TakeProfitTrader

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.

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.

Payout Policy — PRO Account

• PRO account profit split is 80% to trader, 20% to TakeProfitTrader.
• No consistency rules.
• Withdrawals from day one — once you reach your PRO account, you can withdraw funds from day one, but you must first reach the buffer zone.
• Traders can withdraw profits at 80% once the account balance reaches the buffer (max-drawdown level).
• Example: For a $50,000 account with a $2,000 drawdown, you must reach $52,000 before standard 80% withdrawals are permitted.
• If a trader achieves $10,000 in profit in a single day on a PRO account, they will be assessed for PRO+ eligibility.

Buffer Zones Per Account Size

The buffer is equal to the maximum drawdown amount on the account.

Buffer Withdrawal Rules (PRO Account)

• Traders can withdraw profits inside the buffer zone only if the account is terminated.
• The profit split for buffer withdrawals depends on trading days (last day = the last trading day on your PRO account):

• Example: $50K account at $51,500 balance ($500 profit) wants to terminate:
  • If terminated within 60 trading days → $250 (50% split)
  • If terminated after 60 trading days → $400 (80% split)

Payout Policy — PRO+ Account

• You can withdraw profits from day one.
• Profit split is 90% to trader, 10% to TakeProfitTrader.
• No consistency rules.
• No buffer zone requirement — withdraw all profits without limitations on amount.

Withdrawal Processing & Payout Methods

• Processing timeframes: ~24 hours from PRO to wallet, ~12 hours from wallet to external.
• No maximum withdrawal limit.

Available Payout Methods

• Plaid (US bank accounts only) — automated payout completed from the dashboard at takeprofittrader.com. Payouts to US banks are sent in real-time or via ACH (depending on what the bank supports).
• PayPal — used internationally. Account details must match the trader's registered details at TPT.
• Wise — used for international wire transfers, covering 160+ countries. Required for LLC payouts.

Compliance / AML

• The bank account or payment provider used must belong to the individual registered at TakeProfitTrader. Mismatched details will delay or deny the payout.
• For LLC payouts, Wise (or PayPal configured for the LLC) is required.

Withdrawal Fees

• $50 fee on withdrawals of $250 or less.