The Trading Pit (Futures)
The withdrawal cap is the blocker: 50% of realized profit, hard-capped at $2,500 on a $50,000 account — 5% of account size per payout, falling to 3.5% on the $100K and 3.3% on the $150K. The drawdown itself is the good news: an end-of-day trail that freezes at the starting balance and never moves down, which is the best shape this axis has.
Two futures products run different rules. Prime is a one-phase, end-of-day challenge whose floor locks at the starting balance; Classic trails the highest balance with no cap at all, bans news trading and allows overnight holding — the exact opposite of Prime on both counts. The contracting entity is The Trading Pit Challenge GmbH in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, and the firm says in writing that it is neither supervised nor regulated by the FMA. Every account, at every stage, is simulated, and the help centre says so on a page of its own.
Not enough published data to simulate this firm’s floor.
Crossed one of the seven hard bars. Open the row and it names which one, with the mechanism spelled out. This is not a low grade — no quantity of virtue elsewhere buys it off, which is why it carries no rank at all.
Disqualified for
Trustpilot: fabricated-reviews warning
Trustpilot withholds the rating and serves a fabricated-reviews warning — a third party concluding the firm faked its own reviews. A low score is not this; every prop firm has angry traders. This is separate from having no legal entity: a firm can publish its registration number and still be caught doing it.
Scorecard
10Trails on daily closes only, then freezes at your starting balance
A named company, but no financial regulator anywhere — or a light-touch one only
A per-request cap well below the account size
Overstates size or speed, but costs you nothing
Reviews suppressed for manipulation, or the firm is gone
Each axis is scored 0–5 against a published scale. The line under each bar is the rung this firm landed on — not our summary of it, the scale entry itself.
The score is published anyway, because it is the honest picture: a firm can be strong on four axes and still be disqualified on one mechanism. A disqualifier is not a low grade — it is a rule we will not trade under at any price.
Plan by plan
2 of this firm’s challenges were read plan by plan, with a citation behind every answer. See them side by side →
One phase, 6% target, 30 days, EOD floor that locks at the starting balance. 40% best-day rule raises the target instead of failing the account. News allowed, overnight positions force-closed 5 minutes before the new session.
Sold as one-phase or two-phase. The floor trails the highest balance with no cap — a profitable week permanently raises the bar. News banned and the 60–80% split depends on the scaling level. $599 for the $250K, with the fee refunded at the first payout per the marketing page.
Trustpilot
score withheld by Trustpilot — this is the figure it computes but will not show
Trustpilot removed reviews it found to be fake and withheld the rating. This is not a low score — it is a third party concluding the firm wrote its own praise.
What this firm published
Everything below is quoted from a page we opened, on the date shown. The quotes are in the firm’s own language, exactly as published — never edited, never shortened, never swapped for a translation. On the Spanish edition our own rendering appears underneath each one, unquoted and marked as ours: the quotation marks on this site mean the words are the firm’s, and nothing we wrote ever wears them. Where we have not read enough to put a number on an axis, we say so instead of guessing.
2/5
Can you even pass?
Almost nobody who pays for an evaluation ever reaches a funded account, so this is the part of the product most customers actually buy. Every firm advertises its profit target; none of them advertises that target next to how much you are allowed to lose while chasing it.
2/5
Can you keep the money?
The drawdown takes the account away; the payout rules take the money. Answered by whichever of the two we can measure and is worse — they are two ways of losing the same thing, so a good half cannot pay for a bad one.
2/5
Is anyone behind it?
A named company, a market, and rules you could read before paying. These three do not substitute for one another — a company you can sue does not stop existing because the account is a simulation — so this is the average of the ones we could measure, not the worst.
How hard the test is
Not the profit target on the sales page — that target measured against the room you are given to reach it.
How much you must win to survivefor every $1 you are allowed to lose, you must make $20.80/8
“Account Balance
$50,000
Price $99
One Time Fee
CHOOSE
Contracts
5 Standard / 50 Micros
Daily Pause
$1,000
On Challenge Phase only. If your equity drops below the Daily Drawdown limit, open positions will be closed, and your account will be paused until the next trading day (16:05 CT).
Max Drawdown
$2,000
Your maximum drawdown will trail based on your End-Of-Day (EOD) balance until it reaches your starting balance, after which it will remain fixed at the starting balance amount.
Challenge Duration
30 Days
Activation Fee
$129
$0
Profit Share
80%
Profit Target
$3,000
”A profit target only means something next to the room you are given to reach it. Ten per cent to make against ten to lose is a coin flip sold as an exam.
Days you have to finish30 days1.05/3
“Challenge Duration
30 Days”A deadline turns a test of skill into a test of whether the market happened to move during your month.
Trading days you must put in3 days2/2
“We ask you to trade for a required number of trading days to ensure consistency in your risk management and trading. For an account to be registered as passed, you must place a trade for a minimum of 3 unique trading days for each phase.”Cuts both ways: it costs you time, and it also stops an account passing on one lucky afternoon you could never repeat.
A second attempt costsa second attempt is discounted1/2
“You can purchase a Reset anytime and as many times as you like, receiving a new account with the remaining challenge days.”A free second attempt turns one bad week into a delay instead of another invoice.
Profit target6%—
“Account Balance
$50,000
Price $99
One Time Fee
CHOOSE
Contracts
5 Standard / 50 Micros
Daily Pause
$1,000
On Challenge Phase only. If your equity drops below the Daily Drawdown limit, open positions will be closed, and your account will be paused until the next trading day (16:05 CT).
Max Drawdown
$2,000
Your maximum drawdown will trail based on your End-Of-Day (EOD) balance until it reaches your starting balance, after which it will remain fixed at the starting balance amount.
Challenge Duration
30 Days
Activation Fee
$129
$0
Profit Share
80%
Profit Target
$3,000
”Maximum loss
The loss limit that closes your account. Does it sit still, or does it climb behind you as you win?
What makes the loss limit riseit rises with the day's closing balanceno change1.65/3
“This means that the Max Drawdown will adjust upward based on your End-of-Day Balance (closed P&L), not intraday peaks.”“Futures Prime Challenges and Earning accounts Max Drawdown is trailing on its End of the Day (EOD) Balance.”A limit that climbs takes back the cushion you already earned.
Where the limit stops risingat your starting balance3/3
“However, the trailing will stop once it reaches the starting balance.”The difference between a danger with an end date and one that never ends.
What the limit is measured againstlive equity, open trades includedno change1/2
“If your account equity drops below your Max Drawdown limit, your account will be breached and automatically closed.”Decides whether a trade that dips and recovers can close an account that ended the day green.
What taking a payout does to the limitThey do not say.0/2
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Taking your money out should not leave you closer to losing the account.
Daily limit2%, measured on live equity, open trades includedwe did not read this stage0.30/2
“Account Balance
$50,000
Price $99
One Time Fee
CHOOSE
Contracts
5 Standard / 50 Micros
Daily Pause
$1,000
On Challenge Phase only. If your equity drops below the Daily Drawdown limit, open positions will be closed, and your account will be paused until the next trading day (16:05 CT).
Max Drawdown
$2,000
Your maximum drawdown will trail based on your End-Of-Day (EOD) balance until it reaches your starting balance, after which it will remain fixed at the starting balance amount.
Challenge Duration
30 Days
Activation Fee
$129
$0
Profit Share
80%
Profit Target
$3,000
”A generous percentage measured on live equity is not generous — it is the same number with a trapdoor under it.
Total loss allowed3%we did not read this stage0/1
“Account Balance
$100,000
Price $189
One Time Fee
CHOOSE
Contracts
10 Standard / 100 Micros
Daily Pause
$2,000
On Challenge Phase only. If your equity drops below the Daily Drawdown limit, open positions will be closed, and your account will be paused until the next trading day (16:05 CT).
Max Drawdown
$3,000
Your maximum drawdown will trail based on your End-Of-Day (EOD) balance until it reaches your starting balance, after which it will remain fixed at the starting balance amount.
Challenge Duration
30 Days
Activation Fee
$129
$0
Profit Share
80%
Profit Target
$6,000”How much room you have. Worth little, because almost every firm offers the same.
Withdrawing
How much can leave the account, how soon, how often — and whether they can say no.
Withdrawals before the account endsThey publish no ceiling.3/3
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
The cap per withdrawal times how many they allow is the real size of the account. One plan here is sold on a $200,000 banner and closes after five withdrawals of $2,100.
What else a payout changesthe profit you must make starts over · the day count starts over0.75/3
“Your balance must exceed your last post-payout balance (by at least $0.01) to request the next reward.”“for the second and all subsequent rewards, traders must generate profit above $0.01 since their last reward request and complete 5 profitable trading days with at least $200 profit per day.”The floor is not the only thing a withdrawal moves, and the rest of it is never on the same page. Position size, the consistency rule and the share you are paid all reset or shift at some firms, and a trader who checked only the drawdown finds out afterwards.
What breaking the consistency rule costsit delays the payoutThey state there is none.3/3
“The profit from your highest trading day must not exceed 40% of your total profit target. If your highest trading day exceeds this threshold, you will not fail the Challenge. Instead, your profit target will automatically increase so that your highest trading day represents exactly 40% of the adjusted profit target.”“The 40% consistency rule does not apply to any Earning Account.*”Weighted by what it costs, not by existing: reading plan by plan, no consistency rule ever closed an account — they postponed the withdrawal.
Can it refuse without giving a reasonyes — it reserves that right in writing0/3
“An entitlement to payment of a Reward arises only once, and only to the extent that, TTP has determined a Reward in accordance with this Clause A.3.”“We may decline for any reason” is not a rule, it is the absence of one — it makes every other number on this axis conditional on goodwill.
Days before you can ask for money5 days2/2
“To request a reward, you must complete 5 profitable trading days with at least $150 profit per day, which do not need to be consecutive. You can request a reward every 7 days.”How long your money is theirs.
Most one withdrawal can pay you3.3% of the account, at worst1/2
“You can withdraw up to 50% of your realized profits, subject to the following caps:
$50,000 account:
$2,500 CAP
$100,000 account:
$3,500 CAP
$150,000 account:
$5,000 CAP”$2,000 is generous on a $25K account and a joke on a $200K one, so it is measured as a share and at the worst size sold.
Does that cap rise with the accountThey do not say.0/2
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Fee charged to pay you$10.80/1
“To cover transaction fees/gas fees, a 1% fee shall be deducted from the trader receiving the payout.”What they charge you to pay you.
Profit required before the first request
How you may trade
Can you trade the way you actually trade — around the news, over the weekend, at the size and speed you use?
Restriction around the newsThey state there is none.no change—
“News Trading is allowed for the Futures Prime products, both in the challenge and in the earning accounts.”Mandatory stop-lossThey state there is none.no change—
“It is not mandatory to use stop loss and take profit for every trade . However, we strongly recommend using them as they are a very useful risk management technique.”Minimum time a trade must be heldThey do not say.no change—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Forced close before the weekendnothing may stay open over the weekendno change—
“Holding overnight positions is considered a risky trading strategy which we want to avoid, therefore any positions that are still open 5 minutes before the new trading day (15:55CT) on Futures Prime accounts will be force-closed by our Risk Managers.”LeverageNo such thing in this plan.no change—
“You can trade a variety of products from the following Exchanges: Chicago-based exchange data, US Futures market data, and European derivatives market data.”Limit on position size5 · 10 · 15we did not read this stage—
“Futures Prime
$50,000 Challenge: 5 standard/mini contracts or 50 micros.
$100,000 Challenge: 10 standard/mini contracts or 100 micros.
$150,000 Challenge: 15 standard/mini contracts or 150 micros.”No score here, on purpose. The six axes above ask whether the firm can take your money or refuse to pay it. These rules ask something else — whether you can trade your way — and the right weight depends on who is reading: a minimum holding time decides the account for a scalper and is invisible to anyone else, while the weekend rule is the reverse. A single number would be wrong for half of you, and would look decided. The firm’s own sentences are here; the judgement is yours.
How it grows
What makes the account get bigger, how big it can get, and whether the path ends at a real market or at a larger simulation.
What makes the account growprofit—
“In our Futures Prime Program, we will scale your Earning Account's buying power based on your end-of-day profit. Scale-ups will be calculated and adjusted daily at 16:00 CT.”Where the path endsat a larger simulation—
“The accounts we provide to our clients are demo with virtual funds with real market data through both the Challenge & Scaling Plan phase. Therefore, all trading activities on this website take place in a simulated environment.”One of these questions is scored and it is not here. “Does the cap rise with the account” sits on the cash axis, next to the cap itself, because it has a right answer: a bigger account that pays the same cheque has handed you a larger number and the same money. The three below are different. A two-million ceiling is the whole point of the product for one reader and irrelevant to someone who wants one clean payout, so the firm’s sentences are here and the weight is yours.
How hard the test is
we did not read enough to sayNot the profit target on the sales page — that target measured against the room you are given to reach it.
Days you have to finish30 dayswe did not read this stage1.05/3
“For Futures Challenges, the duration of your Challenge depends on the Challenge type you choose. We offer challenges that consist of 30,60 or 90 calendar days.”A deadline turns a test of skill into a test of whether the market happened to move during your month.
Trading days you must put in3 daysno change2/2
“We ask you to trade for a required number of trading days to ensure consistency in your risk management and trading. For an account to be registered as passed, you must place a trade for a minimum of 3 unique trading days for each phase.”Cuts both ways: it costs you time, and it also stops an account passing on one lucky afternoon you could never repeat.
A second attempt costsa second attempt is discounted1/2
“If you breach your Futures demo account (Prime or Classic), you may purchase a Reset at any time—and as many times as you wish. Each Reset provides you with a new account while preserving the remaining days from your original challenge.”A free second attempt turns one bad week into a delay instead of another invoice.
Below 60% read we publish no number at all, because a grade computed from two facts out of six is not a lenient grade — it is a different measurement wearing the same label.
How much you must win to survive · Profit target (phase 1) · Profit target (phase 2)
Maximum loss
The loss limit that closes your account. Does it sit still, or does it climb behind you as you win?
What makes the loss limit riseit rises tick by tick, while you trade0.75/3
“Trailing on highest balance, no cap”A limit that climbs takes back the cushion you already earned.
Where the limit stops risingit never stops rising0/3
“Trailing on highest balance, no cap”The difference between a danger with an end date and one that never ends.
What taking a payout does to the limitThey do not say.0/2
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Taking your money out should not leave you closer to losing the account.
What the limit is measured against (phase 1) · Total loss allowed (phase 1) · Daily limit (phase 1)
Withdrawing
How much can leave the account, how soon, how often — and whether they can say no.
Withdrawals before the account endsThey publish no ceiling.3/3
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
The cap per withdrawal times how many they allow is the real size of the account. One plan here is sold on a $200,000 banner and closes after five withdrawals of $2,100.
What else a payout changesThey do not say.0/3
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
The floor is not the only thing a withdrawal moves, and the rest of it is never on the same page. Position size, the consistency rule and the share you are paid all reset or shift at some firms, and a trader who checked only the drawdown finds out afterwards.
Can it refuse without giving a reasonyes — it reserves that right in writing0/3
“An entitlement to payment of a Reward arises only once, and only to the extent that, TTP has determined a Reward in accordance with this Clause A.3.”“We may decline for any reason” is not a rule, it is the absence of one — it makes every other number on this axis conditional on goodwill.
Most one withdrawal can pay youThey do not say.0/2
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
$2,000 is generous on a $25K account and a joke on a $200K one, so it is measured as a share and at the worst size sold.
Fee charged to pay you$10.80/1
“To cover transaction fees/gas fees, a 1% fee shall be deducted from the trader receiving the payout.”What they charge you to pay you.
Days before you can ask for money · Does that cap rise with the account · What breaking the consistency rule costs (phase 1) · Profit required before the first request
How you may trade
Can you trade the way you actually trade — around the news, over the weekend, at the size and speed you use?
Restriction around the newsyou may not open around a release—
“News trading is Prohibited on Challenge and Earning Accounts:”Mandatory stop-lossThey state there is none.—
“It is not mandatory to use stop loss and take profit for every trade . However, we strongly recommend using them as they are a very useful risk management technique.”Minimum time a trade must be heldThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Forced close before the weekendnothing may stay open over the weekend—
“It is allowed to keep positions open overnight in our Futures Classic accounts, but not over the weekend .”LeverageNo such thing in this plan.—
“You can trade a variety of products from the following Exchanges: Chicago-based exchange data, US Futures market data, and European derivatives market data.”Limit on position size10—
“Futures Classic
$20,000 Challenge: 10 micro contracts.
$150,000 Challenge: 5 standard/mini contracts or 50 micros. You can also combine standard/mini and micro contracts. For example, 3 standard contracts and 20 micros.
$200,000 Challenge: 7 standard/mini contracts or 70 micros. You can also combine standard/mini and micro contracts. For example, 4 standard contracts and 30 micros.
$250,000 Challenges: 10 standard/mini contracts or 100 micros. You can also combine standard/mini & micro contracts. For example, 7 standard contracts and 30 micros.”No score here, on purpose. The six axes above ask whether the firm can take your money or refuse to pay it. These rules ask something else — whether you can trade your way — and the right weight depends on who is reading: a minimum holding time decides the account for a scalper and is invisible to anyone else, while the weekend rule is the reverse. A single number would be wrong for half of you, and would look decided. The firm’s own sentences are here; the judgement is yours.
How it grows
What makes the account get bigger, how big it can get, and whether the path ends at a real market or at a larger simulation.
What makes the account growprofit · payouts taken — all of them—
“Each time you hit the profit target for your current level, you will:
Receive your payout instantly, and
Be upgraded to a new account with increased capital and drawdown limits.”Where the path endsat a larger simulation—
“The accounts we provide to our clients are demo with virtual funds with real market data through both the Challenge & Scaling Plan phase. Therefore, all trading activities on this website take place in a simulated environment.”One of these questions is scored and it is not here. “Does the cap rise with the account” sits on the cash axis, next to the cap itself, because it has a right answer: a bigger account that pays the same cheque has handed you a larger number and the same money. The three below are different. A two-million ceiling is the whole point of the product for one reader and irrelevant to someone who wants one clean payout, so the firm’s sentences are here and the weight is yours.
The rules in writing
Could you read the rule before paying, and can they change it afterwards?
Where the rule that binds you is publishedin the document its own contract points at4/4
“The Product Parameters published on our Website at the time of your order form part of the Product Contract and are binding on you and TTP for the duration of the relevant Product Phase; amendments are governed by Clause 19.2.”If the rule that binds you lives in a help article your contract never mentions, you did not sign it.
Can it change the rules without noticeyes, and it says so0.60/3
“Amendments to the Schedules of these GTC , Product Parameters, Product Objectives, Product-specific features and Prohibited Trading Practices that exclusively affect new orders of Products may take effect without prior notice”The clause that makes every dated verdict perishable, including ours. Near-universal, so not fatal.
Two official pages that disagree
the fees · costs money
“The refund policy rewards traders who successfully complete the Challenge and receive their first payout.”“Refunds are issued after achieving your 3rd payout”the payout terms · costs money
“1st Payout: Following completion of 10 profitable days of 200$+”“To request a reward, you must complete 5 profitable trading days with at least $150 profit per day, which do not need to be consecutive. You can request a reward every 7 days.”Is the binding document dated
The company behind it
If it goes wrong, which company do you claim against, and under whose laws?
The company you contract withThe Trading Pit Challenge GmbHno change4/4
“The Trading Pit Challenge GmbH operates as The Trading Pit (" TTP ", " TTP Challenge GmbH ", " we " or " our "), a company registered in the Commercial Register of the Office of Justice of the Principality of Liechtenstein under registration number FL-0002.693.417-1, with its seat in Vaduz.”“This website is owned and operated by The Trading Pit Challenge GmbH with registration number FL-0002.693.417-1 and registered address at Heiligkreuz 6, 9490, Vaduz, Liechtenstein.”With no named company there is nobody to sue.
Where it is registeredLiechtensteinno change2/2
“These GTC and the entire contractual relationship between you and TTP are governed exclusively by the law of the Principality of Liechtenstein, to the exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and to the exclusion of conflict-of-laws rules.”“This website is owned and operated by The Trading Pit Challenge GmbH with registration number FL-0002.693.417-1 and registered address at Heiligkreuz 6, 9490, Vaduz, Liechtenstein.”A claim in the Czech Republic and a claim in St Vincent are not the same claim.
Its registration numberFL-0002.693.417-1no change2/2
“a company registered in the Commercial Register of the Office of Justice of the Principality of Liechtenstein under registration number FL-0002.693.417-1, with its seat in Vaduz.”“Registration Number: FL-0002.693.417-1”What turns a name into something checkable in a public register.
That company owns the brandyes2/2
“This website is owned and operated by The Trading Pit Challenge GmbH with registration number FL-0002.693.417-1 and registered address at Heiligkreuz 6, 9490, Vaduz, Liechtenstein.”Signing with a company other than the brand’s owner separates who sold to you from who answers to you.
The people behind it are namedyes2/2
“Management
Daniela Egli
Illimar Mattus
Maximilian Dejaco”Named people can be looked up. A company on its own cannot always be.
Almost no firm here has a financial regulator, because selling simulated evaluations is not a regulated activity anywhere. Of the 114 firms we scored by hand, 96 sat in the bottom two rungs of backing for this reason. So we do not count it against anyone — it only adds when a firm genuinely has one.
The market
Do your orders reach a market, or is all of it a simulation?
What the funded account issimulated, with no route to real capital0/4
“All trading activities that you carry out at TTP are fully simulated. At no time are real funds used by you. The funds made available to you on Demo Trading Accounts are fictitious and have no monetary value.”The question that separates a firm that earns when you lose from one that earns when you last.
Conditions to reach a real marketNo such thing in this plan.—
“All trading activities that you carry out at TTP are fully simulated. At no time are real funds used by you. The funds made available to you on Demo Trading Accounts are fictitious and have no monetary value.”Promising a route to a real market without publishing the conditions is promising nothing.
Almost none names a broker or a clearing house either, and that follows from the account being a simulation rather than being a second, separate failing. Charging for both would count one fact twice.
We read the rules of every plan it sells and issued a verdict on each one.