Quick Answer — Tradeify Rules
- • Tradeify completely overhauled its rulebook with the 3.0 update — three account families (Select, Growth, Lightning), all one-time purchases with no recurring fees.
- • As of April 2026: Tradeify Select 25K costs $109 with a $1,500 profit target, $1,000 max trailing drawdown, and a 40% consistency rule in evaluation.
- • Tradeify Growth 25K costs $99 with 0% consistency in evaluation, 35% consistency when funded, and a $600 daily loss limit in both phases.
- • Tradeify pays 100% of your first $15,000 on Growth and Lightning accounts, then shifts to a 90/10 split — Select stays at 90% from day one.
- • The most common Tradeify breach is violating the daily loss limit on Growth accounts — $600 disappears fast if you're trading full size on a volatile session.
Research-based analysis: I've gone through every rule document, help center article, and community data point I could find on Tradeify. This breakdown reflects extensive research across their 3.0 overhaul — covering Select, Growth, and Lightning plans, the new Elite Live Performance Reward Pool, and updated drawdown mechanics. Nothing here is based on assumptions or marketing copy.
I broke it all down in my complete Tradeify rules overview. For the full picture, read my complete Tradeify review. For the absolute latest, check Tradeify's website or their help center.
Tradeify's rules changed dramatically with the 3.0 update in March 2026. Three account families, three different rule structures, three different paths to payouts. If you're still running off pre-3.0 information, half of what you think you know is probably wrong.
I've spent the past two weeks pulling apart every help center article, pricing page, and Discord clarification I could find on Tradeify's new setup. This is the pillar page where I'll keep everything updated as rules evolve. If you're looking for a specific rule, use the table of contents or hit Ctrl+F.
One thing to get straight before we start: Tradeify moved to one-time purchases across all plans. No monthly subscriptions. That single change reshapes how you should think about risk, because a blown account means re-buying, not just waiting for next month's billing cycle.
How Does Tradeify's Drawdown Work?
Tradeify uses end-of-day (EOD) trailing drawdown on most accounts. Your drawdown floor recalculates once per day after the session closes. It does not move during live trading.
That's the headline. The specifics vary by account family.
How Does Select Drawdown Work?
As of April 2026: Tradeify Select 25K carries a $1,000 max trailing drawdown during evaluation. You start with a $25,000 balance and a drawdown floor at $24,000. Every time your end-of-day balance sets a new high, the floor trails up by the same amount.
The funded phase gets interesting because Select splits into two paths after you pass eval:
Select Flex keeps the trailing drawdown model. Your floor continues to trail your high-water mark. But there's a cap: the drawdown floor can only rise to $1,250 above your starting funded balance. Once it hits that cap, it stops trailing and becomes static. That ceiling protects you from having your entire profit buffer eaten by the trailing mechanic.
Select Daily switches to a completely different risk model. Instead of trailing drawdown, you get a $500 daily loss limit combined with a $1,100 buffer. The buffer sits between your balance and the breach point. If your daily P&L drops $500 in a single session, trading stops for that day. The buffer is your total breathing room before a full account breach.
How Does Growth Drawdown Work?
As of April 2026: Tradeify Growth 25K has a $1,000 max trailing drawdown and a $600 daily loss limit in both the evaluation and funded phases. The trailing mechanic is identical to Select evaluation: EOD recalculation, floor trails your high-water mark.
The $600 daily loss limit is separate from the max drawdown. You can breach either one independently. This is where most Growth traders get caught. You might be well within your overall drawdown but blow through $600 in a single session.
How Does Lightning Drawdown Work?
As of April 2026: Tradeify Lightning 150K has a $5,250 max trailing drawdown and a $3,000 daily loss limit. Lightning accounts are instantly funded with no evaluation, so these limits apply from day one.
The drawdown was tightened from $6,000 in the pre-3.0 version. That's a 12.5% reduction in your risk buffer. If you were comfortable with the old Lightning limits, recalculate your position sizing.
The bottom line: all Tradeify drawdown is EOD trailing. Your intraday swings don't move the floor. But your closing balance does, and that floor only goes up.
What Is Tradeify's Consistency Rule?
Tradeify's consistency rule limits how much of your total profit can come from a single trading day. The exact percentage depends on which account family you're using and whether you're in evaluation or funded.
Does Select Have a Consistency Rule?
Yes. As of April 2026: Tradeify Select 25K carries a 40% consistency rule during evaluation. No single trading day's profit can exceed 40% of your total profits at the time of reaching target.
If your profit target is $1,500 and you make $700 in one day, that single day can't represent more than 40% of your final total. You'd need at least $1,750 in total profits for that $700 day to pass the consistency check. In practice, this means you can't spike one massive winner and coast.
On the funded side, consistency depends on which path you chose. Select Flex requires 5 profitable days with at least $100 net profit each, and no single day can exceed 50% of total profits, up to a cap of $1,250. Select Daily doesn't use a percentage-based consistency rule but requires you to build profits to a minimum balance of $1,500 before your first payout, with a $1,000 cap per payout.
Does Growth Have a Consistency Rule?
The evaluation phase has 0% consistency on Growth. None. You could theoretically hit your profit target in a single session. That's one of the primary draws of the Growth path.
Once funded, Tradeify Growth switches to 35% consistency. No single day can exceed 35% of your total payout-eligible profit. Less strict than Select's 40% in eval, but it applies to every payout cycle.
Does Lightning Have a Consistency Rule?
Lightning follows the same model as Growth funded: 35% consistency from day one. Since there's no evaluation phase, the rule kicks in immediately.
Daily Loss Limit Rules by Account Family
The daily loss limit (DLL) is the maximum amount you can lose in a single trading session before your account is paused or breached. Tradeify calculates this based on your realized and unrealized P&L from market open.
What Is the Select Daily Loss Limit?
As of April 2026: Tradeify Select 25K does not have a daily loss limit during evaluation. You're only governed by the trailing drawdown.
On the funded side, it depends on your path. Select Flex has no daily loss limit. You trade freely within your trailing drawdown. Select Daily has a $500 daily loss limit paired with the $1,100 buffer. If your session P&L drops to -$500, trading stops for the day. You keep your account, but you're done for that session.
What Is the Growth Daily Loss Limit?
Tradeify Growth 25K has a $600 daily loss limit in both evaluation and funded phases. This is a hard limit. If your combined realized and unrealized loss hits -$600 during the session, you're done.
On a 25K account with 1 standard contract of ES, a 12-point move against you wipes out your daily limit. That's a normal morning range on a CPI day. Size accordingly.
What Is the Lightning Daily Loss Limit?
Tradeify Lightning 150K has a $3,000 daily loss limit. Given the larger account size, this provides more room per session, but it's proportionally tighter than you'd expect. On a 150K account, $3,000 is only 2% of balance.
The bottom line: know your DLL before your first trade of the day. Write it on a sticky note if you have to. This is the rule that ends accounts.
Payout Rules and Profit Split
Tradeify restructured its payout system entirely with 3.0. The headline is the 100% first $15,000 on Growth and Lightning accounts. That's real. You keep every dollar of your first fifteen grand.
How Does the Select Payout Work?
As of April 2026: Tradeify Select pays a 90% profit split from the first dollar. No 100% introductory period. Ninety percent, clean and simple.
Select Flex payouts require 5 profitable days (minimum $100 net each), and no single day can represent more than 50% of total profits. Each payout is capped at $1,250.
Select Daily payouts require a minimum balance of $1,500 before you can request your first withdrawal, with a $1,000 payout cap per request. You need to rebuild profits with each payout, and the $500 DLL applies to every session during the funded phase.
How Does the Growth Payout Work?
Tradeify Growth pays 100% of your first $15,000 in total payouts. After that threshold, the split shifts to 90/10 (90% to you, 10% to Tradeify).
The minimum payout balance is $1,500 above your starting funded balance. So on a 25K Growth account, your balance needs to reach $26,500 before you can withdraw. The payout request cap is $1,000 per withdrawal.
The 35% consistency rule applies to each payout cycle. If one day generated more than 35% of your profit since the last payout, you need to keep trading until the distribution levels out.
How Does the Lightning Payout Work?
Same structure as Growth. 100% of your first $15,000, then 90/10 after that. Lightning shares the same minimum balance requirement and $1,000 payout cap.
Since Lightning starts instantly funded, you could theoretically request your first payout within the first week if you hit the minimum balance threshold and satisfy the 35% consistency requirement.
What Is the Elite Live Performance Reward Pool?
This is brand new with 3.0. Tradeify introduced a bonus pool for top-performing funded traders. The reward amounts scale with account size:
- 25K account: $2,000 reward pool
- 50K account: $4,000 reward pool
- 100K account: $8,000 reward pool
- 150K account: $12,000 reward pool
Select accounts get a 1.5x multiplier on these amounts. So a 25K Select account qualifies for a $3,000 pool, a 150K Select account for $18,000.
The exact qualification criteria and distribution timing haven't been fully detailed in Tradeify's help center yet. I'll update this section as more information becomes available.
Trading Hours and Session Restrictions
Tradeify follows CME futures market hours. You can trade any CME-listed futures contract during regular trading hours.
What Are Tradeify's Trading Hours?
Trading is allowed during standard CME Globex hours: Sunday 5:00 PM CT through Friday 4:00 PM CT, with the daily maintenance break from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM CT each weekday.
All positions must be closed before market close. No overnight holds. If you're holding a position at the daily session close, Tradeify's system will flag or liquidate it. This applies to all three account families.
Are There Minimum Trading Day Requirements?
As of April 2026: Tradeify Select requires a minimum of 5 profitable days (with at least $100 profit each) before payout on the Flex path. Growth and Lightning don't have explicit minimum trading day requirements for evaluation, but the consistency rule naturally forces you to spread profits across multiple days once funded.
There's no maximum on trading days during evaluation. You can take as long as you need.
News Trading, Automation, and Copy Trading
Can You Trade News on Tradeify?
Yes. As of April 2026: Tradeify does not restrict news trading on any account family. You can trade FOMC, NFP, CPI, or any other economic release without limitation.
This is a major differentiator. Many prop firms either ban news trading entirely or impose time windows around high-impact events. Tradeify doesn't.
That said, just because you can trade news doesn't mean you should trade full size through a CPI release. The rules protect you from yourself via the daily loss limit, but a bad news trade can wipe your DLL in seconds.
Are Trading Bots and Automation Allowed?
Tradeify allows automated trading and EAs (Expert Advisors) on their platform. NinjaTrader 8, which is one of their supported platforms, has deep automation support.
There are restrictions on certain types of automation, though. Strategies designed to exploit latency, abuse the simulated environment, or replicate another trader's positions in real-time may be flagged. The distinction Tradeify draws is between legitimate automation (your own strategy running on your account) and exploitative patterns.
Is Copy Trading Allowed?
Copy trading between your own Tradeify accounts is generally restricted. You can't run identical trades across five accounts simultaneously to multiply a single strategy's output. Each account needs to show independent trading behavior.
If you're running similar strategies across accounts, they need meaningful variation in entry timing, sizing, or instrument selection. Exact mirrors get flagged.
Account Stacking and Multiple Accounts
As of April 2026: Tradeify allows up to 5 funded accounts per trader, with a combined maximum balance of $750,000. You can mix and match across account families.
That means you could run three Growth accounts and two Select accounts, or five Lightning 150K accounts maxing out the $750K cap. The accounts are treated independently for drawdown, daily loss limits, and consistency calculations.
Can You Stack Different Account Types?
Yes. There's no restriction on mixing Select, Growth, and Lightning accounts. A common approach I've seen is running a Lightning for immediate funded access while passing a Growth eval on the side. If the Growth passes, you've got two funded accounts running simultaneously.
The $750K total cap is the only constraint. Once your combined account balances hit that ceiling, you can't add more accounts until you close one.
Do Multiple Accounts Share a Drawdown?
No. Each account's drawdown is calculated independently. Blowing one account has zero impact on your other active accounts.
What Gets Your Account Breached?
A breach means your account is terminated. You lose the funded status and would need to purchase a new evaluation or Lightning account to start over. Here's what triggers a breach on Tradeify:
Exceeding max drawdown. If your account balance drops below the trailing drawdown floor at end of day, the account is breached. On a 25K Growth account, that floor starts at $24,000 and trails upward with your high-water mark.
Exceeding daily loss limit. If your session P&L hits the DLL threshold, your account is locked for the day on some configurations or breached outright on others. On Growth and Lightning, repeated DLL violations can escalate to full breach.
Violating the consistency rule at payout. If you request a payout and your profit distribution fails the consistency check, the payout is denied. Repeated attempts without correcting the distribution can lead to review.
Holding positions overnight. All positions must be flat before session close. An open position through the maintenance window is a rule violation.
Copy trading or trade mirroring. Running identical strategies across multiple accounts gets flagged. If Tradeify's compliance team determines you're mirroring trades, accounts can be breached.
Exploiting platform mechanics. This includes latency exploitation, price feed manipulation, or any strategy designed to abuse the simulated environment rather than trade the market.
Chargebacks on purchase. If you dispute the charge for your account purchase with your bank, Tradeify will immediately breach all associated accounts.
The bottom line: most breaches come from two things. The daily loss limit and the trailing drawdown. The exotic violations (copy trading, exploitation) are edge cases. If you manage your risk per session and understand your floor, you'll avoid 90% of breach scenarios.
Rules Comparison Table
| Rule | Select 25K | Growth 25K | Lightning 150K |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $109 (one-time) | $99 (one-time) | Varies by size (one-time) |
| Evaluation | Yes — $1,500 target | Yes — $1,500 target | None (instant funded) |
| Max Trailing Drawdown | $1,000 (eval); path-dependent (funded) | $1,000 (both phases) | $5,250 |
| Daily Loss Limit | None (eval); Flex: none / Daily: $500 | $600 (both phases) | $3,000 |
| Consistency (Eval) | 40% | 0% (none) | N/A |
| Consistency (Funded) | Flex: 50% / Daily: balance-based | 35% | 35% |
| Contracts (25K) | 1 standard / 10 micros | 1 standard / 10 micros | N/A (150K base) |
| Profit Split | 90% | 100% first $15K, then 90% | 100% first $15K, then 90% |
| News Trading | Allowed | Allowed | Allowed |
| Max Accounts | 5 (combined $750K max) | 5 (combined $750K max) | 5 (combined $750K max) |
| Platforms | NinjaTrader, Tradovate, WealthCharts, Rithmic/TradeSea | NinjaTrader, Tradovate, WealthCharts, Rithmic/TradeSea | NinjaTrader, Tradovate, WealthCharts, Rithmic/TradeSea |
| Elite Reward Pool | $2K (1.5x = $3K with Select multiplier) | $2,000 | $12,000 |
Frequently Asked Questions
What Are the Main Rules for Tradeify in 2026?
Tradeify's main rules after the 3.0 update center on three mechanics: end-of-day trailing drawdown, daily loss limits (on Growth and Lightning accounts), and consistency requirements that vary by account family. All accounts use one-time pricing with no subscriptions, allow unrestricted news trading, and cap traders at 5 funded accounts totaling $750,000 combined. Positions must be closed before each session ends.
How Does Tradeify's Trailing Drawdown Work?
Tradeify uses end-of-day trailing drawdown across all account families. The drawdown floor only recalculates after the trading session closes, meaning intraday drawdowns don't raise the floor. On a Tradeify Growth 25K account, the max trailing drawdown is $1,000, so the floor starts at $24,000 and trails upward as your closing balance sets new highs.
Does Tradeify Have a Daily Loss Limit?
Tradeify Growth and Lightning accounts have daily loss limits. Tradeify Growth 25K has a $600 DLL, and Tradeify Lightning 150K has a $3,000 DLL. Tradeify Select does not have a DLL during evaluation. On the funded side, Select Flex has no DLL, while Select Daily has a $500 DLL combined with a $1,100 buffer.
What Is Tradeify's Consistency Rule?
Tradeify's consistency rule prevents any single trading day from generating too large a share of your total profit. Tradeify Select uses 40% consistency in evaluation. Tradeify Growth has 0% consistency during evaluation (no requirement) but 35% when funded. Tradeify Lightning uses 35% consistency from day one since there's no evaluation phase.
What Profit Split Does Tradeify Offer?
Tradeify Growth and Lightning accounts pay 100% of the first $15,000 in total payouts, then shift to a 90/10 split. Tradeify Select accounts use a flat 90% profit split from the first dollar. All plans are one-time purchases with no recurring fees eating into profits.
Can You Trade News Events on Tradeify?
Tradeify allows unrestricted news trading on all account families — Select, Growth, and Lightning. There are no blackout windows around FOMC, NFP, CPI, or any other high-impact economic releases. This applies to both evaluation and funded phases.
How Many Accounts Can You Have on Tradeify?
Tradeify allows up to 5 funded accounts per trader with a combined maximum balance of $750,000. Traders can mix and match across Select, Growth, and Lightning account families. Each account is treated independently for drawdown, daily loss limits, and consistency calculations.
What Is the Tradeify Elite Live Performance Reward Pool?
Tradeify's Elite Live Performance Reward Pool is a bonus system introduced with the 3.0 update. Reward amounts scale with account size: $2,000 for 25K accounts, $4,000 for 50K, $8,000 for 100K, and $12,000 for 150K. Tradeify Select accounts receive a 1.5x multiplier on these amounts.
What Happens if You Breach Your Tradeify Account?
If you breach a Tradeify account by exceeding the max trailing drawdown, hitting the daily loss limit, or violating other rules, the account is terminated. Tradeify does not offer account resets on breached funded accounts. You'd need to purchase a new evaluation (Select or Growth) or a new Lightning account to start again.
Are Automated Trading Bots Allowed on Tradeify?
Tradeify allows automated trading and EAs on their platform. NinjaTrader 8 and Rithmic/TradeSea both support automation. Tradeify restricts strategies designed to exploit latency or abuse the simulated environment, and copy trading across multiple accounts is not permitted. Each account must show independent trading behavior.
