Bulenox account sizes & per-size rules

The full Bulenox size ladder

Prop pricing scales sub-linearly with account size — roughly the square root of the size ratio — so the biggest account is almost never the best value per dollar of usable buffer. Each line below shows the modelled list price, the first-phase profit target and the loss buffer expressed as a percentage of the account.

Read the buffer column first. On a trailing drawdown, the dollar buffer is the only number that limits your position size; the account label is marketing. A trader risking 1% per trade on the 150k account is taking the same dollar risk as one risking 6× that percentage on the smallest.

• 25k — $35 ($4 with the public code), 6% target = $1.5k, 4% buffer = $1k of loss room
• 50k — $50 ($5 with the public code), 6% target = $3k, 4% buffer = $2k of loss room
• 100k — $70 ($7 with the public code), 6% target = $6k, 4% buffer = $4k of loss room
• 150k — $85 ($9 with the public code), 6% target = $9k, 4% buffer = $6k of loss room

Which Bulenox size is actually the best value

Cost per dollar of loss buffer is the honest comparison. 25k costs 0.035 per dollar of buffer; 50k costs 0.025 per dollar of buffer; 100k costs 0.018 per dollar of buffer; 150k costs 0.014 per dollar of buffer. The cheapest ratio is where the firm is subsidising you the most, and it is usually a mid tier rather than the flagship.

The second filter is your own stop distance. Work out the worst-case dollar loss of a normal trade at your usual size, multiply by five consecutive losers, and buy the smallest account whose buffer absorbs that without breaching. Buying above that point is paying for headroom you will never trade into; buying below it guarantees a reset fee.

What the 25k and 50k tiers mean in practice

The small tiers are where most traders start and where most resets happen, because the dollar buffer is small enough that a single mis-sized position ends the account. On a futures account, one ES contract moves roughly $50 per point — on a 25k account with a few thousand dollars of buffer, a 20-point adverse move on two contracts is most of your room. Micros exist precisely for this tier.

The larger tiers change the psychology more than the maths. Same rules, same percentage targets, bigger dollar swings — which is why traders who pass consistently on a small account often breach the first week on a large one. Scale the account only after you have taken at least two payouts at the size below.

• 100% of first $10,000, then 90/10 split: The first $10,000 in funded-account profit is paid in full before the standard 90% trader / 10% firm split applies — a materially better early-payout structure than most rivals.
• Choice of intraday or end-of-day drawdown: Selected at signup, this determines whether your stop-out level trails your equity tick by tick or only recalculates at session close — pick end-of-day if you want the more forgiving mechanic.
• No minimum trading days on the Qualification stage: Once the profit target is hit and at least one trading day has been logged, the account can move to the Master (funded) stage without waiting out a fixed calendar period.

Rules that stay the same at every size

Firms rarely vary the rulebook by account size — they vary the dollar limits. On Bulenox the constants are the intraday trailing drawdown, the 100% profit split, the weekly, processed wednesdays payout window and the consistency position (none on qualification, plan-dependent on master).

• News trading: allowed — No news restriction on Qualification or Master accounts.
• EAs: conditionally allowed — Assisted automation allowed; fully unattended high-frequency systems are not.
• Weekend holding: not permitted — Positions must be flat before the weekend.
• Time limit: none — No minimum trading days to reach the Master (funded) stage.

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