Goat Funded Futures trade copier and account terms

GFF runs several plans side by side, and they differ in allocation, drawdown style and payout cadence — so the practical move is to group accounts of the same plan together in Echo so one risk setup maps cleanly onto one plan.

On allocation, GFF’s EOD Challenge funds up to five accounts; other plans carry their own caps, so check the number on the plan you buy. GFF also locks the platform and data provider at checkout, so choose Tradovate or NinjaTrader up front if you want Echo to copy and journal the account — you cannot switch the platform afterward.

On drawdown, most plans use end-of-day trailing, while Instant Classic and GOAT Daily funded accounts use intraday trailing. That difference changes how tight your Echo limits should be, covered in the risk section below.

On payouts, GFF publishes a reward-processing guarantee of “within 2 business days, or an extra $500” and a 3% processing fee. EOD funded payouts require seven winning days and use twice-monthly request windows with a $500 minimum; GOAT Daily pays every 24 hours. Those are GFF’s published terms, not Echo’s, and GFF can change them.

GFF’s drawdown model is not uniform. It uses end-of-day trailing on most plans, but intraday trailing on Instant Classic and GOAT Daily funded accounts. That difference matters for your Echo limits: an intraday-trailing account can hit its floor from an open-profit giveback on a trade that an EOD account would survive, because the EOD account only settles its trailing figure at the daily cutoff. Group accounts of the same drawdown style together, or run a tighter Echo daily loss limit on intraday-trailing accounts so a mid-trade pullback stops them before GFF’s floor does.

Echo’s per-account drawdown tracking shows each account’s live distance to its floor, so you can flatten one account or all of them before a swing trips a breach.