E8 Markets

Yes. The help center states outright that "all current products are single-phase." E8 One used to be a two-stage evaluation, but now it's single-phase: pass the Challenge and you move straight to Performance. You can pass in as little as 1 day.

All three have a different kind of drawdown. E8 One uses Dynamic DD — it rises with your highest "confirmed" balance and permanently locks once it reaches the initial balance. E8 Pro's DD is static, never moving from the initial balance. E8 Signature uses EOD Dynamic DD, which only updates from the end-of-day close, so intraday moves don't shift the line. Pricing structure differs too — only E8 One lets you choose the DD and split. If you're running an EA, E8 Pro is the most straightforward, with no consistency rule and no minimum trading days.

Five: MT5, cTrader, Match-Trader, TradeLocker, and the in-house E8 Terminal. MT5, previously unsupported, has been added. MT4 remains unsupported. Note that US residents can't use MT5 or cTrader — only TradeLocker and Match-Trader. If the account price is under $100, using cTrader costs an extra $10. Futures run on a separate site with NinjaTrader and Tradovate.

Not during the Challenge (evaluation) stage. It only kicks in during Performance (funded) — 40% on E8 One, 35% on E8 Signature. E8 Pro has no consistency rule at all. In other words, this is a rule you're free of during evaluation but that catches you at the payout stage, and traders often only notice it after passing — so check it beforehand.

It's calculated from that day's opening balance (per E8 One's official explanation). E8 One's daily DD is roughly 0.66x the max DD, applies during both Challenge and Performance, and breaching it fails you. E8 Pro's daily limit is 2.5% of the initial balance. E8 Signature has no daily limit during Challenge, and only gets a "2% Daily Pause" during Performance. That's not a fail — once floating or realized loss hits 2%, trading for that day stops and resets the next day.

Only E8 One during Performance restricts the 5 minutes before and after high-impact news. It used to be 2 minutes and was extended to 5. E8 Signature and E8 Pro have no news restrictions.

On-demand, with no fixed cycle. E8 Pro can be claimed daily. E8 One and E8 Signature can typically be claimed about 3 days after Performance begins at the earliest. The minimum withdrawal amount differs by plan: E8 One requires your net take to exceed 50% of the daily loss limit (on the default 6% DD configuration, that's daily $4,000 on $100K, so a net $2,001, or a gross $2,501+ at an 80% split); E8 Signature requires a net $100 (a gross $125+ claim at an 80% split). Since withdrawing from E8 One doesn't lower the Dynamic DD line, the official advice is to leave 2–3% of your profit in rather than withdrawing it all. E8 Pro works differently: the minimum profit is 1% of the initial balance ($1,000 on $100K), and you can claim only 50% of the amount above the initial balance — the remaining 50% stays in the account as a buffer (not forfeited — it carries over to the next cycle). And because the first claim permanently moves the static-DD line to the initial balance, that leftover 50% becomes your only cushion going forward. Payments run through WorkMarket, Rise, and Aeropay (US only) — direct crypto withdrawals aren't available. E8's own stats show a median of 11 hours from claim to approval and 24 hours to arrival, though it can take up to 5 business days.

The balance you can grow in one day is capped at 2% of the initial balance, and anything above that is automatically removed from the account between 0:00 and 1:00 server time the next day. That's $2,000 a day on a $100K account. The official help center gives a concrete example: opening at $102,000 and closing at $105,500 means the $1,500 above the $104,000 cap line gets removed at rollover. This applies during both Challenge and Performance, and reaching the 8% target takes at least 4 trading days. Splitting a big winning position across multiple closes or closing it across days to dodge the cap is banned — it can be treated as a single trade idea and rolled up into one day. In practice, this means stopping new entries for the day once that day's profit gets within your expected take-profit range of the 2% line.

No. The official refund policy states outright that there is currently no mechanism to refund the fee on your first withdrawal. A refund only applies if you haven't traded and it's within 30 days of purchase, and anything paid in crypto is never refundable. Filing a chargeback gets your account permanently suspended.

This is unique to E8 Signature: a permanent "buffer" that keeps an amount equal to the EOD DD in the account ($3,000 on $100K), plus a per-withdrawal cap. On a $100K account, that cap is $2,250 for the 1st-2nd withdrawal, $3,250 for the 3rd-4th, and $4,250 from the 5th on. From the 2nd withdrawal on, you also need 5 days with 0.3%+ profit since your last withdrawal. Even a big win can't be pulled out all at once, so if fast cash turnover matters to you, choose E8 Pro or E8 One instead.

As of September 13, 2026, the Trustpilot rating is suspended. There's a warning that the rating can't be shown due to a guideline violation, plus a notice that many fake reviews about this business have been removed — the score itself is hidden (review count: 3,298). E8 itself has dropped the Trustpilot mention from its own "Is E8 legit?" article and now points instead to PropFirmMatch, Discord, and PayoutJunction. Also keep in mind that the terms include a discretionary clause letting E8 cap risk to 1% per trade idea if it detects prohibited behavior — an effective restriction that can be applied after you've already bought in, and it's written into the rules.

Yes. Japan is not on the list of restricted countries. There's no Japanese site or Japanese support, though. As of September 2026, Taiwan, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Cambodia, Laos and Bangladesh can't use E8 One, and India, Vietnam, Kenya and Indonesia are capped at $200K on E8 One. Nationality is determined from your KYC documents.

You can run up to $4,850,000 combined across Performance accounts. But this cap is totaled per household and per shared IP address, so if a family shares accounts or a VPS, make sure the combined total doesn't exceed the cap.

It rebranded from E8 Funding to E8 Markets in 2024, then was rebuilt into the "SimFi™" framework in 2026, with phase names changing to Challenge / Performance. The corporate structure changed too: the site is run by Digital Renaissance LLC (Puerto Rico), TradeLocker, cTrader and Match-Trader are run by E8 Funding LLC (Dallas, Texas), and MT5 is run by E8 Markets Ltd (St. Lucia), established in 2025.