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Skilled Funded Traders
With industry leading technology solutions, trading platforms, and industry experience, Skilled Funded Traders is the best way to prove your skills
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3 Simple Steps
SFT Challenge
In order to become an SFT trader, begin by taking our challenge and prove you have a legitimate edge in the market. View our rules below to see what parameters you need to trade within to pass.
During the SFT Challenge step, traders are placed in a demo environment that looks to simulate the real market via latency and static slippage associated with the size of your order.
SFT Verification
This step allows you to prove that your edge and trading capabilities are consistent. Every SFT trader must complete this step and become verified before joining our elite traders.
During the SFT Verification step, traders are placed in a demo environment that looks to simulate the real market via latency and static slippage associated with the size of your order.
SFT Trader
Welcome to the SFT team. Here, you will be eligible for payouts based on your performance in your SFT Trader and your Profit Split % and can become eligible for our Scaling Plan, where you can increase the amount of virtual capital in your account.
Please note that when trading on an SFT Trader account, the real market is simulated as closely as possible by using real order book quotes aggregated from our trading platform providers’ liquidity providers. During times of high volatility, this will result in increased slippage. Due to the nature of simulating the real market as closely as possible, strategies that are successful in the SFT Challenge and SFT Verification steps may not necessarily be profitable in the SFT Trader step.
Step 1
Challenge
Step 2
Verification
Step 3
Skilled Funded
Traders
Simulated Trading Period
Minimum Simulated Trading Days
Simulated Trading Leverage
Maximum Virtual Daily Loss
$250 / 5%
$250 / 5%
$250 / 5%
Maximum Overall Loss
$500 / 10%
$500 / 10%
$500 / 10%
Virtual Profit Target
$400 / 8%
$250 / 5%
Weekend Holding
No
No
No
Simulated News Trading
Yes
Yes
No
First Withdrawal
X
X
14 Days
Virtual Profit Split
X
X
80% | 90% with Scaling
Refundable Fee
$79
Step 1
Challenge
Step 2
Verification
Step 3
Skilled Funded
Traders
Simulated Trading Period
Minimum Simulated Trading Days
Simulated Trading Leverage
Maximum Virtual Daily Loss
$500 / 5%
$500 / 5%
$500 / 5%
Maximum Overall Loss
$1,000 / 10%
$1,000 / 10%
$1,000 / 10%
Virtual Profit Target
$800 / 8%
$500 / 5%
Weekend Holding
No
No
No
Simulated News Trading
Yes
Yes
No
First Withdrawal
X
X
14 Days
Virtual Profit Split
X
X
80% | 90% with Scaling
Refundable Fee
$139
Step 1
Challenge
Step 2
Verification
Step 3
Skilled Funded
Traders
Simulated Trading Period
Minimum Simulated Trading Days
Simulated Trading Leverage
Maximum Virtual Daily Loss
$1,250 / 5%
$1,250 / 5%
$1,250 / 5%
Maximum Overall Loss
$2,500 / 10%
$2,500 / 10%
$2,500 / 10%
Virtual Profit Target
$2,000 / 8%
$1,250 / 5%
Weekend Holding
No
No
No
Simulated News Trading
Yes
Yes
No
First Withdrawal
X
X
14 Days
Virtual Profit Split
X
X
80% | 90% with Scaling
Refundable Fee
$269
Step 1
Challenge
Step 2
Verification
Step 3
Skilled Funded
Traders
Simulated Trading Period
Minimum Simulated Trading Days
Simulated Trading Leverage
Maximum Virtual Daily Loss
$2,500 / 5%
$2,500 / 5%
$2,500 / 5%
Maximum Overall Loss
$5,000 / 10%
$5,000 / 10%
$5,000 / 10%
Virtual Profit Target
$4,000 / 8%
$2,500 / 5%
Weekend Holding
No
No
No
Simulated News Trading
Yes
Yes
No
First Withdrawal
X
X
14 Days
Virtual Profit Split
X
X
80% | 90% with Scaling
Refundable Fee
$339
Step 1
Challenge
Step 2
Verification
Step 3
Skilled Funded
Traders
Simulated Trading Period
Minimum Simulated Trading Days
Simulated Trading Leverage
Maximum Virtual Daily Loss
$5,000 / 5%
$5,000 / 5%
$5,000 / 5%
Maximum Overall Loss
$10,000 / 10%
$10,000 / 10%
$10,000 / 10%
Virtual Profit Target
$8,000 / 8%
$5,000 / 5%
Weekend Holding
No
No
No
Simulated News Trading
Yes
Yes
No
First Withdrawal
X
X
14 Days
Virtual Profit Split
X
X
80% | 90% with Scaling
Refundable Fee
$549
Step 1
Challenge
Step 2
Verification
Step 3
Skilled Funded
Traders
Simulated Trading Period
Minimum Simulated Trading Days
Simulated Trading Leverage
Maximum Virtual Daily Loss
$10,000 / 5%
$10,000 / 5%
$10,000 / 5%
Maximum Overall Loss
$20,000 / 10%
$20,000 / 10%
$20,000 / 10%
Virtual Profit Target
$16,000 / 8%
$10,000 / 5%
Weekend Holding
No
No
No
Simulated News Trading
Yes
Yes
No
First Withdrawal
X
X
14 Days
Virtual Profit Split
X
X
80% | 90% with Scaling
Refundable Fee
$1049
Step 1
Challenge
Step 2
Verification
Step 3
Skilled Funded
Traders
Simulated Trading Period
Minimum Simulated Trading Days
Simulated Trading Leverage
Maximum Virtual Daily Loss
$15,000 / 5%
$15,000 / 5%
$15,000 / 5%
Maximum Overall Loss
$30,000 / 10%
$30,000 / 10%
$30,000 / 10%
Virtual Profit Target
$24,000 / 8%
$15,000 / 5%
Weekend Holding
No
No
No
Simulated News Trading
Yes
Yes
No
First Withdrawal
X
X
14 Days
Virtual Profit Split
X
X
80% | 90% with Scaling
Refundable Fee
$1,539
Benefits
Our aim is to provide the best trading experience and community in the market. As successful traders ourself, we have designed this program to truly be worldclass.
Unlimited Trading Periods
We are proud to share that all traders have unlimited trading time to complete Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Skilled Funded Traders Challenge.
Scaling Plan
Our generous scaling plan empowers our funded traders to scale their demo account up to $2M virtual currency.
Free Retries
Performed well but didn’t quite hit the targets to pass our challenge? Read our FAQs to learn how you can become eligible for a free retry.
PAYOUT SYSTEM
We are proud to share that we offer both Wise and cryptocurrency as our two payout methods for our trading community for added convenience and flexibility. Our platform utilizes a variety of cryptocurrency options, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more to cater to our community’s needs.
Compare Your Options
Skilled Funded Traders
- Demo Account Size & Model – 100K Challenge
- Price (USD) – $549
- Maximum Drawdown – 5% Daily | 10% Total
- Minimum Trading Days – 3 Days
- Evaluation – 2 Phase
- Time Period For Evaluation – Unlimited
- Targets – 8% & 5%
- Hold Trade On Weekends – Yes
FTMO
- Demo Account Size & Model – 100K Challenge
- Price (USD) – $657
- Maximum Drawdown – 5% Daily | 10% Total
- Minimum Trading Days – 4 Days
- Evaluation – 2 Phase
- Time Period For Evaluation – Unlimited
- Targets – 10% & 5%
- Hold Trade On Weekends – Yes
My Funded FX
- Demo Account Size & Model – 100K Challenge
- Price (USD) – $500
- Maximum Drawdown – 5% Daily | 8% Total
- Minimum Trading Days – 1 Day
- Evaluation – 2 Phase
- Time Period For Evaluation – Unlimited
- Targets – 8% & 5%
- Hold Trade On Weekends – Yes
Our Trusted Brokers
Frequently Asked Questions
Skilled Funded Traders is a proprietary trading firm seeking experienced traders to participate in our 2-Stage evaluation process and potentially become a funded trader. Upon successfully completing the evaluation, traders can remotely manage funds and grow their account through our scaling plan. As a Skilled Funded Traders, you can retain 80% of the virtual profits you generate, while any virtual losses incurred will be covered by our company.
The Skilled Funded Traders Challenge involves a two-stage assessment procedure that offers funded traders an 80% virtual profit split, allowing them to retain 80% of their virtual earnings once they are funded by us. Traders have an unrestricted number of days to complete both phases of the evaluation process, which have specific regulations and goals that must be met and followed to successfully pass the challenge and receive a Skilled Funded Traders funded account.
For comprehensive information on the Skilled Funded Traders Challenge, please visit our Knowledge Center.
Individuals must be at least 18 years old to participate in Skilled Funded Traders. However, we regret to inform you that we cannot extend our services to traders living in certain countries. To learn more, please visit our Countries with Limitations on Payouts and Affiliates knowledge center article.
Certainly, our traders have the option to hold active funded accounts with a starting balance of up to 400K. It is possible to merge Skilled Funded Traders funded accounts, provided that the accounts being merged have balances equal to their respective starting balances.
We currently allow traders to use the ThinkMarkets simulated trading platform.
We allow trading of any instrument available on your trading platform. This typically includes forex, commodities, indices and crypto.
All Standard accounts offer 1:100 leverage on forex pairs. The following is the leverage on other instruments:
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- Gold & Commodities 1:40
- Indices 1:20
- Crypto 1:2
All Skilled accounts offer 1:50 leverage on forex pairs. The following is the leverage on other instruments:
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- Gold & Commodities 1:20
- Indices 1:10
- Crypto 1:2
Typically, orders are processed immediately upon purchase completion. However, if you have not received your account credentials after 24 hours, please reach out to our support team through our live chat or via email at [email protected].
