TradeDay offers & pricing

TradeDay'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 90% 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. TradeDay uses a trailing limit that only settles at the end of the session, so intraday spikes you never banked do not raise your stop-out floor. There is no consistency requirement gating withdrawals on the standard product.

Discounted evaluations start around $62.50 for the smallest account under the standing 50% promotion, which is competitive with the mid-tier futures cohort though not as aggressive as Apex's deepest discounts. There is no separate activation fee cited in TradeDay's own materials for moving from a passed evaluation into a funded account.

Take the 100k account as the reference. Modelled list price is $90, or about $45 with the 50% public discount applied. At a 90% split you keep $900 of every $1,000 in simulated profit, so the offer breaks even at roughly $50 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 $135, and break-even moves to about $150 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 end-of-day 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.