Take Profit Trader rules explained

The drawdown mechanic — read this twice

Take Profit Trader uses an end-of-day trailing drawdown. The limit trails your closing balance, not intraday spikes, so an unrealised runner that gives back profit does not permanently raise your stop-out level. It is meaningfully more forgiving than intraday trailing, but it still ratchets: every profitable close moves the floor up and never back down.

Whatever the model, size your risk against the buffer rather than the account size. The practical rule we use: never let a single campaign risk more than a third of the distance between current equity and the breach level.

Consistency and payout-eligibility rules

Consistency rules are where traders lose money they have already made. On Take Profit Trader the stated position is: None. That leaves the payout gate mostly to the drawdown and minimum-days requirements.

The mechanic to watch is the single-best-day percentage. Where a firm caps one day at a share of total profit, a single outsized win can push a payout out by weeks because you must grind additional smaller days to bring the ratio back inside the cap. If you scalp news or trade one high-conviction setup a week, that mechanic will hurt you far more than a slightly lower profit split.

Full rule matrix

Each flag below is read off Take Profit Trader's public rulebook and paired with the actual mechanic, because "allowed" means very different things from firm to firm.

• News trading: allowed — No news restriction — a deliberate positioning choice by TPT.
• Expert advisors / algos: conditionally allowed — Semi-automation allowed; unattended systems are not.
• Weekend holding: not permitted — Flat before the weekend.
• Overnight holding: not permitted — Intraday only.
• Copy trading: allowed — Copying across your own TPT accounts is allowed.
• No time limit: allowed — No evaluation deadline.
• Crypto pairs: conditionally allowed — CME crypto futures only.
• No consistency rule: allowed — No consistency rule — one of the reasons TPT ranks well on rule simplicity.

Rules that end accounts in practice

Beyond the headline limits, these are the clauses Take Profit Trader actually enforces.

• End-of-day trailing drawdown: The threshold trails closed end-of-day balances until the buffer clears, then stops. Intraday give-back does not permanently damage your stop-out level.
• No consistency rule: A single outsized winning day does not block a withdrawal. This is rare in futures and is the firm's strongest practical advantage.
• PRO account conversion: Passing the evaluation moves you to a funded PRO account with its own sizing rules; read the contract limits before increasing size.

Rule stability

Take Profit Trader appears 1 time in our rule-change register. None of those changes were applied retroactively to open accounts. A rulebook that moves is a rulebook you have to re-read before every payout cycle.

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