TradeFundrr Rules: Drawdown, 30% Consistency Rule, Scaling Plan and Trading Rules

TradeFundrr rules for the four accounts it sells today: Stock Pre-Prop, Stock Prop, Options Pre-Prop and Options Prop. TradeFundrr is a New York firm that funds U.S. stock and options day traders. Since October 5, 2026 it sells a Pre-Prop account (a five-day evaluation) and a Prop account (no evaluation, payouts after five qualifying days) for each asset class, plus an application-only Pro desk. The rule book is short and the same on all four accounts: a $1,000 daily loss limit that pauses trading for the day, a $3,000 end-of-day trailing drawdown that closes the account, a $1,250 profit target with a 30% best-session (consistency) rule, a 15-second minimum hold and intraday-only trading with no bots. What catches traders out is underneath: the drawdown keeps its level when you withdraw, a single big day raises your target and the target never comes back down, payout caps start at $1,000 or $2,000 per cycle, payouts stop at $25,000 per asset class, and options spreads filled better than the midpoint lose their gains. This page sets out every rule with the official numbers, worked examples and two calculators, answers whether TradeFundrr has a scaling plan, lists the older rules that still show up in search, and flags where the firm’s own pages disagree.

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Which TradeFundrr Accounts These Rules Cover

TradeFundrr relaunched its line-up around October 5, 2026. Its Fee Refund Policy says “Prop accounts were previously sold as Express Funding accounts” and that Express Funding accounts bought before October 5, 2026 are covered “including for asset classes that are no longer offered”. The website now sells only stock and options accounts. Futures and crypto programs, and the Growth, Growth Plus, Incubator, Instant Funding and Fundrr Flex accounts, survive only as “Legacy Product FAQs” in the help centre (Fee Refund Policy, Legacy Product FAQs).

• Pre-Prop (stocks or options): $599 one-time plus $99 a month. A simulated evaluation: complete the consistency requirements once, get promoted to the Prop step with no promotion fee, then complete them a second time before the first payout. No time limit. The $599 is not refundable.
• Prop (stocks or options): $1,499 one-time plus $99 a month. No evaluation; payout eligibility starts after five qualifying sessions. The one-time fee comes back with the first qualifying payout, once per customer per asset class for life.
• Pro: an application-only desk. The Pro pages describe a capital contribution leveraged up to 20x; the Prop pages describe an invitation-only firm-funded desk. See the conflicts section below.

The public checkout page on October 11, 2026 also showed two options cards that are not on the website: “Options Starter – Prop 5k” and “Options Flex – Prop 5k”. Their cards listed smaller limits (Starter: $250 daily loss limit described as soft, $1,000 maximum drawdown, five days of $125; Flex: $500 daily loss limit and $1,500 maximum drawdown; both with a $10,000 overall payout cap). These were read from the product cards before payment and were not verified by purchase; the rest of this page covers the four accounts the website sells (checkout).

TradeFundrr Account Rules Side by Side

All four accounts share the same loss limits, target and consistency rule. What differs is the buying power, the evaluation step, the platform and hours, the position cap and how fees and resets work.

Sources: Stock Pre-Prop page, Stock Prop page, Options Pre-Prop page, Options Prop page, Help centre: What are the available account sizes?, Help centre: What are the commissions?, Help centre: Can I reset my account?, Help centre: What are the payout caps per program?; checked October 11, 2026.

TradeFundrr Drawdown: The $3,000 End-of-Day Trailing Limit

Every current TradeFundrr account has a $3,000 maximum trailing drawdown, and it is the only rule that closes the account on its own. The help centre calls it a hard breach: “exceeding the maximum trailing drawdown is considered a hard breach and will result in the account failing” (trailing drawdown article).

How it moves, in the firm’s words and in plain terms:

• It trails your end-of-day balance. The threshold sits $3,000 below the highest balance you have closed a session at. The help centre says it trails the “realized balance” and is “recalculated at the end of the trading session”; the product pages say it “follows your highest end-of-day balance and never moves down”. Because every position must be flat at the close, the two descriptions land on the same number.
• It does not trail intraday. A morning run-up that you give back before the close does not lift the threshold.
• It stops at your starting balance. Once the threshold reaches $100,000 (stocks) or $25,000 (options) it stays there. The Pre-Prop pages give the examples: an end-of-day balance of $103,000 raises the threshold to $100,000, and $28,000 raises it to $25,000 on options.
• Withdrawals do not lower it. The Prop pages say “Withdrawals lower your account balance without lowering the loss threshold”, and the payout article says the threshold “will remain unchanged at its pre-payout level”.

Worked example: a $100,000 stock account

On Day 3 the balance fell but the threshold stayed at $98,400; it never moves down. On Day 5 the formula would give $100,200, but the threshold stops at the $100,000 starting balance and stays there for the life of the account.

Worked example: what a payout does to your cushion

A Stock Prop trader closes the fifth qualifying session at $101,800 (account profit $1,800, best session $450). The highest end-of-day balance is $101,800, so the threshold is $98,800 and the cushion is $3,000. The 30% rule makes the target $450 / 0.30 = $1,500, which the $1,800 profit clears. The trader may request up to 50% of profit, $900, which is under the $2,000 Cycle 1 cap, and receives 80% of it, $720. After approval the balance is $100,900, the threshold is still $98,800, and the cushion has shrunk from $3,000 to $2,100. If the account had already locked at $100,000, a $1,500 payout from a $103,000 balance would leave only $1,500 of room.

The Daily Loss Limit: A $1,000 Pause, Not a Fail

The daily loss limit is $1,000 on all four accounts. The help centre says that “in both the Preprop and Prop accounts, exceeding the daily loss limit is considered a soft breach and does not result in the loss of the account”, that it “resets at the start of each trading session” and that it is “calculated using both realized and unrealized PnL” (daily loss limit article). The product pages say reaching it “pauses trading for the rest of the session. Your account stays open and you can resume next session.”

How the options policy measures it

The Terms add a detailed policy for options accounts (Section 33, “Options Programs: Complex Strategy and Daily Loss Limit Policy”):

• The limit is measured on equity at every moment of the session: balance plus the unrealized result of all open positions.
• It is reached the moment equity falls $1,000 below the day’s starting balance, which is the prior day’s closing balance.
• Open positions are valued at the midpoint of each leg’s displayed bid and ask. When quotes widen in a fast move, that value “can change sharply within seconds”, and the trader is responsible for sizing with that in mind.
• A smaller realized loss after the platform closes your positions does not reverse the breach.
• One exception: if the maximum possible loss of all open positions, plus the day’s realized losses and adjustments, was less than the limit, the breach is reversed. The policy’s example is a 5-lot long butterfly bought for 0.15 (maximum loss $75) showing an unrealized loss above $1,000: reversed. A short 5-point butterfly sold for 0.90 (maximum loss $2,050): the breach stands.

When the drawdown is closer than the daily limit

The daily limit is not always the line you hit first. Take a stock account that has locked its threshold at $100,000 and starts the day at $100,700. The daily pause level is $99,700, but the account closes at $100,000, so a $700 loss ends the account before the daily limit is ever reached. Early in an options account the reverse is true: at a $25,600 start with a $26,000 high, the threshold is $23,000 and the $24,600 daily pause comes first. The calculator above shows which line is closer for your numbers.

The options policy also says that “in some programs trading pauses for the rest of the session and the account stays open. In others the account fails. Each program’s rules say which applies.” For the current Pre-Prop and Prop accounts, the help centre and product pages say it is a pause. Older accounts had hard daily limits; see the legacy section.

TradeFundrr Consistency Rule: The 30% Best-Session Rule

TradeFundrr’s consistency requirements decide when you can be promoted (Pre-Prop) and when you can be paid (Prop step and Prop). There are three parts, and all three must be met (consistency metrics article):

1. Five profitable sessions of at least $250 each. They do not need to be consecutive. The product pages say qualifying sessions “use net realized profit after commissions”.
2. At least $1,250 of total account profit (the initial profit target).
3. The 30% rule: no single session may be more than 30% of the profit target. With a $1,250 target that is $375. If a session makes more, the target rises to highest session profit / 0.30.

The firm adds two details that matter. “Once the profit target has been increased, it will not be revised lower, even if the account balance su