FundedHero Futures Review · Updated August 2026

4.8 TrustScore (claimed)

FundedHero Futures
Five Models, One EOD Drawdown

Five ways in, one rulebook that deserves a second reading.

Our complete FundedHero Futures review for 2026 covers all five models: Instant Funded, One Step, Two Step and the two No Activation variants. EOD trailing drawdown, the fourteen-day payout cycle, the thirty-second hold rule, the real all-in cost of each route once activation is counted, and the places where the firm's own documentation disagrees with itself.

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$450K

Max Combined Allocation

95%

Top Profit Split

7 hrs

Avg. Payout (claimed)

10,000+

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FundedHero Futures official website plan selector showing five model paths

Every price in this review is the struck, non-promotional price from the homepage plan selector, read on 19 August 2026. The older Select Plan page still online shows a different and considerably higher grid; it has not been updated since November 2025 and we have not used it.

Overview

One firm. Five ways in.

FundedHero Futures is the futures arm of FundedHero, a firm that also runs a CFD and forex operation on a separate domain. The futures side sells simulated evaluations and simulated funded accounts on CME, CBOT, COMEX and NYMEX products, with market data supplied by dxFeed and execution routed through the trader's own feed. Everything on the platform is simulated, and the firm says so plainly in its own disclaimer.

The mechanics underneath are consistent. Every model runs end-of-day trailing drawdown. Every model auto-closes at 4:10 PM EST. Every model routes payouts through the same fourteen-day cycle. What changes between them is the entry price, the contract ceiling, the profit split ladder, and the consistency regime.

The entry pricing is the first thing to understand, because it is unusually low. A One Step evaluation on the $25,000 account is priced at $70 before any promotion. Those are entry tickets, not the full cost: One Step charges $149 and Two Step $99 on a pass, so the realistic all-in figure for a trader who succeeds runs from $189 to $447. The firm's revenue model plainly sits on the far side of the finish line rather than at the till.

Read the all-in column, not the entry column. Every pricing section in this review shows both the headline entry price and the activation fee. Judge on the all-in figure, which is what you actually spend to get funded.

Model comparison

Pick the model that matches your risk appetite.

The five products split into three families. Instant buys you a funded account outright, at roughly seven times the entry price of a matching evaluation. One Step and Two Step are the cheap way in with an activation fee at the finish line. The No Activation variants remove that fee and charge for the privilege upfront. Every price is the struck, non-promotional price from the homepage selector.

No Evaluation

Instant Funded

$258 to $1,300

Funded from day one
No activation fee
90% flat split
EOD trailing drawdown
Tightest drawdown ratios
Lowest contract ceilings

Cheapest Entry

One Step

$70 to $298 + $149 activation

Single profit target
Pass in one day possible
No minimum trading days
80% to 90% ladder
$149 flat activation on pass
50% per-trade consistency

Best Split

Two Step

$90 to $330 + $99 activation

85% to 95% ladder
Cheapest all-in at every size
$99 activation (lowest)
No model consistency rule
Accounts up to $200,000
Two evaluation phases

Newest (March 2026)

No Activation Variants

$278 to $548 upfront

Identical rules to base models
No activation fee on pass
One known total cost upfront
~$100 more than standard route
Full price charged on failure too

Detail	Instant	One Step	Two Step	No Activation
Eval phases	None	1	2	1 or 2
Account sizes	$10K to $100K	$25K to $150K	$50K to $200K	Same as base
Entry price	$258 to $1,300	$70 to $298	$90 to $330	$278 to $548
Activation fee	None	$149	$99	None
All-in if you pass	$258 to $1,300	$219 to $447	$189 to $429	Same as entry
Drawdown	EOD trailing	EOD trailing	EOD trailing	EOD trailing
Min trading days	None	None	Not specified	Same as base
Profit split	90% flat	80 / 85 / 90%	85 / 90 / 95%	Same as base
Consistency	20 / 25 / 30% per day	50% per trade	None stated	Same as base
Winning days for payout	None stated	4 at 0.3%	3 at 0.3%	Same as base
Max contracts	1 to 10 minis	2 to 15 minis	9 to 17 minis	Same as base

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How it works

From checkout to your first payout.

STEP 01

Buy and trade

Pick a model, a size and a platform. Volumetrica is the only platform offered in the checkout selector. Accounts renew automatically every thirty days unless cancelled, and an active account carries its progress across the renewal. A breached account is reset to its starting balance at renewal instead.

STEP 02

Pass, then activate

Hit the profit target without breaching the daily or maximum loss limits. Passed evaluations are reviewed in full before funding is granted. On One Step and Two Step you then pay the activation fee, $149 and $99 respectively, charged only once the challenge is passed. Instant and the No Activation variants skip this step entirely.

STEP 03 · SIM-FUNDED

Fourteen days to your first request

The funded account is simulated. Your first payout request can be filed fourteen days after the account starts, provided you have five winning days of at least 0.25% each and your total drawdown sits under 35% of total profits. Payouts leave by RISE, crypto, or straight to a FHX Markets brokerage account.

Instant Funded model

Instant: funded on day one, capped from day one.

Instant Funded is the most expensive way in and the most restrictive once you are there. There is no evaluation and no activation fee, but the drawdown ratios are the tightest FundedHero publishes and the payout ceilings are hard caps. The $10,000 account is the sharpest illustration: $258 buys $250 of daily loss inside a $300 total drawdown, leaving fifty dollars of headroom between a bad session and a dead account.

Account	Entry Price	Daily Loss	Max Loss (EOD)	Contracts	Payout Cap
$10,000	$258	$250	$300	1 / 10 micros	$500 to $1,000
$25,000	$500	$750	$1,000	1 / 10 micros	$1,000 to $1,500
$50,000	$700	$1,250	$2,000	5 / 50 micros	$1,500 to $2,000
$75,000	$998	No dedicated specification set published. See note below.
$100,000	$1,300	$2,500	$3,500	10 / 100 micros	$2,000 to $3,000

Five sizes, four specification sets. The selector sells five Instant accounts. The documentation publishes four specification sets. The fourth set, $2,500 daily loss against $3,500 of total drawdown with a ten-mini ceiling, is labelled $75,000 on one page and $100,000 on another. One of the two sizes therefore has no specification of its own anywhere in the firm's published material. At $998 and $1,300 respectively these are not cheap accounts to buy on an assumption. Get the limits confirmed in writing before you purchase either.

The premium you are paying. A $50,000 Instant is $700. A $50,000 One Step evaluation is $90, or $239 all-in with activation. A $100,000 Instant is $1,300 against $347 all-in. Across matched sizes Instant costs roughly seven times the bare entry ticket and between two and four times the realistic all-in cost of passing an evaluation. What that premium buys is the removal of evaluation risk, and nothing else: the drawdown ratios are worse, the contract ceilings are lower, and the split is flat rather than laddered.

One Step evaluation

One Step: cheap to try, expensive to win.

One Step is the volume product. A single profit target, no minimum trading days, and the firm's own documentation states you can pass in a day. At $70 for the $25,000 account it is one of the cheapest entry tickets in the futures prop sector. The catch sits at the finish line: $149 of activation on every size, from the smallest to the largest. On the $25,000 account that is 213% of what you paid to start.

Account	Entry	Activation	All-In	Profit Target	Daily Loss	Max Loss (EOD)	Contracts
$25,000	$70	$149	$219	$1,500	$900	$1,250	2 / 20 micros
$50,000	$90	$149	$239	$3,000	$1,500	$2,000	5 / 50 micros
$75,000	$140	$149	$289	$4,500	$1,700	$2,250	7 / 70 micros
$100,000	$198	$149	$347	$6,000	$2,250	$3,000	10 / 100 micros
$150,000	$298	$149	$447	$9,000	$4,500	$6,000	15 / 150 micros

Funded requirements: The funded account carries the same daily and maximum limits as the evaluation. Payout goals are $1,500, $3,000, $3,750, $4,500 and $6,500, applying to every payout. Payout caps are $800, $2,000, $2,500, $3,000 and $4,500. You need four winning days above 0.3% of account size. No single trade may account for more than 50% of total profit.

Critical split discrepancy: The One Step article headline advertises "Up to 95% Profit Split" while the table immediately below it lists 80% on the first payout, 85% on the second and 90% on the third. There is no 95% anywhere in the One Step grid. The 95% ceiling is exclusive to Two Step.

Two Step evaluation

Two Step: cheaper exit, longer road.

Two Step costs a little more to enter and considerably less to activate ($99 against $149), and it carries the best split ladder in the catalogue, topping out at 95% on the third payout. Counted all-in, it is the cheapest route to a funded account FundedHero sells: $189 on the $50,000 account against $239 for a One Step of the same size. It is also the only model FundedHero describes as having no consistency rule, and the only one whose daily drawdown is flagged as a hard breach.

Account	Entry	All-In	P1 Target	P2 Target	P1 Daily Loss	P1 Max Loss	Contracts
$50,000	$90	$189	$2,800	$2,100	$1,700	$2,300	9 / 90 micros
$75,000	$130	$229	$4,000	$3,000	$1,950	$2,600	10 / 100 micros
$100,000	$160	$259	$5,500	$4,125	$2,600	$3,400	15 / 150 micros
$150,000	$270	$369	$8,250	$6,200	$5,200	$6,900	15 / 150 micros
$200,000	$330	$429	$10,000	$7,500	$6,000	$7,500	17 / 170 micros

Phase 2 limits tighten significantly: Phase 2 daily loss drops to $1,275, $1,450, $1,950, $3,900 and $4,500 by size, and maximum loss to $1,725, $1,950, $2,550, $5,175 and $5,625. Once funded, the Phase 1 limits return. The combined profit target across both phases is close to nine percent of account size.

Funded payout note: Payout goals are $1,500, $3,000, $3,500 and $5,000 for the first four sizes. The $200,000 account has no published payout goal despite having a published $5,000 payout cap. Three winning days above 0.3% are required ($150, $225, $300, $450 and $600 by size). No model-level consistency rule on the funded account.

No Activation variants

No Activation: the same rules, and a bill that arrives early.

In March 2026 FundedHero published two additional help centre articles, One Step No Activation and Two Step No Activation. We compared them line by line against the originals. Every profit target, every drawdown figure, every contract limit, every payout goal and every split percentage is identical. The only difference is the deletion of the activation fee line. The interesting part is what the firm charges for that deletion.

Model and size	No Activation	Standard entry	+ Activation	Difference
One Step $25,000	$278	$70	$219	+$59
One Step $50,000	$339	$90	$239	+$100
One Step $75,000	$389	$140	$289	+$100
One Step $100,000	$449	$198	$347	+$102
One Step $150,000	$548	$298	$447	+$101
Two Step $50,000	$289	$90	$189	+$100
Two Step $75,000	$319	$130	$229	+$90
Two Step $100,000	$369	$160	$259	+$110
Two Step $150,000	$469	$270	$369	+$100
Two Step $200,000	$529	$330	$429	+$100

The finding: On nine of the ten sizes the No Activation route costs almost exactly one hundred dollars more than buying the standard evaluation and paying the activation fee on a pass. There is no size at which it is cheaper. The comparison flatters it further, because the activation fee is only ever levied on a pass, whereas the No Activation price is charged in full at checkout regardless of outcome. A trader who buys a $339 One Step No Activation account and breaches in the first week has paid $339 for an evaluation that costs $90.

The only circumstance where No Activation makes arithmetic sense is a trader who is confident of passing and prefers a single known outlay to a two-stage bill. For most traders the standard evaluation plus activation is cheaper and carries less downside if the account is breached early.

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EOD drawdown explained

What end-of-day trailing drawdown actually costs you.

End-of-day trailing is the more forgiving of the two common drawdown mechanics, and FundedHero applies it across all five models. Your drawdown level is recalculated once, on the closing balance of each session, and it only ever moves up. Intraday spikes do not lift it, and intraday dips do not, in principle, kill you.

The firm's own worked example is a $100,000 account with a $3,500 maximum drawdown. The initial floor sits at $96,500. Close the day at $103,500 and the floor rises to $100,000. Drift back to $102,000 the next session and the floor stays at $100,000. Fall to $99,500 and the account is breached.

INTRADAY TRAILING (many firms)

The mechanism that punishes unrealised gains

The floor follows your peak equity tick by tick. A trade that runs $2,000 in your favour and gives it all back has permanently moved your floor $2,000 higher. Traders lose accounts on days they finished flat.

EOD TRAILING (FundedHero Futures)

How FundedHero is different

Only the closing balance counts. A round trip from flat to $2,000 and back to flat leaves your floor untouched. You are rewarded for what you bank, not for what you briefly saw on screen.

A critical drawdown contradiction: One help centre article states the account is breached if the balance crosses the level "at any time", while another states you are "only at risk if your end-of-day balance falls to or below" the level. Those are not the same rule, and the difference is the entire value of the EOD model. Assume the stricter reading until support confirms otherwise in writing.

Payouts and the 14-day cycle

Fourteen days, five winning days, every single time.

This is the section to read twice, because the model pages and the payout guide tell different stories. The One Step page says you get paid in as little as five days from purchase. The Two Step page says four days from purchase. The payout guide, which is the operative document, says the first request comes fourteen days after the funded account starts, and that every subsequent request is separated by fourteen calendar days.

Before each request, and the counter resets every time, you need five winning days of at least 0.25% each. Your total drawdown must sit under 35% of total profits at the moment you file. The minimum payout is $250 and the maximum is $15,000 per cycle. In the first thirty days a $2,500 cap applies, both in aggregate and per calendar day.

SIM-FUNDED · INSTANT

90% flat, no ladder

Instant pays a flat 90% with no progression. Payout caps are hard: from $1,000 on the $10,000 account to $3,000 on the $100,000. First payout goal is $600, $1,500, $3,000 and $6,000 across the four documented sizes; the second drops to $500, $1,000, $2,000 and $3,500.

SIM-FUNDED · ONE STEP

80%, then 85%, then 90%

The ladder climbs across your first three payouts, meaning the fourteen-day cycle must be cleared three times before you reach the headline rate. Four winning days above 0.3% required per cycle, plus the 50% per-trade consistency rule.

SIM-FUNDED · TWO STEP

85%, then 90%, then 95%

The best terms on offer. Three winning days above 0.3% per cycle. No model-level consistency rule on the funded account. The 95% ceiling makes Two Step the highest split available at FundedHero Futures.

PAYMENT RAILS

5% on RISE and crypto, 0% to broker

RISE and crypto both carry a 5% processing fee charged by FundedHero, settling in one to three and one to two business days respectively. Straight to Broker into a FHX Markets account carries no fee and is described as instant once processed.

Three payout constraints that catch people out. First: withdrawals count toward your maximum loss limit, so a well-sized payout can breach an account that is still in profit. Second: after every approved payout the remaining balance becomes your new withdrawal baseline, which only ever rises. Third: if a single trade or a single day produces a gain of 3% or more of your balance, your contract size is cut by half for the following session.

And a fourth: A payout is refused outright if one trade or one day accounts for 40% or more of your total profit at the time of filing. Plan your trading with this ceiling in mind from the first session.

Platforms and market data

Three platforms, one data feed.

FundedHero Futures supports three platforms, all running market data from dxFeed. Volumetrica is the only option offered in the checkout selector. The firm is explicit that dxFeed cannot execute, and that traders must connect their own execution feed, naming Rithmic as an example.

PRIMARY

Volumetrica Trading (VolSys and VolBook)

The only platform offered in the checkout selector. Connects to dxFeed for market data. Best for order flow and volume analysis with the integrated VolBook depth of market.

SUPPORTED

Quantower

Connects via dxFeed on the Futures (CME) profile. Multi-connection terminal with strong volume tooling and a professional DOM layout.

SUPPORTED

ATAS

Connects via dxFeed. Footprint and cluster analysis platform built for traders who work from the tape and order flow.

DATA ONLY

dxFeed

Market data supplied across all three platforms. Execution must route through the trader's own feed with Rithmic named as an example. One general article also mentions TradingView, which does not appear in the dedicated platforms documentation.

Tradable universe: CME including ES, NQ, RTY, NKD and their micros MES, MNQ, M2K, plus MBT, MET and major FX futures 6A to 6N. CBOT including YM, MYM, ZC, ZW and the soybean complex. COMEX with GC, MGC, SI, SIL, HG and PL. NYMEX with CL, MCL, NG, QM, QG, RB and HO.

Trading rules

The rules that decide whether you keep the money.

✓ ALLOWED

News trading

Fully allowed, with NFP, CPI and FOMC named explicitly. No blackout window before or after releases. This is one of the more permissive news trading policies in the futures prop sector.

✓ ALLOWED

Multiple accounts

Up to ten active accounts, of which a maximum of five may be sim-funded. Failed evaluations do not count. A sixth funded account sits dormant until a slot frees. Combined allocation capped at $450,000.

✓ ALLOWED (own accounts)

Copy trading between your own accounts

Permitted from evaluation to funded, or across your own accounts. Copying between different users is prohibited even if you manage all of them, and the accounts must be yours specifically.

⚠ MUST CLOSE

Intraday only, auto-close at 4:10 PM EST

Trading runs from the 6:00 PM EST Globex open to the 4:10 PM EST New York close. Open positions are closed automatically at 4:10. On holiday half-sessions the auto-close does not fire, and an open position at the bell can breach the account.

⚠ PENALISED

The thirty-second rule

Thirty seconds must elapse between executions on the same account. Four violations or fewer leave the account live but cut your profit split to 25% of what you would otherwise have earned. Five or more violations breach the account and reset it to its original phase.

✕ PROHIBITED

Automation, hedging and coordination

Fully automated hands-off systems are banned. Bots allowed only if they run your own code and are not mass-produced or publicly sold. Opposite positions across your own accounts, coordinated trading, order stacking, limit order flooding and low-liquidity sniping are all prohibited.

The defamation policy: FundedHero operates a defamation policy under which public criticism the firm judges defamatory, including posts on social media, forums and chat groups, can breach the account and forfeit pending and future payouts. This applies whether the account is funded, in challenge, or awaiting a payout. It is uncommon in the futures prop sector and worth knowing before you buy.

Two further constraints. Account sharing, ghost trading, VPN circumvention and access from multiple unrelated IPs can flag or terminate an account. And the homepage advertises a Weekend Holding badge that none of the model pages support, alongside an Unlimited Trading Period badge that the renewal and reset articles contradict with references to monthly billing and expiration dates.

Documentation review

Where the rulebook contradicts itself.

We read all thirty-seven published help centre articles alongside the marketing pages. The following conflicts are direct quotes from FundedHero's own documentation, not inferences. None is disqualifying on its own; together they are the single biggest reason this review is not scoring higher.

Topic	One source says	Another says
Pricing	Homepage selector: $70 to $1,300 depending on model and size	Select Plan page, unchanged since November 2025: $350 to $4,990 for the same products
Discount	Site-wide banner: 55% off all accounts	Struck against promotional price in the selector, the reduction works out close to 50%
Profit split	Homepage: 90%. One Step headline: up to 95%	One Step detail: 80 / 85 / 90%. Trailing balance article worked example: 50%
Consistency	Dedicated article: no single day above 25% of total profit	Payout guide: refused if one trade or day is 40% or more. Instant: 20 / 25 / 30%. One Step: 50% per trade. Two Step: none
Time to first payout	Two Step page: paid in 4 days from purchase. One Step: 5 days	Payout guide: 14 days after funding, plus 5 winning days
Scalping	Minimum hold policy: 30 seconds between executions	Prohibited practices: repeatedly closing inside 2 minutes is not allowed
Drawdown breach	EOD article: breached if crossed at any time	Max drawdown article: only end-of-day balance puts you at risk
Instant sizes	Selector: five Instant accounts on sale	Documentation: four specification sets, the fourth labelled $75k on one page and $100k on another
Overnight holding	Homepage badge: Weekend Holding	All model pages: positions must close before the market closes, auto-close at 4:10 PM EST
Account duration	Homepage badge: Unlimited Trading Period	Renewal article: billed every 30 days; reset article refers to an expiration date

The pricing conflict at the top of that table is the one to resolve before you buy. Two live pages on the same domain quote the same five products at figures that differ by a factor of five. The selector is the newer of the two and is the one that takes the payment, so it is the one we have used throughout this review. A buyer is entitled to be unsettled by the fact that the other page was never taken down.

Two further gaps: The evaluation reset fee is confirmed to exist but its amount is published nowhere, with only funded-account resets priced at $649, $1,099 and $1,499. And the Two Step $200,000 account has a published $5,000 payout cap but no published payout goal.

FundedHero vs other firms

How FundedHero Futures compares.

Feature	FundedHero Futures	Many Other Firms
Drawdown model	EOD trailing on all models	Intraday trailing on entry products
Routes to funding	Five, including instant funding	Two or three typical
Entry price	$70 to $330 on the evaluations	Comparable, often with monthly renewal
Cost after passing	$99 or $149 activation fee	Usually nothing further to pay
Top profit split	95% on the third Two Step payout	80% to 90% typical
Payout frequency	Every 14 calendar days	Weekly to monthly
Winning day requirement	5 at 0.25%, reset before every payout	Often required once only
Payout fees	5% on RISE and crypto, 0% to broker	Usually 0%
Minimum hold rule	30 seconds, with 25% split penalty	Rarely enforced
News trading	Fully allowed	Frequently restricted
Platform choice	Three platforms, one at checkout	Four to six typical
Public criticism	Defamation policy can breach account	No equivalent clause

Pros and Cons

Strengths and limitations.

✓ Strengths

End-of-day trailing drawdown across every model, including the $70 One Step
Entry pricing at the low end of the sector: $25,000 One Step at $70, $50,000 Two Step at $90
Five distinct routes to a funded account, from a $70 evaluation to an outright Instant purchase
Best-in-class split ceiling at 95% on the third Two Step payout
Flat 90% on Instant from the first dollar
Activation fees charged only after the challenge is passed
Two Step is the cheapest all-in route at every matching size and has the best split ladder
No minimum trading days on Instant and One Step
News trading fully allowed: NFP, CPI and FOMC with no blackout windows
Zero payout fee when settling to a FHX Markets brokerage account
Up to ten accounts and five sim-funded simultaneously; failed evaluations not counted
Broad tradable universe across all four CME Group exchanges including the full micro suite
Copy trading permitted across your own accounts

✕ Limitations

Documentation contradicts itself on price, split, consistency, payout timing, scalping and drawdown enforcement
Two live pages on the same domain quote the same products at figures differing by a factor of five
$149 flat activation fee lands hardest on the smallest accounts: 213% of the $70 entry on the $25,000 One Step
No Activation variants cost ~$100 more than the standard route and are charged in full on failure
Fourteen days plus five fresh winning days before every single payout request
5% processing fee on RISE and crypto payouts
The thirty-second minimum hold carries a 25% profit split penalty on as few as one violation
Withdrawals count against the maximum loss limit and can breach a profitable account
Trailing withdrawable balance permanently raises the floor after every payout
Instant costs roughly seven times the matching evaluation ticket with worse drawdown ratios
$10,000 Instant leaves $50 between the daily loss limit and total account death, for $258
Only one platform at checkout; 5% processing fee on both RISE and crypto payouts
Defamation policy can breach an account and forfeit payouts over public criticism
Homepage badges for Weekend Holding and Unlimited Trading Period are not supported by the rulebook

The Two Step route is the sharpest value in the catalogue Cheapest all-in at every matching size, best split ladder at 95%, lowest activation fee at $99. Budget for the activation before you buy.

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Conclusion

Is FundedHero Futures worth it in 2026?

The underlying product is better than the paperwork around it. End-of-day trailing drawdown on every single model, including a $70 One Step, is a real structural advantage over firms that reserve EOD for their premium tiers. A 95% ceiling on Two Step is at the top of the market. News trading is unrestricted. Five funded accounts and a $450,000 combined allocation give a profitable trader somewhere to scale.

The pricing deserves a clear head. The entry tickets are genuinely cheap and the firm has structured things so that failure is inexpensive: breach a $90 Two Step and you have lost $90. Success is where the money changes hands, through a flat activation fee that weighs disproportionately on the smallest accounts. Judge on the all-in number, which runs from $189 to $447, and it remains competitive. Judge on the headline entry price alone and you will have understated what you are about to spend by between a third and two thirds.

Against that, the payout path is longer and narrower than the marketing implies. Fourteen days between requests, five fresh winning days each time, a 35% drawdown-to-profit test at the moment of filing, a hard $2,500 ceiling for the first month, a 5% fee unless you settle to their broker, and a withdrawal that counts against your loss limit. None of these is unusual on its own. Stacked, they mean the first meaningful money leaves considerably later than four days from purchase.

Our position is that FundedHero Futures is a reasonable buy for a disciplined intraday trader who takes the Two Step route, budgets for the activation fee from the outset, ignores the No Activation upsell, and gets the split ladder and the drawdown enforcement rule confirmed in writing before funding. It is a poor buy for anyone who reads the homepage badges and assumes they are contractual.

3.4

★ ★ ★ ½ ☆

FuturesPropTrading Verdict

Strong drawdown model, cheap entry, held back by a rulebook and price list that disagree with themselves

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Frequently Asked Questions

FundedHero Futures FAQs.

1. What is FundedHero Futures?

FundedHero Futures is the futures division of FundedHero, a proprietary trading firm that also operates a separate CFD and forex business. It sells simulated evaluations and simulated funded accounts on CME, CBOT, COMEX and NYMEX products with five purchase routes ranging from a $70 One Step evaluation to an outright Instant Funded account at $1,300. Get started here.

2. How much does FundedHero Futures really cost?

Taking the non-promotional struck prices from the homepage selector: One Step runs from $70 on the $25,000 account to $298 on the $150,000, plus a flat $149 activation fee on a pass. Two Step runs from $90 on the $50,000 to $330 on the $200,000, plus $99 activation. The realistic all-in cost of a funded account runs from $189 to $447. Instant Funded runs from $258 to $1,300 with no activation fee. The No Activation variants run from $278 to $548 upfront regardless of outcome.

3. Is the No Activation version cheaper?

No. At nine of the ten sizes it costs about one hundred dollars more than buying the standard evaluation and paying the activation fee on a pass. There is no size at which it is cheaper. The No Activation price is also charged in full at checkout whether you pass or breach on day one, while the activation fee is only levied on a pass.

4. What is the difference between One Step and Two Step?

One Step has a single profit target, costs $149 to activate, pays 80%, then 85%, then 90%, and caps any single trade at 50% of total profit. Two Step adds a second phase with a reduced target, costs only $99 to activate, pays 85%, then 90%, then 95%, and has no model-level consistency rule. Counted all-in, Two Step is cheaper at every matching size.

5. How does the EOD drawdown work at FundedHero Futures?

Your drawdown floor is recalculated once per session, on the closing balance, and it only moves up. On a $100,000 account with a $3,500 limit the floor starts at $96,500. Close at $103,500 and it rises to $100,000, where it stays even if you give profit back the next day. Note that one help centre article says a breach can occur at any time, while another says only the end-of-day balance counts. Assume the stricter reading until confirmed in writing.

6. When can I get my first payout?

Fourteen days after the funded account starts, provided you have five winning days of at least 0.25% each and your total drawdown is under 35% of total profits. Subsequent payouts are separated by fourteen calendar days and the five winning days must be earned again each time. The minimum payout is $250 and the first thirty days are capped at $2,500 in aggregate.

7. What is the thirty-second rule?

Thirty seconds must pass between executions on the same account, covering re-entries, flips from long to short and burst scalping. Four violations or fewer leave the account active but reduce your profit split to 25% of what you would otherwise receive. Five or more violations breach the account and reset it to its original phase.

8. How many accounts can I have at FundedHero Futures?

Up to ten active accounts, of which a maximum of five may be sim-funded, with a combined allocation ceiling of $450,000. Failed evaluations do not count. A sixth funded account sits dormant until a slot opens.

9. What platforms does FundedHero Futures support?

Volumetrica Trading, Quantower and ATAS, all taking market data from dxFeed. Volumetrica is the only option in the checkout selector. dxFeed supplies data only, so execution routes through the trader's own feed with Rithmic named as an example. One general article also mentions TradingView, which does not appear in the dedicated platforms documentation.

10. Is news trading allowed? Can I hold overnight?

News trading is fully allowed and without qualification. NFP, CPI and FOMC are named specifically with no blackout window. Overnight holding is not allowed: positions close automatically at 4:10 PM EST. The homepage Weekend Holding badge is not supported by the model pages. On holiday early closes the auto-close does not fire, so monitor manually.

11. Can I use bots or automated trading?

Only within limits. A bot is allowed if it runs your own strategy and your own code. Mass-produced or publicly sold bots are prohibited, and if multiple accounts run the same strategy those accounts can be breached. Fully automated hands-off systems are not permitted.

12. What is the FundedHero Futures defamation policy?

The firm operates a defamation policy stating that public defamation, slander or false allegations, including on social media, forums and chat groups, can result in an immediate breach of the account and forfeiture of pending and future payouts. It applies whether the account is funded, in challenge, or awaiting a payout.

One firm. Five ways in.

EOD drawdown on every model, entry tickets from $70, a 95% split ceiling and unrestricted news trading. Budget for the activation fee before you buy, read the payout guide, and get the split ladder confirmed in writing.

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All prices in this review are the struck, non-promotional prices displayed in the plan selector on the FundedHero Futures homepage, read on 19 August 2026. All other figures are verified against FundedHero Futures published documentation at the same date. Programs, pricing and rules change without notice. Trading futures involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. This review is informational and is not financial advice.