Funding Ticks account sizes & per-size rules
Short answer
Funding Ticks runs 4 account sizes, from 25k up to 150k, priced from $30 to $80, and up to $300k once scaling is included. The rules do not change between sizes — end-of-day trailing drawdown, 90% split and no single day > 30% of net profit apply to every tier — but the dollar buffer does, and that is what decides which size you should actually buy.
Sizes offered
4 tiers
Entry price
$45
Max allocation
$300k
Drawdown model
End-of-day trailing
The full Funding Ticks 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 end-of-day 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 — $30, 6% target = $1.5k, 4% buffer = $1k of loss room
- 50k — $45, 6% target = $3k, 4% buffer = $2k of loss room
- 100k — $65, 6% target = $6k, 4% buffer = $4k of loss room
- 150k — $80, 6% target = $9k, 4% buffer = $6k of loss room
Which Funding Ticks size is actually the best value
Cost per dollar of loss buffer is the honest comparison. 25k costs 0.030 per dollar of buffer; 50k costs 0.022 per dollar of buffer; 100k costs 0.016 per dollar of buffer; 150k costs 0.013 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.
- End-of-day trailing drawdown: The loss floor follows your closing balance each session and stops trailing once it reaches the starting balance. It does not follow intraday equity peaks, so an unrealised spike does not permanently raise your floor — an important difference from Apex's intraday model.
- 30% consistency rule: No single trading day may account for more than 30% of the net profit in a payout cycle. This is the strictest consistency clause among the cheap futures firms and it is enforced at withdrawal, not at pass. A trader who makes most of a month's profit on one CPI print will be asked to trade more days before the payout clears.
- No daily loss limit: There is no separate daily stop-out on the standard evaluation; the trailing floor is the only hard limit. That gives more room to recover a bad open, but it also removes the guardrail that stops a revenge-trading session from ending the account.
- Five winning days before withdrawal: A winning day is any session that closes green by a minimum amount set by the firm. Five of them unlock the first request; after that withdrawals are on demand within the consistency cap.
Rules that stay the same at every size
Firms rarely vary the rulebook by account size — they vary the dollar limits. On Funding Ticks the constants are the end-of-day trailing drawdown, the 90% profit split, the on-demand after 5 winning days payout window and the consistency position (no single day > 30% of net profit).
- News trading: allowed — No news restriction.
- EAs: conditionally allowed — Semi-automation allowed.
- Weekend holding: not permitted — Flat before the weekend.
- Time limit: none — No deadline on the evaluation.
FAQ
What are the Funding Ticks 25k account rules?
The 25k account carries a 6% profit target ($1.5k) and a 4% loss buffer ($1k) under Funding Ticks's end-of-day trailing drawdown. Every other rule — split, payout cycle, consistency — is identical to the larger tiers.
What is the biggest Funding Ticks account?
Allocation reaches $300k once the scaling plan is included, with the largest directly purchasable tier around 150k at $80.
Do Funding Ticks rules change with account size?
No. The percentage targets, drawdown model, profit split and payout cadence are the same at every size — only the dollar amounts scale.
Which Funding Ticks account size should a beginner buy?
The smallest size whose dollar buffer survives five consecutive normal losers at your usual position size. For most traders that is the 25k or the tier above it — pass it, take two payouts, then scale.