Topstep Labs 250K Freedom rules

The account's nominal size: the balance the evaluation starts at.

True when the plan has no evaluation: the fee buys a funded account directly.

How many evaluation phases a trader passes before the funded account: 0 on an instant-funding plan, 1 for a one-step evaluation, 2 for two steps.

Whether the funded account trades simulated capital, live capital, or simulated capital first and live capital later.

What the account may trade: the exchanges or product list, and any products excluded.

How many micro contracts count as one E-mini toward a contract limit.

When the firm's trading day begins. A trade after this time counts toward the next trading day for every daily rule: daily loss, consistency, winning days and minimum days.

The firm's trading day as it states it, from its open to its close, with the time zone it uses.

What makes a day count toward minimum trading days: any day with a trade, or only a day with at least a set profit.

The profit a day must make to count as a trading day, when a trading day counts only with a minimum profit; null when any day with a trade counts.

What happens when the daily loss limit is reached: trading stops for the day and the account stays open, or the account fails; null when there is no daily loss limit.

The profit needed to pass the evaluation.

The drawdown: the floor sits this far below the balance it follows (see the drawdown type), and reaching it fails the evaluation.

How the drawdown floor follows the balance: end of day trails the highest end-of-day balance; intraday trails the highest balance reached at any moment, open profit included; static never moves.

True when touching the drawdown floor at any moment, open profit and loss included, fails the evaluation, even when the floor itself is set at the end of the day.

The most the account may lose in one trading day; null when the plan has none.

The largest share of the total profit one trading day may contribute when the evaluation passes; null when the plan has no consistency rule.

What happens when one day's share of the profit goes over the consistency rule: the target rises until the share is back under it, the pass waits for more days, or the evaluation fails.

The firm's own definition of the consistency rule: which day is compared (the best day) and against what (total profit, net profit, the target).

Calendar days the evaluation may run before it expires; null when it has no time limit.

The most contracts that may be open at once; null when contract limit growth sets the limit instead.

A contract limit that grows with profit: a starting number of contracts, plus one for every set amount of profit at the start of the day; null when the limit is fixed.

The balance the funded account starts at. 0 means the account counts profit from zero, with its drawdown floor below zero.

The drawdown: the floor sits this far below the balance it follows (see the drawdown type), and reaching it closes the funded account.

After the first payout, or after every payout, the floor moves to the funded starting balance plus a set amount; null when payouts do not move the floor.

True when touching the drawdown floor at any moment, open profit and loss included, closes the funded account.

A daily loss limit that changes with the profit above the starting balance, read at the start of each day: each row applies once that profit reaches its level; null when the limit is fixed.

The most contracts that may be open at once; null when contract scaling or contract limit growth sets the limit instead.

The contract limit by profit above the funded starting balance, read at the start of each day: each row applies once that profit reaches its level; null when there is no scaling plan.

A contract limit that grows with profit: a starting number of contracts, plus one for every set amount of profit at the start of the day; null when the limit is fixed.

Until the balance first reaches the funded starting balance plus a set profit, only a fraction of the maximum contracts may be open (rounded down, at least one); null when the full limit applies from the start.

How many times a failed funded account can be restarted for a fee without a new evaluation; null when it cannot.

When and how a funded trader moves from the simulated account to a live one, and what changes when they do.

The most contracts a live account may hold at first.

Trading days needed since the last payout (since funding, for the first) before a payout can be requested; null when there is no minimum.

Calendar days needed since the last payout (since funding, for the first) before a payout can be requested; null when there is no such rule.

How often payouts can be requested and are processed, as the firm states it (daily, weekly, every 14 days, on set weekdays).

Winning days needed since the last payout before a payout can be requested; null when not required.

The profit a trading day must make to count as a winning day; null when winning days are not required.

The largest share of the counted profit one trading day since the last payout may contribute before a payout is allowed; null when there is no such rule.

What the payout consistency share is measured against, as the firm states it: net profit since the last payout, gross profit with payouts added back, or another basis.

Where the profit counted toward a payout is measured from: the last payout, or the start of the funded account.

The profit, counted from the profit basis, needed before a payout can be requested; null when there is no minimum.

The smallest payout the firm will process in one request; null when there is no minimum.

Profit above the funded starting balance that must stay in the account; a payout comes only from profit above it. 0 means no buffer.

The largest single payout; null when there is no fixed cap.

A payout may take at most this share of the profit above the buffer; null when the whole profit above the buffer may be paid out.

A payout may be at most this share of the account balance; null when there is no such cap.

A payout may be at most this multiple of the profit made since the last payout; null when there is no such cap.

The trader's share of each payout. When the share depends on profit, this is the share most payouts get and payouts.profit_split_tiers holds the rule.

A profit split that depends on the profit left in the account: each row's share applies to the part of a payout above its level; null when the split is flat.

True when every payout after the first needs a net profit since the last payout.

Another set of payout rules the trader can choose instead (usually at activation, then fixed), with its terms.

What the firm charges to send a payout, by method (bank transfer, wire, crypto); null when it charges nothing.

Business days the firm takes to send a payout once it is approved.

The price of the evaluation as the simulation charges it, or of the account itself on an instant-funding plan; fees.evaluation_price_basis says whether it is the list price or a standing promotion.

Whether the simulated evaluation fee is the firm's list price or the standing promotional price its pages show.

The firm's list price for the evaluation, before any promotion.

The price the firm's own pages show with its standing promotion; null when there is no promotion.

The standing promotion the firm's pages show: its code, its discount, what it covers and when it ends.

Whether the evaluation is paid once, or billed again every period while it is open.

Charged again every period while the evaluation is open; null when the evaluation fee is paid once.

How often the recurring fee is charged; null when there is no recurring fee.

The price to restart a failed evaluation; null when the plan offers no reset and a new evaluation is bought instead.

Limits and terms on resets: how many are allowed in a period, whether a promotion applies, whether a reset moves the billing date.

Free resets the firm banks for the trader (for example one per billing period), and when they expire.

Charged once when the account becomes funded; 0 when there is none.

A version of the plan sold at a different price with no activation fee, with its prices.

Optional extras bought with the plan that change its rules (a daily loss limit, another consistency rule), with their prices and effects.

A fee charged every month while the funded account is open; null when there is none.

The price to restart a failed funded account without a new evaluation; null when that is not offered.

True when the firm refunds the evaluation fee with the first payout.

A monthly fee for market data the trader pays to the firm or the platform; null when data is included.

The commissions the firm sets per contract, by contract size.

Whether bots, automated strategies and algorithmic execution may trade the account. Not allowed means a strategy tested on AlgoLift can only be traded there by hand.

Whether trading through major economic releases is allowed, restricted to outside a window around them, or not allowed.

The window around releases and the releases it covers, when news trading is restricted.

The hours in which the account may trade, New York time; null when it may trade whenever the exchange is open.

The time every position must be closed (or is closed by the firm) each day, New York time; null when positions may be held past the close.

Whether a position may be held from one trading day into the next.

Whether a position may be held over the weekend.

Whether opposite positions in the same or related instruments may be held at once, in one account or across accounts.

Whether trades may be copied between accounts: allowed, only between the trader's own accounts at the firm, or not allowed.

The most accounts of any kind a trader may hold at once; null when there is no limit.

The most evaluations a trader may hold at once (or buy in a month, when the firm says so in the note); null when there is no limit.

The most funded accounts a trader may hold at once; null when there is no limit.

The most live accounts a trader may hold at once; null when there is no limit.

The most order executions allowed in one trading day; null when there is no limit.

The shortest time a trade may be held, when the firm restricts very short trades; null when there is no such rule.

Restrictions on trading near an exchange price limit, and what a breach costs.

Trading practices the firm forbids (for example exploiting data delays, coordinated trading, or holding to avoid the rules), as it lists them.

Whether the account may be traded from a virtual private server or a remote machine.

When the firm checks the trader's identity: before purchase, before funding, or before the first payout.

What the firm does when a rule is broken (a soft breach that pauses the day, a hard breach that closes the account, profits withheld), as it states it.

Decisions the firm reserves to itself (reviews before a payout or a live move, closing accounts it judges to break the spirit of the rules).