FundedNext drops Legacy and launches Direct: a $50K funded account with no evaluation
FundedNext stops selling Legacy and debuts Direct: $50K funded from purchase for $169.99, a 90% split and EOD drawdown. Before the first payout you need $2,900 in profit and a 20% perpetual consistency rule.
FundedNext has pulled the Legacy account from its futures lineup and launched Direct, a $50K funded account with no evaluation phase: you buy it and trade it from day one. It costs $169.99 with the discount code (list price $283.99) and pays a 90% profit split.
Data verified on October 8, 2026 against the FundedNext Futures website, its Help Center ("FundedNext Futures Direct Account: All Rules") and the official announcement from October 7. For always up-to-date conditions, check the FundedNext review or the available discounts.
What changes in the lineup
- Legacy is no longer sold. It is gone from the checkout selector and its old page redirects to the futures homepage.
- Direct joins as the third product, alongside Flex and Rapid (Pro and Daily).
- Direct is not entirely new: it is the FNL:003 experiment from FundedNext Labs, which was sold with limited slots and now becomes a permanent product.
- Flex and Rapid are unchanged.
How Direct works
- 🟢 No evaluation and no profit target: the account is funded from the moment of purchase. You sign the agreement at checkout, and KYC is only required before your first withdrawal.
- 🟢 $2,000 EOD trailing drawdown: it is recalculated at the close of each day, not in real time, and locks at $50,100 (starting balance + $100).
- 🟢 Soft $1,000 daily loss limit: if you hit it, trading is disabled until the next day, but the account is not breached.
- 🟢 90% profit split and a one-time fee, with no monthly charges.
- 🔴 $2,100 buffer: you must clear it in the cycle before requesting a withdrawal. The buffer stays in the account; you only withdraw what is above it.
- 🔴 20% perpetual consistency: your best day over the whole life of the account cannot exceed 20% of the current cycle's profit.
- 🔴 Withdrawals of $800 to $1,200 per cycle, and the account is closed ("Concluded") after the 5th withdrawal.
- 🔴 No resets, only a 50K size, and 3 minis / 30 micros maximum.
- 🔴 Inactivity: a Monday-to-Friday week without a single trade breaches the account.
- 🟡 Platforms: Tradovate, NinjaTrader and TradingView.
- 🟡 It counts toward the limit of 5 active funded accounts and 10 new accounts per month.
Direct 50K parameters
| Parameter | Direct 50K |
|---|---|
| Price | $169.99 (list $283.99) |
| Evaluation | None |
| Max drawdown | $2,000 EOD trailing, locks at $50,100 |
| Daily loss | $1,000 (soft, does not breach the account) |
| Buffer to withdraw | $2,100 |
| Consistency | 20% perpetual |
| Contracts | 3 minis / 30 micros |
| Withdrawal per cycle | $800 minimum, $1,200 maximum |
| Frequency | Every 5 days |
| Profit split | 90% |
| Withdrawals per account | 5 |
Running the numbers
No evaluation does not mean no target. For the first payout you have to clear the $2,100 buffer and make at least $800 above it: $2,900 in profit at minimum. That is practically the same bar as the $3,000 target of a Rapid 50K evaluation, which costs the same ($169.99 for Daily and $159.99 for Pro). The difference is that in Direct that profit already counts as a funded account and there is no second phase to pass.
Perpetual consistency is the rule that weighs the most. With $2,900 in the cycle, your best day cannot exceed $580. And because the record carries over forever, a single big day raises the bar for every following cycle: a $1,000 day forces you to accumulate $5,000 in each cycle to be able to withdraw, while the maximum withdrawal is $1,200.
The account's ceiling is fixed: 5 withdrawals of $1,200 come to $6,000 gross, $5,400 for you at 90%. That is a wide margin over the $169.99 entry fee, but it is the most a single account can pay out.
The drawdown locks early. The $2,000 trailing stops moving once the closing balance reaches $52,100, which matches the buffer. From then on the floor stays fixed at $50,100.
What does NOT change
Flex (95% split, 40% consistency in the evaluation only, 50K / 100K / 150K) and Rapid Pro and Daily (90% split, 25K / 50K / 100K) keep their rules and prices. FundedNext has not published any notice about Legacy accounts already purchased: their articles are still in the Help Center, so it is reasonable to expect open accounts to keep their current rules.
Who is Direct for?
- Traders who have already passed evaluations and want to go straight to the funded stage for a one-time fee.
- Traders who make many small, similar days, because the 20% consistency rewards exactly that.
- It is not for traders chasing big days or who need resets: one uncontrolled bad day raises the bar or breaches the account, and it cannot be restarted.
Verdict
Direct is a good entry point on price, at the same cost as a Rapid 50K evaluation and with no intermediate phase. But it is not fast money: the $2,900 before the first payout and the 20% perpetual consistency make it, in practice, an evaluation under another name in which the profit already counts. Dropping Legacy leaves FundedNext with a shorter lineup that is easier to compare: Flex for the highest split, Rapid to pass quickly and Direct to skip the exam.
