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The Trading Pit Futures logoThe Trading Pit Futures
Headquarters

RM 1205, 12/f. Beverly Hse 93-107 Lockhart Rd Wan Chai Hong Kong

Heiligkreuz 6, 9490, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Country

Hong Kong

Liechtenstein

Foundation

2024

2022

Banned Countries
Afghanistan, Albania, Antarctica, Bangladesh, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, East Timor, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Korea, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Togo, Venezuela, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Afghanistan, Albania, Antarctica, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Palestinian Territory, Russia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Yemen
CEO

Daniela Egli

Assets
Futures
Equity Indexes, Currencies, Agricultural, Energy, Metals, Interest Rates, Crypto
Platforms
NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Tradingview, Quantower, ATAS, Volumetrica, Tickblaze
ATAS, Quantower, Volsys, RTrader Pro, Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView, Sierra Chart, MotiveWave, Jigsaw, Volfix
Payout Methods
Rise
Transfer, Crypto, Rise
Live Account
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Payment Methods
Card, Crypto
Card, Crypto, Bank Transfer
Payout Frequency

EOD Challenge
Every 7 winning days (a winning day = net P&L ≥ 0.2% of account balance).

Sprint Challenge
Every 5 winning days.

FLEX Challenge
Every 5 winning days.

Instant Funded
Every 7 winning days. Minimum 10 calendar days before first payout. After first payout, must surpass previous equity high before next request.

GOAT Daily
Payout requests every 24 hours once funded.

Minimum payout: $500 across all sizes.

Payout Guarantee

Payouts processed within 2 business days. A $500 bonus is automatically applied if processing exceeds this SLA.

Within 24 hours on business days

Maximum Withdrawal

Caps grow with each payout number. FLEX Challenge does not publish caps.

EOD Challenge

  • 1st: $50K $1,500 · $100K $2,000 · $150K $2,500
  • 2nd: $50K $2,000 · $100K $2,750 · $150K $3,250
  • 3rd: $50K $2,500 · $100K $3,250 · $150K $3,750
  • 4th+: $50K $2,750 · $100K $3,750 · $150K $4,250

Sprint Challenge

  • 1st: $25K $800 · $50K $1,500 · $100K $2,500
  • 2nd: $25K $1,000 · $50K $1,750 · $100K $3,000
  • 3rd: $25K $1,200 · $50K $2,000 · $100K $3,500
  • 4th+: $25K $1,500 · $50K $2,500 · $100K $4,500

Instant Funded (per cycle)

  • $25K: $1,000 · $50K: $2,000 · $75K: $3,000 · $100K: $3,000 · $150K: $4,000

GOAT Daily

  • Per payout: $25K $650 · $50K $1,000 · $100K $1,500 · $150K $2,500

Up to 50% of the current profit buffer per reward, capped at $2,500 ($50K), $3,500 ($100K) or $5,000 ($150K).

Minimum Withdrawal

$500 across all account sizes

$100

Other Payout Requirements
  • EOD Challenge: 7 winning days.
  • Sprint Challenge: 5 winning days.
  • Instant Funded: 7 winning days and minimum 10 calendar days before the first payout.
  • GOAT Daily: no winning-day requirement once funded.
  • A winning day requires net P&L of at least 0.2% of account balance.
  • Payout submission windows (excluding GOAT Daily): 5th–8th and 20th–23rd of each month.
  • Instant Funded requires exceeding the previous equity high for subsequent payouts.

First reward: 5 winning days of at least $200 each. Later rewards: at least $0.01 net profit since the previous reward and 5 new $200 winning days.

Brokers
Rithmic, dxFeed, Tradovate
Payout Fee

No payout fee

Account Reset

Available on evaluation plans (EOD, Sprint, FLEX). Reset fees:

  • EOD: $50K $59 · $100K $109 · $150K $159
  • Sprint: $25K $46 · $50K $69 · $100K $99
  • FLEX: $50K $74 · $100K $124 · $150K $174

Instant Funded and Instant Lite accounts cannot be reset.

Available for Futures Challenges with at least one trading day remaining; unavailable on Earning accounts.

Add-ons
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✓
Instant
✓
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One Step
✓
✓
Account scaling
✓
✓
Two Steps
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Max Drawdown

EOD Challenge

  • EOD Trailing — locks at starting balance once balance is restored
  • $50K: $2,000 (4%) | $100K: $3,000 (3%) | $150K: $4,500 (3%)

Sprint Challenge

  • EOD Trailing — locks at starting balance once balance is restored
  • $25K: $1,000 (4%) | $50K: $2,000 (4%) | $100K: $3,000 (3%)

FLEX Challenge

  • EOD Trailing Max DD — locks at starting balance

Instant Funded

  • Intraday Trailing — locks at starting balance once balance is reached
  • $25K: $1,250 (5%) | $50K: $2,500 (5%) | $75K: $3,750 (5%) | $100K: $5,000 (5%) | $150K: $7,500 (5%)

Instant Lite

  • EOD Trailing — locks at starting balance
  • $25K: $1,000 | $50K: $1,750 | $100K: $3,000

GOAT Daily

  • Evaluation: EOD trailing; locks at starting balance + $100.
  • Funded: intraday trailing.

Trailing on end-of-day balance. It stops at the starting balance and never moves down.

Profit Split

EOD Challenge

  • 80% by default
  • 90% with optional Profit Share Add-On (+20% of challenge price)

FLEX Challenge

  • 80% by default
  • 90% with optional Profit Share Add-On (+20% of challenge price)

Sprint Challenge

  • 100% on the first $10,000 in payouts
  • 90% after the first $10,000

Instant Funded

  • 100% on the first $10,000 in payouts
  • 90% after the first $10,000

Instant Lite

  • 90% from the first payout (no add-on required)

80%

Daily Drawdown
  • EOD Challenge: none during evaluation; 2.5% soft breach when funded.
  • Sprint Challenge: none in either phase.
  • FLEX Challenge: none in either phase.
  • Instant Funded: 3% soft breach.
Free Trial
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dailyDrawdown

EOD Challenge

  • Evaluation: no daily loss limit
  • Funded: soft breach 2.5% of starting balance ($50K: $1,250 | $100K: $2,500 | $150K: $3,750)

Sprint Challenge

  • No daily loss limit (evaluation or funded)

FLEX Challenge

  • No daily loss limit (evaluation or funded)

Instant Funded

  • 3% of starting balance (soft breach — account pauses until next trading day)
  • $25K: $750 | $50K: $1,500 | $75K: $2,250 | $100K: $3,000 | $150K: $4,500

Instant Lite

  • $25K: none | $50K: $1,000 | $100K: $2,000

GOAT Daily

  • Evaluation and funded: $25K $500 · $50K $1,000 · $100K $1,500 · $150K $2,250.
  • Soft breach: positions are closed and trading is paused for the day.

Daily Pause is recalculated from the previous day's closing balance at 16:15 CT. It closes positions and pauses trading until the next day.

Max Allocation

Initial account sizes up to $150,000. Scaling via rewards program can grow allocation beyond that, with documented brand-wide payouts of $18M+ and up to $750,000 available across plans.

5
mandatoryBuffer
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Merge Accounts
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Maximum Trading Days

No time limit on any plan.

30 days (includes weekends and holidays)

Minimum Trading Days

FLEX Challenge requires 2 trading days. EOD, Sprint and Instant Funded have no minimum trading days.

GOAT Daily: no minimum trading days once funded.

3 unique trading days to pass.

Funded Phase Pricing Model

No activation fee after passing — you keep 100% of the funded account access without any extra payment. Instant Funded is a one-time fee that grants funded-account access immediately, without an evaluation phase.

No activation fee for new Futures Prime accounts purchased from 26 March 2026.

Position size scaling
✓
✓
Evaluation Phase Pricing Model

One-time fee. No monthly subscription and no recurring charges. EOD, Sprint and FLEX Challenge are paid up-front to enter the evaluation phase.

One-time fee; no subscription.

Points Reward Program

Respect Points Program (Affiliate)
10% commission on each referred trader turns into points for the original trader. Points accumulate per challenge purchased via your affiliate link.

Expert Advisor (EA)
✓
✓
VPN
✓
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Requires Stop Loss
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Scalping
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✓
Stacking / Layering (DCA)
✓
✓
allowsMartingale
✓
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Copy Trading
✓
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News Trading
✓
✓
hasInactivityRule

15 consecutive days without trades results in account breach. Applies to both evaluation and funded accounts. Once breached, account cannot be reinstated and fees are non-refundable. Notify support in advance if you plan to be away.

21 consecutive days without placing a single trade → the account is considered inactive and breached. Holding an overnight position or having an unexecuted pending order does NOT count as activity. The countdown starts when the account is purchased/created.

Consistency Rule
✓
✓
Hold Weekend
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Prohibited Strategies
  • Tick scalping and other extremely short-duration trading.
  • Trades closed within 2 minutes — profits are deducted (micro-scalping rule).
  • Unrealistic execution that relies on simulated market conditions (slippage, liquidity, partial fills) not replicable in live.
  • Holding positions overnight or over the weekend.
  • Trading affected instruments inside the 2-minute high-impact news buffer on funded accounts.
  • High-frequency, latency, reverse, hedge-arbitrage or arbitrage trading
  • Grid, martingale, gambling or account rolling
  • Gap trading before extended market closures
  • Copying between Challenge and Earning accounts
  • Emulators, unauthorized feeds or exploiting fills
Overnight positions
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Hedging
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Maximum Risk Limit
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