Rank #13 of 16 · reviewed September 2026
Funded Futures Network (FFN) review
STEADY replaced Express MAX on 1 Jul 2026; no activation fee, and data fees are live-only
The verdict
This Funded Futures Network (FFN) review is based on the firm's current rulebook, payout policy and reputation record as of September 2026 — scored the same way we score all 16 firms we track.
Materially better than it was, and the lineup changed on 1 July 2026. FFN now sells only two products to new buyers: Standard MAX (monthly subscription) and STEADY (one-time payment), which explicitly replaces Express MAX. Legacy OG and Express MAX accounts are grandfathered but closed to new purchase. Both current products skip the old Exhibition stage and its $120 activation fee, so you pass the eval and go straight to funded. Standard MAX carries the same EOD trailing drawdown, soft-breach daily loss limit and 40% consistency rule from eval into funded with nothing new to learn, and has no per-payout winning-day requirement. STEADY passes on two winning days, runs a 52% eval consistency rule, then drops the consistency rule and the daily loss limit entirely once funded and pays 90/10 even in sim. What still bites: tiered per-account payout caps, a $10,000 per-user cap per payout event, forfeiture of all accumulated sim profit when an account bought after 1 Jul 2026 is moved to Live Funded, and a history of discretionary 'gambling' and hedging enforcement at payout time.
Trustpilot ~4.4/5 (~450 reviews); PropScorer 66/100 flagged 'CAUTION'; payouts happen but a real tail of vague-rule closures ('gambling', hedging) at payout time
What's good
- No activation fee on either current product
- STEADY drops the consistency rule and daily loss limit once funded, and pays 90/10 even in sim
- EOD trailing that goes near-static once funded
- No data fees on sim; the $126/mo pro fee hits live accounts only
- Cheap entry at permanent 50% off; bots/DCA/news allowed in eval
What's not
- Tiered per-account payout caps ($1,000-$3,500) plus a hard $10,000 per-user cap per payout event
- Accounts bought after 1 Jul 2026 forfeit ALL accumulated sim profit when moved to Live Funded
- Discretionary 'gambling'/hedging enforcement at payout time
- Standard MAX is still 80/20 in sim and needs the buffer built before any payout
- Express MAX and OG are retired for new buyers, so much of the older third-party guidance is now wrong
Who Funded Futures Network (FFN) is for
- Intraday traders taking a handful of setups a day and going flat by the close.
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Every Funded Futures Network (FFN) plan and size, side by side
Pulled from Funded Futures Network (FFN)'s official pricing and rules pages, re-verified 2026-09-29. Drawdown column shows eval → funded when the type changes after passing (⚠ = it does).
| Plan | Size | Price | Reset | Target | Min days | Drawdown | Consistency (eval) | PA fee | Buffer | Min days to payout | Min withdrawal | Consistency (funded) | Payouts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard MAX | 25K | $67.5/mo | $100 | $2,000 | 5 | EOD | 40% | $0 | $1,500 | — | $500 | 40% | On demand, processed same day once eligible. No winning-day requirement. All must be true simultaneously: buffer fully built, balance $500+ above the buffer level ($26,500 threshold), consistency 40% or below, request at least $500, within the per-account cap and within the $10,000 per-user per-payout cap. Payout methods PayPal, bank wire or ACH (ACH by default). |
| Standard MAX | 50K | $80/mo | $100 | $3,000 | 5 | EOD | 40% | $0 | $2,000 | — | $500 | 40% | On demand, processed same day once eligible. No winning-day requirement. All must be true simultaneously: buffer fully built, balance $500+ above the buffer level ($52,000 threshold), consistency 40% or below, request at least $500, within the per-account cap and within the $10,000 per-user per-payout cap. Payout methods PayPal, bank wire or ACH (ACH by default). |
| Standard MAX | 100K | $157.5/mo | $100 | $6,000 | 5 | EOD | 40% | $0 | $3,600 | — | $500 | 40% | On demand, processed same day once eligible. No winning-day requirement. All must be true simultaneously: buffer fully built, balance $500+ above the buffer level ($103,600 threshold), consistency 40% or below, request at least $500, within the per-account cap and within the $10,000 per-user per-payout cap. Payout methods PayPal, bank wire or ACH (ACH by default). |
| Standard MAX | 150K | $182.5/mo | $100 | $9,000 | 5 | EOD | 40% | $0 | $5,000 | — | $500 | 40% | On demand, processed same day once eligible. No winning-day requirement. All must be true simultaneously: buffer fully built, balance $500+ above the buffer level ($155,000 threshold), consistency 40% or below, request at least $500, within the per-account cap and within the $10,000 per-user per-payout cap. Payout methods PayPal, bank wire or ACH (ACH by default). |
| Standard MAX | 250K | $295/mo | $100 | $15,000 | 5 | EOD | 40% | $0 | $6,000 | — | $500 | 40% | On demand, processed same day once eligible. No winning-day requirement. All must be true simultaneously: buffer fully built, balance $500+ above the buffer level ($256,000 threshold), consistency 40% or below, request at least $500, within the per-account cap and within the $10,000 per-user per-payout cap. Payout methods PayPal, bank wire or ACH (ACH by default). |
| STEADY | 25K | $74.5 | $114 | $2,000 | 2 | EOD | 52% | $0 | $1,200 | 5 | $500 | — | Every 5 winning days (one payout per cycle of 5 profit days). Min request $500; max 5 sim payouts per account, then live review. Live-funded is same-day daily, sent within 24 hours of request. |
| STEADY | 50K | $114.5 | $180 | $3,000 | 2 | EOD | 52% | $0 | $2,000 | 5 | $500 | — | Every 5 winning days (one payout per cycle of 5 profit days). Min request $500; max 5 sim payouts per account, then live review. Live-funded is same-day daily, sent within 24 hours of request. |
| STEADY | 100K | $154 | $270 | $6,000 | 2 | EOD | 52% | $0 | $3,200 | 5 | $500 | — | Every 5 winning days (one payout per cycle of 5 profit days). Min request $500; max 5 sim payouts per account, then live review. Live-funded is same-day daily, sent within 24 hours of request. |
| STEADY | 150K | $292.5 | $480 | $9,000 | 2 | EOD | 52% | $0 | $4,700 | 5 | $500 | — | Every 5 winning days (one payout per cycle of 5 profit days). Min request $500; max 5 sim payouts per account, then live review. Live-funded is same-day daily, sent within 24 hours of request. |
| STEADY | 250K | $375 | $620 | $15,000 | 2 | EOD | 52% | $0 | $5,500 | 5 | $500 | — | Every 5 winning days (one payout per cycle of 5 profit days). Min request $500; max 5 sim payouts per account, then live review. Live-funded is same-day daily, sent within 24 hours of request. |
Standard MAX: what changes when you pass
Almost nothing about the risk rules changes: the funded account keeps the same EOD drawdown, the same soft-breach Daily Loss Limit (session lockout plus auto-flatten, not account failure) and the same 40% consistency rule. What is NEW after passing: (1) there is no Exhibition stage, so the funded account opens at the full $25,000 and the drawdown starts immediately at $23,500, and you must build a $1,500 buffer inside the funded account before any withdrawal, which the FAQ (updated 2026-09-15) states as an Account Minimum Threshold of $26,500 that your balance must sit at least $500 above; (2) once the buffer is built the drawdown stops trailing and becomes 'EOD Static +$100'; (3) per-account payout caps apply ($1,000 for payouts 1-3, $1,200 for payouts 4+) plus a $10,000 per-user cap per payout event, whichever is lower; (4) the profit split is 80/20 while sim-funded, 90/10 only once live-funded; (5) the consistency profit tally resets to $0 after each payout while your best-day P&L never resets, so consistency reads artificially high at the start of each cycle, and the FAQ confirms the reset is per account (withdrawing from 2 of 5 copy-traded accounts resets only those 2); (6) for accounts purchased after 1 Jul 2026 market close, all accumulated sim-funded profit is FORFEITED when the account is moved to Live-Funded, and the move requires risk-manager approval; (7) news trading flips from harmless to fatal. Article 6.1, republished 2026-09-03, states that 'Trading the news in an evaluation account does NOT blow the account. Evaluation accounts cannot be failed by news trading, this only applies to Exhibition and Funded accounts.' On the funded account you must be completely FLAT (no open positions, no pending orders) from one minute before a Tier 1 event until one minute after it, and trading a T1 event on a funded account is an immediate liquidation with all profits in that account forfeited (Articles 3.3 and 6.3). T1 events are CPI, FOMC rate decisions, FOMC minutes, NFP and GDP, plus EIA for energy traders and agricultural reports for agricultural traders; (8) NEW, per Article 6.4 (republished 2026-09-14): a blown SIM-funded Standard MAX account (account number prefix EPS or EPV) can be reset ONCE for $475 at this size, but only if no payout has ever been processed on that account and it has never been reset before. The reset wipes all progress, profit and buffer back to the initial funded state. Live-Funded accounts can never be reset, and a second failure after the reset means restarting the whole evaluation.
After payout: FFN does not publish any change to the drawdown at payout time. Per Article 2.5 (Account Comparison Quick Reference) the Standard MAX funded drawdown after the buffer is built is 'EOD Static +$100', so it stops trailing and never moves down again. A payout itself does not reset or move it; only the consistency profit tally resets ('The consistency profit tally resets to $0, your money does not'). The FAQ adds that after a payout the balance must again be at least $500 above the $26,500 Account Minimum Threshold before the next withdrawal, and that a balance below the threshold is not itself a rule breach.
STEADY: what changes when you pass
Consistency is REMOVED on pass: the 52% rule applies to the evaluation only, and 'on funded STEADY accounts there is no consistency rule and no daily loss limit'. There is still no daily loss limit in either phase. What is NEW after passing: (1) no Exhibition stage, so the funded account opens at the full $25,000 and you must build a $1,200 buffer (equal to the max drawdown) inside the funded account, with only profit above the buffer withdrawable and no withdrawing into the buffer; (2) the EOD trailing drawdown keeps trailing until it locks at starting balance plus $100, then never moves again; (3) a NEW winning-day requirement the evaluation does not have in this form: 5 winning days per payout cycle (min $100 net per day), counter restarting every cycle; (4) a NEW 'net rule', the balance must climb above the level left after the previous payout before the next request; (5) per-account payout caps ($1,000 payouts 1-3, $1,200 payouts 4+) plus the $10,000 per-user per-payout cap, whichever is lower; (6) a hard ceiling of 5 sim payouts, after which the account goes to live review; (7) data fees are free and the split stays 90/10 in sim; (8) on the move to Live-Funded (risk-manager approval required) all accumulated sim profit is FORFEITED and the live account opens at $26,200 (size plus original buffer); (9) news trading flips from harmless to fatal. Article 6.1, republished 2026-09-03, states that 'Trading the news in an evaluation account does NOT blow the account. Evaluation accounts cannot be failed by news trading, this only applies to Exhibition and Funded accounts.' On the funded account you must be completely FLAT (no open positions, no pending orders) from one minute before a Tier 1 event until one minute after it, and trading a T1 event on a funded account is an immediate liquidation with all profits in that account forfeited (Articles 3.3 and 6.3). T1 events are CPI, FOMC rate decisions, FOMC minutes, NFP and GDP, plus EIA for energy traders and agricultural reports for agricultural traders. FFN requires the Financial Juice calendar and accepts no other news calendar. NOTE the one-way door confirmed again on 2026-09-19: Article 6.4 (republished 2026-09-14) grants a one-time paid reset to blown SIM-funded MAX accounts only (prefixes EPS/EPV). It does not cover STEADY, so a blown STEADY funded account has no published reset path and means restarting the evaluation.
After payout: The drawdown is unaffected by a payout. FFN's wording: 'The drawdown trails the end-of-day balance upward as profit grows, then locks at the starting balance + $100 once reached, and never moves down again.' What a payout DOES set is the net-rule floor: 'Each payout requires the account balance to climb above the balance left after the previous payout.' The winning-day counter also restarts at 0 each cycle.
A day counts toward payout eligibility at $100+ profit.
The rules that matter
- Eval cost
- Standard MAX monthly: 25K $135, 50K $160, 100K $315, 150K $365, 250K $590 list, half that on the standing 50% promo ($67.50/$80/$157.50/$182.50/$295). STEADY one-time: 25K $149, 50K $229, 100K $308, 150K $585, 250K $750 list, halved on promo.
- Activation fee
- $0. Neither current product charges one: Standard MAX and STEADY both skip the Exhibition stage, and FFN's fee article no longer lists an activation fee at all. The old $120 per account applies only to legacy OG accounts, which are closed to new purchase. Professional data is $126/mo per exchange and applies to LIVE funded accounts ONLY, not sim, deducted from the account balance rather than charged to your card.
- Account sizes
- 25K, 50K, 100K, 150K, 250K
- Max accounts
- 10
- Drawdown
- EOD
- Consistency rule
- Standard MAX: 40% in the evaluation AND unchanged in the funded account. STEADY: 52% in the evaluation, then NO consistency rule at all once funded. Legacy Express MAX was 50% eval tightening to 25% funded. Enforcement applies at payout request time; the tally resets to $0 after each payout while best-day P&L never resets, so consistency reads artificially high early in a cycle.
- Profit split
- Standard MAX 80/20 sim, 90/10 Live Funded. STEADY is 90/10 throughout, including in sim.
- Payouts
- Standard MAX: request once the buffer is fully built, the balance is at least $500 above the buffer level, and the account is inside the 40% consistency rule, with no winning-day requirement, processed same day. STEADY: five winning days per payout cycle (min daily profit $100/$150/$200/$250/$350 by size), plus a 'net rule' requiring the balance to exceed the prior post-payout level. Min withdrawal $500. Tiered per-account caps effective 20 Apr 2026: payouts 1-3 are capped at $1,000/$1,500/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000 and payouts 4+ at $1,200/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000/$3,500 for 25K through 250K. A separate $10,000 per-user cap applies per payout event across all accounts, and the lesser of the two governs. Live-funded accounts have no payout caps and no consistency rule. After 5 sim payouts a STEADY account goes to live review, and accounts bought after 1 Jul 2026 forfeit all accumulated sim profit on the move to live.
- Platforms
- Quantower (FundX), EdgeProX, Onyx, NinjaTrader
- Data feed
- Rithmic/NinjaTrader connections; Tradovate unverified; $126/mo pro data per exchange on LIVE funded accounts only, not on sim
- Typical discount
- FFN runs 50% off every evaluation with no activation fee, which takes Standard MAX 50K to $80 a month and STEADY 50K to $114.50 one time. The storefront pairs it with a buy one get one free account of the same type and size, claimed by emailing your receipt to support. You have 45 calendar days to redeem the free account or it is forfeited with no cash value, buying another account does not restart that window, you can hold only one free account at a time, and it is deleted if you are left with no paid account and no active funded account. The dated September offer has been taken down and the current banner publishes no end date.
Funded Futures Network (FFN) FAQ
Is Funded Futures Network (FFN) legit?
Trustpilot ~4.4/5 (~450 reviews); PropScorer 66/100 flagged 'CAUTION'; payouts happen but a real tail of vague-rule closures ('gambling', hedging) at payout time
What drawdown does Funded Futures Network (FFN) use?
Funded Futures Network (FFN) uses a EOD drawdown. End-of-day drawdown only updates at session close — the most forgiving structure.
How do payouts work at Funded Futures Network (FFN)?
Standard MAX: request once the buffer is fully built, the balance is at least $500 above the buffer level, and the account is inside the 40% consistency rule, with no winning-day requirement, processed same day. STEADY: five winning days per payout cycle (min daily profit $100/$150/$200/$250/$350 by size), plus a 'net rule' requiring the balance to exceed the prior post-payout level. Min withdrawal $500. Tiered per-account caps effective 20 Apr 2026: payouts 1-3 are capped at $1,000/$1,500/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000 and payouts 4+ at $1,200/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000/$3,500 for 25K through 250K. A separate $10,000 per-user cap applies per payout event across all accounts, and the lesser of the two governs. Live-funded accounts have no payout caps and no consistency rule. After 5 sim payouts a STEADY account goes to live review, and accounts bought after 1 Jul 2026 forfeit all accumulated sim profit on the move to live.
Is there a Funded Futures Network (FFN) discount code?
Discounts of 30–90% are evergreen across the industry. FFN runs 50% off every evaluation with no activation fee, which takes Standard MAX 50K to $80 a month and STEADY 50K to $114.50 one time. The storefront pairs it with a buy one get one free account of the same type and size, claimed by emailing your receipt to support. You have 45 calendar days to redeem the free account or it is forfeited with no cash value, buying another account does not restart that window, you can hold only one free account at a time, and it is deleted if you are left with no paid account and no active funded account. The dated September offer has been taken down and the current banner publishes no end date. Never pay list price.