Tradeify rules

Drawdown, daily loss limits, consistency and contract caps for Tradeify's Growth, Select and Lightning accounts.

Status: Active
Account types: Growth, Select, Lightning
Activation fee: None
Flat by: 4:45 p.m. ET

Rules checked on September 26, 2026 · Tradeify's trading rules · By helloweekends Editors

Tradeify rules differ across its three account types. Growth and Select are evaluations traded on simulated accounts. Lightning Funded skips the evaluation and starts you in a simulated funded account. Every account has an end-of-day trailing drawdown, a one-time price with no activation fee and a 4:45 p.m. ET close. Daily loss limits, consistency and minimum days are set per plan, and on Select you pick a funded payout style after passing.

Rules on every Tradeify account

Flat by 4:45 p.m. ET, or 12:59 p.m. ET on holiday early closes (see the CME holiday calendar 2026). No overnight or weekend holding on any account, Live included. The automatic close does not fail the account.
End-of-day trailing drawdown. The max drawdown follows your end-of-day balance up until it locks. How trailing works in general is on the trailing drawdown page.
Daily loss limit. On Growth and Lightning it is a soft limit: hitting it stops trading for the day. On funded accounts it rises to a drawdown-sized amount once you reach 6% profit.
No hedging, including across your own accounts and in correlated products.
Microscalping. On funded accounts, more than 50% of your trades and more than 50% of your profit must come from trades held longer than 10 seconds, or payouts are blocked.
Algorithms must be yours alone and not high-frequency trading.
News trading is allowed. Minis and micros may be held at the same time within your contract limit.
Account limits. Up to 5 sim funded accounts at once (8 counting 300K V2s) and 15 evaluations per 30 days, each resettable up to 10 times per 30 days. Lightning accounts cannot be reset.

Plans and prices

All plans: one-time payment, no activation fee, end-of-day trailing drawdown. List prices. Source: Tradeify Pricing Reference and help center, checked September 26, 2026.
Plan	Size	Price	Profit target	Max drawdown
Growth	$25,000	$99	$1,500	$1,000
Growth	$50,000	$145	$3,000	$2,000
Growth	$100,000	$255	$6,000	$3,500
Growth	$150,000	$369	$9,000	$5,000
Select	$25,000	$109 ($135 with 50% consistency add-on)	$1,500	$1,000
Select	$50,000	$165 ($205 with add-on)	$3,000	$2,000
Select	$100,000	$265 ($329 with add-on)	$6,000	$3,000
Select	$150,000	$369 ($459 with add-on)	$9,000	$4,500
Select 300K V2 (limited release)	$300,000	$349	$14,000	$8,000
Lightning Funded (instant)	$25,000	$345	None (no evaluation)	$1,000
Lightning Funded (instant)	$50,000	$492	None (no evaluation)	$2,000
Lightning Funded (instant)	$100,000	$660	None (no evaluation)	$4,000
Lightning Funded (instant)	$150,000	$796	None (no evaluation)	$5,250

The Pricing Reference still lists the 300K at $449, the V1 price. The 300K Select Account article says V1 is no longer sold, so the table uses the V2 price.

Rules by plan

DLL = daily loss limit; soft means trading stops for the day. Select DLLs are shown for the evaluation, Flex funded and Daily funded. Source: Tradeify help center, checked September 26, 2026.
Plan	Daily loss limit	Consistency	Min. days	Max. contracts	Notes
Growth 25K	$600 (soft)	None in evaluation; 35% funded	1	1 mini / 10 micros	Funded DLL rises to $1,000 at 6% profit
Growth 50K	$1,250 (soft)	None in evaluation; 35% funded	1	4 minis / 40 micros	Funded DLL rises to $2,000 at 6% profit
Growth 100K	$2,500 (soft)	None in evaluation; 35% funded	1	8 minis / 80 micros	Funded DLL rises to $3,500 at 6% profit
Growth 150K	$3,750 (soft)	None in evaluation; 35% funded	1	12 minis / 120 micros	Funded DLL rises to $5,000 at 6% profit
Select 25K	Evaluation none; Flex none; Daily $500	40% in evaluation (50% add-on); none funded	3 (2 with add-on)	1 mini / 10 micros	Choose Flex or Daily after passing; permanent
Select 50K	Evaluation none; Flex none; Daily $1,000	40% in evaluation (50% add-on); none funded	3 (2 with add-on)	4 minis / 40 micros	Funded starts at 2 minis / 20 micros, scales to max
Select 100K	Evaluation none; Flex none; Daily $1,250	40% in evaluation (50% add-on); none funded	3 (2 with add-on)	8 minis / 80 micros	Funded starts at 3 minis / 30 micros; Daily funded drawdown $2,500
Select 150K	Evaluation none; Flex none; Daily $1,750	40% in evaluation (50% add-on); none funded	3 (2 with add-on)	12 minis / 120 micros	Funded starts at 3 minis / 30 micros; Daily funded drawdown $3,500
Select 300K V2	Evaluation $4,000; Flex $4,000; Daily $3,000	40% in evaluation; none funded	3	16 minis / 160 micros	No resets; max 3 per user; Daily funded drawdown $6,000
Lightning 25K	None	20% / 25% / 30% (payout 1 / 2 / 3+)	None	1 mini / 10 micros	No resets
Lightning 50K	$1,250 (soft)	20% / 25% / 30% (payout 1 / 2 / 3+)	None	4 minis / 40 micros	DLL rises to $2,000 at 6% profit
Lightning 100K	$2,500 (soft)	20% / 25% / 30% (payout 1 / 2 / 3+)	None	8 minis / 80 micros	DLL rises to $4,000 at 6% profit
Lightning 150K	$3,000 (soft)	20% / 25% / 30% (payout 1 / 2 / 3+)	None	12 minis / 120 micros	Pre-3.0 accounts: $3,750 DLL, $6,000 drawdown

Growth

Growth has no consistency rule in the evaluation and a one-day minimum, so you can pass in a single session. Once funded, a 35% consistency rule applies to each payout.

Select

Select needs three trading days and a 40% consistency rule in the evaluation. A 50% consistency add-on costs extra and cuts the minimum to two days. After passing you choose Select Flex, with no DLL except on the 300K V2 ($4,000), or Select Daily, with a DLL and daily payouts, and the choice is permanent. On Select Daily the funded drawdown is $2,500 on 100K and $3,500 on 150K; an older Tradeify blog post says $3,000 and $4,500, and we use the help center figures.

Lightning Funded

Lightning Funded is instant funding: no evaluation, no minimum days and no resets. Its consistency rule starts at 20% for the first payout, then 25% for the second and 30% from the third. Tradeify's pages conflict on the 150K: the Lightning article and the Tradeify 3.0 post give a $3,000 DLL and a $5,250 drawdown for new purchases, the Essential Trading Rules page still lists $3,750, and the drawdown-lock table still implies $6,000. The Essential Trading Rules page also still shows a flat 20% consistency rule.

Worked example: Select 50K with and without the add-on

The Select 50K costs $165. It has a $3,000 target, a $2,000 end-of-day trailing drawdown and no DLL in the evaluation, so the drawdown starts at $48,000. Under the standard 40% rule, no single day may count for more than $1,200 of the $3,000, and you need at least three trading days. With the 50% add-on, which raises the price to $205, your best day may bring up to $1,500 and two days are enough.

What breaks a Tradeify account

Your balance touching the max drawdown.
Hedging, across your own accounts or in correlated products.
On a funded account, microscalping blocks payouts until more than half of your trades and profit come from trades held over 10 seconds.
A soft DLL only stops trading for the day, and the 4:45 p.m. ET auto-close does not fail the account.

Recent rule changes

August 27, 2026: the Select 300K V2 replaced V1. The price fell from $449 to $349, the max loss rose from $6,000 to $8,000, a $4,000 evaluation DLL was added, and on Daily the funded drawdown went from $5,000 to $6,000 and the DLL from $2,500 to $3,000.
Tradeify 3.0, no date published: all plans became one-time purchases, the Select 50K target rose from $2,500 to $3,000, and for new Lightning 150K purchases the drawdown fell from $6,000 to $5,250 and the DLL from $3,750 to $3,000.
September 12, 2025: on funded accounts the DLL now rises to a drawdown-sized amount at 6% profit instead of being removed. Lightning position limits fell from 5, 10 and 15 minis to 4, 8 and 12 on 50K, 100K and 150K.

The September 1, 2026 payout cap changes are on the Tradeify payout rules page. Every dated change is in the rule change log.

Know the riskA Tradeify evaluation is a paid service with simulated trading, and Lightning Funded is a paid simulated account. Most people who buy an evaluation do not pass it, and firms change their rules, pause payouts and close. Not investment advice.

Questions

Does Tradeify have a daily loss limit?

Growth has a soft DLL of $600 to $3,750 by size. Select has none in the evaluation or on Select Flex except on the 300K, and one on Select Daily. Lightning has one on every size but 25K. On Growth and Lightning it is a soft limit: hitting it stops trading for the day.

What is Tradeify's consistency rule?

Growth: none in the evaluation, 35% once funded. Select: 40% in the evaluation, or 50% with the add-on, and none once funded. Lightning: 20%, 25% and 30% for the first, second and later payouts.

Can you hold positions overnight with Tradeify?

No. You must be flat by 4:45 p.m. ET, or 12:59 p.m. ET on holiday early closes, and no account may hold overnight or over the weekend.

How fast can you pass a Tradeify evaluation?

Growth can be passed in one day. Select needs three trading days, or two with the 50% consistency add-on. Lightning Funded has no evaluation.

Can you trade the news with Tradeify?

Yes. News trading is allowed.

Sources

All checked on September 26, 2026.