TradeDay Review 2026

TradeDay scores 72 out of 100 overall. TradeDay publishes how you move to a live account and lets Quick Pay accounts request payouts from the first funded day. But those funded accounts trail intraday no matter which eval you bought, and profit above the amount that triggers a live review is forfeited.

Trust 71: Mostly checks out. Top factor: 6+ years in operation.
Cost 85: Very cheap to get funded. Top factor: low activation cost.
Payout 60: Payouts come with limits. Top factor: high scaling ceiling.
Rules 72: Workable rules. Top factor: generous or no time limit.

TRADEDAY LLCIllinois, USAFounded 2020Futures prop firmTradovate, NinjaTrader, TradingView

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Firm Data Monitoring Status

Trustpilot RatingChecked weekly - last checked 2026-10-26
Sales and PromotionsFirm emails received since 2026-10-07
Rules, Pricing and PayoutsYearly deep dive plus firm emails - terms last verified 2026-07-03

At a Glance: The Four Scores

Four scores, one published method.

72/ 100

Still Funded Score

3.6

An equal blend of the four scores below. How the score is calculated.

Data Confidence: High

Trust Score

3.5

Is the firm legit: is it a real, accountable business, does it actually pay, and what does its track record show?

6+ years in operationverifiable business details

Cost Score

4.3

What it costs to get funded and stay funded: the eval, resets, the activation fee and data fees. Measured at today's price after any dated sale, plus how deep the firm's sales usually run.

low activation costlow or included data fees

Payout Score

3.0

How easy it is to get paid: how much you can take out, how fast it lands, how often, and how many accounts you can stack.

high scaling ceilingon-demand withdrawals

Rules Score

3.6

How trader-friendly the rules are: the drawdown type, how big the drawdown is next to the profit target, daily loss limits and consistency rules.

generous or no time limitno or soft daily loss limit

Still Funded has no affiliate relationship with TradeDay and earns nothing if you sign up. TradeDay is scored on the same published methodology as every other firm.

Scores update on their own whenever this firm's data changes.

Trustpilot: The Last Four Checks

The four newest Trustpilot checks that feed the Trust score. Trustpilot is one signal, not the whole picture.

4.61,443 reviews(+4)2026-10-05
Checked 2026-10-05: 4.6 across 1,443 reviews, profile active. Review count +4 since the check before.
4.61,446 reviews(+3)2026-10-12
Checked 2026-10-12: 4.6 across 1,446 reviews, profile active. Review count +3 since the check before.
4.61,450 reviews(+4)2026-10-20
Checked 2026-10-20: 4.6 across 1,450 reviews, profile active. Review count +4 since the check before.
4.61,454 reviews(+4)2026-10-26
Checked 2026-10-26: 4.6 across 1,454 reviews, profile active. Review count +4 since the check before.

Sales We Tracked: The Last 12 Months

The sales this firm has emailed us, one dot per month. Terms only, never codes.

Nov 2025Nothing tracked
Dec 2025Nothing tracked
Jan 2026Nothing tracked
Feb 2026Nothing tracked
Mar 2026Nothing tracked
Apr 2026Nothing tracked
May 2026Nothing tracked
Jun 2026Nothing tracked
Jul 2026Nothing tracked
Aug 2026Nothing tracked
Sep 2026Nothing tracked
Oct 20262 salesSale*Sale*
Oct 2026: 2 sales
- Sale (terms as logged)
  - Type: Percent
  - Value: not stated
  - Covers: Eval fee
  - Activation: not stated
- Sale (terms as logged)
  - Type: Percent
  - Value: not stated
  - Covers: Eval fee
  - Activation: not stated

Pricing and Account Tiers

Every active eval at full price, plus the best target-to-drawdown ratio in the lineup.

Eval	Price	Sale Price	Activation Fee	Max Drawdown	Drawdown Type	Profit Target	Time Limit
25K Quick Pay Intraday	$100/mo	-	Included	$1,000	Intraday Trailing	$1,500	None
50K Quick Pay Intraday	$131/mo	-	Included	$2,000	Intraday Trailing	$3,000	None
100K Quick Pay Intraday	$240/mo	-	Included	$3,000	Intraday Trailing	$6,000	None
150K Quick Pay Intraday	$360/mo	-	Included	$4,500	Intraday Trailing	$9,000	None
25K Quick Pay EOD	$120/mo	-	Included	$1,000	End-of-Day Trailing	$1,500	None
50K Quick Pay EOD	$175/mo	-	Included	$2,000	End-of-Day Trailing	$3,000	None
100K Quick Pay EOD	$285/mo	-	Included	$3,000	End-of-Day Trailing	$6,000	None
150K Quick Pay EOD	$400/mo	-	Included	$4,500	End-of-Day Trailing	$9,000	None
25K Fast Pass EOD	$130/mo	-	Included	$1,000	End-of-Day Trailing	$1,500	None
50K Fast Pass EOD	$189/mo	-	Included	$2,000	End-of-Day Trailing	$3,000	None
100K Fast Pass EOD	$330/mo	-	Included	$3,000	End-of-Day Trailing	$6,000	None
150K Fast Pass EOD	$500/mo	-	Included	$4,500	End-of-Day Trailing	$9,000	None

Best Target-to-Drawdown Ratio
Profit target divided by max drawdown, shown target first. Lower is better: less profit to earn per dollar of drawdown. Some firms sell targets smaller than the drawdown, so the ratio can run below 1 : 1, and 1 : 1 is not a bottom.
1.5 : 1
25K Quick Pay Intraday and 5 more accounts
$1,500 target / $1,000 drawdown

Pros and Cons

Pros

A published way to live money: eval, then Funded Sim, then Funded Live at a 90/10 profit split, with the broker running the ID check (KYC) at the live stage
Payout requests from day one on Quick Pay funded accounts: no payout buffer, no minimum trading period, a $250 minimum request, processed within 24 hours on business days
One hard eval rule (the trailing max drawdown), no daily loss limit on any account, and breaking a guideline by accident is not a violation
No activation fee anywhere, removed outright at the 2.0 relaunch rather than waived, and the new 25K account starts at $100 a month at full price
A clean identity record: six years of unbroken Illinois filings since 2020, a named manager on the registry, active status
Publishes its own eval pass rate in the site footer: 36% for January to June 2026. Not many firms publish theirs

Cons

The $10,000 limit on Quick Pay: gross profit above the $10,000 that triggers the live review is forfeited, and withdrawals already taken count toward it, so you stop trading at it rather than withdraw around it
Whether you stay funded is at the firm's discretion: a dated pattern of complaints from traders whose funded accounts were ended runs from January to June 2026, and the published review criteria leave it to the firm's judgment
The Quick Pay drawdown switch: an end-of-day eval becomes an intraday trailing funded account whichever option you bought, and a June 2026 complaint says the dashboard doesn't show your drawdown line in real time
Older firm pages contradict what is sold today: site terms dated 2024-01-12 with a 10-day minimum, older help articles, and a Trustpilot description still offering the retired day-one live account
Cancelling a renewal forfeits the remaining prepaid month, and Funded Live carries real costs the sim stages do not: CME professional data, real commissions, about five days of KYC
Day trading only: open positions are closed automatically before the close, and you are locked out around the biggest scheduled news releases; VPNs and IP masking are banned, Apple Private Relay included

Rules at a Glance

The rules that fail people. Tap the info icon beside a rule for the plain-terms version.

DrawdownIntraday trailing / EOD trailing
How your drawdown line moves. End-of-day trailing rises with your closing balance; intraday trailing rises with every tick of open profit; static never moves. The type decides how much of your own gains you can give back.
Trailing Drawdown Explained
Daily Loss LimitNo daily loss limit
The most you can lose in one session before the day ends. A soft limit ends your day and keeps the account; a hard limit ends the account.
Keeping a Funded Account
Consistency RuleDepends on the plan
Caps how much of your profit can come from one day. Some plans use it in the eval, some once you are funded, and some in both.
- Quick Pay: in the eval, none once funded
- Fast Pass: in the eval, 45% once funded
Prop Firm Consistency Rule Explained
How Long You Must Hold a TradeNo minimum; scalping limits apply
Whether every trade has to stay open for a set time before you can close it. Some firms set no time but still limit scalping.
Weekend HoldingNot allowed
Whether positions can stay open over the weekend. Not allowed means everything must be flat before the Friday close.
AutomationAllowed (eval and funded)
Whether bots, EAs and algos are allowed to place trades, at the eval stage and at the funded stage.
Markets You Can't TradeSee the list
Markets the firm will not let you trade in this program.
Only futures listed on CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX; stocks, options, forex, crypto and CFDs are not offered (TradeDay's permitted products article, updated 2026-02-11).
Sim or LiveCan move to live
Whether the funded account is simulated, live, or starts simulated and can move to live.
Quick Pay: $10,000 of gross profit on a Funded Sim account pauses it automatically for an overnight review, which mostly ends in approval; extensions are rare, and so is a move straight to live when you pass the eval. Fast Pass: your 5th payout request, with no profit level. Canada outside Ontario: no move to live; you can stay in Funded Sim with no end date, and the firm can end the account at its discretion and pay out eligible profits.
Funded Trader Earnings
Accounts at OnceUp to 5 funded
How many funded accounts you can hold at the same time at this firm.
Account Stacking
Copy Your Own AccountsAllowed
Whether you may copy your trades across your own accounts at this firm with a trade copier or within your broker.
Account Stacking

Rules Detail

TradeDay splits its rules into hard rules and guidelines, and there are two hard rules. In the eval there is one way to fail: go past the trailing max drawdown. Once funded, a second hard rule applies: no trading within 2% of a CME price limit. Everything else, the permitted times, the products, the position limits, is a guideline, and breaking one by accident is not a violation. There is no daily loss limit on any account either, so the max drawdown is the one loss limit you manage.

The drawdown type changes when you get funded, and Quick Pay buyers are the ones it affects. A Quick Pay eval sells with an intraday or an end-of-day trailing drawdown, but every Quick Pay funded account trails intraday, whichever eval you bought. A dated June 2026 complaint says the dashboard doesn't show your drawdown line in real time, so track it yourself. Fast Pass runs end of day through both phases; the Intraday option is greyed out on its plan cards.

Consistency works as a share of your profit to date, not a rule that fails you: an oversized day extends your target instead. Quick Pay runs 30% with a 5-day minimum and a soft rule against gaming it (finishing early and then scalping one-lot micros near the target can extend the eval). Fast Pass runs 45% with a 3-day minimum. Once funded, Quick Pay carries no consistency rule, while Fast Pass accounts opened on or after July 26, 2026 carry the 45% rule on payouts. The rest is conduct: day trading only, no VPNs, and scalping welcome under a published microscalping policy with set steps of enforcement.

Hold time: there is no flat minimum. TradeDay's microscalping policy (May 2026) flags an account when trades held under about 5 to 10 seconds make up most of its activity or profit, or when it trades in high-frequency bursts. General scalping is allowed, and an occasional quick 3 to 5 second exit in fast markets is fine when most trades are held longer. Order splitting (many identical one-lots at the same price at the same instant to game sim fills) is banned; scaling in at different prices, partial fills and exits the platform makes are fine. Enforcement: a first case gets a reset and a warning; a second can mean a profit deduction, a reset or a suspension; severe or deliberate cases get an immediate suspension, confirmed by the Head of Trading. The move to live: Funded Sim profits move into the new Funded Live account, and position limits carry over but may be cut for balance and risk. On Quick Pay, profit above $10,000 is forfeited at the move. You cannot buy new accounts while you hold an active Funded Live account, and if you already hold 5 Funded Live accounts, a new balance merges into one of them. Funded Live has real costs the sim stages do not: CME professional data at about $156 a month per exchange, real commissions, a $2 Tradovate card fee and about 5 days of ID and anti-money-laundering checks. The profit split rises to 90/10 on Funded Live, while risk limits can be cut. Automation: TradeDay gives no access to platform APIs and allows only approved platforms (NinjaTrader, Tradovate, TradingView, Jigsaw and Quantower). Bought third-party bots and shared automated systems are banned (Terms of Service section 23). Copying trades between your own accounts is allowed, and the firm describes standard algo strategies that follow the rules as allowed. The Terms' ban on bots and shared systems and the marketing's EA-friendly wording do not fully line up, so check before you build anything automated here. Scalping, from TradeDay's older scalping article (January 2025): no high-frequency or automated scalping, no more than 200 trades a day, no strategies that take a couple of ticks in a few seconds, and no gaming the sim fill engine.

Source - logged 2026-07-29

Payouts at a Glance

Profit split, speed and the first payout. Tap the info icon for the detail. The evidence is under Payout Evidence below.

Profit SplitQuick Pay 50/50 then 80/20, Fast Pass 80/20
Your share of the profit you withdraw. The firm keeps the rest.
Quick Pay Funded Sim: 50/50 on net profit up to $4,000, 80/20 above $4,000. Fast Pass Funded Sim: a flat 80/20. Both plans: 90/10 on Funded Live. Accounts bought before the May 2026 relaunch keep their terms: 80% on the first $50,000 of lifetime withdrawals, 90% from $50,000 to $100,000, 95% above $100,000, and 50/50 on withdrawals from the buffer zone, TradeDay's older payout buffer.
Payout Process
First PayoutDay one on Quick Pay
The number to hit before your first payout: trading days, winning days, or a payout buffer (the profit a firm makes you keep in the account).
Quick Pay: day 1 of the funded account, once the day's trades settle at the end of day, with no payout buffer and a $250 minimum request. Fast Pass: at least 5 days before a payout and 5 profitable days, each at or above a daily profit minimum for your size ($150 on the 50K, $200 on the 100K, $250 on the 150K).
Payout Process
How Often You Can Get PaidOn demand
How often you can request a payout once you meet the first payout rules.
On demand from any positive balance. Quick Pay: no payout buffer and no minimum trading period, from day 1 once the day's trades settle at the end of day. Fast Pass: after 5 profitable days.
Payout Process
Payout MethodRise
How the money reaches you: a bank transfer, a payment app, or a brokerage transfer.
Rise (riseworks). Funded Sim requests go through the dashboard and are processed after the 4:30pm CT daily trade report; Funded Live requests go by email to fundedtrader@tradeday.com, with an 11:30am CT cutoff for the same day. Traders in Ukraine cannot sign up with Rise.
Payout Process
Max Payout per RequestNo cap on Quick Pay
The most you can take in one withdrawal.
Quick Pay: no cap per request. Fast Pass accounts opened on or after 2026-07-26: $750, $1,500, $1,875 or $2,250 per payout cycle (the stretch from one payout to the next) on the 25K, 50K, 100K and 150K, and no more than 50% of the account balance. Fast Pass accounts opened before that date keep caps of $2,000, $2,500 and $3,000 on the 50K, 100K and 150K (Fast Pass Funded Sim Payout Policy, updated 2026-09-08).
Funded Trader Earnings
Lifetime Cap$10,000 or 5 payouts, by plan
The most one account can pay out before it closes or moves to live, if the firm publishes a limit.
Quick Pay: profit above $10,000 on a Funded Sim account is forfeited when the account pauses for the live review. Fast Pass: your fifth payout request moves the account to live.
Funded Trader Earnings
ScalingContract limit steps up
How the account grows: with your balance, by contract limit steps, or by profit split steps.
Quick Pay: the review at $10,000 of profit happens overnight. Funded Live: the firm can review your position limits against your balance, withdrawals and losses at its discretion. If you already hold 5 Funded Live accounts, a Funded Sim balance that moves up merges into one of them.
Funded Trader Earnings
Payout SpeedWithin 24 hours on business days
How long the firm takes to process a payout request. Your bank or payout service can add its own time.
Requests received before 5:30pm CT are processed within 24 hours, on business days only, per the Quick Pay Funded Sim Payout Policy (one line of the same policy says 5:30pm ET). Reviewers describe weekend processing, but the firm doesn't state it.
Payout Process

Payout Evidence

Firm-published, 2026-07-03: The homepage claims more than $10 million in Verified Payouts (checked 2026-07-03), shown through the firm's own verified-payouts program: named payout certificates of roughly $13,000 to $64,000 on its site and social channels. Verified is the firm's own word for its own program; it is a firm claim, not independent verification. Source
Community-reported on Trustpilot, 2026-01-30: A reviewer describes a Thursday 10:30 PM withdrawal request confirmed as accepted by email, writing their second review after a withdrawal (2026-01-30). Source
Community-reported on Trustpilot, 2026-02-16: A reviewer on an old-model account describes a first payout received, mentioning three funded accounts and three passed evaluations held as backup (2026-02-16). Source
Community-reported on Trustpilot, 2026-02-09: A reviewer describes passing, getting funded the next day after the ID check (KYC), and having a withdrawal processed on time after building past the buffer zone on an older account (2026-02-09). Source
Community-reported on Trustpilot, 2026-07-07: Trustpilot's summary of the payment side (checked 2026-07-07) describes first payouts within 24 hours, some on day one after passing, daily payouts drawing praise, and a consensus that the payout process is smooth and transparent. This is community-reported evidence, not something we verified ourselves. Source
Firm-published, 2026-07-07: TradeDay publishes its own eval pass rate in the site footer: 36% for January through June 2026 (checked 2026-07-07). It is self-published and unaudited, and not many firms publish one. Source

What Has Changed at TradeDay

Everything we have logged about this firm, newest first. Tap the info icon for the note. Sources are under All Events below.

Payout2026-09-08
Payout, 2026-09-08
TradeDay's Fast Pass Funded Sim Payout Policy was updated September 8, 2026. For accounts opened on or after July 26, 2026, it sets the cap in each payout cycle (the stretch from one payout to the next) at $750, $1,500, $1,875 and $2,250 for the 25K, 50K, 100K and 150K sizes. The 100K cap moves up from the $1,850 the policy stated earlier, and a 25K Fast Pass size appears in the schedule for the first time; the 50K and 150K caps and the schedule for earlier accounts are unchanged.
Rules2026-07-26
Rules, 2026-07-26
For Fast Pass accounts opened on or after July 26, 2026, a 45% consistency rule applies at the funded sim stage. Their payout caps per request are $1,500, $1,850 and $2,250 by account size, down from $2,000, $2,500 and $3,000. The firm's payout policy article says accounts opened before that date keep the earlier caps and have no funded sim consistency rule.
On the trust record: The July 26-27, 2026 update was announced as a price cut, but the full prices on the firm's plan cards went up slightly on seven of the nine accounts between July 3 and July 29, 2026. The advertised savings came from a deeper standing discount. The same update added a 3-day eval minimum on Fast Pass where the article had stated none. Existing evals and Funded Sim accounts kept their terms. The firm's launch post and payout policy article also disagreed on who keeps the old terms (active evals against a fixed July 26 date); this review uses the policy article's date.
Product2026-05-29
Product, 2026-05-29
The TradeDay 2.0 launch on May 29, 2026 stopped selling the older programs: the Static accounts, the 80/90/95 profit split that went up with lifetime withdrawals, and the payout buffer. The firm's announcement says existing traders keep their current setup and rules.
On the trust record: The trade is mixed: the older accounts' top split of 95% is higher than the 90/10 that 2.0 pays on live, while 2.0 drops the payout buffer and adds payout requests from day one. Which version you bought decides which deal you have.
Product2026-05-21
Product, 2026-05-21
TradeDay temporarily withdrew its services from users in China. Per the firm's own Trustpilot reply, active evals and funded accounts were refunded for what was bought, with no refunds for evals already failed. A dated one-star review disputes this, saying funded sim accounts were refunded at only the eval price. Existing accounts were closed rather than allowed to continue, unlike the 2.0 change, where existing accounts kept their terms.
Rules2026-02-11
Rules, 2026-02-11
TradeDay temporarily restricted precious metals: GC, SI, HG and PL, with MGC and SIL capped at 4 contracts. The firm says this follows CME margin increases during extreme volatility, and it had not announced an end date when we checked on 2026-07-03.
Founded2020-06-29

All Events

Payout2026-09-08
TradeDay's Fast Pass Funded Sim Payout Policy was updated September 8, 2026. For accounts opened on or after July 26, 2026, it sets the cap in each payout cycle (the stretch from one payout to the next) at $750, $1,500, $1,875 and $2,250 for the 25K, 50K, 100K and 150K sizes. The 100K cap moves up from the $1,850 the policy stated earlier, and a 25K Fast Pass size appears in the schedule for the first time; the 50K and 150K caps and the schedule for earlier accounts are unchanged.
Source
Rules2026-07-26
For Fast Pass accounts opened on or after July 26, 2026, a 45% consistency rule applies at the funded sim stage. Their payout caps per request are $1,500, $1,850 and $2,250 by account size, down from $2,000, $2,500 and $3,000. The firm's payout policy article says accounts opened before that date keep the earlier caps and have no funded sim consistency rule.
On the trust record: The July 26-27, 2026 update was announced as a price cut, but the full prices on the firm's plan cards went up slightly on seven of the nine accounts between July 3 and July 29, 2026. The advertised savings came from a deeper standing discount. The same update added a 3-day eval minimum on Fast Pass where the article had stated none. Existing evals and Funded Sim accounts kept their terms. The firm's launch post and payout policy article also disagreed on who keeps the old terms (active evals against a fixed July 26 date); this review uses the policy article's date.
Source
Product2026-05-29
The TradeDay 2.0 launch on May 29, 2026 stopped selling the older programs: the Static accounts, the 80/90/95 profit split that went up with lifetime withdrawals, and the payout buffer. The firm's announcement says existing traders keep their current setup and rules.
On the trust record: The trade is mixed: the older accounts' top split of 95% is higher than the 90/10 that 2.0 pays on live, while 2.0 drops the payout buffer and adds payout requests from day one. Which version you bought decides which deal you have.
Source
Product2026-05-21
TradeDay temporarily withdrew its services from users in China. Per the firm's own Trustpilot reply, active evals and funded accounts were refunded for what was bought, with no refunds for evals already failed. A dated one-star review disputes this, saying funded sim accounts were refunded at only the eval price. Existing accounts were closed rather than allowed to continue, unlike the 2.0 change, where existing accounts kept their terms.
Source
Rules2026-02-11
TradeDay temporarily restricted precious metals: GC, SI, HG and PL, with MGC and SIL capped at 4 contracts. The firm says this follows CME margin increases during extreme volatility, and it had not announced an end date when we checked on 2026-07-03.
Source

Verdict: Who TradeDay Fits

Who this firm fits and who should walk away, in my words.

Good Fit For

Anyone who wants a cheap start: the 25K Quick Pay is $100 a month at full price with no activation fee, and that is a good price to me.
Traders who want to request a payout from day one. Quick Pay has no payout buffer, no minimum days and a $250 minimum request.
Rule-light traders. One hard rule in the eval, no daily loss limit anywhere, and breaking a guideline by accident is not a violation.

Walk Away If

A 50/50 profit split bothers you. Quick Pay keeps half of your first $4,000 of funded profit, and that split is a downside to me.
You plan to build a big sim balance. Quick Pay pauses at $10,000 of gross profit for a live review; a fair rule, but still a limit.
You bought an EOD eval expecting an EOD funded account. Every Quick Pay funded account trails intraday no matter which eval you bought.

Strategic Edges

Pick the plan by the bottleneck: Quick Pay is fast to money, Fast Pass is fast to funded; neither is both, so decide which you need
Know where the $10,000 Quick Pay limit sits before your first funded trade; withdrawals count toward it, so know how far you are from it every session
Trade a Quick Pay funded account as intraday trailing from day one, and track your drawdown line in your own platform rather than the dashboard
Use how the rules are set up: breaking a time, product or position-limit guideline by accident is not a violation, so manage the drawdown and the 2% price-limit rule
Never pay the struck-through full price: the header banner advertises the firm's own standing code, and the plan cards showed a running discount when we checked in September 2026

Compared with Other Firms

The firm scored closest to this one on each score, and the lists this firm is on.

Closest on Overall: Alpha Futures (72 vs 72)
Closest on Trust: Topstep (71 vs 71)
Closest on Cost: Tradeify (86 vs 85)
Closest on Payout: Leeloo Trading (60 vs 60)
Closest on Rules: Tradeify (72 vs 72)

The lists this firm is on:

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the consistency rule at TradeDay?

In the evaluation it is a share of your profit to date, and it extends your target instead of failing you. Quick Pay caps a single day at 30% of your total profit and Fast Pass at 45%, and a day over that share raises your target until it is back under. Once funded, Quick Pay carries no consistency rule. Fast Pass accounts opened on or after July 26, 2026 carry the 45% rule as a payout condition, measured against gross profit including payouts already taken.

Does TradeDay have a daily loss limit?

No, on any account, eval or funded. The trailing max drawdown is the only hard risk rule, so a rough morning cannot end your day by rule here, only by drawdown. That freedom cuts both ways, so make sure your own daily stop exists even though the firm's doesn't.

Does TradeDay allow scalping?

Yes, and the firm publishes exactly what it allows. General scalping is welcome, but a pattern-based microscalping policy flags accounts where trades under roughly 5 to 10 seconds dominate the activity or the profit, or where order splitting is used to game sim fills. An occasional quick exit in fast conditions is fine. Enforcement goes in steps: a reset and a warning first, then stricter steps after that.

Can you use bots at TradeDay?

Restricted, not banned. Approved platforms only, no third-party bots you bought and no shared automated systems, and TradeDay gives no access to platform APIs. Copy trading of your own accounts is allowed, including copying from an external personal account into your TradeDay accounts.

How fast does TradeDay pay out?

On Quick Pay, from day one of the funded account: request on demand from any positive balance, with a $250 minimum and no payout buffer, and requests before 5:30pm CT are processed within 24 hours on business days. Fast Pass needs at least 5 days and 5 profitable days, each above a daily profit minimum for your size, before a payout. Reviewers often describe weekend processing, but TradeDay's own payout policy doesn't state it.

What is the TradeDay profit split?

The profit split goes up in steps. Quick Pay Funded Sim splits your first $4,000 of net profit 50/50 and anything above it 80/20; Fast Pass Funded Sim is a flat 80/20; both plans move to 90/10 once you reach Funded Live. Accounts bought before the May 2026 relaunch keep their old split, which went up with lifetime withdrawals; it no longer applies to anything sold today.

Does TradeDay actually pay out?

Dated reviews from early 2026 describe withdrawals and first payouts, and the firm runs its own verified-payouts program with named certificates, which we treat as firm-claimed because no audit backs its total. So we grade the payout evidence as backed by many trader reports, our stronger grade. The caveat is not payment speed: it is the dated complaints from traders whose funded accounts the firm ended at its discretion, in the Cons above, because getting a payout quickly and keeping your account are two different questions here.

Is TradeDay legit?

Legit, yes. A registered Illinois company with six years of unbroken filings, a Chicago operating base, a real broker and clearing firm (FCM) behind its live stage, and payouts backed by many trader reports. What the paper trail cannot promise is a smooth exit: whether you stay funded is at the firm's discretion. The dated pattern of complaints from traders whose funded accounts were ended is why our trust read stays measured instead of glowing.

Is TradeDay regulated?

TradeDay itself is not registered with the SEC or CFTC and states that plainly in its site footer. The evaluation and Funded Sim stages are simulated, so brokerage regulation doesn't attach to them. The Funded Live stage clears through a US broker and clearing firm (FCM), and that is where the regulated part sits. That is also why the broker, not TradeDay, runs the ID check (KYC) at the live stage.

What is the difference between Quick Pay and Fast Pass at TradeDay?

Quick Pay is fast to money: payout requests from day one of the funded account, a 5-day eval minimum, the 30% consistency limit, and an intraday trailing drawdown once funded, whichever eval drawdown you bought. Fast Pass is fast to funded: a 3-day eval minimum, a 45% consistency limit, an end-of-day drawdown through both phases, and 5 profitable days before a payout. Both come in four sizes now, 25K to 150K. Decide which wait matters more to you and the choice makes itself.

How many accounts can you have at TradeDay?

Ten at once since September 8, 2026, up from six, with up to five Funded Sim accounts running at the same time (up from three) and five Funded Live accounts. You cannot buy new accounts while holding an active Funded Live, and if another sim account graduates while you are at the live cap, its balance merges into an existing live account.

Does TradeDay have a monthly fee?

Yes, every evaluation is a monthly subscription that renews until you pass or cancel, with no time limit on the eval itself. A free reset arrives with each monthly rebill if the account is already failed when the payment lands, which softens the recurring cost. Two things to know before you touch the billing: cancelling mid-cycle forfeits the remaining prepaid month, and there is no activation fee anywhere in the lineup, including the new 25K accounts.

What is TradeDay's pass rate?

TradeDay publishes it in its site footer: 36% of evaluations passed from January to June 2026. Not many firms publish theirs. Treat it as self-reported; the number itself says the eval is passable without being a giveaway.

About the Author

Lane Dotson

Founder of Still Funded and Trend Friend

Active futures day trader with more than 13 years in the markets. Founder of Still Funded and operator of Trend Friend.

More about Lane on his author page.

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Still Funded scores every firm on the same data, and affiliate relationships do not affect our scoring. Still Funded has no affiliate relationship with TradeDay and earns nothing if you sign up. TradeDay is scored on the same published methodology as every other firm.

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