Legends Trading account sizes & per-size rules

The full Legends Trading 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 — $40, 6% target = $1.5k, 4% buffer = $1k of loss room
• 50k — $60, 6% target = $3k, 4% buffer = $2k of loss room
• 100k — $85, 6% target = $6k, 4% buffer = $4k of loss room
• 150k — $100, 6% target = $9k, 4% buffer = $6k of loss room

Which Legends Trading size is actually the best value

Cost per dollar of loss buffer is the honest comparison. 25k costs 0.040 per dollar of buffer; 50k costs 0.030 per dollar of buffer; 100k costs 0.021 per dollar of buffer; 150k costs 0.017 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, no daily loss limit: The stop-out floor only recalculates at session close, and there is no separate per-day loss cap layered on top — reducing one of the most common ways traders get stopped out at cheaper futures firms.
• Consistency rule differs sharply by tier: The Apprentice path carries no consistency requirement, while the Elite path applies a consistency rule reported around 40% of profit concentration. Choose your evaluation path with that difference in mind, not just on price.
• Three-tier evaluation structure: Apprentice, Straight to Master and Elite differ in price, speed to funding and rule strictness — read the specific tier's terms rather than assuming they're interchangeable.

Rules that stay the same at every size

Firms rarely vary the rulebook by account size — they vary the dollar limits. On Legends Trading the constants are the end-of-day trailing drawdown, the 90% profit split, the twice per month payout window and the consistency position (none on apprentice, up to 40% on elite).

• News trading: allowed — No news blackout on any evaluation tier.
• EAs: conditionally allowed — TradersPost-compatible semi-automation supported; fully unattended HFT systems are not.
• Weekend holding: not permitted — Flat before the weekend.
• Time limit: none — No deadline on the evaluation tiers.

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