TradeDay QP Intraday 150K rules
The TradeDay QP Intraday 150K costs $162 a month, with no activation fee. To pass, make $9,000 without the balance falling $4,500 below its highest point, open profit included and trade at least 5 days. There is no daily loss limit, the best day may be at most 30% of the profit and there is no time limit.
Funded, the drawdown is $4,500, intraday, the first payout can be asked for after 1 trading day and the trader keeps 50% of the profit.
121 of 122 rules recorded, 121 verified against TradeDay’s pages, most recently on 21 October 2026.
- Evaluation fee
- Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026: $162 a month
- Activation fee
- Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026: $0
- Profit target
- Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026: $9,000
- Maximum drawdown
- Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026: $4,500, intraday
- Daily loss limit
- Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026: No daily loss limit
- Consistency
- Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026: 30%
- Minimum trading days
- Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026: 5 trading days
- First payout after
- Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026: 1 trading day
- Profit split
- Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026: 50%
- Largest payout
- Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026: No cap
Automated trading: Allowed with conditions. TradeDay allows automated and algorithmic trading with conditions. Your own automated system may run on NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView, Jigsaw or Quantower; third-party bots, API access and identical trades across users are banned. TradeDay’s policy
The TradeDay QP Intraday 150K, rule by rule
Each rule says what it means, its value, and the TradeDay page that states it with the day it was checked. A rule no page states is marked so, and a rule not recorded yet is listed as such, never filled in.
Account
- Account size
The account's nominal size: the balance the evaluation starts at.
$150,000
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Instant funding
True when the plan has no evaluation: the fee buys a funded account directly.
No
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Evaluation steps · Evaluation · Every TradeDay account
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.
1
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Funded account type · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
Whether the funded account trades simulated capital, live capital, or simulated capital first and live capital later.
Simulated, then live
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Trading platforms · Every TradeDay account
The trading platforms and data connections the account can be traded on.
One broker per trader, chosen at purchase: Tradovate on CQG data (Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView and Jigsaw with own licenses) or Rithmic (R|Trader Pro, Quantower, ATAS, MotiveWave, Bookmap, Jigsaw, Sierra Chart, EdgeProX, Finamark, Volfix, WealthCharts, MultiCharts, Overcharts); NinjaTrader Desktop is not supported on Rithmic.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Instruments · Every TradeDay account
What the account may trade: the exchanges or product list, and any products excluded.
CME Group futures only (CME, CBOT, COMEX, NYMEX) from the permitted list: equity index minis and micros, currency futures, Treasury futures, energy, metals and agricultural contracts; high-margin and illiquid products are excluded.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Micros per mini · Every TradeDay account
How many micro contracts count as one E-mini toward a contract limit.
10
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Trading day starts · Every TradeDay account
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.
18:00 New York time
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Trading day · Every TradeDay account
The firm's trading day as it states it, from its open to its close, with the time zone it uses.
From the market open at 5 pm CT to the close at 4 pm CT the next day (6 pm to 5 pm New York); some products close earlier.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- A trading day counts when · Every TradeDay account
What makes a day count toward minimum trading days: any day with a trade, or only a day with at least a set profit.
Any day with a trade
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Profit for a trading day to count · Every TradeDay account
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.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Hitting the daily loss limit · Every TradeDay account
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.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
Evaluation
- Profit target
The profit needed to pass the evaluation.
$9,000
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Maximum drawdown
The drawdown: the floor sits this far below the balance it follows (see the drawdown type), and reaching it fails the evaluation.
$4,500
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Drawdown type
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.
Intraday
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Trailing drawdown stops at
Where a trailing floor stops rising: at the starting balance, at the balance of the profit target, or never.
At the starting balance
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- Trailing drawdown stop by platform · Every TradeDay account
Where the trailing floor stops rising when that depends on the platform the account trades on: one row per platform.
None
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- Floor checked against open profit · Every TradeDay account
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.
Yes
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Daily loss limit
The most the account may lose in one trading day; null when the plan has none.
No daily loss limit
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Consistency
The largest share of the total profit one trading day may contribute when the evaluation passes; null when the plan has no consistency rule.
30%
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Going over the consistency share · Every TradeDay account
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 profit target rises
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- How consistency is measured · Every TradeDay account
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).
The best day's profit must be no more than 30% (Quick Pay) or 45% (Fast Pass) of the total net profit made in the evaluation so far, not of the target.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Minimum trading days
Trading days needed before the evaluation can pass; null when there is no minimum.
5 trading days
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- Minimum profitable days · Every TradeDay account
Days that must each make at least a set profit before the evaluation can pass; null when not required.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Time limit
Calendar days the evaluation may run before it expires; null when it has no time limit.
No time limit
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Maximum contracts
The most contracts that may be open at once; null when contract limit growth sets the limit instead.
15 contracts
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Contract limit growth
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.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- When the pass is judged · Every TradeDay account
Whether the evaluation passes the moment the target is reached or at the day's close.
At the day's close
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
Funded account
- Funded starting balance
The balance the funded account starts at. 0 means the account counts profit from zero, with its drawdown floor below zero.
$150,000
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Maximum drawdown
The drawdown: the floor sits this far below the balance it follows (see the drawdown type), and reaching it closes the funded account.
$4,500
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Drawdown type
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.
Intraday
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- Trailing drawdown stops at
A trailing floor stops rising once it reaches the funded starting balance plus this amount; 0 means it stops at the funded starting balance.
$0
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- Drawdown after a payout
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.
Payouts do not move the floor
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Floor locks when a payout is requested · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
True when the trailing floor locks at its stopping level the moment a payout is requested, not only when the balance reaches it.
No
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Drawdown measured on · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
What the trailing drawdown follows on the funded account: the balance, or gross profit with payouts added back (so a payout uses up the cushion instead of lowering the trail).
Gross profit, payouts added back
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- Floor checked against open profit · Every TradeDay account
True when touching the drawdown floor at any moment, open profit and loss included, closes the funded account.
Yes
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Daily loss limit
The most the account may lose in one trading day; null when the plan has none. When the limit changes with profit, this is the first tier and funded.daily_loss_tiers holds the rest.
No daily loss limit
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Daily loss limit by profit · Every TradeDay 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.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Maximum contracts
The most contracts that may be open at once; null when contract scaling or contract limit growth sets the limit instead.
15 contracts
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Contract scaling
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.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Scaling moves down · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
True when the contract limit (or the daily loss tier) can fall again when profit falls; false when a level once reached is kept.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Contract limit growth
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.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Reduced size until the buffer
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.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Simulated stage profit cap · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
The gross profit at which the simulated funded stage ends (profit above it is removed and the account moves on); null when there is none.
$10,000
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Funded account resets · Every TradeDay account
How many times a failed funded account can be restarted for a fee without a new evaluation; null when it cannot.
None
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- Reactivation window · Every TradeDay account
Calendar days after losing a funded account within which it can be reactivated for a fee; null when it cannot.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Moving to a live account · Live account · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
When and how a funded trader moves from the simulated account to a live one, and what changes when they do.
Each Funded Sim account is paused and reviewed at $10,000 gross profit (profit above it is removed); most move to a new Funded Live account, some get a sim extension. Only the profit left after payouts carries over, split 50/50 below $4,000 and 80/20 above, with the floor set at $0; live limits (2 to 4 minis) and a slippage buffer ($500 to $1,000) depend on the balance carried; live withdrawals above the buffer pay 90/10.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Live account contract limit · Live account · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
The most contracts a live account may hold at first.
2 contracts
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
Payouts
- Trading days between payouts · Funded account
Trading days needed since the last payout (since funding, for the first) before a payout can be requested; null when there is no minimum.
1 trading day
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Calendar days between payouts · Funded account
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.
No minimum
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- Payout schedule · Funded account · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
How often payouts can be requested and are processed, as the firm states it (daily, weekly, every 14 days, on set weekdays).
Daily: a payout can be requested from the first funded day whenever the account shows profit; requests before 5:30 pm CT are processed within one business day.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Winning days · Funded account
Winning days needed since the last payout before a payout can be requested; null when not required.
No minimum
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- A winning day makes at least · Funded account
The profit a trading day must make to count as a winning day; null when winning days are not required.
None
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- Payout consistency · Funded account
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.
No consistency rule
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- Payout consistency measured on · Funded account · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
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.
None
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- Profit counted from · Funded account
Where the profit counted toward a payout is measured from: the last payout, or the start of the funded account.
Since the account was funded
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- Profit before a payout · Funded account
The profit, counted from the profit basis, needed before a payout can be requested; null when there is no minimum.
None
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- Smallest payout · Funded account · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
The smallest payout the firm will process in one request; null when there is no minimum.
$250
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- Buffer kept in the account · Funded account
Profit above the funded starting balance that must stay in the account; a payout comes only from profit above it. 0 means no buffer.
$0
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- Largest payout · Funded account
The largest single payout; null when there is no fixed cap.
No cap
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- Payout share of profit · Funded account
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.
None
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- Payout share of the balance · Funded account · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
A payout may be at most this share of the account balance; null when there is no such cap.
None
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- Payout multiple of recent profit · Funded account
A payout may be at most this multiple of the profit made since the last payout; null when there is no such cap.
None
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- Profit split · Funded account
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.
50%
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Profit split by profit · Funded account
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.
50% from $0 profit, 80% from $4,000 profit
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- Profit in every payout cycle · Funded account · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
True when every payout after the first needs a net profit since the last payout.
No
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- Balance left after a payout · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
The balance an account must keep after a payout, when the firm sets one apart from the buffer; null when there is none.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Early withdrawal · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
A withdrawal the firm allows before the usual payout conditions are met (for example one payout while still inside the buffer), with its limits.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Buffer paid when the account closes · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
The trader's share of the profit inside the buffer, paid only when the account is closed; null when the buffer is never paid out.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Buffer paid when the account closes · Live account · Every TradeDay account
The trader's share of the profit inside the buffer, paid only when the account is closed; null when the buffer is never paid out.
90%
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- Alternative payout path · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
Another set of payout rules the trader can choose instead (usually at activation, then fixed), with its terms.
None
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- Payout fees · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
What the firm charges to send a payout, by method (bank transfer, wire, crypto); null when it charges nothing.
US wire no fee; international wire $15; crypto on a layer 1 network $2.50 plus network fees; crypto on a layer 2 network no fee.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Payout processing time · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
Business days the firm takes to send a payout once it is approved.
1
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- Payouts before the account closes · Funded account
The funded account closes (or moves to live) after this many payouts; null when there is no such limit.
No limit
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- Total payouts before the account closes · Funded account
The funded account closes once its payouts add up to this amount; null when there is no such limit.
No limit
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Fees
- Evaluation fee · Evaluation
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.
$162
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Evaluation fee basis · Evaluation · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
Whether the simulated evaluation fee is the firm's list price or the standing promotional price its pages show.
Standing promotion
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- Evaluation list price · Evaluation
The firm's list price for the evaluation, before any promotion.
$360
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- Evaluation promotional price · Evaluation
The price the firm's own pages show with its standing promotion; null when there is no promotion.
$162
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- Promotion · Evaluation · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
The standing promotion the firm's pages show: its code, its discount, what it covers and when it ends.
code TDNEW on tradeday.com.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.com
- Billing · Evaluation
Whether the evaluation is paid once, or billed again every period while it is open.
Billed every period
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- Recurring fee · Evaluation
Charged again every period while the evaluation is open; null when the evaluation fee is paid once.
$162
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- Recurring fee period · Evaluation
How often the recurring fee is charged; null when there is no recurring fee.
30 calendar days
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- Reset fee · Evaluation
The price to restart a failed evaluation; null when the plan offers no reset and a new evaluation is bought instead.
$162
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- Reset terms · Evaluation · Every TradeDay account
Limits and terms on resets: how many are allowed in a period, whether a promotion applies, whether a reset moves the billing date.
Resets can be bought any number of times while the subscription is active; a reset restarts the evaluation at once and does not move the 30-day billing date.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Reset credits · Evaluation · Every TradeDay account
Free resets the firm banks for the trader (for example one per billing period), and when they expire.
Each monthly renewal gives a free reset if the account is not being evaluated when the payment lands; it is not banked for later.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Activation fee · Funded account
Charged once when the account becomes funded; 0 when there is none.
$0
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- No activation fee option · Evaluation · Every TradeDay account
A version of the plan sold at a different price with no activation fee, with its prices.
None
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- Add-ons · Evaluation · Every TradeDay account
Optional extras bought with the plan that change its rules (a daily loss limit, another consistency rule), with their prices and effects.
None
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- Funded monthly fee · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
A fee charged every month while the funded account is open; null when there is none.
None
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- Funded account reset fee · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
The price to restart a failed funded account without a new evaluation; null when that is not offered.
None
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- Reactivation fee · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
The price to reactivate a lost funded account within the reactivation window; null when that is not offered.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Evaluation fee refunded with a payout · Funded account · Every Quick Pay Intraday size
True when the firm refunds the evaluation fee with the first payout.
No
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- Market data fee · Evaluation · Every TradeDay account
A monthly fee for market data the trader pays to the firm or the platform; null when data is included.
None
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- Market data fee · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
A monthly fee for market data the trader pays to the firm or the platform; null when data is included.
None
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- Market data fee · Live account · Every TradeDay account
A monthly fee for market data the trader pays to the firm or the platform; null when data is included.
$156
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- Commissions · Every TradeDay account
The commissions the firm sets per contract, by contract size.
Broker round trip per side: $2.88 per E-mini equity index contract and $0.95 per micro; currency futures $3.10 (M6E $0.84); Treasuries $2.15 to $2.45; CL $3.00, MCL $1.10; metals $3.10 (MGC $1.20, SIL $1.46); agriculturals $3.60. Simulated commission is charged in evaluations and Funded Sim; live may differ slightly.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
Trading restrictions
- Automated trading · Every TradeDay account
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.
Allowed with conditions
Your own automated system may run on NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView, Jigsaw or Quantower; third-party bots, API access and identical trades across users are banned.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- News trading · Every TradeDay account
Whether trading through major economic releases is allowed, restricted to outside a window around them, or not allowed.
Restricted around releases
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- News rule · Every TradeDay account
The window around releases and the releases it covers, when news trading is restricted.
Flat from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after each tier 1 release: FOMC minutes and rate decision (2:00 pm New York), CPI and payrolls (8:30 am), all products; EIA crude inventories for oil (10:30 or 11:00 am), EIA gas inventories for gas (10:30 am), crop production for grains (12:00 pm).
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Trading hours · Every TradeDay account
The hours in which the account may trade, New York time; null when it may trade whenever the exchange is open.
None
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- Flat by · Every TradeDay account
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.
16:50 New York time
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- Holding overnight · Every TradeDay account
Whether a position may be held from one trading day into the next.
Not allowed
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- Holding over the weekend · Every TradeDay account
Whether a position may be held over the weekend.
Not allowed
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- Hedging · Every TradeDay account
Whether opposite positions in the same or related instruments may be held at once, in one account or across accounts.
Not allowed
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- Copy trading · Every TradeDay account
Whether trades may be copied between accounts: allowed, only between the trader's own accounts at the firm, or not allowed.
Only between the trader's own accounts
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- Accounts at once · Every TradeDay account
The most accounts of any kind a trader may hold at once; null when there is no limit.
10
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- Evaluations at once · Evaluation · Every TradeDay account
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.
10
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- Funded accounts at once · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
The most funded accounts a trader may hold at once; null when there is no limit.
5
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- Live accounts at once · Live account · Every TradeDay account
The most live accounts a trader may hold at once; null when there is no limit.
5
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- Executions a day · Every TradeDay account
The most order executions allowed in one trading day; null when there is no limit.
200
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- Loss per trade · Every TradeDay account
Any limit on one trade's loss or open risk (a share of the drawdown, a required stop), as the firm states it.
None
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Price limits · Every TradeDay account
Restrictions on trading near an exchange price limit, and what a breach costs.
No trading within 2% of a price limit (account loss).
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Prohibited strategies · Every TradeDay account
Trading practices the firm forbids (for example exploiting data delays, coordinated trading, or holding to avoid the rules), as it lists them.
Third-party or shared bots, high-frequency scalping (over 200 trades a day or seconds-long tick scalps), gaming sim fills or queue position, spoofing and layering, order splitting, trading gapped illiquid markets for stray fills, bracketing news, trading off the best bid or offer or on a slow feed, cross-account hedging or coordinated trading, multiple usernames, VPN/VPS location masking, trading within 2% of a price limit when funded, and sitting in the funding zone with tiny size.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Virtual servers · Every TradeDay account
Whether the account may be traded from a virtual private server or a remote machine.
Not allowed
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
1 rule not recorded yet(show)
- Shortest trade: not stated by the firm
Conduct
- Inactivity closure · Every TradeDay account
Consecutive calendar days without a trade after which the firm may close the account; null when there is no such rule.
30 calendar days
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Minimum activity · Every TradeDay account
Any other activity the firm requires to keep the account open (a trade every week, qualifying days in a rolling window), as it states it.
No minimum trading requirement or inactivity fee, but a Tradovate account not logged into for more than one calendar month is archived and treated as failed.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Activation deadline · Funded account · Every TradeDay account
Calendar days after passing the evaluation within which the funded account must be activated (and its fee paid); null when there is none.
30 calendar days
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Identity check · Every TradeDay account
When the firm checks the trader's identity: before purchase, before funding, or before the first payout.
After passing and before funding: Riseworks runs KYC and AML checks for payouts, and the broker and clearing firm do so for Funded Live, with government ID and proof of address.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Breaking a rule · Every TradeDay account
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.
Hitting the maximum drawdown fails the evaluation or loses the funded account at once. Accidental breaches of times, products, position size or news are liquidated without failing, but repeat abuse loses the account; prohibited practices forfeit their profits and can mean a ban; a funded trader trading within 2% of a price limit loses the account.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
- Firm's discretion · Every TradeDay account
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).
Every first payout and every passed evaluation is reviewed and can be refused; TradeDay may extend an evaluation it thinks was coasted, choose when to move a trader to Funded Live, reduce position limits after withdrawals or losses, raise the live slippage limit, and decide what counts as prohibited conduct.
Verified, checked 21 Oct 2026Source: tradeday.freshdesk.com
Simulating the TradeDay QP Intraday 150K
AlgoLift's prop simulator runs a strategy's trades through this plan's rules: 56 of its recorded rules exactly as stated, 10 as an approximation. The rules listed as not modelled change an account's outcome but are not simulated yet, so a simulated pass rate leaves them out.
How the prop simulator worksApproximated
- Evaluation steps: The simulator runs one evaluation phase, or none on an instant-funding plan; a second step is not simulated.
- Hitting the daily loss limit: The simulator stops trading for the day at the limit and keeps the account open; a limit that fails the account is not simulated.
- Floor checked against open profit: The simulator checks the floor against each trade's worst excursion inside the trade.
- Going over the consistency share: The simulator caps the day at the share of the target and stops trading for the day, which reads the same as a pass that waits.
- When the pass is judged: The simulator passes the evaluation on the trade that reaches the target, once every other condition holds.
- Floor checked against open profit: The simulator checks the floor against each trade's worst excursion inside the trade.
- Payout schedule: The simulator applies the calendar days between payouts; processing days are not simulated.
- Profit in every payout cycle: Holds whenever the profit counted from the last payout must be positive (payouts.min_profit since the last payout).
- Trading hours: The backtest's session window applies the hours before the simulation; the simulation itself does not read them (retired 2026-08-15).
- Flat by: The simulator reads a trading-hours end as the time trading stops.
Not modelled yet
- Buffer paid when the account closes: 90%
- Payout fees: US wire no fee; international wire $15; crypto on a layer 1 network $2.50 plus network fees; crypto on a layer 2 network no fee.
- Market data fee: $156
- Commissions: Broker round trip per side: $2.88 per E-mini equity index contract and $0.95 per micro; currency futures $3.10 (M6E $0.84); Treasuries $2.15 to $2.45; CL $3.00, MCL $1.10; metals $3.10 (MGC $1.20, SIL $1.46); agriculturals $3.60. Simulated commission is charged in evaluations and Funded Sim; live may differ slightly.
- News trading: Restricted around releases
- News rule: Flat from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after each tier 1 release: FOMC minutes and rate decision (2:00 pm New York), CPI and payrolls (8:30 am), all products; EIA crude inventories for oil (10:30 or 11:00 am), EIA gas inventories for gas (10:30 am), crop production for grains (12:00 pm).
- Holding overnight: Not allowed
- Holding over the weekend: Not allowed
- Executions a day: 200
- Price limits: No trading within 2% of a price limit (account loss).
- Inactivity closure: 30 calendar days
- Minimum activity: No minimum trading requirement or inactivity fee, but a Tradovate account not logged into for more than one calendar month is archived and treated as failed.
What the simulation leaves out
- Going over the consistency share raises this firm's target; the simulation caps that day's profit at the share and stops trading for the day instead.
- The firm judges the pass at the day's close; the simulation passes when the target is reached, assuming the trader stops trading for the day there.
- Payout fees are not deducted: the simulation assumes a fee-free payout method, which every firm offers.
- The firm's commissions are not added: the run's own commission setting applies.
- News rules are not simulated: a trade held through a restricted release is not caught.
- The firm's trading hours and flat-by time are applied by the backtest's session window, not by this simulation: a run that held past them is flagged, never re-priced.
- The daily execution limit is not simulated.
- Price-limit rules are not simulated.
- Inactivity rules are not simulated: a strategy that sits out keeps its account here.
Notes on this plan’s simulation
- The Funded Live stage (at $10k gross profit, 90/10) is out of scope.
About the TradeDay QP Intraday 150K.
The TradeDay QP Intraday 150K costs $162 a month, with no activation fee. A reset costs $162. Passing on the first attempt within a month costs $162 in all ($162 evaluation (1 month)).
The TradeDay QP Intraday 150K evaluation's maximum drawdown is $4,500, intraday: the account fails if the balance falls $4,500 below the highest balance it reached, open profit included. The trailing floor stops rising at the starting balance. In the funded account it is $4,500, intraday.
The TradeDay QP Intraday 150K evaluation has no daily loss limit. The TradeDay QP Intraday 150K funded account has no daily loss limit.
On the TradeDay QP Intraday 150K, a first payout can be asked for after 1 trading day. The TradeDay QP Intraday 150K profit split is 50%. Its largest payout is no cap.
In the TradeDay QP Intraday 150K evaluation, the best day may be at most 30% of the total profit. Payouts from the TradeDay QP Intraday 150K carry no consistency rule.
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Test your strategy against the TradeDay QP Intraday 150K rules before you pay the fee.
AlgoLift runs your strategy’s trades through an account’s rules, thousands of times in different orders: how often it would pass, the rule that ends it most often, and what passing is likely to cost in fees and resets. An estimate from past trades, never a promise.
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.
