Account Track Overview
TakeProfitTrader uses three account types:
- Test Accounts (Evaluation) — paid evaluation. Trader must meet a profit target while maintaining the consistency rule and minimum trading days.
- PRO Accounts — sim-funded accounts entered after passing a Test. 80/20 profit split with a buffer requirement.
- PRO+ Accounts — promoted accounts for traders who consistently withdraw meaningful payouts or hit $10,000 profit in a single day on PRO. 90/10 split with no buffer; trades route directly to the exchange (not SIM).
Universal Trading Policies (UTP)
UTP establishes the core standards for all TPT accounts (Test, PRO, PRO+). These policies are aligned with CME exchange compliance.
| # | Policy | Summary |
|---|
| 1 | No Trading Bots or Algos | Automated trading systems, bots, or algorithmic execution tools are not permitted. |
| 2 | Maximum Position Size | Traders may not exceed the maximum position size permitted for their account type. |
| 3 | CME Compliance | All trading must comply with applicable CME Group requirements and TPT policies. |
| 4 | Independent Trading | Coordinated trading, third-party account management, and structured risk-neutralizing schemes are prohibited. |
| 5 | No Counter Positions | You may not trade accounts you own/control in opposite directions, or coordinate with other users to do so. |
| 6 | Approved Products & Hours | Trade only approved CME / NYMEX / COMEX / CBOT products, within approved hours. No overnight positions. |
Violations may result in profit forfeiture, account reset, account closure, or removal from the platform.
Consistency
Test Accounts (Evaluation)
- 5 minimum trading days required to pass — a trading day is any day where at least one trade is placed.
- If you hit the profit target in fewer than 5 days, you must continue trading until 5 days are reached.
- 50% consistency rule: no single day may exceed 50% of your total net P/L.
- Formula: Highest Profit Day ÷ Net P/L = Consistency Percentage.
- Must be below 50% to qualify for a PRO account.
- Updated Profit Goal (auto-adjustment): if a single day exceeds the 50% threshold, your required profit goal increases automatically to: Updated Profit Goal = Net P/L × 2. This appears in the dashboard.
- Example: $50K Test, target $3,000. Day 1 = $2,000, remaining days = $1,100, Net P/L = $3,100. Consistency = 65% (too high). Updated profit goal = $3,100 × 2 = $6,200.
PRO and PRO+ Accounts
- No consistency rule on PRO or PRO+ accounts.
Algorithmic Trading
All Account Types
- No trading bots or algos of any kind. The use of automated trading systems is prohibited (UTP #1).
- All trades must be manually executed by the trader.
Scalping Rules
All Account Types
- No explicit scalping or minimum hold-time rule is documented in TakeProfitTrader's FAQ or rules pages.
No Counter Positions
All Account Types (Test, PRO, PRO+)
- You cannot hold open positions in opposite directions within the same product or closely related products. This applies across all account types (UTP #5).
- You also cannot coordinate with other users to take opposite directions on the same product across accounts.
Limit Up / Limit Down Rule
All Account Types
- Futures and related markets can hit limit up / limit down levels (circuit breakers). You must exit all open positions before a price limit is reached.
- If a price limit is hit and you have not exited, you will lose your PRO Account (account liquidation).
- Current daily price limits are published on the CME website.
Trailing Drawdown (PRO)
Mechanics
- The Trailing Drawdown is calculated intraday using your peak balance, including realized AND unrealized gains.
- The drawdown trails intraday as your unrealized profits rise.
- The drawdown will never exceed your starting account balance — once the trailing has reached the starting balance, it locks and no longer moves.
- Maximum drawdown in PRO = the maximum drawdown carried over from your passed Test.
Example
- For a $25,000 PRO Account with $1,500 drawdown:
- If unrealized profit reaches $1,000, your minimum account balance rises to $24,500 in real time.
- If you close the trade with a $500 realized gain, your balance becomes $25,500, but the minimum stays at $24,500.
- If the account balance ever drops to the minimum (through realized or unrealized losses), the account is immediately liquidated.
Approved Products and Trading Hours
Approved Products
- Most futures products listed on CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX are tradeable.
- If an order is rejected for a product you believe should be allowed, contact support.
Approved Trading Hours
- Futures trading window: 6 PM ET – 5 PM ET (next day).
- All positions must be opened and closed within this daily window.
- The trading day ends at 5 PM ET. Positions reopened starting at 6 PM ET count toward the next trading day.
- Holding a position past 5 PM ET results in automatic account failure / account loss. This is a hard breach, not an auto-close.
Holiday Schedule
- Market hours change on holidays.
- It is the trader's responsibility to monitor holiday schedules.
- Missing a holiday-adjusted close time results in account liquidation.
Be Aware of Market Hours
- Always know the specific market hours for the product being traded.
- If the market for your product closes before 5 PM ET and you cannot exit before the deadline, the account will be liquidated.
News Trading
Test Accounts
- No news trading rule on Test accounts. You can trade during news events.
PRO and PRO+ Accounts
All PRO/PRO+ accounts must be out of all positions and have no open orders one minute before, during, and one minute after the prohibited news events below.
Prohibited News Events (All Products)
- FOMC statements/announcements — Wednesdays at 2:00 PM ET. (FED speakers and FOMC meeting minutes are allowed.)
- Non-Farm Payroll (NFP) — Monthly, Fridays at 8:30 AM ET.
- Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Prohibited News for Specific Instruments
- Crude Oil Inventories → prohibited product: Crude Oil.
- Bond Auctions → prohibited products: 10-Year Note, 30-Year Bond.
How to Track Prohibited News
- Review news marked with the red folder, USD currency, on forexfactory.com.
- All required news events also appear on the trader calendar at takeprofittrader.com/user-info/calendar.
Inactivity Rule
All Account Types
- You must place at least one trade per calendar week (Sunday-Friday) to keep the account active.
- A "traded day" is a day where at least one round-trip has been executed on any permitted instrument.
- If life circumstances prevent trading, contact support to request a temporary exception.
Copy Trading (Trade Copier Policy)
TakeProfitTrader permits trade copiers solely for managing accounts owned and controlled by you. Trade copiers may not be used — directly or indirectly — to coordinate trading activity between different users, identities, or accounts in violation of the Independent Trade Execution Policy.
Approved Trade Copiers
The following copiers are approved for use:
- Tradesyncer
- TradeCopia
- Affordable Indicators
- Replikanto — Compliance Edition only (standard, modified, or non-compliance versions are prohibited).
- Flowbot — Compliance Edition only.
- Platform-native copier tools — Tradovate, NinjaTrader, MotiveWave, Quantower, etc.
Use of unapproved trade copiers, modified versions, or non-compliance editions may result in enforcement action. TPT may verify compliance at any time and modify the approved list.
Permitted Usage
- Copy trades across your own accounts.
- Manage multiple accounts as part of your individual trading strategy.
- Improve execution efficiency across your own accounts.
Prohibited Usage
- Copy or synchronize trades between different users or identities.
- Coordinate execution across accounts not owned and controlled by you.
- Enter opposing or offsetting positions designed to reduce, transfer, or neutralize risk.
- Participate in pass services, payout services, or coordinated trading schemes.
- Attempt to circumvent the Independent Trade Execution Policy.
Co-Trading Account Limit
- You can copy trade up to 5 PRO or live-market PRO+ accounts simultaneously, while also having as many Test accounts waiting as you'd like.
Monitoring & Enforcement
- TPT monitors execution data and account behavior for signs of coordinated or non-independent trading activity.
- Violations may result in profit forfeiture, account reset/liquidation, account closure, or permanent ban.
- Enforcement decisions are based on behavioral, statistical, and technical analysis of execution data — not the specific copier software used.
DCA
All Account Types
- DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) and scaling into positions is permitted.
- TakeProfitTrader does not impose restrictions on entry methods.
Passed Accounts
Reserve Policy
- You can keep any number of passed Test accounts; they remain dormant until you choose to activate or use them. PRO/PRO+ limits still apply when trading funded accounts.
10 Passed Test Activations per 30 Days
- You may activate up to 10 passed Tests within any 30 calendar day window.
- Example: if 5 PROs are activated on 1/5/26 and another 7 Tests pass by 1/17/26, only 5 of those 7 PROs activate that day (the 5 already-activated count toward the 30-day cap). The remaining 2 become eligible 30 days after the initial activation date.
- The 5 active PRO/PRO+ cap also applies — passed Tests cannot activate beyond that ceiling.
Max Number of Accounts
- Unlimited Test accounts — traders can trade them simultaneously.
- Up to 5 active PRO/PRO+ accounts at the same time, in any combination (e.g. 3 PRO + 2 PRO+, or 5 PRO, or 5 PRO+).
- This 5-account limit is per person.
Clear Path to Live
When Traders Are Moved To Live
- When a trader is consistently able to withdraw meaningful sim payouts from PRO accounts, OR
- When a trader achieves $10,000 in profit within a single trading day on a PRO account.
How You Are Moved To Live (PRO+)
- If eligible for a PRO+ upgrade, an official invitation is sent via email by the TakeProfitTrader team.
- If eligible, the PRO account is placed on hold.
- $5,000 in profit from the PRO account is frozen and must remain in the account while the PRO+ is active.
- The PRO+ account begins with a $0 balance and an initial EOD drawdown equivalent to the starting drawdown of the original PRO account.
- For example, if the PRO account was a $50,000 account, the PRO+ account would start at $0 with an EOD drawdown of -$2,000.
Benefits of PRO+
- 90/10 profit split.
- Trader directly routed to the exchange (not SIM).
- No buffer zone requirement.
- EOD (End-of-Day) Drawdown.
- Withdraw all profits from day one without limits.
In Case of PRO+ Account Loss
- If the trader loses the PRO+ account:
- Any remaining profits within the PRO+ account, along with the trader's share of the frozen $5,000 profit from the PRO account, will be eligible for withdrawal.
- If the PRO+ account ends with a negative balance, that amount is deducted from the $5,000 profit held in the PRO account.
- The remaining balance is available for withdrawal, subject to the standard PRO account profit-split terms.
