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This page sets out each firm’s rules in its own published wording, one section per firm. Jump straight to a firm below; the 17 firms are listed alphabetically.

Alpha Futures · Apex Trader Funding · AquaFunded · Blue Guardian · Bulenox · E8 Markets · Elite Trader Funding · FundedNext · Ment Funding · My Funded Futures · Purdia Capital · Take Profit Trader · The Trading Pit · The5ers · Top One Trader · Topstep · Tradeify

A note on these rules: a firm that also sells outside futures currently has all of its rules listed here, including rules for its other markets, so check which product a rule applies to before you rely on it.

524 rules on record from 11 of the 11 futures firms we grade, in each firm's own published wording. Where a firm's terms are silent we say so rather than infer.

Rules that matter at Take Profit Trader

16 rules on record
Activation fee
Test Evaluation · Funded $130

The Test bills every month on the same calendar day. Breaking a rule does not stop the billing, so a failed Test keeps charging until it is canceled; passing stops it automatically. Turning the pass into a PRO account costs a one-time $130 activation fee, and the PRO account itself carries no recurring fee. Some promotional codes waive it.

Consistency
Test Evaluation 50%

No single trading day may exceed 50% of total net profit. Breaching it does not fail the account; it defers qualification until more profit is made.

Inactivity
Test Funded Varies

PRO+ accounts must be traded at least one day per calendar week to stay active.

Max daily loss
Test Evaluation · Funded Varies

No daily loss limit on the Test or the PRO account at any size. The firm shows its former limits ($500 to $3,300) as removed.

Max overall loss 2
Test Evaluation $1,500 – $4,500

Evaluation drawdown trails the peak balance and is calculated only at the end of the trading day, explicitly not during open trades.

Test Funded $1,500 – $4,500

On a funded PRO account the same dollar drawdown is enforced intraday against peak balance including unrealized gains, where the evaluation enforced it only at end of day. The number does not change, so nothing on the account signals that the basis has. A trader who passed under a rule that ignored open positions is funded under one that does not. PRO+ accounts revert to end of day.

Max position size
Test Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum position size in contracts, scaling with account size.

Minimum trading days
Test Evaluation Varies

Three trading days minimum, with no time limit on reaching them.

News trading
Test Funded Varies

PRO accounts must be flat, with no open orders, from one minute before to one minute after FOMC, Non-Farm Payrolls and CPI releases (plus crude inventories for crude and bond auctions for Treasury futures).

Overnight weekend holding
Test Evaluation · Funded Varies

No positions carried overnight. Open positions are closed automatically at 4:55 PM ET.

Payout buffer
Test Funded Varies

The buffer zone equals the maximum drawdown. Full-rate withdrawal requires reaching starting balance plus that amount.

Profit split scaling
Test Funded Varies

80/20 split in favor of the trader on PRO accounts, withdrawable from day one once the buffer is cleared.

Profit target
Test Evaluation $1,500 – $9,000

Evaluation profit target, a flat 6% of account balance at every account size.

Prohibited practices
Test Evaluation · Funded Varies

No bots or algorithmic trading on all accounts, and no counter positions in any account state.

Reset policy
Test Funded Varies

A PRO account can be reset up to three times: $449 at 25K, $649 at 50K, $799 at 75K, $999 at 100K and $1,499 at 150K. A PRO+ account cannot be reset directly.

Time limit
Test Evaluation Varies

Take Profit Trader Test: the firm states no time limit.

All Take Profit Trader rules

Rules that matter at Blue Guardian

79 rules on record
Account sharing
CFD: Instant, CFD: Instant Starter, CFD: 1 Step Standard, CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

Copy trading is allowed only between accounts the trader legally owns. Sharing a device or a VPS with another trader's account can mean a refused payout, removed profits, a suspension or a closed account.

Activation fee
Futures: Standard, Futures: Reserve, Futures: Express, Futures: Direct, Futures: Reserve Evaluation · Funded $0

No activation fee on futures accounts.

Automated trading
CFD: Instant, CFD: Instant Starter, CFD: 1 Step Standard, CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

Expert advisors are allowed. The conduct rules still ban high-frequency and arbitrage bots, trade emulators and tick scalping, and the firm does not say whether a bought or borrowed advisor counts as the trader's own.

Consistency 10
CFD: Instant Starter Funded Varies

15% consistency: no single day may reach 15% of total profit. Going over is not a breach; the payout request stays unavailable until the best day falls below 15%.

Futures: Direct Funded Varies

Consistency 20% for the first payout, 25% for the second, 30% after.

Futures: Express Evaluation 40%

40% consistency in the challenge (3 Day Pass); 50% with the 2 Day Pass.

Futures: Express Funded Varies

No consistency rule once funded.

Futures: Reserve Evaluation 40%

40% consistency in the challenge (3 Day Pass); 50% with the 2 Day Pass.

Futures: Reserve Funded Varies

No consistency rule once funded.

Futures: Standard Funded 40%

40% consistency rule once funded.

Futures: Standard Evaluation Varies

No consistency rule in the challenge.

Futures: Reserve Evaluation 50%

Blue Guardian Futures: Reserve (No DLL): consistency rule at 50%.

CFD: Instant Funded 20%

Consistency rule, as the firm states it (see parameters).

Fee refund
CFD: Instant, CFD: 1 Step Standard, CFD: 2 Step Standard Funded Varies

The help center says the evaluation fee is refunded after the fourth payout, for accounts bought from 21 January 2026. The separate Refund Policy page says there are no refunds once login details are sent. The two conflict.

Floating loss guard 4
CFD: 1 Step Standard Funded Varies

Guardian Shield closes all open trades at a 2% floating loss on funded accounts. The first time cuts the split to 50% for good; the second ends the account.

CFD: 2 Step Standard Funded Varies

Guardian Shield closes all open trades at a 2% floating loss on funded accounts. The first time cuts the split to 50% for good; the second ends the account.

CFD: Instant Funded Varies

Guardian Shield closes all open trades at a 1% floating loss on funded accounts. The first time cuts the split to 50% for good; the second ends the account.

CFD: Instant Starter Funded Varies

Guardian Shield closes all open trades at a 1% floating loss. The first time cuts the split to 50% for good; the second ends the account.

Inactivity
CFD: Instant, CFD: 1 Step Standard, CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

At least one trade every 30 days, counted from account creation, or the account is breached.

Max capital allocation
CFD: Instant, CFD: 1 Step Standard, CFD: 2 Step Standard Funded Varies

A trader may hold up to $400,000 in funded capital across all funded accounts. Making 12% in three months scales an account up by 30% of its initial balance. The same help article gives the top of the scaling ladder as $4,000,000 in one sentence and $2,000,000 in another, so the ceiling is not settled.

Max daily loss 11
CFD: 1 Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

4% max daily loss.

CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

4% max daily loss.

CFD: Instant Funded Varies

3% max daily loss (e.g. $3,000 on $100,000).

CFD: Instant Starter Funded Varies

3% daily loss, a fixed 3% of the starting balance taken from the higher of balance or equity at the 5pm EST reset.

Futures: Direct Funded Varies

Daily loss limit $1,000 / $1,250 / $2,500 / $3,000.

Futures: Express Evaluation Varies

Challenge daily loss limit $1,000 / $1,500 / $2,250 for 50K / 100K / 150K. None at 25K.

Futures: Express Funded Varies

Funded daily loss limit $500 / $1,000 / $1,250 / $1,750.

Futures: Reserve Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily loss limit $600 / $1,200 / $1,700 / $3,000.

Futures: Reserve Evaluation · Funded Varies

No daily loss limit on this option.

Futures: Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily loss limit (soft breach) $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 for 50K / 100K / 150K. None at 25K.

Futures: Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

No daily loss limit at 25K.

Max overall loss 9
CFD: 1 Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

6% trailing drawdown.

CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

8% static drawdown, a different mechanism from 1 Step's 6% trailing drawdown, not just a different number.

CFD: Instant Funded Varies

6% trailing drawdown.

CFD: Instant Starter Funded 5%

5% trailing maximum loss from the highest recorded balance. Once the account is 5% up it locks at the starting balance, with a fixed 1% buffer added.

Futures: Direct Funded Varies

EOD drawdown $1,500 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $4,500.

Futures: Express Evaluation Varies

Challenge EOD trailing drawdown $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500.

Futures: Express Funded Varies

Funded EOD trailing drawdown $2,500 at 100K, $3,500 at 150K.

Futures: Reserve Evaluation · Funded Varies

EOD trailing drawdown $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500.

Futures: Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

EOD trailing drawdown $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $5,000.

Max position size 5
CFD: 1 Step Standard Evaluation Varies

1:100 max leverage during the challenge.

CFD: 1 Step Standard Funded Varies

1:50 max leverage once funded, half the evaluation-stage leverage.

CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

1:50 max leverage, the same during evaluation and funded, unlike 1 Step's stage-dependent drop.

CFD: Instant Funded Varies

1:30 max leverage.

Futures: Standard, Futures: Reserve, Futures: Reserve, Futures: Express, Futures: Direct Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum contracts by plan and size, minis or micros.

Max withdrawal 5
CFD: Instant, CFD: 1 Step Standard, CFD: 2 Step Standard Funded Varies

On $200,000, $300,000 and $400,000 accounts, each of the first two payouts is capped at $10,000. After two payouts the cap is removed.

CFD: Instant Starter Funded Varies

One payout only, on at most $250 of profit (5% of the starting balance), and then the account is closed for good. Minimum withdrawal $100 by crypto or $500 by Rise.

Futures: Express Funded Varies

Max daily payout $600 / $1,100 / $1,500 / $2,500; buffer balance $26,100 / $52,100 / $102,600 / $153,600.

Futures: Reserve Funded Varies

Payout cap $1,000 / $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,000; eligible from $100 / $150 / $200 / $250 profit; no buffer.

Futures: Standard Funded Varies

Payout cap: first $1,500 / $2,500 / $3,000 / $4,000, then $2,000 / $3,000 / $3,500 / $4,500.

Minimum trading days 3
CFD: Instant Starter Funded Varies

5 profitable days of at least 0.5% each, not necessarily in a row, before the payout.

CFD: 1 Step Standard Evaluation Varies

Blue Guardian CFD: 1 Step Standard: minimum of 3 profitable days.

CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation Varies

Blue Guardian CFD: 2 Step Standard: minimum of 3 profitable days.

News trading 7
CFD: 1 Step Standard Evaluation Varies

News trading permitted during the challenge.

CFD: 1 Step Standard Funded Varies

On funded accounts, trading is restricted from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news. Otherwise news trading is allowed.

CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation Varies

News trading permitted during both evaluation phases.

CFD: 2 Step Standard Funded Varies

On funded accounts, trading is restricted from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news. Otherwise news trading is allowed.

CFD: Instant Funded Varies

On funded accounts, trading is restricted from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news. Otherwise news trading is allowed.

CFD: Instant Starter Funded Varies

News trading is allowed.

Futures: Standard, Futures: Reserve, Futures: Reserve, Futures: Express, Futures: Direct Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading allowed on all futures plans.

Overnight weekend holding
CFD: Instant, CFD: Instant Starter, CFD: 1 Step Standard, CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

Positions may be held overnight and over the weekend on these CFD programs.

Profit split scaling 5
CFD: 1 Step Standard Funded Varies

85% profit split by default, 90% with the add-on.

CFD: 2 Step Standard Funded Varies

85% profit split by default, 90% with the add-on.

CFD: Instant Funded Varies

80% profit split by default, 90% with the add-on.

CFD: Instant Starter Funded Varies

90% profit split, so a $250 payout pays the trader $225. The firm's Instant Funding Starter page gives a different example: $125 of $250.

Futures: Direct Funded Varies

90% split. Profit goal before the first payout $1,500 / $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000, then $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $4,500.

Profit target 8
CFD: 1 Step Standard Evaluation Varies

9% profit target, single phase.

CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation Varies

8% Phase 1 target, 4% Phase 2 target.

CFD: Instant Funded Varies

No profit target. Funded instantly, with no evaluation.

CFD: Instant Starter Funded Varies

No profit target. Instant funded, with no evaluation.

Futures: Direct Funded Varies

No challenge and no profit target.

Futures: Express Evaluation Varies

Profit target $1,500 / $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000.

Futures: Reserve Evaluation Varies

Profit target $1,500 / $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000.

Futures: Standard Evaluation Varies

Profit target $1,500 / $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000 for 25K / 50K / 100K / 150K.

Prohibited practices
CFD: Instant, CFD: 1 Step Standard, CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

Minimum holding time of 2 minutes (no tick scalping). No hedging between separate accounts, no high-frequency or arbitrage bots, no trading on a delayed price feed, no shared devices, and no changing the account password. Margin use above 80% on running trades counts as gambling and can cost a trader the payout, the profits or the account. A false identity, a payout name that does not match, several accounts opened to work a promotion, or a card chargeback all lead to a permanent blacklist. The firm says not every breach is caught automatically and that some are found during a manual review at payout.

Time limit 4
CFD: 1 Step Standard Evaluation Varies

No maximum trading days on the challenge.

CFD: 2 Step Standard Evaluation Varies

No maximum trading days across both phases.

CFD: Instant Funded Varies

Indefinite max trading days.

Futures: Standard Evaluation Varies

No time limit.

All Blue Guardian rules

Rules that matter at Ment Funding

30 rules on record
Automated trading
Forex Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

EAs, hedging, scalping all permitted.

Consistency 3
Equities Challenge Evaluation · Funded 33%

No single day may be more than 33 percent of total profit. On the static drawdown this applies in the evaluation and once funded; on the trailing drawdown only in the evaluation.

Futures Challenge Evaluation · Funded 33%

No single day may be more than 33 percent of total profit, at every size, both in the evaluation and before each payout.

Forex Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

No consistency rule enforced.

Daily profit cap
Equities Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

Profit is capped at 3 percent a day. Hitting it closes the open trades and pauses the account until the next session, without ending it.

Inactivity 2
Equities Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

An account must trade at least once every 30 days.

Futures Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

An account must trade at least once every 30 days.

Max daily loss 3
Equities Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily loss is 2 percent on the static drawdown and 3 percent on the trailing one, measured intraday against the day's high point. Breaking it ends the account.

Futures Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

3 percent daily loss, measured against the previous day's closing balance and reset at 5 PM EST. Breaking it ends the account.

Forex Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

5% daily loss limit.

Max overall loss 3
Equities Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

6 percent maximum loss on both drawdown choices. The static one is fixed at the starting balance; the trailing one follows the closed balance until the account is 6 percent up and then locks.

Futures Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

6 percent maximum loss, static from the starting balance. After the first payout it locks at the starting balance.

Forex Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

6% static drawdown limit.

Max position size
Futures Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

Front-month contracts only. Position size is limited by the account balance and exchange margin rather than a fixed contract count.

Minimum trading days 2
Equities Challenge Evaluation Varies

Ment Funding Equities Challenge: minimum of 3 profitable days.

Forex Challenge Evaluation Varies

Ment Funding Forex Challenge: the firm states no minimum trading days.

News trading
Futures Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading is allowed on the futures accounts.

Overnight weekend holding 2
Equities Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

Cash session only, 09:30 to 15:55 Eastern, with no pre-market or after-hours trading. Positions can be held overnight and over the weekend, but not through announced earnings, dividends, splits or mergers, and a trade held for less than a minute forfeits its profit.

Futures Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

Trading runs from 17:00 to 15:55 Central, and open positions close automatically at the session close. Positions cannot be held over the weekend.

Payout buffer
Equities Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

A payout needs at least three separate days that each made 0.5 percent or more, both in the evaluation and once funded.

Platform availability
Equities Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

Equities trade on GooeyPro, on S&P 100 shares only, at 2 to 1 buying power. Short selling is allowed and carries a borrow cost, and commission is 2 cents a share.

Profit split scaling 3
Equities Challenge Funded Varies

80 percent of profit to the trader, or 90 percent with a paid add-on. Payouts come every 14 days with a $100 minimum, and the first one after 14 days.

Futures Challenge Funded Varies

75 percent of profit to the trader, or 90 percent with a paid add-on. The first withdrawal comes once the target and consistency rule are met, then every 30 days.

Forex Challenge Funded Varies

Up to 90% profit split.

Profit target 3
Equities Challenge Evaluation Varies

One evaluation phase. The target is 15 percent on the static drawdown and 10 percent on the trailing one.

Futures Challenge Evaluation 10%

One evaluation phase with a 10 percent profit target, and the consistency rule must be met before it counts as passed.

Forex Challenge Evaluation 10%

10% profit target for evaluation.

Time limit 3
Equities Challenge Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or once funded.

Futures Challenge Evaluation Varies

90 calendar days from the first trade to pass. A 365-day window is a paid add-on on the $400,000 account, and there is no time limit once funded.

Forex Challenge Evaluation Varies

No time limits on evaluation.

All Ment Funding rules

Rules that matter at Apex Trader Funding

45 rules on record
Activation fee 6
EOD Trail Funded $149

$149 one-time fee to activate the $100K Performance Account after passing. It must be activated within 7 days of passing.

EOD Trail Funded $159

$159 one-time fee to activate the $150K Performance Account after passing. It must be activated within 7 days of passing.

EOD Trail Funded $119

$119 one-time fee to activate the $25K Performance Account after passing. It must be activated within 7 days of passing.

EOD Trail Funded $139

$139 one-time fee to activate the $50K Performance Account after passing. It must be activated within 7 days of passing.

Intraday Trail Funded $59

$59 one-time fee to activate the Performance Account after passing, at every size. It must be activated within 7 days of passing.

Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee, EOD Trail, No Activation Fee Funded $0

No activation fee on the No Activation Fee lines: the Performance Account costs $0 to activate.

Consistency 5
EOD Trail Evaluation Varies

No consistency rule during the evaluation.

EOD Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

No consistency rule during the evaluation.

Intraday Trail Evaluation Varies

No consistency rule during the evaluation.

Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

No consistency rule during the evaluation.

EOD Trail, EOD Trail, No Activation Fee, Intraday Trail, Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Funded 50%

50% consistency rule on the Performance Account, measured since the last approved payout.

Fee refund
EOD Trail, EOD Trail, No Activation Fee, Intraday Trail, Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation · Funded Varies

No refunds on any purchase, including Performance Account activation and data fees.

Inactivity
EOD Trail, EOD Trail, No Activation Fee, Intraday Trail, Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Funded Varies

At least 2 days with $50+ profit in every rolling 30 days, or the account goes dormant after 15 days and closes at 30.

Max daily loss 4
EOD Trail Evaluation · Funded $500 – $2,000

A daily loss limit applies on this line and not on the intraday-trail line, which carries no daily limit at all in the evaluation. Same firm, same sizes, different rule.

EOD Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation · Funded $500 – $2,000

A daily loss limit applies on this line and not on the intraday-trail line, which carries no daily limit at all in the evaluation. Same firm, same sizes, different rule.

Intraday Trail Evaluation Varies

No daily loss limit during the evaluation on this line. The EOD-trail line has one.

Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

No daily loss limit during the evaluation on this line. The EOD-trail line has one.

Max overall loss 4
EOD Trail Evaluation · Funded $1,000 – $4,000

Max drawdown, end-of-day trailing. The firm also publishes the exact balance at which the account fails.

EOD Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation · Funded $1,000 – $4,000

Max drawdown, end-of-day trailing. The firm also publishes the exact balance at which the account fails.

Intraday Trail Evaluation · Funded $1,000 – $4,000

Max drawdown, real-time (intraday) trailing. The firm also publishes the exact balance at which the account fails.

Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation · Funded $1,000 – $4,000

Max drawdown, real-time (intraday) trailing. The firm also publishes the exact balance at which the account fails.

Max position size 5
EOD Trail Evaluation Varies

Maximum contracts by account size.

EOD Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

Maximum contracts by account size.

Intraday Trail Evaluation Varies

Maximum contracts by account size.

Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

Maximum contracts by account size.

EOD Trail, EOD Trail, No Activation Fee, Intraday Trail, Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Funded Varies

Performance Account maximum contracts 2 / 4 / 6 / 10, scaling by tier.

Max withdrawal 2
EOD Trail, EOD Trail, No Activation Fee Funded Varies

Payouts at a 100% split, $500 minimum, up to 6 per account, each capped by size and payout number.

Intraday Trail, Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Funded Varies

Payouts at a 100% split, $500 minimum, up to 6 per account.

Minimum trading days 2
EOD Trail, EOD Trail, No Activation Fee Funded Varies

5 qualifying days before each payout, each with at least $100 / $250 / $300 / $350 profit.

Intraday Trail, Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Funded Varies

5 qualifying days before each payout, each with at least $100 / $200 / $250 / $300 profit.

Overnight weekend holding
EOD Trail, EOD Trail, No Activation Fee, Intraday Trail, Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation · Funded Varies

All trades must be closed before 4:59 PM ET.

Payout buffer 4
EOD Trail, No Activation Fee Funded Varies

Safety net $26,100 / $52,100 / $103,100 / $154,100; a payout can be requested from $26,600 / $52,600 / $103,600 / $154,600.

EOD Trail Funded Varies

Safety net $26,100 / $52,100 / $103,100 / $154,100; a payout can be requested from $26,600 / $52,600 / $103,600 / $154,600.

Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Funded Varies

Safety net $26,100 / $52,100 / $103,100 / $154,100; a payout can be requested from $26,600 / $52,600 / $103,600 / $154,600.

Intraday Trail Funded Varies

Safety net $26,100 / $52,100 / $103,100 / $154,100; a payout can be requested from $26,600 / $52,600 / $103,600 / $154,600.

Profit target 4
EOD Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation $1,500 – $9,000

Evaluation profit target, expressed by the firm as the balance the account must reach.

EOD Trail Evaluation $1,500 – $9,000

Evaluation profit target, expressed by the firm as the balance the account must reach.

Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation $1,500 – $9,000

Evaluation profit target, expressed by the firm as the balance the account must reach.

Intraday Trail Evaluation $1,500 – $9,000

Evaluation profit target, expressed by the firm as the balance the account must reach.

Prohibited practices
EOD Trail, EOD Trail, No Activation Fee, Intraday Trail, Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation · Funded Varies

Every trade needs a stop loss. Tiny targets with outsized risk, using the drawdown as a stop, stockpiling evaluations, high-frequency trading and hedging across accounts are prohibited.

Reset policy 4
EOD Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

The firm's pricing data includes a reset fee and a monthly renewal that the product card says do not exist.

EOD Trail Evaluation Varies

The firm's pricing data includes a reset fee and a monthly renewal that the product card says do not exist.

Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

The firm's pricing data includes a reset fee and a monthly renewal that the product card says do not exist.

Intraday Trail Evaluation Varies

The firm's pricing data includes a reset fee and a monthly renewal that the product card says do not exist.

Time limit
EOD Trail, EOD Trail, No Activation Fee, Intraday Trail, Intraday Trail, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

30 calendar days to pass, no extensions.

All Apex Trader Funding rules

Rules that matter at Purdia Capital

35 rules on record
Activation fee
100k Pro Evaluation, EOD Evaluation Funded $130

Both evaluation products charge a $130 activation fee. The firm says it is a one-time charge and falls due only after a trader passes and activates the funded account, so it is a cost of reaching funded rather than a cost of trying.

Consistency 4
EOD Evaluation Funded Varies

The firm states no consistency rule on this product.

100k Pro Evaluation, Instant Funding, Static Instant Funded, Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer Funded Varies

Purdia Capital 100k Pro Evaluation, Purdia Capital Instant Funding, Purdia Capital Static Instant Funded, Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer: the firm states no consistency rule.

100k Pro Evaluation, Instant Funding, Static Instant Funded, Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer Funded Varies

Purdia Capital 100k Pro Evaluation, Purdia Capital Instant Funding, Purdia Capital Static Instant Funded, Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer: the firm states no consistency rule.

Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer Funded Varies

Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer: the firm states no consistency rule.

Fee refund 2
All products Evaluation · Funded Varies

Refundable while untraded, with limited exceptions for firm, broker or product-description error, and fees refunded on still-active accounts even where the trader is permanently banned.

Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer, Instant Funding, 100k Pro Evaluation, EOD Evaluation, Static Instant Funded Evaluation Varies

Refundable only if the account has not yet been traded; no refund once trading begins, on failure, or on breach. Exception: a permanent ban for cheating still refunds fees for any active, un-failed account (access is not restored).

Location restriction
Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer, Instant Funding, 100k Pro Evaluation, EOD Evaluation, Static Instant Funded Evaluation · Funded Varies

Using a VPN or any other tool that hides where a trader is, or giving a false country of residence, can get the account restricted or closed. The firm sets this against its own list of countries it will not accept.

Max daily loss 5
EOD Evaluation Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily loss limit: $1,000 (2%) at $50K, $2,000 (2%) at $100K.

100k Pro Evaluation Evaluation · Funded Varies

No separate daily loss limit shown. Only the intraday trailing drawdown governs risk.

Instant Funding Funded Varies

No daily loss limit is shown on either Instant Funding size. Purdia Pilot, Static Instant Funded and the EOD Evaluation each carry one; the 100k Pro Evaluation does not.

Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer Funded Varies

$1,500 daily loss limit (1.5% of the $100,000 balance).

Static Instant Funded Funded Varies

Daily loss limit $1,000 at $100K, $1,500 at $150K.

Max overall loss 5
EOD Evaluation Evaluation · Funded Varies

EOD drawdown: $2,000 (4%) at $50K, $3,000 (3%) at $100K.

100k Pro Evaluation Evaluation · Funded Varies

$3,000 intraday trailing drawdown (3%), the only Purdia evaluation product using an intraday trailing basis rather than end-of-day.

Instant Funding Funded Varies

EOD drawdown: $750 / $1,500 for $25K/$50K.

Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer Funded Varies

$3,300 EOD drawdown (3.3%).

Static Instant Funded Funded Varies

Static drawdown $3,000 at $100K, $5,000 at $150K.

Max position size
Instant Funding, Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer, Static Instant Funded, 100k Pro Evaluation, EOD Evaluation Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum contracts by product and size, minis or micros. On the two Static Instant accounts the firm publishes two different answers: the program card says 3 minis or 30 micros at $100K and 5 or 50 at $150K, while the knowledgebase says 10 or 100 and 15 or 150. The card figures are the ones recorded here, and the firm has not been asked which is right.

Minimum trading days 5
EOD Evaluation Evaluation Varies

5 minimum trading days.

100k Pro Evaluation Evaluation Varies

5 minimum trading days.

Instant Funding Funded Varies

10 minimum trading days, flat across all sizes, plus a separate requirement: 5 of those days must each independently clear a stated dollar profit threshold ($125 at $25K, $200 at $50K/$100K).

Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer Funded Varies

7 minimum days, including 5 profitable days of $300 or more, before payout eligibility.

Static Instant Funded Funded Varies

10 minimum days.

Profit split scaling 5
EOD Evaluation Funded Varies

90% profit split once funded.

100k Pro Evaluation Funded Varies

90% profit split once funded.

Instant Funding Funded Varies

90% profit split, daily payout requests once qualified.

Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer Funded Varies

90% profit split. First payout capped at up to $2,500. Carries a $3,000 'Retained Buffer', a reserve figure the checkout does not explain further.

Static Instant Funded Funded Varies

90% profit split, daily payouts.

Profit target 5
EOD Evaluation Evaluation Varies

6% profit target at both sizes: $3,000 / $6,000.

100k Pro Evaluation Evaluation Varies

6% profit target ($6,000 on $100,000).

Instant Funding Funded Varies

Profit figures shown per size ($1,000/$2,000/$3,000). Their purpose is not fully confirmed, since this product has no evaluation phase.

Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer Funded Varies

Presented as an instant-funded product with no evaluation phase. The $5,500 'Profit Target' figure most likely governs first-payout eligibility rather than passing a test, but this is not confirmed.

Static Instant Funded Funded Varies

Profit target $3,000 at $100K, $5,000 at $150K.

Prohibited practices
Purdia Pilot #001: 100K Pioneer, Instant Funding, 100k Pro Evaluation, EOD Evaluation, Static Instant Funded Evaluation · Funded Varies

Fully automated/unattended trading (bots, 24/7 strategies, set-and-forget) is strictly prohibited firm-wide; semi-automated tools are allowed only with active real-time trader oversight. Hedging via offsetting positions in closely correlated instruments is also prohibited, with named examples given (ES/NQ, CL/QM, 6E/DX).

All Purdia Capital rules

Rules that matter at Topstep

39 rules on record
Activation fee 4
Trading Combine Funded $149

Activation fee. The No-Activation-Fee lines waive it and price the monthly higher, so the cheaper monthly is not the cheaper product for a trader who gets funded.

Trading Combine DLL Funded $149

Activation fee. The No-Activation-Fee lines waive it and price the monthly higher, so the cheaper monthly is not the cheaper product for a trader who gets funded.

Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Funded $0

Activation fee. The No-Activation-Fee lines waive it and price the monthly higher, so the cheaper monthly is not the cheaper product for a trader who gets funded.

Trading Combine, No Activation Fee Funded $0

Activation fee. The No-Activation-Fee lines waive it and price the monthly higher, so the cheaper monthly is not the cheaper product for a trader who gets funded.

Consistency 4
Trading Combine Evaluation Varies

Your best day must stay at or below 55% of the profit target. If it goes above, the profit target increases.

Trading Combine DLL Evaluation Varies

Your best day must stay at or below 55% of the profit target. If it goes above, the profit target increases.

Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

Your best day must stay at or below 55% of the profit target. If it goes above, the profit target increases.

Trading Combine, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

Your best day must stay at or below 55% of the profit target. If it goes above, the profit target increases.

Fee refund
Trading Combine, Trading Combine, No Activation Fee, Trading Combine DLL, Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

A first-ever Trading Combine can be refunded within 14 days if not passed (up to one monthly fee). Otherwise refunds are generally not available.

Max daily loss 4
Trading Combine DLL Evaluation $1,000 – $3,000

Daily loss limit $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 for 50K / 100K / 150K, chosen at checkout and fixed from then on. It carries into the Express Funded Account after a pass. Hitting it ends the session, not the account.

Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation $1,000 – $3,000

Daily loss limit $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 for 50K / 100K / 150K, chosen at checkout and fixed from then on. It carries into the Express Funded Account after a pass. Hitting it ends the session, not the account.

Trading Combine Evaluation Varies

No daily loss limit on this path. The limit is an option chosen at checkout.

Trading Combine, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

No daily loss limit on this path. The limit is an option chosen at checkout.

Max overall loss 5
Trading Combine DLL Evaluation $2,000 – $4,500

Maximum loss $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500. The level updates at the end of each day, but it is enforced in real time, open positions included.

Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation $2,000 – $4,500

Maximum loss $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500. The level updates at the end of each day, but it is enforced in real time, open positions included.

Trading Combine Evaluation $2,000 – $4,500

Maximum loss $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500. The level updates at the end of each day, but it is enforced in real time, open positions included.

Trading Combine, No Activation Fee Evaluation $2,000 – $4,500

Maximum loss $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500. The level updates at the end of each day, but it is enforced in real time, open positions included.

Trading Combine, Trading Combine, No Activation Fee, Trading Combine DLL, Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Funded Varies

The Express Funded Account starts at a zero balance, and its maximum loss limit starts at $2,000 below that on a 50K account, $3,000 on a 100K and $4,500 on a 150K. The limit trails up as the balance grows and locks at zero once the balance reaches it, so the floor never drops back. After a first payout the limit is set to zero whatever it was before. Open profit and loss counts, and touching the limit closes the funded account for good.

Max position size 4
Trading Combine DLL Evaluation Varies

Maximum position size in contracts.

Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

Maximum position size in contracts.

Trading Combine Evaluation Varies

Maximum position size in contracts.

Trading Combine, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

Maximum position size in contracts.

Minimum trading days 4
Trading Combine DLL Evaluation Varies

Two trading days minimum.

Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

Two trading days minimum.

Trading Combine Evaluation Varies

Two trading days minimum.

Trading Combine, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

Two trading days minimum.

News trading
Trading Combine, Trading Combine, No Activation Fee, Trading Combine DLL, Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation · Funded Varies

No need to flatten for economic releases. Trading your full maximum position size straight into major scheduled news is prohibited.

Overnight weekend holding
Trading Combine, Trading Combine, No Activation Fee, Trading Combine DLL, Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation · Funded Varies

All positions must be closed by 3:10 PM CT every weekday. No swing trading.

Profit target 4
Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation $3,000 – $9,000

Combine profit target, a flat 6% of buying power at every account size.

Trading Combine DLL Evaluation $3,000 – $9,000

Combine profit target, a flat 6% of buying power at every account size.

Trading Combine, No Activation Fee Evaluation $3,000 – $9,000

Combine profit target, a flat 6% of buying power at every account size.

Trading Combine Evaluation $3,000 – $9,000

Combine profit target, a flat 6% of buying power at every account size.

Prohibited practices
Trading Combine, Trading Combine, No Activation Fee, Trading Combine DLL, Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation · Funded Varies

Account stacking, hedging across accounts, high-speed or AI systems for an unfair edge, trading outside the best bid or offer, and exploiting simulated fills are prohibited.

Reset policy
Trading Combine, Trading Combine, No Activation Fee, Trading Combine DLL, Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

A reset puts the Trading Combine back to its starting balance, loss limit, consistency target and day count, and can be bought at any time, twice a day at most on one account. Each monthly rebill adds one reset credit, which expires a year after it is given and cannot be moved to another account size or combined with another credit. Resetting pushes the next rebill date out by 30 days.

Time limit 4
Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

No time limit. The firm sets no maximum number of trading days on any account.

Trading Combine DLL Evaluation Varies

No time limit. The firm sets no maximum number of trading days on any account.

Trading Combine, No Activation Fee Evaluation Varies

No time limit. The firm sets no maximum number of trading days on any account.

Trading Combine Evaluation Varies

No time limit. The firm sets no maximum number of trading days on any account.

Trading costs
Trading Combine, Trading Combine, No Activation Fee, Trading Combine DLL, Trading Combine DLL, No Activation Fee Evaluation · Funded Varies

A Trading Combine charges a simulated fee of $3.70 a lot to stand in for real costs. On a live account the trader pays the real round turn, which the firm gives as $3.80 on the E-mini S&P 500 and the E-mini Nasdaq 100, $1.54 on Crude Oil and $4.24 on Gold, made up of $0.72 to $2.04 in commission and $2.46 to $4.30 in exchange fees. Live market data is $133 per exchange per month with one exchange covered, and the platform is the trader's own cost. The firm's two fee articles do not give the same figure for the Combine.

All Topstep rules

Rules that matter at Elite Trader Funding

52 rules on record
Activation fee
1 Step, Direct to Funded, Static Drawdown, Diamond Hands, End of Day, Fast Track, Fast Track Evaluation · Funded Varies

Evaluations on 1 Step, Static, End of Day and Diamond Hands are a monthly subscription ('Auto renews every 30 days'), with a monthly activation fee of $87 after passing or a one-time activation fee instead. Fast Track is a one-time fee with a 10-calendar-day window and a free first month of activation, then $87 monthly. Direct to Funded is one-time with no activation fee. A separate LIVE ELITE stage begins at $25,000 of cumulative payouts and moves the trader to the firm's own capital in a live broker account on an 80/20 split with daily payouts. Passing does not stop the billing: an evaluation that qualified on or after October 1, 2024 keeps charging until the Elite account is activated. The Elite account itself is assigned within 72 hours of passing.

Consistency 3
1 Step Funded Varies

Consistency rule, as the firm states it (see parameters).

Fast Track, Fast Track Evaluation 40%

Fast Track has a 40% consistency rule in the evaluation.

Static Drawdown Evaluation · Funded Varies

No consistency rule, as the plan's page states.

Fee refund
1 Step, Direct to Funded, Static Drawdown, Diamond Hands, End of Day, Fast Track, Fast Track Evaluation Varies

All sales are final, except a first purchase within 7 days with fewer than 5 trades and no failure, which can be swapped, refunded or credited once. A chargeback ends the account and its earnings.

Inactivity
1 Step, Static Drawdown, End of Day, Diamond Hands, Fast Track, Fast Track, Direct to Funded Funded Varies

Elite accounts need at least one trade each week, including Diamond Hands; missing a week closes the account and voids rewards.

Live transition
1 Step, Direct to Funded, Static Drawdown, Diamond Hands, End of Day, Fast Track, Fast Track Funded Varies

LIVE ELITE can follow 5 payouts, 50 active days or the $25,000 cap, or any time ETF chooses. Sim balances and earnings do not carry over; the live account starts at $1,250 to $2,500. Declining pays a small share and bars the trader for two calendar years. Live is 80/20 with $197 a month market data per exchange.

Max capital allocation
1 Step, Direct to Funded, Static Drawdown, Diamond Hands, End of Day, Fast Track, Fast Track Funded Varies

A trader may hold five active Elite accounts at once, and five Direct to Funded accounts on top of that. The limit applies to evaluations bought on or after September 17, 2025.

Max daily loss 7
Fast Track Evaluation · Funded Varies

No daily loss limit beyond the $500 drawdown itself.

Fast Track Evaluation · Funded Varies

No daily loss limit beyond the $500 drawdown itself.

1 Step Evaluation · Funded Varies

No daily loss limit. Only the live trailing drawdown applies.

Diamond Hands Evaluation · Funded Varies

$1,500 daily loss limit at the $100,000 size.

Direct to Funded Funded Varies

No daily loss limit.

End of Day Evaluation · Funded Varies

Hard-breach daily loss limit from the prior day's ending balance, open losses included: $1,100 on 50K, $2,200 on 100K.

Static Drawdown Evaluation · Funded Varies

No daily loss limit.

Max overall loss 8
Fast Track Evaluation · Funded Varies

$500 drawdown, end of day trailing.

Fast Track Evaluation · Funded Varies

$500 drawdown, static.

1 Step Evaluation · Funded Varies

Live trailing drawdown: $2,000 / $3,000 / $5,000 for $50K/$100K/$150K. The firm's page presents it as the most aggressive trailing style it sells. On an Elite account the trail stops for good once realized profit reaches the drawdown plus $100: the floor then sits at the starting balance plus $100 and does not move again. The same lock applies to the End of Day trail on a Direct to Funded account.

Diamond Hands Evaluation · Funded Varies

End-of-day trailing drawdown. The dollar amount is not stated on the firm's plan pages.

Direct to Funded Funded Varies

The $10,000 and $50,000 Direct to Funded accounts run an end of day trailing drawdown, measured once the session closes rather than tick by tick.

Direct to Funded Funded Varies

The $100,000 Direct to Funded account runs a fixed drawdown floor that never moves, unlike the two smaller sizes.

End of Day Evaluation · Funded Varies

End-of-day trailing drawdown: only realized profit at the session close moves the floor.

Static Drawdown Evaluation · Funded Varies

$2,000 static drawdown at $50,000 (the only size with a worked example), so the floor is fixed at $48,000 for the life of the account.

Max position size 3
1 Step Evaluation Varies

Maximum position size, as the firm states it (see parameters).

Direct to Funded Funded Varies

Micro scaling is 1 mini = 1 micro, ten times worse position-size granularity than every evaluation product's 1 mini = 10 micros.

Fast Track, Fast Track Evaluation · Funded Varies

Fast Track allows one mini contract, or ten micros, and nothing larger.

Max withdrawal
1 Step, Static Drawdown, End of Day, Diamond Hands, Fast Track, Fast Track, Direct to Funded Funded Varies

Once an Elite account is 20% in profit, giving back more than 35% of that profit can remove the account and rules the trader out of LIVE ELITE.

Minimum trading days 7
Fast Track Evaluation Varies

3 minimum trading days, the lowest at this firm (5 on most plans).

Fast Track Evaluation Varies

3 minimum trading days, the lowest at this firm (5 on most plans).

1 Step Evaluation Varies

5 minimum trading days, reducible to 1 with the paid 'One Day to Pass' add-on.

Diamond Hands Evaluation Varies

5 minimum trading days to pass, which the One Day to Pass add-on can lift. The plan card says 'Min Trade Days to Pass: 5' and the plan page says 'a minimum of 5 trading days'.

Direct to Funded Funded Varies

No minimum trading days to reach funded status, because there is no evaluation phase to complete.

End of Day Evaluation Varies

5 minimum trading days.

Static Drawdown Evaluation Varies

5 minimum trading days, reducible to 1 with the paid add-on.

News trading 2
1 Step, Direct to Funded, Static Drawdown, Diamond Hands, End of Day, Fast Track, Fast Track Evaluation Varies

News trading is unrestricted during the evaluation.

1 Step, Direct to Funded, Static Drawdown, Diamond Hands, End of Day, Fast Track, Fast Track Funded Varies

Funded accounts must be flat from five minutes before a listed economic event until five minutes after it starts. The firm's help centre says there are no news restrictions at all, and does not limit that to the evaluation.

Overnight weekend holding 3
1 Step Evaluation · Funded Varies

1 Step: every trade must be closed one minute before market close (ES by 3:59 p.m. CST).

Diamond Hands Evaluation · Funded Varies

Explicitly permits holding positions overnight and across the weekend. It is the only ETF plan that does, built for swing traders.

Direct to Funded Funded Varies

Direct to Funded allows overnight and weekend holds.

Profit split scaling
1 Step Funded Varies

Up to 100% profit split in the sim-funded stage, capped at $25,000 lifetime payouts before graduating to LIVE ELITE (80/20, uncapped).

Profit target 4
Fast Track Evaluation Varies

20% profit target ($2,000 on the $10,000 balance), the highest target percentage of any ETF plan.

Fast Track Evaluation Varies

20% profit target ($2,000 on the $10,000 balance), the highest target percentage of any ETF plan.

1 Step Evaluation Varies

6% profit target at every size: $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000 for $50K/$100K/$150K.

Direct to Funded Funded Varies

No evaluation phase. Funded immediately on purchase.

Prohibited practices
1 Step, Direct to Funded, Static Drawdown, Diamond Hands, End of Day, Fast Track, Fast Track Evaluation · Funded Varies

Hedging on the same or correlated instruments is banned, as are household sharing, trading for someone else, and VPN/VPS/proxy use outside approved ranges. Front-month contracts only. Going over the position limit fails an evaluation or, in Elite, forfeits profits.

Reset policy 5
Fast Track Evaluation Varies

No resets available, unlike every other ETF plan's $47 reset.

Fast Track Evaluation Varies

No resets available, unlike every other ETF plan's $47 reset.

1 Step Evaluation Varies

Breach resets cost $47, unlimited resets allowed during the evaluation.

1 Step, Direct to Funded, Static Drawdown, Diamond Hands, End of Day, Fast Track, Fast Track Funded Varies

A failed Elite account can be reset up to 10 times, from $87 (Fast Track) to $557 (150K End of Day).

Diamond Hands, End of Day Evaluation Varies

A breached evaluation can be reset from the dashboard for $47 rather than repurchased, on the monthly-subscription plans.

Time limit 2
1 Step, Static Drawdown, Diamond Hands, End of Day Evaluation Varies

Elite Trader Funding 1 Step, Elite Trader Funding Static Drawdown, Elite Trader Funding Diamond Hands, Elite Trader Funding End of Day: the firm states no time limit.

Fast Track, Fast Track Evaluation Varies

Fast Track must be passed within 10 calendar days or it fails automatically and cannot be reset. One active Fast Track account per trader.

All Elite Trader Funding rules

Rules that matter at For Traders

107 rules on record
Consistency 9
Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

Best day's profit must not exceed 40% of total profit.

Fast PRO Funded Varies

Best day's profit must not exceed 35% of total profit.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

Best day's profit must not exceed 40% of total profit.

Fast Evaluation Varies

For Traders Fast: the firm states no consistency rule.

Instant PRO Sim funded Varies

For Traders Instant PRO: the firm states no consistency rule.

Instant Funded Varies

Best day's profit must not exceed 15% of total profit.

Instant Funded Varies

Best day's profit must not exceed 15% of total profit.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

Best day's profit must not exceed 15% of total profit.

Pay After Pass Funded Varies

Best day's profit must not exceed 20% of total profit.

Floating loss guard 8
Classic Funded Varies

Drawdown Protection closes open positions automatically at a 2% floating loss of the starting balance.

Fast Funded Varies

Drawdown Protection closes open positions automatically at a 2% floating loss of the starting balance.

Fast Funded Varies

Drawdown Protection closes open positions automatically at a 2% floating loss of the starting balance.

Fast PRO Funded Varies

Drawdown Protection closes open positions automatically at a 2% floating loss of the starting balance.

Fast Static Funded Varies

Drawdown Protection closes open positions automatically at a 2% floating loss of the starting balance.

Instant Funded Varies

Drawdown Protection closes open positions automatically at a 2% floating loss of the starting balance.

Instant Funded Varies

Drawdown Protection closes open positions automatically at a 2% floating loss of the starting balance.

Pay After Pass Funded Varies

Drawdown Protection closes open positions automatically at a 2% floating loss of the starting balance.

Inactivity 12
Classic Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 30 days.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 30 days.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 30 days.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 7 days. On the Master account the window is 14 days.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 30 days.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 7 days. On the Master account the window is 14 days.

Fast Static Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 30 days.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 7 days.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 7 days.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 7 days. On the Master account the window is 14 days.

Instant PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 7 days.

Pay After Pass Evaluation · Funded Varies

Close at least one trade every 30 days.

Max daily loss 12
Classic Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily drawdown 4%, the same figure in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily drawdown 3%, the same figure in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily drawdown 3%, the same figure in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

No daily drawdown at all on this product. The only loss limit is the maximum drawdown.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

No daily drawdown at all on this product. The only loss limit is the maximum drawdown.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily drawdown $1,000, the same figure in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Fast Static Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily drawdown 3%, the same figure in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily drawdown 3%, the same figure in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily drawdown 3%, the same figure in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily drawdown $750 – $3,000, the same figure in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Instant PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

No daily drawdown at all on this product. The only loss limit is the maximum drawdown.

Pay After Pass Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily drawdown 3%, the same figure in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Max overall loss 12
Classic Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown 8%, static, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown 6%, trailing, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown 6%, trailing, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown $1,000 – $2,500, end of day trailing, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown 4%, end of day trailing, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown $2,000, end of day trailing, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Fast Static Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown 6%, static, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown 5%, trailing, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown 5%, trailing, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown $1,250 – $5,000, end of day trailing, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Instant PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown 6%, trailing, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Pay After Pass Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown 6%, trailing, identical in the evaluation and on the Master account.

Minimum trading days 10
Classic Evaluation · Funded Varies

3 minimum profitable days, required in the evaluation and again for each reward.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

6 minimum profitable days, required in the evaluation and again for each reward.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

3 minimum profitable days, required in the evaluation and again for each reward.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

5 minimum profitable days, required in the evaluation and again for each reward.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

4 minimum profitable days, required in the evaluation and again for each reward.

Fast Static Evaluation · Funded Varies

3 minimum profitable days, required in the evaluation and again for each reward.

Pay After Pass Evaluation Varies

For Traders Pay After Pass: the firm states no minimum trading days.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

7 minimum profitable days, required in the evaluation and again for each reward.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

7 minimum profitable days, required in the evaluation and again for each reward.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

7 minimum profitable days, required in the evaluation and again for each reward.

News trading 12
Classic Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading allowed in the evaluation. On the Master account no new trade may be opened within 5 minutes either side of a high-impact release; existing positions may be held through it.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading and position holding allowed throughout.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading allowed in the evaluation. On the Master account no new trade may be opened within 5 minutes either side of a high-impact release; existing positions may be held through it.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading allowed in the evaluation. On the Master account no new trade may be opened within 5 minutes either side of a high-impact release; existing positions may be held through it.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading and position holding allowed throughout.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading allowed in the evaluation. On the Master account no new trade may be opened within 5 minutes either side of a high-impact release; existing positions may be held through it.

Fast Static Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading allowed in the evaluation. On the Master account no new trade may be opened within 5 minutes either side of a high-impact release; existing positions may be held through it.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading and position holding allowed throughout.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading allowed in the evaluation. On the Master account no new trade may be opened within 5 minutes either side of a high-impact release; existing positions may be held through it.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading allowed in the evaluation. On the Master account no new trade may be opened within 5 minutes either side of a high-impact release; existing positions may be held through it.

Instant PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading allowed in the evaluation. On the Master account no new trade may be opened within 5 minutes either side of a high-impact release; existing positions may be held through it.

Pay After Pass Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading allowed in the evaluation. On the Master account no new trade may be opened within 5 minutes either side of a high-impact release; existing positions may be held through it.

Profit split scaling 12
Classic Funded Varies

80% profit split, rewards 14 days. Minimum withdrawable profit $100.

Fast Funded Varies

80% profit split, rewards 14 days. Minimum withdrawable profit $100.

Fast Funded Varies

80% profit split, rewards 14 days. Minimum withdrawable profit $100.

Fast Funded Varies

80% profit split, rewards on demand. Minimum withdrawable profit $100.

Fast PRO Funded Varies

90% profit split, rewards on demand. Minimum withdrawable profit $100.

Fast PRO Funded Varies

80% profit split, rewards on demand. Minimum withdrawable profit $250.

Fast Static Funded Varies

80% profit split, rewards 14 days. Minimum withdrawable profit $100.

Instant Funded Varies

70% profit split, rewards 14 days. Minimum withdrawable profit $100.

Instant Funded Varies

70% profit split, rewards 14 days. Minimum withdrawable profit $100.

Instant Funded Varies

80% profit split, rewards on demand. Minimum withdrawable profit $100.

Instant PRO Funded Varies

60% profit split, rewards 14 days. Minimum withdrawable profit $90 – $750.

Pay After Pass Funded Varies

80% profit split, rewards on demand. Minimum withdrawable profit $100.

Profit target 8
Classic Evaluation Varies

Profit target 8% in phase 1, then 5% in phase 2.

Fast Evaluation Varies

Profit target 10%.

Fast Evaluation Varies

Profit target 9%.

Fast Evaluation Varies

Profit target $1,500 – $5,000. The firm publishes this as a range across account sizes, not per size.

Fast PRO Evaluation Varies

Profit target 6%.

Fast PRO Evaluation Varies

Profit target $3,000.

Fast Static Evaluation Varies

Profit target 10%.

Pay After Pass Evaluation Varies

Profit target 2%.

Time limit 12
Classic Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

Fast Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

Fast PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

Fast Static Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

Instant Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

Instant PRO Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

Pay After Pass Evaluation · Funded Varies

No time limit, in the evaluation or on the Master account.

All For Traders rules

Rules that matter at My Funded Futures

36 rules on record
Consistency 4
Builder Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

Consistency applies only once funded on this line, not during the evaluation, the reverse of every other line this firm sells.

Pro Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

Consistency applies in the evaluation only.

Rapid Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

Consistency applies in the evaluation only.

Rapid EOD Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

Consistency applies in the evaluation only.

Inactivity
Rapid, Rapid EOD, Pro, Builder Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

Accounts bought from 25 August 2026 can be closed after 7 calendar days without a trade, including sim funded accounts.

Max daily loss
Builder Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

Daily drawdown, which does not apply at every account size on this line.

Max overall loss 8
Builder Evaluation $1,000 – $2,000

Evaluation max drawdown, end-of-day trailing.

Builder Sim funded $1,000 – $2,000

Funded max drawdown, end-of-day trailing.

Pro Evaluation $2,000 – $4,500

Evaluation max drawdown, end-of-day trailing.

Pro Sim funded $2,000 – $4,500

Funded max drawdown, end-of-day trailing.

Rapid EOD Evaluation Varies

Evaluation max drawdown, end-of-day trailing.

Rapid EOD Sim funded Varies

Funded max drawdown, end-of-day trailing.

Rapid Evaluation $1,000 – $4,500

Evaluation max drawdown, end-of-day trailing.

Rapid Sim funded $1,000 – $4,500

Funded max drawdown, real-time (intraday) trailing. The BASIS changes on funding while the dollar amount does not: the evaluation is measured end-of-day and the funded account is measured in real time, so open positions that were invisible during the evaluation become live risk afterwards.

Max position size 4
Builder Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

Position size in contracts.

Pro Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

Position size in contracts. It INCREASES on funding: the funded account permits larger size than the evaluation that qualified for it.

Rapid EOD Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

Position size in contracts.

Rapid Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

Position size in contracts.

Minimum trading days 4
Builder Evaluation Varies

Minimum 1 trading day in the evaluation.

Pro Evaluation Varies

Minimum 2 trading days in the evaluation.

Rapid EOD Evaluation Varies

Minimum 4 trading days in the evaluation.

Rapid Evaluation Varies

Minimum 2 trading days in the evaluation.

Payout buffer 4
Builder Sim funded Varies

Minimum withdrawal and the buffer level per account size.

Pro Sim funded Varies

Minimum withdrawal and the buffer level per account size. Before the buffer is cleared, a one-time withdrawal of up to 60% of profits is allowed; the rest stays in the account.

Rapid EOD Sim funded Varies

Minimum withdrawal and the buffer level per account size.

Rapid Sim funded Varies

Minimum withdrawal and the buffer level per account size.

Profit split scaling 4
Builder Sim funded Varies

Profit split and the buffer that gates it.

Pro Sim funded Varies

Profit split and the buffer that gates it.

Rapid EOD Sim funded Varies

Profit split and the buffer that gates it.

Rapid Sim funded Varies

Profit split and the buffer that gates it.

Profit target 4
Builder Evaluation $1,500 – $3,000

Evaluation profit target, 6% of account size at every size.

Pro Evaluation $3,000 – $9,000

Evaluation profit target, 6% of account size at every size.

Rapid EOD Evaluation Varies

Evaluation profit target, 6% of account size at every size.

Rapid Evaluation $1,500 – $9,000

Evaluation profit target, 6% of account size at every size.

Time limit 2
Builder, Pro, Rapid Evaluation Varies

My Funded Futures Builder, My Funded Futures Pro, My Funded Futures Rapid: the firm states no time limit.

Builder, Pro, Rapid, Rapid EOD Evaluation Varies

My Funded Futures Builder, My Funded Futures Pro, My Funded Futures Rapid, My Funded Futures Rapid EOD: the firm states no time limit.

All My Funded Futures rules

Rules that matter at Tradeify

30 rules on record
Activation fee 2
Growth, Select Evaluation $0

No activation fee on either evaluation line, stated as 'None' on every plan card.

Lightning Funded $0

No activation fee on Lightning.

Automated trading
Growth, Select, Lightning Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

Bots and algorithms are allowed if you own the strategy exclusively, do not share it, and it is not high-frequency trading. Running the same bot at another firm is against policy, and high-frequency bots are banned outright. The firm may ask for a live video of you enabling it.

Consistency 3
Growth Funded 35%

Growth has NO consistency rule during the evaluation and 35% once funded. This contradicts the firm's homepage claim 'No consistency once funded'.

Lightning Funded 20%

Consistency limit of 20% for the first payout, 25% for the second and 30% after that.

Select Evaluation 40%

Select is the mirror image of Growth: 40% consistency during the evaluation, none once funded.

Inactivity
Growth, Select, Lightning Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

At least one trade per week on evaluation and funded accounts. The firm says it contacts the trader before acting.

Live transition
Growth, Select, Lightning Funded Varies

Tradeify Elite is the live stage. Three payouts on one account, or ten since the last transition, put a trader up for consideration, but the firm says most traders will not move straight away. Selection cannot be declined. Every sim and evaluation account closes, and only funded accounts with at least one payout carry across; nothing else carries with them. A live account starts at zero with an end of day drawdown of $1,500 to $6,000 by size and no daily loss limit, and the drawdown locks once the end of day balance clears the trigger. The split is 80 percent, payouts can be requested daily on anything above the trading capital, and a payout that empties the account closes it. Monthly reward pools of $2,000 to $12,000 by size sit on top, at one and a half times for Select traders. One trade every 30 days keeps the account open, and no one in the household may hold sim accounts while a live account is running.

Max capital allocation
Growth, Select, Lightning Funded 5 accounts

Five simulated funded accounts maximum. The pricing cards state 5; the Evaluation Services Agreement s4.2 extends the limit to the household and bars Elite Live traders from holding any other account.

Max daily loss 5
Lightning Funded Varies

Lightning at $25K has no daily loss limit. The larger Lightning sizes carry one.

Growth Evaluation · Funded $600 – $3,750

Growth carries a Daily Loss Limit in both the evaluation and the funded stage, at the same figures. The Help Center classes it a soft breach that pauses trading rather than failing the account.

Lightning Funded $1,250 – $3,000

Lightning carries a Daily Loss Limit at every size except 25K, where the plan card reads None.

Select Funded Varies

Select has NO daily loss limit during the evaluation. Once funded it depends on the Chosen Path: the Daily path carries one, the Flex path does not.

Select Evaluation Varies

Select has no daily loss limit during the evaluation, at every size from $25K to $150K. The end-of-day trailing drawdown is the only loss limit in that stage.

Max overall loss
Growth, Select, Lightning Evaluation · Funded Varies

The floor trails the highest-ever end-of-day balance and moves up only. Although it updates at end of day, the Help Center states it is enforced in real time against net liquidation value, meaning the balance plus unrealized P&L on open positions: an open losing position that touches the limit intraday fails the account immediately. It locks permanently on funded accounts at +$100 over the drawdown. The Help Center is the source; s4.1 of the Evaluation Services Agreement incorporates it by reference and s11 makes it prevail over the contract on trading rules. The contract itself states the drawdown method only by pointing to it. Values differ per line and, on Select, per Chosen Path above 50K.

Max position size 3
Growth, Lightning Evaluation · Funded Varies

Identical across all three lines and both stages.

Select Evaluation Varies

Identical across all three lines and both stages.

Select Funded Varies

Select funded accounts start with fewer contracts (1/10, 2/20, 3/30, 3/30 by size) and scale up with end-of-day equity to 2/20, 4/40, 8/80, 12/120.

Max withdrawal
Select Funded Varies

Select funded accounts cap the payout per cycle, and the cap depends on the Chosen Path. The caps changed on 1 September 2026 and both sets are recorded: accounts bought before that date keep the earlier, higher Flex caps. Flex pays materially more per cycle but every 5 days rather than daily.

Minimum trading days 2
Growth Evaluation Varies

Growth can be passed in 1 trading day.

Select Evaluation Varies

Select needs at least 3 trading days to pass (2 with the 50% Consistency Add-on).

News trading
Growth, Select, Lightning Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

News trading is allowed, with no restrictions around news events.

Overnight weekend holding
Growth, Select, Lightning Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

All positions must be closed by 4:45 PM ET each day, or 12:59 PM ET when the market closes early for a holiday. Positions left open are closed automatically, without failing the account.

Profit split scaling
Growth, Select, Lightning Funded 90%

90/10 to the trader, from s4.3 of the Evaluation Services Agreement, 'unless otherwise specified for a particular account type'. Not stated on the pricing page.

Profit target 2
Growth Evaluation $1,500 – $9,000

Growth evaluation profit target, per size in dollars rather than percent: $1,500 / $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000.

Select Evaluation $1,500 – $9,000

Select evaluation profit target, identical to Growth at every size.

Prohibited practices 2
Growth, Select, Lightning Sim funded Varies

On funded accounts, more than half of trades and more than half of profits must come from trades held over 10 seconds, or no payout can be requested.

Growth, Select, Lightning Evaluation · Funded Varies

Trading on a platform error is strictly forbidden and costs the account.

Reset policy
Growth, Select, Lightning Evaluation Varies

Reset fees differ between the two evaluation lines and are not available at all on Lightning, where a failed account must be repurchased. The Growth 25K reset is itself discounted, shown as $70 struck through to $60. The Evaluation Services Agreement s7.1 makes reset fees expressly non-refundable.

Time limit
Growth, Select Evaluation Varies

Tradeify Growth (Evaluation), Tradeify Select (Evaluation): the firm states no time limit.

All Tradeify rules

Rules that matter at AquaFunded

55 rules on record
Activation fee
Futures Instant Standard, Futures One Step Standard, Futures Daily, Futures Flex DLL, Futures Flex No DLL Funded $0

No activation fee and no monthly fee on the Daily, Standard, Flex and Instant futures accounts.

Automated trading 2
2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Elite, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Standard, One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded Varies

Expert Advisors are allowed on the CFD program when they are the trader's own strategy. Third-party, off-the-shelf and pass-the-challenge strategies are prohibited, as is passing on one strategy and trading another once funded. The futures program takes the opposite position.

Futures Instant Standard, Futures Instant PRO, Futures One Step Beginner, Futures One Step Standard, Futures One Step Flex, Futures Daily, Futures Flex DLL, Futures Flex No DLL Evaluation · Funded Varies

All automation is prohibited on the futures program, including bots, unattended algorithms and AI execution software, and no more than 100 trades may be placed in a single day. The CFD program allows Expert Advisors, so the same brand takes opposite positions on the two products.

Consistency 2
Instant Pro, Instant Standard, 2-Step Pro Evaluation · Funded Varies

Consistency by model: Instant Pro 20% (15% for accounts bought before 8 Sep 2026), Instant Standard 15%, 2-Step Pro 25%.

Futures Instant Standard, Futures Instant PRO, Futures One Step Beginner, Futures One Step Standard, Futures One Step Flex, Futures Daily, Futures Flex DLL, Futures Flex No DLL Evaluation · Funded Varies

Futures consistency caps the best day's share of profit, and each model applies it at a different stage. Daily caps it at 40% and both current Flex accounts at 50%, during the evaluation only. Standard has none in the evaluation and 40% once funded, Instant is 20% on every payout cycle, and Beginner is 40% in both stages. On the current models, missing it holds a pass or a payout back; it does not fail the account.

Fee refund
2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Elite, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Standard, One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded Varies

The fee is returned on the fourth successful payout, not on request, and is forfeited entirely if the account hard breaches first. The Refund Policy separately states that all sales are final.

Floating loss guard
2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Elite, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Standard, One Step Flex Funded Varies

Wave Stop: on funded CFD accounts, open trades are all closed when they reach a 2% loss of balance (soft breach). On Instant models a single trade floating below -2% of starting balance (-1% on $300K and $400K) closes the account for good. One Step Flex uses a 1% WaveStop with strikes; the third strike breaches the account.

Inactivity 2
Futures Instant Standard, Futures Instant PRO, Futures One Step Beginner, Futures One Step Standard, Futures One Step Flex, Futures Daily, Futures Flex DLL, Futures Flex No DLL Evaluation · Funded Varies

Futures: 7 calendar days without a trade closes the account for good. The firm's article opens 'To keep all AquaFunded Futures accounts active', so it is recorded on every futures product, including Daily and both Flex variants (read 2026-09-24, re-confirmed in the 2026-09-29 catalogue reads).

2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Elite, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Standard, One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded Varies

One trade required within any 30-day period; no trade for 30 days is a BREACH, not merely a dormancy flag. Applies from the first trade placed.

Max capital allocation 2
2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Elite, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Standard, One Step Flex Funded Varies

CFD: up to $400K funded; scaling adds 25% of the initial balance for 12% profit in 3 months, up to $4,000,000.

Futures Instant Standard, Futures Instant PRO, Futures One Step Beginner, Futures One Step Standard, Futures One Step Flex Funded Varies

Futures: up to 5 active funded accounts at once, with any extra funded account placed on hold; evaluation accounts are unlimited. The evaluation fee is one-time. Only giveaway accounts carry a monthly access fee, after a free 30 days.

Max daily loss 7
2-Step Pro, 2-Step Elite, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Standard, One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily loss by model: 2-Step Pro 5%, 2-Step Elite 4%, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Standard and One Step Flex 3%. An earlier reading showed no daily loss limit on Instant Standard and One Step Flex.

Futures Daily Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily loss limit $1,000 / $1,250 / $1,750 in both stages. Reaching it closes open positions and pauses the account for the rest of the day; it does not fail the account.

Futures Flex DLL Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily loss limit $1,200 / $1,700 / $3,000 on Flex with a daily loss limit, in both stages. Reaching it stops trading for the day; it does not fail the account.

Futures Flex No DLL Evaluation · Funded Varies

No daily loss limit on Flex without a daily loss limit, in either stage.

Futures Instant Standard Funded Varies

Daily loss limit $1,000 / $1,250 / $2,500 / $3,000 on the $25K to $150K Instant account, a soft breach that pauses the account for the rest of the day.

Futures One Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

Daily loss limit $1,000 / $2,000 / $3,000 on the $50K / $100K / $150K Standard account in both stages, a soft breach that pauses the account for the rest of the day.

2-Step Standard Evaluation · Funded 5%

5% daily loss, from the higher of the previous day's closing balance or equity, reset at 00:00 UTC.

Max overall loss 12
2-Step Elite Evaluation · Funded 10%

Maximum loss 10%, static.

2-Step Pro Evaluation · Funded 10%

Maximum loss 10%, trailing.

Instant Pro Evaluation · Funded 6%

Maximum loss 6%, trailing the highest equity reached (floating P&L included); it never moves back down.

Instant Standard Evaluation · Funded 5%

Maximum loss 5%, end of day trailing.

One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded 12%

Maximum loss 12%, static.

One Step Standard Evaluation · Funded 6%

Maximum loss 6%, trailing.

Futures Daily Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,500, trailing on the end-of-day closed balance in both stages. It stops trailing at $52,100 / $103,600 / $155,100, and after any payout the floor locks at the starting balance plus $100.

Futures Instant PRO, Futures One Step Beginner, Futures One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded Varies

On the three older futures models the firm still sells but no longer shows on its pricing page, the maximum loss runs $1,000 to $5,000 by size on Beginner, $1,500 to $3,500 on the older Flex, and $2,500 or $3,500 on Instant Pro. Beginner also has a daily loss limit of $600 to $3,750. The firm's own pages disagree on how Instant Pro's drawdown is measured and on whether it has a daily limit. After any payout the drawdown floor locks at the starting balance plus $100.

Futures Flex DLL, Futures Flex No DLL Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown $2,000 / $3,000 / $4,500 on both Flex accounts, trailing on the end-of-day closed balance in both stages until it reaches the starting balance, where it locks. After any payout the floor locks at the starting balance plus $100.

Futures Instant Standard Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown $1,500 / $2,000 / $3,500 / $4,500 on the Instant account, trailing on the end-of-day closed balance until it becomes static at a level the firm does not state. After any payout the floor locks at the starting balance plus $100.

Futures One Step Standard Evaluation · Funded Varies

Maximum drawdown $2,000 / $3,500 / $5,000 on the Standard account, trailing on the end-of-day closed balance in both stages. It stops trailing at $52,100 / $103,600 / $155,100, and after any payout the floor locks at the starting balance plus $100.

2-Step Standard Evaluation · Funded 8%

8% of the initial account balance, fixed, including closed and open trades. The firm's own worked example: $100,000 falling to $92,000, shown as 92%.

Max position size
Futures Instant Standard, Futures Instant PRO, Futures One Step Beginner, Futures One Step Standard, Futures One Step Flex, Futures Daily, Futures Flex DLL, Futures Flex No DLL Evaluation · Funded Varies

Futures positions are capped by contract count by account size. Daily, Standard and both Flex accounts allow 4 minis (40 micros) at $50K, 8 at $100K and 12 at $150K; Instant allows 1 at $25K and the same ladder above it. The older models allow fewer: Beginner 1 to 9 contracts, Instant Pro 3 or 6, older Flex 2 to 6.

Max withdrawal 2
2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Elite, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Standard, One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded Varies

On accounts of $100,000 or larger the first two reward requests are each capped at $10,000, after which the cap is removed. Every payout carries a 2 percent processing fee deducted from the requested amount.

Futures Instant Standard, Futures Instant PRO, Futures One Step Beginner, Futures One Step Standard, Futures One Step Flex, Futures Daily, Futures Flex DLL, Futures Flex No DLL Funded Varies

Futures payouts are capped by model and size. Daily caps each day at $1,100 / $2,200 / $3,300; Instant caps each request at $1,000 to $3,000; Standard at $2,000 to $3,500 for the first payout and $2,500 to $4,000 after; Flex at half the available profit, up to $2,000 / $2,500 / $3,000. The minimum payout is $500 on the current models, though the same pages allow $100 by crypto, and a 3% processing fee comes off every payout.

Minimum trading days 6
Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded Varies

Instant Pro and Instant Standard both require 5 minimum trading days on the funded account. One Step Flex requires none, which is the feature it is sold on.

Futures Daily, Futures One Step Standard, Futures Flex DLL, Futures Flex No DLL Evaluation Varies

No minimum number of trading days to pass the Daily, Standard or Flex evaluation.

One Step Standard Evaluation Varies

3 profitable days on the One-Step models, where a day counts only with a gain of at least 0.5% against the previous end-of-day balance, so a day up 0.1% does not count. If the profit target is reached before the three days, trading must continue until it is met. The Three-Step model requires none. The firm states this rule for its One-Step models.

2-Step Elite Evaluation Varies

AquaFunded 2-Step Elite: minimum of 3 profitable days.

2-Step Pro Evaluation Varies

AquaFunded 2-Step Pro: the firm states no minimum trading days.

2-Step Standard Evaluation Varies

AquaFunded 2-Step Standard: minimum of 3 profitable days.

News trading
2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Elite, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Standard, One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded Varies

News trading is permitted and the profit from it is capped at 0.5 percent of starting balance per payout cycle, with the excess removed. The firm's own example takes $1,000 of news profit down to $500. It is not treated as a breach. Accounts bought before 27 April 2026 stay on the earlier rules.

Overnight weekend holding
2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Elite, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Standard, One Step Flex, Futures Instant Standard, Futures Instant PRO, Futures One Step Beginner, Futures One Step Standard, Futures One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded Varies

Overnight and weekend holding are permitted on both programs, and crypto accounts trade around the clock. Swap free is not the default – it is a paid add-on at 10 percent on the CFD side.

Profit split scaling 3
Futures Instant PRO, Futures One Step Beginner Funded Varies

Instant Pro and Beginner, which the firm still sells but no longer shows on its pricing page, pay a 100% split.

Futures One Step Flex Funded Varies

The older Flex model pays an 80% split.

Futures Instant Standard, Futures One Step Standard, Futures Daily, Futures Flex DLL, Futures Flex No DLL Funded Varies

The four current futures models, Daily, Standard, Flex and Instant, pay 90% from the first payout. The old 100% split up to $15,000 lifetime is gone.

Profit target 3
2-Step Pro, 2-Step Elite, One Step Standard, One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded Varies

Profit targets by model. 2-Step Pro is 10 then 5 percent, 2-Step Elite 8 then 5, One Step Standard 9, One Step Flex 10. The two Instant models skip evaluation and have no target.

Futures Daily, Futures One Step Standard, Futures Flex DLL, Futures Flex No DLL Evaluation Varies

Profit target $3,000 / $6,000 / $9,000 on the $50K / $100K / $150K Daily, Standard and both Flex accounts, 6% in one phase.

2-Step Standard Evaluation Varies

8% then 5%, and the target RESETS in phase 2 rather than accumulating. All positions must be closed before progressing. The firm's page introduces this with 'For our 2-Step Challenge model', so it describes that one model.

Prohibited practices 2
2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Elite, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Standard, One Step Flex Evaluation · Funded Varies

Three practices carry profit consequences rather than warnings. Trades held under 2 minutes may be classed as tick scalping and their profits removed. Margin above 80 percent in a single trade is classed as gambling and can mean profits deducted or the account breached. Wave Stop auto-closes everything at 2 percent floating loss, cutting the profit split to 50 percent on a first breach and breaching the account on a second, on every funded model except Instant Funding.

Futures Instant Standard, Futures Instant PRO, Futures One Step Beginner, Futures One Step Standard, Futures One Step Flex, Futures Daily, Futures Flex DLL, Futures Flex No DLL Evaluation · Funded Varies

At least half of all closed trades must stay open longer than 10 seconds, at least half of total profit must come from trades held longer than 10 seconds, and average risk to reward must stay above 0.3. Prohibited trading can lead to profit removal, payout denial, account suspension or a ban, which sits against the site's no denials badge.

Time limit 6
2-Step Elite, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Standard Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

AquaFunded 2-Step Elite, AquaFunded 2-Step Pro, AquaFunded 2-Step Standard: the firm states no time limit.

2-Step Elite, 2-Step Pro, 2-Step Standard, Instant Pro, Instant Standard, One Step Flex, One Step Standard Evaluation Varies

AquaFunded 2-Step Elite, AquaFunded 2-Step Pro, AquaFunded 2-Step Standard, AquaFunded Instant Pro, AquaFunded Instant Standard, AquaFunded One Step Flex, AquaFunded One Step Standard: the firm states no time limit.

One Step Flex, One Step Standard Evaluation · Sim funded Varies

AquaFunded One Step Flex, AquaFunded One Step Standard: the firm states no time limit.

Futures Daily Evaluation Varies

AquaFunded Futures Daily: the firm states no time limit.

Futures Flex DLL Evaluation Varies

AquaFunded Futures Flex DLL: the firm states no time limit.

Futures Flex No DLL Evaluation Varies

AquaFunded Futures Flex No DLL: the firm states no time limit.

All AquaFunded rules

What traders ask about futures prop firm rules

Does hitting the daily loss limit end a futures account?

At some firms it ends the account, and at others it only ends the trading day, so the wording of the rule decides which. Ment Funding’s futures daily loss limit of 3 percent ends the account, while on Topstep’s Trading Combine DLL lines the daily limit flattens your positions and stops trading until the next session without failing the Combine. Some products carry no daily loss limit at all, Take Profit Trader’s Test among them, which leaves the maximum loss as the only line. Each firm’s section above gives its wording product by product.

Do unrealized losses count against a futures drawdown?

They do whenever the firm’s rule counts open positions, and a limit that updates only at the close can still be enforced mid-session. Topstep’s Trading Combine recalculates its maximum loss at the end of each day but enforces it in real time, open positions included. Take Profit Trader measures its evaluation drawdown only at the end of the trading day, then enforces the same dollar figure intraday, open profit included, once the account is a funded PRO account. Read both when the limit updates and when it is enforced before you size a position.

Can futures positions be held overnight in a prop firm account?

Only on a product that permits it; the others require you to be flat before a daily cutoff the firm sets. Topstep’s cutoff is 3:10 PM CT, Apex’s is 4:59 PM ET, and on Tradeify’s evaluation and simulated funded accounts open positions close automatically at 4:45 PM ET on a regular day, or 12:59 PM ET on an early holiday close, without failing the account. At Elite Trader Funding, Diamond Hands and Direct to Funded allow overnight and weekend holds while 1 Step does not, so check the product and not just the firm.

Is trading through FOMC, CPI or NFP allowed on a futures account?

Some firms allow it with no restriction, and others restrict it only once the account is funded. Take Profit Trader requires PRO accounts to be flat from one minute before to one minute after FOMC, Non-Farm Payrolls and CPI, and Elite Trader Funding’s terms require funded accounts to be flat from five minutes before a listed event until five minutes after it starts. Topstep does not make you flatten but prohibits trading your full maximum position size straight into major scheduled news, while Tradeify states no news restrictions on its evaluation and simulated funded accounts.

Are trading bots allowed on a futures evaluation?

Some futures firms ban automation outright and others allow it on conditions, so the product’s own rule decides. Take Profit Trader prohibits bots and algorithmic execution on every account, and AquaFunded prohibits all automation on its futures program even though its CFD program allows Expert Advisors. Purdia Capital bans fully automated trading but allows semi-automated tools under active real-time oversight, and Tradeify allows a bot only if you own the strategy exclusively, do not share it and it is not high-frequency.

Do futures rules change once I pass the evaluation?

Yes, at several firms, so read the funded rows under each rule as well as the evaluation rows. Blue Guardian’s Futures: Standard plan applies a 40% consistency limit only once funded, while its Express and Reserve (with DLL) plans apply one only in the challenge. Topstep’s Express Funded Account starts at a zero balance with a loss limit that trails up and locks at zero, and after a first payout the limit is set to zero. The stage label on each row shows which part of the route it governs.