Accounts & Evaluations
Instant Funding
An account you buy that skips the evaluation entirely. You pay more upfront but start on a funded account immediately, usually a sim funded one with its own risk rules. Also sold as straight to funded or direct to funded.
In plain English
Instant funding (also sold as straight to funded or direct to funded) removes the tryout. Instead of a cheap evaluation fee you pay a larger one-time price and begin trading a funded account on day one.
The math is a speed trade-off. An evaluation is cheaper but costs time and can be failed; an instant funding account costs several times more but cannot be failed before it starts. These accounts usually still carry drawdown, contract limits, and payout rules, and some start with reduced contract size that scales up. On the board, instant funding accounts show 0 days to pass because there is nothing to pass.
- A firm sells a $25,000 instant funding account for $349 while its $25,000 evaluation costs $49.
- The evaluation trader needs to pass first; the instant funding trader can request a payout as soon as the payout rules allow.
Firms that sell instant funding
Alpha Futures
BluSky Trading Company
Bulenox
DayTraders
Funded Futures Family
FundedNext Futures
IQ Capital
Lucid Trading
10 live firms on our list match today. See the full list with prices.