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Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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

James Thorpe

Saint Lucia

United States

2026

2020

No fixed fee published. Any processing or network fee is shown before you confirm; bank and network charges are paid by the trader.

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

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.

On demand, as soon as the conditions are met.

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

No guaranteed time: the payout policy neither promises nor estimates one. Every request gets an automatic receipt and every payout a verifiable certificate.

Before the split. One Step 25K/50K/100K/150K: $1,000/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000 on the first payout and $1,500/$2,500/$3,000/$3,500 after. Instant: $1,000/$2,000/$3,000/$4,000 on every payout. The rest rolls into the next one.

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

$500 before the split. Crypto payouts: at least $100.

$250 minimum per payout request.

Every position closed. Funded One Step: balance above the buffer plus 1% of the starting balance, 3 profitable days (+0.25%) and the 40% rule. Instant: a profit milestone before each payout ($1,450, $3,000, $5,000 or $8,000 on 25K, 50K, 100K or 150K), 5 profitable days and the 20% rule.

One Step: after an evaluation breach, a restart within 14 days at the same price. Funded One Step: a reset within 14 days, at most twice and before the first payout. Instant: no reset; a new account at a reduced price is offered for 3 days.

Available on current plans. See challenges for reset price.

One Step: end-of-day trailing, rising with the closing balance. Instant: intraday trailing on peak equity, open profit included. Both lock once they reach the starting balance. Touching it ends the account.

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.

90% on both plans.

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

Soft limit: reaching it closes positions and stops trading until the next session; the account stays open. One Step 25K has none.

$1.5M per person across all CFD and futures accounts.

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.

Funded One Step: a buffer equal to the max loss that stays on the account and is never paid out. Instant has none.

One user per person, with as many accounts as the $1.5M limit allows. Up to 5 accounts per order, with a 10% to 25% bundle discount.

No time limit.

Unlimited

No minimum in the evaluation: it can be passed in one day.

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

No activation fee.

No activation fee on TradeDay 2.0.

Before each payout: 3 days at +0.25% of the starting balance on funded One Step and 5 on Instant. The evaluation needs none.

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

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.

One-off fee. Includes 30 days of market data; then $35 per 30 days ($540 a month for professional subscribers).

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

No EAs or automated trading on futures.

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.

Hiding your location with a VPN, proxy or remote desktop is prohibited and triggers a new identity check. Your own EA on a VPS is allowed if disclosed.

Within one account, yes (mini against micro or different contracts). Prohibited across accounts.

Yes, but trades under 30 seconds may make at most 50% of profit; until it is back under, no pass or payout.

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

Allowed when used responsibly within the contract and loss limits; aggressive sequences are reviewed.

A cap on contracts open at once; exceeding it once is a warning, the second time goes to review.

Only between your own futures accounts or from your own master account. Copying others or signals 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).

Free during the One Step evaluation. Funded and on Instant, no trade may be opened or closed 2 minutes either side of red USD news: profit from those trades is removed. Two warnings; the third goes to review.

15 days without trading deactivates the account; an open position does not count.

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

No day may exceed 40% of the cycle's profit on funded One Step (none in the evaluation) or 20% on Instant. Until met, the payout waits.

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

Hedging across accounts, latency or cross-market arbitrage, account or device sharing, coordinated trading, copying others, market or order-queue manipulation, volume inflation, filler trades to count days, HFT, strategies that cannot work in a live market, gambling and account rolling, straddling tier-1 news and gap trading.

• 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)

Everything is closed at 3:55 PM Chicago time every session; it is not a breach.