Alpha Futures Payout Rules by Plan: Caps, Consistency and Payout Time

The payout policy lets Qualified traders on Zero, Standard and Advanced accounts request a payout after every 5 winning trading days of $200 or more, up to 4 times a month. The winning days do not need to be consecutive, but 5 new ones must be built between requests. There are no fixed payout dates.

A winning day is a day that closes at least $200 in profit. A $150 day or a red day does not count, and it also does not reset the count. Four requests a month need 20 winning days, so “up to 4 times a month” is a ceiling that very few months will reach.

Each request can be up to 50% of the profit in the account, within the plan minimum and maximum. The rest stays in the account as drawdown room or for later requests.

The cap you see on a plan is only reachable when the account holds twice that amount in profit. To request the full $1,500 on a 50K Zero account, the account needs at least $3,000 of profit. To request $15,000 on Advanced, it needs $30,000.

Every plan pays 90% of the request from the first payout, with no tiered split. The request amount is what is removed from the trading account; the trader receives 90% of it. The firm does not publish a payout fee. The Terms and Conditions (effective July 27, 2026) say a provider exchange-rate fee applies if you receive the money in a currency other than the one paid.

Plan around the net figure. A $1,000 request lowers the account balance by $1,000 and pays you $900. All payouts are made in US dollars, so a non-USD bank or wallet may apply its own conversion.

Sources: Zero Account overview, payout policy, maximum withdrawal request.

Zero has the lowest request floor, so it is the plan where small, regular payouts are possible. The trade-off is the 40% consistency rule between requests and the Daily Loss Guard, which locks the account for the rest of the day at a 2% loss.

The Zero plan max payout is per request, per account: $1,000 on 25K, $1,500 on 50K and $2,500 on 100K. All three help-centre pages that list these figures agree.

Sources: Standard Account overview, payout policy. Standard evaluations use a 50% consistency rule; Qualified accounts use 40%.

Standard roughly doubles the Zero caps at the 50K size and has no Daily Loss Guard during the evaluation. Once qualified, the Daily Loss Guard and 40% consistency rule both apply, the same as Zero.

The Terms and Conditions repeat the Standard caps but label the rows “Zero Qualified Account”. The values match the Standard overview, so this looks like a labelling slip, not a different rule.

Advanced Qualified accounts have a $1,000 minimum and a $15,000 maximum per request on every size (50K, 100K, 150K). There is no consistency rule on Advanced Qualified accounts, no Daily Loss Guard, no news-trading restriction and no scaling plan. The 40% consistency rule applies to the evaluation only. Sources: Advanced Account overview, payout policy.

This is the plan behind the “alpha futures max payout” figure of $15,000. The 50% rule still applies, so $15,000 needs $30,000 of profit in the account. The Advanced MLL is $1,750 / $3,500 / $5,250, tighter than Standard at the same size, and the prohibited-practice rules still apply around news.

The activation help page and the Advanced overview say Advanced accounts bought after July 8, 2026 have no activation fee. A firm blog post last modified August 10, 2026 still lists a $149 Advanced activation fee. The help-centre pages are newer and more specific, so this page uses $0 for new purchases; older Advanced accounts may still carry the fee.

Sources: Direct Account overview, payout policy. Direct launched July 7, 2026, has no evaluation and no winning-day requirement.

Direct replaces the winning-day gate with a withdrawal profit target. After each payout the target resets and only fresh profit counts; leftover profit from the previous cycle does not carry over.

The payout policy, the Direct overview and the Terms list $2,000 as the 50K Direct maximum. The separate maximum-withdrawal article (July 27, 2026) says $1,500. Three current documents agree on $2,000, so this page uses it; check the request screen in your dashboard before you size a 50K Direct request.

Premium was discontinued on July 12, 2026 after the firm’s platform partner ended services. Active Premium accounts were refunded and closed. Payouts already “approved for pay” on Premium are being paid in batches; the first batch (about 10% of the outstanding amount) went out in July. The September 15, 2026 update says the next batch was due within 1 to 2 weeks, with the rest cleared through October. Sources: partner-exit update, payout update.

For reference only, the firm’s fee-rules post lists the old Premium Qualified terms: $500 minimum, a tiered maximum of $3,000 / $3,500 / $4,000 / $5,000 on requests 1 to 4 and $6,000 from the 5th request, no consistency rule once qualified, and positive net profit required in each cycle. New traders cannot buy Premium.

The Maximum Loss Limit trails the end-of-day balance high on every account and stops trailing at the starting balance. The Zero and Standard overviews add that the MLL does not move after a payout: “If MLL was at $49,200 before payout, it will be after as well.” A breach on floating or closed P&L closes a Qualified account.

A payout lowers the balance but not the MLL, so every payout shrinks your cushion by the gross request. Taking the full 50% when the MLL is still trailing can leave less room than the plan’s normal drawdown. Check the gap between balance and MLL before you choose the amount.

On Direct, Standard and Zero Qualified accounts, no orders may be placed from 2 minutes before to 2 minutes after a red-folder ForexFactory event for the traded asset. Holding a position through the release is allowed. A first violation is a warning: profit on the trade is voided and the payout is denied until the next eligible date. Later violations breach the account. Evaluations and Advanced Qualified accounts have no news restriction. Source: news trading policy.

This is the most common documented reason for an “alpha futures denied payout” outcome that does not involve a rule breach. Check the calendar for the products you trade (for example USD events for ES, NQ, GC and CL) before every session in a payout cycle.

Profits from prohibited practices are voided and the agreement can be ended. The list includes more than 100 trades a day, fully automated or AI trading, tick or micro scalping (trades under 10 ticks and under 2 minutes as a pattern), order-book spamming, “all or nothing” max-size trades, account rolling or stacking, hedging across accounts, group trading and using a VPN (a VPS is allowed). Source: prohibited trading practices.

These are reviewed when you request, not only when you trade. A strategy built on very short trades can pass every number on the dashboard and still have the payout denied. Copy trading is allowed only between your own accounts.

After passing, the evaluation account closes. To get the Qualified account you complete KYC through Veriff (allow up to 48 hours for review), sign the trader contract in the dashboard within 30 days of passing, and pay an activation fee only on Advanced accounts bought before July 8, 2026. The Qualified account arrives within 24 hours of those steps. Sources: activation guide, KYC guide.

KYC can be done before you pass, and the firm recommends it. The account holder must complete it in person, without a VPN or VPS. A trader who fails KYC gets a full refund of the passed or active evaluation instead of a Qualified account.

The payout methods page lists ACH (US bank accounts), wire transfer, SWIFT, Wise and Rise, all paid in US dollars. If you pick Rise, you must sign an emailed agreement before the first payout.

The Terms also mention Checkout.com, CoinPayments and Nuvei as processors and allow requests in cryptocurrency. The payout methods page is the firm’s dedicated list and does not include crypto, so treat crypto payouts as unconfirmed until the request screen offers them.

The firm’s September 15, 2026 update says that once a payout clears standard approval, it is paid in five business days or less, and that same-day payouts are the target “in the coming weeks”. Pending Premium payouts are on a separate batch schedule. Source: payout update.

The five days start after approval, not after you click request, and the firm does not publish an approval time. The Terms give 3 business days, or up to 14 with extra verification, for analyst performance fees. Trader posts from September 2026 report 6 to 14 days from approval to receipt. Use the firm’s figure as the stated target, not a guarantee.

Zero 50K and 100K and all Standard Qualified accounts start below full size and unlock contracts as profit grows. A 50K Standard account starts at 2 minis and reaches 5 minis at $2,000 of profit; a 100K Zero account starts at 2 minis and reaches 6 at $4,500. Advanced and Direct have no scaling plan. Source: scaling plan.

A payout lowers account profit, which can drop you back to a lower scaling tier. Check the tier your balance will sit in after the request before you plan the next cycle.

The firm may call a trader to live capital, for example after 5 payouts on one Qualified account. All Qualified accounts then close. The Live Program pays an 80% split with daily, uncapped withdrawals. Alpha Prime pays 60% plus a 12-month salary funded by 50% of the closed accounts’ simulated profit, up to $75,000. Declining both ends the relationship with every Alpha Group brand. Source: Path to Live structure.

The live move is not optional if you want to keep trading with the firm, and it resets your payout terms. A trader who loses a live account faces a cool-down of up to 3 months, and on return to simulated trading anything over $10,000 in payout requests goes toward funding the next live account (cool-down policy).

Place at least one trade every 10 trading days or the account is archived (inactivity rule). All positions must be closed by 4:20 PM ET each day (trading hours). The maximum allocation article allows up to 5 Zero, 5 Standard, 5 Direct or 3 Advanced Qualified accounts per person, with a limit of 3 once you hold an active Advanced account.

Payout caps apply per account, so traders with several accounts request on each one separately. The Terms word the allocation limit slightly differently (3 if you hold an active Standard or Advanced account), so check the dashboard before you buy another account.