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City Traders Imperium 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.

City Traders Imperium has no consistency rule on this plan; E8 Markets does.

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 E8 Markets — its floor sits $2,000 above the floor at City Traders Imperium.

	City Traders Imperium Comoros Union	E8 Markets United States
Disclosure score	Partially documented	Partially documented
Challenge from	$39 list, USD	Not yet verified
Plan compared	2-Step Challenge	E8 Classic
Model	2-Step	2-Step
Profit target	10% → 5%	8% → 4%
Daily loss limit	5% of the balance recorded at day start, on balance, closed trades only	4% of the balance recorded at day start, on balance or equity. Resets 00:00 server time
Maximum loss limit	10% Static floor, from initial balance	8%
Consistency	No consistency rule	40% — best day as a share of total profit (Payout eligibility)
Stop loss	Not required	Not yet verified
Best profit split	80% Funded (start)	100% E8 Trader
Weekend holding	Allowed	Not yet verified
News trading	Allowed	Restricted window
Inactivity breach	Not yet verified	60 days
Retroactive rule changes	0	0
Operator jurisdiction	Comoros Union (Anjouan)	Texas, United States
Regulator disclosed	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Restricted countries	North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Russia, and any individual under international sanctions (site footer, 5 named).	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 verified 7 September 2026.

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.