What is E8 Signature Futures?
This is our 1-Step challenge - designed exclusively for Futures traders who value speed, clarity, and control
SimFi™ Challenge rules
Profit Target - Closed profit in your simulated trading account.
$1,500 Profit Target - $25,000 account
$3,000 Profit Target - $50,000 account
$6,000 Profit Target - $100,000 account
$9,000 Profit Target - $150,000 account
Inactivity rule - There is no time limit, however, after 7 days of inactivity, the account is disabled.
EOD Dynamic drawdown – A moving loss limit based on your highest end-of-day balance. It only updates once per day at market close (intraday equity swings do not move it). It locks permanently at the initial balance level.
$1,000 EOD - $25,000 account
$2,000 EOD - $50,000 account
$3,000 EOD - $100,000 account
$4,500 EOD - $150,000 account
SimFI™ Performance rules
You will get to the SimFI™ Performance stage once you complete SimFi™ Challenge account by following all rules and reaching the profit target. Users who follow the guardrails and comply with rules and guidelines are eligible to receive 80% of their trading performance and request a payout.
Inactivity rule - There is no time limit, however, after 7 days of inactivity, the account is disabled.
Daily pause - A soft daily loss limit based on your starting balance of the day. If your floating or closed loss reaches 2%, trading stops until the next day. Your account is not breached. It simply pauses and resets at midnight.
$500 Daily Pause - $25,000 account
$1,000 Daily Pause - $50,000 account
$2,000 Daily Pause - $100,000 account
$3,000 Daily Pause - $150,000 account
EOD Dynamic drawdown – A moving loss limit based on your highest end-of-day balance. It only updates once per day at market close (intraday equity swings do not move it). It locks permanently at the initial balance level.
$1,000 EOD - $25,000 account
$2,000 EOD - $50,000 account
$3,000 EOD - $100,000 account
$4,500 EOD - $150,000 account
Criteria for the payout:
Payout requests can be submitted once you fulfill all of the payout requirements. If you are unable to fulfill one of the following rules, you won´t be able to request your payout.
35% Best Day rule - With a 35% best-day rule, you must ensure that no single trading day exceeds more than 35% of your total generated profits.
Minimum payout is $100.
Amounts are taken from your net profit. Meaning, with 80% payout, you need to request at least $125.
Minimum profitable days between each payout: 5 (does not apply for first payout)
A profitable day is considered as a day where the realized closed PnL equals to 0.3% or more.
You also have to achieve profitable days between each payout cycle. After requesting a payout, your previously achieved profitable trading days will reset to 0.
$75 - $25,000 account
$150 - $50,000 account
$300 - $100,000 account
$450 - $150,000 account
Payout buffer - Before you can start requesting payout, you need to leave a buffer in your account in the same size as your EOD Dynamic Drawdown.The buffer can not be requested. The reason for this is to protect trades from violating EOD by requesting full profit from the account.
If your EOD is 3% and your initial balance $100,000, the buffer is $3000.
Maximum amount of payouts per account: 5
This determines how many payouts you can request in total from one account. After you request 5 payouts, no matter the remaining buffer or how much you requested in total payouts, the cycle is closed, the account is deactivated, and you move on with the free Challenge of the same size.
This rule applies only to the Signature Futures account purchased after 14.07.2026 20:00 UTC +2
Payout Mechanism:
On E8 Signature Futures, for your current payout, only profit earned during the current cycle is eligible. Meaning Unused profits from previous cycles don't carry over.
This rule applies only to the Signature Futures account purchased after 14.07.2026 20:00 UTC +2
Payout caps -Payout caps determine how much you can request in a single payout.
Account size | $25,000 | $50,000 | $100,000 | $150,000 |
1. Payout | $1,000 | $1,250 | $2,250 | $3,250 |
2. Payout | $1,000 | $1,250 | $2,250 | $3,250 |
3. Payout | $1,250 | $2,250 | $3,250 | $4,250 |
4. Payout | $1,250 | $2250 | $3,250 | $4,250 |
5+ payout | $1,500 | $3,250 | $4,250 | $5,250 |
A full explanation can be seen in this article.
Trading hours
In this article, you can see the general market hours of each instrument; however, the permitted trading hours are between 17:00 to 15:10 CT
It is not possible to hold positions overnight on the E8 Zero Futures model.
All open positions are being forced to close every day at 15:10 CT
News trading
You can trade news on E8 Signature Forex without any restrictions (This includes SimFi™ challenge account (phase-1) and SimFI™ performance Account)
E8 Markets offers a simulated environment that is designed to replicate real-market data and trading conditions; just as slippage is a factor in a real market, it is also present within our simulated environment. Therefore, we recommend that users avoid trading during high-impact news releases.
More information can be accessed in the article here.
Copy trading rules
E8 Markets allows copy trading across all accounts, including SimFi™ challenge and SimFI™ Performance accounts or personal accounts, as long as these accounts belong to you.
Max. available Contract Sizes
Each product has its own limitations to the maximum allowance of opened contracts. You can check this article for further details about contract sizing.
Account Balance | Maximum Contract Size |
$150,000 | 12 Contracts ($120,000 margin) |
$100,000 | 8 Contracts ($80,000 margin) |
$50,000 | 4 Contracts ($40,000 margin) |
$25,000 | 2 contracts ($20,000 margin) |
Other trading rules
There are other rules regarding the Hedging policies, all-or-nothing Trading o Irresponsible Trading in Simulated Accounts. All these additional rules with detailed explanations can be accessed here.