Firm review · Stocks and ETFs
Trade The Pool review: Day Trading, Swing and Edge accounts
Simulated stock and ETF accounts from Trade The Pool: Day Trading FLEX $59–$1,475 and MAX $47–$1,100 ($5K, $25K, $50K, $100K and $200K), Swing FLEX $87–$1,240 and MAX $69–$800 ($2K, $10K, $20K and $40K) and two Edge accounts. They are not CFDs; FundedKeys lists them under Forex / CFD because it has no stocks market. Every price here is a list price.
Rules checked on tradethepool.comOct 27, 20267 official pages citedMethodology
Trade The Pool prices
Checked on tradethepool.com Oct 27, 2026The prices below are list prices.
- Profit target
- +$1,500
- to pass; minimum days not published
- consistency to pass not published
- Max drawdown
- $1,000
- a floor under the starting balance that steps up
- 4% of the account (dollars derived)
- Daily loss limit
- $500
- a share of the buying power: a pause until the next day on the Day and Swing plans, a hard limit on Edge
- 2% of the account (dollars derived)
- Activation fee
- $0
- after you pass
- To the Funded account
- $120
- price + activation fee
- Payout cap
- Not published
- no cap published
List price
$120
$25K Day FLEXDay Trading FLEX · one-time
Get Trade The Pool Day FLEX: opens tradethepool.com in a new tabOpens tradethepool.com. Affiliate link.
At a glance
Best for
- Simulated stock and ETF accounts at $59–$1,475 ($5K, $25K, $50K, $100K and $200K), paid once, with no activation fee.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- A 6% target, a 2% Daily Pause and a 4% maximum loss, with no time limit to pass.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- 70% of the profit on the funded account, with a request every 14 days.Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
Watch out
- A best position may account for at most 50% of the profit target, and a payout asks 3 days of 0.5% profit within 14 days.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Day accounts are liquidated 10 minutes before the close; the after-hours exposure is smaller.Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)24/5 Trading page (official page, opens in a new tab)
At a glance
Best for
- A Day plan at $47–$1,100 ($5K, $25K, $50K, $100K and $200K), paid once, with no activation fee.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- A 6% target in 60 days, a 1% Daily Pause and a 3% maximum loss.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- 70% of the profit, with no profitable-day requirement and no consistency rule on the funded account.Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Watch out
- A minimum of 20 positions, and the best position at most 30% of the profit target.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- The 60 days of the evaluation are counted in calendar days.Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
At a glance
Best for
- Swing accounts from $2K to $40K at $87–$1,240, paid once, with no activation fee.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- A 15% target, a 3% Daily Pause and a 7% maximum loss, with no time limit to pass.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Positions may be held overnight and over weekends.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Watch out
- A best position may account for at most 50% of the profit target, and a payout asks 3 days of 0.5% profit within 14 days.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- A position on a company that reports that night is liquidated at 15:50 ET.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
At a glance
Best for
- A Swing plan at $69–$800 ($2K, $10K, $20K and $40K), paid once, with no activation fee.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- A 15% target in 100 days, a 3% Daily Pause and a 7% maximum loss.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- 70% of the profit, with a position consistency limit of 70% once funded.Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
Watch out
- A best position may account for at most 30% of the profit target in the evaluation.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- The Program Terms and the rules card word the 100 days differently: both are shown below.Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
At a glance
Best for
- One account at $156, paid once, with no activation fee: a simulated $50,000 stock and ETF account.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- A 6% target with no consistency rule during the evaluation, a 4% maximum loss and a 2.5% Daily Loss limit.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- 80% of the profit on the Pro account.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Watch out
- The Daily Loss limit is a hard limit: reaching it permanently disables the account.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- The first withdrawal asks 4% profit on the Pro account and the minimum payout request is $500.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
At a glance
Best for
- One account at $266, paid once, with no activation fee: a simulated $100,000 stock and ETF account.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- A 6% target with no consistency rule during the evaluation, a 4% maximum loss and a 1.8% Daily Loss limit.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- 80% of the profit on the Pro account.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Watch out
- The Daily Loss limit is a hard limit: reaching it permanently disables the account.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- The first withdrawal asks 4% profit on the Pro account and the minimum payout request is $500.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Ways in
Which way in costs least?
For the size you pick: each plan at its one-time list price, what it must reach and how much it may lose. Day plans come in $5K to $200K, Swing plans in $2K to $40K and Edge at two sizes. No pass rate is assumed.
At $25K: each way in at its list price.
| Way in | List price | Activation fee | To the Funded account | Profit target | Max drawdown | Days to pass | Consistency, payout stage | Payout cap | Evaluation reset |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day FLEXone-time evaluation | $120 | $0 | $120 | +$1,500 | $1,000 | Not published | Not published | Not published | None |
| Day MAXone-time evaluation | $97 | $0 | $97 | +$1,500 | $750 | Not published | Not published | Not published | None |
Accounts
All 20 Trade The Pool accounts
Six programs, one list price per size, paid once. Every evaluation leads to a funded account; the instruments are simulated stocks and ETFs.
Showing 5 of 20: Day Trading FLEX. List prices checked on Oct 27, 2026; your selected account is highlighted.
| Billing | Consistency, payout stage | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day FLEX | $5K | one-time | $59 | $0 | +$300 | $200 | $100 | Not published | Not published |
| Day FLEX | $25K | one-time | $120 | $0 | +$1,500 | $1,000 | $500 | Not published | Not published |
| Day FLEX | $50K | one-time | $285 | $0 | +$3,000 | $2,000 | $1,000 | Not published | Not published |
| Day FLEX | $100K | one-time | $545 | $0 | +$6,000 | $4,000 | $2,000 | Not published | Not published |
| Day FLEX | $200K | one-time | $1,475 | $0 | +$12,000 | $8,000 | $4,000 | Not published | Not published |
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Payout rules
Trade The Pool payout rules: the path to your first payout
Worked on the account you pick, from the firm's pages. Where the firm publishes no cap on a payout, the stations list the rules instead.
Showing Day FLEX $25K
Day FLEX $25K: from purchase to the payout rules
- Buy
$120
one-time payment
- Floor on day 1
- $24,000: $1,000 below the start, a floor under the starting balance that steps up
- Daily loss limit
- $500: a share of the buying power: a pause until the next day on the Day and Swing plans, a hard limit on Edge
- Reset
- Not published.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Pass the target
+$1,500
to pass the evaluation
- Minimum days
- Not published.
- Best day to pass
- Not published.
- Max drawdown
- $1,000, a floor under the starting balance that steps up
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Funded account
$0
activation fee; same size
- So far
- $120: price + activation fee
- Daily loss limit
- $500: a share of the buying power: a pause until the next day on the Day and Swing plans, a hard limit on Edge
- Reset after a breach
- Not published.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- First payout
14 days, with 3 profitable days
per request; you keep 70%
- Days before the first request
- 14 days, and 3 trading days with 0.5% profit or more
- Best day
- consistency rule not published
- Maximum payout
- Not published.
- Minimum payout
- $300
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- After that
every 14 days
the same rules each cycle
- How often
- every 14 days
- Getting paid
- Wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card; a payout usually takes 3 to 5 business days.
- Review
- After the target the risk department reviews the trades before the funded account is opened; identity verification comes after the first evaluation target.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Trade The Pool Day FLEX $25K: $120 at the list price.
Get Trade The Pool Day FLEX: opens tradethepool.com in a new tabConsistency
Trade The Pool consistency rule, worked out
The rule is about the best position, not the best day: it is limited to a share of the profit target while you qualify and, on the FLEX and Swing MAX funded accounts, to a share of the total profit. It is shown in the rules, not as a best-day figure.
Largest profitable day ÷ net profit (since your last payout request, or during the evaluation), capped by each plan. “Under” means the day must stay below the cap; “at most” means it may equal it.
Check your own days in the consistency calculator · Plan your risk on this account in the risk planner
Worked example
- Day FLEX and Swing FLEX: the best position may account for at most 50% of the profit target (for example $1,500 on a $3,000 target); Day MAX and Swing MAX: 30% of the target in the evaluation. These count one position, not one day.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Rules
Trade The Pool rules, with their sources
Checked on tradethepool.com on Oct 27, 2026. First the key rules side by side at the size you picked, then every rule of the selected program, each with its source.
Key rules of every plan at $25K, side by side; the column of your plan is highlighted.
Evaluation 10
- Price
- Paid once at purchase: one list price per size. The funded account needs no further purchase.$5K$59$25K$120$50K$285$100K$545$200K$1,475
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit target
- 6% of the account's buying power at every size.derived: 6% of the account size$5K$300$25K$1,500$50K$3,000$100K$6,000$200K$12,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Max loss
- 4% of the buying power, checked on equity: the stop-out is the starting balance minus this amount. Once the equity, unrealized profit included, is three Daily Pauses above the start, the floor moves up to the starting balance.derived: 4% of the account size$5K$200$25K$1,000$50K$2,000$100K$4,000$200K$8,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Pause
- 2% of the buying power: reaching it closes every open position and order and pauses trading until the next trading day; the account stays active.derived: 2% of the account size$5K$100$25K$500$50K$1,000$100K$2,000$200K$4,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Time limit
- No time limit to pass the evaluation, and a 14-day inactivity timeout (evaluation and funded account).
- Minimum positions
- At least 10 positions to pass.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Position consistency
- The best position may account for at most 50% of the profit target. The rule counts one position from its opening trade until the account is flat again, not one day.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum trading days
- Not published.
- A best-day consistency rule
- Not published.
- Overnight exposure
- In the premarket and after-hours sessions a Day Trading account's exposure falls to the amount shown for its size.Exposure after the close$5K$800$25K$4,000$50K$8,000$100K$16,000$200K$32,000
Funded account 10
- Profit share
- You keep 70% of the profit; the firm keeps the rest. At each scale-up the split is applied to the profit at that moment.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Payout interval
- A request can be made 14 days after the account starts and every 14 days after a payout.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit days (FLEX)
- At least 0.5% of the buying power earned on 3 separate trading days within any 14-day period; the days need not be consecutive.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum payout
- At least this much profit in the account.$5K$150$25K$300$50K$300$100K$300$200K$300
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Maximum payout
- Not published.
- Position consistency
- The best position may account for at most 50% of the total valid profit, for payouts and scaling too.
- A best-day consistency rule
- Not published.
- Scaling
- Every time the funded account reaches a new 10% valid profit milestone it is replaced by a scaled account with 5% more buying power and a 10% higher Daily Pause.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Pause
- The same Daily Pause as in the evaluation, raised at each scale-up.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Getting paid
- Wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card; a payout usually takes 3 to 5 business days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Trading rules 11
- Instruments
- Stocks and ETFs on simulated accounts: more than 12,000 symbols on the platform, penny stocks and IPOs included, short selling included; no options or contracts and no index futures (their ETFs, such as QQQ and SPY, are available). Not CFDs: the firm's swing rules describe spot trading on actual stock and ETF prices, "not derivatives or leveraged instruments". FundedKeys has no stocks market, so Trade The Pool is listed under Forex / CFD.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Sessions
- Regular hours 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, plus a 24/5 session from Monday 3 a.m. ET to Friday 8 p.m. ET with overnight execution on Blue Ocean (about 3,500 symbols, real-time data); no weekend session.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- News trading
- Permitted, including news that breaks overnight before the 9:30 a.m. ET open; no position may be held overnight on a company that reports that night (it is liquidated at 15:50 ET).
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Platform
- A TraderEvolution terminal customised for the firm: Windows desktop, Android and iOS apps and a web client; Mac computers use the web terminal.
- Commissions
- Simulated commissions of half a cent per share with a minimum of $0.75 per filled order, deducted from the virtual balance only.
- Position rules
- A position's profit counts only if it earned at least 10 cents between average entry and exit and its opening and closing executions are at least 30 seconds apart (MAX and FLEX); an opening order may not exceed 5% of the previous one-minute candle's volume.
- Volume rules
- A position may be opened or added to only once the stock has traded more than 200,000 shares that day (20,000 in the extended sessions); to hold a swing position overnight the stock needs an average of at least 500,000 shares a day over the previous 14 days.
- Splits, dividends and the close
- Day Trading accounts are fully liquidated 10 minutes before the regular close; positions must be closed before an announced split and before a stock trades ex-dividend.
- Copy trading
- Allowed between up to two of your own accounts of paired sizes, executed by you; the platform's copy feature works on evaluation accounts only.
- Automated trading
- The terms and the Program Terms word this differently (shown under the points where the pages disagree): no automation rule is listed for the accounts.
- Prohibited conduct
- Arbitrage, high-frequency trading, bracketing around high-impact news, tick scalping, exploiting system errors, one-sided bets, account sharing and trading for others are among the conduct the terms list.
Accounts & fees 11
- Simulated trading
- Every activity takes place in a simulated environment: no order reaches a market, the virtual capital is fictitious and a reward is a share of the hypothetical profit of the funded account.
- Company
- Trade The Pool is a brand name owned and operated by Five Percent Online Ltd., part of the 5% group that also runs The5ers.
- Who can join
- Individual retail traders aged 18 or over; company registrations are not permitted and withdrawals go to an account in your own name.
- Verification and review
- Identity verification (KYC) after the first evaluation target; the risk department then reviews the trades before a funded account is opened, which can take up to 3 business days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Paying & getting paid
- Fees are in dollars and include all taxes, paid by payment card, bank transfer or the other means offered on the site; payouts go by wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card.
Terms and Conditions (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Refunds
- The evaluation fee is not refundable once trading has started; before any trading a full refund can be requested within 5 days of purchase, after that as Hub credit only.
- Hub credits
- Redeemable for services on the Hub only: no monetary value and not refundable.
- Accounts at once
- Several evaluation accounts can be held, with a total base buying power of $450K before scaling.
- Free trial
- A free 14-day trial through the Hub sign-up, with demo accounts for both Day and Swing trading.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Boosters
- Optional third-party tools free for a month on one account per user: TraderSync, TraderVue, Stock Traders Daily, Trade Ideas, SignalStack, TrendSpider and Bookmap.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Places not served (terms)
- The terms define the places where the services are not available as "including, but not limited to" the names in the folded list; those who reside there may not use the services.
The 31 places named in the terms
Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cuba, Congo Republic, Crimea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen
Evaluation 10
- Price
- Paid once at purchase: one list price per size. The funded account needs no further purchase.$5K$47$25K$97$50K$230$100K$435$200K$1,100
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit target
- 6% of the account's buying power at every size.derived: 6% of the account size$5K$300$25K$1,500$50K$3,000$100K$6,000$200K$12,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Max loss
- 3% of the buying power, checked on equity: the stop-out is the starting balance minus this amount. Once the equity, unrealized profit included, is three Daily Pauses above the start, the floor moves up to the starting balance.derived: 3% of the account size$5K$150$25K$750$50K$1,500$100K$3,000$200K$6,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Pause
- 1% of the buying power: reaching it closes every open position and order and pauses trading until the next trading day; the account stays active.derived: 1% of the account size$5K$50$25K$250$50K$500$100K$1,000$200K$2,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Time limit
- 60 days, with 1 to 3 extra days when you join on a weekend; the 14-day inactivity timeout starts on the funded account.
- Minimum positions
- At least 20 positions to pass.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Position consistency
- The best position may account for at most 30% of the profit target (evaluation only). The rule counts one position from its opening trade until the account is flat again, not one day.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum trading days
- Not published.
- A best-day consistency rule
- Not published.
- Overnight exposure
- In the premarket and after-hours sessions a Day Trading account's exposure falls to the amount shown for its size.Exposure after the close$5K$800$25K$4,000$50K$8,000$100K$16,000$200K$32,000
Funded account 10
- Profit share
- You keep 70% of the profit; the firm keeps the rest. At each scale-up the split is applied to the profit at that moment.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Payout interval
- A request can be made 14 days after the account starts and every 14 days after a payout.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit days
- The 0.5% profitable-day requirement of FLEX does not apply to MAX accounts.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum payout
- At least this much profit in the account.$5K$150$25K$300$50K$300$100K$300$200K$300
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Maximum payout
- Not published.
- Position consistency
- None on the funded account: the 30% rule applies to the evaluation only.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- A best-day consistency rule
- Not published.
- Scaling
- Every time the funded account reaches a new 10% valid profit milestone it is replaced by a scaled account with 5% more buying power and a 10% higher Daily Pause.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Pause
- The same Daily Pause as in the evaluation, raised at each scale-up.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Getting paid
- Wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card; a payout usually takes 3 to 5 business days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Trading rules 11
- Instruments
- Stocks and ETFs on simulated accounts: more than 12,000 symbols on the platform, penny stocks and IPOs included, short selling included; no options or contracts and no index futures (their ETFs, such as QQQ and SPY, are available). Not CFDs: the firm's swing rules describe spot trading on actual stock and ETF prices, "not derivatives or leveraged instruments". FundedKeys has no stocks market, so Trade The Pool is listed under Forex / CFD.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Sessions
- Regular hours 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, plus a 24/5 session from Monday 3 a.m. ET to Friday 8 p.m. ET with overnight execution on Blue Ocean (about 3,500 symbols, real-time data); no weekend session.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- News trading
- Permitted, including news that breaks overnight before the 9:30 a.m. ET open; no position may be held overnight on a company that reports that night (it is liquidated at 15:50 ET).
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Platform
- A TraderEvolution terminal customised for the firm: Windows desktop, Android and iOS apps and a web client; Mac computers use the web terminal.
- Commissions
- Simulated commissions of half a cent per share with a minimum of $0.75 per filled order, deducted from the virtual balance only.
- Position rules
- A position's profit counts only if it earned at least 10 cents between average entry and exit and its opening and closing executions are at least 30 seconds apart (MAX and FLEX); an opening order may not exceed 5% of the previous one-minute candle's volume.
- Volume rules
- A position may be opened or added to only once the stock has traded more than 200,000 shares that day (20,000 in the extended sessions); to hold a swing position overnight the stock needs an average of at least 500,000 shares a day over the previous 14 days.
- Splits, dividends and the close
- Day Trading accounts are fully liquidated 10 minutes before the regular close; positions must be closed before an announced split and before a stock trades ex-dividend.
- Copy trading
- Allowed between up to two of your own accounts of paired sizes, executed by you; the platform's copy feature works on evaluation accounts only.
- Automated trading
- The terms and the Program Terms word this differently (shown under the points where the pages disagree): no automation rule is listed for the accounts.
- Prohibited conduct
- Arbitrage, high-frequency trading, bracketing around high-impact news, tick scalping, exploiting system errors, one-sided bets, account sharing and trading for others are among the conduct the terms list.
Accounts & fees 11
- Simulated trading
- Every activity takes place in a simulated environment: no order reaches a market, the virtual capital is fictitious and a reward is a share of the hypothetical profit of the funded account.
- Company
- Trade The Pool is a brand name owned and operated by Five Percent Online Ltd., part of the 5% group that also runs The5ers.
- Who can join
- Individual retail traders aged 18 or over; company registrations are not permitted and withdrawals go to an account in your own name.
- Verification and review
- Identity verification (KYC) after the first evaluation target; the risk department then reviews the trades before a funded account is opened, which can take up to 3 business days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Paying & getting paid
- Fees are in dollars and include all taxes, paid by payment card, bank transfer or the other means offered on the site; payouts go by wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card.
Terms and Conditions (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Refunds
- The evaluation fee is not refundable once trading has started; before any trading a full refund can be requested within 5 days of purchase, after that as Hub credit only.
- Hub credits
- Redeemable for services on the Hub only: no monetary value and not refundable.
- Accounts at once
- Several evaluation accounts can be held, with a total base buying power of $450K before scaling.
- Free trial
- A free 14-day trial through the Hub sign-up, with demo accounts for both Day and Swing trading.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Boosters
- Optional third-party tools free for a month on one account per user: TraderSync, TraderVue, Stock Traders Daily, Trade Ideas, SignalStack, TrendSpider and Bookmap.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Places not served (terms)
- The terms define the places where the services are not available as "including, but not limited to" the names in the folded list; those who reside there may not use the services.
The 31 places named in the terms
Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cuba, Congo Republic, Crimea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen
Evaluation 10
- Price
- Paid once at purchase: one list price per size. The funded account needs no further purchase.$2K$87$10K$420$20K$670$40K$1,240
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit target
- 15% of the account's buying power at every size.derived: 15% of the account size$2K$300$10K$1,500$20K$3,000$40K$6,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Max loss
- 7% of the buying power, checked on equity: the stop-out is the starting balance minus this amount. Once the equity, unrealized profit included, is three Daily Pauses above the start, the floor moves up to the starting balance.derived: 7% of the account size$2K$140$10K$700$20K$1,400$40K$2,800
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Pause
- 3% of the buying power: reaching it closes every open position and order and pauses trading until the next trading day; the account stays active.derived: 3% of the account size$2K$60$10K$300$20K$600$40K$1,200
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Time limit
- No time limit to pass the evaluation, and a 14-day inactivity timeout (evaluation and funded account).
- Minimum positions
- At least 5 positions to pass.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Position consistency
- The best position may account for at most 50% of the profit target. The rule counts one position from its opening trade until the account is flat again, not one day.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum trading days
- Not published.
- A best-day consistency rule
- Not published.
- Overnight and weekends
- Positions can be held overnight and over weekends; a position on a company that reports that night is liquidated at 15:50 ET.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Funded account 10
- Profit share
- You keep 70% of the profit; the firm keeps the rest. At each scale-up the split is applied to the profit at that moment.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Payout interval
- A request can be made 14 days after the account starts and every 14 days after a payout.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit days (FLEX)
- At least 0.5% of the buying power earned on 3 separate trading days within any 14-day period; the days need not be consecutive.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum payout
- At least this much profit in the account.$2K$300$10K$300$20K$300$40K$300
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Maximum payout
- Not published.
- Position consistency
- The best position may account for at most 50% of the total valid profit, for payouts and scaling too.
- A best-day consistency rule
- Not published.
- Scaling
- Every time the funded account reaches a new 10% valid profit milestone it is replaced by a scaled account with 5% more buying power and a 10% higher Daily Pause.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Pause
- The same Daily Pause as in the evaluation, raised at each scale-up.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Getting paid
- Wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card; a payout usually takes 3 to 5 business days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Trading rules 11
- Instruments
- Stocks and ETFs on simulated accounts: more than 12,000 symbols on the platform, penny stocks and IPOs included, short selling included; no options or contracts and no index futures (their ETFs, such as QQQ and SPY, are available). Not CFDs: the firm's swing rules describe spot trading on actual stock and ETF prices, "not derivatives or leveraged instruments". FundedKeys has no stocks market, so Trade The Pool is listed under Forex / CFD.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Sessions
- Regular hours 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, plus a 24/5 session from Monday 3 a.m. ET to Friday 8 p.m. ET with overnight execution on Blue Ocean (about 3,500 symbols, real-time data); no weekend session.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- News trading
- Permitted, including news that breaks overnight before the 9:30 a.m. ET open; no position may be held overnight on a company that reports that night (it is liquidated at 15:50 ET).
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Platform
- A TraderEvolution terminal customised for the firm: Windows desktop, Android and iOS apps and a web client; Mac computers use the web terminal.
- Commissions
- Simulated commissions of half a cent per share with a minimum of $0.75 per filled order, deducted from the virtual balance only.
- Position rules
- A position's profit counts only if it earned at least 10 cents between average entry and exit and its opening and closing executions are at least 30 seconds apart (MAX and FLEX); an opening order may not exceed 5% of the previous one-minute candle's volume.
- Volume rules
- A position may be opened or added to only once the stock has traded more than 200,000 shares that day (20,000 in the extended sessions); to hold a swing position overnight the stock needs an average of at least 500,000 shares a day over the previous 14 days.
- Splits, dividends and the close
- Day Trading accounts are fully liquidated 10 minutes before the regular close; positions must be closed before an announced split and before a stock trades ex-dividend.
- Copy trading
- Allowed between up to two of your own accounts of paired sizes, executed by you; the platform's copy feature works on evaluation accounts only.
- Automated trading
- The terms and the Program Terms word this differently (shown under the points where the pages disagree): no automation rule is listed for the accounts.
- Prohibited conduct
- Arbitrage, high-frequency trading, bracketing around high-impact news, tick scalping, exploiting system errors, one-sided bets, account sharing and trading for others are among the conduct the terms list.
Accounts & fees 11
- Simulated trading
- Every activity takes place in a simulated environment: no order reaches a market, the virtual capital is fictitious and a reward is a share of the hypothetical profit of the funded account.
- Company
- Trade The Pool is a brand name owned and operated by Five Percent Online Ltd., part of the 5% group that also runs The5ers.
- Who can join
- Individual retail traders aged 18 or over; company registrations are not permitted and withdrawals go to an account in your own name.
- Verification and review
- Identity verification (KYC) after the first evaluation target; the risk department then reviews the trades before a funded account is opened, which can take up to 3 business days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Paying & getting paid
- Fees are in dollars and include all taxes, paid by payment card, bank transfer or the other means offered on the site; payouts go by wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card.
Terms and Conditions (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Refunds
- The evaluation fee is not refundable once trading has started; before any trading a full refund can be requested within 5 days of purchase, after that as Hub credit only.
- Hub credits
- Redeemable for services on the Hub only: no monetary value and not refundable.
- Accounts at once
- Several evaluation accounts can be held, with a total base buying power of $450K before scaling.
- Free trial
- A free 14-day trial through the Hub sign-up, with demo accounts for both Day and Swing trading.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Boosters
- Optional third-party tools free for a month on one account per user: TraderSync, TraderVue, Stock Traders Daily, Trade Ideas, SignalStack, TrendSpider and Bookmap.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Places not served (terms)
- The terms define the places where the services are not available as "including, but not limited to" the names in the folded list; those who reside there may not use the services.
The 31 places named in the terms
Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cuba, Congo Republic, Crimea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen
Evaluation 10
- Price
- Paid once at purchase: one list price per size. The funded account needs no further purchase.$2K$69$10K$297$20K$447$40K$800
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit target
- 15% of the account's buying power at every size.derived: 15% of the account size$2K$300$10K$1,500$20K$3,000$40K$6,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Max loss
- 7% of the buying power, checked on equity: the stop-out is the starting balance minus this amount. Once the equity, unrealized profit included, is three Daily Pauses above the start, the floor moves up to the starting balance.derived: 7% of the account size$2K$140$10K$700$20K$1,400$40K$2,800
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Pause
- 3% of the buying power: reaching it closes every open position and order and pauses trading until the next trading day; the account stays active.derived: 3% of the account size$2K$60$10K$300$20K$600$40K$1,200
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Time limit
- 100 days (the Program Terms say calendar days, the rules card says trading days: shown under the points where the pages disagree); the 14-day inactivity timeout starts on the funded account.
- Minimum positions
- At least 5 positions to pass.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Position consistency
- The best position may account for at most 30% of the profit target (evaluation only). The rule counts one position from its opening trade until the account is flat again, not one day.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum trading days
- Not published.
- A best-day consistency rule
- Not published.
- Overnight and weekends
- Positions can be held overnight and over weekends; a position on a company that reports that night is liquidated at 15:50 ET.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Funded account 10
- Profit share
- You keep 70% of the profit; the firm keeps the rest. At each scale-up the split is applied to the profit at that moment.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Payout interval
- A request can be made 14 days after the account starts and every 14 days after a payout.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit days
- The 0.5% profitable-day requirement of FLEX does not apply to MAX accounts.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum payout
- At least this much profit in the account.$2K$300$10K$300$20K$300$40K$300
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Maximum payout
- Not published.
- Position consistency
- Once funded, the best position may account for at most 70% of the total valid profit.
- A best-day consistency rule
- Not published.
- Scaling
- Every time the funded account reaches a new 10% valid profit milestone it is replaced by a scaled account with 5% more buying power and a 10% higher Daily Pause.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Pause
- The same Daily Pause as in the evaluation, raised at each scale-up.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Getting paid
- Wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card; a payout usually takes 3 to 5 business days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Trading rules 11
- Instruments
- Stocks and ETFs on simulated accounts: more than 12,000 symbols on the platform, penny stocks and IPOs included, short selling included; no options or contracts and no index futures (their ETFs, such as QQQ and SPY, are available). Not CFDs: the firm's swing rules describe spot trading on actual stock and ETF prices, "not derivatives or leveraged instruments". FundedKeys has no stocks market, so Trade The Pool is listed under Forex / CFD.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Sessions
- Regular hours 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, plus a 24/5 session from Monday 3 a.m. ET to Friday 8 p.m. ET with overnight execution on Blue Ocean (about 3,500 symbols, real-time data); no weekend session.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- News trading
- Permitted, including news that breaks overnight before the 9:30 a.m. ET open; no position may be held overnight on a company that reports that night (it is liquidated at 15:50 ET).
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Platform
- A TraderEvolution terminal customised for the firm: Windows desktop, Android and iOS apps and a web client; Mac computers use the web terminal.
- Commissions
- Simulated commissions of half a cent per share with a minimum of $0.75 per filled order, deducted from the virtual balance only.
- Position rules
- A position's profit counts only if it earned at least 10 cents between average entry and exit and its opening and closing executions are at least 30 seconds apart (MAX and FLEX); an opening order may not exceed 5% of the previous one-minute candle's volume.
- Volume rules
- A position may be opened or added to only once the stock has traded more than 200,000 shares that day (20,000 in the extended sessions); to hold a swing position overnight the stock needs an average of at least 500,000 shares a day over the previous 14 days.
- Splits, dividends and the close
- Day Trading accounts are fully liquidated 10 minutes before the regular close; positions must be closed before an announced split and before a stock trades ex-dividend.
- Copy trading
- Allowed between up to two of your own accounts of paired sizes, executed by you; the platform's copy feature works on evaluation accounts only.
- Automated trading
- The terms and the Program Terms word this differently (shown under the points where the pages disagree): no automation rule is listed for the accounts.
- Prohibited conduct
- Arbitrage, high-frequency trading, bracketing around high-impact news, tick scalping, exploiting system errors, one-sided bets, account sharing and trading for others are among the conduct the terms list.
Accounts & fees 11
- Simulated trading
- Every activity takes place in a simulated environment: no order reaches a market, the virtual capital is fictitious and a reward is a share of the hypothetical profit of the funded account.
- Company
- Trade The Pool is a brand name owned and operated by Five Percent Online Ltd., part of the 5% group that also runs The5ers.
- Who can join
- Individual retail traders aged 18 or over; company registrations are not permitted and withdrawals go to an account in your own name.
- Verification and review
- Identity verification (KYC) after the first evaluation target; the risk department then reviews the trades before a funded account is opened, which can take up to 3 business days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Paying & getting paid
- Fees are in dollars and include all taxes, paid by payment card, bank transfer or the other means offered on the site; payouts go by wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card.
Terms and Conditions (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Refunds
- The evaluation fee is not refundable once trading has started; before any trading a full refund can be requested within 5 days of purchase, after that as Hub credit only.
- Hub credits
- Redeemable for services on the Hub only: no monetary value and not refundable.
- Accounts at once
- Several evaluation accounts can be held, with a total base buying power of $450K before scaling.
- Free trial
- A free 14-day trial through the Hub sign-up, with demo accounts for both Day and Swing trading.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Boosters
- Optional third-party tools free for a month on one account per user: TraderSync, TraderVue, Stock Traders Daily, Trade Ideas, SignalStack, TrendSpider and Bookmap.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Places not served (terms)
- The terms define the places where the services are not available as "including, but not limited to" the names in the folded list; those who reside there may not use the services.
The 31 places named in the terms
Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cuba, Congo Republic, Crimea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen
Evaluation 10
- Price
- Paid once at purchase: one list price per size. The funded account needs no further purchase.$50K$156
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit target
- 6% of the account's buying power.$50K$3,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Max loss
- 4% of the buying power; on the Pro account it is calculated on end-of-day values. The page does not say whether the floor moves.derived: 4% of the account size$50K$2,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Loss limit
- 2.5% of the account on an end-of-day basis, a hard limit: reaching it permanently disables the account. It is not the Daily Pause of the other programs.derived: 2.5% of the account size$50K$1,250
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Consistency
- None during the evaluation.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum trading days
- Not published.
1 official page checked
- Time limit
- Not published.
1 official page checked
- How the floor moves
- Not published.
1 official page checked
- Trade rules
- A position may not exceed 5% of the stock's one-minute volume, must stay open at least 30 seconds and must show at least $0.10 between entry and exit.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Copy trading
- Up to 3 Edge accounts, the $50,000 and the $100,000 included, evaluation or Pro; not between an Edge account and any other account type.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Pro account 9
- Profit share
- You keep 80% of the profit; the firm keeps the rest.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- First payout
- The Pro account must reach 4% profit before the first withdrawal.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Next payouts
- After the first payout the profit needed to withdraw again is lower: 1% of the account.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum payout
- At least this much profit in the account.$50K$500
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Maximum payout
- Each withdrawal is capped at this amount.$50K$1,500
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Consistency
- A 40% consistency rule applies on the Pro account; the page does not say whether it counts positions or days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Payout interval
- Not published.
1 official page checked
- Scaling
- The Pro account does not scale: its size stays the same.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Loss limit
- The same hard end-of-day limit as in the evaluation.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Trading rules 11
- Instruments
- Stocks and ETFs on simulated accounts: more than 12,000 symbols on the platform, penny stocks and IPOs included, short selling included; no options or contracts and no index futures (their ETFs, such as QQQ and SPY, are available). Not CFDs: the firm's swing rules describe spot trading on actual stock and ETF prices, "not derivatives or leveraged instruments". FundedKeys has no stocks market, so Trade The Pool is listed under Forex / CFD.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Sessions
- Regular hours 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, plus a 24/5 session from Monday 3 a.m. ET to Friday 8 p.m. ET with overnight execution on Blue Ocean (about 3,500 symbols, real-time data); no weekend session.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- News trading
- Permitted, including news that breaks overnight before the 9:30 a.m. ET open; no position may be held overnight on a company that reports that night (it is liquidated at 15:50 ET).
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Platform
- A TraderEvolution terminal customised for the firm: Windows desktop, Android and iOS apps and a web client; Mac computers use the web terminal.
- Commissions
- Simulated commissions of half a cent per share with a minimum of $0.75 per filled order, deducted from the virtual balance only.
- Position rules
- A position's profit counts only if it earned at least 10 cents between average entry and exit and its opening and closing executions are at least 30 seconds apart (MAX and FLEX); an opening order may not exceed 5% of the previous one-minute candle's volume.
- Volume rules
- A position may be opened or added to only once the stock has traded more than 200,000 shares that day (20,000 in the extended sessions); to hold a swing position overnight the stock needs an average of at least 500,000 shares a day over the previous 14 days.
- Splits, dividends and the close
- Day Trading accounts are fully liquidated 10 minutes before the regular close; positions must be closed before an announced split and before a stock trades ex-dividend.
- Copy trading
- Allowed between up to two of your own accounts of paired sizes, executed by you; the platform's copy feature works on evaluation accounts only.
- Automated trading
- The terms and the Program Terms word this differently (shown under the points where the pages disagree): no automation rule is listed for the accounts.
- Prohibited conduct
- Arbitrage, high-frequency trading, bracketing around high-impact news, tick scalping, exploiting system errors, one-sided bets, account sharing and trading for others are among the conduct the terms list.
Accounts & fees 11
- Simulated trading
- Every activity takes place in a simulated environment: no order reaches a market, the virtual capital is fictitious and a reward is a share of the hypothetical profit of the funded account.
- Company
- Trade The Pool is a brand name owned and operated by Five Percent Online Ltd., part of the 5% group that also runs The5ers.
- Who can join
- Individual retail traders aged 18 or over; company registrations are not permitted and withdrawals go to an account in your own name.
- Verification and review
- Identity verification (KYC) after the first evaluation target; the risk department then reviews the trades before a funded account is opened, which can take up to 3 business days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Paying & getting paid
- Fees are in dollars and include all taxes, paid by payment card, bank transfer or the other means offered on the site; payouts go by wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card.
Terms and Conditions (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Refunds
- The evaluation fee is not refundable once trading has started; before any trading a full refund can be requested within 5 days of purchase, after that as Hub credit only.
- Hub credits
- Redeemable for services on the Hub only: no monetary value and not refundable.
- Accounts at once
- Several evaluation accounts can be held, with a total base buying power of $450K before scaling.
- Free trial
- A free 14-day trial through the Hub sign-up, with demo accounts for both Day and Swing trading.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Boosters
- Optional third-party tools free for a month on one account per user: TraderSync, TraderVue, Stock Traders Daily, Trade Ideas, SignalStack, TrendSpider and Bookmap.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Places not served (terms)
- The terms define the places where the services are not available as "including, but not limited to" the names in the folded list; those who reside there may not use the services.
The 31 places named in the terms
Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cuba, Congo Republic, Crimea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen
Evaluation 10
- Price
- Paid once at purchase: one list price per size. The funded account needs no further purchase.$100K$266
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit target
- 6% of the account's buying power.$100K$6,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Max loss
- 4% of the buying power; on the Pro account it is calculated on end-of-day values. The page does not say whether the floor moves.derived: 4% of the account size$100K$4,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Loss limit
- 1.8% of the account on an end-of-day basis, a hard limit: reaching it permanently disables the account. It is not the Daily Pause of the other programs.derived: 1.8% of the account size$100K$1,800
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Consistency
- None during the evaluation.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum trading days
- Not published.
1 official page checked
- Time limit
- Not published.
1 official page checked
- How the floor moves
- Not published.
1 official page checked
- Trade rules
- A position may not exceed 5% of the stock's one-minute volume, must stay open at least 30 seconds and must show at least $0.10 between entry and exit.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Copy trading
- Up to 3 Edge accounts, the $50,000 and the $100,000 included, evaluation or Pro; not between an Edge account and any other account type.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Pro account 9
- Profit share
- You keep 80% of the profit; the firm keeps the rest.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- First payout
- The Pro account must reach 4% profit before the first withdrawal.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Next payouts
- After the first payout the profit needed to withdraw again is lower: 1.5% of the account.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Minimum payout
- At least this much profit in the account.$100K$500
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Maximum payout
- Each withdrawal is capped at this amount.$100K$2,000
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Consistency
- A 40% consistency rule applies on the Pro account; the page does not say whether it counts positions or days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Payout interval
- Not published.
1 official page checked
- Scaling
- The Pro account does not scale: its size stays the same.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Daily Loss limit
- The same hard end-of-day limit as in the evaluation.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Trading rules 11
- Instruments
- Stocks and ETFs on simulated accounts: more than 12,000 symbols on the platform, penny stocks and IPOs included, short selling included; no options or contracts and no index futures (their ETFs, such as QQQ and SPY, are available). Not CFDs: the firm's swing rules describe spot trading on actual stock and ETF prices, "not derivatives or leveraged instruments". FundedKeys has no stocks market, so Trade The Pool is listed under Forex / CFD.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Sessions
- Regular hours 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, plus a 24/5 session from Monday 3 a.m. ET to Friday 8 p.m. ET with overnight execution on Blue Ocean (about 3,500 symbols, real-time data); no weekend session.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- News trading
- Permitted, including news that breaks overnight before the 9:30 a.m. ET open; no position may be held overnight on a company that reports that night (it is liquidated at 15:50 ET).
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Platform
- A TraderEvolution terminal customised for the firm: Windows desktop, Android and iOS apps and a web client; Mac computers use the web terminal.
- Commissions
- Simulated commissions of half a cent per share with a minimum of $0.75 per filled order, deducted from the virtual balance only.
- Position rules
- A position's profit counts only if it earned at least 10 cents between average entry and exit and its opening and closing executions are at least 30 seconds apart (MAX and FLEX); an opening order may not exceed 5% of the previous one-minute candle's volume.
- Volume rules
- A position may be opened or added to only once the stock has traded more than 200,000 shares that day (20,000 in the extended sessions); to hold a swing position overnight the stock needs an average of at least 500,000 shares a day over the previous 14 days.
- Splits, dividends and the close
- Day Trading accounts are fully liquidated 10 minutes before the regular close; positions must be closed before an announced split and before a stock trades ex-dividend.
- Copy trading
- Allowed between up to two of your own accounts of paired sizes, executed by you; the platform's copy feature works on evaluation accounts only.
- Automated trading
- The terms and the Program Terms word this differently (shown under the points where the pages disagree): no automation rule is listed for the accounts.
- Prohibited conduct
- Arbitrage, high-frequency trading, bracketing around high-impact news, tick scalping, exploiting system errors, one-sided bets, account sharing and trading for others are among the conduct the terms list.
Accounts & fees 11
- Simulated trading
- Every activity takes place in a simulated environment: no order reaches a market, the virtual capital is fictitious and a reward is a share of the hypothetical profit of the funded account.
- Company
- Trade The Pool is a brand name owned and operated by Five Percent Online Ltd., part of the 5% group that also runs The5ers.
- Who can join
- Individual retail traders aged 18 or over; company registrations are not permitted and withdrawals go to an account in your own name.
- Verification and review
- Identity verification (KYC) after the first evaluation target; the risk department then reviews the trades before a funded account is opened, which can take up to 3 business days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Paying & getting paid
- Fees are in dollars and include all taxes, paid by payment card, bank transfer or the other means offered on the site; payouts go by wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card.
Terms and Conditions (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Refunds
- The evaluation fee is not refundable once trading has started; before any trading a full refund can be requested within 5 days of purchase, after that as Hub credit only.
- Hub credits
- Redeemable for services on the Hub only: no monetary value and not refundable.
- Accounts at once
- Several evaluation accounts can be held, with a total base buying power of $450K before scaling.
- Free trial
- A free 14-day trial through the Hub sign-up, with demo accounts for both Day and Swing trading.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Boosters
- Optional third-party tools free for a month on one account per user: TraderSync, TraderVue, Stock Traders Daily, Trade Ideas, SignalStack, TrendSpider and Bookmap.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Places not served (terms)
- The terms define the places where the services are not available as "including, but not limited to" the names in the folded list; those who reside there may not use the services.
The 31 places named in the terms
Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cuba, Congo Republic, Crimea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen
Read before you buy
Traps and contradictions
From Trade The Pool's own pages. Where two official pages say different things, both are shown: check with Trade The Pool before you buy.
Watch out: Day FLEX 6
- Position rule
The consistency rule counts positions, not days: the best position is limited to a share of the profit target. It is shown as its own rule, not as a best-day rule.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- After the close
Day accounts are liquidated 10 minutes before the close; after-hours exposure is reduced to a fraction of the account.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)24/5 Trading page (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit days
A payout asks at least 0.5% of the buying power earned on 3 separate trading days within any 14-day period.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Max loss
The maximum loss is a floor under the starting balance that moves up to the starting balance once the equity is three Daily Pauses above it.
- Position limits
A position must stay open at least 30 seconds, earn at least 10 cents to count and stay within 5% of the previous minute's volume.
- Payout cap
Watch out: Day MAX 5
- Position rule
The consistency rule counts positions, not days: the best position is limited to a share of the profit target. It is shown as its own rule, not as a best-day rule.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- After the close
Day accounts are liquidated 10 minutes before the close; after-hours exposure is reduced to a fraction of the account.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)24/5 Trading page (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Max loss
The maximum loss is a floor under the starting balance that moves up to the starting balance once the equity is three Daily Pauses above it.
- Position limits
A position must stay open at least 30 seconds, earn at least 10 cents to count and stay within 5% of the previous minute's volume.
- Payout cap
Watch out: Swing FLEX 6
- Position rule
The consistency rule counts positions, not days: the best position is limited to a share of the profit target. It is shown as its own rule, not as a best-day rule.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Earnings
A position on a company that reports that night is liquidated at 15:50 ET.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Profit days
A payout asks at least 0.5% of the buying power earned on 3 separate trading days within any 14-day period.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Max loss
The maximum loss is a floor under the starting balance that moves up to the starting balance once the equity is three Daily Pauses above it.
- Position limits
A position must stay open at least 30 seconds, earn at least 10 cents to count and stay within 5% of the previous minute's volume.
- Payout cap
Watch out: Swing MAX 5
- Position rule
The consistency rule counts positions, not days: the best position is limited to a share of the profit target. It is shown as its own rule, not as a best-day rule.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Earnings
A position on a company that reports that night is liquidated at 15:50 ET.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Max loss
The maximum loss is a floor under the starting balance that moves up to the starting balance once the equity is three Daily Pauses above it.
- Position limits
A position must stay open at least 30 seconds, earn at least 10 cents to count and stay within 5% of the previous minute's volume.
- Payout cap
Watch out: Edge $50K 5
- Daily Loss
The Daily Loss limit is a hard limit: reaching it permanently disables the account, unlike a Daily Pause.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Withdrawals
The first withdrawal asks 4% profit on the Pro account; the minimum request is $500 and each withdrawal is capped.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Pro consistency
A 40% consistency rule applies on the Pro account; the page does not say whether it counts positions or days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Floor
The page does not say whether the maximum drawdown floor moves.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Position limits
A position may not exceed 5% of the one-minute volume, must stay open at least 30 seconds and must show at least $0.10 between entry and exit.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Watch out: Edge $100K 5
- Daily Loss
The Daily Loss limit is a hard limit: reaching it permanently disables the account, unlike a Daily Pause.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Withdrawals
The first withdrawal asks 4% profit on the Pro account; the minimum request is $500 and each withdrawal is capped.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Pro consistency
A 40% consistency rule applies on the Pro account; the page does not say whether it counts positions or days.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Floor
The page does not say whether the maximum drawdown floor moves.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Position limits
A position may not exceed 5% of the one-minute volume, must stay open at least 30 seconds and must show at least $0.10 between entry and exit.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Official pages disagree 6
- Day Trading: overnight and weekend holdingAThe Day Trading rules cards say positions may be held overnight and, for MAX, over the weekend.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)BThe FAQ and the Program Terms liquidate every Day Trading account 10 minutes before the close and have no weekend session. They are the figures used on this page; no overnight rule is listed for the Day plans.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Automated tradingAThe terms say a trader may not use custom, algorithmic or other automated trading software to execute trades.Terms and Conditions (official page, opens in a new tab)BThe Program Terms describe automated trading through SignalStack as a beta service. No automation rule is listed for the accounts.Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Copy tradingAThe terms list copy trading with other traders or accounts as prohibited conduct.Terms and Conditions (official page, opens in a new tab)BThe Copy Trading page and the Program Terms allow it between up to two of your own accounts. The page and the Program Terms are the ones used on this page.Copy Trading page (official page, opens in a new tab)
3 more, lower stakes
- Swing MAX: 100 trading days or 100 calendar daysAThe Swing MAX rules card says 100 trading days to complete the evaluation.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)BThe Program Terms say 100 calendar days. The Program Terms are the ones used on this page.Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Swing MAX $20,000: profitable daysAThe $20,000 Swing MAX card lists 3 days of 0.5% profit as a cash-out rule.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)BEvery other MAX card lists none and the FAQ says the requirement does not apply to MAX accounts. The FAQ is the one used on this page.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
- Swing accounts in the Program TermsAThe MAX/FLEX section of the Program Terms still says only day-trading accounts are available.Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)BThe program page sells Swing FLEX and Swing MAX. The program page is the one used on this page.Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
FAQ
Trade The Pool questions, answered from the data
What is Trade The Pool?
A prop firm that sells simulated stock and ETF accounts: you trade a simulated account on more than 12,000 symbols, reach a profit target and, after a risk review, trade a funded account where you keep a share of the profit. The accounts are not CFDs; FundedKeys lists them under Forex / CFD because it has no stocks market.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
How much does Trade The Pool cost?
Day Trading FLEX costs $59–$1,475 ($5K, $25K, $50K, $100K and $200K) and Day Trading MAX $47–$1,100; Swing FLEX costs $87–$1,240 ($2K, $10K, $20K and $40K) and Swing MAX $69–$800. The two Edge accounts cost $156 ($50,000) and $266 ($100,000). Every price is paid once and is a list price.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Is Trade The Pool stocks or CFDs?
Stocks and ETFs on simulated accounts. The firm's swing rules describe spot trading on actual stock and ETF prices, "not derivatives or leveraged instruments", and the platform offers no options or contracts.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
What is the difference between FLEX and MAX?
FLEX has no time limit and a wider Daily Pause and maximum loss on Day accounts (2% and 4% against 1% and 3%); it limits the best position to 50% of the profit target and asks 3 days of 0.5% profit before a payout. MAX has a 60-day (Day) or 100-day (Swing) evaluation, limits the best position to 30% of the target and has no profitable-day requirement.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
What are the Trade The Pool drawdown and Daily Pause rules?
Day FLEX has a 2% Daily Pause and a 4% maximum loss, Day MAX 1% and 3%, and both Swing plans 3% and 7%. Reaching the Daily Pause closes the positions and pauses trading until the next day; reaching the maximum loss ends the account. Once the equity is three Daily Pauses above the start, the maximum loss floor moves up to the starting balance.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
What is the Trade The Pool profit split?
You keep 70% of the profit on the Day and Swing funded accounts and 80% on the Edge Pro accounts. At each scale-up of a Day or Swing funded account the split is applied to the profit at that moment.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
How do Trade The Pool payouts work?
A request can be made 14 days after the funded account starts and every 14 days after a payout, with at least $300 of profit ($150 on the $5,000 account); FLEX adds 3 days of 0.5% profit. Payouts go by wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card and usually take 3 to 5 business days.
Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Can I hold positions overnight at Trade The Pool?
Swing accounts can hold positions overnight and over weekends, except on a company that reports that night. Day accounts are liquidated 10 minutes before the close; the pages disagree on this for the Day plans, as shown under the points where the pages disagree.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)Program Terms (official page, opens in a new tab)
Can I trade the news at Trade The Pool?
Yes, news trading is permitted, including news that breaks overnight before the 9:30 a.m. ET open; a position on a company that reports that night is liquidated at 15:50 ET.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Which platform does Trade The Pool use?
A TraderEvolution terminal customised for the firm, with Windows, Android, iOS and web clients; Mac computers use the web terminal. Evaluation accounts run on simulated funds with a real-time data feed.
Is there a Trade The Pool discount code?
Every price here is a list price.
Program page: plan cards (official page, opens in a new tab)
Which places does Trade The Pool not serve?
The terms define the places where the services are not available as "including, but not limited to" a list of names; the whole list is in the rules section, folded under "Places not served". Check it before you buy.