FTMO Free trial 100k 2 step Challenge

Did you close in Profit

I will just avoid the pair then

EURUSD SELL

Entry: 1.16742

SL: 1.16877

TP: 1.15674

EURUSD sells are working

After two losses on this pair earlier, I stuck with the original idea. Price used Tuesday to build liquidity above before selling off from supply — exactly what I was waiting to see.

📍 Entry: 1.16742 🛑 SL: 1.16877 🎯 TP: 1.15674

Currently in profit, holding for that low at 1.15670.

USDCAD update:

My buy setup reached the original TP, but I was already stopped out at break-even.

The setup itself played out exactly as anticipated.

The problem wasn't the analysis.

It was the trade management.

Another lesson for the journal. 📖

Silver buy is live 📈

Holding above the protected low as planned. Structure still favors buyers from here.

📍 Entry: 68.612 🛑 SL: 68.200 🎯 TP: 70.000

Great lesson.

I closed out -$116.19 and re-entered for a more comfortable sell entry. Current one is running in +162.96. I'll just hold till end of the day.

Alright then

EURUSD BUY

Entry: 1.16579

SL: 1.16519

TP: 1.17118

I made a research on why my challenge hasn't ended yet and this is what i got.

FTMO removed the fixed time limit on Challenges back in late 2024. As of 2026, both the Challenge and Verification phases have unlimited time — the only day-based requirement is a minimum trading days rule (you need at least 4, and your account shows 12, so that's long since satisfied). So there's no 14-day expiry to worry about; your account isn't overdue for anything, it just runs until you either hit the profit target, breach a loss limit, or leave it inactive too long.

Account overview

Balance/Equity: $93,465.40 (down from the $100K starting balance)

August P&L: -$6,534.60 over 10 trading days

Discipline Score: 83%

Trade statistics

Win rate: 36%

Avg profit: $1,070.37 / Avg loss: -$1,010.50

Average RRR: 1.06

Expectancy: -$261.38 per trade

Profit factor: 0.60 (below 1.0 means the strategy is losing money overall on this stretch)

Sharpe Ratio: -0.35

25 trades, 222.43 lots

Recent daily results

A rough three-day losing streak has driven most of the recent drawdown: 24/08 (-$1,125.56), 25/08 (-$2,551.20), 26/08 (-$2,613.44) — that's -$6,290 in just the last three days, on top of an already mixed August (green days on 14th, 19th, and 21st offset by red days elsewhere).

How did this go?

Nice Setup. This must have pushed finally.
A 1hr Bearish consolidation channel has been created finally on EURUSD.

I was told that if my trial account is genuinely past 14 calendar days since my first trade and still showing live data, there's either a display quirk, a grace window before deletion, or your "past 14 days" read was off.

I actually don't know why the challenge haven't ended

A break below that internal support it is reacting from currently at 1.1646 and price will decline further to fill up the Bullish imbalance.

Just complete 14 trading days (which should possibly be this Friday), then your account will enter a Read-only mode).

You've done 12, so two days left, then we'll see.

Critiques of The Challenge: Fees and Commission in particular

1. "No fee" only means no entry fee — the trading costs inside are real-world costs, not simulated ones. FTMO states explicitly that the Free Trial runs on the same conditions as the paid Challenge and the funded Account — same spreads, same per-lot commissions, same execution. So your -$6,534.60 isn't just "practice losses" in some abstracted sandbox sense — a real slice of that number is genuine spread markup and commission drag (the ~$3–5/lot on forex, the embedded spread on metals like Gold, etc.), identical to what you'd be charged on a live funded account. The "free" label describes what you pay to access the environment, not what the environment costs you to trade in.

2. You absorb full trading costs against a discounted target. The profit target is halved (5% instead of 10%) and minimum days are halved (2 instead of 4) — but the commission and spread structure isn't halved at all. That's a worse cost-to-target ratio than the real Challenge: you're fighting full-price friction for a smaller cushion. It can cut either way — either the trial makes cost drag feel more punishing than it'll actually be on the real target, or (more likely, since the target's easier) it lets you clear the trial without ever appreciating how much that same spread/commission structure will eat into a full 10% target later.

3. Passing changes nothing financially. Even a flawless trial run gets you information only — no discount, no credit, no reduced fee toward the real paid Challenge. You've already absorbed a full simulation of the cost structure and demonstrated you can handle it, and none of that carries forward. The realism that makes the trial genuinely useful for testing your strategy is the same thing that makes it a bit of a "free rehearsal for a bill you still pay in full."