The Trading Pit Futures is the futures prop trading division of The Trading Pit, a Liechtenstein firm. It sells two programs. Futures Prime is a one-step evaluation followed by a funded “earning” phase with an 80% profit split. Futures Instant skips the evaluation, costs several times more, and pays a 90% split. Both programs restrict holding periods, and both add a consistency rule at payout time. Those rules, more than the headline split, decide how quickly a trader can withdraw.
Who operates it
The legal entity is The Trading Pit Challenge GmbH, registered in Liechtenstein. The firm was established in February 2022. Its wider business also covers CFDs, stocks and crypto, but the futures programs reviewed here trade futures contracts only.
The site says it does not offer CFDs to residents of certain jurisdictions, including the USA, Canada and Russia, and points to its FAQs for the full list of restricted countries. That rules out the largest futures market’s domestic traders, which separates The Trading Pit from several US-focused futures firms.
Supported platforms are NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView, Quantower and DeepCharts. Payment and payout methods include credit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, crypto, BinancePay and online bank transfers.
Prices and account sizes
All fees are one-time charges rather than monthly subscriptions.
- Futures Prime: $50K for $110 (€99), $100K for $211 (€189), $150K for $322 (€289)
- Futures Instant: $50K for $556 (€499), $100K for $779 (€699)
At the $50K size, Instant costs $446 more than Prime. That premium buys skipping the evaluation and getting the higher split. A Prime trader who fails can buy a new challenge several times for the same outlay. There was no public discount code for The Trading Pit Futures when the offers were last checked.
Futures Prime: the evaluation
The firm introduced Prime as a one-phase futures evaluation with $50K, $100K and $150K accounts. Pass the challenge and the account moves to the earning phase.
Targets and loss limits
The three Prime sizes have these values:
- Profit targets: $3,000, $6,000 and $9,000
- Daily loss limits: $1,000, $2,000 and $3,000
- Maximum loss: $2,000, $3,000 and $4,500, measured end-of-day (EOD)
An end-of-day maximum loss is generally measured against the account balance at the close of each session rather than against every intraday equity swing. That gives open trades more room during the day than an intraday trailing limit would.
The $50K Prime account has a 30-day time limit. Separately, 21 consecutive days without an executed trade breaches a Prime account, and that countdown starts at purchase or account creation, not at the first trade.
The 40% challenge consistency rule
During the challenge, your best profit day may be no more than 40% of the profit target. Breaking the rule does not fail the account. Instead, the target rises to the size of your biggest day divided by 0.40.
Hypothetical example, assuming a $3,000 target: the largest allowed day is $1,200. If you make $1,800 in one session, the target becomes $1,800 / 0.40 = $4,500. You have to earn another $1,500 beyond the original goal, still under the same loss limits and inside the time limit. A trader whose edge comes from one or two large days per month should expect the target to move.
Contract limits in the evaluation
| Account size | Maximum contracts |
|---|---|
| $50,000 | 5 standard / 50 micros |
| $100,000 | 10 standard / 100 micros |
| $150,000 | 15 standard / 150 micros |
Prime traders must also keep consistent lot sizes, which the firm frames as a disciplined, strategic approach. Sudden jumps in position size, such as doubling up to recover a loss, conflict with this rule and with the martingale ban covered below.
Futures Prime: the earning phase
Scaling contract limits
Once funded, the contract allowance starts lower than in the evaluation and grows with accumulated profit:
| Profit level | $50,000 account | $100,000 account | $150,000 account |
|---|---|---|---|
| $0 to $2,500 | 2 standard / 20 micros | 3 standard / 30 micros | 5 standard / 50 micros |
| Above $2,500 | 3 standard / 30 micros | 4 standard / 40 micros | 7 standard / 70 micros |
| Above $5,000 | 4 standard / 40 micros | 5 standard / 50 micros | 10 standard / 100 micros |
A $50K trader who passed with 5 standard contracts starts the funded stage at 2, so position sizes that worked in the challenge do not carry straight across.
Prime payout terms
- Split: 80% to the trader
- Frequency: every 7 days
- Minimum request: $100
- Eligibility for every payout: 5 profitable days of $150 or more
- Second and later payouts: net profit since the previous payout must be positive, even if only by $0.01
- Maximum per request: 50% of generated profits, up to a cap of $2,500 (50K), $3,500 (100K) or $5,000 (150K)
The request limit works as the lower of two numbers. Hypothetical example on a 50K account: with $4,000 of generated profit, 50% is $2,000, below the $2,500 cap, so $2,000 is the most you can request. With $8,000 of profit, 50% would be $4,000, so the $2,500 cap applies. Profit left in the account still sits above your drawdown limit, so later losses can erode it.
The 20% consistency rule also applies to Prime payouts: your biggest profitable day must not exceed 20% of total profit before you request a payout.
Futures Instant
Instant is a single-phase program. The trader receives a funded account directly, in 50K or 100K sizes.
Loss limits and activity rules
The 50K and 100K Instant accounts have daily loss limits of $1,200 and $2,200 and maximum losses of $2,000 and $3,500. Fourteen days without a trade breaches the account. Instant has no resets, no extensions and no scaling plan, so a breach means buying a new account at full price.
Payout cycles and the 20% rule
Instant payouts require five trading days and a 20% consistency rule. The terms are:
- Split: 90%
- First payout: after at least 5 trading days
- Later requests: every 5 days once eligible, with all positions closed
- Minimum request: above $500
- Cycle profit goal: $3,000 on 50K or $6,000 on 100K, or more if needed to satisfy the 20% consistency rule
- No percentage-of-profit cap, but fixed caps per payout apply
The profit goal and the consistency calculation both reset after each approved payout. Exceeding the 20% limit delays the payout; it does not breach the account.
Hypothetical example on a 50K account: if your best day in the cycle is $900, total cycle profit must reach at least $900 / 0.20 = $4,500 before you can request. That is $1,500 more than the base $3,000 goal. One strong session can therefore push back the withdrawal date even when the base goal is already met.
Instant payout caps
| Payout number | 50K cap | 100K cap |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | $2,000 | $2,500 |
| 4 to 5 | $2,500 | $3,000 |
| 6 and later | $3,000 | $3,500 |
The 90% split applies within these ceilings. Early payouts are smaller than a full cycle’s profit might suggest. On a 50K account, the first three withdrawals are capped at $2,000 each even if a cycle produces more.
Trading rules across both programs
Permitted
- Scalping in all futures accounts.
- News trading in both programs.
- Your own Expert Advisor, as long as it does not carry out any prohibited activity.
- Copying your own trades. Prime traders may copy manually or automatically across up to 5 of their accounts and may copy from a personal external account into The Trading Pit accounts. Instant traders may copy only between their own two Instant accounts.
Prohibited
- Martingale and similar high-risk strategies
- Grid trading
- Gap trading
- High-frequency trading
- Micro-scalping, defined as opening and closing trades within roughly 10 to 15 seconds mainly to capture tiny price moves. This is banned across all account types and instruments.
- Copying trades from other traders or outside sources that are not your own
- Copying between a Prime challenge account and an earning account
- Hedging on Instant
The line between permitted scalping and banned micro-scalping is drawn by holding time and intent. A strategy that routinely exits within seconds is exposed even if each trade is a normal scalp in the trader’s own view.
Three terms are worth confirming with the firm before trading. The Prime consistent lot sizes rule has no published numeric tolerance. The hedging ban is stated for Instant only. The end-of-day measurement is stated for the 100K Instant maximum loss but not for the 50K.
Session close and overnight holding
Neither program allows overnight holds.
- Prime: open positions are force-closed at 14:55 CT.
- Instant: positions still open at session end close automatically at 15:55 CT, and weekend holding is also banned.
Traders who rely on overnight moves, swing positions or gap setups cannot run those strategies here.
Restricted products
Several full-size energy and metals contracts are restricted until further notice: CL (crude oil), NG (natural gas), QG (E-mini natural gas), GC (gold), SI (silver), HG (copper) and PL (platinum).
Their micro versions, MCL, MGC, SIL, MHG and MNG, are capped at maximum open contracts of 2 (50K), 4 (100K) and 6 (150K). Commissions are charged per trade, and the firm publishes its rate and instrument list in its support center.
Payout record
The Trading Pit reports $18,000,000 paid out, a self-reported figure. Among the 50 firms that publish a payout figure, it ranks 28th, at about 0.3% of all reported payouts. The total is cumulative since launch and covers all of the firm’s programs, so futures payouts are not broken out separately.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- A low upfront Prime fee, starting at $110 one-time for a $50K evaluation, with no monthly charge.
- The 40% challenge rule raises the target rather than failing the account.
- The 20% payout rule delays withdrawals instead of breaching the account.
- Maximum loss limits measured end-of-day.
- A 90% split on Instant, plus no percentage-of-profit cap on Instant withdrawals.
- News trading, EAs and self-copying are permitted, with a five-platform lineup that includes TradingView and NinjaTrader.
Trade-offs
- Two consistency rules on Prime (40% in the challenge, 20% at payout), each of which can extend the time to a withdrawal.
- Funded Prime contract limits start well below evaluation limits.
- Prime withdrawals are capped at 50% of generated profits per request.
- Forced intraday closes, plus no overnight or weekend holding.
- Key energy and metals contracts are restricted.
- Instant has no resets, extensions or scaling, so a breach means paying the full fee again.
- Inactivity breaches after 21 days (Prime) or 14 days (Instant), with the Prime clock starting at purchase.
How we checked The Trading Pit Futures
We visited thetradingpit.com on 13 November 2026, connecting from Tallinn, Estonia. Our first stop was the home page, where we read the footer in full. From there we followed the footer links to the Company page, the Legal Notice, the Terms and Conditions and the Risk Disclosure. Back on the home page, we clicked “FUTURES” to show the plan details, then “Start Trading”, which took us to the futures checkout.
That checkout page listed Futures Prime as one-time fees: €99 for a $50,000 account, €189 for $100,000 and €289 for $150,000. The prices were shown on the page we reached by clicking, and we did not create an account. For the $50,000 size, it listed a $3,000 profit target and a $2,000 maximum drawdown that trails on the End-Of-Day balance. It also showed a 40% consistency rule, a 30-day challenge duration and an 80% profit share. A reset on that size cost €79. The only platform named on the pages we opened was TradingView.
We ran no register check here. The footer says the site is run by The Trading Pit Challenge GmbH, registration number FL-0002.693.417-1, at Wuhrstrasse 6, 9490 Vaduz, Liechtenstein. The Legal Notice ties that number to the Commercial Register of the Office of Justice of the Principality of Liechtenstein. That is a company registration, not a financial licence. The footer also names The Trading Pit AG (FL-0002.688.743-6) as the holding company and The Trading Pit Champions GmbH (FL-0002.693.413-9). In its own words, “TTP is neither supervised nor regulated by the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority (FMA) or any comparable supervisory authority in other countries.”
When we read Trustpilot on 13 November 2026, the firm scored 3.8/5 from 1,087 reviews, with 69% five-star and 22% one-star. The company had replied to all 8 of the newest. The domain was registered on 2004-10-13, and the Wayback Machine’s first capture is dated 2004-10-19. That may predate the current brand. We could not confirm the “$18M+ in Rewards” figure, and without buying a challenge we cannot say how these rules play out in practice.
Who it may suit
Based on these rules, The Trading Pit Futures fits intraday traders outside the USA, Canada and Russia who close every position before the session ends. It also suits traders whose profits come from steady daily gains rather than a single outsized session, and who mainly trade index or other unrestricted contracts.
Prime suits traders who want a cheap entry and can accept a smaller funded starting size. Instant suits traders willing to pay more upfront to skip the evaluation and take the higher split, provided they can work within fixed per-payout caps.
It is a poor fit for swing traders, gap traders, very short-hold scalpers, and anyone whose strategy centers on full-size crude, natural gas or metals futures. US-based traders will need a different provider; the best futures prop firms comparison and the Topstep review cover firms with different eligibility and payout structures. Traders weighing Instant against other no-evaluation options can compare terms in the best instant funding prop firms list.
Alternatives
| Provider | Score | Fee | Split | Payouts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.9/10 | $38 | 80% | weekly from $100+ after 5 profitable days | Review | |
| 7.1/10 | $285 | 70/30 | 14 days | Review | |
| 6.8/10 | $230 | Up to 80% | — | Review |
Sources
- thetradingpit.com/futures
- support.thetradingpit.com/en/articles/836068-futures-prime-how-it-work
- support.thetradingpit.com/en/articles/857316-futures-instant-rules
- support.thetradingpit.com/en/articles/836071-futures-prime-rules
- thetradingpit.com/
- support.thetradingpit.com/en/articles/857315-futures-instant-how-it-wo