Vest Markets Rules: Drawdown, Bespoke Account, Leverage

Vest Markets rules for Vest Capital, the funded program inside the Vest Markets perpetual-futures app: the 1-Step “Bespoke” evaluation, the fixed 2-Step evaluation and the Instant account. Every account has one hard floor, a static max drawdown set when the account opens: 6% of starting capital on every evaluation, and an amount equal to the fee (2% or 4%) on Instant accounts. A daily loss limit of 3% or 4% is optional on the Bespoke 1-Step, fixed at 3% on the 2-Step and absent on Instant. There is no minimum number of days, no time limit, no consistency rule and no news restriction. What does catch traders out is the perps side: leverage of up to 75x on ES against a 6% floor, hourly funding, weekend locks on non-crypto markets, a Friday leverage cut, and markets you cannot trade on a funded account (XRP, HYPE, API trading). This page sets out each rule with dollar values for every size, the full 48-price Bespoke matrix, worked examples, two calculators, and the places where Vest’s own pages disagree.

Checked October 26, 2026. BestProps read the Vest Capital pricing page and the public price catalog it loads, the Vest Markets FAQ (each answer opened), the Vest docs on loss limits, account tiers, leverage, markets, funding, temporary leverage limits and claiming profit, and the live Prop Trading Terms of Service (updated October 20, 2026) and Terms of Service (updated October 21, 2026) on that date. Under those terms every Vest Capital account is simulated, including Instant and “Live” funded accounts, even though the docs and FAQ describe funded capital as real; this page calls the accounts simulated. BestProps did not buy an account, so how the dashboard applies a rule and anything shown only after login were not verified by purchase. Where Vest’s pages disagree, this page shows both versions and says which one it plans to.

Account Picker

Choose your Vest Capital account and stage. The result lists the published rule values and the rule most likely to end the account at that stage.

Account and stage

What can trip you up

6% staticMax drawdown on every evaluation, fixed from day one on starting capital. It never trails profit. Instant: equal to the fee (2% or 4%).

3% / 4% / noneDaily loss limit you pick on the Bespoke 1-Step, reset at 20:00 ET. Fixed 3% on the 2-Step. None on Instant.

No day rulesNo minimum days, no time limit, no consistency rule, news trading allowed, positions can be held overnight and over weekends.

75x or 50xFunded leverage cap: the docs say up to 75x (ES only), the FAQ says up to 50x. Most stocks and FX are 5x. XRP and HYPE are not available.

Rows To Inspect First

These are the rules Vest’s own pages say end accounts, or where its pages disagree. The labels explain why each row is surfaced; they are not a recommendation to buy or avoid any account.

Leverage against a 6% floor

At ES’s 75x funded cap, a fully used account loses its whole 6% allowance on a 0.08% move against it: under 5 points on ES at 6,000. The floor is checked on account value including open losses, at any moment.

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Touching the floor

The docs say “equality alone does not breach a limit”. The FAQ says the account closes if value “touches or drops below” the floor. Plan to the FAQ: treat the floor price itself as a breach.

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Simulated, not “real capital”

The docs and FAQ call funded capital real. The live Prop Trading Terms say all accounts, including Instant and funded, are simulated and payouts are program compensation. The terms are the contract.

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Vest Markets Rule Checks

Rule area	Official-source snapshot	What to verify
Max drawdown 6% static on evaluations	Evaluations (1-Step and 2-Step): 6% of starting capital, $300 / $600 / $1,500 / $3,000 on $5k / $10k / $25k / $50k, floors $4,700 / $9,400 / $23,500 / $47,000. Instant: equal to the fee, 2% on $500 and 4% on $5k to $50k. “A fixed floor, set once when your account is created. It never moves.”	Checked against account value including unrealized PnL at any moment. The docs say equality does not breach; the FAQ says touching the floor does. Breach is “immediate, permanent account closure”, with no warning. Source: Vest docs “Loss Limits”; Vest Markets FAQ “Is Max. Drawdown trailing, end-of-day, or static?”; Vest Capital pricing page – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Vest docs, “Loss Limits” and Vest Markets FAQ and Vest Capital pricing page
Daily loss limit 3%, 4% or none	Bespoke 1-Step: chosen at purchase (3%, 4% or none). 2-Step: fixed 3%. Instant: never. Daily floor = reset balance x (1 – rate) + net non-trading transfers since reset; reset boundary 20:00 ET. Carries into the funded stage unchanged.	The docs build the reset balance from balance plus reserved collateral, excluding unrealized PnL; the FAQ sets it from equity including unrealized PnL. The two differ when you hold a position through 20:00 ET (worked table below). Source: Vest docs “Loss Limits”; Vest Markets FAQ “How does the Daily Loss Limit work?”; Vest docs “Account Tiers” – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Vest docs, “Loss Limits” and Vest Markets FAQ and Vest docs, “Account Tiers”
Profit target 10% or 20%; 2-Step 10% then 5%	Bespoke 1-Step: 10% or 20% of capital, chosen at purchase. 2-Step: 10% in Step 1, then a further 5% in Step 2. Instant: no target. The funded stage has no target.	No minimum days and no time limit: “You can pass as quickly as you like.” Passing creates a funded account of the same size “instantly”. Source: Vest docs “Account Tiers”; Vest Markets FAQ – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Vest docs, “Account Tiers” and Vest Markets FAQ
Consistency and minimum days none	“There is no minimum number of trading days, no cap on how much of your profit can come from a single day, and no requirement to distribute profits evenly.” No time limit in evaluation or funded.	Nothing in the docs or terms adds a best-day rule. The terms still let Vest review “distorted virtual results” and abusive patterns. Source: Vest Markets FAQ “Is there a consistency rule?”; Prop Trading Terms – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Vest Markets FAQ and Prop Trading Terms of Service (updated October 20, 2026)
Leverage docs 75x / FAQ 50x	Funded (evaluation and live): up to 75x per the docs, per market. ES 75x; NQ, RTY, YM 50x; GC and NVDA 25x; BTC 25x in the table; ETH 15x; SOL, CL, TSLA, INTC, MU 10x; most stocks, FX and other metals 5x. Primary (non-funded) accounts go to 100x.	The FAQ says funded accounts support “up to 50x”. The docs text says BTC and ETH have a 15x maximum on funded accounts while the table shows BTC 25x. The order form shows each market’s cap; plan to 15x on BTC. Source: Vest docs “Cross Margin & Leverage”; Vest Markets FAQ “Is there a maximum position size or leverage cap?” – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Vest docs, “Cross Margin & Leverage” and Vest Markets FAQ
Weekend leverage cut Friday 4:00 PM ET	From Friday 4:00 PM ET until reopen, Vest Capital accounts are capped at 5x on ES and NQ and 3x on GC. Positions more than 2% above the cap are cut down to it.	If account value is more than 1% below starting capital, those positions are closed in full instead of reduced. Cuts are labelled “Temporary Leverage Limit” in trade history. Source: Vest docs “Temporary Leverage Limits” – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Vest docs, “Temporary Leverage Limits”
Hours, overnight, weekend hold allowed; locks	Crypto trades 24/7. Index and commodity perps lock Friday 5:00 PM ET to Sunday 6:00 PM ET; single stocks Friday 8:00 PM ET to Sunday 8:00 PM ET; FX locks over the weekend. Positions held into a lock stay open and cannot be closed.	Both loss limits keep running over the weekend. The FAQ’s overnight answer says all non-crypto positions lock from Friday 8:00 PM ET; its hours answer and the docs give 5:00 PM ET for indices and commodities. Source: Vest docs “Markets”; Vest Markets FAQ – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Vest docs, “Markets” and Vest Markets FAQ
News trading allowed	“You are free to open and hold positions before, during, and after any news release.” Scalping and high-frequency approaches are also allowed.	Allowed does not mean protected: a news gap through the floor is still a breach. Source: Vest Markets FAQ “Are there restrictions on trading during news events?” – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Vest Markets FAQ
Banned markets and API XRP, HYPE, API	“XRP and HYPE are not available on Evaluation Accounts or Live Funded Accounts. API trading is not available on any Funded Account.”	25 stock and FX markets went reduce-only on October 19 and 26, 2026 and close on October 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM ET. Source: Vest docs “Markets”; Vest docs “Vest Capital Overview”; Vest docs “Exchange Notices” – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Vest docs, “Markets” and Vest docs, “Vest Capital Overview” and Vest docs, “Exchange Notices”
Prohibited conduct terms Section 5	Manipulation, wash trading, spoofing and layering, trading against or front-running the firm’s use of trade ideas or hedges, multiple identities, exploiting errors or latency, and VPNs used to get around restrictions. FAQ example: opposite sides of the same market on different accounts.	Third-party tools (bots, copiers) are “independent of us” and used at your own risk; the terms do not ban them outright. Source: Prop Trading Terms; Vest Markets FAQ “Are any trading strategies prohibited?” – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Prop Trading Terms of Service (updated October 20, 2026) and Vest Markets FAQ
Account limits 10 funded, 100 evaluations	Up to 10 live or Instant funded accounts and up to 100 evaluation accounts at once, under one user profile.	The FAQ says evaluation accounts “are not capped”; the terms say 100. Source: Prop Trading Terms; Vest docs “Vest Capital Overview”; Vest Markets FAQ – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Prop Trading Terms of Service (updated October 20, 2026) and Vest docs, “Vest Capital Overview” and Vest Markets FAQ
Profit claims on demand, 24h	Claim Profit from a funded account at any time, no minimum and no cap on frequency or amount. The split (80%, 90% or 95%) is fixed at purchase and credited to your Primary Account in 24 hours. Claims are irrevocable.	You may need to close open positions or orders before a claim. The docs say withdrawals lower the daily floor by the full amount. Source: Vest docs “Claiming Profit”; Vest Markets FAQ; Vest docs “Loss Limits” – checked October 26, 2026. Full source URLs Vest docs, “Claiming Profit” and Vest Markets FAQ and Vest docs, “Loss Limits”

Vest Capital Accounts: 1-Step Bespoke vs 2-Step vs Instant

Vest Capital sells three account types from one pricing page. Loss limits “follow your account type, not its phase”: whatever applies in the evaluation carries into the funded stage unchanged. Each is a one-time payment with no subscription, and Vest publishes no activation fee.

Rule	1-Step Bespoke	2-Step	Instant
Sizes on the live page	$5k, $10k, $25k, $50k (Silver, Gold, Platinum, Emerald)	$5k, $10k, $25k, $50k	$500, $5k, $10k, $25k, $50k
One-time fee	$25 to $894 (48 prices)	$15 / $35 / $90 / $175	$10 / $200 / $400 / $1,000 / $2,000
Profit target	10% or 20% (you choose)	10%, then 5%	None
Max drawdown	6% static	6% static	Equal to the fee: 2% ($500) or 4%
Daily loss limit	3%, 4% or none (you choose)	3% (fixed)	None
Profit split	80% or 90% (you choose)	80%	95%
Minimum days / time limit	None / none	None / none	Not applicable
Consistency rule	None	None	None

The pricing page headline is “The Simplest Rules In The Industry”, and its own summary of the rules is one sentence: max drawdown on every plan, a daily loss limit “optional with a Bespoke Account”, and a profit goal on evaluation plans. Sources: Vest Capital pricing page, Vest docs, “Account Tiers”, Vest docs, “Vest Capital Overview”, Vest docs, “Loss Limits”, checked October 26, 2026. Prices are from the public catalog the pricing page loads, read the same day.

The Vest Markets Bespoke Account: Every 1-Step Configuration and Price

The “Bespoke Account” is Vest’s name for the configurable 1-Step evaluation (“Create Your Bespoke Account” on the pricing page). You pick four things at purchase, and the price is set by the combination: size ($5k, $10k, $25k or $50k), profit target (10% or 20%), daily loss limit (3%, 4% or none) and profit split (80/20 or 90/10). That is 12 rule combinations across 4 sizes, 48 price points. The max drawdown is not a choice: it is 6% on every combination. The preset cards on the pricing page show the 10% target, 80% split, no-daily-limit version by default, with a toggle that switches on the 3% limit.

Target	Daily loss limit	Split (you/Vest)	$5k Silver	$10k Gold	$25k Platinum	$50k Emerald
10%	3%	80/20	$40	$80	$210	$415
10%	3%	90/10	$48	$96	$252	$498
10%	4%	80/20	$60	$110	$280	$555
10%	4%	90/10	$72	$132	$330	$666
10%	None	80/20	$75	$150	$375	$745
10%	None	90/10	$90	$180	$450	$894
20%	3%	80/20	$25	$50	$130	$255
20%	3%	90/10	$30	$60	$156	$306
20%	4%	80/20	$33	$65	$170	$335
20%	4%	90/10	$40	$78	$204	$402
20%	None	80/20	$50	$95	$250	$495
20%	None	90/10	$60	$114	$300	$594

How each option moves the price (BestProps arithmetic on the catalog prices): the 90/10 split costs about 1.2x the 80/20 price on every combination; a 4% daily limit costs 1.3x to 1.5x the 3% version; no daily limit costs 1.8x to 2.0x the 3% version; and a 20% target costs 0.55x to 0.67x the 10% version. The cheapest account is the $5k with a 20% target, 3% daily limit and 80% split at $25. The most expensive is the $50k with a 10% target, no daily limit and 90% split at $894. Sources: Vest Capital pricing page, Vest docs, “Account Tiers”, checked October 26, 2026.

Dollar values by size

Size	10% target	20% target	Max drawdown (6%)	Static floor	3% daily limit at start	4% daily limit at start
$5,000 Silver	$500	$1,000	$300	$4,700	$150 (floor $4,850)	$200 (floor $4,800)
$10,000 Gold	$1,000	$2,000	$600	$9,400	$300 (floor $9,700)	$400 (floor $9,600)
$25,000 Platinum	$2,500	$5,000	$1,500	$23,500	$750 (floor $24,250)	$1,000 (floor $24,000)
$50,000 Emerald	$5,000	$10,000	$3,000	$47,000	$1,500 (floor $48,500)	$2,000 (floor $48,000)

Read the target against the drawdown: a 10% target asks for 1.67 times the 6% allowance before you lose the allowance once; a 20% target asks for 3.33 times. With a 3% daily limit, your first day can lose only half the max drawdown before the account closes.

Worked configurations

Configuration	Fee	Profit to pass	Static floor	Daily floor on day 1	Funded profit to earn back the fee	Fee as % of max drawdown	Notes
Cheapest $5,000, 20% target, 3% daily limit, 80/20	$25	$1,000	$4,700	$4,850	$31.25	8%	Lowest fee; hardest target (20%) and the tightest daily limit.
Docs preset “1-Step” $25,000, 10% target, 3% daily limit, 80/20	$210	$2,500	$23,500	$24,250	$262.50	14%	Vest’s own example configuration.
Docs preset “Higher Profit Target” $25,000, 20% target, 3% daily limit, 80/20	$130	$5,000	$23,500	$24,250	$162.50	9%	Same limits as above, double the target, $80 cheaper.
Docs preset “No Daily Loss Limit” $25,000, 10% target, no daily limit, 80/20	$375	$2,500	$23,500	–	$468.75	25%	Only the static floor to watch.
Pricing-page default card $50,000, 10% target, no daily limit, 80/20	$745	$5,000	$47,000	–	$931.25	25%	What the Emerald card shows before you toggle anything.
Most expensive $50,000, 10% target, no daily limit, 90/10	$894	$5,000	$47,000	–	$993.33	30%	Lower target, no daily limit and the top split.

“Funded profit to earn back the fee” is the fee divided by your split: the profit the funded account has to make before your share covers what you paid. It ignores trading fees and funding. The three “docs preset” rows are the example configurations named on Vest’s Account Tiers page. Sources: Vest docs, “Account Tiers”, Vest Capital pricing page, checked October 26, 2026.

Bespoke account builder

Pick the four options to see the published price and the dollar rules for that configuration.

Account size Profit target Daily loss limit Profit split

Docs and live page differ on sizes. Vest’s Account Tiers doc lists three tiers (Silver, Gold, Platinum) and “36 available 1-Step configurations”. The live pricing page and its catalog also sell the $50k Emerald, so there are 48. This page uses the live pricing page; the doc itself says the live pricing pages “are the source of record”.

Vest Markets 2-Step Evaluation Rules

The 2-Step has one fixed configuration per size and is the cheapest way into a Vest Capital evaluation. Step 1 asks for 10% of starting capital; Step 2 asks for a further 5%. The daily loss limit is 3%, the max drawdown is the same 6% static floor, and the split is 80/20. The 3% daily limit stays on the account once it is funded.

Size	Fee	Step 1 target (10%)	Step 2 target (5%)	Static floor (6%)	3% daily limit at start	Split
$5,000	$15	$500	$250	$4,700	$150	80/20
$10,000	$35	$1,000	$500	$9,400	$300	80/20
$25,000	$90	$2,500	$1,250	$23,500	$750	80/20
$50,000	$175	$5,000	$2,500	$47,000	$1,500	80/20

The public catalog lists Step 2 with the same starting capital as Step 1 and a target of 5% of it; Vest’s pages do not say in words whether the balance resets between steps, so check the dashboard when Step 1 closes. The Account Tiers doc lists the 2-Step at three sizes; the $50k (Emerald) 2-Step at $175 appears in the live catalog. Sources: Vest docs, “Account Tiers”, Vest docs, “Vest Capital Overview”, Vest Capital pricing page, checked October 26, 2026.

Vest Markets Instant Account Rules

An Instant account skips the evaluation: it is funded from the moment payment clears, has no profit target and no daily loss limit, and pays a 95% split. Its one rule is the static max drawdown, and Vest sets it equal to the fee you paid. “The rate isn’t uniform”: 2% on the $500 size, 4% on the rest.

Size	Fee	Max drawdown	Rate	Static floor	Fully used at 10x: adverse move to the floor
$500	$10	$10	2%	$490	0.20%
$5,000	$200	$200	4%	$4,800	0.40%
$10,000	$400	$400	4%	$9,600	0.40%
$25,000	$1,000	$1,000	4%	$24,000	0.40%
$50,000	$2,000	$2,000	4%	$48,000	0.40%

The FAQ example: “A $25,000 Instant Account has a $1,000 Max. Drawdown (4%), closing at $24,000.” The docs list four Instant sizes up to $25,000; the live pricing page also sells $50,000 for $2,000. With 4% (or 2%) of room instead of 6%, leverage bites harder on Instant than on an evaluation; the last column is BestProps arithmetic