Guide
How prop firm payouts get reviewed
What we check before a payout line is published: timing, qualifying days, caps, and profit left in the account.
Key rules at a glance
- Drawdown How far the account can fall before it fails. A static floor stays put. A trailing floor follows profit.
- Static or trailing
- Daily loss The loss that ends the day. Soft means you can keep trading. Hard means the account stops.
- Hard, soft, or none
- Consistency A cap on how much profit can come from one day, or a daily profit cap that deletes the extra.
- Best-day cap
- Payout How often you can request a withdrawal, plus any wait, cap, or profit you must leave in.
- Cadence and gates
- News Whether a news release can block the order or take back most of the profit.
- Ban or haircut
A payout date is not a payout. Qualifying days, a dollar cap, or a minimum profit can still block the request.
Some firms only let you withdraw part of the profit and keep the rest as a buffer. That is stricter than an 80/20 split.
We score a plain calendar interval 0, a qualifying day or cap 5, and a retained-profit buffer 10.
This is not a check that the firm pays. It is a check of the written gates.