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

E8 Markets vs FTMO

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.

FTMO 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 FTMO.

	E8 Markets United States	FTMO Czech Republic
Disclosure score	Partially documented	Partially documented
Challenge from	Not yet verified	€79 list, EUR
Plan compared	E8 Classic	FTMO Challenge: 2-Step
Model	2-Step	2-Step
Profit target	8% → 4%	10% → 5%
Daily loss limit	4% of the balance recorded at day start, on balance or equity. Resets 00:00 server time	5% of the balance recorded at day start, on equity, including floating P/L. Resets 00:00 CE(S)T
Maximum loss limit	8%	10% Static floor, from initial balance
Consistency	40% — best day as a share of total profit (Payout eligibility)	No consistency rule
Stop loss	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Best profit split	100% E8 Trader	90% Standard
Weekend holding	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
News trading	Restricted window	Not yet verified
Inactivity breach	60 days	Not yet verified
Retroactive rule changes	0	0
Operator jurisdiction	Texas, United States	Czech Republic
Regulator disclosed	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Restricted countries	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.	Not listed. The FTMO Challenge T&C (4 August 2026) define 'Restricted Jurisdictions' only as countries determined by FTMO 'at our discretion'; no list appears in the document or on the pages read.

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.