Earn2Trade account sizes & per-size rules

The full Earn2Trade 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 — $105, 6% target = $1.5k, 4% buffer = $1k of loss room
• 50k — $150, 6% target = $3k, 4% buffer = $2k of loss room
• 100k — $210, 6% target = $6k, 4% buffer = $4k of loss room
• 150k — $260, 6% target = $9k, 4% buffer = $6k of loss room

Which Earn2Trade size is actually the best value

Cost per dollar of loss buffer is the honest comparison. 25k costs 0.105 per dollar of buffer; 50k costs 0.075 per dollar of buffer; 100k costs 0.052 per dollar of buffer; 150k costs 0.043 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.

• Trader Career Path progression: Instead of one evaluation, traders move through Gauntlet stages that reward consistent performance with account growth. The 'Progression Ladder' rule determines how account size scales — it is the mechanic to understand before you start, not the profit target alone.
• No minimum trading days (2026 update): As of the July 2026 update, purchases no longer require a minimum number of trading days to complete the evaluation, letting disciplined traders finish faster than under the old rule set.
• Trailing drawdown: The maximum loss trails account equity in the standard futures pattern, so banked profit does not create as much permanent cushion as it would under a static model.

Rules that stay the same at every size

Firms rarely vary the rulebook by account size — they vary the dollar limits. On Earn2Trade the constants are the intraday trailing drawdown, the 80% profit split, the bi-weekly payout window and the consistency position (progression ladder rule gates account growth, not just payout).

• News trading: allowed — No news blackout on the Trader Career Path.
• EAs: conditionally allowed — Semi-automated and ATM-assisted strategies allowed; fully unattended algos are restricted.
• Weekend holding: not permitted — Flat before the weekend on futures accounts.
• Time limit: none — The July 2026 update removed the minimum trading-days requirement, speeding up completion.

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