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E8 Markets vs Funding Traders

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.

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 Funding Traders. Funding Traders uses a trailing maximum-loss floor: the bar shows where it sits on day one, and it rises with your peak without ever coming back down.

	E8 Markets United States	Funding Traders United States
Disclosure score	Partially documented	Well documented
Challenge from	Not yet verified	$49 list, USD
Plan compared	E8 Classic	1-Step Pro
Model	2-Step	1-Step
Profit target	8% → 4%	10%
Daily loss limit	4% of the balance recorded at day start, on balance or equity. Resets 00:00 server time	3% of the balance recorded at day start, on balance or equity
Maximum loss limit	8%	10% Trailing, intraday, from the highest end-of-day balance
Consistency	40% — best day as a share of total profit (Payout eligibility)	50% — best day as a share of total profit (Payout eligibility)
Stop loss	Not yet verified	Not required
Best profit split	100% E8 Trader	90% Default
Weekend holding	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
News trading	Restricted window	Restricted window
Inactivity breach	60 days	Not yet verified
Retroactive rule changes	0	0
Operator jurisdiction	Texas, United States	Florida, United States
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.	Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Poland, Taiwan, Ukraine, Venezuela, Central African Republic, North Korea, Congo, Zaire, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Saipan, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, Ontario (Canada), Myanmar (site footer, 22 named). MT5 not offered to US citizens or residents.

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.

E8 Markets vs Funding Traders

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