TakeProfitTrader review 2026.

A futures prop firm operating as TakeProfitTrader LLC from 9100 Conroy Windermere Rd, Suite 200, Windermere, Florida, offering a one-step evaluation that leads to simulated funded accounts and then to live-market execution.

The founder is James Sixsmith, and unusually for this industry he has put his own record on the page rather than hiding behind a brand. A former professional minor-league hockey player, he states he lost close to $150,000 trading before turning profitable, previously ran an education and funding business called Trade Context, and has spent 12 years in the industry. The site links an Entrepreneur profile as corroboration. Whether that story sells you or not, a named founder with a documented loss history is a stronger trust signal than an anonymous support desk.

On regulation the firm is careful and modest, and its own wording is worth quoting the shape of rather than paraphrasing loosely. It states that neither the NFA nor the CFTC requires a futures funding firm to be part of any organisation, that it is not a broker, and that it uses only regulated brokers and CME-approved data providers, naming Tradovate, NinjaTrader and Rithmic. It states it never touches, fills, manipulates or delays orders, and never acts as counterparty. That is a narrower claim than some competitors make, and it is the honest one.

Products are futures only, on CME, COMEX, NYMEX and CBOT. The firm states plainly that it does not support stocks, options, forex, cryptocurrencies or CFDs. Platform access runs to more than 15 options across 2 data feeds: CQG covering NinjaTrader, TradingView and Tradovate, and Rithmic covering R|Trader, Quantower and MotiveWave among others.

The distinction that matters most here is where your orders actually go. Test and PRO are both simulated. PRO+ routes to the exchange through Tradovate as the regulated broker. The money is real at every stage from PRO onward regardless.

2 more differences worth holding onto. PRO carries a buffer requirement and PRO+ does not. And there is no contract scaling anywhere: your Test position limit is your PRO position limit, full size from day one, which the firm contrasts directly with competitors that enforce a scaling plan on funded accounts.

There are 2 separate charges at 2 separate stages, and conflating them is the most common mistake made about this firm. The Test account is a monthly subscription. PRO activation is a single one-time fee. Both list prices below are before any discount; apply Code FUNDEDPROGRAM at checkout for 40% off.

The daily loss limit removal is a genuine and recent change, and it is the single biggest quality-of-life improvement on the Test stage. The old figures, still visible struck through in the selector, were $500 on the $25,000 account rising to $3,300 on the $150,000. Do not plan around them. They are not active rules, they are a before-and-after display.

Once you pass, PRO activation is a one-time $130 charge, which the firm contrasts explicitly with competitors billing a recurring monthly fee on funded accounts. After activation there is no ongoing subscription on the PRO account itself. Commissions run at $4.50 per round turn on minis and $1.50 on micros for both Test and PRO. On PRO+ you pay broker rates instead.

3 rules govern the evaluation, and the consistency rule behaves far more gently than the industry norm.

Minimum 3 trading days. This is a real requirement, not marketing framing. A trading day counts as any day on which at least one trade is placed, and you must log at least 3 of them regardless of how quickly you reach the profit target. Hit the target on day 2 and you still need 1 more active day. There is no maximum time limit, so the 3 days are a floor rather than a deadline. Per the firm's own promo documentation this applies to new Test accounts purchased from 17 August 2026 onward, with existing tests and resets excluded.

The 50% consistency rule. No single trading day may account for 50% or more of your total net profit, and the figure must sit below 50% to qualify for PRO. What makes this unusually forgiving is the consequence. Going over does not fail the account. It raises the profit target you need instead, by roughly twice the oversized day's profit, until that day's share falls back under half. You trade your way out of it rather than starting again.

No daily loss limit. Removed on every Test size, as covered in the pricing section. Only the end-of-day trailing drawdown ends a Test account.

6 rules govern the funded account, and 4 of them do not exist during the evaluation. This is the section most reviews skip and the one that actually decides whether you keep the account.

Intraday trailing drawdown is the headline change. The threshold is calculated on your peak balance including unrealised gains, and it trails upward in real time as an open position runs in your favour. The firm's own worked example is clear: on a $25,000 PRO account with a $1,500 drawdown, letting a trade run $1,000 in profit lifts your minimum balance to $24,500 immediately. Close it for a $500 realised gain and your balance is $25,500 while the minimum stays at $24,500, leaving you $1,000 from liquidation. The threshold stops trailing once it reaches your starting balance, and it never goes beyond it.

The buffer requirement equals your starting balance plus the account's maximum drawdown. On a $50,000 account with a $2,000 drawdown that is a $52,000 floor, and only profit above that line is withdrawable. PRO+ removes this entirely, which is the strongest single argument for upgrading.

The weekly activity rule requires at least 1 trading day per calendar week, Sunday through Friday, defined as a day with at least 1 round trip on a permitted instrument. Its stated purpose is to stop traders sitting idle on a funded account. The firm says life circumstances happen and to contact support for a temporary exception.

This rule applies to PRO and PRO+ accounts and does not apply during the Test. That asymmetry catches people out, because you can pass an evaluation trading straight through a release and then lose a funded account doing the same thing.

The requirement is that all funded accounts must be out of every open position and every open order, one minute before, during, and one minute after a prohibited news event. Open orders count, not just filled positions.

Note what is not on that list. Fed speakers are permitted. FOMC minutes are permitted. Everything outside the 5 events above is fair game. That is a tighter, more specific restriction than a blanket high-impact ban, and it is easier to trade around precisely because it is enumerated.

This is where TakeProfitTrader is genuinely at the front of the category, and the terms are unusually unqualified.

Withdrawals are available from day one of a PRO account. There is no minimum number of profitable days, no maximum withdrawal amount, and no payout window to wait for. The only condition is that your balance sits above the buffer, and everything above that line is withdrawable. Compare that with firms requiring 5 qualifying days, a fixed cap per request and a weekly processing date, and the difference is structural rather than marginal.

The split is 80/20 on PRO and 90/10 on PRO+. PRO profits are simulated but the money paid is real, funded from a combination of test fees, tech fees and shared PRO+ profits, which the firm states openly rather than obscuring. Payment runs through an automated Plaid transfer for US bank accounts, or PayPal or Wise, typically arriving within 1 business day.

Up to 3 resets are available on a PRO account, which the firm contrasts with competitors offering none. Account limits are 5 funded accounts total, in any combination of PRO and PRO+, while Test accounts are unlimited.

TakeProfitTrader has the best day-one payout terms in futures prop and one of the most honestly documented rulebooks in the category. It also has the least intuitive stage structure, and the friction sits exactly where a new trader will not look for it.

The payout terms deserve the headline. Withdrawals from day one of the funded account, no minimum profitable days, no maximum amount, no payout window, funds typically inside 1 business day, and a one-time $130 activation instead of a monthly funded fee. Add no consistency rule once funded, no contract scaling between stages, and up to 3 resets, and the shape of the offer is clear: the firm has removed the delay mechanics that most competitors rely on.

What stops it short of a perfect score is that the funded stage is harder than the evaluation. PRO switches to an intraday trailing drawdown that the Test never used. It adds a news restriction the Test never had. It adds a buffer and a weekly activity requirement. A trader who passes comfortably and assumes the rules carry over is walking into 4 new constraints at once. To the firm's credit all of them are published clearly, but they are published in the Knowledge Base rather than on the page where you buy.

The practical recommendation. Read the PRO Account Rules article before you buy the Test, not after you pass it. Plan to upgrade to PRO+ as soon as you qualify, because it removes the buffer and returns you to end-of-day drawdown for a better split. Use the 36.22% pass rate, not the 20.37% figure still sitting on the same page. And apply Code FUNDEDPROGRAM at checkout for 40% off the subscription, rather than paying the list prices in section 03.

• takeprofittrader.com homepage: journey comparison, competitor table, full FAQ, platform list, entity details, disclaimer pass rateVerified
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• Live account-size selector: Test pricing, targets, position limits, drawdown, daily loss limit removal across 5 sizesCaptured
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