closed
Trading day over, account survives
Room to lose on day one
Profit still needed to pass phase one

Drawn to scale from each plan's own published numbers, on the plan compared in the table below. Day one is the only day on which every daily-loss basis agrees, which is what makes the two bars honestly comparable at all. On day one the account closes first at Alpha Capital Group — its floor sits $2,000 above the floor at E8 Markets. The two daily-loss floors are measured from different reference points, so they only line up on day one. From day two they move apart.

	Alpha Capital Group United Kingdom	E8 Markets United States
Disclosure score	Well documented	Partially documented
Challenge from	$27 stated floor	Not yet verified
Plan compared	Alpha One	E8 Classic
Model	1-Step	2-Step
Profit target	10%	8% → 4%
Daily loss limit	4% of the higher of opening balance or opening equity, on equity, including floating P/L. Resets 00:00 GMT+3	4% of the balance recorded at day start, on balance or equity. Resets 00:00 server time
Maximum loss limit	6% , from the highest end-of-day balance	8%
Consistency	40% — best day as a share of total profit (Payout eligibility)	40% — best day as a share of total profit (Payout eligibility)
Stop loss	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Best profit split	80% On-demand	100% E8 Trader
Weekend holding	Allowed	Not yet verified
News trading	Not yet verified	Restricted window
Inactivity breach	30 days	60 days
Retroactive rule changes	0	0
Operator jurisdiction	United Kingdom	Texas, United States
Regulator disclosed	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Restricted countries	Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Cuba, DR Congo, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen (21, from the firm's checkout list dated 2026-07-23). US residents: no MT5, cTrader closed to new US customers.	Forex and crypto products: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Belarus, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Midway Islands, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Samoa, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City, Venezuela, West Bank, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia (help centre, updated the week of 6 September 2026). Vietnam, India, Kenya and Indonesia are accepted but capped: E8 One only up to $200,000. Country is decided by the KYC document, not by location.

Only the first recorded plan of each firm is shown here. Full plan detail, sources and everything we could not verify are on each firm's page. Last re-checked 6 September 2026; the oldest record on this page was checked 4 September 2026. Each firm page carries its own date.

Not yet verified is not No. Where a cell reads "Not yet verified", we could not confirm the rule from the firm's own terms or help centre. It is not a claim that the rule does not exist.