Plain-English explainers on the rules that actually decide whether you pass — every fact checked against the firms' own documentation and re-audited weekly.
Apex has no consistency rule in the evaluation, so one session passes it. The 100% of your first $25,000 split is per account, not per trader — which is the real reason Apex dominates.
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DayTraders breaks the 6% profit target pattern every other futures prop firm follows. It also takes no profit split, and a qualifying day needs real profit, not a token trade.
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Earn2Trade permits news trading, which most futures prop firms restrict. It also offers a 200K account. The cost is a 30% consistency rule that forces four trading days.
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FundedNext Futures Flex wants $2,500 on a 50K where most firms want $3,000 — but gives you $1,500 of drawdown instead of $2,000. Rapid and Bolt are discontinued.
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DayTraders takes no profit split at all. Apex pays 100% of your first $25,000 per account. Topstep's famous 100% deal no longer applies to new traders. Verified splits, 11 firms.
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Lucid sells five different products and only LucidPro passes in a single day. LucidDirect skips the evaluation entirely but carries a 20% consistency rule on payouts.
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No MyFundedFutures evaluation has a consistency rule, so the minimum trading day count is the entire answer. Builder passes in one day, Rapid and Pro in two.
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Take Profit Trader's consistency rule is strictly below 50%, not at-or-below, and a five-day minimum overrides the maths. Most comparison sites report three days.
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Top One Futures Elite ACCESS has no consistency rule and a one-day minimum, so a single session passes it. But the 150K funded drawdown is smaller than the evaluation one.
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Topstep's 100% of your first $10,000 now applies only to accounts opened before 12 January 2026. New traders are on a straight 90/10 split. Full Combine rules verified.
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TradeDay FastPass has no minimum trading days and passes in three. QuickPay has the tightest consistency rule of any evaluation we model, plus a five-day minimum.
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Tradeify Growth passes in one day but has a daily loss limit. Select has none, and its consistency rule disappears once funded — the reverse of how most firms work.
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LucidPro has no consistency rule in evaluation, so a 50K passes in one day. Topstep needs two. A verified comparison of both firms' actual rules.
2026-08-07 · Read →
Topstep's consistency rule confuses more traders than any other. It does not fail your account — it raises your target. Here is the exact math, verified against Topstep's own documentation.
2026-08-07 · Read →