Your Friend Got Paid. Would the Same Prop Account Work for You?

Which payout policy did you choose after passing?

If your friend just says “Select,” ask which payout policy they chose when they passed.

Select $50,000, Tradeify futures: one evaluation; on passing, the trader chooses, for good, the Select Flex or Select Daily payout policy for the simulated funded account. Both are on file here; neither is the default.

If your friend chose Flex and later had a week when Daily would have suited them better, they still had to meet the Flex rules on that account. You can weigh both policies before you spend the evaluation fee. Ask what made your friend's choice work during the week they first requested money.

What did your trading days look like?

Depends on the policy chosen on passing. Select Flex: every 5 winning days of at least $150. Select Daily: daily, once the balance is above the $2,100 buffer. After the first payout, both need positive net profit in the payout cycle.

On Flex, ask how many of your friend's profitable days earned enough to count. On Daily, ask how long it took to build enough profit above the buffer for the request they wanted. A friend who says “I could request every day” may be describing the days after they built that cushion. Ask about the wait from their first funded trade.

PFW's study of first payout requests illustrates the difference. In its example with one large winning day, Daily allowed a first request at the Friday check while Flex still needed qualifying days.

Now open your trading journal. If most of your profit comes on one standout day, count how many of your other days would qualify on Flex. You and your friend might both describe the week as profitable and face a different wait.

Next, look at the losing trades along the way. This is where the policies can give two traders different experiences even before either can ask for money.

No daily loss limit in the evaluation. Funded: none on Select Flex, $1,000 on Select Daily (a soft breach, and not a hard stop: losses may exceed it before trading pauses). Up to 4 minis / 40 micros in the evaluation; funded accounts start at 2 minis / 20 micros and scale to 4 minis / 40 micros with end-of-day equity.

In the study's mixed history, Flex completed a losing trade, recovered later and qualified. On Daily, the daily loss limit interrupted that trade before its planned exit. The results for each payout policy stop at eligibility to submit a request. Your friend can tell you about the payment they received, a later step the study didn't test.

For Daily, look at where your account stood while a losing trade was open. A trade that recovered by the close may have taken the account through its daily limit first. Flex has no daily loss limit, but both policies have an overall loss limit.

An end-of-day trailing max drawdown of $2,000 in the evaluation, enforced in real time against net liquidation value; touching it fails the account. The funded account's drawdown depends on the payout policy: $2,000 on Select Flex, $2,000 on Select Daily. It locks at $50,100 once the end-of-day balance exceeds the drawdown by $100, or at the first payout request; it never locks on the evaluation.

On Flex, check whether the trade stayed inside that overall limit throughout. A later recovery cannot undo a loss-limit breach.

When did you buy the account?

How much your friend could request depends on their policy and on when they ordered. A payment received this week can come from an evaluation bought months ago.

Minimum payout $250. Select Flex: up to 50% of total profit (balance less starting balance), capped at $2,500 per payout. Select Daily: up to twice the profit made since the last payout, capped at $1,250, and never into the $2,100 buffer. These caps are for accounts bought from 1 September 2026.

First compare the policies. Flex bases requests on total profit, while Daily uses profit since the last payout, under a lower cap and above the buffer. A friend's amount on one policy tells you little about a request on the other.

Then check the date attached to those caps. For an earlier order, you need the cap terms that went with it. If your friend remembers when they were paid but not when they ordered, the original order confirmation has the date. Even under matching caps, a friend who requested less than the maximum has not shown how much they could have requested.

What the answers tell you

If your friend chose the policy you would choose, bought under the same cap terms and earns profit much as you do, their payout is relevant evidence. It is still one trader's experience.

If your journal fits the other policy better, you can still consider the same evaluation. You would make a different permanent choice after passing. Your friend's payout then tells you little about the policy you would use, so check its wait, loss limits and caps against your own weeks.

If Flex's qualifying-day wait is too long for you and Daily's daily limit would interrupt your usual trades, neither policy fits that pattern. Compare other accounts before treating the recommendation as a reason to buy.