August 2026 · 16 firms scored · updated by a funded trader
Best futures prop firms,
ranked by a funded trader.
The best futures prop firms earn their rank here on rules, payout record and real cost — scored by a trader holding live funded accounts, not a coupon blog. 16 firms. One of them deserves your eval fee — and never at list price: there's a verified discount on every row.
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- 019.0Visit MyFundedFutures
Best-in-class payout mechanics: daily payouts, instant auto-approval, 90/10 from dollar one
- 029.0Visit Take Profit Trader
Day-one uncapped withdrawals and a genuine live 90/10 tier (PRO+)
- 038.0Visit Tradeify
The simple-and-safe pick: EOD-only drawdown on every product, one-time fee, 90/10
- 048.0Visit Topstep
The best counterparty in the industry: 13 years, zero denial pattern
- 057.0Visit Phidias Propfirm
Best rules of all 16: no intraday trailing, no daily loss limits, fastest live path
- 067.0Visit TradeDay
Real live-capital path, day-one uncapped payouts, rare founder honesty on pass rates
- 077.0Visit FundedNext Futures
Lowest 150K target ($8K), EOD + no DLL, no payout buffer, 24h payout guarantee
- 086.0Visit Earn2Trade
The trustworthy tortoise: 10 years old, honest pass-rate disclosure, weekly payouts
- 096.0Visit Top One Futures
Cheapest entry of all (~$39 evals with BOGO), EOD everywhere, daily payouts on Elite Daily
- 105.0Visit Apex Trader Funding
Unbeatable for mass scaling (20 accounts), but the 6-payout lifetime cap is a treadmill
- 115.0Visit Elite Trader Funding
An 80%-off first month makes a 100K about $41 — cheap to try, grindy to extract from
- 124.0Visit Bulenox
Three products now (Qualification, Fast Track, Momentum), 100% of first $10K, but §5.6 discretion and Rithmic-only
- 134.0Visit Funded Futures Network (FFN)
STEADY replaced Express MAX on 1 Jul 2026; no activation fee, and data fees are live-only
- 145.0Visit Lucid Trading
Cheap one-time evals and no fixed payout window — but young and churny
- 152.0Why avoid →Alpha FuturesAvoid
Excellent paper terms voided by the July 2026 payout rug — counterparty risk is disqualifying
- 163.0Why avoid →Legends TradingAvoid
Cheap (~$150 one-time 150K) but a reported pattern of closures right before payout
Every rule that matters, side by side
The four numbers that decide whether you keep your payout: real eval cost, drawdown type, consistency rule, payout policy.
| Firm | Score | Eval (50K, ~/mo) | Drawdown | Profit split | Payouts | Consistency | Platforms | Discount norm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MyFundedFutures | 9.0 | $104.5 | mixed | 90/10 (Rapid and Rapid EOD); 80/20 (Builder and Pro) | Rapid and Rapid EOD: daily payouts, first eligible 24h after the first funded trade, $500 min, buffer $1,100 to $4,600 by size. Builder: requestable 48h after the first trade, min 2 qualifying days per cycle, $250 min (25K) / $500 min (50K), capped at $1,000 / $2,000 per cycle, max 5 sim payouts. Pro: every 14 calendar days, $1,000 min, up to $100,000 per user, 60% withdrawable while still in buffer. Most requests auto-approved instantly. | 50% eval-only on Rapid and Pro; 30% eval-only on Rapid EOD; none in the Builder evaluation but 50% at the Builder payout stage; none when funded on Rapid, Rapid EOD and Pro, with instant auto-approval | Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView, Quantower | CLUB is now the single site-wide code at 50% off, and it replaces both the previously auto-applied 50% promo and the separate 20%-off EOD code. It is pre-applied to every checkout link on the site and halves the list price on Rapid, Rapid EOD, Builder and Pro alike. No date-based expiry is published anywhere, but as of 2026-08-26 the code is no longer unlimited: the homepage banner was rewritten to 'No more subscriptions. One-time purchases are here. + 4 uses of 50% off with code CLUB', so CLUB now carries a published cap of 4 uses per trader. The banner no longer says 'here for a limited time only' (that phrase survives only on the Rapid EOD plan page), and 'Promotions every month' no longer appears on the homepage or the plans index. |
| Take Profit Trader | 9.0 | $102 | mixed | 80/20 (PRO sim) → 90/10 (PRO+ live) | Withdrawals from day one of PRO, daily/unlimited requests, ~12h processing, no max cap; free over $250. Full 80% split above a buffer equal to max drawdown; PRO+ live is 90/10 with no buffer. | 50% in eval (no single day >50% of net profit); none when funded, on PRO or PRO+. Breaching it does not fail the eval, it raises the profit goal to twice net P/L. Minimum trading days is 3, but only for NEW test accounts purchased from 2026-08-17 onward; existing tests and any resets of them keep the old 5-day minimum. | NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView, Sierra Chart, Quantower | Code NOFEE40: 40% off for life on that test account's monthly subscription, plus the $130 PRO activation fee waived for life on it (delivered as a $130 credit, not an auto-skip). The waiver survives unlimited resets, there is no cap on how many no-fee accounts you can hold, and test accounts bought with credits are excluded. NOFEE40 publishes NO end date, and its FAQ still answers verbatim that there is no time limit on when the benefits expire, so this remains a standing offer rather than a countdown. One caveat as of 2026-08-26: that FAQ was re-edited to add limited-time framing ('during this NOFEE40 limited-time promo', 'during the promo window') without adding any date, which is the first signal TPT has given that the offer is finite. TPT's own worked example fixes the depth exactly: NOFEE40 on a $50k test is '$102 flat' (170 x 0.60). The deeper 50AND3 flash sale (50% off plus the same waiver) ran 12 to 25 August 2026 and is now over; the banner reverted to NOFEE40 on 26 August. 50% is the promotional ceiling TPT has shown, 40% is the standing floor. |
| Tradeify | 8.0 | — | EOD | 90/10 sim-funded; 80/20 on Elite (live) | Growth and Select Flex: payout per 5-winning-day cycle with per-cycle caps; Select Daily: payout any day once a $1,100 to $3,600 buffer is reached ($5,100 on the 300K), min $250 on 25K to 150K. The Select 300K Daily path replaces the 2x continuity multiplier with a flat $3,500 daily cap plus a 50% new-profit rule; 300K Flex needs $750 winning days and caps at 50% of profits up to $10,000. Processing 24 to 48h via Rise. | Growth: none in eval, 35% funded; Select: 40% in eval, none funded; Lightning: 20-30% at payouts | Tradovate, Rithmic, Tradesea, NinjaTrader, TradingView, Quantower, Sierra Chart, WealthCharts | Code AUG: 40% off for the first 5 uses, then 30% off, banner-published site-wide and ending 31 August 2026 11:59PM EST. It does NOT apply to the Select 300K, which carries couponCode 'none'. A 5-account bundle takes a further 5% off Growth and Select 25K/50K. The RENDERED homepage cards are still unpopulated Webflow placeholders (identical $251 from $359, 'Lorem ipsum', 'Profit Target $0', 'code DASH') and must never be scraped, but the real per-size prices and rules ARE now readable server-side from the inline GrowthData, SelectData, LightningData and couponDetails script objects in the homepage HTML. Coupon-site claims of 65-75% are bogus. |
| Topstep | 8.0 | $32 | EOD | 90/10 from dollar one (post-Jan-2026 accounts) | Per-request during CME hours. Standard path: 5 winning days of $150+ per cycle, caps $2,000/$3,000/$5,000 (50K/100K/150K); Consistency path: 3 trading days + 40% consistency, caps $3,000/$4,000/$6,000. The optional Daily Loss Limit add-on doubles these caps on qualifying new purchases (up to $12,000). Max 50% of balance per request; min $125; MLL resets to $0 permanently after every payout. | Eval: best day must stay at/below 50% of the profit target — exceeding it does NOT fail you, it raises the target (new target = best day / 0.50). Funded: Standard payout path has no consistency %, needs 5 winning days of $150+; Consistency payout path needs 3 trading days at 40% or below (blocks payout until met). | TopstepX (in-house only), Quantower via TopstepX credentials | 30-50% first-month promos near-constant (champions35 = 35%) |
| Phidias Propfirm | 7.0 | — | mixed | 80/20 (E2L/Fundamental); Premium scales 75% → 100% from 5th payout | CASH accounts: the payout cadence is set by plan type, not by payout number. Fundamental requires 10 trading days BETWEEN payouts; Premium requires 5. A day counts only with positive PnL of at least $150 on 50K, $200 on 100K or $250 on 150K. Min $500. The per-period withdrawal cap is $2,000/$2,500/$2,750 by size on BOTH Fundamental and Premium; Premium's progressive 75% to 100% split is applied to that same cap rather than being a separate lower one. E2L has zero minimum trading days and its first payout converts the account to a LIVE Dorman account, which pays daily with no per-cycle or lifetime cap. The route to Live is now 5 payouts OR $100,000 cumulative (the old 3 payouts / $75,000 rule is deprecated), and E2L payouts do not count toward that review. | None during evaluation. Funded CASH stage: the 30% rule — no single day may exceed 30% of accumulated profit — applies to Fundamental and Premium CASH accounts only. Express to Live (including 25K Static) has no consistency rule at any stage. | Rithmic, Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView, DeepCharts | One promo at a time. Up to 80% off one-time-payment accounts and up to 60% off monthly evals, applied automatically in the on-site configurator with the list price struck through, so no code has to be typed at checkout. The promo label churns and is not a reliable identifier: it reads KICKOFF as of 2026-08-25. Ignore PHIDIAS80, which was only a hardcoded JavaScript fallback the site overwrites at runtime, never the live code. |
| TradeDay | 7.0 | $59 | mixed | Quick Pay: 50/50 while current profit is under $4K → 80/20 above → 90/10 live; Fast Pass: 80/20 sim → 90/10 live | Quick Pay: payout from any positive balance after one funded trading day, min $250, no per-request cap, requests before 5:30pm CT processed within 24h. Fast Pass: 5 profitable days per payout ($150/$200/$250 min per day by size), capped at 50% of balance — max $1,500/$1,850/$2,250 per request on accounts opened on or after 2026-07-26 (accounts opened before that date keep the older $2,000/$2,500/$3,000 caps). Live review triggers at $10,000 gross profit per account; profit above $10K is forfeited. | Eval: 30% (Quick Pay) / 45% (Fast Pass). Funded: none on Quick Pay; Fast Pass Funded Sim accounts opened on or after 2026-07-26 keep a 45% consistency objective measured on gross profits (current profits + payouts). | Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView, Jigsaw, Quantower | Code TDNEW: 55% off, site-published on 2026-08-19. 150K Fast Pass lands at $225/mo (45% consistency, 3 minimum days) and no activation fee at any size. 50% affiliate evergreen as the fallback. |
| FundedNext Futures | 7.0 | $70 | EOD | Flex 95%; Rapid Pro and Rapid Daily 90%; Legacy 80%. The paid 90% Reward Share add-on for Flex has been discontinued and no longer appears anywhere on the site, as has the separate 95% Reward Share add-on offer article. The add-on slot is now a Daily Loss Limit add-on for Rapid Pro instead ($20 on 25K, $40 on 50K, $50 on 100K). | NOT unlimited: Flex, Rapid Pro and Rapid Daily accounts are concluded after the 5th Performance Reward withdrawal (Legacy is exempt: it unlocks 100% withdrawals after 30 benchmark days). Min withdrawal $250 and min $500 profit in the current cycle on every product. Flex: 5 benchmark days per cycle, up to 50% of accumulated profit capped at $1,500/$2,500/$4,000 by size; cap lifted on the 5th withdrawal. Legacy caps are far higher, at $3,000 on 25K and $6,000 on both 50K and 100K. Rapid Pro: every 3 days, caps $800/$1,200/$2,500. Rapid Daily: daily, same caps, but only profit above the buffer (starting balance + max loss limit + $100) is withdrawable. Reaching live is harder than the payout cadence suggests: the road-to-live articles require 15 Performance Rewards to enter the live review pool, and only returning traders with prior live experience re-enter after every 5. Cumulative live-account deposits across all combined Flex accounts are capped at $10,000. | 40% of the total profit target per day during the Flex and Legacy Challenge phases (none in those funded accounts). Rapid Pro inverts it: no consistency rule in the Challenge, 40% once funded. Rapid Daily has no consistency rule at any stage. Funded Flex additionally needs 5 benchmark days per cycle ($200/day on 50K-100K, $250 on 150K). | Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView | Rapid Pro and Rapid Daily are now priced DIFFERENTLY under coupon RAPID. Rapid Pro first purchase (new Futures users) 50%/46%/44% = $79.99/$159.99/$279.99; recurring 46%/41%/40% = $84.99/$174.99/$299.99. Rapid Daily first purchase 50%/43%/44% = $79.99/$169.99/$279.99; recurring 43%/36%/40% = $89.99/$189.99/$299.99. Rapid Pro with the Daily Loss Limit add-on runs $59.99/$119.99/$229.99 first purchase and $64.99/$134.99/$249.99 recurring. Flex carries two concurrent coupons: 47% off the first five purchases then 40% from the sixth ($69.99/$129.99/$249.99 then $79.99/$149.99/$289.99), and a separate 55% off for new users only, one use per user ($59.99/$112.50/$217.80). No coupon publishes an expiry; all say 'Until further notice'. ALL QUANTITY AND BULK TIERS HAVE BEEN REMOVED from the Rapid, Flex and Legacy pages as of 2026-08-25; the 15%-from-the-5th-account and 30%-from-the-10th-account rows recorded on 2026-08-22 are gone. Legacy is sold at a single list price with no coupon and no bulk tier, so it now carries no discount of any kind. |
| Earn2Trade | 6.0 | $75 | mixed | Depends on when the evaluation was bought. Bought before 2026-07-06: flat 80/20 in favor of the trader. Bought on/after 2026-07-06 the split is set by the size of the SINGLE withdrawal request, not by accumulated profit: 50/50 below the threshold, 80/20 at or above it. Thresholds by starting funded balance are $1,500 on 25K, $2,250 on 50K, $3,000 on 100K, $4,000 on 150K and $5,000 on 200K. $400K Trader Career Path accounts are a fixed 60/40. The firm's share is deducted monthly or at each withdrawal. | Weekly: request by 2:00 PM CT the preceding Friday, processed Wednesdays, minimum net $100. LiveSim maximum withdrawal is $5,000 on every Gauntlet Mini size, $1,750 on TCP25, $3,000 on TCP50 and $6,000 on TCP100. Live has no cap. Withdrawal fees: Rise $50 per withdrawal for non-US customers and 1.5% for US customers; Deel $50 per withdrawal; Bayzat $5 to $40; direct crypto 0.735%. Rise does not support payouts for traders in Iowa, Minnesota, South Carolina, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands or Haiti. | 30% in eval only; explicitly none on LiveSim/Live | NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView, Finamark, R|Trader, BlackArrow One | Live official promo: 50% OFF all subscriptions for the first 120 days (4 months) with code NEXTLEVEL50, running 2026-08-17 to 2026-08-31 (EOD CT). Standard pricing resumes after 120 days. The same promo cuts dynamic reset prices to TCP25 $65, TCP50 $85, GAU50 $75, down from $100; fixed resets on the 100K to 200K accounts are unaffected. BlackArrow One is now free with all evaluations. |
| Top One Futures | 6.0 | $39 | EOD | 90/10 sim-funded; drops to 80/20 on live transition, which takes 3 payouts on Elite Access and Ignite but 5 on Elite Daily V2 | Elite Daily V2: payout request every 24h once the buffer is met. Buffers are $1,500 (25K, min balance $26,500) / $2,500 (50K, min $52,500) / $3,500 (100K, min $103,500) / $4,500 (150K, min $154,500); max per request $750 / $1,000 / $1,500 / $2,250; min request $500; at least 50% of each request must be profit earned since the last payout, and buffer profits are forfeited on breach. Five successful payouts is the standard path to live. Elite Access: on demand after 5 profitable trading days, subject to the 40% consistency and 50% daily progression rules, min request $500. | Elite Access: none during eval; funded payouts must pass a 40% consistency rule (largest day at or below 40% of profits in the current payout cycle) plus a 50% daily progression rule. Elite Daily V2 inverts that shape: a 40% consistency rule applies in the EVALUATION only, and there is no consistency target once funded. Ignite: 15%. Instant Sim Funded: 20%. | Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView | The firm's own site code 2.0 takes 55% off across the range, which is what puts Elite Daily V2, Ignite and Instant Sim Funded at their street prices. A separate buy-one-get-one-free offer, code BOGO, runs on Elite Access only, behind a client-side countdown with no end date published in the page source. Elite Access itself is effectively $39 at any size under the standing promo. |
| Apex Trader Funding | 5.0 | $24.9 | mixed | 100% payout split on Performance Accounts, capped at 6 payouts before the PA closes. The old '100% of the first $25K then 90/10' terms are Legacy | Up to weekly payouts. Minimum 5 qualifying trading days (non-consecutive OK, no deadline), where a day counts only if it clears a size-scaled floor ($100 on 25K; $200 on 50K Intraday; $250 on 50K EOD). Min $500 per request at every size. 50% consistency checked at each request. Balance must stay above the Safety Net (drawdown limit + $100). Maximum 6 payouts per Performance Account — after the 6th the PA is closed and you must pass a new evaluation. | None in eval; 50% checked at every payout when funded | NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView, WealthCharts, Rithmic platforms | Code SAVENOW: exactly 90% off any size evaluation, applied as list price x 0.10 by Apex's own product picker, with no lower tier anywhere in the live config. The promo carries a published expiry of 2026-09-08 23:59 ET in the homepage promo config, matched exactly by the on-page countdown (data-end-time 1788926340). Treat that date as soft: this is the second week running that a published expiry has lapsed and Apex has simply pushed the same code, at the same depth, out by exactly 604,800 seconds (2026-08-25, then 2026-09-01, then 2026-09-08), so the pattern so far is a rolling weekly extension rather than a real deadline or a successor code. The coupon page still publishes no expiry of its own beyond a live countdown and no evergreen wording. New signups only, never valid on resets or on PA activation, no backdating and no balance transfers from existing evals. |
| Elite Trader Funding | 5.0 | $39 | mixed | Up to 100% of sim profits until $25K cap; LIVE ELITE 80/20 | Cycle-based: 8 Active Trade Days for payout cycle 1, 10 ATDs for cycles 2-4. Per-cycle caps scale with size (a 50K runs $100-$1,250 in cycle 1, growing toward $2,000 later; Static cycle 1 maxes at $2,000). Minimum withdrawal is $100 on the general Elite table, $250 on every row of the current 1-Step table, $1,000 on 25K and 50K DTF and $500 on 10K and 100K DTF. To advance a payout cycle you must withdraw the full cycle maximum. Sim requests approved daily. $25,000 lifetime sim payout cap per trader, then forced transition to LIVE ELITE (80/20, daily withdrawals on business days, $250 min, 48h approval guarantee, uncapped). If a LIVE ELITE account is liquidated at the live broker, a trader may, subject to approval, return to sim and stay eligible for up to $150,000 of lifetime sim payouts, released in $25,000 increments. DTF caps at $25,000 PER TRADER across all DTF accounts combined, not per account, after which trading stops, the account is revoked and the trader moves to LIVE ELITE. DTF ATDs per cycle are 5 (10K), 10 (25K), 15 (50K) and 20 (100K), and each DTF size carries its own best-day percentage: 50%, 38%, 62% and 50%. | No consistency rule in the 1-Step, EOD, Diamond Hands or Static evaluations. Fast Track eval: best profitable day may not exceed 40% of total profit, and a separate 30% consistency requirement on overall profit applies at payout. The ATD rule bites on the funded side of every other plan: a day counts only at $200+ realized profit ($100+ on 10K 1-Step, 25K 1-Step, 25K EOD and 100K Static) AND at least 23% of your best ATD, with DTF using its own per-size thresholds. Setting a new best day permanently raises the bar and the best-day figure does not reset after a payout. | Tradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView, Rithmic R|Trader, ATAS, Bookmap, EdgeProX, eSignal, Finamark, Investor/RT, MotiveWave, Quantower, Sierra Chart | 80% off the FIRST MONTH of any evaluation except DTF, renewing at list from month 2. ETF's own promo page still advertised this on 2026-08-22 with no current expiration date, but no discount is set on any product in ETF's store and the promo page's own list prices disagree with the store, so the offer could not be confirmed at checkout. The 90% figure quoted around this firm is NOT a promotion: it is a paid checkout add-on that issues a 90%-off coupon for your NEXT evaluation of the same type, and only after you pass and activate. Deeper holiday sales appear periodically. |
| Bulenox | 4.0 | — | mixed | 100% of first $10K, then 90/10. The $10K allowance is counted once per trader across all Fast Track and Master accounts combined, not per account. | Classic Master: first payout after 10 individual trading days, min $1,000, Safety Threshold Reserve $1,600/$2,600/$3,100/$4,600 by size, first three payouts capped ($1,000/$1,500/$1,750/$2,000) then uncapped, processed Wednesdays with an 11:59pm CT Friday cutoff. Fast Track: same-day processing for requests before 12:01pm CT Mon-Fri, min $1,000, first-payout goals $1,500/$3,000/$6,000/$9,000 then $1,000/$2,000/$3,000/$4,500 per cycle, caps $1,000/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000 on payouts 1-3 and $1,250/$2,500/$3,000/$3,500 from payout 4. Momentum: same-day, needs 5 qualifying profitable days per cycle ($100/$150/$200/$250 net by size) plus minimum balances of $26,500/$53,000/$104,500/$156,500; caps run $1,000-$2,500 on the first payout up to $1,000/$3,000/$4,000/$5,000 from the fourth and NEVER lift. Progression to a real-capital Funded Account needs 3 successful payouts and is discretionary, not automatic (Fast Track additionally requires 30 trading days). | Varies by product. Classic Master: 40% at payout. Fast Track: 20% for payout 1, 25% for payout 2, 30% from payout 3 onward. Momentum: none at all during the evaluation, 35% on Momentum Master. Missing the target blocks the payout rather than breaching the account. Master Agreement §5.6 discretion applies beyond the written rule on all of them. | NinjaTrader, R|Trader, ATAS, Sierra Chart, Quantower, Bookmap, MultiCharts | A perpetual 'Launch offer' coupon, code BULENOX, valid on Qualification, Fast Track and Momentum. The site states the code never expires, but does NOT publish the discount percentage anywhere: it is applied at checkout behind the member area, so the effective street price could not be verified. |
| Funded Futures Network (FFN) | 4.0 | $80 | EOD | Standard MAX 80/20 sim, 90/10 Live Funded. STEADY is 90/10 throughout, including in sim. | Standard MAX: request once the buffer is fully built, the balance is at least $500 above the buffer level, and the account is inside the 40% consistency rule, with no winning-day requirement, processed same day. STEADY: five winning days per payout cycle (min daily profit $100/$150/$200/$250/$350 by size), plus a 'net rule' requiring the balance to exceed the prior post-payout level. Min withdrawal $500. Tiered per-account caps effective 20 Apr 2026: payouts 1-3 are capped at $1,000/$1,500/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000 and payouts 4+ at $1,200/$2,000/$2,500/$3,000/$3,500 for 25K through 250K. A separate $10,000 per-user cap applies per payout event across all accounts, and the lesser of the two governs. Live-funded accounts have no payout caps and no consistency rule. After 5 sim payouts a STEADY account goes to live review, and accounts bought after 1 Jul 2026 forfeit all accumulated sim profit on the move to live. | Standard MAX: 40% in the evaluation AND unchanged in the funded account. STEADY: 52% in the evaluation, then NO consistency rule at all once funded. Legacy Express MAX was 50% eval tightening to 25% funded. Enforcement applies at payout request time; the tally resets to $0 after each payout while best-day P&L never resets, so consistency reads artificially high early in a cycle. | Quantower (FundX), EdgeProX, Onyx, NinjaTrader | 50% off, live on the storefront today and effectively the permanent street price; applies to both Standard MAX monthly and STEADY one-time pricing |
| Lucid Trading | 5.0 | $172 | mixed | 90/10 on all new accounts (pre-Nov-2025 accounts kept 100% of first $10K) | No fixed payout window on any Lucid plan: request any day once eligibility is met, funds deducted within minutes of approval and disbursed within 2 business days. LucidPro: minimum profit goal per cycle ($250/$500/$750/$1,000 by size), 40% consistency, and profit above a buffer of initial max loss limit plus $100. LucidFlex: no buffer, no consistency, but 5 separate days of at least $100/$150/$200/$250 profit during the cycle plus positive net profit, and a maximum of 5 payouts per account before being moved live. LucidDaily: daily requests, no consistency, buffer = initial MLL plus $100, plus positive net profit since the last payout. LucidDirect: 20% consistency and a payout profit goal, no buffer. All payouts 90/10. At the live stage Lucid now publishes a one-time Live Bonus, paid 90/10 on a live target of $1,100/$2,100/$3,100/$4,600 by size for a bonus of $1,000/$2,000/$3,000/$4,500; it is available only on a trader's first move to live and never to Legacy Live holders, and no consistency rule applies once live. | LucidPro funded 40% per payout cycle, resets after each payout, and no consistency at all in the LucidPro evaluation at any size (35% instead of 40% on accounts bought or reset before 11/28/2025 3:00 PM EST); LucidFlex eval 50%, funded none; LucidDaily eval 50%, funded none; LucidDirect funded 20% per payout cycle; LucidMaxx eval 40%. No consistency requirement on any LucidLive account once promoted from sim-funded to live. | Tradovate, TradingView, NinjaTrader, Tradesea, Sierra Chart, Quantower, Bookmap, Jigsaw, ATAS, R|Trader Pro, MultiCharts | Lucid advertises one code on its own storefront and the depth is published: the homepage pricing bundle carries a per-size discount of 30% on LucidPro, LucidFlex and LucidDirect and 40% on LucidDaily, and the cards render the discounted figure as the price with the coupon applied at checkout. The discount covers the plan fee only, never the optional Daily-Loss-Limit-OFF add-on. No expiry is published. LucidMaxx is excluded from all promotions (the listed price is the final price paid), and LucidBlack carries no discount because it is no longer purchasable. |
| Alpha Futuresavoid | 2.0 | $77 | EOD | 90/10 across Zero, Standard, Advanced and Direct Qualified. Direct's widely-quoted '20%' is its consistency rule, not a performance fee — the split is the same 90/10 | 5 winning days of $200+ (non-consecutive) unlock payouts, up to 4x/month, min request $200, max 50% of profit balance per request; per-request caps on Standard $3,000/$4,000/$5,000 by size, Advanced up to $15,000; request processed within 48h then paid within 3 business days. Direct Qualified has no winning-day requirement and pays same day. | Eval: Zero none / Advanced 40% / Standard 50%. Qualified: Zero 40% between payouts, Advanced none. Payout needs 5 winning days of $200+, max 50% of profit balance per request. | AlphaTrader (in-house), WealthCharts, Quantower, Deepcharts | 40% off, advertised on Standard evaluations only; Direct Qualified carries a separate 35% launch discount. Zero and Advanced are sold at list |
| Legends Tradingavoid | 3.0 | $97 | EOD | 90/10 from the start; the plans page reads 'join live funded after 2nd payout, and keep your 90/10 split' — the 2nd-payout milestone gates the live-funded transition, not the split | ~5-7 winning days of $200+ per payout, min $500-$1,000, caps $800-$3,500/cycle, up to 2x/month, 1-5 business days processing; buffer $1,000-$3,500 by size; 90/10 from the first payout. | Apprentice/STM 30%, Elite 40% in eval; 30-40% maintained at funded level | Tradovate, NinjaTrader, Rithmic, Sierra Chart, Quantower, TradingView via Tradovate | site banner claims 80% off Apprentice and 45% off Elite, but every Elite card actually computes 35% off ($99 to $64.35); Straight to Master is discounted 40% without being advertised |
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- Alpha Futures →Confirmed payout-voiding event July 12, 2026 (including Nikita's own $884.79). Alpha later reversed course for traders already in 'approved for pay' status and began paying in batches, but traders outside that status got only a fee refund. Still delisted by every major aggregator as of Aug 2026, still off NinjaTrader/Tradovate/TradingView, and its platform vendor publicly alleged 3+ months of unpaid balances. Counterparty risk remains disqualifying regardless of paper terms.
- Legends Trading →Reported pattern of profitable accounts disappearing or being closed right before payout eligibility persists into 2026 (multiple complaint sites and Trustpilot), plus rule changes on existing accounts and payout denials without stated cause. The first-payout split ambiguity is now resolved — 90/10 from the start, with the 2nd payout only gating the live-funded transition — so that leg of the reason no longer applies. Research verdict: still skip on counterparty risk.
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- MyFundedFutures couponCLUB is now the single site-wide code at 50% off, and it replaces both the previously auto-applied 50% promo and the separate 20%-off EOD code. It is pre-applied to every checkout link on the site and halves the list price on Rapid, Rapid EOD, Builder and Pro alike. No date-based expiry is published anywhere, but as of 2026-08-26 the code is no longer unlimited: the homepage banner was rewritten to 'No more subscriptions. One-time purchases are here. + 4 uses of 50% off with code CLUB', so CLUB now carries a published cap of 4 uses per trader. The banner no longer says 'here for a limited time only' (that phrase survives only on the Rapid EOD plan page), and 'Promotions every month' no longer appears on the homepage or the plans index.
- Take Profit Trader couponCode NOFEE40: 40% off for life on that test account's monthly subscription, plus the $130 PRO activation fee waived for life on it (delivered as a $130 credit, not an auto-skip). The waiver survives unlimited resets, there is no cap on how many no-fee accounts you can hold, and test accounts bought with credits are excluded. NOFEE40 publishes NO end date, and its FAQ still answers verbatim that there is no time limit on when the benefits expire, so this remains a standing offer rather than a countdown. One caveat as of 2026-08-26: that FAQ was re-edited to add limited-time framing ('during this NOFEE40 limited-time promo', 'during the promo window') without adding any date, which is the first signal TPT has given that the offer is finite. TPT's own worked example fixes the depth exactly: NOFEE40 on a $50k test is '$102 flat' (170 x 0.60). The deeper 50AND3 flash sale (50% off plus the same waiver) ran 12 to 25 August 2026 and is now over; the banner reverted to NOFEE40 on 26 August. 50% is the promotional ceiling TPT has shown, 40% is the standing floor.
- Tradeify couponCode AUG: 40% off for the first 5 uses, then 30% off, banner-published site-wide and ending 31 August 2026 11:59PM EST. It does NOT apply to the Select 300K, which carries couponCode 'none'. A 5-account bundle takes a further 5% off Growth and Select 25K/50K. The RENDERED homepage cards are still unpopulated Webflow placeholders (identical $251 from $359, 'Lorem ipsum', 'Profit Target $0', 'code DASH') and must never be scraped, but the real per-size prices and rules ARE now readable server-side from the inline GrowthData, SelectData, LightningData and couponDetails script objects in the homepage HTML. Coupon-site claims of 65-75% are bogus.
- Topstep coupon30-50% first-month promos near-constant (champions35 = 35%)
- Phidias Propfirm couponOne promo at a time. Up to 80% off one-time-payment accounts and up to 60% off monthly evals, applied automatically in the on-site configurator with the list price struck through, so no code has to be typed at checkout. The promo label churns and is not a reliable identifier: it reads KICKOFF as of 2026-08-25. Ignore PHIDIAS80, which was only a hardcoded JavaScript fallback the site overwrites at runtime, never the live code.
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Prop firm questions, answered straight
Should I ever pay full price for a prop firm eval?
No. Discounts of 30–90% are evergreen across the industry — firms run them permanently under rotating names. If you're about to pay list price, stop and grab a coupon first. Every firm page here shows the current best verified discount.
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