👀 FTMO releases payout numbers, questions follow

Hi everyone, it’s Kieran. Another wild week is in the books, and it’s time to do it all over again. Lets get caught up.

FTMO gave us a rare glimpse into their payout numbers last week. They have been facing quite a bit of push back recently around traders being risk limited to 1% per trade, and with the CFD prop firm model under pressure across the industry, they are facing it head-on and sharing some numbers.

As these numbers are not third party verified, Khaled, CEO of FundingPips, who verifies payouts on Payout Junction, is skeptical.

📢 Firm Announcements

• Tradeify upgraded its Elite Live Rewards model, positioning it as a scale path where traders can trade $90K to earn $180K, with expansion across multiple live accounts. It also highlighted its Select Plan structure and ran a Game Day event around BAD Friday.

• Funded Futures Family rolled out major platform changes including daily payouts with no windows, no activation fees, new $25K accounts, updated Premier and Velocity plans, a 90/10 profit split, and the upcoming Funded Crypto Family launch.

• FundedNext Futures updated product pricing and rules, including higher profit targets on Legacy 50K, lower Rapid 25K pricing, clarified consistency calculations, and withdrawal cap mechanics on Legacy funded accounts.

• QT Funded pushed a full QT 2.0 rollout with new 2 Step, 2 Step Elite, Instant, and Capital structures, updated payout cycles, removal of the 3% buffer on some accounts, and new real time risk monitoring in the dashboard.

• The5ers introduced ProGrowth, a cheaper new 1 step style program while keeping the same market conditions, leverage, and targets.

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🕜 Red Folder News

Here are this week’s red folder news events. A very quiet week on the calendar this week. Ceasefire talks in Iran will of course be the main driver of markets this week.

📈 Markets

Iran war drawdown

A break in hostilities gives us a chance to reflect on where we are, and what has happened. In terms of (equity) market crisis, this has been very minor. Not even a 10% pull back. In comparison, the Liberation day crash was almost 20% and Covid almost 35%. Futures gapped down this morning but recovering.

Is the low in?

Is the big question of course. S&P 500 up >3% back to back weeks is historically quite bullish. Above average returns across the board, and higher a year later 86.7% of the time.

In the short term?

NASDAQ 100 is up 8 days in a row, with a total gain of 9.4%. Looking at the 7 other times in history this has happened, it was very good for continued short term returns. Up 2.5% 2 weeks later and 4% 1 month later, both with >85% hit ratio.

Safe time to go ‘risk on’?

Well, Technology sector insiders keep on buying.

Chart shows the total number of corporate insiders that have bought shares on the open market during the past six months. Highest level in 15 years. Not even datacentres being bombed can stop this technology bull market.

OK let’s see how this week plays out, have a good one!

Kieran

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