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  • #2,641
  • Aug 7, 2020 3:16am Aug 7, 2020 3:16am
Quoting leweg1
{quote} My mind is terrible although i was not thinking as extreme as BDSM just a simple butt whipping. {image}
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  • #2,642
  • Aug 7, 2020 3:17am Aug 7, 2020 3:17am
Now just need to microlot and then onto verification
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  • #2,643
  • Aug 7, 2020 4:05am Aug 7, 2020 4:05am
Hello Everyone,
As you noticed, we have made some major changes to our user interface and plan to release more changes soon. We finally released the MT5 and cTrader for our FTMO Platform. We hope you will like all the changes.
We would like to apologise for the issues that some of you encountered. The change has brought in some minor bugs to our website. We are working extremely hard this week to make sure everything is fixed as soon as possible. Many of you showed unhappiness with capacities of our chat and email support. Given all the changes, you can imagine that we are receiving much more inquiries and at peak times, we are being overwhelmed. We expect the situation to come back to normal by next week. Thank you all for your understanding and patience.


Quoting slappymove
I also signed up for FTMO this week. I read about them months ago, but didn't bother because I remember they have the 50% win rate rule for the entire challenge. Now they removed it and they cut the Verification target to half which should expedite the process. On a best case scenario, you'll need 10 days for Challenge and 10 days for Verification, then maybe another 5 working days for them to set-up your account (demo) for live copying of trades. Has anyone applied for multiple accounts? How does it work? Like as long as I successfully finish the...
Hi Slappymove,
Welcome onboard. After passing each Verification account, we send you a contract form to fill out during which we ask you if you want the accounts to be merged and so on. If you pass more Verifications at the same time, we can easily merge the resulting FTMO Accounts into one FTMO Master Account. If you already have active FTMO Account by the time you pass another Verification, we can merge the accounts providing your current FTMO Account is at its initial balance – which is after a profitable Profit Split is processed and you haven’t started trading in the new trading period. You can read more here https://ftmo.com/en/faq/how-many-accounts-can-i-have/


Quoting M.Moosa
I found FTMO Customer Support is very cooperative. However, I am very much concerned about the FTMO Account Metrix. I literally monitor trades every moment sitting in front of the screen. However, 2 times I got caught with breaching limit by $50 on the account metrix whereas I closed the trades well before hitting 4.6% loss limit. They cooperated with me once but it's the fear that makes me all the time in psychological pressure that it might sometime say I have breached the limit when I am on 4% loss. It restricts me to trade confidently. That...
Hi M.Moosa,
Although we try to provide the best possible service to all our Traders, we can’t rule out an occasional error.
We thoroughly investigate all reports of technical errors and if the investigation concludes there was a technical error which caused violation of our rules, we always work with the trader to find the best solution for both sides. We promise to continue working on our MetriX in order to provide the best experience to our traders.


Quoting doyathink
{quote} True and good point... though I hope FTMO will sharpen this up so it is more to the moment, and have an actual countdown clock telling you how many hours left till the new day starts after the trader registers his time zone... they may need caveats not to rely on these alone, but still these refinements would help especially new traders to tune into what matters.
Hi Doyathink,
Our new user interface does have countdowns for news releases as well as for the Max Daily Loss counter reset. If you have any more suggestions, feel free to email us at [email protected].


Quoting rjay
FTMO's "no news trading" policy is really harsh. If you trade, including your SL or TP being hit two minutes either side of a news announcement they close your account !! Really, really puts me off trading with them, especially as I trade with an EA. How are traders avoiding having their accounts closed when it's so easy to accidentally break that rule ? If they don't want us to trade the news then their server should prevent it rather than putting the liability on us traders.
Hi Rjay,
Since our traders have 1:100 leverage available for your trades and no maximum position sizes, highly volatile moves and gaps pose extreme thread to our capital. We don’t have so many rules for our traders to follow and there are not so many news which we put a restrictive character to, so abiding by this rule should not be as difficult.
As our traders trade with many different brokers, we were unable to technically make sure to make such trades impossible and this the traders have to be responsible and follow the contract.


Quoting simon91
Hello everyone & FTMO, I just want to inquire if anyone else has had any concerns with the liquidity of FTMOs provider LMAX? I have passed my first 100k challenge and I am trading my verification stage alongside another 100k challenge and its going fairly well. However, I've had multiple losses now that have been primarily down to LMAX liquidity issues rather than the price action. Now i'm not one to blame other factors normally or to shout out "scam wick" whenever I got stopped out and I took the first couple of times on the chin but this latest...
Hi Simon91,
We already addressed the nightly rollover spreads multiple times here. Most traders know that the liquidity around that time is not great and thus avoid trading during that time, which then acts in a downwards liquidity spiralling effect. This situation is not unique to LMAX and is experienced by vast majority of brokers who are not market makers. We would highly recommend not trading around the time of nightly rollovers for this exact reason.
Our FTMO platform will soon switch to using multiple liquidity providers, which will help to both improve liquidity and decrease the spreads, however we highly recommend to avoid trading around the times of nightly rollovers.


Quoting ia1979
{quote} What about copying trades from your funded account to another one of your challenge accounts? Any ideas?
Hi Ia1979,
Copying trades from your FTMO Account to your Challenge is allowed.


Quoting paxilein
About that free retry of the Challenge... Do I have to have more than some threshold of profit, like more than +3% to get it or is any profit fine for a free retry? Unfortunately I had to leave after setting up my trades yesterday, otherwise it would've been more than the +0.9%... It a bit annoying to look back and see that I could've made +6% on that trade if I had been in front of the computer. But it is how it is, so I'll just finish the remaining 9.9% next week [IMG]file:///C:/Users/Tomas/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.png[/IMG]...
Hi Paxilein,
There is no threshold. As long as you are at least 1 cent in Profit at the end of your Challenge while meeting all but Profit Target Trading Objectives, we will offer you a free new Challenge.


Quoting Le.Metier
getting this message when attempting to read ftmo testimonials....?? {image}
Hi Le.Metier,
I have reported the issue with the screenshot to our IT for investigation. We haven’t received such report yet so it might be related to your own device. You can try viewing the page in another browser and for quick resolution, contact us at [email protected]


Quoting sampat
Looks like they increasing price from 610$ to 640$ for 100k account which is not good. They added Gbp, czh as account currency. They added ctrader and mt5.
Hi Sampat,
The prices for the Challenges in Euros stayed the same. The prices in USD, GBP are now calculated from the prices in Euros based on the current currency exchange ratios.
Quoting hoodratbtc
LMAX crypto trading was previously tradeable on the weekends. Today the feed for bitcoin seems to be halted. Anyone else experiencing this?

Hi Hoodratbtc,
There is a 7-hour market closure on Saturdays in between 12 and 7pm (broker time). You can find the current Trading hours in each instrument’s specifications.


Quoting Masterrmind
{quote} Only minimal data is released for obvious reasons. I would think far less than 8% though, perhaps 1% to 2% would be closer to the mark for funded traders still in the game after 12 months. However, the 12 month period would need further clarification including under what conditions. For example, a funded trader could have passed several verification stage accounts currently waiting in the background ready to be activated at a moment's notice which could theoretically have a trader with the capacity to always be trading a funded account....
Hello Mastermind,
We do not have such statistic at hand at this time. As I was processing most of the passed Verifications till recently, I can say that it is very rare for our traders to have passed Verifications on hold (due to reached $300k capital allocation).


Quoting Le.Metier
{quote} I didnt realise an account can be paused after verficiation, that's good so it is $300K max per account, if you have 3 accounts, the max is 3x300K? anyway, good fortune on your ftmo verification ambitions {C}{C}[IMG]file:///C:/Users/Tomas/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image004.png[/IMG]
Hi Le.Metier,
If you pass Verification(s) while having FTMO Account(s) of maximum capital allocation, the passed Verification is put on hold and new FTMO Account can be created in case it would be within the maximum capital allocation of $300k. The Max is $300k, regardless of how it is spread between your FTMO Accounts. So 1x$300k, 3x$100k etc.


Quoting CeeSo
{quote} It looks like they are only offering one broker now. Themselves FTMO. After watching their crazy spreads on their demo I would be very suspicious of this company going forward. I see several big Red Flags.
Hello CeeSo,
As we grow it was not possible to maintain high standards while operating with multiple systems. Time to time each broker had some technical troubles (same as we do have sometimes) and due to this, all clients suffered as our support got overwhelmed. In order to improve liquidity and decrease spreads, we have arranged several other liquidity providers for our FTMO platform. The MT5 and cTrader already uses aggregated liquidity and we will make the switch on MT4 soon as well.


Quoting Le.Metier
does anyone know: can the challenge or verification phase be paused? does the drawdown calculation for the ftmo challenge reset at GMT 2200 each day? *and interestingly, the ftmo trial is inaccessible
Hi Le.Metier,
Both Challenge and Verification can be paused upon your specific email request for reasons like illness or even holidays. You need to let us know in advance though and make sure you have our written approval.
The counter for Max Daily Loss resets at midnight of CE(S)T. I’m not sure whether it is exactly the same around the time of changes to Summertime, but we now have a countdown clock in the Time zone converter. Please make sure to choose your Time zone manually if you were using VPN


Quoting CeeSo
I only see one broker available now? since they updated their website? I only see FTMO.
Quoting CeeSo
I just waited for 30 minutes in their customer support live chat I finally got to the front of their support que as number 1 and was bumped to the back number 40 after wasting all that time. Another RED flag. This company is making a lot of promises but there are a ton of Red flags. 1. Crazy spreads 2. Only one broker to choose from now FTMO 3. A crazy rule that you can not exit a trade during an important report when spreads go wild. 4. Located in a shady country and no international customer support numbers 5. Now a very poor live chat service and customer support emails take days to return
Hi CeeSo,
For all our American clients FTMO Platform is the only choice now.
For the traders from the rest of the world, FTMO Platform and Purple Trading are available.
Points 1-3 are addresses in my previous answers.
4. Czech Republic lies in the heart of Europe and we like to think that we are not a shady country. We provide support in English, German and Czech languages and are available at +44 2033222983 from 8am to 5 pm CE(S)T.
5. We would like to apologise for the long waiting times on our live chat this week. Unfortunately, our Customer support has been overwhelmed recently. We are doing our best and continue hiring and training more people in order to keep up with the support demand. As for the jump back, this is the first time I see such report and have reported it to my colleague. Is it possible you got disconnected during the waiting time and thus you entered queue after reconnecting again? Up until this week our live chat had waiting times of few minutes at most and our standard processing times for email with all general queries was several hours to 1 business day. Since this week, the processing times for emails grew since the amount of emails and chats grew significantly.


Quoting Trueman23
no trading 2 mins before and 5 mins after restricted news ... thats new ..fyi
Hi Trueman23,
This was, unfortunately, a mistake that found its way into our new interface. The rules stay the same, trading is prohibited on specific instruments 2 minutes prior to and 2 minutes after certain news releases (highlighted in blue background in our Economic Calendar.


Quoting AnRan
Hello everyone, So this is my first post here and it'll be a little long but I want to be clear. My intention with this post is to help other people who are considering FTMO. Might teach you a thing or two about what happens behind the scenes as well. I am not endorsing FTMO, as you have to see if the restrictions work for you. But even though I'll lay down a few criticisms, I still don't think FTMO is bad, or a rip-off in any way. (...)
Hi AnRan,
You have made several points that we would like to comment on.
1) Nightly rollovers - We already addressed the nightly rollover spreads multiple times here. Most traders know that the liquidity around that time is not great and thus avoid trading during that time, which then acts in a downwards liquidity spiralling effect. This situation is not unique to LMAX and is experienced by the vast majority of brokers who are not market makers. We would highly recommend not trading around the time of nightly rollovers for this exact reason.
2) CFDs - LMAX introduced mini contracts in the first quarter of 2020 when there was extreme volatility in the markets. Please always check the specifications of each instrument that you wish to trade. The regular contracts were sometimes enabled and then disabled again, thus the mix-up you were told about the WS30.lmax and WS.lmax_m. On behalf of my colleague who gave you this information, I would like to apologise to you. We have no minimum position size on our FMTO Platform, so I would suggest opening a 0.01 lot test position if in doubt about the instrument sizes.
3) Micro Gold – Same answer as in 2) applies
4) News trading – Our management thought the rules well before introducing them. As the FTMO Traders trade on demo accounts where execution price at the time of high volatility might be significantly different from the execution price on our live account connected to the FTMO Account, we really don’t want any trading to be done around the news. We like to see mature, responsible traders with a system and trading news is always a little bit of a gamble, which we do not wish to spread nor support.


Quoting slappymove
{quote} 70% profit split and refund of challenge fee... I'd take that anytime... This is actually true, the profit split is based on their Live Account's balance and not your demo account balance which is sometimes confusing, because spread may differ, and as we all know, high lot size, more spread is taken in consideration. So scalpers are in a disadvantage ... at least for FTMO. I hope they can add more partner brokers, I for one like icMarkets, never had an issue with them in using cTrader and copy. I prefer to use live accounts in trading so...
Hi Slappymove,
The Profit Split is based on your FTMO Account results, not our live account connected to it, so there is no disadvantage for the scalpers. I while back we had a large number of traders using HFT and as it was often causing large discrepancies between the results on traders’ FTMO Accounts and our live accounts, we introduced small commissions to help us cover these differences and thus we avoided introducing any additional complicated rules for our traders. If you intend to scalp, we recommend you to take MT5 or cTrader as we find these platforms a little bit better for this type of trading.


Quoting driven18
In my personal opinion, I will tell you why LMAX is the only broker for USA citizens. It is most likely that FTMO have a contract with LMAX, splitting spreads revenue(rollover and trading spreads), i .e making money on the large spreads, while you losing money on it. I bet it is part of the main revenue for FTMO. They will never admit it.
Hello Driven18,
Actually, the reason is completely different, and it has to do with legal liabilities in the US, which are much stricter than elsewhere. As FTMO is not a broker (We do not accept direct deposits nor open live accounts for our clients), the legal applications are different both for us and our traders. This is the reason why the clients from USA are limited to FTMO Platform.


That’s all for this time. I’m sorry I have not addressed some of the recent posts, I will get to those next time. Good luck with your trades and thank you for your patience during these days!
Tomas
  • #2,644
  • Aug 7, 2020 4:43am Aug 7, 2020 4:43am
Quoting leweg1
{quote} love your TE stats!
Let's see if it translates onto the challenge and verification accounts.

Not sure when that will be based on current conditions.

I'm ready to have a go though ... Haha.

Masterrmind ..........
Master your Mind then Master your Trades
  • #2,645
  • Aug 7, 2020 7:04am Aug 7, 2020 7:04am
Quoting Masterrmind
{quote} Let's see if it translates onto the challenge and verification accounts. Not sure when that will be based on current conditions. I'm ready to have a go though ... Haha. Masterrmind ..........

Hooray - at last!
  • #2,646
  • Aug 7, 2020 7:37am Aug 7, 2020 7:37am
Quoting Mtinifx
{quote} Hooray - at last!
Not just yet though.

I think some time is needed for them to get their site functioning correctly.

If you have a look at Snail69's post where he mentions issues with account data, this could be very frustrating for the trader.

I also had some weird data values on my demo trial run but I'm not concerned since it is just a test run mainly to check spread, general trading operations, slippage on exit and if I think it's workable.

So far I had one unusual spike but apart from that the spreads were fine and no major issues detected but I only traded a few majors.

Imagine getting kicked out of a challenge/verification due to incorrect account data, might be interesting to fight your way out of it, although they would probably give you another go but what if they refused, difficult to prove unless you are actively recording floating PnL.

In any case, assess the perceived risk of participating and either have a go or sit on the sidelines.

My view currently is to wait a bit longer and if their operations show slight improvement then I'm in.

Good trading,

Masterrmind .........
Master your Mind then Master your Trades
  • #2,647
  • Aug 7, 2020 8:07am Aug 7, 2020 8:07am
At this very moment, TradingView is showing Dax at 12634, and Lmax as 12614. Normal spread on Lmax. What the heck is going on there?

Edit: Looks like Lmax is a couple of 5 minute bars ahead. Damn, I thought this would work to my advantage .
  • #2,648
  • Aug 7, 2020 8:22am Aug 7, 2020 8:22am
Hey Guys I said a few negative things or I should say some honest things about FTMO earlier in this thread so I want to keep saying some honest things.

Today I was trading the challenge and the spreads during the NFP were pretty good and they returned to decent spreads very quickly after the report came out.

So that is a big plus checkmark for FTMO

That being said I also found out that during big risk-off events if this was a live account with their money you can not even have stops or limit orders that trigger 2 mins before or after.

This is a bit crazy in my view I get why they do not want to accept the risk but still, if you are in swing trades this basically means you have to lock in any losses that may come back due to the report release.

They should allow stops and limit orders to only close positions during news releases or at least say within a certain range for example plus or minus 20 pips
  • #2,649
  • Aug 7, 2020 8:53am Aug 7, 2020 8:53am
Quoting CeeSo
Hey Guys I said a few negative things or I should say some honest things about FTMO earlier in this thread so I want to keep saying some honest things. Today I was trading the challenge and the spreads during the NFP were pretty good and they returned to decent spreads very quickly after the report came out. So that is a big plus checkmark for FTMO That being said I also found out that during big risk-off events if this was a live account with their money you can not even have stops or limit orders that trigger 2 mins before or after....
That's positive. But I thought they didn't allow news trading?
  • #2,650
  • Aug 7, 2020 9:37am Aug 7, 2020 9:37am
Quoting Mtinifx
{quote} That's positive. But I thought they didn't allow news trading?
During the challenge and verification stage yes not after
  • #2,651
  • Aug 7, 2020 11:44am Aug 7, 2020 11:44am
Quoting CeeSo
Hey Guys I said a few negative things or I should say some honest things about FTMO earlier in this thread so I want to keep saying some honest things. Today I was trading the challenge and the spreads during the NFP were pretty good and they returned to decent spreads very quickly after the report came out. So that is a big plus checkmark for FTMO That being said I also found out that during big risk-off events if this was a live account with their money you can not even have stops or limit orders that trigger 2 mins before or after....
Removed my earlier comments, Tomas clarified it's still 2mins before and after. But anyway, we can still trade jpy pairs as proxy for usd. And chf for eur pairs. Or probably some other crosses.
adapt or be killed
  • #2,652
  • Aug 7, 2020 11:58am Aug 7, 2020 11:58am
Quoting Tomas-ftmo
Hello Everyone, As you noticed, we have made some major changes to our user interface and plan to release more changes soon. We finally released the MT5 and cTrader for our FTMO Platform. We hope you will like all the changes. We would like to apologise for the issues that some of you encountered. The change has brought in some minor bugs to our website. We are working extremely hard this week to make sure everything is fixed as soon as possible. Many of you showed unhappiness with capacities of our chat and email support. Given all the changes,...
Wow, great work Tomas on replying to most of our queries.
adapt or be killed
  • #2,653
  • Aug 7, 2020 12:48pm Aug 7, 2020 12:48pm
Deleted my negative comment too.
All good now, let's do this folks.
On my 4th attempt, struggling with my Overtrading... .
on a postive roll...
  • #2,654
  • Aug 8, 2020 1:48am Aug 8, 2020 1:48am
Quoting Masterrmind
{quote} Haha Looks like you are trying to twist my arm. Patience my friend, all in good time. Masterrmind ........
Just joking my friend - sorry, silly post removed
  • #2,655
  • Aug 8, 2020 8:29pm Aug 8, 2020 8:29pm
Would be nice if the TE could track MT5 or cTrader but alas it appears not so with only MT4 and FxTrade being offered.

Perhaps the following:

Challenge via MT4 so I can show it on TE.

Verification via cTrader (MyFxBook link).

Funded via MT5 or cTrader.

Masterrmind.........
Master your Mind then Master your Trades
  • #2,656
  • Aug 8, 2020 8:37pm Aug 8, 2020 8:37pm
Quoting simon91
Now just need to microlot and then onto verification {image}
Would be interesting to see the balance curves.

Can you post them here?

Great result.

Masterrmind .........
Master your Mind then Master your Trades
  • #2,657
  • Aug 9, 2020 10:08am Aug 9, 2020 10:08am
Hi Tomas, I appreciate you taking the time to answer my inquiries.


If I may just offer one piece of advice. For us, US clients we are use to a certain level of customer support, and customer support is a critical part of all businesses. It takes a lot of time and money to acquire customers and it is so easy to lose a customer because of poorly trained or understaffed customer support.

That being said, I get the fact that you guys are growing rapidly and these things happen. Everything worked out in the end so I have no further comments or negative things to say.

Good luck with all the new growth and changes. I am looking forward to a long and happy relationship with your company.
  • #2,658
  • Aug 9, 2020 2:09pm Aug 9, 2020 2:09pm
Hi guys

I've started a thread on the two "new kids on the block" in the prop firm world. They offer a different model which might suit some people. How they rate on the legit side is yet to be fully established of course but some say they are OK

I have joined and hoping to get my first payout next week. "Hoping" is the key word of course!

Have a look if you like: https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...7#post13105177

Constructive comments are welcome.
  • #2,659
  • Aug 9, 2020 3:55pm Aug 9, 2020 3:55pm
Quoting Mtinifx
Hi guys I've started a thread on the two "new kids on the block" in the prop firm world. They offer a different model which might suit some people. How they rate on the legit side is yet to be fully established of course but some say they are OK I have joined and hoping to get my first payout next week. "Hoping" is the key word of course! Have a look if you like: https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...7#post13105177 Constructive comments are welcome.
But it's quite irresponsible to post a thread promoting other retail prop firms on a competitor's thread.
  • #2,660
  • Aug 9, 2020 4:10pm Aug 9, 2020 4:10pm
Quoting newegg
{quote} But it's quite irresponsible to post a thread promoting other retail prop firms on a competitor's thread.
I was waiting for this comment. But I swear, if you look at the two prop firms he asked for help about, he just made FTMO look that much better. So it's such a mute point, lol. .
The best strategy is a profitable one.
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