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Base price: $1,000
Base price · no live code
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Base price: $369
Base price · no live code
Cost
Base price
$1,000
$369
Account size
$150K
$150K
Profit split
100%
90%
Evaluation rules
Profit target
6% in one step; no time limit
25K $1,500; 50K $3,000; 100K $6,000; 150K $9,000
Max drawdown
3% end-of-day trailing
25K $1,000; 50K $2,000; 100K $3,000; 150K $4,500 — EOD trailing
Daily loss limit
$500 / $1,000 / $1,500 for $50K / $100K / $150K, hard breach
None in evaluation
Min trading days
None to pass; one profitable day of 0.5%+ between payouts
3
Funded rules
Funded drawdown
Same daily limit and 3% EOD trailing
EOD trailing; locks at starting balance + $100
Consistency rule
None
40%
Consistency rule (funded)
None
None
News trading (challenge)
Allowed: positions no longer have to be flattened for news, in evaluation or funded
Allowed · no rules against or guidelines around trading news eventsfirm-level
News trading (funded)
Allowed: positions no longer have to be flattened for news, in evaluation or funded
Allowed · no rules against or guidelines around trading news eventsfirm-level
Max live balance
Up to $4,000,000 across all Alpha Funded accounts
Up to 5 Simulated Funded Accounts at any time, per user and per household, any combination of Growth, Select Flex/Daily and Lightning
Scaling plan
Not recorded
Progressive funded contract scaling, updated EOD
Options & add-ons
Customizable at checkout
Not recorded
Payout policy is chosen at funded activation and cannot later be changed
Payouts
Payout frequency
Daily
Permanent post-pass choice: Daily or Flex 5-day
First payout
Daily, after a 0.5%+ profitable day
Daily has no day minimum; Flex requires 5 winning days
Min days to payout
1 profitable day of 0.5%+
0 Daily / 5 Flex
Processing time
24 business hours after approval
Daily eligibilityfirm-level
Refund policy
No refund program on futures accounts is published
Not recorded
Payout methods
Rise (crypto, ACH or wire)
Not recorded
Trading rules
Weekend holding
Allowed
Not recorded
Overnight holding
Allowed
Not recorded
Hedging
Prohibited, within one account and across accounts
Prohibited
Copy trading
Allowed only between accounts you own; no signal services or copying anyone else
Not recorded
Expert advisors (EAs)
HFT and software built for an unfair speed advantage are prohibited
Not recorded
Other restrictions
Prohibited: account stacking or draining, grid, martingale, tick scalping (trades of ~30 seconds or less), latency or reverse arbitrage, hedging within or across accounts, max size into news or macro reports for unrealistic fills, trading outside the best bid/offer, HFT or speed software, signal copying and account management. Not available in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, India, China or Myanmar, or to sanctioned persons.
Allowed if you own the strategy exclusively · not shared with other traders/firms · not high-frequency trading · Hedging not allowed · No swing trading or holding positions overni…firm-level
Commission / lot
Not recorded
No activation fees · Growth Evaluations, Select Evaluations: No activation feefirm-level
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Alpha Funded Futures
Daily PRO
Tradeify
Select
Base price
$1,000
Winner: $369
Profit split
Winner: 100%
90%
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