Tradeify rules explained

The drawdown mechanic — read this twice

Tradeify 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 Tradeify the stated position is: 20% on Advanced accounts. 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 Tradeify's public rulebook and paired with the actual mechanic, because "allowed" means very different things from firm to firm.

• News trading: allowed — No news blackout on Straight to Sim Funded or Advanced accounts.
• Expert advisors / algos: conditionally allowed — Assisted automation allowed; unattended algos are not.
• Weekend holding: not permitted — Flat before the weekend.
• Overnight holding: not permitted — Intraday only across all plans.
• Copy trading: allowed — Copying across your own Tradeify accounts is supported.
• No time limit: allowed — No deadline on the evaluation plans.
• Crypto pairs: conditionally allowed — CME crypto futures only.
• No consistency rule: conditionally allowed — 20% consistency applies on Advanced accounts; Growth plans are looser.

Rules that end accounts in practice

Beyond the headline limits, these are the clauses Tradeify actually enforces.

• End-of-day trailing drawdown: The drawdown line updates on closed end-of-day balances on the flagship plans, so intraday give-back does not permanently raise your stop-out level.
• 20% consistency rule on Advanced accounts: On Advanced plans, no single day may exceed 20% of your profit at withdrawal time. This is tighter than Apex's 30% and is the main thing that surprises new Tradeify traders.
• No activation fee once funded: The Straight to Sim Funded route has no recurring monthly charge, which changes the break-even maths compared with firms charging $80 a month per account.

Rule stability

Tradeify 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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