Trader @dandaclat Posts $2,090 Combine Cost Against Tradeify Payout
On February 23, the trader @dandaclat posted on X an itemized account of trading ten $150,000 Tradeify accounts, citing $2,090 in combine fees against a $5,000 payout he says he received from the firm.
The post, published on X on a Monday dated February 23, is less a celebration than an argument. Dandaclat lays out the math directly: ten fresh XFA combines at $209 each, a total outlay of $2,090, set against a $5,000 payout earned across ten $150K accounts. The $2,090 figure anchors the proof as a documented cost rather than an unverifiable profit screenshot, which is unusual for prop-trading social content.
What the post does not establish is equally important. There is no certificate image, no payout receipt screenshot, and no statement-level evidence attached to the message itself. The instrument traded, the holding period, and the strategy are not disclosed. The trader references ten $150,000 accounts in aggregate but does not show individual account statements, so the $5,000 payout figure he cites is his own claim rather than independently visible in the post.
“If they were fresh XFA's, I spent 10x$209=$2,090 on combines and got paid out the $5k I earned.”— @dandaclat on X
The context Dandaclat invokes does line up with how Tradeify structures its program. The firm, founded in June 2024 in Boca Raton and focused exclusively on US futures across CME, COMEX, NYMEX, and CBOT, offers account sizes at $25K, $50K, $100K, and $150K with one-time evaluation pricing and no monthly billing, which is consistent with the trader's combine-cost arithmetic. Tradeify reports more than $200 million paid out to date, a figure the firm states publicly and that has not been independently verified.
The broader point of the post is a defense of prop trading as a legitimate business model when the rules are transparent and the economics work for both sides. Dandaclat names Tradeify and one other firm as examples of what he calls sustainable practices. For readers evaluating the proof, the takeaway is narrower: a public, dated, itemized claim of cost versus payout, posted under the trader's own handle, with the firm tagged directly. It is a credible data point, not a full audit.