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

E8 Markets vs Goat Funded Trader

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.
Goat Funded Trader 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 Goat Funded Trader. 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.

	E8 Markets United States	Goat Funded Trader Hong Kong
Disclosure score	Partially documented	Fully documented
Challenge from	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
Plan compared	E8 Classic	2-Step Standard
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 higher of the previous day’s closing balance or closing equity, on balance or equity. Resets 5:00 PM EST
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 required
Best profit split	100% E8 Trader	100% With 100% split add-on
Weekend holding	Not yet verified	Not yet verified
News trading	Restricted window	Restricted window
Inactivity breach	60 days	30 days
Retroactive rule changes	0	0
Operator jurisdiction	Texas, United States	Hong Kong
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, Belarus, Central African Republic, Chile, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and Al-Qaida, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, Senegal, Singapore, Somalia, South Korea, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Togo, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe (help centre, dated 27 July 2026). Hong Kong appears on this list while the contracting company is registered in Hong Kong. MetaTrader 5 is stated as not intended for 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.