Trade The Pool - Futures Prop Firm Details

FLEX Day & FLEX Swing:

• A 50% best-position consistency rule applies during Evaluation and the Funded stage.

Edge:

• A 40% consistency rule applies during the Funded stage.

Prohibited Practices

Trade Duration:

• FLEX: A minimum 30-second duration is required for a position's profit to count. The system uses precise timestamps to determine eligibility.
• Edge: Every trade must remain open for at least 30 seconds.

Trade Range:

• FLEX: Profitable positions must have at least a $0.10 difference between their weighted average entry and exit prices for the profit to count.
• Edge: There must be at least a $0.10 difference between the entry and exit prices for the trade to qualify.

Trading Halts:

• Active trading is not permitted during an applicable trading halt, including symbol-specific trading pauses, market-wide circuit breakers, trading outages or when an instrument is marked untradeable.
• Executing orders on halted symbols or placing orders to open or add to halted positions is prohibited. Trades executed during a halt may be reversed or deleted.

Risk Limit

Minimum Volume Rule (The 5% Rule) — FLEX & Edge:

• The volume of any opening trades (opening or adding to a position) must not exceed 5% of the trading volume in the previous one-minute candle for that instrument.
• Multiple entries and orders on the same instrument within the same minute are aggregated for enforcement.
• Violating trades may be invalidated and could result in additional restrictions or account review.
• FLEX: If the previous minute has no trading volume, the most recent one-minute candle with volume is used.

Trading Conditions

Copy Trading:

FLEX:

• You may copy trades between a maximum of two accounts. All trades must be executed directly by the trader. The use of external or automated third-party copying tools/software is strictly prohibited.
• FLEX Day: Accounts must be paired according to the following size requirements: $5K, $25K and $50K. A $50K account can be paired only with one $25K or one $5K account.
• FLEX Swing: Eligible account sizes are $2K and $10K.
• Manual copy trading is allowed for Evaluation and Funded accounts.
• TraderEvolution's copy trading feature follows the same guidelines. However, this platform feature is permitted only on Evaluation accounts and is not allowed on Funded accounts.
• Take Profit or Stop Loss orders will not be automatically created for the follower accounts.

Edge:

• You may copy trades between a maximum of three Edge accounts, including between $50K and $100K accounts. Copying is allowed between Edge Evaluation and Edge Funded accounts.
• Copying between Edge accounts and any other account type, including FLEX Day and FLEX Swing, is not allowed.

Automated Trading (FLEX):

• Support for automated trading, including SignalStack integration, is currently in beta. Availability is not guaranteed, and additional conditions may apply to particular accounts, instruments or strategies.
• Traders are responsible for all trades conducted on their accounts, whether manually or automatically created. A rate of no more than 2 requests per minute should be targeted. Authorization may be revoked.

News Trading (FLEX):

• News trading is permitted, subject to restrictions on holding positions during scheduled earnings reports.

Inactivity Rules (FLEX):

• A 14-day inactivity rule applies during Evaluation and the Funded stage. Traders expecting to exceed the inactivity period must notify customer support in advance.

Overnight and Weekend Holding:

• FLEX Day: 10 minutes before the end of the trading day (normally 15:50 ET), all open positions and pending orders will be liquidated. New positions may be opened after market close using reduced overnight buying power.
• FLEX Swing: Overnight and weekend holding is permitted. Buying power remains the same during regular and extended trading hours.

Permitted Order Types During Extended Hours (FLEX):

• Overnight Execution Off (Nasdaq): During standard pre-market and post-market hours, only limit type orders can be executed. Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Stop Limit and Take-Profit (TP) orders are permitted. Market, Stop and Stop-Loss (SL) orders are not permitted.
• Overnight Execution On (Blue Ocean): Trade The Pool offers extended 24/5 trading via Blue Ocean on supported instruments only. Market, Stop, Stop-Loss (SL), Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Stop Limit and Take-Profit (TP) orders are permitted.

Minimum Trading Volume (FLEX Swing):

• To open a position intended to be held overnight, the stock must have an average daily trading volume of at least 500,000 shares over the previous 14 calendar days.

Earnings, Stock Splits & Dividends (FLEX):

• During earnings season, overnight positions cannot be held in a reporting company or related single-stock leveraged or inverse ETFs tracking that company.
• Positions will be automatically liquidated at 3:50 PM ET when a scheduled earnings report is due that night.
• All positions must be closed before stock splits, provided the split was announced at least one day in advance.
• All positions must be closed before the stock trades ex-dividend and may be reopened once it begins trading ex-dividend.

Shared across all programs

• Payout Frequency: Every 14 calendar days, subject to payout eligibility.

FLEX:

• Profit Split: 70%.
• Minimum Withdrawal: $300, except for $5K accounts, where the minimum is $150.
• Minimum Profitable Days: 3 profitable trading days per payout cycle, each generating at least 0.5% of buying power in profit. The days do not need to be consecutive.
• Minimum Trades: 10 trades for FLEX Day and 5 trades for FLEX Swing are required to qualify for scaling or payout requests.
• Consistency Rule: The best position cannot account for more than 50% of total valid profit.
• Payout Waiting Period: The 14-day waiting period restarts when a new scaled Funded account is created.

Edge:

• Profit Split: 80%.
• Minimum Withdrawal: $500.
• Maximum Withdrawal: $1,500 per payout for $50K accounts and $2,000 for $100K accounts.
• First Withdrawal: Requires reaching 4% profit on the Funded account.
• Subsequent Withdrawals: Require reaching 1% profit for $50K accounts and 1.5% for $100K accounts.
• Consistency Rule: A 40% consistency rule applies during the Funded stage.

Drawdown and Payout Buffer — FLEX:

• Once account equity reaches three times the Daily Loss Limit in profit, the maximum drawdown level moves to the initial account balance.
• This adjustment includes unrealized profits and occurs immediately when the threshold is reached.
• Withdrawals must leave sufficient equity above the locked drawdown level to avoid account termination.