The rules, in the firm's own words
A good week only pays out if the firm's rules say it does. Below is every trading rule we have read from each company's own pages: drawdown, daily loss, consistency, news trading, weekend holding, automation, trading days and the rules that gate a payout. Each carries the day it was read and a link to the page, and, where we kept it, the sentence it was read from.
These are the rules each company publishes, read from its own pages. A company we have not read is listed as unread, and a rule we cannot see is never filled in from anywhere else.
Rules on file for 26 of the 26 firms we track. · Rules last read Oct 15, 2026
Rules that moved in the last 30 days
A dated before-and-after for each rule value a company changed on its own pages.
City Traders Imperium changed ea allowed on 6 accounts from allowed to restrictedon Oct 13, 2026
City Traders ImperiumMENT Funding changed daily loss limit on 5 accounts from 3% to 4%on Oct 13, 2026
MENT FundingMENT Funding changed daily loss limit on 5 accounts from 2% to 4%on Oct 13, 2026
MENT FundingFundedNext changed minimum trading days on 4 accounts from 5 days to 2 dayson Oct 13, 2026
FundedNextE8 Markets changed max drawdown on E8 Signature Futures $150,000 (futures accounts) from 4,500 USD to 4,000 USDon Oct 5, 2026
E8 MarketsMaven Trading changed ea allowed on CFD accounts from banned to restrictedon Oct 4, 2026
Maven TradingFunding Pips changed minimum trading days on 6 accounts from 2 days to 0 dayson Sep 28, 2026
Funding PipsTopStep changed drawdown type on 3 accounts from End of day to Trailing EODon Sep 27, 2026
TopStepLeeloo Trading updated payout policy on futures accountson Sep 23, 2026
Leeloo TradingMaven Trading updated payout policy on CFD accountson Sep 22, 2026
Maven TradingThe5ers changed daily loss limit on 4 accounts from 5% to 4%on Sep 17, 2026
The5ersThe5ers changed max drawdown on 4 accounts from 10% to 8%on Sep 17, 2026
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Every rule we have read, grouped by company
Each company links to the full set of rules we have read on its pages. Filter by rule family to read one kind of rule across companies.
| Company | Rules | Families | Last read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha Capital Group | 247 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Trading days | Oct 11, 2026 |
| Apex Trader Funding | 56 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Trading days | Oct 8, 2026 |
| Blue Guardian | 341 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · News trading · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Bulenox | 113 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · News trading · EAs & copy trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 13, 2026 |
| City Traders Imperium | 146 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · News trading · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 15, 2026 |
| E8 Markets | 136 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Trading days | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Earn2Trade | 29 | Drawdown · Daily loss · News trading · Trading days | Oct 15, 2026 |
| FTMO | 50 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 12, 2026 |
| FTUK | 82 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · News trading · Weekend holding · Trading days | Oct 8, 2026 |
| FundedNext | 189 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Funded Trading Plus | 43 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Payout-linked | Oct 14, 2026 |
| Funding Pips | 163 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Goat Funded Trader | 137 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · Weekend holding | Oct 15, 2026 |
| HyroTrader | 85 | Drawdown · Daily loss · News trading · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Instant Funding | 335 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · News trading · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 13, 2026 |
| Lark Funding | 83 | Drawdown · Daily loss · News trading · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Leeloo Trading | 61 | Drawdown · Daily loss · EAs & copy trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Lux Trading Firm | 16 | Drawdown · EAs & copy trading · Trading days | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Maven Trading | 224 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · News trading · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Payout-linked | Oct 4, 2026 |
| MENT Funding | 158 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · News trading · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Take Profit Trader | 35 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Consistency · News trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 9, 2026 |
| The5ers | 82 | Drawdown · Daily loss · News trading · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Payout-linked | Oct 12, 2026 |
| TopStep | 24 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Payout-linked | Oct 8, 2026 |
| Trade The Pool | 65 | Drawdown · Daily loss · News trading · Weekend holding · EAs & copy trading · Trading days · Payout-linked | Oct 14, 2026 |
| TradeDay | 96 | Drawdown · Consistency · Trading days | Oct 13, 2026 |
| UProfit | 15 | Drawdown · Daily loss · Trading days | Oct 8, 2026 |
Rule questions, answered against this data
What does 'not yet read' mean?
The company is in the directory, but we haven't been able to read a trading rule on its pages yet. We list it anyway — a library that hides its gaps reads as more complete than it is — and nothing here is filled in from another firm's rules.
What is a consistency rule?
A cap on how much of your total profit may come from a single winning day. Above the stated percentage, the firm can refuse or reduce a payout even when every other rule was followed. The table shows the threshold each company states.
What does 'restricted' mean next to a rule?
The company allows the activity under conditions rather than outright. News trading banned only around major releases is the common case. The condition lives in the quoted sentence, so read it before assuming a style is safe.
Does a rule marked 'all programs' apply to every account?
It was stated for the company as a whole rather than one named program. A rule shown under a program name applies to that program only; we do not copy one program's rules onto another.
Where do these rules come from?
From each company's own pages — its rules, terms or payout pages. Every value carries a link to that page and the date of the read, and, where we kept it, the sentence it was read from. When a company changes a rule, the change appears in the dated list above once we have read both versions.