Take Profit Trader Trading Test rules by account size (25K to 150K): target, drawdown, contracts

Rule 1 sets one profit target per account size: $1,500 on 25K, $3,000 on 50K, $4,500 on 75K, $6,000 on 100K and $9,000 on 150K. Rule 2 caps the number of contracts you can have open at once, and the firm calls it a static number: 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 standard contracts. On permitted micro products the allowance is 10x, so the firm's own example is up to 60 micro contracts on the 50K. The article does not describe how a mixed position of standard and micro contracts is counted, so ask support before combining them. The permitted-products list currently names ten micro symbols: MES, MNQ, MYM, M2K, MCL, MGC, MBT, MET, M6E and M6A. Our arithmetic, not the firm's: the 25K target equals its drawdown, the 50K target is 1.5 times its drawdown, the 75K target is 1.8 times, and the 100K and 150K targets are twice theirs.

What this means for you: Pick a size by the target you can reach and the contracts you need open at once; micros get 10x the allowance.

The test drawdown is calculated only at the end of the trading day, not during open trades, and appears in the Control Center as Minimum Account Balance. The firm's 25K example: the drawdown is $1,500, so the minimum account balance starts at $23,500. If you earn $1,000 on day 1 your end-of-day balance is $26,000 and the minimum balance moves up to $24,500, still $1,500 behind your highest end-of-day balance. It keeps following your highest end-of-day balance until it reaches the original $25,000 starting balance, then stops trailing and stays fixed. The other starting floors in the table ($48,000, $72,500, $97,000, $145,500) are the same subtraction applied to the firm's drawdown figures. Because only end-of-day balances count, an intraday high that is gone by the close does not lift the floor.

What this means for you: Only your closing balance lifts the floor, and it stops rising once it reaches your starting balance.

The floor only moves at end of day, but the breach check is not end-of-day. Rule 3 says that if your account drops to the Minimum Account Balance at any time, through realized or unrealized losses, the account is immediately liquidated. An open loss that touches the floor during the session therefore ends the test even if the trade would have recovered by the close. The dashboard balance is not real time; it updates between 8 and 9 PM Eastern, so watch the floor on your platform. The firm's drawdown-tracking article, written for PRO accounts, points to the Auto Liquidate Threshold Value in RTrader Pro and the Drawdown Auto Liq Level and Dist Drawdown columns in Tradovate.

What this means for you: Treat the floor as live during the session: an open loss that touches it ends the test, even if the trade would have recovered.

Keep the two scopes apart. On the Trading Test the trailing floor follows your highest end-of-day balance. On PRO accounts, the firm's drawdown-tracking article says the trailing drawdown is calculated intraday from your peak balance including realized and unrealized gains, and that it also stops trailing at the starting balance. Our Take Profit Trader PRO vs PRO+ payout guide, built from the firm's PRO articles, covers the PRO drawdown, the buffer you must build before withdrawals and the PRO+ end-of-day rule.

What this means for you: After you pass, the same drawdown amount starts trailing intraday on PRO, so leave more room than you did on the Test.

You may trade most futures listed on CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX. The permitted-products list names 34 symbols: the index contracts ES, NQ, YM and RTY, energy CL and NG, metals GC, SI and HG, the treasury contracts ZT, ZF, ZN and UB, seven currency futures, soybeans, soybean oil, wheat, live cattle and the ten micros above. If a product you want is not listed, the firm asks you to contact live chat so it can review adding it. Positions cannot be carried from one trading day into the next: the window runs 6 PM to 5 PM Eastern, the trading day ends at 5 PM, and the firm automatically closes any open position at 4:55 PM Eastern. Trades opened at or after 6 PM count toward the next trading day. Two liquidation traps sit in this rule: if your product's market closes before 5 PM Eastern and you cannot exit before that close, the account is liquidated, and missing a holiday-adjusted close does the same. The holiday schedule is your responsibility.

What this means for you: Be flat before 4:55 PM Eastern or before your product's own earlier or holiday close, every day.

You must trade at least 3 trading days, where a trading day is any day with at least one trade; if you hit the target in 2 days you still need one more active day. There is no time limit. Your best day's net P/L divided by your total net P/L must be below 50%, and the firm stresses that exceeding it does not fail the account. Instead the required profit rises to more than twice your best day, and the updated goal appears in your dashboard. The firm's 50K example: days of +$2,000, +$600 and +$500 give $2,000 / $3,100 = 65%, so you must make more than $4,000 before the account qualifies. The threshold is strictly below 50%: the firm's own check is $2,000 / $4,001. The dashboard's How Am I Doing? panel shows trading days, progress to target, consistency and any broken rule, and updates between 8 and 9 PM Eastern.

What this means for you: Plan at least 3 trading days and keep your best day under half of your total profit, or the goal moves up.

Rule 6 is not specific to the test. It bans opposite positions in the same or closely related products across any accounts under the same beneficial control, and it bans coordinating or mirroring opposite trades with another trader. The related pairs named today are ES and MES, NQ and MNQ, YM and MYM, and the firm says the list is not exhaustive. Its example: long 2 ES in one account and short 1 MES in another is a violation and both accounts are liquidated automatically. When a counter position is detected the account is liquidated, all profit in it is forfeited, and you receive an email with a downloadable Counter-Positions Report; repeated or severe cases can bring permanent closure or a ban. Multiple accounts are allowed as long as they never hold opposite positions, hedging with correlated futures is prohibited, and opposite positions created by a trade copier count as your own trades. The FAQ says a liquidated test account may be reset or, depending on circumstances, wait until its next renewal date for possible re-activation.

What this means for you: Never be long in one account and short the same or a related product in another, including through a copier.

Take Profit Trader's Universal Trading Policies (help center, updated 6 March 2026, read on 18 October 2026) apply to all Test, PRO and PRO+ accounts; policy #1 says automated trading systems, bots, or algorithmic execution tools are not permitted on Test, PRO or PRO+ accounts, and the PRO Account Rules add that all trades must be manually executed by the trader. Its Trade Copier Policy (updated 6 March 2026, read on 18 October 2026) says trade copiers are permitted solely for managing accounts owned and controlled by you, with approved copiers only; copiers are not allowed between different users or for opposing or offsetting positions. The approved list is Tradesyncer, TradeCopia, Affordable Indicators, Replikanto Flowbot (Compliance Edition only) and platform-native copier tools such as those in Tradovate, NinjaTrader, MotiveWave and Quantower; unapproved, modified or non-compliance versions may lead to enforcement action. Violations can mean profit forfeiture, an account reset or liquidation, account closure or a permanent ban.

What this means for you: No bots or algos on any Take Profit Trader account; an approved copier across your own accounts is fine, never in opposite directions.

The test is a monthly subscription billed on the same calendar day as the original purchase under it; the rule articles do not state the fee, but on 2026-10-18 the homepage pricing section listed the Test at $150/month on 25K, $170/month on 50K, $245/month on 75K, $330/month on 100K and $360/month on 150K, before any promo code. Breaking a rule does not cancel the subscription, you must cancel it yourself in the dashboard. A reset gives you a new test with the same parameters and rules and costs $79 on 25K, $99 on 50K, $139 on 75K, $169 on 100K and $199 on 150K; it does not change the renewal date. If a renewal payment fails after the firm's retries the account expires and cannot be reactivated, and an overdue balance blocks the move to PRO even after a pass. Passing cancels the subscription automatically, and PRO has no recurring subscription fee. The firm's points program gives 250 points the first time you pass and 1 point per dollar spent; a reset can be redeemed for 2,000 to 10,000 points and a new test account for 3,000 to 11,000 points depending on size. We do not convert points to dollars.

What this means for you: A failed test keeps billing until you cancel; a reset costs $79 to $199 and keeps your renewal date.

The takeprofittrader.com homepage has a table titled Your Take Profit Funded Journey with one column each for Test, PRO and PRO+. As printed on 15 October 2026: Environment SIM, SIM and LIVE; Withdrawals None, Day one and Day one; Profit split None, 80/20 and 90/10; Maximum # of accounts Unlimited, 5 and 5; Maximum withdrawal amount None, No max and No max; Buffer requirement None, Yes and None; Daily loss rule None on all three; Drawdown End Of Day, Intraday and End Of Day; Consistency rule Yes, None and None; News rule None, Yes and Yes; Scaling plan None on all three; Commissions $4.50/$1.50 RT on Test and PRO and Broker rates on PRO+. The homepage does not label which commission figure applies to which contract. Its FAQ says you can trade up to five funded accounts, PRO accounts, PRO+ live-market accounts or a combination of both up to five, so the 5 is one combined total. The homepage comparison table lists Fees for PRO Account as One Time $130 Fee, and the help center's credit article calls $130 the standard activation fee for a PRO account; some promotional codes replace it with a PRO Activation credit. PRO Day one withdrawals come from profits above the buffer, which our PRO vs PRO+ payout guide covers. The PRO Account Rules article says the maximum drawdown in PRO equals the maximum drawdown from your passed test, calculated intraday. Its news rule: all PRO accounts must be out of all open positions and have no open orders one minute before, during and one minute after any prohibited news event, namely FOMC statements and announcements on Wednesdays at 2:00 PM ET (Fed speakers and FOMC meeting minutes are allowed), Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) monthly on Fridays at 8:30 AM ET, and the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

What this means for you: Passing adds a buffer, an intraday drawdown and a news rule on PRO; PRO+ goes back to end-of-day with no buffer.

The six rule articles list no daily loss limit and no news-trading restriction for the test, and the homepage's Test column agrees: Daily loss rule None and News rule None. The rule articles do not cap the number of resets. They do not say how micro and standard contracts combine against the position cap, and outside the Rule 6 counter-position case they do not describe what happens to a failed test at renewal. Where this guide says the firm does not state something, ask its live chat rather than assuming. We re-read every help-center article cited here on 15 October 2026 and again on 16 October 2026 and found the Test figures unchanged since the first check on 14 October 2026.

What this means for you: There is no daily loss limit or news rule on the Test; for anything the articles leave out, ask live chat.

These are TradeDesk HQ divisions and subtractions of Take Profit Trader's published figures, not firm claims. Target versus drawdown: the 25K target equals its drawdown (1 times), the 50K target is 1.5 times its drawdown, the 75K target is 1.8 times, and the 100K and 150K targets are 2 times. Best day at the target: because the best day must be below 50% of net profit, a trader who stops exactly at the target needs a best day under $750 on 25K, $1,500 on 50K, $2,250 on 75K, $3,000 on 100K and $4,500 on 150K; a bigger best day raises the goal to more than twice that day. Floor to the starting balance: the minimum account balance stops trailing once it reaches the starting balance, which takes end-of-day profit equal to the drawdown, $1,500, $2,000, $2,500, $3,000 and $4,500 by size. The ladder calculator on this page counts consecutive full-size losing trades against the drawdown from a fresh test; its TOO TIGHT (room for fewer than 5 full losers: each loser is more than a fifth of the drawdown), WORKABLE (between a fifth and a tenth) and COMFORTABLE (a tenth or less, room for 10 or more) tags are our rule of thumb, and its point values ($2 MNQ, $5 MES, $20 NQ, $50 ES) are CME contract specs, not Take Profit Trader figures.

What this means for you: Use the ratios and best-day caps to plan your days; they are our arithmetic, not a Take Profit Trader claim.

• Rule 1: Hit Your Profit Target
• Rule 2: Do Not Exceed Maximum Position Size
• Rule 3: Do Not Hit End-Of-Day (EOD) Maximum Trailing Drawdown
• Rule 4: Trade Approved Products, During Approved Hours
• Rule 5: Be Consistent
• Rule 6: No Counter Positions
• Test Subscriptions
• Resetting Your Test Account
• Keeping Track of Your Progress
• How to Keep Track Of Your Drawdown
• Approved Instruments & Permitted Products List
• Point Values (loyalty points)
• PRO Account Rules
• How to Activate a PRO Account Using Credit
• Take Profit Trader homepage (Test / PRO / PRO+ table, FAQ)
• TakeProfitTrader Universal Trading Policies (UTP)
• Trade Copier Policy

Last checked 2026-10-16.