Funded Futures Family

Payout Frequency

Payouts become requestable once the trader meets eligibility requirements (including 7 qualifying $200+ profit days and applicable consistency/buffer rules). Requests can be submitted as soon as eligible.

Approved payout requests are processed on Tuesdays and Fridays (with cut-off times for each batch).

Funded Futures Family offers multiple futures funding paths:

• Elite Evaluation: evaluation with an intraday trailing drawdown model; marketed as a 1-day pass style option.
• Premiere Evaluation: evaluation with an end-of-day drawdown model; marketed as a 1-day pass style option.
• Classic Evaluation: evaluation with an end-of-day drawdown model; marketed as a 2-day pass style option and includes an evaluation consistency requirement.
• Straight To Funded (S2F): bypass the evaluation and start directly on a funded program, with defined max contracts, trailing max drawdown, consistency, and payout profit goals/caps.
• Account limits: traders can hold up to 4 simulated funded accounts or alternatively 1 live funded account at a time.

Weekend trading is generally not applicable for CME-style futures because markets are closed during the weekend maintenance window; trading is only possible during the exchange’s open sessions. Positions must comply with the product’s trading hours.

FFF’s public materials emphasize that accounts are for the account holder’s own use. Any copying/account-management behavior should remain consistent with FFF’s fair-use/prohibited-conduct framework and must not involve third-party account management.

Automation can be implemented via supported platforms (e.g., NinjaTrader tools or TradingView-based execution flows), but traders remain responsible for compliance with all rules, including position sizing, consistency, and prohibited conduct.

Prohibited conduct includes behavior that violates FFF’s rules/terms or attempts to exploit the program. The firm reserves discretion to remove trades, deny payouts, or terminate accounts for rule violations or prohibited conduct.

Refund Policy

Refunds are limited: FFF’s help center states refunds are only available for a user’s first account and only if no trading activity has started, requested within 14 days of purchase. Refunds are processed back to the original payment method. Account cancellations do not create additional refund entitlement.

3 Percent Rule

FFF does not present a fixed “3% per trade” rule as a core program requirement. Risk is controlled through trailing drawdown enforcement, contract caps, and scaling-plan position sizing tiers.

Consistency Rules

• Evaluation: FFF’s FAQ notes Classic evaluations use a 50% consistency rule; Elite and Premiere are marketed as 1-day pass style evaluations.
• Sim Funded payouts: consistency tiers increase with payout count: 40% consistency (payouts 1–3), 45% (payouts 4–5), and 50% (payout 6+).
• Payout-day qualification: each payout cycle requires at least 7 different qualifying trading days with $200+ profit per day (days do not need to be consecutive).
• S2F: 25% consistency requirement is published for S2F accounts.

Payout Processing

Payouts are delivered through Rise. After approval, traders receive an invite, complete Rise onboarding/KYC, and then sign the contractor documentation; payouts are sent after that step.

Typical Rise timeframes: bank transfer/wire often 1–3 business days; crypto often same day to ~24 hours (network-dependent).

KYC is required through Rise before the first payout is sent (Rise onboarding/identity verification as part of contractor setup).

Other Risk Rules

• Buffer policy: funded payout stages require a buffer that must remain in the account after any withdrawal; if a request would drop the balance below the buffer, it is denied.
• Payout processing cadence: payout requests are processed in batches on Tuesdays and Fridays, with published cut-off times; traders can continue trading after submitting, but falling below the buffer or breaching rules can cause denial.
• Inactivity: if an account remains idle for two consecutive weeks or more, it is automatically marked inactive and closed.
• Profit cap (sim funded): simulated funded accounts can earn up to a capped $100,000 per user for withdrawals; profits above that cap are not eligible for withdrawal.

Futures spreads are exchange-driven (order book) and vary by contract, liquidity, and trading session. Traders should expect wider spreads during illiquid periods such as Globex opens or holiday sessions.

FFF warns that illiquid conditions (e.g., Globex opens/holidays) can increase volatility and slippage; stop-loss orders may not execute as expected, and losses during these periods are the trader’s responsibility.

FFF discourages gambling-type behavior and reserves the right to restrict service usage for unusual/abusive purchasing or trading behavior. Strategies that systematically escalate risk in a way that resembles gambling behavior may be treated as prohibited conduct.

Lot Size / Contract Limits

S2F max contracts (headline caps): $50k: 5 minis / 50 micros; $100k: 10 minis / 100 micros; $150k: 15 minis / 150 micros (scaling plan still applies).

Scaling plan tiers: contract limits step up based on end-of-day realized profits (see scaling plan details field).