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title: "Minimum withdrawal - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
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Payouts and money

# Minimum withdrawal

The smallest amount a firm will process, or the profit an account must hold before any withdrawal is permitted. The second form is a buffer that has to stay in the account rather than a transaction floor.

Also called: Withdrawal buffer · Minimum payout

GFN’s figure

GFN's Instant programme requires a 3% minimum withdrawal buffer - on a $100,000 account the balance has to reach $103,000 before a withdrawal can be made. The 1 Step and 2 Step publish no buffer requirement.

- **Instant Minimum buffer**: 3% above the starting balance
- **Instant On a $100,000 account**: Balance must reach $103,000
- **1 Step and 2 Step Minimum buffer**: None published

In detail

## Minimum withdrawal, explained

A buffer requirement changes the arithmetic of an instant-funding account: the first payout only becomes possible once the account is a set percentage above its starting balance, which takes longer than the first eligibility date suggests.

Buffers exist because the firm needs the account to have built cushion before profit starts leaving it, particularly where the drawdown floor trails.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/withdrawal-cap) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More payouts and money](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/payouts)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Withdrawal cap](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/withdrawal-cap) - A limit on how much may be taken out of a funded account in one payout cycle, usually a percentage of the starting balance. Profit above the cap stays in the account or is removed without being paid.
- [Withdrawal](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/withdrawal) - The act of requesting a payout from a funded account. The requested amount leaves the account balance, which changes the distance between equity and the drawdown level for everything traded afterwards.
- [Buffer](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/buffer) - The distance between current equity and the nearest breach level. It is the only figure that tells you how much risk is available right now, and it shrinks with commission and floating losses as well as with realised ones.
- [Instant funding](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/instant-funding) - A programme with no assessment phase. You buy a simulated funded account and trade it from day one, with no profit target to clear - paid for with tighter risk limits and a lower virtual profit share.
- [Payout](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/payout) - A transfer of the trader's share of eligible virtual profits from a simulated funded account. Payouts are requested on an eligibility date, processed after checks, and paid to the verified account holder.

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Source: https://getfundednow.com/glossary/minimum-withdrawal
Facts about Get Funded Now in one file: https://getfundednow.com/llms.txt