The #1 Free Trading Challenge

Yes. The GoChamp CME Challenge is free to enter for your first 30 calendar days — no entry fee and no purchase required. Create a free account and join the current weekly round. After 30 days, standard real-time CME Level 1 and Level 2 market-data fees apply.

Joining is self-service. Sign in, open the Challenges page, pick a round and click Join, no approval step. Your initial 15,000 GoPoints (see below) cover entry.

A new 5-day round starts every trading day. You don't have to wait for Monday, if you join on a Tuesday, your 5-day challenge simply runs Tuesday to the following Monday. Trades only count during your official challenge window.

Every new account receives 15,000 GoPoints at onboarding, which you use to enter challenges - enough to play up to 3 challenges. You can earn more GoPoints by referring friends and by completing the free CME education courses.

To qualify in a round you must: trade at least 2 different CME instruments during the week, keep to a maximum of 4 open positions at a given point in time and position size of 2 contracts per instrument, place at least 1 trade every day, and finish the week with positive P&L. Any rule breach ends your run for that round. The complete list lives in the Challenge Rules section if you click into a specific challenge.

If your losses reach the $1,000 daily drawdown limit, trading is paused for the rest of that day only - you are not disqualified. Your account reopens the next trading day and you can continue the challenge.

The challenge is intraday only - any open positions will be automatically closed before the session ends, with no overnight holds. Trade during the standard CME trading hours for each instrument.

No. You trade with $5,000 in virtual (paper) capital in a fully simulated environment. There is zero real capital at risk - only real rewards for top performers.

CME micro futures and related instruments available on the GoCharting platform (for example ES, NQ, GC, CL and Micro Bitcoin). Remember you must trade at least 2 different CME products during the week.

You can attach take-profit (TP) and stop-loss (SL) levels when placing an order, or add them to an open position from the order ticket.

The top trader in the Grand Prize pool will win a cash prize of up to $5,000 each week!

The top trader in the Open Prize pool will win a cash prize of up to $1,000 each week!

The top three traders in both the pools each week will also win a GoCharting subscription.

You qualify for the Grand or Open prize pool based on your country of residence as only countries supported by our broker sponsors are eligible for the Grand Prize.

Separately, every participant from a broker eligible country who finishes the 5-day challenge with positive P&L can earn $200 in commission credits from our broker sponsors.

The weekly cash prize is for the single highest ranked trader on the leaderboard. There is one cash prize for the Grand prize pool and another for the Open prize pool.

Commission credits are separate and go to every trader who finishes profitable, not just the top ranks. You must be from a country that is supported by our broker partners to claim the broker credits.

Every trader who starts a challenge during a given week is placed in that week's cohort and ranked by total return over their 5 days. Because rounds start on different days, the weekly leaderboard only finalises once the last challenge that started that week has completed - so a leaderboard opening on 5 July, for example, is not final until 17 July. Winners are confirmed after that, subject to rule compliance and verification.

Rewards are provided by our broker sponsors - not by GoCharting. Cash prizes (the Grand Prize and Open Prize) are only available to participants from eligible countries. Eligible countries are set by the brokers and listed on their own websites, and can change without notice. All rewards require final eligibility verification.

Commission credits are separate and only available from broker sponsors in supported countries. The Open Prize is available to all participants from countries that are not supported by our brokers.

Before any prize or credit is paid, we run a verification step: an eligibility and rule-compliance check that may identity verification (KYC). This confirms you met all challenge rules and are a resident of a supported country. Accounts found violating challenge rules or exhibiting abusive behaviour may be disqualified.

Commission credits are issued through our broker sponsors, NinjaTrader and Plus500. Availability depends on where you live — each broker publishes its own supported countries. Tell us your country and we'll point you to the right sponsor, or check the brokers' own eligibility lists.

You don't need to claim manually. After your challenge completes and winner verification is passed, we send the payout or crediting instructions directly to you. Cash prizes and $200 commission credits are issued once verification is complete.