Rule changes
Changes to futures prop firm rules, prices and payouts: drawdown, loss limits, consistency rules and payout caps.
Tradeify cuts Select Flex payout caps, raises two Select Daily caps
Select Flex caps drop and two Select Daily caps rise for Tradeify accounts bought from September 1.
CME futures close early Monday for Labor Day, reopening at 5 p.m. CT
Equity and rate futures stop at midday Monday, September 7; energy and metals follow at 1:30 p.m. CT.
MyFundedFutures ends evaluation subscriptions, adds inactivity rule
New evaluations are one-time purchases from August 25, and an untraded account can be closed after seven days.
Tradeify opens Forge limited drops with a $449 Select 300K evaluation
Tradeify's first Forge drop is a $300,000 Select evaluation at $449, limited to three per trader.
Topstep Labs sells a $3,000 fixed-payout challenge for $49
Topstep's $3K Challenge runs two rounds and pays a flat $3,000, after which the account closes.
Bulenox adds Fast Track and Momentum, cuts master accounts to five
Bulenox put Fast Track and Momentum on sale August 17, ended monthly billing and capped masters at five.
Take Profit Trader cuts evaluation minimum to three trading days
New Take Profit Trader test accounts can pass in three trading days from August 17; existing tests keep five.
MyFundedFutures adds Rapid EOD with end-of-day funded drawdown
MyFundedFutures started selling Rapid EOD on August 6, with end-of-day drawdown at every stage.
Lucid makes the daily loss limit a checkout option on LucidFlex
Lucid's LucidFlex now sets the daily loss limit at checkout, on for a lower price or off for a higher one.
Tradeify drops its 10-second trade rule from evaluations
Tradeify's under-10-second trade rule now applies only to funded payouts, not to evaluations.
TradeDay sets 45% consistency rule on new Fast Pass accounts
New Fast Pass Funded Sim accounts cap any single day at 45% of gross profits and pay out less per request.
Alpha Futures reopens Standard plan, lifts account limit to 5
Standard accounts bought from July 27, 2026 can be held five at a time; older ones stay capped at three.
Lucid Trading launches LucidDaily with daily payout requests
LucidDaily allows a payout request on any eligible day, with intraday drawdown and a red-folder news ban.
Take Profit Trader automates withdrawals on Tradovate PRO
Account-to-wallet approval on Tradovate PRO accounts now clears in seconds instead of manual review.
FundedNext Futures retires Bolt, launches Rapid Pro and Rapid Daily
Bolt and the old Rapid are off sale from 10 July 2026; the new Rapid challenge splits into Pro and Daily.
Alpha Futures drops the $149 activation fee on Advanced accounts
Advanced accounts bought after the July 8 announcement move to Qualified with no $149 activation fee.
Topstep swaps Live Performance Bonus for $250,000 Octagon contest
Topstep's level-based Live Performance Bonus ended in June; the Octagon started July 1, 2026.
Alpha Futures launches Direct, an instant-funded account
Alpha Futures' Direct accounts skip the evaluation but gate payouts behind a target and a 20% rule.
Earn2Trade drops minimum trading days, ties split to withdrawals
Evaluations bought from July 6, 2026 have no minimum trading days and a threshold-based profit split.
Topstep Labs opens with a $25,000 static-drawdown Trading Combine
Topstep's first Labs drop is a $25,000 Combine with a fixed max loss limit, no resets and a $75 one-time fee.
Funded Futures Network replaces old plans with STEADY evaluation
Funded Futures Network closed Standard OG to new buyers and replaced Express MAX with the two-day STEADY account.
CME Globex closes early Friday, July 3, for Independence Day 2026
CME Globex closes at noon CT on Friday, July 3, and those trades carry a July 6 trade date.
Earn2Trade raises concurrent evaluation limit from three to five
Earn2Trade now allows five evaluation accounts at once; funded-side limits are unchanged.
Topstep doubles XFA payout caps for traders with a daily loss limit
New Trading Combine buyers can trade a hard daily stop for double per-request payout caps, from June 2.