Futures Trading Competition: BULLTOBER Beat the Beast Recap

• 85% of traders in the event passed at least one evaluation.
• 94% of the accounts that placed a trade in the window hit the target.
• The median winning account got there 10 minutes after its first trade.
• Most accounts that didn't pass never placed a trade.

The median winning account in Beat the Beast: BULLTOBER reached the $1,000 target just 10 minutes after its first trade. By the end of the seven-hour session, 85% of the traders in the event had passed at least one evaluation.

ETF is a futures prop firm for traders who want uncapped LIVE ELITE withdrawals. Beat the Beast is our one-day futures trading competition: buy an evaluation inside the event window, hit the profit target inside that same window, and the evaluation passes, ready to activate as an Elite Sim-Funded account.

• When: Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM ET.
• Rule 1, buy during the event: only evaluations bought with the BULLTOBER code inside the event window were entered.
• Rule 2, profit during the event: each account needed $1,000 in realized simulated profit, made inside that same window.
• The limit: each trader could pass up to 10 evaluations.
• The prize: every account that met both rules, up to 10 per trader, passed automatically.

The BULLTOBER code itself runs through the end of October at 90% off non-Fast Track evaluations. The Beat the Beast event was the one-day window inside it.

• Traders with at least one pass: 85%. Traders in the event who passed at least one evaluation.
• Accounts that passed: 86%. Out of every account entered in the event, including ones that were never traded.
• Accounts that traded and passed: 94%. Out of the entered accounts that placed at least one trade during the window.

The trader rate is the one we lead with. Many traders ran several accounts, so counting people gives the clearest picture of how individual traders did.

Speed was the story of the day. Measured from each winning account's first trade in the window to the moment it crossed $1,000 in realized simulated profit:

• Almost half (49%) got there within 10 minutes.
• 74% got there within 30 minutes.
• 88% got there within an hour.
• 69% of winning accounts had hit the target before 11:00 AM ET, and the 9 AM hour alone produced 39% of them.

The open did most of the work. Traders who had an evaluation bought right at 8:00 AM, when the window opened, and a plan ready had most of the session left over as a cushion.

Want to build that kind of speed before the next event? Practice on a 1-Step evaluation.

Of the accounts that didn't reach the target, 58% never placed a trade in the window. Most misses in this futures trading competition weren't traders who lost; they were accounts bought for the event that weren't traded while it was running. If you buy in, block out the time to trade it.

48% of traders entered more than one evaluation, and 80% of them passed every account they entered. Traders who entered a single account passed at an 83% rate. That's why we report trader and account rates separately.

• Buy inside the window, and profit inside it. Evaluations bought before the event starts aren't entered, even with a promo code that's running at the time, and only profit made during the window counts.
• Be ready at the open. Most winners were done before late morning.
• Trade the accounts you buy. An untraded account can't pass.
• Size for the account, not the prize. The loss limit rules still apply during the event.

Each Beat the Beast runs in a different market with a different crowd. The earlier breakdowns are in Funded Trading Challenge Results: Beat the Beast and Prop Firm Challenge Pass Rate: Beat the Beast Results.

Every futures trading competition we run is announced on social media, Discord, the ETF notification center and email, and the official terms are in the Beat the Beast rules.

You can't buy in for the next event ahead of time, since entries only count when they're bought inside the window, but you can sharpen your skills before it. Practice on a 1-Step evaluation, or browse Evaluations and Competitions.

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Figures come from ETF's event records and realized simulated trades in the event window. Percentages are rounded. Simulated results do not represent actual trading, and past performance does not guarantee future results.

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