A futures account is a different instrument, a different platform and a different rule set from a CFD account, not a re-badge of one. Built to be the most transparent prop firm in the market, WhitePips publishes every rule and price before you pay.
A futures prop firm sells you a simulated futures account and pays you a share of the profit you make on it. At WhitePips you trade CME Group futures (the E-mini and Micro S&P and Nasdaq, crude oil, gold, currencies and grains) on Volumetrica with dxFeed data, and keep 90% of the profit on every plan.
What futures areOne Step costs $81 at $25,000 and $239 at $150,000; Instant runs from $175 to $625. 30 days of dxFeed data are included with every new account, and bundling 2 to 5 accounts takes 10% to 25% off the whole order.
Compare the futures plansTwo futures plans. One Step is a single evaluation: reach the profit target inside the Maximum Loss Limit and you are funded, with no consistency rule and no minimum days in the evaluation. Instant skips the evaluation and funds you the moment you buy. Both pay a 90% split, on demand, once the payout conditions are met. Sizes run from $25,000 to $150,000.
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Start from what you want: funding today, or the cheapest way to a funded account.
Skip the evaluation. Funded from day one, 90% split.
The conditions the funded account checks on each request.
One evaluation, then on-demand payouts at a 90% split.
The funded account keeps the same loss limits and adds the payout conditions.
| Rule | One Step | Instant |
|---|---|---|
| From | $81 | $175 |
| Account sizes | $25K–$150K | $25K–$150K |
| Evaluation | One phase | None, funded when you buy |
| Profit target | $1,200–$9,000 | None |
| Max loss | $1,000–$4,500 | $1,250–$5,000 |
| Daily loss | Varies by size | $500–$3,750 |
| Max loss type | EOD Trailing | Intraday |
| Max position | Varies by size | Varies by size |
| Profit split | 90/10 | 90/10 |
| Payouts | On demand | On demand |
| Details | One Step | Instant |
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A futures contract is a standardised agreement to buy or sell a fixed quantity at a future date. Every E-mini S&P contract is identical, so they trade on one central exchange order book. Traders rarely hold to expiry: buy, the price moves, sell.
Exchange-traded futures have one book with published volume and depth, so everyone reads the same tape. That is why order flow and volume profile work on futures, and why this line runs on Volumetrica.
A contract moves in ticks of a fixed dollar value set by the exchange, and size is a number of contracts. Position caps are written as a count of minis and micros; a micro is one tenth of a mini.
As on the CFD line, every WhitePips futures account is simulated on a demo environment against live exchange data. The trading is real trading and the payouts are real money; no capital is placed at market risk.
Every contract trades in one book with published volume and depth, in fixed price increments.
The smallest price increment a contract can move, and the unit all futures risk is counted in. Each tick has a fixed dollar value — on the E-mini S&P a tick is 0.25 index points and is worth $12.50.
A whole unit of the underlying price. On the E-mini S&P a point is four ticks and worth $50; on the Micro it is worth $5.
Two sizes of the same contract. A micro is exactly one tenth of a mini, so ten micros carry the same exposure as one mini. This is why every position cap on the board states both — 4 Mini | 40 Micro is one limit written twice, not two limits.
Futures expire. Each contract has a delivery month and a code — ESZ5 is the December S&P — and liquidity concentrates in the front month. Positions are rolled or closed before expiry; nothing is ever delivered to you.
The exchange deposit that supports one contract, and on a simulated funded account the reason the position cap exists rather than a leverage ratio. Futures size is counted in contracts, so the plan caps contracts.
Futures trade close to twenty-three hours a day, Sunday evening through Friday afternoon New York time, with a short daily maintenance break. The end of day used to measure trailing drawdown is the close of that session, not midnight local.
Reading the sequence of executed trades and resting orders in the book, rather than reading a chart of past prices. It depends on the exchange's published tape and depth, which is what the futures platform is built around.
Every futures plan publishes its time limit as None.
The futures line runs the same split on every plan.
Every new futures account includes 30 days of dxFeed market data; after that it is $35 for 30 days, paid from your dashboard, and nothing renews by itself. If you declare yourself a Professional Subscriber to dxFeed, the professional fee of $540 per calendar month set by the exchange is paid by you.
Paid to an account or wallet in your own name, or as store credit.
The discount applies to the whole basket: 10% at 2, 15% at 3, 20% at 4, 25% at 5 accounts, up to 5 in one order.
Comparing futures prop firms? Line up the price, profit target, daily and maximum loss limits, consistency rule, time limit, split and data fees. Ours are on this page, and every plan sits side by side on the compare page.
Choose a plan to see its price and every published limit at each account size. Rules that are the same at every size are listed underneath.
Two sizes of the same contract. A micro is exactly one tenth of a mini, so ten micros carry the same exposure as one mini. This is why every position cap on the board states both — 4 Mini | 40 Micro is one limit written twice, not two limits.
| Plan | $25K | $50K | $100K | $150K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One Step | 2 Mini | 20 Micro | 4 Mini | 40 Micro | 6 Mini | 60 Micro | 10 Mini | 100 Micro |
| Instant | 2 Mini | 20 Micro | 4 Mini | 40 Micro | 6 Mini | 60 Micro | 8 Mini | 80 Micro |
The most contracts that may be open at the same moment, stated in minis and in the equivalent micros. Ten micros equal one mini, so the two figures are one limit expressed twice. It applies to simultaneous exposure, not to how many trades you may take.
Take a $50K One Step evaluation. Four published figures decide the account: a profit target of $3,000, a Maximum Loss Limit of $2,000 on an EOD Trailing basis, a Daily Loss Limit of $1,250, and a Maximum Position Size of 4 Mini | 40 Micro.
The position cap is the one that surprises people, because it is a cap on size rather than on risk. 4 Mini | 40 Micro means exactly that — you may hold four E-mini contracts at once, or forty Micros, or any mix that adds to the same exposure, since ten micros equal one mini. It applies to what is open at the same moment, so closing one contract frees room for another. Going over it once is a warning; a second time puts the account under review.
Put the exchange's own tick values against that cap and the risk becomes concrete. Forty Micro E-mini S&P contracts move $50 a tick between them, because one Micro tick is $1.25. Against a $2,000 Maximum Loss Limit, that is forty ticks of room at full size — which is the number that should decide whether you trade the cap or a fraction of it.
The Maximum Loss Limit is EOD Trailing: it is recalculated at the close of each session against that session's ending balance, and it never moves back down. Make money on Monday and Tuesday's floor is higher. It stops trailing once the floor reaches your starting balance, and from that point the floor is locked there. Reaching it ends the account.
The Daily Loss Limit is soft. Lose $1,250 in one session and trading stops for the rest of that day, but the account stays open and trades again at the next session. There is no consistency rule and no minimum number of days in the evaluation, so it can be passed in a single day, and news trading is allowed. Positions are never held overnight: anything open at 3:55 PM CT is closed.
Funded, the split is 90/10 and a 40% consistency rule applies. A payout needs 3 days of $125 or more per payout (+0.25% of the starting balance) and a balance above the $2,000 (balance stays above $52,000) Profit Buffer plus the Minimum Profit Goal, $500 above the profit buffer, before every payout (1% of the starting balance). Each payout is at least $500 before the split and at most $2,000 on the first payout, then $2,500, before the split. Payouts are on demand.
The four figures that decide the account, to scale.
The deepest futures markets there are, and where most funded futures trading happens.
Front-month contracts, rolled before expiry.
Priced per ounce, with micro sizes at one tenth.
Exchange-traded FX, quoted per contract rather than per lot.
Grain and softs on CBOT.
Tick sizes and tick values are the exchange's own contract specifications, not WhitePips terms — CME Group sets them and they are the same at every firm. What WhitePips sets is the position cap on your plan, which decides how many of these contracts you may hold at once. The exact tradable symbol list is set on the platform.
| Plan | Profit Split |
|---|---|
| One Step | 90/10 |
| Instant | 90/10 |
The split is 90% on both plans and payouts are on demand: there is no cycle to wait for, only conditions to meet. Every payout is at least $500 and at most the plan's Maximum Payout for the size, both before the split.
On One Step, a payout opens once the balance is above the Profit Buffer, which equals the Maximum Loss Limit, plus the Minimum Profit Goal of 1% of the starting balance, with three profitable days of +0.25% or more in the cycle and no single day over 40% of the profit.
On Instant, a payout opens at the Payout Milestone of $1,450 / $3,000 / $5,000 / $8,000, reached again before every payout, with five profitable days and no single day over 20% of the profit.
Payouts are requested from the dashboard and paid by bank transfer, in USDT, USDC, BTC or ETH or as store credit. Identity verification is done before this, when your account is issued.
Two futures plans. One Step is a single evaluation: reach the profit target inside the Maximum Loss Limit and you are funded, with no consistency rule and no minimum days in the evaluation. Instant skips the evaluation and funds you the moment you buy. Both pay a 90% split, on demand, once the payout conditions are met. Sizes run from $25,000 to $150,000.
Your Volumetrica credentials are issued to your dashboard once the order completes. Volumetrica is an order-flow platform rather than a retail charting package: order flow, volume profile and the live tape are the primary views, and the market data arrives over a dxFeed connection. There is no deposit and nothing of your own to transfer.
Reach the plan's profit target with the account still inside its drawdown and the evaluation is passed. There is no time limit, no consistency rule and no minimum number of days, so it can be passed in a single day. Fifteen days without trading deactivates the account.
Two things govern a futures evaluation. The position cap limits how many contracts may be open at the same time, in minis or the equivalent in micros; going over it once is a warning and a second time puts the account under review. The Maximum Loss Limit is end of day trailing: it follows your session-closing balance upward, never downward, and locks once the floor reaches your starting balance. Reaching it ends the account. The Daily Loss Limit is soft: reaching it stops trading for the rest of the day and the account stays open.
The simulated funded account is issued at a 90% split, with no activation fee. The funded rules come in with it: a 40% consistency rule on One Step, three profitable days of +0.25% of the account before each payout, a Profit Buffer equal to the Maximum Loss Limit, and no trade opened or closed two minutes either side of high-impact news. Instant runs an intraday trailing drawdown, a 20% consistency rule and five profitable days.
Payouts are on demand: there is no cycle to wait for, only conditions to meet. On One Step a payout opens once the balance is above the Profit Buffer plus 1% of the account, with three profitable days of +0.25% in the cycle. On Instant it opens at the Payout Milestone ($1,450 / $3,000 / $5,000 / $8,000 on $25K to $150K), reached again before every payout, with five profitable days. Every payout is at least $500 and at most the plan's Maximum Payout for the size, both before the 90% split.
Order flow, volume profile and the live tape, on a dxFeed connection.
The futures line runs on Volumetrica. It is not a retail charting package with a futures symbol list bolted on — it is built around the exchange tape, with order flow, volume profile and the live tape as the primary views rather than as add-ons.
Market data arrives over a dxFeed connection. That matters more on futures than on any other line: order flow analysis is only as good as the feed underneath it, and a delayed or aggregated tape makes the entire method decorative.
This is why the two lines are on different platforms rather than one. MetaTrader 5 is the right terminal for CFDs because that is where a CFD trader's tooling already lives. It is the wrong terminal for order-flow futures, and pretending otherwise would be a worse answer than running two platforms.
It is one position limit written twice. A micro contract is exactly one tenth of a mini, so four minis and forty micros carry identical exposure. You may hold four minis, or forty micros, or any combination adding to the same size — and it is a cap on what is open at the same moment, not on how many trades you take.
The floor is recalculated at each session close against that session's ending balance, and it only ever moves up. It does not follow intraday equity, so an unrealised spike during the day does not raise it. Once the floor reaches your starting balance it stops trailing permanently — from that point the floor is locked there.
No. Every futures plan publishes its time limit as None. There is no expiry on any futures evaluation and no penalty for taking as long as you need.
A hard breach ends the account immediately and finally: reaching the Maximum Loss Limit is one. The Daily Loss Limit is soft: reaching it stops trading for the rest of the day, and the account stays open. Going over the position cap is a warning the first time and puts the account under review the second.
One Step is an evaluation: reach the profit target inside an end of day trailing Maximum Loss Limit and you are funded, for a lower one-time fee. Instant funds you the moment you buy, with an intraday trailing Max Loss, a 20% consistency rule and a Payout Milestone before every payout. Both pay 90%, on demand.
No. Anything still open at 3:55 PM CT (4:55 PM New York) is closed by the system, five minutes before the daily close, and on Friday before the weekend. It is not a breach. The session runs Sunday 5:00 PM CT to Friday 4:00 PM CT, with a break from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM CT each day.
Both plans pay 90% of the payable profit, on demand: request a payout whenever its conditions are met, with every position closed. The smallest payout is $500 before the split, and the largest is set per size. Every request gets an automatic receipt confirming it has been received, and it is paid by the method on file for your account. Payout conditions on each plan
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