Take Profit Trader Review

Take Profit Trader is a US futures prop firm operated by TAKEPROFITTRADER LLC and founded in March 2021. It sells a single 1-step evaluation called the Test, in five sizes from $25K to $150K. A passed Test leads to a PRO account that pays an 80% profit split and allows withdrawals from the first day. PRO accounts can later be promoted to PRO+, which pays 90% and routes orders to the exchange.

The rule that most separates it from similar firms is the drawdown type. The Test and PRO+ use an end-of-day trailing drawdown, but the PRO stage in between uses an intraday trailing drawdown. That stage is also where payouts begin, so the strictest drawdown applies exactly when withdrawals start.

How the program is structured

The path has three stages:

1. Test (evaluation): reach the profit target without hitting the maximum loss, over at least 3 trading days, while meeting a 50% consistency rule.
2. PRO (funded): 80% profit split, on-demand withdrawals, an intraday trailing drawdown, a weekly activity requirement and news restrictions. There is no consistency rule. A passed Test also gives the option to reset the PRO account up to three times.
3. PRO+ (live): 90% split, orders routed directly to the exchange rather than simulated or copy-traded, end-of-day drawdown, no consistency rule and no buffer zone.

No published threshold triggers promotion to PRO+. The firm says its team reviews each trader’s performance as a whole to judge readiness for live trading, so the move from PRO to PRO+ is discretionary rather than automatic.

Costs: evaluation fees, activation and commissions

Test fees rise with account size, and the home page lists each one as a monthly price. At list price they run from $150 for $25K to $360 for $150K. Promotion code NOFEE50 currently halves the price of Test accounts and also waives the PRO activation fee, a separate charge applied when a passed Test is converted into a PRO account. Without a waiver, budget for that fee on top of the evaluation price.

Larger accounts cost less per dollar of allowed loss. At list price the $25K Test costs $150 for $1,500 of drawdown, or 10 cents per dollar of drawdown. The $150K Test costs $360 for $4,500, or 8 cents.

Commissions are charged on every trade at $4.50 and $1.50 per round trip per contract (entry plus exit, not per side). As a hypothetical example, a trader who completes 20 round trips of 2 contracts at the $4.50 rate pays 20 × 2 × $4.50 = $180 in commissions. That comes out of the same balance the drawdown is measured against, so frequent trading on a small account uses up loss room through costs alone.

Test rules

Profit target and maximum loss

Each size has a fixed profit target and an end-of-day trailing maximum loss. The ratio between them changes with size. On $25K the target and drawdown are equal at $1,500 each. On $50K the target is $3,000 against $2,000 of drawdown. On the $100K and $150K accounts the target is twice the drawdown. Larger accounts therefore ask for more profit relative to the loss you are allowed to take.

There is no daily loss limit in the Test. Only the trailing maximum loss can fail the account. End-of-day trailing means the threshold is recalculated once a day, at the 5 PM ET close, from the account’s end-of-day balance. Open profits during the session do not move it.

Consistency rule and minimum days

During the Test, no single trading day may account for more than 50% of total profits. Assuming the rule compares the best day’s profit with total profit at the time of passing, here is a hypothetical on the $50K Test. A trader reaches the $3,000 target, but $1,800 of it came on one day. That day is 60% of total profit, which breaks the rule. To bring the best day down to 50%, total profit would have to reach $3,600, so the trader keeps trading past the target.

Combined with the 3-day minimum, this means one strong day cannot pass the Test. Profits have to be spread across sessions.

Contract limits

Leverage is expressed as a cap on position size per account:

Each full contract counts as ten micros toward the cap.

PRO account rules

Intraday trailing drawdown

In PRO, the drawdown follows unrealized profit in real time. As a hypothetical, take a $50K PRO account with a $2,000 drawdown, so the threshold starts at $48,000. A trade that shows $800 of open profit moves the threshold to $48,800 straight away. If the trade then reverses and closes flat, the threshold stays at $48,800 and the account now has $1,200 of room instead of $2,000. Under end-of-day trailing, the same round trip would not have moved the threshold at all.

In all three account types the drawdown stops trailing once the threshold reaches the initial account balance. From then on it is fixed at the starting balance, no matter how much further the account grows.

PRO accounts also have no daily loss limit.

Weekly activity requirement

To keep a PRO account, you must trade on at least one day in each calendar week (Sunday to Friday). A traded day means at least one round trip on any permitted instrument. A full week without a completed round trip puts the account at risk.

News restrictions

PRO and PRO+ accounts must be flat, with no open positions and no working orders, from one minute before until one minute after these events:

• FOMC statements and announcements, Wednesdays at 2:00 PM ET. Fed speakers and FOMC meeting minutes are allowed.
• Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP), released once a month on a Friday at 8:30 AM ET.
• Consumer Price Index (CPI) releases.

The Test allows news trading without restrictions, so strategies that rely on release volatility can pass the Test and then be shut out of the same events once funded.

Trading hours, forced closes and price limits

The trading day runs from 6 PM ET to 5 PM ET. Positions are closed automatically at 4:55 PM ET, and accounts are no longer failed for forgetting to close. This auto-close applies to all Tradovate accounts. On Rithmic it applies only to accounts created from 6 AM ET on May 6, 2026 onward, so older Rithmic accounts do not have it.

The 4:55 PM close does not cover everything:

• If a product’s market closes before 5 PM ET and the position cannot be exited in time, the account is liquidated.
• Holiday schedules change market hours. Missing a holiday-adjusted close also leads to liquidation, and the firm puts responsibility for tracking those schedules on the trader.
• If a CME daily price limit is hit while a position is still open, the PRO account is lost. CME publishes the price limits for each day.

Automation, copy trading and hedging

Expert Advisors and other automated strategies are banned.

Copy trading is allowed only between accounts you own, up to five accounts, and only through approved copiers: Tradesyncer, TradeCopia, Affordable Indicators, Replikanto Compliance Edition, and the platforms’ own copy tools. Coordinating trades with other people, copying into accounts you do not own, or any activity that neutralizes risk is prohibited.

You also cannot hold opposite positions in the same product, or in closely related products, across any accounts under the same beneficial control. A long in one account and a short in a related contract in another counts as a violation even if each account looks normal on its own. Penalties include automatic liquidation and closure of the affected accounts, forfeiture of profits, and restrictions or permanent bans depending on severity.

Payouts and withdrawals

PRO withdrawals are on demand from the first day, with no payout windows to wait for. The firm reports processing typically within one business day. Payout methods are Plaid, PayPal and Wise.

The buffer zone

While a PRO account is active, profits can be withdrawn at the 80% split once the balance has reached the buffer zone. The buffer zone is the starting balance plus the maximum drawdown:

Money below the buffer level can be withdrawn only after the account is terminated, and then only 50% of the buffer zone. On-demand withdrawal therefore means no waiting period, not immediate access to early profits. A trader who has made $1,500 on a $50K PRO account is still below the $52,000 buffer and cannot withdraw that profit while the account stays open.

Fees, methods and bank ownership

Withdrawals over $250 are free. Withdrawals of $250 or less cost $50, which is a fifth of a $250 request, so small, frequent withdrawals are expensive. PayPal may add its own fees.

The person who passed KYC at sign-up must be the legal owner of the bank account receiving payouts, a condition written into the PRO Account contract. Personal bank accounts connect through Plaid. Payouts to an LLC bank account are still allowed but go through Wise or PayPal.

Platforms

Supported platforms are NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Rithmic, Quantower and Volumetrica.

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths supported by the terms:

• One evaluation step with a 3-day minimum, and no daily loss limit at any stage.
• Test fees listed per month, with a lower cost per dollar of drawdown on larger sizes.
• On-demand PRO withdrawals.
• No consistency rule after the Test.
• Up to three PRO resets after passing.
• A route to exchange-routed PRO+ trading at a 90% split.

Trade-offs:

• The intraday trailing drawdown in PRO penalizes trades that build open profit and then give it back.
• The buffer zone delays the first withdrawal until the account has earned an amount equal to its drawdown.
• Withdrawals of $250 or less carry a $50 fee.
• News blackouts, the weekly activity rule, early-closing products, holiday hours and CME price limits all carry liquidation risk that is separate from the drawdown.
• No automated strategies, and copy trading is limited to your own accounts through approved tools.
• Promotion to PRO+ is discretionary.

How we checked Take Profit Trader

We visited takeprofittrader.com on 13 November 2026 from Tallinn, Estonia. Our walk covered the home page, its FAQ and footer, the Terms of Service and the TPT Rewards page. The footer names TakeProfitTrader LLC, and the home page gives its address as 9100 Conroy Windermere Rd Suite 200 Windermere, FL 34786. One link failed. The About Us page would not open for us from Estonia.

Prices sat on the home page. The Test ran from $150 for the 25k account to $360 for the 150k account, and each figure carried a “/month” label. Those figures match an archived copy of the home page from 2025-10-10. The same page listed commissions of “$4.50/$1.50 RT”. It also showed a $3000 profit target next to a $2000 EOD trailing drawdown. The terms promise a refund within 72 hours, but only for accounts that have not been used or traded. Clicking “Get started” took us to a checkout page that already displayed prices. We stopped there, so we cannot say what the sign-up step asks for.

The pages we read show no licence or registration number, so there was no register record for us to look up. The FAQ says the firm is not a broker and that it routes trades through Tradovate and NinjaTrader, which it describes as passing compliance by the NFA and CFTC. We found no risk warning on the pages we opened. On Trustpilot, read on 13 November 2026, the firm scored 4.4/5 from 11,246 reviews. The company has claimed the profile but had replied to 0 of the 8 newest reviews. The domain was registered on 2021-01-26, and the Wayback Machine’s first capture of it dates from 2021-12-26.

What we could not test is how the firm treats paying traders. We did not buy a Test, trade or request a withdrawal. Payout timing of “typically within one business day” therefore rests on the firm’s own wording.

Who it may suit

The terms fit a discretionary futures day trader who can spread profits across several sessions, take profits before open gains pull the intraday threshold up, and stay flat around FOMC, NFP and CPI releases. They suit traders who want quick access to payouts and can build the account past the buffer before withdrawing. The program fits poorly for traders who run Expert Advisors, trade the major news releases, or regularly let winning trades swing through large open profits on a funded account.

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Sources

1. takeprofittrader.com/blog/take-profit-trader-vs-lucid-trading
2. takeprofittrader.com/blog/take-profit-trader-vs-apex-trader-funding
3. try.takeprofittrader.com/TPT-FAQs-nofee50-1026
4. go.takeprofittrader.com/fundedtrader
5. takeprofittrader.com/blog/3-day-evals
6. takeprofittrader.com/blog/take-profit-trader-vs-my-funded-futures