Cheapest to get funded
TradeDay QP Intraday 50K
at 3 MNQ
$87
expected, attempts and activation included
68% pass19 days
$59 a month, no activation fee.
Will you pass the evaluation?
Your trading, played through a prop firm’s real rules ten thousand times.
76%of attempts pass
27 trading days at the median
27 trading days at the median
Failed
16%
Still going
8%
To fund
$262
64 of the 10,000 attempts, their first 40 trading days. A dot is where one ended.PassedFailedStill going
Your best buy
Your trading on every account of this size, at six sizes, narrowed to three answers. Each depends on what you care about most.
Most likely to pass
Bulenox Qualification Option 1 50K
at 3 MNQ
77%
of attempts pass
$346 to fund17 days
Loss limits: $2 500, intraday.
Fastest
Apex EOD 50K
at 6 MNQ
6 days
to pass, at the median
72% pass$211 to fund
Loss limits: $2 000, end of day · $1,000 a day.
Yours, the Topstep 50K Combine at 2 MNQ:76% pass · 27 days · $262 to fundHow your attempts pass and fail
Almost every failure ends on the floor, so the floor says little. What tells you something is how each attempt got there.
Passed cleanly · 68%
8%
8%
8%
8%
Passed cleanly · 68%
Never within $500 of the floor. The middle half pass between day 19 and day 38.
Passed after a close call · 8%
Came within $500 of failing, then passed. The same trades in another order fail: luck to be glad of, not to plan on.
Failed after a lead · 8%
Up at least $1,000 first, $1,682 at the median. The trailing floor rose behind the lead, then a slide met it.
Failed from the start · 8%
Never up $1,000. Over by day 18 at the median, before the floor had moved far. A smaller first week saves most of these.
8% are still going at day 60: not failed, just slow, at $49 a month.
Failed after a lead
Attempt 7 got within $736 of passing, then gave it back
Up $2,264 by day 15, it pulled the trailing floor up to $50,000 behind it. 21 days followed with no loss worse than $547, and that was enough. 8 attempts in 100 fail like this.
Size is the lever
The same trades at other sizes. Too small and the clock runs out; too big and the floor arrives first. The cheapest funded account is the size between.
Pass oddsDays to pass
Cost to fund
$382
$261
$215
$223
$227
$232
What moves your odds
Each change on its own, everything else as you typed it, against the same simulated days.
Win 2 more trades in 100+11 pts
Lose $20 less on a losing trade+14 pts
Stop for the day after two losses−3 pts
Take one more trade a day+6 pts
Pass odds at 2 MNQ on the Topstep 50K Combine. One more trade a day passes 5 days sooner.
The same trading on every account
34 50K evaluation accounts, ranked for your numbers at 2 MNQ. Rules from each firm’s own page.
27 days · $340 to fund · $2 500, end of day · $1,100 a day82%27$340$2 500, end of day · $1,100 a day
27 days · $115 to fund · $2 000, end of day · $1,200 a day78%27$115$2 000, end of day · $1,200 a dayTo fund: the evaluation, the resets your odds imply, and the activation fee. Loss limits: the drawdown and the daily limit.
Your trades, reshuffled
Each attempt draws trades from your numbers in a new order, with real spread around your averages. Same numbers, same answer.
The firm's rules, verified
The floor and where it stops, the daily limit, consistency, minimum days, fees. Each rule links to the firm’s page, checked 21 Oct 2026.
Not a forecast
Hypothetical results have inherent limitations: they are simulated, not traded, and past results do not guarantee future ones.
Questions
How are the pass odds calculated?
Each attempt draws up to 60 trading days from your numbers: a day is your trades for that day, its result and its best open profit. The days are played through the account's own rules, the trailing drawdown and where it stops, the daily loss limit, the consistency rule and the minimum days, the way AlgoLift's prop simulator plays them. Ten thousand attempts on your account, and fewer on each other account of the same size: 128 evaluation accounts from 11 firms in all.
What counts as a close call or a lead?
A pass is a close call when the balance came within a quarter of the drawdown of the floor at some close (within $500 of a $2,000 drawdown). A failure came after a lead when the attempt had first made a third of the profit target ($1,000 of $3,000).
How is the cost to get funded estimated?
The evaluation fee, billed once for each month the median pass takes on a monthly plan; the failed attempts your pass rate implies, each at the firm's reset fee or at the price again where no reset is sold; and the activation fee. Data fees, add-ons and payout fees are not included.
Why use my real trades instead of averages?
Averages have no losing streaks. An uploaded export is read in your browser, grouped into trading days, and drawn in blocks of five consecutive days, so a bad week stays a bad week and your best day stays one day for the consistency rule.
Is this a forecast?
No. It is a simulation of hypothetical results from the numbers you enter. Hypothetical results have inherent limitations: they are not traded, and the market you trade next will differ from the one your numbers came from.
Rules checked against the firms’ own pages, most recently on 21 October 2026. This is a summary of each firm’s published rules, not financial advice and not a recommendation of any firm. Firms change their rules and prices; read the firm’s own page before you buy. Facts are paraphrased and linked to their source. Firm names are used only to say which firm a rule belongs to; they belong to their owners, and AlgoLift is not affiliated with or endorsed by any firm.
Averages pass. Will your strategy?
AlgoLift backtests your rules on tick data, then plays the real trades, in their real order and reshuffled, through every account above.
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One tape · 45 rulebooksPass rate by account
Take Profit Trader 25K Test · 68%Apex Intraday 150K · 36%
30/45accounts pass more often than notOne example strategy, simulated
- An account it passes more often than not
- An account it fails more often
- The same trades in every bar