TradeDay
DISQUALIFIEDNine products sold from one price table, and on three of them the floor changes clock after you have paid for the version that does not: the evaluation runs End-of-Day and "All Quick Pay Funded Sim accounts will have an intraday drawdown , regardless of the drawdown had on the evaluation." The card is labelled (Intraday Funded Drawdown), so it is disclosed rather than buried — but that route costs $79 against $59 at the $50K and the thing being bought expires at funding. The second mechanism is quieter and costs more: the trailing limit runs on gross profit, and "Gross profits are current profits plus payouts.", so "So the TMD will continue to trail, even if users take payouts." Their own $50K example walks the floor from $48,000 to $48,800 across two withdrawals that leave the balance back at about $50,000 — the cheque is paid out of the headroom. It does stop: the limit trails "until they reach the starting account balance". Fast Pass is End-of-Day at both stages and does neither of these things.
The contract describes a different product from the shop, in three places, and the contract is the document that binds. It requires "a minimum 7-day period" where the site sells five days on Quick Pay and three on Fast Pass, and the firm's own timeline dates the change — "Trading days reduced from 7 to 5" — to September 2025. It prices a retake flat: "the cost of a reset is $99", against $59 to $225 on the cards and $60 to $225 in the help centre. And it describes only an end-of-day drawdown although four of the nine products run the harder intraday one. It also carries a requirement no marketing page mentions: a compulsory course titled Rules and Regulations. Six cards state Payout Buffer: None and the FAQ says "no buffer to clear, no minimum trading period", while the help centre says "traders must have cleared the Buffer Zone before requesting a payout" and no page we read defines it. The front page's "keep up to 90% of the profit" is the Funded Live rate: a newly funded Quick Pay trader is on "50/50 below $4k net profit" until the account is $4,000 up. Both funded stages are "governed by a separate agreement between the User and TradeDay" which is not published, so every figure here comes from a price card and a help centre the firm can edit at will. In its favour, and it is not nothing: one company at every stage, founders and staff named with their histories, and a pass rate the firm publishes itself — "The trader pass rate of the evaluation program was 36% between Januaury 2026 and June 2026."
Your account’s floor
The balance below which the firm closes the account. Each item with the firm’s own sentence. Read on the challenge: Quick Pay - Intraday 50k.
- Maximum total loss · funded accountstated
- 4%
“Intraday 50k $ 131 $ 59 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $59 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”
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“TradeDay has just one rule - Don’t break the Maximum Drawdown Limit!”
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- with your live balance
“All Quick Pay Funded Sim accounts will have an intraday drawdown , regardless of the drawdown had on the evaluation.”
read on 2026-08-04 · tradeday.freshdesk.com · saved copy - When it stops movingstated
- stops at your starting balance
“Trailing max drawdown limits continues to trail your account growth until they reach the starting account balance.”
read on 2026-08-04 · tradeday.freshdesk.com · saved copy - What a payout does to itstated
- it tightens
“When a user requests a payout, the TMD is calculated off of gross profits, not the net profits. So the TMD will continue to trail, even if users take payouts.”
read on 2026-08-04 · tradeday.freshdesk.com · saved copy
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
Drawdown changes when funded
Sold under one rule, traded under a harder one. The account you qualified for is not the account you are given, and the difference is only legible after you have paid.
Asking for money moves the floor
Your balance is untouched — what shrinks is the distance between it and the number that closes the account, and the trigger is you requesting a withdrawal. This is not the same as a floor that locks at your starting balance on its own, which several firms here do and which costs nothing: it is arriving at that floor before the account earned the buffer. One firm sets a $20 minimum request, so $20 can cost several thousand of headroom. Sibling of the first drawdown bar: that one fires at a stage boundary the firm controls, this one at a moment you choose.
What they published
“All Quick Pay Funded Sim accounts will have an intraday drawdown , regardless of the drawdown had on the evaluation.”“When a user requests a payout, the TMD is calculated off of gross profits, not the net profits. So the TMD will continue to trail, even if users take payouts.”“Trailing max drawdown limits continues to trail your account growth until they reach the starting account balance.”Plan by plan
9 of this firm’s challenges were read plan by plan, with a citation behind every answer. See them side by side →
The honest one of the two Quick Pay routes: intraday at both stages, so nothing about the floor changes at funding, and it freezes at the starting balance. What it costs is on the way out — the limit trails on gross profit, so every payout is taken out of the headroom rather than out of the profit above it.
You pay a premium for an end-of-day floor and lose it the moment you pass: the evaluation is end-of-day and the funded account is intraday, in the firm's own words and in the card's own label. The amount never changes; the clock does, and the harder clock is the one you only reach after paying.
End-of-day at both stages and frozen at the starting balance, which is the best floor this firm sells — and the one the marketing talks about least. The price is elsewhere: the funded contract limit drops from 5, 10 or 15 to 2, 3 or 4, so you qualify at a size you are then not allowed to trade, and the 45% consistency rule survives funding where Quick Pay drops it.
Trustpilot
We found no Trustpilot profile for this firm.
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.
3/5
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.
3/5
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 $1.52.40/8
“Intraday 50k $ 131 $ 59 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $59 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”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 finishThey state there is none.3/3
“You do not need to pass the evaluation within one month, you can take as long as you like to pass .”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 in5 days1.60/2
“Show us you have a consistent and winning trading strategy by achieving the following objectives: Objective 1: Trade for a minimum of 5 trading days . If you reach the profit target early, keep trading, we want to see a 5 day track record. Objective 2: Reach the profit target in the trading account. This is your total net profit over the course of the challenge. Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 30% of your total profits.”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 free2/2
“However, you can take the evaluation again by either: Purchase a retake, known as a ‘reset’. Or, wait for your next subscription payment to go through, and we will reset you for free at that time.”A free second attempt turns one bad week into a delay instead of another invoice.
Profit target6%—
“Intraday 50k $ 131 $ 59 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $59 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”Maximum loss
we did not read enough to sayThe 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 tradeno changewe did not read this stage—
“Intraday 50k $ 131 $ 59 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $59 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”“All Quick Pay Funded Sim accounts will have an intraday drawdown , regardless of the drawdown had on the evaluation.”A limit that climbs takes back the cushion you already earned.
Where the limit stops risingat your starting balance3/3
“Trailing max drawdown limits continues to trail your account growth until they reach the starting account 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“These limits are enforced in real time, regardless of how the limit is calculated. You cannot go below the max drawdown limit with an open position during the trading session, if you do the evaluation will be over.”“If you have an open position and you touch the limit, your positions will be liquidated, the trading shut off, and you will have failed the evaluation, or lost your funded trading account.”Decides whether a trade that dips and recovers can close an account that ended the day green.
What taking a payout does to the limitit tightens, and shrinks again with every payout0/2
“When a user requests a payout, the TMD is calculated off of gross profits, not the net profits. So the TMD will continue to trail, even if users take payouts.”Taking your money out should not leave you closer to losing the account.
Daily limitThey state there is none.They do not say.we did not read this stage—
“TradeDay has just one rule - Don’t break the Maximum Drawdown Limit!”we read the page that should answer this and it does not
A generous percentage measured on live equity is not generous — it is the same number with a trapdoor under it.
Total loss allowed4%no changewe did not read this stage—
“Intraday 50k $ 131 $ 59 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $59 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much room you have. Worth little, because almost every firm offers the same.
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.
What makes the loss limit rise (live) · What the limit is measured against (live) · Total loss allowed (live) · Daily limit (live)
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 share you are paid falls1.20/3
“A trader on a $50K Quick Pay Funded Sim account earns $6,000 in profit. Their account balance is now $56,000. The trader requests a $3,000 payout. Since the account’s current profit is above $4,000 but the payout will leave the current profit below $4,000 , the payout is calculated from the 80/20 and 50/50 profit splits.”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.we did not read this stage—
“You will pass the evaluation when you have achieved the objectives without breaking any of the rules. If you break a rule during the evaluation, you will fail and no longer be eligible for funding.”“Intraday 50k $ 131 $ 59 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $59 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”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
“Engaging in other conduct which, in the sole discretion of TradeDay, represents uncommercial activity , is intended to game the market, or otherwise is not a viable trading strategy.”“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 money1 days2/2
“Intraday 50k $ 131 $ 59 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $59 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”How long your money is theirs.
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.
Does that cap rise with the accountThey do not say.0/2
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Profit required before the first requestThey state there is none.1/1
“Intraday 50k $ 131 $ 59 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $59 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much you have to make before you can touch anything.
Fee charged to pay you$150.50/1
“The fees to the trader are as follows: US bank wire withdrawals: Free International bank wire withdrawals: $15/withdrawal L1 Crypto Withdrawals: $2.5/withdrawal + Estimated Gas Fees. L2 Crypto Withdrawals: Free.”What they charge you to pay you.
What breaking the consistency rule costs (live)
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?
Mandatory stop-lossThey do not say.no change—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Forced close before the weekendnothing may stay open over the weekendno change—
“Permitted times for trading: Day-trading only and all positions must be closed at least 10 minutes prior to the end of any session;”“When you pass the evaluation, you are still required to trade within our permitted times, permitted products, and permitted position size guidelines, but accidental breaches are not considered a rule violation (only traders continually abusing these guidelines will lose their account).”LeverageNo such thing in this plan.no change—
“Permitted products: All trading must be in TradeDay-approved products, which are CME Exchange Group futures products only;”Limit on position size5no change—
“Intraday 50k $ 131 $ 59 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $59 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 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 growThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
How large it can getThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Where the path endsat a real market—
“If you are successful in graduating from the Evaluation Challenge, you will be offered the opportunity to get funded with the trading capital of TradeDay in a Funded LIVE Account or advance to another product or service offered by TradeDay, such as the Funded SIM Account (pursuant to TradeDay’s sole discretion), either of which shall be governed pursuant to separate or supplemental written agreement.”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
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 $1.52.40/8
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 50k $ 175 $ 79 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $79 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”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 finishThey state there is none.3/3
“You do not need to pass the evaluation within one month, you can take as long as you like to pass .”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 in5 days1.60/2
“Show us you have a consistent and winning trading strategy by achieving the following objectives: Objective 1: Trade for a minimum of 5 trading days . If you reach the profit target early, keep trading, we want to see a 5 day track record. Objective 2: Reach the profit target in the trading account. This is your total net profit over the course of the challenge. Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 30% of your total profits.”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 free2/2
“However, you can take the evaluation again by either: Purchase a retake, known as a ‘reset’. Or, wait for your next subscription payment to go through, and we will reset you for free at that time.”A free second attempt turns one bad week into a delay instead of another invoice.
Profit target6%—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 50k $ 175 $ 79 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $79 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”Maximum loss
we did not read enough to sayThe 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 balanceit rises tick by tick, while you tradewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 50k $ 175 $ 79 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $79 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”“All Quick Pay Funded Sim accounts will have an intraday drawdown , regardless of the drawdown had on the evaluation.”A limit that climbs takes back the cushion you already earned.
Where the limit stops risingat your starting balance3/3
“Trailing max drawdown limits continues to trail your account growth until they reach the starting account 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“These limits are enforced in real time, regardless of how the limit is calculated. You cannot go below the max drawdown limit with an open position during the trading session, if you do the evaluation will be over.”“If you have an open position and you touch the limit, your positions will be liquidated, the trading shut off, and you will have failed the evaluation, or lost your funded trading account.”Decides whether a trade that dips and recovers can close an account that ended the day green.
What taking a payout does to the limitit tightens, and shrinks again with every payout0/2
“When a user requests a payout, the TMD is calculated off of gross profits, not the net profits. So the TMD will continue to trail, even if users take payouts.”Taking your money out should not leave you closer to losing the account.
Daily limitThey state there is none.They do not say.we did not read this stage—
“TradeDay has just one rule - Don’t break the Maximum Drawdown Limit!”we read the page that should answer this and it does not
A generous percentage measured on live equity is not generous — it is the same number with a trapdoor under it.
Total loss allowed4%no changewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 50k $ 175 $ 79 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $79 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much room you have. Worth little, because almost every firm offers the same.
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.
What makes the loss limit rise (live) · What the limit is measured against (live) · Total loss allowed (live) · Daily limit (live)
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 share you are paid falls1.20/3
“A trader on a $50K Quick Pay Funded Sim account earns $6,000 in profit. Their account balance is now $56,000. The trader requests a $3,000 payout. Since the account’s current profit is above $4,000 but the payout will leave the current profit below $4,000 , the payout is calculated from the 80/20 and 50/50 profit splits.”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.we did not read this stage—
“You will pass the evaluation when you have achieved the objectives without breaking any of the rules. If you break a rule during the evaluation, you will fail and no longer be eligible for funding.”“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 50k $ 175 $ 79 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $79 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”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
“Engaging in other conduct which, in the sole discretion of TradeDay, represents uncommercial activity , is intended to game the market, or otherwise is not a viable trading strategy.”“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 money1 days2/2
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 50k $ 175 $ 79 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $79 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”How long your money is theirs.
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.
Does that cap rise with the accountThey do not say.0/2
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Profit required before the first requestThey state there is none.1/1
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 50k $ 175 $ 79 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $79 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much you have to make before you can touch anything.
Fee charged to pay you$150.50/1
“The fees to the trader are as follows: US bank wire withdrawals: Free International bank wire withdrawals: $15/withdrawal L1 Crypto Withdrawals: $2.5/withdrawal + Estimated Gas Fees. L2 Crypto Withdrawals: Free.”What they charge you to pay you.
What breaking the consistency rule costs (live)
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?
Mandatory stop-lossThey do not say.no change—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Forced close before the weekendnothing may stay open over the weekendno change—
“Permitted times for trading: Day-trading only and all positions must be closed at least 10 minutes prior to the end of any session;”“When you pass the evaluation, you are still required to trade within our permitted times, permitted products, and permitted position size guidelines, but accidental breaches are not considered a rule violation (only traders continually abusing these guidelines will lose their account).”LeverageNo such thing in this plan.no change—
“Permitted products: All trading must be in TradeDay-approved products, which are CME Exchange Group futures products only;”Limit on position size5no change—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 50k $ 175 $ 79 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $79 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 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 growThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
How large it can getThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Where the path endsat a real market—
“If you are successful in graduating from the Evaluation Challenge, you will be offered the opportunity to get funded with the trading capital of TradeDay in a Funded LIVE Account or advance to another product or service offered by TradeDay, such as the Funded SIM Account (pursuant to TradeDay’s sole discretion), either of which shall be governed pursuant to separate or supplemental written agreement.”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
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 $1.52.40/8
“End of Day 50k $ 189 $ 85 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $85 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $150 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,500 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 2 contracts (or 20 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”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 finishThey state there is none.3/3
“You do not need to pass the evaluation within one month, you can take as long as you like to pass .”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
“Fast Pass Evaluation Objective 1: 3 Minimum Trading days Objective 2: Reach the profit target in the trading account. This is your total net profit over the course of the challenge. Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 45% of your total profits.”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 free2/2
“However, you can take the evaluation again by either: Purchase a retake, known as a ‘reset’. Or, wait for your next subscription payment to go through, and we will reset you for free at that time.”A free second attempt turns one bad week into a delay instead of another invoice.
Profit target6%—
“End of Day 50k $ 189 $ 85 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $85 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $150 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,500 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 2 contracts (or 20 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”Maximum loss
we did not read enough to sayThe 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day 50k $ 189 $ 85 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $85 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $150 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,500 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 2 contracts (or 20 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”“All Fast Pass Funded Sim accounts are set up with End of Day (EOD) Drawdowns.”A limit that climbs takes back the cushion you already earned.
Where the limit stops risingat your starting balance3/3
“Trailing max drawdown limits continues to trail your account growth until they reach the starting account 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“These limits are enforced in real time, regardless of how the limit is calculated. You cannot go below the max drawdown limit with an open position during the trading session, if you do the evaluation will be over.”“If you have an open position and you touch the limit, your positions will be liquidated, the trading shut off, and you will have failed the evaluation, or lost your funded trading account.”Decides whether a trade that dips and recovers can close an account that ended the day green.
Daily limitThey state there is none.They do not say.we did not read this stage—
“TradeDay has just one rule - Don’t break the Maximum Drawdown Limit!”we read the page that should answer this and it does not
A generous percentage measured on live equity is not generous — it is the same number with a trapdoor under it.
Total loss allowed4%no changewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day 50k $ 189 $ 85 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $85 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $150 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,500 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 2 contracts (or 20 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”How much room you have. Worth little, because almost every firm offers the same.
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.
What makes the loss limit rise (live) · What the limit is measured against (live) · What taking a payout does to the limit · Total loss allowed (live) · Daily limit (live)
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.
What breaking the consistency rule costsit delays the payoutno changewe did not read this stage—
“You will pass the evaluation when you have achieved the objectives without breaking any of the rules. If you break a rule during the evaluation, you will fail and no longer be eligible for funding.”“End of Day 50k $ 189 $ 85 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $85 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $150 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,500 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 2 contracts (or 20 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”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
“Engaging in other conduct which, in the sole discretion of TradeDay, represents uncommercial activity , is intended to game the market, or otherwise is not a viable trading strategy.”“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
“End of Day 50k $ 189 $ 85 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $85 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $150 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,500 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 2 contracts (or 20 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”How long your money is theirs.
Most one withdrawal can pay you3.0% of the account, at worst1/2
“End of Day 50k $ 189 $ 85 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $85 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $150 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,500 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 2 contracts (or 20 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”$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
Profit required before the first requestThey do not say.0/1
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
How much you have to make before you can touch anything.
Fee charged to pay you$150.50/1
“The fees to the trader are as follows: US bank wire withdrawals: Free International bank wire withdrawals: $15/withdrawal L1 Crypto Withdrawals: $2.5/withdrawal + Estimated Gas Fees. L2 Crypto Withdrawals: Free.”What they charge you to pay you.
What breaking the consistency rule costs (live)
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?
Mandatory stop-lossThey do not say.no change—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Forced close before the weekendnothing may stay open over the weekendno change—
“Permitted times for trading: Day-trading only and all positions must be closed at least 10 minutes prior to the end of any session;”“When you pass the evaluation, you are still required to trade within our permitted times, permitted products, and permitted position size guidelines, but accidental breaches are not considered a rule violation (only traders continually abusing these guidelines will lose their account).”LeverageNo such thing in this plan.no change—
“Permitted products: All trading must be in TradeDay-approved products, which are CME Exchange Group futures products only;”Limit on position size52—
“End of Day 50k $ 189 $ 85 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $85 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $150 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,500 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 2 contracts (or 20 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”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—
“End of Day 50k $ 189 $ 85 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $85 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $150 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,500 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 2 contracts (or 20 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”How large it can getThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Where the path endsat a real market—
“If you are successful in graduating from the Evaluation Challenge, you will be offered the opportunity to get funded with the trading capital of TradeDay in a Funded LIVE Account or advance to another product or service offered by TradeDay, such as the Funded SIM Account (pursuant to TradeDay’s sole discretion), either of which shall be governed pursuant to separate or supplemental written agreement.”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
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
“Intraday 100k $ 240 $ 108 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $108 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”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 finishThey state there is none.3/3
“You do not need to pass the evaluation within one month, you can take as long as you like to pass .”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 in5 days1.60/2
“Show us you have a consistent and winning trading strategy by achieving the following objectives: Objective 1: Trade for a minimum of 5 trading days . If you reach the profit target early, keep trading, we want to see a 5 day track record. Objective 2: Reach the profit target in the trading account. This is your total net profit over the course of the challenge. Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 30% of your total profits.”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 free2/2
“However, you can take the evaluation again by either: Purchase a retake, known as a ‘reset’. Or, wait for your next subscription payment to go through, and we will reset you for free at that time.”A free second attempt turns one bad week into a delay instead of another invoice.
Profit target6%—
“Intraday 100k $ 240 $ 108 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $108 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”Maximum loss
we did not read enough to sayThe 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 tradeno changewe did not read this stage—
“Intraday 100k $ 240 $ 108 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $108 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”“All Quick Pay Funded Sim accounts will have an intraday drawdown , regardless of the drawdown had on the evaluation.”A limit that climbs takes back the cushion you already earned.
Where the limit stops risingat your starting balance3/3
“Trailing max drawdown limits continues to trail your account growth until they reach the starting account 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“These limits are enforced in real time, regardless of how the limit is calculated. You cannot go below the max drawdown limit with an open position during the trading session, if you do the evaluation will be over.”“If you have an open position and you touch the limit, your positions will be liquidated, the trading shut off, and you will have failed the evaluation, or lost your funded trading account.”Decides whether a trade that dips and recovers can close an account that ended the day green.
What taking a payout does to the limitit tightens, and shrinks again with every payout0/2
“When a user requests a payout, the TMD is calculated off of gross profits, not the net profits. So the TMD will continue to trail, even if users take payouts.”Taking your money out should not leave you closer to losing the account.
Daily limitThey state there is none.They do not say.we did not read this stage—
“TradeDay has just one rule - Don’t break the Maximum Drawdown Limit!”we read the page that should answer this and it does not
A generous percentage measured on live equity is not generous — it is the same number with a trapdoor under it.
Total loss allowed3%no changewe did not read this stage—
“Intraday 100k $ 240 $ 108 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $108 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much room you have. Worth little, because almost every firm offers the same.
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.
What makes the loss limit rise (live) · What the limit is measured against (live) · Total loss allowed (live) · Daily limit (live)
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 share you are paid falls1.20/3
“A trader on a $50K Quick Pay Funded Sim account earns $6,000 in profit. Their account balance is now $56,000. The trader requests a $3,000 payout. Since the account’s current profit is above $4,000 but the payout will leave the current profit below $4,000 , the payout is calculated from the 80/20 and 50/50 profit splits.”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.we did not read this stage—
“You will pass the evaluation when you have achieved the objectives without breaking any of the rules. If you break a rule during the evaluation, you will fail and no longer be eligible for funding.”“Intraday 100k $ 240 $ 108 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $108 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”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
“Engaging in other conduct which, in the sole discretion of TradeDay, represents uncommercial activity , is intended to game the market, or otherwise is not a viable trading strategy.”“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 money1 days2/2
“Intraday 100k $ 240 $ 108 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $108 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”How long your money is theirs.
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.
Does that cap rise with the accountThey do not say.0/2
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Profit required before the first requestThey state there is none.1/1
“Intraday 100k $ 240 $ 108 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $108 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much you have to make before you can touch anything.
Fee charged to pay you$150.50/1
“The fees to the trader are as follows: US bank wire withdrawals: Free International bank wire withdrawals: $15/withdrawal L1 Crypto Withdrawals: $2.5/withdrawal + Estimated Gas Fees. L2 Crypto Withdrawals: Free.”What they charge you to pay you.
What breaking the consistency rule costs (live)
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?
Mandatory stop-lossThey do not say.no change—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Forced close before the weekendnothing may stay open over the weekendno change—
“Permitted times for trading: Day-trading only and all positions must be closed at least 10 minutes prior to the end of any session;”“When you pass the evaluation, you are still required to trade within our permitted times, permitted products, and permitted position size guidelines, but accidental breaches are not considered a rule violation (only traders continually abusing these guidelines will lose their account).”LeverageNo such thing in this plan.no change—
“Permitted products: All trading must be in TradeDay-approved products, which are CME Exchange Group futures products only;”Limit on position size10no change—
“Intraday 100k $ 240 $ 108 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $108 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 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 growThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
How large it can getThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Where the path endsat a real market—
“If you are successful in graduating from the Evaluation Challenge, you will be offered the opportunity to get funded with the trading capital of TradeDay in a Funded LIVE Account or advance to another product or service offered by TradeDay, such as the Funded SIM Account (pursuant to TradeDay’s sole discretion), either of which shall be governed pursuant to separate or supplemental written agreement.”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
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
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 100k $ 285 $ 129 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $129 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”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 finishThey state there is none.3/3
“You do not need to pass the evaluation within one month, you can take as long as you like to pass .”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 in5 days1.60/2
“Show us you have a consistent and winning trading strategy by achieving the following objectives: Objective 1: Trade for a minimum of 5 trading days . If you reach the profit target early, keep trading, we want to see a 5 day track record. Objective 2: Reach the profit target in the trading account. This is your total net profit over the course of the challenge. Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 30% of your total profits.”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 free2/2
“However, you can take the evaluation again by either: Purchase a retake, known as a ‘reset’. Or, wait for your next subscription payment to go through, and we will reset you for free at that time.”A free second attempt turns one bad week into a delay instead of another invoice.
Profit target6%—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 100k $ 285 $ 129 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $129 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”Maximum loss
we did not read enough to sayThe 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 balanceit rises tick by tick, while you tradewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 100k $ 285 $ 129 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $129 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”“All Quick Pay Funded Sim accounts will have an intraday drawdown , regardless of the drawdown had on the evaluation.”A limit that climbs takes back the cushion you already earned.
Where the limit stops risingat your starting balance3/3
“Trailing max drawdown limits continues to trail your account growth until they reach the starting account 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“These limits are enforced in real time, regardless of how the limit is calculated. You cannot go below the max drawdown limit with an open position during the trading session, if you do the evaluation will be over.”“If you have an open position and you touch the limit, your positions will be liquidated, the trading shut off, and you will have failed the evaluation, or lost your funded trading account.”Decides whether a trade that dips and recovers can close an account that ended the day green.
What taking a payout does to the limitit tightens, and shrinks again with every payout0/2
“When a user requests a payout, the TMD is calculated off of gross profits, not the net profits. So the TMD will continue to trail, even if users take payouts.”Taking your money out should not leave you closer to losing the account.
Daily limitThey state there is none.They do not say.we did not read this stage—
“TradeDay has just one rule - Don’t break the Maximum Drawdown Limit!”we read the page that should answer this and it does not
A generous percentage measured on live equity is not generous — it is the same number with a trapdoor under it.
Total loss allowed3%no changewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 100k $ 285 $ 129 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $129 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much room you have. Worth little, because almost every firm offers the same.
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.
What makes the loss limit rise (live) · What the limit is measured against (live) · Total loss allowed (live) · Daily limit (live)
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 share you are paid falls1.20/3
“A trader on a $50K Quick Pay Funded Sim account earns $6,000 in profit. Their account balance is now $56,000. The trader requests a $3,000 payout. Since the account’s current profit is above $4,000 but the payout will leave the current profit below $4,000 , the payout is calculated from the 80/20 and 50/50 profit splits.”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.we did not read this stage—
“You will pass the evaluation when you have achieved the objectives without breaking any of the rules. If you break a rule during the evaluation, you will fail and no longer be eligible for funding.”“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 100k $ 285 $ 129 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $129 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”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
“Engaging in other conduct which, in the sole discretion of TradeDay, represents uncommercial activity , is intended to game the market, or otherwise is not a viable trading strategy.”“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 money1 days2/2
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 100k $ 285 $ 129 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $129 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”How long your money is theirs.
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.
Does that cap rise with the accountThey do not say.0/2
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Profit required before the first requestThey state there is none.1/1
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 100k $ 285 $ 129 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $129 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much you have to make before you can touch anything.
Fee charged to pay you$150.50/1
“The fees to the trader are as follows: US bank wire withdrawals: Free International bank wire withdrawals: $15/withdrawal L1 Crypto Withdrawals: $2.5/withdrawal + Estimated Gas Fees. L2 Crypto Withdrawals: Free.”What they charge you to pay you.
What breaking the consistency rule costs (live)
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?
Mandatory stop-lossThey do not say.no change—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Forced close before the weekendnothing may stay open over the weekendno change—
“Permitted times for trading: Day-trading only and all positions must be closed at least 10 minutes prior to the end of any session;”“When you pass the evaluation, you are still required to trade within our permitted times, permitted products, and permitted position size guidelines, but accidental breaches are not considered a rule violation (only traders continually abusing these guidelines will lose their account).”LeverageNo such thing in this plan.no change—
“Permitted products: All trading must be in TradeDay-approved products, which are CME Exchange Group futures products only;”Limit on position size10no change—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 100k $ 285 $ 129 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $129 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 10 Contracts (50 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 growThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
How large it can getThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Where the path endsat a real market—
“If you are successful in graduating from the Evaluation Challenge, you will be offered the opportunity to get funded with the trading capital of TradeDay in a Funded LIVE Account or advance to another product or service offered by TradeDay, such as the Funded SIM Account (pursuant to TradeDay’s sole discretion), either of which shall be governed pursuant to separate or supplemental written agreement.”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
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
“End of Day 100k $ 330 $ 149 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $149 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $200 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,875 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 3 contracts (or 30 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”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 finishThey state there is none.3/3
“You do not need to pass the evaluation within one month, you can take as long as you like to pass .”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
“Fast Pass Evaluation Objective 1: 3 Minimum Trading days Objective 2: Reach the profit target in the trading account. This is your total net profit over the course of the challenge. Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 45% of your total profits.”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 free2/2
“However, you can take the evaluation again by either: Purchase a retake, known as a ‘reset’. Or, wait for your next subscription payment to go through, and we will reset you for free at that time.”A free second attempt turns one bad week into a delay instead of another invoice.
Profit target6%—
“End of Day 100k $ 330 $ 149 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $149 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $200 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,875 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 3 contracts (or 30 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”Maximum loss
we did not read enough to sayThe 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day 100k $ 330 $ 149 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $149 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $200 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,875 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 3 contracts (or 30 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”“All Fast Pass Funded Sim accounts are set up with End of Day (EOD) Drawdowns.”A limit that climbs takes back the cushion you already earned.
Where the limit stops risingat your starting balance3/3
“Trailing max drawdown limits continues to trail your account growth until they reach the starting account 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“These limits are enforced in real time, regardless of how the limit is calculated. You cannot go below the max drawdown limit with an open position during the trading session, if you do the evaluation will be over.”“If you have an open position and you touch the limit, your positions will be liquidated, the trading shut off, and you will have failed the evaluation, or lost your funded trading account.”Decides whether a trade that dips and recovers can close an account that ended the day green.
Daily limitThey state there is none.They do not say.we did not read this stage—
“TradeDay has just one rule - Don’t break the Maximum Drawdown Limit!”we read the page that should answer this and it does not
A generous percentage measured on live equity is not generous — it is the same number with a trapdoor under it.
Total loss allowed3%no changewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day 100k $ 330 $ 149 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $149 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $200 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,875 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 3 contracts (or 30 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”How much room you have. Worth little, because almost every firm offers the same.
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.
What makes the loss limit rise (live) · What the limit is measured against (live) · What taking a payout does to the limit · Total loss allowed (live) · Daily limit (live)
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.
What breaking the consistency rule costsit delays the payoutno changewe did not read this stage—
“You will pass the evaluation when you have achieved the objectives without breaking any of the rules. If you break a rule during the evaluation, you will fail and no longer be eligible for funding.”“End of Day 100k $ 330 $ 149 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $149 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $200 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,875 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 3 contracts (or 30 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”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
“Engaging in other conduct which, in the sole discretion of TradeDay, represents uncommercial activity , is intended to game the market, or otherwise is not a viable trading strategy.”“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
“End of Day 100k $ 330 $ 149 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $149 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $200 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,875 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 3 contracts (or 30 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”How long your money is theirs.
Most one withdrawal can pay you1.9% of the account, at worst0.50/2
“End of Day 100k $ 330 $ 149 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $149 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $200 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,875 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 3 contracts (or 30 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”$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
Profit required before the first requestThey do not say.0/1
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
How much you have to make before you can touch anything.
Fee charged to pay you$150.50/1
“The fees to the trader are as follows: US bank wire withdrawals: Free International bank wire withdrawals: $15/withdrawal L1 Crypto Withdrawals: $2.5/withdrawal + Estimated Gas Fees. L2 Crypto Withdrawals: Free.”What they charge you to pay you.
What breaking the consistency rule costs (live)
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?
Mandatory stop-lossThey do not say.no change—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Forced close before the weekendnothing may stay open over the weekendno change—
“Permitted times for trading: Day-trading only and all positions must be closed at least 10 minutes prior to the end of any session;”“When you pass the evaluation, you are still required to trade within our permitted times, permitted products, and permitted position size guidelines, but accidental breaches are not considered a rule violation (only traders continually abusing these guidelines will lose their account).”LeverageNo such thing in this plan.no change—
“Permitted products: All trading must be in TradeDay-approved products, which are CME Exchange Group futures products only;”Limit on position size103—
“End of Day 100k $ 330 $ 149 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $149 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $200 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,875 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 3 contracts (or 30 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”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—
“End of Day 100k $ 330 $ 149 per month Profit Target $6,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $3,000 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 10 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $149 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $3,000 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $200 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $1,875 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 3 contracts (or 30 Micros), scales +1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”How large it can getThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Where the path endsat a real market—
“If you are successful in graduating from the Evaluation Challenge, you will be offered the opportunity to get funded with the trading capital of TradeDay in a Funded LIVE Account or advance to another product or service offered by TradeDay, such as the Funded SIM Account (pursuant to TradeDay’s sole discretion), either of which shall be governed pursuant to separate or supplemental written agreement.”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
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
“Intraday 150k $ 360 $ 162 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $162 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”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 finishThey state there is none.3/3
“You do not need to pass the evaluation within one month, you can take as long as you like to pass .”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 in5 days1.60/2
“Show us you have a consistent and winning trading strategy by achieving the following objectives: Objective 1: Trade for a minimum of 5 trading days . If you reach the profit target early, keep trading, we want to see a 5 day track record. Objective 2: Reach the profit target in the trading account. This is your total net profit over the course of the challenge. Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 30% of your total profits.”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 free2/2
“However, you can take the evaluation again by either: Purchase a retake, known as a ‘reset’. Or, wait for your next subscription payment to go through, and we will reset you for free at that time.”A free second attempt turns one bad week into a delay instead of another invoice.
Profit target6%—
“Intraday 150k $ 360 $ 162 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $162 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”Maximum loss
we did not read enough to sayThe 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 tradeno changewe did not read this stage—
“Intraday 150k $ 360 $ 162 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $162 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”“All Quick Pay Funded Sim accounts will have an intraday drawdown , regardless of the drawdown had on the evaluation.”A limit that climbs takes back the cushion you already earned.
Where the limit stops risingat your starting balance3/3
“Trailing max drawdown limits continues to trail your account growth until they reach the starting account 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“These limits are enforced in real time, regardless of how the limit is calculated. You cannot go below the max drawdown limit with an open position during the trading session, if you do the evaluation will be over.”“If you have an open position and you touch the limit, your positions will be liquidated, the trading shut off, and you will have failed the evaluation, or lost your funded trading account.”Decides whether a trade that dips and recovers can close an account that ended the day green.
What taking a payout does to the limitit tightens, and shrinks again with every payout0/2
“When a user requests a payout, the TMD is calculated off of gross profits, not the net profits. So the TMD will continue to trail, even if users take payouts.”Taking your money out should not leave you closer to losing the account.
Daily limitThey state there is none.They do not say.we did not read this stage—
“TradeDay has just one rule - Don’t break the Maximum Drawdown Limit!”we read the page that should answer this and it does not
A generous percentage measured on live equity is not generous — it is the same number with a trapdoor under it.
Total loss allowed3%no changewe did not read this stage—
“Intraday 150k $ 360 $ 162 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $162 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much room you have. Worth little, because almost every firm offers the same.
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.
What makes the loss limit rise (live) · What the limit is measured against (live) · Total loss allowed (live) · Daily limit (live)
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 share you are paid falls1.20/3
“A trader on a $50K Quick Pay Funded Sim account earns $6,000 in profit. Their account balance is now $56,000. The trader requests a $3,000 payout. Since the account’s current profit is above $4,000 but the payout will leave the current profit below $4,000 , the payout is calculated from the 80/20 and 50/50 profit splits.”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.we did not read this stage—
“You will pass the evaluation when you have achieved the objectives without breaking any of the rules. If you break a rule during the evaluation, you will fail and no longer be eligible for funding.”“Intraday 150k $ 360 $ 162 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $162 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”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
“Engaging in other conduct which, in the sole discretion of TradeDay, represents uncommercial activity , is intended to game the market, or otherwise is not a viable trading strategy.”“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 money1 days2/2
“Intraday 150k $ 360 $ 162 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $162 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”How long your money is theirs.
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.
Does that cap rise with the accountThey do not say.0/2
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Profit required before the first requestThey state there is none.1/1
“Intraday 150k $ 360 $ 162 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $162 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much you have to make before you can touch anything.
Fee charged to pay you$150.50/1
“The fees to the trader are as follows: US bank wire withdrawals: Free International bank wire withdrawals: $15/withdrawal L1 Crypto Withdrawals: $2.5/withdrawal + Estimated Gas Fees. L2 Crypto Withdrawals: Free.”What they charge you to pay you.
What breaking the consistency rule costs (live)
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?
Mandatory stop-lossThey do not say.no change—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Forced close before the weekendnothing may stay open over the weekendno change—
“Permitted times for trading: Day-trading only and all positions must be closed at least 10 minutes prior to the end of any session;”“When you pass the evaluation, you are still required to trade within our permitted times, permitted products, and permitted position size guidelines, but accidental breaches are not considered a rule violation (only traders continually abusing these guidelines will lose their account).”LeverageNo such thing in this plan.no change—
“Permitted products: All trading must be in TradeDay-approved products, which are CME Exchange Group futures products only;”Limit on position size15no change—
“Intraday 150k $ 360 $ 162 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $162 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 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 growThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
How large it can getThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Where the path endsat a real market—
“If you are successful in graduating from the Evaluation Challenge, you will be offered the opportunity to get funded with the trading capital of TradeDay in a Funded LIVE Account or advance to another product or service offered by TradeDay, such as the Funded SIM Account (pursuant to TradeDay’s sole discretion), either of which shall be governed pursuant to separate or supplemental written agreement.”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
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
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 150k $ 400 $ 180 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $180 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”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 finishThey state there is none.3/3
“You do not need to pass the evaluation within one month, you can take as long as you like to pass .”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 in5 days1.60/2
“Show us you have a consistent and winning trading strategy by achieving the following objectives: Objective 1: Trade for a minimum of 5 trading days . If you reach the profit target early, keep trading, we want to see a 5 day track record. Objective 2: Reach the profit target in the trading account. This is your total net profit over the course of the challenge. Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 30% of your total profits.”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 free2/2
“However, you can take the evaluation again by either: Purchase a retake, known as a ‘reset’. Or, wait for your next subscription payment to go through, and we will reset you for free at that time.”A free second attempt turns one bad week into a delay instead of another invoice.
Profit target6%—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 150k $ 400 $ 180 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $180 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”Maximum loss
we did not read enough to sayThe 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 balanceit rises tick by tick, while you tradewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 150k $ 400 $ 180 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $180 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”“All Quick Pay Funded Sim accounts will have an intraday drawdown , regardless of the drawdown had on the evaluation.”A limit that climbs takes back the cushion you already earned.
Where the limit stops risingat your starting balance3/3
“Trailing max drawdown limits continues to trail your account growth until they reach the starting account 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“These limits are enforced in real time, regardless of how the limit is calculated. You cannot go below the max drawdown limit with an open position during the trading session, if you do the evaluation will be over.”“If you have an open position and you touch the limit, your positions will be liquidated, the trading shut off, and you will have failed the evaluation, or lost your funded trading account.”Decides whether a trade that dips and recovers can close an account that ended the day green.
What taking a payout does to the limitit tightens, and shrinks again with every payout0/2
“When a user requests a payout, the TMD is calculated off of gross profits, not the net profits. So the TMD will continue to trail, even if users take payouts.”Taking your money out should not leave you closer to losing the account.
Daily limitThey state there is none.They do not say.we did not read this stage—
“TradeDay has just one rule - Don’t break the Maximum Drawdown Limit!”we read the page that should answer this and it does not
A generous percentage measured on live equity is not generous — it is the same number with a trapdoor under it.
Total loss allowed3%no changewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 150k $ 400 $ 180 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $180 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much room you have. Worth little, because almost every firm offers the same.
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.
What makes the loss limit rise (live) · What the limit is measured against (live) · Total loss allowed (live) · Daily limit (live)
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 share you are paid falls1.20/3
“A trader on a $50K Quick Pay Funded Sim account earns $6,000 in profit. Their account balance is now $56,000. The trader requests a $3,000 payout. Since the account’s current profit is above $4,000 but the payout will leave the current profit below $4,000 , the payout is calculated from the 80/20 and 50/50 profit splits.”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.we did not read this stage—
“You will pass the evaluation when you have achieved the objectives without breaking any of the rules. If you break a rule during the evaluation, you will fail and no longer be eligible for funding.”“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 150k $ 400 $ 180 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $180 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”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
“Engaging in other conduct which, in the sole discretion of TradeDay, represents uncommercial activity , is intended to game the market, or otherwise is not a viable trading strategy.”“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 money1 days2/2
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 150k $ 400 $ 180 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $180 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”How long your money is theirs.
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.
Does that cap rise with the accountThey do not say.0/2
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Profit required before the first requestThey state there is none.1/1
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 150k $ 400 $ 180 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $180 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 Micros)”How much you have to make before you can touch anything.
Fee charged to pay you$150.50/1
“The fees to the trader are as follows: US bank wire withdrawals: Free International bank wire withdrawals: $15/withdrawal L1 Crypto Withdrawals: $2.5/withdrawal + Estimated Gas Fees. L2 Crypto Withdrawals: Free.”What they charge you to pay you.
What breaking the consistency rule costs (live)
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?
Mandatory stop-lossThey do not say.no change—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Forced close before the weekendnothing may stay open over the weekendno change—
“Permitted times for trading: Day-trading only and all positions must be closed at least 10 minutes prior to the end of any session;”“When you pass the evaluation, you are still required to trade within our permitted times, permitted products, and permitted position size guidelines, but accidental breaches are not considered a rule violation (only traders continually abusing these guidelines will lose their account).”LeverageNo such thing in this plan.no change—
“Permitted products: All trading must be in TradeDay-approved products, which are CME Exchange Group futures products only;”Limit on position size15no change—
“End of Day (Intraday Funded Drawdown) 150k $ 400 $ 180 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $180 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 15 Contracts (50 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 growThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
How large it can getThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Where the path endsat a real market—
“If you are successful in graduating from the Evaluation Challenge, you will be offered the opportunity to get funded with the trading capital of TradeDay in a Funded LIVE Account or advance to another product or service offered by TradeDay, such as the Funded SIM Account (pursuant to TradeDay’s sole discretion), either of which shall be governed pursuant to separate or supplemental written agreement.”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
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
“End of Day 150k $ 500 $ 225 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $225 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $250 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $2,250 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 4 contracts (or 40 Micros), scales + 1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”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 finishThey state there is none.3/3
“You do not need to pass the evaluation within one month, you can take as long as you like to pass .”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
“Fast Pass Evaluation Objective 1: 3 Minimum Trading days Objective 2: Reach the profit target in the trading account. This is your total net profit over the course of the challenge. Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 45% of your total profits.”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 free2/2
“However, you can take the evaluation again by either: Purchase a retake, known as a ‘reset’. Or, wait for your next subscription payment to go through, and we will reset you for free at that time.”A free second attempt turns one bad week into a delay instead of another invoice.
Profit target6%—
“End of Day 150k $ 500 $ 225 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $225 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $250 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $2,250 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 4 contracts (or 40 Micros), scales + 1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”Maximum loss
we did not read enough to sayThe 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day 150k $ 500 $ 225 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $225 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $250 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $2,250 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 4 contracts (or 40 Micros), scales + 1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”“All Fast Pass Funded Sim accounts are set up with End of Day (EOD) Drawdowns.”A limit that climbs takes back the cushion you already earned.
Where the limit stops risingat your starting balance3/3
“Trailing max drawdown limits continues to trail your account growth until they reach the starting account 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 changewe did not read this stage—
“These limits are enforced in real time, regardless of how the limit is calculated. You cannot go below the max drawdown limit with an open position during the trading session, if you do the evaluation will be over.”“If you have an open position and you touch the limit, your positions will be liquidated, the trading shut off, and you will have failed the evaluation, or lost your funded trading account.”Decides whether a trade that dips and recovers can close an account that ended the day green.
Daily limitThey state there is none.They do not say.we did not read this stage—
“TradeDay has just one rule - Don’t break the Maximum Drawdown Limit!”we read the page that should answer this and it does not
A generous percentage measured on live equity is not generous — it is the same number with a trapdoor under it.
Total loss allowed3%no changewe did not read this stage—
“End of Day 150k $ 500 $ 225 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $225 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $250 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $2,250 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 4 contracts (or 40 Micros), scales + 1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”How much room you have. Worth little, because almost every firm offers the same.
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.
What makes the loss limit rise (live) · What the limit is measured against (live) · What taking a payout does to the limit · Total loss allowed (live) · Daily limit (live)
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.
What breaking the consistency rule costsit delays the payoutno changewe did not read this stage—
“You will pass the evaluation when you have achieved the objectives without breaking any of the rules. If you break a rule during the evaluation, you will fail and no longer be eligible for funding.”“End of Day 150k $ 500 $ 225 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $225 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $250 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $2,250 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 4 contracts (or 40 Micros), scales + 1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”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
“Engaging in other conduct which, in the sole discretion of TradeDay, represents uncommercial activity , is intended to game the market, or otherwise is not a viable trading strategy.”“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
“End of Day 150k $ 500 $ 225 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $225 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $250 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $2,250 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 4 contracts (or 40 Micros), scales + 1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”How long your money is theirs.
Most one withdrawal can pay you1.5% of the account, at worst0.50/2
“End of Day 150k $ 500 $ 225 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $225 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $250 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $2,250 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 4 contracts (or 40 Micros), scales + 1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”$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
Profit required before the first requestThey do not say.0/1
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
How much you have to make before you can touch anything.
Fee charged to pay you$150.50/1
“The fees to the trader are as follows: US bank wire withdrawals: Free International bank wire withdrawals: $15/withdrawal L1 Crypto Withdrawals: $2.5/withdrawal + Estimated Gas Fees. L2 Crypto Withdrawals: Free.”What they charge you to pay you.
What breaking the consistency rule costs (live)
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?
Mandatory stop-lossThey do not say.no change—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Forced close before the weekendnothing may stay open over the weekendno change—
“Permitted times for trading: Day-trading only and all positions must be closed at least 10 minutes prior to the end of any session;”“When you pass the evaluation, you are still required to trade within our permitted times, permitted products, and permitted position size guidelines, but accidental breaches are not considered a rule violation (only traders continually abusing these guidelines will lose their account).”LeverageNo such thing in this plan.no change—
“Permitted products: All trading must be in TradeDay-approved products, which are CME Exchange Group futures products only;”Limit on position size154—
“End of Day 150k $ 500 $ 225 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $225 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $250 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $2,250 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 4 contracts (or 40 Micros), scales + 1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”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—
“End of Day 150k $ 500 $ 225 per month Profit Target $9,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $4,500 (calculated End of Day) Position Limits - 15 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $225 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $4,500 (calculated EOD) Milestones: None Consistency: 45% Min Days to Payout: 5 Min Profitable Days: 5 x $250 Min Payout Request: $250 Max Payout Request: $2,250 Profit split: 80/20 Funded Sim, 90/10 Funded Live Position Limit: 4 contracts (or 40 Micros), scales + 1 contract per $2k profit at EOD”How large it can getThey do not say.—
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
Where the path endsat a real market—
“If you are successful in graduating from the Evaluation Challenge, you will be offered the opportunity to get funded with the trading capital of TradeDay in a Funded LIVE Account or advance to another product or service offered by TradeDay, such as the Funded SIM Account (pursuant to TradeDay’s sole discretion), either of which shall be governed pursuant to separate or supplemental written agreement.”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 a help-centre article the contract never mentions1.20/4
“We may amend and update the Rules at any time upon reasonable notice to you. The Rules are set forth on our Site and include:”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
“User acknowledges and agrees that User is solely responsible for staying current on Trading Rules, which remain subject to change at any time and from time to time, with or without notice.”The clause that makes every dated verdict perishable, including ours. Near-universal, so not fatal.
Is the binding document datedyes2/2
“TERMS AND CONDITIONS Last Modified: February 18, 2025”Without a date you cannot tell whether the rule you read is the rule they apply.
Two official pages that disagree
the payout terms · costs money
“Day one on Quick Pay. Once funded, you can request a payout from any positive balance, no buffer to clear, no minimum trading period. Most requests are processed within 24 hours. Fast Pass payouts process just as quickly.”“Please note traders must have cleared the Buffer Zone before requesting a payout, the minimum payout request is $250. Please see our payout policy here .”the account size or the speed · costs money
“Trading Days 5 days on Quick Pay. No minimum on Fast Pass.”“Fast Pass Evaluation Objective 1: 3 Minimum Trading days Objective 2: Reach the profit target in the trading account. This is your total net profit over the course of the challenge. Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 45% of your total profits.”the account size or the speed · costs money
“In order to complete and graduate the Evaluation Challenge, you must successfully complete the required educational course titled Rules and Regulations, participate in our simulated trading environment by placing trades, reach profit targets set for you over a minimum 7-day period, all while complying the Trading Rules (the “Rules”) as set forth in the Site.”“Show us you have a consistent and winning trading strategy by achieving the following objectives: Objective 1: Trade for a minimum of 5 trading days . If you reach the profit target early, keep trading, we want to see a 5 day track record. Objective 2: Reach the profit target in the trading account. This is your total net profit over the course of the challenge. Objective 3: Be consistent in your profitability. No day greater than 30% of your total profits.”the fees · costs money
“However, you can take the evaluation again by either: (1) purchase a retake, known as a “ reset ,” the cost of a reset is $99; or (2) waiting for your next subscription payment to go through, which will result in an automatic reset.”“The reset fee is as follows: Account Sizes Quick Pay Intraday Quick Pay EOD Fast Pass 50K $60 $85 $89 100K $110 $135 $140 150K $165 $195 $225”the fees · costs money
“Consistency 45% Min trading days 3 Resets $85”“The reset fee is as follows: Account Sizes Quick Pay Intraday Quick Pay EOD Fast Pass 50K $60 $85 $89 100K $110 $135 $140 150K $165 $195 $225”the drawdown rule · costs money
“EOD Trailing Drawdown limits: You must not exceed the maximum amount we set for you to lose during the evaluation.”“Intraday 50k $ 131 $ 59 per month Profit Target $3,000 Trailing Max Drawdown $2,000 (calculated Intraday) Position Limits - 5 Contracts (50 Micros) Consistency 30% Min trading days 5 Resets $59 No activation fee Get Funded 55% OFF Funded Rules Funded Sim Trailing Max Drawdown: $2,000 (calculated intraday) Milestones: None Consistency: None Payout Buffer: None Min Days to Payout: 1 Min Payout Request: $250 Profit Split: 50/50 below $4k net profit, 80/20 above $4k net profit, 90/10 in Funded Live Position Limit: 5 Contracts (50 Micros)”the fees · costs credibility
“Now 55% OFF! Accounts from $59!”“Brand New Accounts Accounts from $62.50”whether the account reaches a real market · costs credibility
“Pass our evaluation and you get funded in the live markets from day one”““Funded SIM Account” means an account using real-time simulated Data and any accounts relating to tracking education courses provided by TradeDay. Trades in a simulated account are not made in live markets and do not incur actual profits or losses.”The company behind it
If it goes wrong, which company do you claim against, and under whose laws?
The company you contract withTradeDay LLCno changeno change4/4
“These Terms of Use govern access to and the use of the Sites and Services of TradeDay LLC, an Illinois limited liability company, and its affiliated entities”“Funded SIM Accounts are only available to Users who have passed the Evaluation Challenge, and are governed by a separate agreement between the User and TradeDay.”““Funded LIVE Account” means a futures or options account trading account of the User funded by TradeDay. Funded Live Accounts are only available to Users who have passed the Evaluation Challenge, and are governed by a separate agreement between the User and TradeDay.”With no named company there is nobody to sue.
Where it is registeredIllinois, USAwe did not read this stagewe did not read this stage2/2
“These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois and the United States of America, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.”A claim in the Czech Republic and a claim in St Vincent are not the same claim.
Its registration numberThey do not say.we did not read this stagewe did not read this stage0/2
we read the page that should answer this and it does not
What turns a name into something checkable in a public register.
That company owns the brandyes2/2
“The Marks displayed on our Sites and Services are the property of TradeDay, unless otherwise disclosed and any and all rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.”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
“Founded in 2020 by James Thorpe and Steve Miley – with over 80 years of combined experience in the futures industry – TradeDay set out to create a virtual trading environment that gives independent traders the same advantages professionals have at proprietary trading groups, hedge funds, and banks, along with the capital to back successful strategies.”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 a published route to a live stage2/4
““Funded SIM Account” means an account using real-time simulated Data and any accounts relating to tracking education courses provided by TradeDay. Trades in a simulated account are not made in live markets and do not incur actual profits or losses.”The question that separates a firm that earns when you lose from one that earns when you last.
The broker or clearer namedTradovate3/3
“We will submit a request to Tradovate to transfer the funds from your account. When the funds have been moved from your live account, we will authorize the payout at Riseworks.”Almost nobody names one, because almost no account reaches a market. It adds when present.
Conditions to reach a real market
We read the rules of every plan it sells and issued a verdict on each one.