We’ve updated the path from Sim Funded to Live Brokerage.

Your existing Sim Funded rules remain in place, including the $10,000 total-profit threshold for a Brokerage Review, but there are important changes to what happens once you’re approved for Brokerage.

More details are included below.

Your Sim Funded Account is the stage between Buffer and Live Brokerage.

It allows you to continue building your trading record and requesting payouts without waiting for a live brokerage account to be opened.

Your Sim Funded Account remains simulated. Your orders do not reach the live market until you transition into Live Brokerage.

Most Brokerage-style trading and risk rules continue to apply during Sim Funded, including:

The minimum payout request is:

Payouts must be requested in whole-dollar amounts.

Once you submit a payout request, stop trading until the requested funds have been removed from your account.

Before exceeding $10,000 in total profit per account, you must open a Support Review Ticket.

Your total profit includes:

Current profit balance + all payouts already received

Reviews may take up to 5 trading days.

⚠️ Trading while your account is under review may result in account forfeiture.

Risk Reviews may also occur at any time. You do not need to be at $10,000 in profit to be reviewed.

We may also conduct a Risk Review based on your previous account history with us.

Your Buffer does not count toward the $10,000 Brokerage threshold and is not withdrawable.

The $10,000 threshold refers to profit only.

To encourage consistency and sustainable trading:

These limits are designed to promote consistency and discourage oversized or unsustainable risk-taking.

Our Risk Team may also apply additional controls when necessary, including:

If you breach the drawdown on 3 or more Sim Funded or Live Brokerage accounts, we may restrict you to a single active Sim Funded or Live Brokerage account at the Risk Team’s discretion.

Account reviews may occur at any time, and review timelines may vary.

Do not trade an account while it is under review.

Trading during an active review may result in automatic account loss.

All trading activity must stay within your assigned contract limits and any temporary risk restrictions currently applied to your account.

If trades are found to be outside those limits, automated account adjustments may be made.

These can include:

Your payouts count toward your progress to Brokerage.

Once your total profit, including payouts, reaches $10,000, you must stop trading and request a Brokerage Review.

This means your Brokerage qualification is based on your total profitability, not just the amount currently showing in your account.

You earn $10,500 in total profit and have already withdrawn $6,000.

You have still reached the $10,000 Brokerage threshold because the $6,000 in payouts counts toward your total profit.

Once you reach the threshold:

If we determine that you are not yet ready for Live Brokerage, you may be asked to continue trading your Sim Funded Account to build a longer track record.

You may then be reviewed again at a later date.

This is where the process has changed.

Previously, qualifying Standard-plan traders could have up to $10,000 per account, minus payouts already received, used when establishing their Live Brokerage starting balance.

For example:

If you generated $10,000 in qualifying profit and had already withdrawn $6,000:

$10,000 − $6,000 = $4,000

Your Live Brokerage account could begin with a $4,000 starting balance under the previous structure.

Across three eligible Sim Funded Accounts, the previous maximum was $30,000 per trader.

Orbit accounts already worked differently. Your Orbit Brokerage account began at $0, with the applicable risk buffer duplicated into the live environment instead of transferring your Sim Funded balance.

For new Brokerage transitions, your Sim Funded profit no longer becomes your Live Brokerage starting balance.

Once you’re approved, you can choose between:

If you accept your Brokerage call-up:

If your qualifying account has a $2,000 drawdown:

Live Starting Balance: $0
​Live Drawdown: $2,000
​Eligible Sim Funded Profit: Bonus Vault

Your Sim Funded profits remain separate from the real capital used inside your Brokerage account.

If you’re approved for Brokerage but do not want to move live, you can choose a one-time cash buyout equal to 50% of your applicable drawdown.

For a qualifying account with a $2,000 drawdown:

Buyout: $1,000

After taking the buyout, a cooldown applies before you can return to Evaluations.

If your Brokerage account was opened before the October 1 update, your account remains under the structure it was originally opened with.

The new $0 starting balance + Bonus Vault / Buyout option applies to new Brokerage transitions going forward.

Payouts are available daily, subject to your account’s payout rules and limits.

You must also place a meaningful trade between payout requests of $500 or more.

Simply flipping contracts to create a qualifying trade does not count.

Trade with intent and as you normally would.

You may set your own Daily Loss Limit where supported.

Contract scaling is available based on available margin.

Contract scaling is not available unless your specific Brokerage setup states otherwise.

Your actual contract limits are the limits displayed on your account.

You can have up to:

You may also request payouts daily, provided you meet the applicable payout requirements and remain within your rolling payout cap.

Sim Funded payout caps operate on a rolling 7-day basis.

Your cap does not reset on a fixed calendar week.

Instead, each approved payout remains part of your rolling total for 7 days and then falls off individually.

Your 7-day payout cap is $2,500.

You request:

Tuesday, April 7 — $700
Remaining available cap: $1,800

Thursday, April 9 — $500
Remaining available cap: $1,300

Monday, April 13 — $1,300
Remaining available cap: $0

On Tuesday, April 14, the original $700 payout falls outside the rolling 7-day window, so $700 becomes available again.

On Thursday, April 16, the $500 payout falls off and another $500 becomes available.

For Orbit accounts, your applicable consistency requirement resets after each successfully processed payout.

Across three eligible accounts, the maximum combined potential payout cap can reach:

Your initial contract limits may generally fall within:

Micros: 15–30
​E-minis: 1–3

If you demonstrate consistent risk management and account growth, you may request an increase in your contract limits.

Any scaling decision is based on your account performance and applicable risk parameters.

The core qualification rule remains simple:

Your payouts count toward that $10,000.

What has changed is what happens after you’re approved.

Qualifying accounts could transfer up to $10,000 minus payouts into the Brokerage structure, with up to $30,000 across three accounts.

When you’re called up:

Go Live

or

Take the Buyout