FUNDEDNEXT RULES • CHECKED 17 OCT 2026

FundedNext challenge rules (2026): every Stellar plan, side by side

FundedNext (also written Funded Next) sells 4 CFD (Stellar) plans: Stellar 2-Step, Stellar 1-Step, Stellar Lite and Stellar Instant. Each has its own targets, loss limits and payout cycles. Every rule on this page comes from FundedNext's own help centre, rules pages and website, last checked on 17 October 2026.

In short: As of 17 October 2026, FundedNext sells 4 CFD (Stellar) plans, each with its own limits. Stellar 2-Step: profit targets 8% (phase 1) and 5% (phase 2), daily loss limit 5%, max loss limit 10% static. Stellar 1-Step: profit target 10%, daily loss limit 3%, max loss limit 6% static. Stellar Lite: profit targets 8% (phase 1) and 4% (phase 2), daily loss limit 4%, max loss limit 8% static. Stellar Instant: no profit target, no daily loss limit, max loss limit 6% trailing (locks once it reaches the start balance). These are FundedNext's CFD (Stellar) rules; FundedNext Futures runs on rules of its own.

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FundedNext rules at a glance

The headline rules of every FundedNext plan. The plan sections below give each one in full, with the conditions behind every payout cycle. A dash means the rule is not stated for that plan (a one-step plan has no phase 2).

FundedNext rules by plan
Plan	Profit target	Phase 2 target	Daily loss limit	Max loss (drawdown)	Min trading days	Payouts
Stellar 2-Step	8%	5%	5%	10% static	5 days	First reward at 21 days, then every 14 days
Stellar 1-Step	10%	n/a (one phase)	3%	6% static	2 days	First reward at 5 business days, then every 5 days
Stellar Lite	8%	4%	4%	8% static	2 days	First reward after 10 business days, then every 10 business days …
Stellar Instant	None	n/a (one phase)	None	6% trailing (locks once it reaches the start balance)	None	On-demand / bi-weekly

FundedNext news trading rules

Allowed — funded accounts: only 40% of profits from trades during news windows count toward payout (60% reduction).

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FundedNext weekend and overnight holding rules

Allowed — the firm's own rules table lists "Weekend Holding: Allowed" on Stellar 2-Step, 1-Step, Lite and Instant.

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FundedNext EA and trading bot rules

EAs and trading bots are allowed only on account sizes below $50,000, only on MT4/MT5, and only with the paid EA add-on (or VPS & EA add-on); that fee is non-refundable and is excluded from the refundable challenge fee. On $50K, $100K and $200K accounts you must trade fully manually in both the challenge and the funded account, the add-on cannot be bought, and even tools that only adjust SL, TP or lot size count as EAs (the firm's product pages word the under-$50K allowance as 'EAs and custom indicators'). No EAs or automated trading on cTrader or Match-Trader at any size, so U.S. traders (Match-Trader only) cannot use EAs. Stellar Instant tops out at $20K, so every Instant size can take the EA add-on. EAs must be customised to your own strategy, may not place identical trades across accounts, are capped at $300,000 allocation per strategy, may not use Telegram/WhatsApp integrations, may not be challenge-passing EAs, and you may not switch between EA and manual trading between the challenge and the funded account.

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FundedNext consistency rule

None on all Stellar CFD products except the optional On-Demand payout on 2-Step and Lite (best day at most 40% of total profit when you request a reward).

FundedNext max risk rule

3% of the initial balance in total at any one time — cumulative across all open trades, not 3% per trade. Entries split into several orders inside the same trade idea count as one position. Applies to the funded FundedNext Account (and Stellar Instant), not to the challenge phases.

FundedNext margin rule

No fixed limit in the plan rules, but FundedNext's General Rules treat margin use of 70% or more (cumulative) as prohibited gambling-style trading, and the Instant terms prohibit high margin use; the help centre suggests staying at 20-30%.

FundedNext challenge fee refund

Challenge fee refunded with the 1st reward on Stellar 2-Step, but only at the 3rd reward on Stellar 1-Step and Stellar Lite (firm's own rules table).

FundedNext rules plan by plan

FundedNext Stellar 2-Step challenge rules

FundedNext Stellar 2-Step rules
Profit target	8%
Phase 2 target	5%
Daily loss limit (daily drawdown)	5%
Max loss limit (max drawdown)	10%
Drawdown type	static
Min trading days	5
Consistency rule	None on the standard or 3-Day payout; 40% if you choose the On-Demand payout
Profit split	Up to 95%
Payout rules	First reward at 21 days, then every 14 days
EA and trading bots	Allowed only on the $6K, $15K and $25K sizes with the paid EA add-on (MT4/MT5); the $50K, $100K and $200K sizes must be traded fully manually in both the challenge and the funded account and cannot buy the add-on. No EAs on cTrader or Match-Trader.
News trading	Allowed (funded: only 40% of profit made in the news window counts)
Weekend holding	Allowed
Leverage	Challenge: Forex 1:100, Indices 1:25, Commodities incl. gold 1:25, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2. Funded: Forex 1:100, Indices and Commodities 1:15, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2
Max risk at any time	3% cumulative at any time (funded FundedNext Account only — no risk cap in the challenge phase)
Margin use	No fixed limit in the plan rules, but FundedNext's General Rules treat margin use of 70% or more (cumulative) as prohibited gambling-style trading
Challenge fee refund	With 1st reward

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FundedNext Stellar 1-Step challenge rules

FundedNext Stellar 1-Step rules
Profit target	10%
Daily loss limit (daily drawdown)	3%
Max loss limit (max drawdown)	6%
Drawdown type	static
Min trading days	2
Consistency rule	None
Profit split	Up to 95%
Payout rules	First reward at 5 business days, then every 5 days
EA and trading bots	Allowed only on the $6K, $15K and $25K sizes with the paid EA add-on (MT4/MT5); the $50K, $100K and $200K sizes must be traded fully manually in both the challenge and the funded account and cannot buy the add-on. No EAs on cTrader or Match-Trader.
News trading	Allowed (funded: only 40% of profit made in the news window counts)
Weekend holding	Allowed
Leverage	Challenge: Forex 1:30, Indices 1:10, Commodities incl. gold 1:15, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2. Funded: Forex 1:30, Indices and Commodities 1:10, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2
Max risk at any time	3% cumulative at any time (funded FundedNext Account only — no risk cap in the challenge phase)
Margin use	No fixed limit in the plan rules, but FundedNext's General Rules treat margin use of 70% or more (cumulative) as prohibited gambling-style trading
Challenge fee refund	At 3rd reward

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FundedNext Stellar Lite challenge rules

FundedNext Stellar Lite rules
Profit target	8%
Phase 2 target	4%
Daily loss limit (daily drawdown)	4%
Max loss limit (max drawdown)	8%
Drawdown type	static
Min trading days	2
Consistency rule	None on the standard or 3-Day payout; 40% if you choose the On-Demand payout
Profit split	Up to 95%
Payout rules	First reward after 10 business days, then every 10 business days (standard payout, accounts bought or reset from 12 Oct 2026; older accounts: 21 days, then every 14). 3-Day (60%) and On-Demand (90%) payout options are chosen at checkout
EA and trading bots	Allowed only on the $5K, $10K and $25K sizes with the paid EA add-on (MT4/MT5); the $50K, $100K and $200K sizes must be traded fully manually in both the challenge and the funded account and cannot buy the add-on. No EAs on cTrader or Match-Trader.
News trading	Allowed (funded: only 40% of profit made in the news window counts)
Weekend holding	Allowed
Leverage	Challenge: Forex 1:100, Indices 1:25, Commodities incl. gold 1:25, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2. Funded: Forex 1:100, Indices and Commodities 1:15, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2
Max risk at any time	3% cumulative at any time (funded FundedNext Account only — no risk cap in the challenge phase)
Margin use	No fixed limit in the plan rules, but FundedNext's General Rules treat margin use of 70% or more (cumulative) as prohibited gambling-style trading
Challenge fee refund	At 3rd reward

Account sizes $5K to $200K; the $5K costs $32.99. Every Stellar Lite price with PFDEALS →

FundedNext Stellar Instant rules

FundedNext Stellar Instant rules
Profit target	None
Daily loss limit (daily drawdown)	None
Max loss limit (max drawdown)	6% trailing (locks once it reaches the start balance)
Drawdown type	trailing
Min trading days	None
Consistency rule	None
Profit split	Up to 80%
Payout rules	On-demand / bi-weekly
EA and trading bots	Allowed on every size ($2K-$20K, all below the firm's $50,000 EA cut-off) with the paid EA add-on on MetaTrader; EAs must be customised to your strategy, no identical trades across accounts, max $300K allocation per EA strategy. No EAs on cTrader or Match-Trader.
News trading	Allowed (funded: only 40% of profit made in the news window counts)
Weekend holding	Allowed
Leverage	Forex 1:30, Indices 1:5, Commodities incl. gold 1:7.5, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2
Max risk at any time	3% cumulative at any time (funded FundedNext Account only — no risk cap in the challenge phase)
Margin use	No fixed limit in the plan rules, but FundedNext's General Rules treat margin use of 70% or more (cumulative) as prohibited gambling-style trading, and the Instant terms prohibit high margin use
Challenge fee refund	None

Account sizes $2K to $20K; the $2K costs $59.99. Every Stellar Instant price with PFDEALS →

FundedNext rules that catch traders out

Details from FundedNext's rules, checkout and help centre that are easy to miss.

The funded 3% risk cap is cumulative, not per trade, and it is enforced with money: a first breach brings a formal warning plus 100% of the profit from the violating trades deducted from that cycle reward; a second breach on the same account deducts that profit again and permanently reclassifies the account to a 1% cumulative risk limit. Violations follow the account through a merge — the stricter parameter wins.
Challenge fee refund timing differs by product: with the 1st reward on Stellar 2-Step, but only at the 3rd reward on Stellar 1-Step and Stellar Lite.
Stellar 1-Step costs about 8-10% more than 2-Step at $6K-$50K ($329.99 vs $299.99 on 50K), about 4% more at $100K and the same at $200K ($1,099.99), and it refunds the fee later (with the 3rd reward instead of the 1st).
Stellar Instant tops out at an 80% reward share, not the 95% the Stellar evaluation products reach.
Leverage depends on the plan and the stage: gold and other commodities get 1:25 in the 2-Step and Lite challenge (1:15 funded), 1:15 in the 1-Step challenge (1:10 funded) and 1:7.5 on Instant, per FundedNext's General Rules. The Stellar product pages print lower figures (e.g. Forex 1:30 on 2-Step), so check your dashboard before sizing gold.
EAs are only allowed on CFD account sizes below $50,000: on the $50K, $100K and $200K Stellar accounts you must trade fully manually in both the challenge and the funded account, the EA add-on cannot even be bought, and tools that only move SL/TP or size lots count as EAs. On the smaller sizes EA access is a paid, non-refundable add-on, works on MT4/MT5 only (never cTrader or Match-Trader), you cannot switch between EA and manual trading between the challenge and the funded account, and each EA strategy is capped at $300K allocation.
Funded news trading is allowed, but only 40% of the profit made in the news window counts toward your reward.
FundedNext runs a genuinely free CFD Free Trial account that costs nothing and is easy to miss — the buy widget only surfaces it as a small secondary "Free Trial" CTA. Firm's own rules (help centre, updated 8 Apr 2026): 1-step, 5% profit target, 5% daily loss, 10% max loss, minimum 3 trading days inside a 14-day window that starts at your first trade, balances $6,000-$200,000, swap accounts at 1:100 forex / 1:40 commodities, weekend holding allowed, no reset. One active trial per email+IP, but you may request another once it is disabled, so trials are effectively unlimited. It runs on MT5 for clients outside the US; U.S. clients get the Free Trial on Match-Trader only. No EAs, and at most 30 open positions.
FundedNext runs short 'Labs' experiments at fundednext.com/labs that open, sell out and close — and can come back or graduate. On 17 October 2026 FNL:002 (a 2-Step 25K CFD challenge with a 12% max loss, 4% daily loss limit, 85% reward share and at most 5 rewards) is marked Available again and is sold in the homepage buy widget at $149.99, while FNL:001 (the $50K 1-Step CFD account without a daily loss limit) and FNL:003 are marked Expired. FNL:003, the $50K no-challenge futures account sold for $149.99 in Labs, graduated into the permanent Direct account on 7 October at $283.99 list. Treat any Labs headline as 'maybe already closed' until you see it live on fundednext.com/labs.
Quick Strike (all Stellar accounts): the share of a cycle's profit that comes from winning trades closed within 30 seconds. At 20% you get a warning; at 30% or more challenge progress is put on hold until it drops below 30%, and on funded and Instant accounts that profit is deducted from the reward — a repeat breach closes the account.
Every trade needs a stop-loss: a trade without one is treated as risking 100% of the balance in FundedNext's risk checks.
The CFD Challenge Terms (9.8) set a USD 25,000 contractual penalty for each prohibited-trading breach, which the firm may deduct from rewards and refunds.
Hedging is allowed inside one account only — never across FundedNext accounts (even your own) or against an external broker, and a single trade that risks the full daily loss limit may be reviewed as hidden hedging.
Copy trading is allowed only between your own Stellar 1-Step, 2-Step or Lite challenge accounts, or between your own Instant accounts — never with a funded account on either side, never with other people and never through copier services.
Hyperactivity cap: 200 trades or 2,000 server messages in a day counts as hyperactive; two warnings (counted across all your accounts), and the third occurrence breaches the account.
Profits made consistently in the 00:00-02:00 server-time settlement window can be reviewed, voided or end the account.
Same-strategy rule: you may not pass with one asset class or risk level and then switch markets or sharply raise margin or risk on the funded account.
Allocation caps: $300,000 in funded CFD accounts in total ($200,000 on Lite), $20,000 of active Stellar Instant allocation (no merging), and $50,000 for traders in Cambodia, Mongolia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Taiwan, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Pakistan.
KYC must be completed within 30 days of passing, or the passed challenge account is deactivated.
Inactivity: FundedNext's General Rules deactivate a CFD account after 60 days without a trade, while a help article still says 30 - trade at least monthly to be safe.
2-Step and Lite payout option is chosen at checkout and fixed: Standard 80%, 3-Day 60% (3 profitable days of 1%+ per cycle) or On-Demand 90% (2% growth and a 40% consistency rule); the Lifetime 95% add-on replaces all three.

FundedNext rules FAQ

What are the FundedNext rules?

As of 17 October 2026, FundedNext sells 4 CFD (Stellar) plans, each with its own limits. Stellar 2-Step: profit targets 8% (phase 1) and 5% (phase 2), daily loss limit 5%, max loss limit 10% static. Stellar 1-Step: profit target 10%, daily loss limit 3%, max loss limit 6% static. Stellar Lite: profit targets 8% (phase 1) and 4% (phase 2), daily loss limit 4%, max loss limit 8% static. Stellar Instant: no profit target, no daily loss limit, max loss limit 6% trailing (locks once it reaches the start balance). These are FundedNext's CFD (Stellar) rules; FundedNext Futures runs on rules of its own.

What is the FundedNext daily loss limit (daily drawdown)?

Daily loss limit at FundedNext: 5% on Stellar 2-Step; 3% on Stellar 1-Step; 4% on Stellar Lite; none on Stellar Instant.

What is the FundedNext maximum loss (max drawdown), and is it static or trailing?

Maximum loss (max drawdown) at FundedNext: 10% static on Stellar 2-Step; 6% static on Stellar 1-Step; 8% static on Stellar Lite; 6% trailing (locks once it reaches the start balance) on Stellar Instant.

Does FundedNext allow news trading?

Yes — funded accounts: only 40% of profits from trades during news windows count toward payout (60% reduction).

Does FundedNext allow weekend and overnight holding?

Yes — the firm's own rules table lists "Weekend Holding: Allowed" on Stellar 2-Step, 1-Step, Lite and Instant.

Does FundedNext have a consistency rule?

None on all Stellar CFD products except the optional On-Demand payout on 2-Step and Lite (best day at most 40% of total profit when you request a reward).

What profit split does FundedNext pay?

Profit split at FundedNext: up to 95% on Stellar 2-Step, 1-Step and Lite; up to 80% on Stellar Instant.

How often does FundedNext pay out?

Payout cycle at FundedNext — Stellar 2-Step: First reward at 21 days, then every 14 days. Stellar 1-Step: First reward at 5 business days, then every 5 days. Stellar Lite: First reward after 10 business days, then every 10 business days (standard payout, accounts bought or reset from 12 Oct 2026; older accounts: 21 days, then every 14). 3-Day (60%) and On-Demand (90%) payout options are chosen at checkout. Stellar Instant: On-demand / bi-weekly.

How many minimum trading days does FundedNext require?

Minimum trading days at FundedNext: 5 on Stellar 2-Step; 2 on Stellar 1-Step and Stellar Lite; none on Stellar Instant.

What leverage does FundedNext offer?

Leverage at FundedNext — Stellar 2-Step and Stellar Lite: Challenge: Forex 1:100, Indices 1:25, Commodities incl. gold 1:25, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2. Funded: Forex 1:100, Indices and Commodities 1:15, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2. Stellar 1-Step: Challenge: Forex 1:30, Indices 1:10, Commodities incl. gold 1:15, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2. Funded: Forex 1:30, Indices and Commodities 1:10, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2. Stellar Instant: Forex 1:30, Indices 1:5, Commodities incl. gold 1:7.5, Crypto 1:1, Stocks 1:2.

Are EAs and trading bots allowed at FundedNext?

What is the FundedNext max risk rule?

Max risk rule at FundedNext: 3% of the initial balance in total at any one time — cumulative across all open trades, not 3% per trade. Entries split into several orders inside the same trade idea count as one position. Applies to the funded FundedNext Account (and Stellar Instant), not to the challenge phases.

Does FundedNext have a margin rule?

Margin rule at FundedNext: no fixed limit in the plan rules, but FundedNext's General Rules treat margin use of 70% or more (cumulative) as prohibited gambling-style trading, and the Instant terms prohibit high margin use; the help centre suggests staying at 20-30%.

Does FundedNext refund the challenge fee?

Challenge fee refund at FundedNext: challenge fee refunded with the 1st reward on Stellar 2-Step, but only at the 3rd reward on Stellar 1-Step and Stellar Lite (firm's own rules table).

Is there a FundedNext discount code?

Yes. PFDEALS is PropfirmDeals' own FundedNext code: 30% off CFD challenges + 120% refundable fee reward; 10% off Futures. FundedNext's own code for these plans: STRTN — up to 33% off the smallest size of each Stellar challenge: 2-Step $6K, 1-Step $6K, Lite $5K and Instant $2K. Use whichever takes the most off. Enter the code in the coupon field at checkout and check that the total drops before you pay.

Where these FundedNext rules come from

We read FundedNext's rules from its own help centre and site and re-check them when the firm changes them; the last full check was on 17 October 2026. If a rule here and FundedNext's current terms ever differ, FundedNext's terms apply.