Risk rules compared: E8 Market Futures vs. Earn2trade

100 Crescent Ct, Unit 700, Dallas, Texas 75201, US

30 N Gould St STE 4000, Sheridan, WY 82801

Dylan Elchami

Osvaldo Guimarães

2021

2016

E8 charges no payout fee. WorkMarket or Rise may charge a processing fee depending on the selected withdrawal method.

Challenge and SimFi Performance accounts are simulated. Futures market data is sourced from CME.

• Signature Futures: on demand once all payout requirements are met.
• Zero Starter and Zero Max: daily, minimum $100.

On Demand and processed on Wednesday

E8 Signature Futures

E8 Zero Starter

• $50K: $1,000
• $100K: $1,600
• $200K: $2,100

E8 Zero Max

• $50K: $3,000
• $100K: $5,000
• $200K: $7,000

Signature Futures and Zero allow a maximum of 5 payouts per account; after the fifth, the account closes and a free Challenge of the same size is issued.

LiveSim® Gauntlet Mini™

• Max Withdrawal: $4,000 (Requires $5,000 in total profit).
• Profit Split: The firm takes a 20% share (deducted monthly or at each withdrawal).

LiveSim® Trader Career Path®

• Max Withdrawal: The program's profit target minus 20%.
• Deductions: No monthly deductions; the 20% is only taken from the target amount.

Payouts require successful onboarding and KYC with WorkMarket or Rise. If neither provider accepts the trader, E8 cannot process the payout.

After an account fails, a 10% discount is available for 7 days to retry the same account size and settings.

Variable Pricing ($25K–$50K Accounts)

Reset fees for these entry-level accounts fluctuate according to current promotions and are consistently priced lower than a brand-new subscription:

• TCP25 (Trader Career Path® 25K)
• TCP50 (Trader Career Path® 50K)
• GAU50 (Gauntlet Mini™ 50K)

Fixed Pricing ($100K–$200K Accounts)

Reset fees for these higher-balance accounts remain constant and are not affected by promotional offers:

• TCP100 (Trader Career Path® 100K) – $100
• GAU100 (Gauntlet Mini™ 100K) – $100
• GAU150 (Gauntlet Mini™ 150K) – $130
• GAU200 (Gauntlet Mini™ 200K) – $155

A complimentary free reset is added after each monthly renewal of your subscription. You can use these free resets at any time while your subscription is active, accumulate more than one, but any unused resets will be forfeited if you cancel.

Zero Starter and Zero Max allow the payout share to be increased from the 80% base configuration to 100% at checkout.

Scaling only allowed for Trader Career Path

TCP25

TCP50

TCP100

EOD Dynamic Drawdown based on the highest end-of-day balance. Intraday equity does not move it. It locks permanently at the initial balance level.

• Evaluation and LiveSim: EOD (End Of Day balance)
• Live: Trailing

• Signature Futures: 80%.
• Zero Starter/Max: 80% base; 100% can be selected at checkout.

• $25K–$200K accounts: 80/20 if the profit reaches or exceeds the threshold set for the account size; 50/50 if it is below the threshold.
• Trader Career Path® $400K accounts: fixed 60/40.

• Signature Challenge: none.
• Signature Performance: 2% Daily Pause (soft breach; trading resumes the next day).
• Zero Challenge and Performance: none.

Both Trading Path Career and Gauntlet Mini have daily drawdown limits. On the funded phase, daily drawdown can be removed upon request after the lower threshold of the trader's maximum drawdown reaches the account's starting balance.

• Challenge stage: unlimited accounts.
• Signature Futures: up to 5 active Performance accounts.
• Zero Starter/Max: up to 3 active Performance accounts. Limits apply per household.

Maximum of 3 funded accounts. Only one of them can be LiveSim

Signature requires leaving a non-withdrawable buffer equal to the EOD Dynamic Drawdown before payouts. On Zero, any profit left after a payout remains as buffer and cannot be requested in a later cycle.

Unlimited, but the account closes after 7 days of inactivity.

Unlimited

• Signature Futures: can pass in 1 day.
• Zero Starter/Max: earliest pass in 3 days because of the 40% Best Day rule.

None. No minimum trading days are required to pass the evaluation, nor on LiveSim®/Live funded accounts.

No activation fee or recurring subscription.

Montly fee and Lifetime activation fee

• Signature: 5 profitable days between payouts after the first payout; a profitable day requires at least 0.3% realized profit.
• Zero Starter/Max: no minimum profitable days in Performance.

No minimum trading days on either Trader Career Path® or The Gauntlet Mini™. The evaluation can be passed as soon as the profit goal is reached.

Payouts on LiveSim® and Live accounts: 5 profitable days before each withdrawal request. They do not need to be consecutive, losing days do not reset the count, and the count restarts after each withdrawal. Minimum daily profit, net of commissions and fees, for a day to count:

• TCP25: $100
• TCP50 and GAU50: $150
• TCP100 and GAU100: $200
• GAU150: $250
• GAU200: $350
  The trading day runs from 5:00 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. CT.

Only Zero Performance accounts scale contract allowance. At 1.5% locked profit the first level unlocks the next day; at 3% the second level unlocks. Signature and Zero Challenge contract limits do not scale.

TCP25

TCP50

TCP100

Virtual Accounts Scaling

One-time fee. No subscription.

Montly fee

Semi-automated and fully automated trading, including bots, AI tools and HFT above 300 trades per day, is prohibited on Futures.

Not recommended

Futures accounts use a netting system. Hedging across multiple accounts or users is prohibited.

At least 50% of total profit must come from trades held for 10 seconds or longer.

There is no fixed percentage risk cap, but irresponsible, all-or-nothing or disproportionate risk-taking can trigger review or account termination.

Allowed only between accounts owned by the same trader. Team trading, signals and copying another trader are prohibited.

The account closes after 7 days without opening and closing at least one trade.

• Zero Challenge: 40% Best Day rule; if the best day exceeds 40% of total profit, the effective target increases.
• Zero Performance: no consistency rule.
• Signature Challenge: no consistency rule.
• Signature Performance: 35% Best Day rule for payout eligibility.

Evaluation phase: In order to complete the evaluation, no single trading day can account for 30% or more of your total PnL.

• Exploiting gaps, illiquid markets, pricing errors or slow data feeds
• Semi-automated or fully automated trading, bots, AI tools and HFT above 300 trades/day
• Trading within 2% of a CME product lock limit
• Irresponsible or all-or-nothing trading
• Hedging across accounts or users
• Tick scalping where less than 50% of profit comes from trades held at least 10 seconds
• Trading anything other than the front-month contract
• Account rolling and strategies that are not reproducible in real markets

• Exploiting platform errors.
• Disruptive trading or spoofing.
• Excessive daily contracts.
• Collusion and manipulation.
• AI or high-speed abuse.
• Unrealistic market behavior.
• Exploiting technical flaws.
• Bypassing restrictions.
• Trading for others.

All positions are forcibly closed every trading day at 15:10 CT. Trading is permitted from 17:00 to 15:10 CT.