Elite Trader Funding offers & pricing

Elite Trader Funding's public offer is an evaluation product, not a deposit account. The fee buys access to a simulated account with a defined profit target and loss limit; clearing it converts you to a funded account paying up to 100% of simulated profit. The offer is a single-phase evaluation. You clear one profit target inside the loss buffer, then move to a funded account — no verification phase, no second fee.

Drawdown is the term that decides whether the offer is good value for your style. Elite Trader Funding uses a trailing limit that follows your intraday equity high, so unrealised profit permanently raises your stop-out floor even if you give it back. A consistency requirement applies: plan-dependent — static and eod plans differ.

Entry around $75, but this is the firm where total cost of ownership diverges most from sticker price. The recurring funded-account fee means an account that trades flat for three months costs you real money.

Take the 100k account as the reference. Modelled list price is $105. At a 100% split you keep $1000 of every $1,000 in simulated profit, so the offer breaks even at roughly $105 of gross profit on the funded account — before you have earned anything.

Multiply that by your realistic pass rate. If you expect to clear the evaluation one time in three, the true cost of a funded 100k account is closer to $315, and break-even moves to about $315 in gross profit. That number, not the discount percentage, is the one to compare across firms.

The offer is only good value if you can survive the drawdown mechanic. On intraday trailing drawdown, the practical buffer on a 100k account is around 4% — treat that as your maximum campaign risk, not the number you trade up to.