News: Rule changes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.