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FundedNext position sizing: Stellar CFDs & Futures

FundedNext is one of the few large props that offers both CFD challenges (Stellar) and a separate Futures stack (Flex, Legacy, Rapid). Leverage and loss limits differ by product — do not mix the rulebooks.

Rules not independently verified. The figures on this page are illustrative sizing proxies, not quoted firm rules. FundedNext runs separate CFD and futures rulebooks that change independently — confirm on fundednext.com before you trade.

CFDs — Stellar account types

Official models: Stellar 1-Step, Stellar 2-Step, Stellar Lite, Stellar Instant. Instruments: forex, indices, commodities, crypto CFDs (not exchange futures).

ModelDaily lossMax lossForex lev (challenge)IndicesCommoditiesCrypto
Stellar 1-Step3% initial6% static1:301:101:151:1
Stellar 2-Step5% initial10% static1:1001:301:30 · gold 1:101:1
Stellar Lite4% initial8% static1:1001:251:251:1
Stellar InstantNone6% trailing1:301:51:7.51:1

Source: FundedNext General Rules → CFDs Symbols & Conditions / Trading Objectives (leverage & loss %). Jan 2026: XAUUSD (gold) on Stellar 2-Step cut to 1:10 — challenge AND funded, all account sizes. Funded phase also trims indices/commodities to 1:5 temporarily on some models — check live FAQ. The calculator's 2-Step presets auto-apply 1:10 when you pick XAUUSD.

Futures — Flex, Legacy, Rapid

Separate product line. Loss limits are dollar amounts by account size, not the Stellar % CFD table.

ModelSizes (examples)Daily lossMax loss (MLL)
Rapid Daily25k / 50k / 100k$500 / $1,000 / $1,250$1,000 / $2,000 / $2,500
Rapid Pro25k / 50k / 100kNone$1,000 / $2,000 / $2,500
Legacy25k / 50k / 100kNone$1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000
Flex50k / 100k / 150kNone$1,500 / $2,500 / $4,000

Source: FundedNext Futures Trading Objectives. Rapid Daily DLL is a soft breach (session pause). MLL trails on EOD highs per their rules.

Sizing gold (XAUUSD) after the 1:10 change

Gold is where most FundedNext CFD accounts actually die, and the leverage cut made it sharper. Two separate things bite at once, and traders usually only account for the first:

  1. Risk sizing — how many lots your stop distance allows before you exceed your dollar risk. At $1 per pip per 0.01 lot on a typical XAUUSD contract, a $5.00 stop on 0.10 lots is roughly $50 of risk. That part is unchanged by leverage.
  2. Margin capacity — at 1:10, a single 1.00 lot of gold ties up roughly a tenth of its notional value. With gold trading in the thousands per ounce and 100 ounces per standard lot, that is a large margin block per lot on a 50k account. You can hit the margin ceiling well before you hit your risk ceiling.

Which means the honest sizing question on gold is not "what does my 1% allow" but "which of the two limits binds first". The calculator answers both — enter the current gold price in the margin field so the notional is realistic, and it will cap the suggested lots at whichever constraint is tighter. If the two answers differ a lot, the smaller one is your size. There is no version of this where you use the bigger number.

Two habits worth keeping: gold's spread and slippage around news are wide enough that a stop measured in cents is not a real stop, and the same symbol can carry different leverage in the challenge than in the funded account. Re-check the number the day you get funded rather than assuming it carried over.

Calculator presets

CFD (Stellar)

Futures

Open FundedNext CFD preset Open Futures preset