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CFD/FX · Overview · 7 criteria · three accounts compared
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Account 1
Account 2
Account 3
| Criterion | FundingPips · 2 Step Standard · $100,000 | The5ers · High Stakes New · $100,000 | Tradeify · Daily · $100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| List price | $652 one-time | $405 one-time | $429 one-time |
| Opening loss allowance | $10,000 | $8,000 | $5,000 |
| Difficulty ratio | 1.30 | 1.875 | 2.00 |
| Fee per $1,000 of opening risk | $65.20 | $50.63 | $85.80 |
| Initial profit share | 80% | 80% | 80% |
| First and later payouts | Weekly: 7 days after the first trade on the Master Account; Bi-Weekly: every 14 calendar days after it; On Demand: whenever its consistency score and profitable days are met. | 14 days after activation, then 14 days after last approved payout; scaling resets clock. | Daily: a payout can be requested every day once the balance is above the starting balance plus the 4% buffer; from the second payout cycle, 1% of the account size in new profit is needed first. |
| Payout minimums and caps | Request at least 1% of the account size ($1,000) including FundingPips' split; Rise and bank transfer need $500; no cap stated. | Selected $100k: minimum withdrawal $500, cap $4,000. Sources differ | $100 minimum. Each payout is capped at 3% of the initial balance ($3,000), counted on the amount requested before the 80% share, and only profit above a 4% buffer ($4,000), which stays in the account, can be requested. You must be flat to request, and only one request can be open at a time. |
| Activation fee | None | None | None |
| Platform and data fees | None | None | None |
| Payout processing fees | No FundingPips fee is stated; crypto rewards (USDT or USDC on ERC20) are reduced by service fees, exchange rates and network fees, and transfers are subject to exchange rates and transaction fees. | Payout methods carry a 3.5% fee, and receiving banks may charge more. Hub credit has no fee but is not cash. | None from Tradeify; third-party providers or blockchain networks may charge. |
| Evaluation route | 2 Step Standard with the 5% daily loss limit and no add-ons: Phase 1, Phase 2, then the Master Account. The 3% daily loss limit, Swing and Swap Free are options at checkout. | The New variant (not Classic or the Summer Plan). Two evaluation steps, then the funded account. | Daily $100,000, Tradeify FX (CFDs on MT5): one evaluation phase, then a simulated funded account; no add-ons (80% reward share). |
| Profit targets | 8% then 5% | 10% then 5% | 10% |
| Total and daily loss | Static 10% max loss ($10,000; limit $90,000) in both phases and on the Master Account; 5% daily loss from the higher of the day's opening balance or equity, reset at 00:00 platform time (UTC+3). Touching either limit closes the account. | Maximum loss 8% of the initial balance, a floor of $92,000. Daily loss 4% of the day's starting balance or equity, whichever is higher, taken at the start of the day on MT5 server time (GMT+2 in winter, GMT+3 in summer). Both apply in each step and on the funded account; reaching either ends the account. | No daily loss limit. A 5% trailing max loss ($5,000) on the closed balance: the floor rises each time a closed trade takes the balance to a new high, and stops at the starting balance; open profit does not move it. The breach check runs against live equity, so an open losing trade can breach it. Both stages; a breach closes the account. |
| Minimum days and time limits | At least 3 trading days in each phase (none with the 3% daily loss option); no time limit; the account is closed after 30 days without a completed trade. | At least 3 profitable days in each step, each with profit of at least 0.5% of the initial balance ($500). No time limit. | No time limit and no minimum of days. At least one trade must be placed every 30 days; 30 consecutive days without one breaches the account (a warning email is sent at 28 days). |
| Funded consistency rules | On Demand cycle: a 35% consistency score and 7 profitable days of at least 0.5% ($500) each, both reset after each reward; none on the Weekly and Bi-Weekly cycles. | No consistency rule and no separate profitable-day requirement for payouts. The 3 profitable days apply to scaling. | No consistency rule on the funded account (the 40% rule is for the evaluation only). From the second payout cycle, at least 1% of the account size ($1,000) in new profit is needed before the next payout; profit left above the buffer does not count toward it. |
| Published processing time | Reward requests are processed within 1-3 working days, and funds can take a further 1-2 working days to arrive; card rewards are listed as instant to 1-5 days. | The5ers says review usually takes 24–48 business hours, and payment is typically processed within 3 business days after approval. | Within 24 hours of an eligible request (approved and sent to the payout provider), not counting 22:00 UTC Friday to 22:00 UTC Sunday; Tradeify adds $1,000 to a payout it processes late through its own delay. The provider then typically takes 1 to 2 business days. |
| Fee refund with a reward | The registration fee is refunded with the 4th reward on the Master Account. | Hub credit of 10% of the fee on passing step 1 and 20% on passing step 2; Hub credit can only be used toward a new challenge and cannot be withdrawn. Hub credit is valid for 3 months from the date it is granted and cannot be combined with promotional codes or discount coupons; if it does not cover the full price, the remaining balance is paid with your preferred payment method and must be at least $12. On the funded account, 70% of the part of the fee paid with your original payment method (not Hub credit) is added to equity and can be withdrawn with the first payout, once the account has made at least $150 profit and been active for 14 days. | None stated: no page offers the fee back with a payout, and the terms of use make all purchases final and non-refundable. |
| Cancellation refund | None: payments are final and fees are non-refundable, except where the law requires otherwise. | Under The5ers' general terms, an unused purchase with no trading or breach can be refunded in cash within 5 days, and after that only as Hub credit. The funded account contract is separate. | None: all purchases are final and non-refundable once access is granted, unless a separate signed agreement or the law applicable to you provides otherwise; add-ons are non-refundable too. |
| News trading | Evaluation: no news restriction, but deliberately trading news closes the account in any phase. Master Account: profit from trades opened or closed on the affected currency from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news, or from 5 minutes before a high-impact speech begins to 5 minutes after it ends, is deducted, unless the trade was opened 5 hours or more before. The trader is responsible if a deduction breaches the daily or maximum loss limit. | Holding positions through news is allowed. Opening or closing trades within 2 minutes before or after high-impact news is not. Profits of such trades are not taken into account. | Evaluation: not restricted. Funded account: no opening, closing or changing positions or orders from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact (red-folder) news, on instruments tied to the event's currency or country; profit made in the window is deducted. |
| Overnight and weekend holding | Allowed in the evaluation; on the Master Account, open positions are closed automatically every day (20:45-21:00 UTC in summer time, 21:45-22:00 UTC in winter time) unless the Swing add-on was bought. The closure is not a breach. | Overnight and weekend holding is allowed. Accounts expire after 30 days without activity. | Allowed in both stages, within the account's risk limits. |
| Expert advisors and copying | Third-party EAs only as trade or risk managers; your own EA may fully automate trading with proof of ownership. Copying between your own FundingPips accounts, or from yours out to an external account, is allowed; copying into the account and copying between different traders' accounts are prohibited. | Copying between your own accounts is allowed, except for between Bootcamp accounts. EAs are allowed. | Trade manager EAs are allowed, including bought ones; automated (algo) EAs only if you created them yourself, and Tradeify FX may ask for the source file and an explanation of the strategy. Off-the-shelf algo EAs, shared bots and signal services are not permitted. Trade copiers between your own Tradeify FX accounts are allowed; copying between unrelated users is prohibited. |
| Contractual penalties | Prohibited practices (including gap trading, high-frequency trading, latency arbitrage, hedging, copying other traders and third-party account management) can lead to removed profits, declined rewards, disqualification and termination without a refund, and in serious or repeated cases exclusion from future participation; no fine is stated. FundingPips lists the Striking System among the On Demand reward cycle's requirements: a trade idea (one trade, trades running together on the same instrument in the same direction, or new trades opened within 10 minutes of closing a losing one) whose closed and floating loss reaches 1% of the Master Account size ($1,000) gets a warning and its profit is deducted; warnings are cumulative, the 2nd halves the reward split, the 3rd cuts it to 20% and the 4th breaches the account. | No fine or per-breach penalty in The5ers' terms. Prohibited trading, evading country restrictions or public disparagement can end the account with no refund and forfeit accrued profits; prohibited trading also brings a permanent ban. The trader indemnifies the firm for violations of the terms. | A breach (daily loss limit where the plan has one, max loss, or 30 days without a trade) closes the account for good and forfeits any profit left in it. Prohibited conduct (high-frequency trading, ultra-short-term scalping, latency arbitrage, hedging across accounts, copying between users, account sharing) may lead to payout denial, restriction, termination or a permanent ban, and news-window profit is deducted. |
| Platforms | MetaTrader 5, MatchTrader and cTrader, chosen at checkout; cTrader adds $20 to the price. | MetaTrader 5, cTrader ($10 extra) and TradingView outside the US; TradingView only for US clients. The choice is final once bought. | MetaTrader 5 only (desktop, web terminal and mobile app); MT4 and TradingView are not supported. Tradeify FX, and its MT5, is not available to US residents. |
| Platform access and eligibility | MetaTrader 5, MatchTrader or cTrader (cTrader adds $20); 18 or over; residents of Iran, Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates are not accepted; identity verification (KYC) before trading the Master Account. | MT5 (hedging account). Open to adults (18 or over, or the local age of majority) who pass identity checks, with country exclusions. MetaQuotes restrictions affect US residents. | MetaTrader 5 only. Not available to residents of the United States or of the other restricted countries (see Who can trade). Sources differ on travel: the help centre goes by residence only, while the terms of use also exclude anyone located in a restricted jurisdiction. |
Futures · Overview · 7 criteria · three accounts compared
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Account 1
Account 2
Account 3
| Criterion | Apex Trader Funding · Intraday Trail No Activation Fee · $50,000 | E8 Markets · E8 Zero Max · $50,000 | Lucid Trading · LucidPro (DLL on) · $50,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| List price | $490 one-time | $328 one-time | $172 one-time |
| Opening loss allowance | $2,000 | $1,500 | $2,000 |
| Difficulty ratio | 1.50 | 2.00 | 1.50 |
| Fee per $1,000 of opening risk | $245.00 | $218.67 | $86.00 |
| Initial profit share | 100% | 80% | 90% |
| First and later payouts | No calendar wait: each payout needs 5 trading days, not necessarily in a row, each with at least $200 of net profit, counted since the last payout. Apex calls this up to weekly payouts; there is no deadline. | Daily: a payout can be requested every day, the first one from the start of the Performance stage. | No fixed wait: a payout can be requested any day once the criteria are met, the same for later payouts. With the Daily Loss Limit on, payouts are on demand: a request can be made during the trading session, from profit made that session (6:00 PM to 3:45 PM ET). The plan card gives "Days to Payout 3"; the 40% consistency rule needs profit on at least three days. |
| Payout minimums and caps | Minimum request $500, from a balance of at least $52,600: the safety net of $52,100 (the drawdown limit plus $100) stays for the life of the PA, and only profit above it can be withdrawn. Caps per payout: $1,500 for the first, $2,000 for the second, $2,500 for the third, $2,500 for the fourth, $3,000 for the fifth, $3,000 for the sixth. The PA closes after its sixth payout. | The smallest payout is $100 of your share ($125 requested at 80%). Each payout is capped at $3,000. At most 4 payouts per account for accounts bought from 1 October 2026, 19:00 UTC+2 (5 for accounts bought earlier); after the fourth the account closes and a free Challenge of the same size follows. | At least $500 profit in each payout cycle, kept above a buffer of $52,100 (the initial loss limit plus $100, which cannot be paid out); each request at least $500, at most $2,000 for the first payout and $2,500 for later ones. The funded-account page also says "No simulated payout caps". |
| Activation fee | None | None | None |
| Platform and data fees | None | None | None |
| Payout processing fees | Not stated: no page read names a payout fee. | None from E8; the payout processor (WorkMarket, Rise or Aeropay) may charge, depending on the option used. | No Lucid fee is stated for payouts; they are paid by Plaid (US), WorkMarket by ADP (bank transfer or PayPal) or, for international traders, cryptocurrency. |
| Evaluation route | Intraday Trail $50,000, No Activation Fee, Apex Trader Funding: a 30-day evaluation, then a simulated funded Performance Account (PA) of the same size, opened with no activation fee. Read on the Tradovate vendor; a live account is by invitation. | E8 Zero Max $50,000, futures, at the checkout's standard settings (80% payout): one SimFi Challenge phase, then a simulated SimFi Performance account. | LucidPro $50,000 with the Daily Loss Limit on, chosen at purchase: an evaluation, then a simulated funded account with On Demand Payouts. The plan card's price is the one for this configuration; Lucid calls it the cheapest version of LucidPro, and the limit off costs more. Read on Tradovate; every Lucid account works on every listed platform. |
| Profit targets | 6% | 6% | 6% |
| Loss mechanics | An intraday trailing drawdown of $2,000 below the peak balance, unrealized gains included, enforced in real time; touching it fails the evaluation or closes the PA. The evaluation starts at $50,000 with a $48,000 threshold, which on Tradovate trails indefinitely. On the PA it stops at $50,100. | An end-of-day (EOD) dynamic drawdown of $1,500 below the highest end-of-day balance, updated once a day at market close. In the Challenge it keeps rising with profit and never locks; in the Performance account it locks at the initial balance at the first payout. Equity or balance reaching or falling below it permanently closes the account. | A $2,000 end-of-day trailing max loss limit in the evaluation and on the funded account: it starts at $48,000, rises with the highest end-of-day balance and locks at $50,100 once the account closes above $52,100. Reaching it breaches the account. |
| Minimum days and time limits | No minimum: it can be passed in one trading day, within 30 calendar days of purchase, after which it expires. A PA must record 2 trading days with $50 of net profit in every rolling 30 days, or it closes. | No minimum trading days and no time limit; because of the 40% best day rule, the Challenge takes at least 3 days. At least one trade must be opened and closed every 7 days; after 7 days without, the account is closed. | None: the evaluation can be passed in one trading day, and it has no time limit. An account with no trade (a net profit or loss of at least $1) for 30 calendar days is deleted. |
| Daily loss and contract limits | No daily loss limit in the evaluation. Up to 6 contracts (60 micros) in the evaluation. The PA scales by tier, set before each session from the previous close and able to move down as well as up: 2 contracts and a $1,000 daily loss limit at $0 to $1,499 of profit; 3 contracts and a $1,000 daily loss limit at $1,500 to $2,999 of profit; 4 contracts and a $2,000 daily loss limit at $3,000 to $5,999 of profit; 4 contracts and a $3,000 daily loss limit at $6,000 and up of profit. Orders over the limit are rejected. | No daily loss limit in either stage. Contract limits: in the Challenge 4 contracts ($40,000 of margin); in the Performance account 2 contracts ($20,000), rising to 3 after 1.5% profit and 5 after 3%, from the next trading day. | A fixed daily loss limit of $1,200 in the evaluation, and on the funded account until it closes above $52,100. Above it the LucidScale limit applies, which the daily-loss-limit article gives as 60% of the highest end-of-day profit and the funded-account table and plan card as "60% of Peak EOD Balance"; it never decreases. Reaching a daily limit stops trading until the next session without breaching the account. At most 4 minis or 40 micros, from the start. |
| Funded consistency rules | A 50% consistency rule on the PA: no single profitable day may be 50% or more of the net profit since the last approved payout; until it is met, a payout cannot be requested, but the account stays open. The consistency article's example accepts exactly 50%. | No consistency rule, no minimum of profitable days and no daily profit cap in the Performance account; the 40% best day rule applies only in the Challenge. | Your largest day may be no more than 40% of the profit in the payout cycle; it resets after each payout (35% for accounts bought or reset before 28 November 2025). |
| After a payout | The safety net stays; the consistency count and the 5 qualifying days start again after each approved payout. While a request is pending, trade as if the amount were already deducted: a balance below the threshold cancels it. On Tradovate, a request needs the account flat. A live account is by invitation. | The payout comes off the balance, and from the first payout the loss level stays at the initial balance, so whatever is left above it is the only buffer. Profit above the cap that stays in the account is a buffer only: it cannot be requested later and does not count toward the next payout, which needs at least $100 of new profit. | The amount is deducted within minutes; trade as if it had already been removed. After a request made during the trading session, trading on the account is paused until the end of the trading day. The profit goal and consistency start again. After 5 payouts the account moves to Lucid's live program. |
| Published processing time | Apex reviews a payout within 2 business days and sends approved funds within 3 to 4 business days; the bank or Plane usually takes 3 to 7 more, 5 to 11 business days in all. The same page still describes an older rule (eight trading days, five of them with $50 of profit, between requests) that the PA payout pages do not use. | No deadline is promised. E8 gives medians for 1 January to 1 May 2026: 11 hours from request to approval, and 24 hours to the funds arriving in the Rise or WorkMarket account. The process can take up to 5 business days, and payouts are not processed at weekends. The terms of service say payments are processed within 7 days. | Once approved, the amount is deducted from the account within minutes and paid to the payout method within 2 business days. |
| Fee refund with a reward | None stated: no page read offers the fee back with a payout, and purchases are not refunded. | None: E8 does not refund the fee with the first payout at present. | None: no refund of the fee once the account has been traded. |
| Cancellation refund | None: Apex does not refund purchases, in whole or in part, including evaluations and PA activation fees; an evaluation fee cannot be moved to another size or type. | Sources differ. E8's refund policy: the fee can be refunded, to the original payment method, for an account still in phase 1 with no trading activity and no more than 30 days old, though not when paid in cryptocurrency. Its terms of service: all fees are non-refundable under any circumstance. | No refund once the account has been traded; for an account never traded Lucid may consider a refund at its sole discretion. |
| News and overnight holding | News: allowed with your normal strategy; strategies that chase the market or place orders on both sides of a release are not. Overnight: not allowed; every position must be closed before 4:59 PM ET (agricultural markets earlier), and holding through the close forfeits the account. | News: allowed without restrictions in both stages; E8 recommends avoiding high-impact releases because of slippage. Overnight: not allowed; all open positions are closed each day at 15:10 CT, and trading is permitted from 17:15 to 15:10 CT. | News trading is allowed at every stage. Positions must be closed by 4:45 PM ET, Monday to Friday; Lucid closes any still open at that time, which does not fail the account. Trading reopens at 6:00 PM ET, Sunday to Thursday. |
| Expert advisors and copying | Every order must be placed manually: automation, bots and algorithms are not allowed, nor is high-frequency trading. A trader may copy their own manual orders from one account to their other accounts, which must mirror them exactly; sharing trade copying with other traders is forbidden, and evaluations may not be hedged against each other. | Automated trading is prohibited: semi-automated and fully automated trading, such as bots, AI tools and high-frequency trading (more than 300 trades a day). Copying trades between your own accounts is allowed in both stages, as long as every account belongs to you alone; hedging across accounts is prohibited. | Automated trading systems and trade copiers are allowed if they follow Lucid's rules; high-frequency trading is prohibited, and so is holding opposite positions in the same or correlated contracts across accounts (hedging). Profits mostly from trades of 5 seconds or less are flagged as microscalping. |
| Platforms | One vendor, chosen at checkout: Tradovate, Rithmic or WealthCharts. Level 1 data is included; Market Depth and other data are optional, billed by the platform. | Sources differ. E8's futures platform article: Tradovate is the only platform for futures, and E8 Zero the only futures product, which no longer holds, since E8 Signature is sold for futures too. E8's futures homepage lists NinjaTrader and Tradovate. Futures accounts use a netting system. | Every Lucid account works on every listed platform: NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView on CQG; Quantower, Tradesea, MotiveWave, Sierra Chart, Jigsaw, Bookmap, ATAS, R|Trader Pro and MultiCharts on Rithmic. |
| Platform access and eligibility | Tradovate, Rithmic or WealthCharts, chosen at checkout. Not available in the restricted countries (see Who can trade): someone from one may join with an ID from an approved country and residence, mailing address and bank account there; in a restricted country, no purchases, payouts or trades. Up to 20 PAs at a time. | Sources differ on the platforms: E8's futures platform article names Tradovate as the only one, its futures homepage NinjaTrader and Tradovate. Not available with an identity document from a restricted futures country (see Who can trade). | Tradovate, one of the platforms every Lucid account works on; 18 or over; citizens and residents of 77 listed countries and five listed regions of Ukraine are not eligible; up to 5 funded and 10 evaluation accounts per household. The terms also say the website is "for use only by persons located in the United States", which the help centre's worldwide country list does not reflect. |
Crypto/Perps · Overview · 8 criteria · three accounts compared
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Account 1
Account 2
Account 3
| Criterion | Breakout · 1-Step Turbo · $50,000 | E8 Markets · E8 One · $50,000 | Propr · Pro 1-Step · 50,000 USDC |
|---|---|---|---|
| List price | $180 one-time | $288 one-time | $355 one-time |
| Opening loss allowance | $1,500 | $3,000 | 2,500 USDC |
| Difficulty ratio | 3.00 | 1.50 | 2.40 |
| Fee per $1,000 of opening risk | $120.00 | $96.00 | $142.00 USDC counted at $1 |
| Initial profit share | 80% | 80% | 80% |
| First and later payouts | On demand: once funded, a payout can be requested at any time, on weekdays or weekends, with no open positions and no breach. | No fixed wait: payouts can be requested daily or at any time in the Performance stage once the 40% best day rule is met, which makes 3 days the earliest first payout. E8 says this is not a separate waiting rule. | On demand at any time, with no minimum waiting period and no limit on the number of requests, once KYC is complete. |
| Payout minimums and caps | $50 minimum, after the profit split. No payout cap is stated; combined funded capital is capped at $200,000. | Net profit must be greater than 50% of the daily drawdown ($2,000 on this account). The smallest payout is $100 of your share ($125 requested at 80%). No payout cap. | Minimum 20 USDC. Each payout is 80% of the balance above the starting balance, all of it at once: no partial withdrawals. No profit cap. |
| Trading environment | Simulated at both stages: in the evaluation, "All trading on the Breakout Terminal happens on a demo account funded with simulated capital"; once funded, "Your funded account trades on simulated capital, not real capital". Payward Oceanic may record a trade idea as a book entry or route it to a market maker or exchange for its own book, which does not make the account live. Breakout's homepage says "Once funded you trade with Breakout's capital". | Simulated in both stages: the Challenge and the Performance account trade simulated capital on E8 Terminal, with prices, spreads and funding from the Hyperliquid data feed in real time. No real funds are deployed on your behalf at any point, and no actual trades are executed. | Simulated in both stages: every trade runs on a simulated account and is submitted as a signal. Propr decides, trade by trade, whether to copy it to Hyperliquid at its own risk (labelled A-book, on-chain) or record it internally (B-book), with the same result for you; a copied position belongs to Propr. |
| Activation fee | None | None | None |
| Platform and data fees | None | None | None |
| Trading fees | 0.04% of each buy or sell order on crypto markets and 0.02% on the eight non-crypto markets (since 29 October 2026), in the evaluation and once funded. They reduce the account's balance rather than being charged to you. | A percentage of each position's notional value: on crypto perpetuals 0.045% for taker (market) orders and 0.015% for maker (limit) orders, which E8 says are exactly Hyperliquid's fees; on stocks, indices, gold, oil and other traditional instruments 0.009% taker and 0.003% maker. | Hyperliquid's maker and taker fees, passed through at cost without markup; the asset list gives them per asset, such as 0.015% maker and 0.045% taker on BTC and ETH, and 0.003% maker and 0.009% taker on equities, indices and gold. They are deducted from the balance and count toward profit and loss, and so toward the equity limits. |
| Funding and financing | No funding payments: Breakout charges a fixed financing ("swap") fee of 0.033% of notional a day for each open position, taken in six parts every four hours on the Breakout Terminal. | Funding rates apply on all Hyperliquid assets, like swap fees, and behave as they would in a live environment. E8 Terminal shows each instrument's funding rate with a countdown, and a funding history for the account. | Hyperliquid's periodic funding rates are deducted or credited to the account automatically, and their effect is included in equity. |
| Payout processing fees | Not stated: Breakout names no payout fee. Payouts are USDC on Ethereum (ERC-20), with no adjustment for USDC price moves between request and receipt. | None from E8; the payout processor (WorkMarket, Rise or Aeropay) may charge, depending on the option used. | None: no withdrawal fees; payouts are in USDC on-chain. |
| Evaluation route | 1-Step Turbo $50,000, Breakout (crypto and other markets, simulated): the purchase portal's standard build with an 80/20 profit split, a 9% profit target, a 3% static maximum drawdown and a 3% daily loss limit, in one evaluation phase, then a funded account with Payward Oceanic, Ltd. | E8 One $50,000, Perpetual market, at the checkout's standard settings (6% dynamic drawdown, 80% payout): one SimFi Challenge phase, then a simulated SimFi Performance account. Traded on E8 Terminal only. | Pro 1-Step 50,000 USDC (the Silver size): one evaluation, then a simulated funded account with the same starting balance. Traded on Propr's terminal or through its API. |
| Profit targets | 9% | 9% | 12% |
| Total and daily loss | Maximum drawdown $1,500, 3% of the initial balance, static: the floor does not move as the balance grows. Maximum daily loss: 3% of the balance at 00:30 UTC, open positions left out, recalculated every day at that time. Equity that reaches or exceeds either limit is a breach: in the evaluation the account fails; once funded, terminal access ends 7 calendar days later. The same limits apply once funded, and requesting a payout widens that day's daily limit by the payout amount. | A dynamic drawdown of $3,000 below the highest closed balance: the loss level rises only when a profit is closed, never with open profit, and locks for good at the initial balance once the closed profit reaches $3,000. A daily drawdown of $2,000: each day at 00:00 server time (UTC+3, UTC+2 from early November) the loss level is the day's starting balance less $2,000. Both stages. Equity or balance reaching or falling below either level permanently closes the account. | Maximum drawdown 5% static: the equity limit is 47,500 USDC, set at the start and never moving. Pro 1-Step's own section gives this limit, and we apply it to the funded account too; the rulebook's funded-account section says "6% static for 1-Step". Maximum daily loss 3% of the start-of-day balance, reset at 00:00 UTC: the day's equity floor is that balance less 3%. Both limits are on equity, including floating profit and loss, in both stages; touching either breaches the account for good and closes its positions. |
| Minimum days and time limits | None: no minimum or maximum time and no minimum trading days; the evaluation is passed once the target is reached within the rules. | No time limit and no minimum: the Challenge can be passed in as little as one day. At least one trade must be opened and closed every 60 days; after 60 days without, the account is disabled. | No time limit and no minimum trading days: the evaluation can be passed in a single trade. |
| Leverage and position limits | Leverage is set per market and applied automatically: 2x to 10x on crypto (BTC 10x) and 3x to 10x on the eight non-crypto markets. Each market has a maximum position on the symbols page (for example BTCUSD $1,000,000, S&P500 $2,000,000). Breakout says there are no margin calls or liquidation levels: the account's loss limits apply. | Leverage: Bitcoin and Ethereum 1:15, other crypto 1:2, stocks 1:5, indices, metals and energy 1:15, forex 1:25. Netting only: an opposite position of the same size closes the first. Position limits for Hyperliquid instruments on E8 Terminal differ from E8's other platforms. When the account breaches a loss level, the system closes its positions automatically. | Leverage, applied automatically: BTC, ETH and SOL 10x, other crypto 2x, equities 4x, the SP500 and XYZ100 indices 10x, other indices 5x, gold, silver, CL and Brent 8x, other commodities 5x, FX 25x. The rulebook's summary box and the homepage give 5x for BTC and ETH (major crypto). Each asset has a maximum notional on the asset list (BTC $1,000,000), and Propr may ask you to reduce a position far above its open-interest threshold. A breach closes all open positions. |
| Funded consistency rules | None: no consistency rule on any Breakout account, no minimum trading days and no time limit. | 40% best day rule in the Performance stage: no single day's profit may exceed 40% of the total profit for the payout period. A larger day does not fail the account; trading continues until the total is large enough. The Challenge has no consistency rule. | None: no consistency rule and no minimum trading days. |
| After a payout | The requested amount is deducted from the balance at once, and that day's daily loss limit widens by the payout amount until it is recalculated at 00:30 UTC. The static maximum drawdown floor is not said to change. | The payout is deducted from the balance, but the dynamic drawdown's loss level does not reset, so a buffer has to be left to keep the account; the daily drawdown is then calculated from the new balance. | Each payout sweeps all profit above the starting balance: the balance resets to the starting balance, and the drawdown limits reset with it. All positions must be closed first. |
| Published processing time | A payout request is deducted from the balance at once; Payward Oceanic's approval "can take 12-24 hours, but is usually much quicker", and USDC is then sent to the trader's ERC-20 wallet. Breakout's homepage says "No cycles, no approval queue. Most requests processed within hours." | No deadline is promised. E8 gives medians for 1 January to 1 May 2026: 11 hours from request to approval, and 24 hours to the funds arriving in the Rise or WorkMarket account. The process can take up to 5 business days, and payouts are not processed at weekends. The terms of service say payments are processed within 7 days. | Processed within 24 hours, says the rulebook; the homepage says payouts settle on-chain in USDC within minutes. |
| Fee refund with a reward | None stated: no page offers the fee back with a payout, and evaluation fees are non-refundable. | None: E8 does not refund the fee with the first payout at present. | None: the evaluation fee is a one-time, non-refundable fee. |
| Cancellation refund | None: evaluation fees are non-refundable, and the terms of use allow no refunds except under a separate agreement. If identity verification (KYC) cannot be approved after a manual review, active evaluations are refunded. | Sources differ. E8's refund policy: the fee can be refunded, to the original payment method, for an account still in phase 1 with no trading activity and no more than 30 days old, though not when paid in cryptocurrency. Its terms of service: all fees are non-refundable under any circumstance. | None: evaluation fees are non-refundable once the account is activated, and cancelling the account gives no refund. |
| News trading | None: news trading is allowed in the evaluation and once funded. | Challenge: news can be traded without restrictions. Performance account: no opening or closing of trades, and no stop loss, take profit or stop orders, from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after high-impact news; profits made may be removed. | None: news can be traded in both stages. |
| Overnight and weekend holding | Allowed: positions may be held overnight, over weekends and over holidays, with no forced close, in the evaluation and once funded. Open positions pay a daily financing fee. | Allowed in both stages: positions can be held overnight and over the weekend. Gaps, slippage or widened spreads that cause a violation are the trader's responsibility. | Allowed: no overnight or weekend holding restriction; crypto markets trade 24/7. |
| Expert advisors and copying | Bots and expert advisors are not addressed; a third-party or off-the-shelf approach marketed to pass evaluations, or to grow a funded account, is prohibited. Copying trades between your own accounts is not addressed; hedging across accounts (your own included), copy trading across users and trade ideas copied from third parties are prohibited. | Sources differ on automated trading. E8's help centre allows any expert advisor as long as multiple users do not run the same trades or strategy (one strategy per user); its terms of service invalidate data generated through automation and forbid bots and automation software on the platform. Copying trades between your own accounts is allowed in both stages, as long as every account belongs to you alone; hedging across accounts is prohibited. | Automated trading and bots are allowed; the terms say a bot strategy identical to other users' or an off-the-shelf bot without individual customisation may be flagged as coordinated trading, while the FAQ says off-the-shelf systems are permitted. Copying between your own Propr accounts: sources differ for the evaluation (the rulebook permits it, the evaluation terms forbid mirror trades across your own accounts); the funded terms do not forbid it. Hedging across accounts is prohibited. |
| Contractual penalties | A breach (a loss limit reached, prohibited trading or a breach of the agreement) ends the evaluation, closes open positions and disables the account, with no refund and no reset; a breached funded account receives no payout. A confirmed cross-account hedging violation ends every associated account, forfeits accrued profits and suspends the trader permanently. | Prohibited practices (risking the whole daily drawdown on one trade, hedging across accounts, one expert advisor strategy shared by several users, large-volume trading without a coherent strategy, holding more than 50% of trades for under one minute) lead to termination with a refund of that account's fee, may cost the Performance account or its accrued profits, and E8 may limit risk to 1% per trade idea. Its terms of service say no fee is refundable under any circumstance. | Prohibited conduct (exploiting bugs or latency, sharing accounts or trading several accounts from the same household, device or IP address, identity fraud, hedging across accounts, correlated assets included, or against external exchanges, coordinating with other traders, cycling evaluations, gaming payouts and drawdowns, wash trading, switching approach after passing, and strategies that are difficult to replicate in live markets or carry outsized risk when replicated) can lead to suspension, termination with no payout and a ban. Propr may also cancel or reclassify trades, cut leverage, cap volumes or impose consistency measures. Using a restricted jurisdiction ends the account with no refund or payout. |
| Platforms | Breakout Terminal, Breakout's own platform, on the web and in its mobile app: new evaluations and funded accounts are on it only. Accounts bought on DXtrade before stay there and cannot move to the Breakout Terminal. | E8 Terminal, E8's own platform, is the only platform for perpetuals: they are not available on MT5, cTrader, TradeLocker or Match Trader. E8's platform article says US clients can use only TradeLocker and Match Trader. | Propr's own paper-trading terminal at app.propr.xyz, and its REST API with Python and JavaScript SDKs for automated trading. |
| Platform access and eligibility | Breakout Terminal only, for new accounts. Not for residents of, or people located in, Afghanistan, Belarus, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, the Central African Republic, Cuba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, or the Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine; 18 or older. Identity verification (KYC) before the funded account. Combined funded capital up to $200,000. | E8 Terminal only. Not available with an identity document from a restricted country (see Who can trade); E8 One is not sold for documents from seven further countries. E8's platform article says US clients can use only TradeLocker and Match Trader. | Propr's terminal or its API. Not available to people from or located in the restricted jurisdictions (see Who can trade); KYC is needed before the funded account. Up to 300,000 USDC of funded accounts and 200,000 USDC of evaluation accounts per trader. |
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