# City Traders Imperium

> City Traders Imperium (CTI) is a proprietary trading firm founded in 2018 that funds traders through 1-Step, 2-Step, and no-evaluation Instant Funding programs, and provides trading education through CTI Academy.

## Pages

- [Home](https://citytradersimperium.com/): Homepage for CTI, a prop trading firm offering 1-Step and 2-Step evaluation challenges from $2,500 to $100,000 with no time limit, balance-based drawdown, and up to 100% profit share after passing.
- [Funded Account Challenge](https://citytradersimperium.com/funded-account-challenge-funding-program/): Details the 1-Step and 2-Step evaluation challenges, account sizes, fees, drawdown rules, and the VIP program traders unlock after getting funded.
- [Instant Funding Prop Firm](https://citytradersimperium.com/forex-funded-trader-accounts/): Describes CTI's Instant Funding program, which grants a funded account from day one with no evaluation, no daily/trailing drawdown, and scaling up to $4,000,000.
- [Direct Funding Program](https://citytradersimperium.com/direct-funding-program/): No-evaluation instant funding program letting traders skip the challenge entirely and start trading CTI capital immediately, up to $4M with scaling, plus a potential monthly salary.
- [Compare Funding Programs](https://citytradersimperium.com/compare-funding-programs/): Side-by-side comparison table of CTI's 2-Step Challenge, 1-Step Challenge, Instant Funding, and Instant Funding Pro across profit targets, drawdown, payouts, and scaling.
- [Affiliate Program](https://citytradersimperium.com/affiliate-program/): Explains CTI's affiliate program, where partners earn a 20% commission paid instantly for every trader they refer, tracked via a dashboard.
- [Forex Calculators](https://citytradersimperium.com/forex-calculators/): Hub page linking to five free tools (drawdown, margin, pip, position size, and risk-of-ruin calculators) to help traders manage risk on funded accounts.
- [Forex Margin Calculator](https://citytradersimperium.com/forex-calculators/forex-margin-calculator/): An interactive tool where traders enter currency pair, leverage ratio, trade size, and rate to instantly calculate the margin required to open a forex position.
- [Pip Calculator](https://citytradersimperium.com/forex-calculators/pip-calculator/): An interactive tool that calculates the monetary value of pip movements for a chosen currency pair, lot size, and deposit currency.
- [Position Size Calculator](https://citytradersimperium.com/forex-calculators/position-size-calculator/): An interactive tool that determines an appropriate trade size by combining account balance, risk percentage, stop-loss distance, and contract size.
- [Risk of Ruin Calculator](https://citytradersimperium.com/forex-calculators/risk-of-ruin-calculator/): An interactive tool that uses win rate, average profit/loss, risk per trade, and number of trades to estimate a strategy's probability of account ruin.
- [Forex Drawdown Calculator](https://citytradersimperium.com/forex-calculators/forex-drawdown-calculator/): An interactive tool that simulates a run of consecutive losing trades to show the resulting ending balance and total percentage loss.
- [FREE MT5 Trade Manager](https://citytradersimperium.com/mt5-trade-manager/): Offers a free downloadable MT5 Expert Advisor that automates risk, margin, and position-size calculations and manages partial trade closures.
- [Challenge Free Trial](https://citytradersimperium.com/challenge-free-trial/): Lets prospective traders start a free, risk-free trial to test CTI's MetaTrader 5/Match-Trader platform and conditions before buying a challenge.
- [CTI Partners](https://citytradersimperium.com/partners/): Lists CTI's technology and service partners, including TradingView, MetaTrader 5, Match-Trader, ForexTester, VPS providers, and prop-firm comparison sites.
- [MetaTrader 5 | MT5](https://citytradersimperium.com/metatrader5-mt5-prop-firm/): Announces that CTI now operates as a licensed broker with its own in-house MetaTrader 5 infrastructure, offering fast execution and institutional spreads.
- [Academy](https://citytradersimperium.com/academy/): Presents CTI Academy's free forex courses (beginner training, trading strategies, trading psychology) plus 1-to-1 performance coaching to help students get funded.
- [Meet The Team](https://citytradersimperium.com/about-us/): Introduces CTI's founders and the firm's history since 2018, presenting CTI as a proprietary trading firm offering funding programs, fast payouts, and trader community support.
- [General FAQs](https://citytradersimperium.com/funding-faqs/): An FAQ page answering practical questions for funded traders on stop-loss/EA rules, copy trading, KYC, payouts (including crypto), the broker/platform used, tradable symbols, VPS use, and taxes.
- [CTI Blog](https://citytradersimperium.com/blog/): The CTI blog hub, organized into categories like Prop School, Trading Psychology, and Market News, featuring weekly market sentiment reports plus trader education articles.

## Posts

- [What Is a Prop Firm?](https://citytradersimperium.com/what-is-a-prop-firm/): Explains how retail prop firms work via a four-step evaluation-to-payout model, the difference between balance- and equity-based drawdown, and red flags for choosing a legitimate firm.
- [How to Pass a Funded Account Challenge in 2026](https://citytradersimperium.com/how-to-pass-a-funded-account-challenge/): Lays out a 10-step system (risk budgeting, back-tested strategy, demo rehearsal, journaling, gradual position scaling) for passing a prop firm challenge without being derailed by time pressure.
- [Balance-Based Drawdown Explained](https://citytradersimperium.com/balance-based-drawdown-explained/): Argues that CTI's balance-based drawdown (which ignores floating losses on open trades) gives traders more room than equity-based competitors, with worked examples.
- [No Evaluation Prop Firms](https://citytradersimperium.com/no-evaluation-prop-firms/): Explains how no-evaluation/instant-funding programs work, who they suit versus who should choose a challenge instead, using CTI's Instant Funding programs as an example.
- [Instant Funding Prop Firms Explained](https://citytradersimperium.com/instant-funding-prop-firms-explained/): Compares instant funding to challenge-based funding across drawdown structure, payout access, and trader incentives, then walks through CTI's Instant Funding program.
- [City Traders Imperium (CTI) vs FTMO](https://citytradersimperium.com/cti-vs-ftmo-challenge-alternative/): Compares CTI's and FTMO's challenge pricing, trading-day requirements, withdrawal frequency, and profit splits, arguing CTI offers cheaper fees and better terms.
- [The Smart Way to Pick Your CTI Program](https://citytradersimperium.com/choosing-your-funding-program/): Breaks down the rules, payout cadence, profit splits, and scaling caps of CTI's 1-Step, 2-Step, and Instant/Instant Pro programs to help traders choose one.
- [VIP Program & Payout Enhancements](https://citytradersimperium.com/vip-program-payouts-funding-traders/): Details how CTI's Bronze/Silver/Gold VIP tiers raise Instant Funding traders' profit splits and unlock weekly/on-demand payouts and coaching.
- [CTI Payout Proof](https://citytradersimperium.com/cti-payout-proof/): Documents CTI's payout process and speed, compares payout timelines against other prop firms, and shares funded traders' case studies as proof.
- [Leveraging CTI's Account Metrix](https://citytradersimperium.com/leveraging-cti-account-metrix/): Describes CTI's Account Metrix dashboard and how traders can use it to track drawdown limits and avoid rule breaches across each funding program.
- [Risk-of-Ruin for Prop Traders](https://citytradersimperium.com/risk-of-ruin-for-prop-traders/): Explains the math and psychology behind Risk of Ruin, and maps it onto CTI's specific drawdown rules across its funding programs.
- [The Psychology of Revenge Trading (and How To Stop)](https://citytradersimperium.com/revenge-trading-psychology-how-to-stop/): Explains the causes of revenge trading and gives a four-step protocol to break the cycle.

## Categories

- [CTI vs Prop Firms](https://citytradersimperium.com/category/cti-vs-prop-firms/)
- [Forex Education](https://citytradersimperium.com/category/forex-education/)
- [Funded Traders](https://citytradersimperium.com/category/funded-traders/)
- [Market News](https://citytradersimperium.com/category/market-news/)
- [Prop School](https://citytradersimperium.com/category/prop-school/)
- [Prop Trading](https://citytradersimperium.com/category/prop-trading/)
- [Trading Psychology](https://citytradersimperium.com/category/trading-psychology/)

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