Trade The Pool Review

1.11 · Professional Account Terms (Trade The Pool, shown in the Trader Hub)

The funded program a trader bought and passed does not bind the Company. The clause lets it reassign the trader to a different Pro program than the one selected and completed, and change the terms of the assigned program "entirely", on its own risk considerations. Nothing in the clause limits the change to future trading, requires notice, or lets the trader decline and recover the fee.

3.3 · Professional Account Terms (Trade The Pool, shown in the Trader Hub)

Every payout on a Trade The Pool funded (Pro) account needs the Company's approval, given in its reasonable discretion, and the Pro Terms state no ground on which approval can be refused and no time within which it must be decided. The seven-business-day figure in the same clause is what "generally" happens. The clause then excludes all liability for any failure or inability to pay on time, "notwithstanding anything to the contrary", so a late payout carries no remedy under the contract.

4.4 · Professional Account Terms (Trade The Pool, shown in the Trader Hub)

If the Company, in its sole discretion, believes a Pro User has done any of a long list of things, including publishing "harmful content" about the Company or publishing their own email correspondence with it, it may close the account and the trader must return every Reward already received, forfeit the accrued Reward Balance, accept a permanent ban and indemnify the Company, including its attorneys' fees. This reaches money already paid out, with no time limit and no link between the Reward and the conduct. The clause's own text refers to closure "pursuant to this Section 4.3" although it is numbered 4.4.

Sanctions / circumvention · Terms and Conditions

KYC is run as a condition of becoming a Professional User, which is AFTER the evaluation is passed. So the residency check that voids the account lands at the point where the trader has already paid the fee, already done the work, and already accrued a balance. The clause covers being resident in a forbidden territory, not only deliberate circumvention, and the two are joined in one sentence with one consequence: no refund of fees, and every accrued profit or reward cancelled. The forbidden list is long and includes Israel, Lebanon, Russia and Papua New Guinea among 30 named jurisdictions, plus anywhere else the service is unavailable, since the list is expressly not exhaustive. A trader who moves country mid-programme is inside this clause without doing anything they would recognise as cheating.

Termination for Cause · Terms and Conditions

A ground for immediate termination for cause is failing to SCHEDULE a mandatory video interview within five business days of the Company's request. The obligation is triggered by the firm at a time of its choosing, the clock is five business days, and the Terms attach no obligation on the firm to reach the trader by any particular channel or to confirm the request was received. A trader travelling, ill, or simply not reading the address the request goes to is inside this clause without any trading conduct being in question. It sits in the same list as fraud and market manipulation and draws the same remedy. This is the identical clause already recorded against The5ers, which shares this operator and this Terms structure, and it is recorded here at the same severity for the same reason: the consequence is loss of the account and the balance, and the trigger is administrative rather than conduct-based.

Termination for Cause · Terms and Conditions

This sits in the Termination for Cause list, and unlike the other grounds around it, it carries its own written consequence rather than relying on the section's general remedy. The trigger is any "defamatory, disparaging, or harmful statements" on any public platform, with review sites named explicitly. Defamation is already unlawful and needs no contract clause; what this adds is "disparaging" and "harmful", neither of which is defined and neither of which requires the statement to be false. A truthful, accurate account of a bad experience is disparaging in the ordinary sense of the word. The second sentence goes further and bans the trader from publishing their own correspondence with the firm – emails, chat logs and support tickets they are party to – which removes the evidence a trader would use to substantiate a complaint anywhere, including to a regulator or in a dispute. The stated consequence is a fundamental breach: immediate termination, no refund of any fee, and forfeiture of accrued profits and the Reward Balance. Recorded as critical because the penalty is the trader's money, the trigger is speech the trader is otherwise free to make, and the same operator's clause at The5ers is already recorded at that severity.

Account Stages – Review · Program Terms

The verification interview is recorded, and the Program Terms treat publishing it as the default. The trader is not asked; the document says it may be published "to give guidance and encouragement to other traders", and the opt-out is conditional on the firm agreeing there are "serious privacy risks", with the decision unstated as to who makes it. The Terms and Conditions record the consent separately and more narrowly, for "verification and record-keeping purposes", which is not the same permission as publication. The published artifact is a named individual's face and voice discussing their trading. Recorded beside the user-content license finding rather than inside it, because this is not user-submitted content: it is a recording made in a compliance process the trader cannot decline without losing the account.

Governing Law; Jurisdiction; "Forbidden Territory" · Terms and Conditions

Two separate clauses fix the forum. The Terms are governed by Israeli law with exclusive jurisdiction in the competent courts of Israel, and a second clause narrows that to the courts of Tel Aviv specifically. The operator, Five Percent Online Ltd, has its registered office at 2 HaTidhar st., Raanana, Israel, so this is the company suing and being sued at home. The trader is the one travelling. What sharpens it is the Forbidden Territory definition in the same document: Israel is on the list of jurisdictions where the service is not available. Every eligible customer of this firm is therefore, by construction, a foreigner to the only court that can hear their dispute, applying a law that is not theirs. This is coherent rather than contradictory – a firm may well be barred from selling at home for regulatory reasons – but the practical result is a dispute forum no customer can reach cheaply. Recorded because the same Israeli-entity pattern already sits in the sister brand The5ers, which shares this exact operator, and here the governing-law clause makes it explicit rather than inferable.

Introduction · Terms and Conditions

Modification is at the Company's sole discretion and takes effect the moment it is posted, with no notice to the trader and no acceptance step. The trader's stated obligation is to re-read the Terms "prior to each and every use of the Services", which for an active day trader is every trading day. One clause pulls the other way and is worth recording with it: under the Payment Terms the firm reserves the right to change fees and program parameters unilaterally, then says "The change does not affect the Services purchased before the change is notified." That grandfathers an evaluation already bought against a change to its own parameters. It does not reach the Terms themselves, which the clause quoted here makes binding immediately, nor the Trading Rules in the undated Program Terms, which the Terms say may change with or without notice.

Limitation of Liability · Terms and Conditions

Whatever the claim and whatever the theory, the firm's total exposure is the greater of one month of fees paid or $100. The catalogue sells evaluations up to $1,475, and the funded stage is where the real money sits: a trader who believes an outage, a mispriced feed or an enforcement error cost them a five-figure payout is capped at a figure set by what they last paid the firm, not by what they lost. The cap is drafted as the greater of the two limbs rather than the lesser, which is the milder of the two common forms on this roster. It sits alongside a broad disclaimer section that also disclaims liability for software weaknesses, for the accuracy of any content, and for the availability of the Services.

Payment Terms · Terms and Conditions

Above a threshold the firm sets, does not publish and may change at any time, an approved payout is not paid as one sum. It is broken into weekly installments capped at $10,000 each and paid out week by week until the balance is cleared. The threshold is defined only as "a specific amount determined by the Company from time to time at its sole discretion", so a trader cannot work out in advance whether their payout will arrive whole. The program advertises buying power up to $200,000 before scaling and an uncapped scaling ladder, so approved payouts above $10,000 are a normal outcome of the product rather than an edge case. Nothing here voids the money: the constraint is on how fast it can reach the trader. The published payout timing, "usually take 3 to 5 business days", sits on the FAQ with no mention of the installment mechanism.

Refund · Terms and Conditions

There are three refund states and only the first returns money. Within five days of purchase, with no trading done and no breach, the trader can have cash back, and that window is genuinely favourable. After five days, with the account still untouched, the only refund available is Hub Credit. The Terms define what that is worth in the Hub Credits section: "The Hub-credits are not real currency, has no monetary value and it's only a part of the Services provided to User and User has no right to it beyond the scope of its use in connection with Trading and the Services", the Company "is not obligated to allow Users to exchange User's Hub Credits for anything of real value", and "Hub Credits are not refundable, all payments for Credit Hub are final." So a buyer who pays on a Monday, does not trade at all, and asks for their money back on the following Monday is repaid in a token the same document says has no monetary value and cannot be converted back to cash. Once any trading activity occurs, the fee is non-refundable in both forms.

Scaling · Program Terms

Scaling is not optional and it is not a payout. When a funded account hits its target, the Program Terms say the account is closed and a new one opened; the trader's 70% share of the profit earned in the old account is not paid, it is posted to the new account as Credits. Those Credits are then the first thing consumed if the new account trades below its initial balance, they are reduced permanently each time the balance makes a new low, and later profits do not restore them. The money was earned, split and attributed to the trader, and it can be spent by the account before the trader ever sees it. The firm's own FAQ states the same mechanic. The Program Terms name the escape route in the payout section and the FAQ repeats it: request a payout before hitting the scaling target. That means the trader has to know the mechanic and act ahead of it, and the scaling event is triggered by their own profitable trading.

Services – Professional User · Terms and Conditions

The funded stage is where the money is, and it is governed by a further agreement that the trader has to accept and that is not published. Neither the Terms and Conditions nor the Program Terms, both read in full as captured on 2026-09-15, name that document, describe its contents or link to it. The buyer pays the evaluation fee, passes, completes identity verification, and only then sees the terms on which they will be paid. Note the line break inside the quote: the phrase "Professional User" is split across two lines by the page's own markup and the capture preserves it. Recorded separately from the profit-split and payout terms already in this package, which come from the Program Terms and the FAQ and are therefore statements about the program rather than the contract a funded trader signs.

Termination for Cause; Trading Rules · Terms and Conditions

Copy trading appears in the Terms' Trading Rules list, where it is prohibited conduct and a ground for immediate termination for cause. The Program Terms permit it, in detail, with a defined window and a table of permitted account pairings: "Copy trading is defined as entering any position within 30 minutes of entering the same position in another account, regardless of size or entry price. Copy trading is allowed only between 2 accounts (not more) that are each Mini BP, Super BP, or MAX/FLEX of the following sizes". The FAQ on /the-program/ says the same in the firm's marketing voice. The Terms prevail over the Program Terms by the precedence clause in both documents, so the rule that survives a conflict is the flat prohibition, while every trader-facing surface says the practice is allowed within limits. This is the same structural defect as the automated trading conflict and it lands in the same list of termination grounds.

Use of Custom or Third-Party Software · Terms and Conditions

The Terms and Conditions ban automated execution outright and without qualification. Two other surfaces of the same firm offer it. The Program Terms carry a section headed "Automated Trading" which opens: "Support for automated trading, including the specific integration with SignalStack, is currently in a beta state." It goes on to set a rate limit of "no more than 2 requests/min" and to reserve the Company's right to approve "any algorithm, integration, or client". The FAQ on /the-program/ lists SignalStack among the free account boosters and describes it as "A tool that turns alerts from platforms like TrendSpider or TradingView into automated orders routed directly to your broker." The Terms say that where the two documents are inconsistent, the Terms prevail. So the document that wins is the one banning the thing the firm supplies, rate-limits and markets. A trader using the SignalStack booster is, on the face of the prevailing document, in breach of it. The Terms treat a breach of the trader's obligations as a ground for termination for cause, subject to a ten-business-day cure period, and a breach of the Trading Rules as a ground for immediate termination.

Confidentiality · Terms and Conditions

Confidential Information is defined to include the firm's "trading methods, systems, metrics, feedback, educational materials, training content and strategies" made available on the Website and the Hub. The trader may not use or disclose any of it without prior written consent, except where a court or regulator requires it, and if disclosure is compelled they must immediately report to the firm what was disclosed, to whom, and why. Read against the disparagement clause already recorded on this firm, which separately bans publishing support correspondence, the surface a trader may speak about publicly narrows further: the rules they were held to, the feedback they were given and the metrics their account was judged on are all inside this definition. Filed notable because the clause is a standard confidentiality term in form, and because its sharpest edge, the ban on publishing correspondence with the firm, is already recorded at critical under the disparagement finding.

Definitions – "Our System"; "Volume" · Terms and Conditions

Every number that decides whether a rule was broken comes from the firm's own system, and the Terms say so twice: once in general for all timestamps, prices, volumes and trading metrics, and again for Volume specifically, "as measured solely by the trading data provided through our system." The firm is the counterparty, the rule-maker, the enforcer and the record of what happened. This matters more here than it would at most firms because of what the rules measure: a 10-cent minimum move, a 30-second minimum hold, and a cap of 5% of the previous one-minute candle's volume. The firm's own FAQ explains that trades which display as passing those tests on its dashboard may still be invalidated, because the dashboard rounds and "our backend calculations use the exact decimals when checking eligibility." A trader disputing an invalidation has no independent record to argue from.

MAX; FLEX; Terminations Due to Inactivity · Program Terms

A funded account dies after fourteen days without trading. On MAX the timeout applies to the funded account only; on FLEX it applies at both stages. The trader's stated protection is to warn customer support in advance, which requires knowing the rule exists and knowing the absence is coming. Neither document says what happens to an account balance or to accrued profit when an account is terminated for inactivity, and neither document states whether the timeout can be waived after the fact. The gap is the point: a rule that ends a funded account on a calendar count, with no stated consequence for the money in it, is not answerable from the documents the firm publishes. Fourteen days is a normal vacation, a normal illness, or a normal stretch of deciding not to force trades in a market a trader does not like.

Payouts · Program Terms

One sentence, no number, no method, no ceiling. Every payout may carry a processing fee and neither document read says how much on any of the four routes the firm advertises, which are wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits and credit card. The payout floor is $300, so a fee that is trivial on a large payout is not necessarily trivial on the smallest one the rules permit. This is the only mention of the fee in either document; the /the-program/ FAQ describes payout methods and timing and does not quantify it either.

Position Volume and Minimum Daily Volume Rule · Program Terms

This is a rule the rest of the roster has no shape for, and it is specific to equities. Position size is not capped in dollars or shares but as a fraction of what the whole market traded in the previous minute in that symbol, so the same order is compliant in one minute and a breach in the next, and the limit is not knowable until the candle that sets it has closed. Orders in the same instrument in the same minute are aggregated and treated as one position for enforcement. The consequence is invalidation of the trades, which removes their profit from the evaluation or the payout calculation, and the clause adds that it "could result in additional restrictions or account review". Measurement is by the firm's own data. A trader in a thin, fast-moving stock, which is the kind of stock this firm's marketing highlights with penny stocks and IPOs, can breach it without any way to check first.

Program details · Program Terms

The Terms and Conditions prints its own date, "Last update – Aug. 16th 2026", at the top of the page. The Program Terms prints no date, no version and no revision history anywhere in the document, which was read in full as captured on 2026-09-15. That is the document holding the normative trading rules: the 5% position volume rule, the 10-cent and 30-second validity tests, the consistency ratios, the payout floor, the credits mechanism and the account parameters. The Terms then place the burden of tracking changes on the trader in the second sentence quoted here, and say the rules are "subject to change at any time and from time to time, with or without notice". A trader who wanted to check whether a rule had changed since they bought has nothing in the document to compare against, because the document does not say when it was written.

Services – Evaluation · Terms and Conditions

The firm keeps everything about every simulated trade and takes consent, in the act of accepting the Terms, to share it with anyone affiliated with it and to let those parties handle it as they see fit, automatically and with no further approval. The clause then states the trader is "not entitled to any remuneration or revenue associated with the use of the data by Us". Neither document says what the affiliates may do with it, and the firm's own footer names it as operating alongside a sister brand, The5ers, under the same company. What is absent here is any statement that the firm does or does not mirror trader positions with its own money, which several roster contracts do address explicitly; neither of the two documents read says either way.

Termination for Cause · Terms and Conditions

Raising a chargeback or a payment dispute is a ground for termination for cause, and so is lodging a complaint about the fee that the firm judges "unjustifiable". The firm is the one judging. The remedy stated is that it may stop providing services and refuse all future service, at its own discretion. Read next to the refund clause, the effect is that the trader's two routes to recover a fee run out together: after five days only Hub Credit is available from the firm, and going to the card issuer instead is itself a termination ground. Unlike the disparagement clause in the same list, this one does not carry a written forfeiture of accrued profit, and the general remedy for the section is termination rather than forfeiture, so it is recorded a step below that.

Termination for Cause · Terms and Conditions

Three of the termination grounds in this list do not require the trader to have done anything provable. The first reaches an accusation rather than a conviction and expressly includes "reasonably documented media reports or market rumors" as a basis. The last two rest on what the firm believes: that the account is being used for commercial purposes, or that the trader is "involved with a competing company", or that there is "a suspicion of a conflict of interest", none of which is defined. Working for, writing for or holding an account with another prop firm is not stated to be a breach anywhere else in either document, and a trader could not tell from these Terms whether it is. They sit in the same list, and draw the same remedy, as fraud and market manipulation.

User Content · Terms and Conditions

Anything a trader posts in the Hub is licensed to the firm worldwide, free, forever and irrevocably, with the right to modify, adapt, translate and make derivative works, in any medium now existing or invented later. The same section adds an indemnity running from the trader to the firm for any claim arising from that content. The license has no carve-out for the trader withdrawing it, and the Terms separately say User Content may be retained after the account is deleted. Filed notable rather than higher because the license covers content the trader chooses to post, not their trading data or their interview, both of which are recorded separately.

Daily Loss Limit · Program Terms

The firm's name for its daily limit is "Daily Pause", and the Program Terms state the consequence plainly: positions and orders are closed and the account cannot open new trades until the next trading day. It pauses. It does not breach the account. The Program Terms go further and allow a reset, which restores a further daily loss limit's worth of room in the same day, without saying whether the reset is free, automatic or discretionary. This is materially more forgiving than the daily loss rule at most firms on this roster, where hitting the limit ends the evaluation, and it is recorded informational because it favours the trader. Recorded because the firm's own program page defines how the Daily Pause is calculated and does not say what happens when it is hit; this document does.

No Extensions Required on Funded Accounts · Program Terms

No monthly fee, no activation fee and no renewal on the funded account. The evaluation cost is the whole cost of reaching and holding funded status, and the account stays open until it is scaled, paid out or terminated. This is favourable and is recorded so that the cost-to-funded comparison for this firm is not quietly overstated. The qualification is the inactivity timeout recorded separately: "indefinitely" means until one of the three listed events, and fourteen days without a trade triggers the third.

Program Terms · Terms and Conditions

Trade The Pool publishes two documents that both bind the trader: the Terms and Conditions, and a separate Program Terms page that carries every trading rule, the payout mechanics, the scaling formula and the account parameters. Both documents state the same order of precedence, and they agree: the Terms of Use prevails over the Program Terms wherever the two conflict. The second half of this quote is the Program Terms' own opening line, so the rule is stated from both directions rather than asserted by the stronger document alone. Recorded informational because the precedence is stated rather than left to be inferred, which is the favourable case. It matters here because the two documents do conflict in at least two places, on automated trading and on copy trading, and the resolution is not neutral: in both cases the prevailing document is the restrictive one. Those conflicts are recorded separately.

Termination for Cause · Terms and Conditions

A general breach of the trader's obligations is not immediately terminable: the firm must notify, and the trader has ten business days to fix it. That is a real protection and it is unusual enough on this roster to record. Its limit is the list it sits in. The same section makes a breach of the Trading Rules or of Prohibited Conduct terminable immediately, as it does a missed interview deadline, a residency finding and a disparaging public statement, and the trading rules are exactly the obligations a trader is most likely to breach. So the cure period governs the obligations around the edge of the relationship rather than the ones that end accounts.