Earn2trade: Information and detailed review

The company and funding structure

Earn2Trade is a futures education and evaluation company registered in Sheridan, Wyoming. It is not a broker, Commodity Trading Advisor or regulated financial institution. Its role is to provide simulated evaluations and introduce successful candidates to independent proprietary trading partners. The partners currently named by Earn2Trade include Helios Trading Partners, Appius Trading Limited and Kronos Proprietary Trading; live brokerage accounts may be carried by EdgeClear, Dorman Trading, NinjaTrader, Lunaro Markets or a legacy PhillipCapital connection.

That separation matters. Passing does not create an employment relationship with Earn2Trade or guarantee one particular account type. Earn2Trade verifies the result and sends it to a partner, which can offer either a LiveSim® account with withdrawable simulated profits or a Live account using real capital. The partner can choose Live instead of LiveSim based on the trader's performance.

Earn2Trade publishes a 2025 evaluation pass rate of 8.89% and says more than 6,400 traders were funded that year. These figures give useful context: the evaluation is intended to filter candidates, not to make funding routine.

The company promises support responses within two business days through chat, email and messaging channels. Initial answers may come from an AI system and are expressly non-binding; a trader can request a human agent to verify anything material.

Evaluation models

Both current products are one-stage, subscription-based futures evaluations. There is no second phase and no formal minimum number of trading days. In practice, the 30% consistency rule requires at least four profitable days. The evaluation remains simulated and uses live market data.

Trader Career Path®

Trader Career Path, or TCP, is the scaling route. TCP25, TCP50 and TCP100 begin at different virtual balances, but each successful candidate receives a funded offer with a growth plan. Progression is earned by reaching the funded account's profit target and withdrawing the trader's share, not merely by waiting or increasing volume.

The route depends on the starting plan. TCP25 can progress to $50,000, $100,000 and $200,000; TCP50 can reach $100,000, $200,000 and $400,000; TCP100 can reach $150,000, $200,000 and $400,000. At the final $200,000 or $400,000 stage, the partner makes a custom offer after the next target is reached.

TCP also includes one free reset after each successful monthly rebill. It is not automatic: the trader must trigger it in the dashboard. Free resets can accumulate but belong to that specific subscription and disappear when it is cancelled.

Gauntlet Mini™

Gauntlet Mini offers fixed evaluation sizes from $50,000 to $200,000. It leads to a funded account of the corresponding size but has no TCP growth ladder. It therefore suits traders who want a larger fixed allocation without progressing through several capital stages.

Gauntlet Mini does not receive the free reset attached to a TCP rebill. Paid resets are available for both programs. Prices for the smaller accounts vary with active promotions; fixed reset prices are $100 for TCP100 and GAU100, $130 for GAU150 and $155 for GAU200.

Subscription mechanics

Evaluation subscriptions renew every 30 days until cancelled or passed. Earn2Trade sends a reminder three days before billing and may try a failed payment three times before permanently cancelling the account. A reset restores the initial balance and clears failed rules, but it does not restart the billing cycle.

Cancellation must be completed by the trader in the dashboard at least one day before renewal. It immediately removes access to the evaluation, simulator and education content; the old progress cannot be restored by subscribing again. Purchases, resets and automatic renewals are covered by a strict no-refund policy.

Drawdown and risk management

Evaluation and LiveSim: end-of-day trailing threshold

Evaluations and LiveSim accounts use an End-of-Day drawdown. The minimum permitted balance rises only after a profitable end-of-day balance is processed, normally during the 4:00–5:00 PM CT close. A losing day does not move the threshold back down, and the trail stops once it reaches the original starting balance.

“End of day” describes when the threshold moves, not when it is enforced. Open and closed equity are monitored intraday. If unrealized equity touches or falls below the current minimum, the account fails even if the position later recovers. Traders should check the dashboard and R|Trader Pro's Auto Liquidate Threshold after the close because processing delays can leave the two temporarily out of sync.

Live and mature TCP accounts

A Live account changes to a real-time trailing drawdown. Its threshold moves dollar for dollar with positive open and closed equity during the session until it reaches the starting balance. This is materially tighter than the evaluation's EOD update and requires a different approach to unrealized gains.

Only the final TCP growth stages use a fixed floor: $194,000 on a $200,000 TCP account and $388,000 on a $400,000 TCP account. A $200,000 Gauntlet Mini funded account does not receive this fixed treatment.

Daily loss and progression ladder

The daily loss calculation runs from 5:00 PM to 5:00 PM CT and includes closed P&L, unrealized P&L and commissions. It resets from the balance at the start of each trading day. Touching the limit at any moment is a failure; closing the position later cannot undo it.

The progression ladder separately limits total open contracts according to real-time balance and profits. Exceeding it is a hard failure. Up to ten named micro contracts count as one standard contract for this rule. Traders also need to avoid repeatedly pressing a platform's close button: duplicate opposite orders can unintentionally open a new position and breach the ladder.

Trading rules and account restrictions

Consistency and trading hours

During either evaluation, the best trading day must remain below 30% of total net profit. A day above that percentage does not fail the account, but it raises the total profit required to pass: divide the best day by 0.30 to find the required total. All daily P&L counts, including days while the account remains below its starting balance. The rule disappears on LiveSim and Live accounts.

Positions and working orders generally must be closed by 3:50 PM CT and cannot reopen until 5:00 PM CT. Livestock contracts GF, HE and LE close earlier at 1:05 PM; several grain and oilseed contracts also have a morning break from 7:45 to 8:30 AM and must close again between 1:20 and 5:00 PM. Overnight and weekend holding are therefore not permitted, and exchange holidays follow the CME closure calendar. Trading during economic news is allowed in evaluation and funded accounts.

The available universe is CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX futures, including micros. ICE, EUREX, forex, Bitcoin futures and Ether futures are excluded. Low-liquidity contracts deserve particular care because Rithmic values open equity at bid/ask; a wide spread can create a drawdown breach even without a completed exit.

Account ownership and conduct

The purchaser must be the permanent individual owner and trader. The legal name must match identification, cannot be an LLC and normally cannot be changed after purchase. Credentials, account access and trading cannot be shared or delegated.

Trade copiers are prohibited in evaluations, LiveSim and Live. Detection can mean denial of funded accounts or withdrawals, with no refund of the subscription or CME data costs. Up to five evaluations may run concurrently. Funded traders may have three accounts in total—three LiveSim, or two LiveSim plus one Live—but never more than one Live account. Hedging between funded accounts is forbidden.

Other prohibited conduct includes exploiting stale prices or platform errors, spoofing, unrealistic daily contract volume, coordinated hedging or risk pooling, ultra-fast or AI-assisted techniques that manipulate the environment, bypassing geographic controls and trading for another person. Responses can range from a warning or deletion of a day's trades to a reset or permanent closure.

Eligibility and transition after passing

Candidates must be at least 18. Non-US traders can qualify but must provide identification, a W-8BEN and their foreign tax number. Earn2Trade excludes funding for residents or citizens of its published sanctions list; attempts to disguise country or address can produce an immediate ban without refund.

After passing, the result is reviewed and sent to a partner. Funded accounts retain drawdown, daily loss, progression, trading-hour, prohibited-asset and conduct rules. They remove the evaluation's consistency requirement, subscription, minimum-day condition and profit buffer. There is no automatic right to a specific partner, broker or Live account.

Withdrawals and funded-account costs

Profit split, caps and timing

The split is based on the size of each individual withdrawal, not accumulated lifetime profit. Withdrawals below the plan-specific threshold pay 50% to the trader; withdrawals at or above it pay 80%. The final $400,000 TCP account uses a fixed 60/40 split. LiveSim also caps each withdrawal: the TCP cap equals that stage's advancement target, while every Gauntlet Mini size is capped at $5,000. The commercial claim of “no payout cap” should therefore be read as no published lifetime ceiling, not an unlimited single LiveSim request.

There is no consistency or buffer requirement after funding, but the resulting net withdrawal must be at least $100. Requests are not truly on demand: they are processed once a week on Wednesday and must reach the proprietary firm by email before 2:00 PM CT on the preceding Friday. A late request rolls to the following week.

The partner chooses the payment provider according to region. Published options include Rise, Deel, Bayzat and, in selected cases, direct crypto. Fees are $50 for non-US Rise users, 1.5% for US Rise users, $50 through Deel, $5–$40 through Bayzat and 0.735% for direct crypto. Rise does not currently serve Iowa, Minnesota, South Carolina, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands or Haiti, but Earn2Trade says partner firms arrange alternatives; this is a payout-channel restriction, not a blanket ban on passing the evaluation.

Activation, data and trading costs

A non-professional LiveSim trader pays a one-time $139 activation fee per account, deducted only from the first profitable withdrawal. The first request must cover that fee, the $100 net minimum and the provider's withdrawal charge. There is no upfront payment if no profit is withdrawn.

Non-professional market data is included during the evaluation. Professional users pay $140 per exchange per month, or $156 with NinjaTrader. The same monthly professional rates apply to LiveSim. On Live accounts, Rithmic data is $140 and NinjaTrader data $156 per exchange per calendar month, charged in advance and not prorated. A CME professional/non-professional classification cannot be changed manually; support must handle a correction. Traders also bear brokerage commissions, NFA and exchange fees, and remain responsible for their own tax treatment. Market Depth is separate and costs $54 per month.

Evaluation accounts use live commission schedules; micro contracts are cited at roughly $0.82–$1.08 per contract per side, depending on the instrument. Some platforms do not display commissions by default, so the dashboard's rule calculations can differ from a chart-only P&L view.

Platforms, data and practical limitations

Earn2Trade supports Rithmic and Tradovate routes across a broad platform list. Free choices include R|Trader Pro, Tradovate, TradingView, Finamark, BlackArrow and NinjaTrader. Most other platforms require the trader's own licence. Platform vendors—not Earn2Trade—provide technical support, and Earn2Trade does not operate a trade desk that will close positions for the trader.

New NinjaTrader subscriptions now use the NinjaTrader–Tradovate unified API. Legacy free NinjaTrader/Rithmic connections were terminated after June 30, 2026; Rithmic remains possible only with the trader's own compatible NinjaTrader licence. TradingView connects through Tradovate and its free access must be renewed monthly.

Rithmic limit orders and most stop orders are held server-side, while NinjaTrader ATM orders are local to the trader's computer. Keeping R|Trader Pro ready as a fallback provides a direct view of positions and liquidation thresholds. Traders may use their own professional feed for charts after funding, but execution must still pass through the partner's feed and the $139 LiveSim activation fee remains.

The subscription includes education material and Journalytix for its duration. The course is optional—experienced futures traders can go directly to an evaluation. Journalytix adds journaling, risk statistics and news alerts; it is useful support, not a substitute for monitoring the official account dashboard.

Summary: who Earn2Trade suits

Earn2Trade suits intraday futures traders who want a structured route from simulation toward a genuine brokerage account and are comfortable being assigned to an independent prop partner. TCP is the better fit for gradual capital progression; Gauntlet Mini is simpler for a fixed funded size.

Its strongest features are the absence of a minimum-day rule, news trading, a wide platform range, weekly withdrawals and clearly differentiated EOD, trailing and fixed drawdowns. The practical constraints are equally important: a 30% evaluation consistency rule, strict intraday equity monitoring, a contract progression ladder, mandatory flat periods, recurring evaluation billing and meaningful funded-account data and withdrawal costs.

The model is least suitable for overnight traders, copier-based multi-account setups, traders who need ICE or EUREX, or anyone expecting an immediate 80% split without thresholds and fees. The key decision is not only whether the profit target is achievable, but whether the strategy can survive the equity-based loss limits and remain economical after activation, data, commission and payout charges.