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Ground Floor, The Sotheby Building, Rodney Village, Rodney Bay, Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia

2nd Floor, 412 S. Wells, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States

Lucas Antonio

James Thorpe

Saint Lucia

United States

2024

2020

Funded Live Access
Up to 5 active Funded Live accounts per trader.
90% profit split on Funded Live.
Clear position scaling rules and structured account transition.

No Activation Fee
TradeDay 2.0 removes the activation fee that existed in the previous model.

Standard, Apex and Direct: first payout after 14 days, then every 14, according to checkout. Atlas Live: every 7 days, according to documentation.

Day-one payouts on Quick Pay (no buffer). Requests submitted before 17:30 CT processed within 24 hours on business days. No frequency limit.

First payout: 24 working hours; subsequent payouts: 48. Working hours: Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:00 BST. Late payment: $500 with that payout and $500 with the next. Giveaway and collaborator accounts excluded.

Standard, Apex and Direct: up to 50% of cycle profit and the limit in the corresponding row. Live: first payout capped at $4,000/$6,000/$7,000/$8,000 for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K; afterwards, no cap beyond available profit.

Fast Pass Funded Sim maximum per request: $1,500 (50K), $1,875 (100K), $2,250 (150K).

Standard, Apex and Direct: $100. Live: $1,500/$2,500/$5,000/$7,500 for $25K/$50K/$100K/$150K sizes.

$250 minimum per payout request.

Approved KYC. Requesting closes positions and pauses the account until payout is resolved. Challenge fee refunded as Atlas Balance with the third consecutive payout, according to the shared FAQ.

• US Wire Transfer: Free
• International Wire Transfer: $15/withdrawal
• Crypto L1: $2.5/withdrawal + estimated gas fees
• Crypto L2: Free

Atlas Live after the fourth payout: trailing equity drawdown and Direct contract limits.

Trailing at each day's close, 16:45 New York. On funded Standard, Apex and Direct, stops rising at starting balance; the first payout request locks the floor there. Live: trailing equity without a lock.

Two drawdown types available, both Trailing Maximum Drawdown:

Intraday TMD
Calculated in real time from unrealized profits during the session.

End of Day TMD
Calculated from realized profits at end of day (16:00 CT close). Follows account growth until frozen at the initial balance.

Funded Sim drawdown type matches the evaluation type purchased.

Atlas Live: 100%. Reached after the fourth paid payout. All programs remain simulated.

Quick Pay Funded Sim

• 80% trader / 20% TradeDay above $4,000 gross profit
• 50% trader / 50% TradeDay below $4,000 gross profit
• Split evaluated per account

Fast Pass Funded Sim

• 80% trader / 20% TradeDay

Funded Live

• 90% trader / 10% TradeDay

Standard: soft limit. Closes positions and locks trading until the 16:45 New York reset; does not close the account unless maximum drawdown is also reached.

Up to 10 Evaluation accounts and 5 Funded Sim accounts simultaneously per trader. Up to 5 active Funded Live accounts per trader. Multiple Funded Sim accounts allowed. Single-member US LLC allowed. Multi-member LLC, S-corps and C-corps not allowed.

After withdrawal, balance must remain $100 above starting balance.

No evaluation deadline.

Unlimited

Standard evaluation: 2 days; Apex: 1. Funded per cycle: Standard 5; Apex 4; Direct 5; Live 4.

• Quick Pay: 5 trading days minimum (non-consecutive).
• Fast Pass: no minimum trading days.

No activation or subscription fee.

No activation fee on TradeDay 2.0.

Standard: +$150 per day. Apex: +$200, except $150K: +$195. Direct and Live: +1% of starting balance per day.

Fast Pass Funded Sim: 5 profitable days per payout; $150/$200/$250 minimum daily profit on 50K/100K/150K.

One-time fee; no subscription.

Monthly subscription. See challenges for current list prices and promotions for active discounts.

Available on current plans. See challenges for reset price.

Fast Pass Funded Sim starts at 2/3/4 contracts for 50K/100K/150K, then adds one contract per $2,000 of EOD profit. Quick Pay limits are fixed by account size.

Allowed if using supported platforms: NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Tradingview, Jigsaw, Quantower. TradeDay does NOT expose Tradovate API. Own systems allowed (NOT purchased from third parties). If multiple users make same trades: All accounts closed.

Must not conceal location or identity. Give advance notice of locations inconsistent with registration.

Allowed within one account. Prohibited across accounts, brokers or firms.

On funded accounts, profits from trades held under 3 minutes are deducted. Losses remain; the deduction does not close the account.

Scalping allowed EXCEPT: High-frequency ATS, >200 trades per day, trades in few seconds for 1-2 ticks, playing with sim matching engine.

Close all positions before 16:45 New York; holding afterwards closes the account. On funded accounts, 80% margin usage closes positions and deducts their profits. Respect contract limits.

Only between your own Atlas accounts; copying other traders or external accounts is prohibited.

Allowed from a trader's own account into their TradeDay account, and between two of the trader's own TradeDay Funded Sim accounts. NOT allowed between Funded Live and Funded Sim, and NOT allowed between two different users. Compatible third-party tools: Tradesyncer (TDTC), Flowbots (tradeday), Expert Trading Programmers (TradeDay25OFF).

Unrestricted during evaluation. On funded accounts, profits from trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news are deducted. Holding through the entire window is allowed.

Open a trade at least every 30 days.

TradeDay does not charge inactivity fees. However, Tradovate archives the account after 1 month without login.

Standard: best day at most 50% of profit, according to checkout. Direct and Live: 20%. Apex: no consistency.

Quick Pay: 30% consistency in evaluation. Fast Pass: 45% consistency in evaluation and Funded Sim. Funded Live has no consistency rule.

Latency or tick arbitrage, exploiting prices or bugs, order flooding, hedging across accounts or firms, account sharing and passing services. Multiple locations must not hide who trades. Gambling, martingale and manipulating evaluations are prohibited.

• Using bots/ATS purchased from third parties
• Systems generating >200 trades in a day
• Strategies trading in few seconds to capture only a few ticks
• Attempting to capture queue position advantage by playing with sim engine
• Spoofing and layering (per CME Group rules)
• Order splitting (multiple limit orders at same price simultaneously)
• Trading in illiquid markets to benefit from missed fills
• Exploiting lack of slippage in simulation (e.g., bracket orders in data releases)
• Trading outside best bid/offer
• Using external or slow data feed
• High-frequency trading or short-term trading
• Simultaneous opposite positions between accounts
• Multiple registrations with different names/emails
• Using VPN or VPS to mask location
• Hedging: Prohibited (trading long in one account and short in another for same product)
• Trading within 2% of price limit (Funded Live only, loss of account)
• Microscalping (positions held <5-10 seconds dominating profit)
• Trading Tier 1 news/data releases (2 min before/after, auto-liquidation)