No evaluation at all: the FTMO Instant Account gives direct access to an FTMO Account with a 10% Maximum Loss, a 90% reward ratio and up to 1:100 leverage. You trade for rewards from the first day, and the rule that matters most is the one you never cross.
Rule values taken from ftmo.com on October 23, 2026 (its own objectives table). FTMO can change its terms; the live source is always ftmo.com.
There is no profit target to reach before the money, so the Maximum Loss is the whole game: an Instant account with the equity below 90% of its initial balance is done, and no target offsets that. Automated strategies that pass evaluations by being conservative usually love this setup; aggressive ones meet their limit faster than in an evaluation.
The whole evaluation runs on a demo environment, so an automation bridge is the natural fit: your TradingView alert fires, our webhook delivers it, and the SignalForge EA executes on the evaluation account. Its Prop Firm Shield adds a daily-loss guard toward the 5% Max Daily Loss, drawdown protection toward the 10% Maximum Loss, a news filter and a max-lot cap, so a miswritten alert cannot blow a rule by itself. Run the EA on your own MT5 terminal, or host it on SFCloud from $6.99/mo so the Mac/sleep/update problem disappears.
There is no Challenge or Verification phase: you start on the FTMO Account directly, trading for rewards from day one. The trade-off is the 10% Maximum Loss with no target to amortize mistakes first.
FTMO's pricing table lists the account sizes and fees; it changes more often than the rules, so check it on ftmo.com. Sizes historically go up to a $200,000 account.
Yes, with the same bridge used on evaluations: TradingView alert, webhook, SignalForge EA on the account, Prop Firm Shield guarding the 10% line. The EA setup does not change between Instant and evaluation accounts.
FTMO's news restriction does not apply during the Evaluation Process regardless of account type; Swing accounts carry no overnight or weekend restrictions. For Instant-specific details, FTMO's terms are the live source.
Same rules, checked the same day, for the other two paths:
Fourteen days free on the bridge, no card, guards on. The Instant account rewards the strategies that survive themselves.
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