The rules they do not put on the pricing page
48 terms across 15 firms that can cost you an account or a payout after you have paid — 28 of them close the account outright. Every one is quoted from the firm’s own pages, with a link to where we read it.
Payout
What can reduce, delay or void money you have already made.
Five strikes and the account is closed permanently
Most rule breaks at Finotive are not instant failures. Each confirmed breach records one Strike and cuts your Reward Payment to 10% for that entire Payout Cycle. Five cumulative Strikes close the account permanently. The consequence is therefore cumulative across your whole time with the firm — a Strike you took months ago still counts toward the fifth.
Five trading days before your first payout
The first withdrawal needs at least $100 profit and a minimum of five trading days. Passing quickly does not mean being paid quickly.
Two payouts per 30 days, per challenge
You may request up to two payouts every 30 days on the same challenge. Profits made after the second request wait for the next window.
A payout can be refused for poor risk management alone
Blue Guardian reserves the right to terminate an account or deny a withdrawal request where it considers that a customer has abused margin availability or has not applied an appropriate risk management strategy. No threshold is given for what counts as appropriate, so this is judgement exercised after the profit has been made.
On the 1-Step, taking a payout resets your loss limit downward
Their own wording: the trailing limit can only increase, never decrease — but when a Reward is withdrawn and a new FTMO Account is provided, the Maximum Loss Limit fully resets, returning the first-day limit to 90% of the initial capital. A trader who has built a cushion of profit gives that cushion up by taking money out.
This list is only as complete as our reading. 15 of the firms we track have been through a rulebook pass; the rest are still to do, and a firm missing from here has not been cleared — it has not been checked. See every firm we track.