Guide
Earn2Trade rules by account size (25K to 200K): Trader Career Path and Gauntlet Mini profit goals, EOD drawdown, daily loss limit, consistency and payouts
The short answer
Earn2Trade sells two evaluations: the Trader Career Path (TCP25, TCP50, TCP100) and the single-phase Gauntlet Mini (GAU50, GAU100, GAU150, GAU200). Where sizes overlap the evaluation rules are the same: on 50K the profit goal is $3,000, the EOD Drawdown is $2,000, the Daily Loss Limit is $1,100, the Progression Ladder allows up to 6 Contracts and the Maintain Consistency rule is 30%. The 50K costs $190/mo on the Trader Career Path and $170/mo on the Gauntlet Mini. There is no minimum number of trading days, but the 30% consistency rule means at least four profitable trading days. Funded LiveSim and Live accounts drop the consistency rule and split each withdrawal 50% under $2,250 and 80% over $2,250 on 50K. Every figure is copied from earn2trade.com and the help.earn2trade.com help center as read on 15 October 2026.
Side-by-side
| Rule | 25K | 50K | 100K | 150K | 200K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluations offered | TCP25 only | TCP50 and GAU50 | TCP100 and GAU100 | GAU150 only | GAU200 only |
| Profit goal (evaluation) | $1,750 | $3,000 | $6,000 | $9,000 | $11,000 |
| EOD Drawdown (evaluation) | $1,500 | $2,000 | $3,500 | $4,500 | $6,000 |
| Daily Loss Limit (evaluation) | $550 | $1,100 | $2,200 | $3,300 | $4,400 |
| Progression Ladder (max position) | Up to 3 Contracts | Up to 6 Contracts | Up to 12 Contracts | Up to 15 Contracts | Up to 16 Contracts |
| Maintain Consistency (evaluation) | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% |
| Trader Career Path price | $150/mo | $190/mo | $350/mo | Not offered | Not offered |
| Gauntlet Mini price | Not offered | $170/mo | $315/mo | $375/mo | $550/mo |
| Reset price | Dynamic (TCP25) | Dynamic (TCP50, GAU50) | $100 (TCP100, GAU100) | $130 (GAU150) | $155 (GAU200) |
| Funded profit split (LiveSim or Live, per withdrawal) | 50% under $1,500, 80% $1,500+ (TCP25) | 50% under $2,250, 80% $2,250+ | 50% under $3,000, 80% $3,000+ | 50% under $4,000, 80% $4,000+ | 50% under $5,000, 80% $5,000+ |
| LiveSim Max Withdrawal (total before the move to Live) | $1,750 (TCP25) | $3,000 (TCP50); $5,000 (GM 50) | $6,000 (TCP100); $5,000 (GM 100) | $5,000 (GM 150) | $5,000 (GM 200) |
| Funded drawdown | $1,500 (LiveSim EOD / Live Trailing) | $2,000 (LiveSim EOD / Live Trailing) | $3,500 (LiveSim EOD / Live Trailing) | $4,500 (LiveSim EOD / Live Trailing) | $6,000 (LiveSim EOD / Live Trailing) |
FAQ
What are the Earn2Trade 50K evaluation rules?
On both the TCP50 and the GAU50 the profit goal is $3,000, the EOD Drawdown is $2,000, the Daily Loss Limit is $1,100, the Progression Ladder allows up to 6 Contracts and no single trading day can account for 30% or more of your total PnL. There is no minimum number of trading days. The TCP50 costs $190/mo and the GAU50 $170/mo.
What is the difference between the Trader Career Path and the Gauntlet Mini?
Both use the same evaluation rules at the same size. The Trader Career Path comes in 25K, 50K and 100K, includes a free reset after every monthly rebill, and has a growth plan: TCP25 traders can grow to $50,000, $100,000 and $200,000, and TCP50 or TCP100 traders up to $400,000, by hitting the profit goal at each step and withdrawing their profit share. The Gauntlet Mini comes in 50K, 100K, 150K and 200K and is a single-phase evaluation.
Does Earn2Trade use an end-of-day or trailing drawdown?
Evaluations and LiveSim accounts use End of Day Drawdown: the minimum balance rises with your end-of-day balance until it reaches the starting balance, and open equity losses still count during the day. Live accounts use Trailing Drawdown, which moves dollar for dollar during the day. The $200,000 account reached from the TCP25 and the $400,000 account use a Fixed Drawdown ($194,000 and $388,000).
How do Earn2Trade payouts work?
Funded accounts have no consistency requirement, no minimum trading days and no buffer requirement. The profit split depends on the size of each single withdrawal: on 50K it is 50% under $2,250 and 80% from $2,250. Withdrawals are processed weekly on Wednesdays, the minimum net withdrawal is $100, and LiveSim traders with non-professional CME status have a one-time $139 activation fee deducted from their first withdrawal.
Can you trade news or hold positions overnight at Earn2Trade?
You can trade during news events; there are no restrictions around economic announcements. You cannot hold positions overnight: all positions and working orders must be closed by 3:50pm CT until 5pm CT.
Where these figures come from
Per-size figures come from the earn2trade.com product pages for the Trader Career Path and the Gauntlet Mini, read with each account-size tab selected on 15 October 2026, with the site's Non-US region setting selected. Rule details, reset prices, fees and the withdrawal table come from Earn2Trade's official help center at help.earn2trade.com, which earn2trade.com links to as Help. Some help articles on drawdown and daily loss show their per-size tables as images and point back to the product pages, so we used the product pages for those figures.
Trader Career Path vs Gauntlet Mini
The Trader Career Path is marked Most Popular and comes in three versions named after their starting balance: TCP25, TCP50 and TCP100. Traders who pass get a funding offer with a growth plan, and active subscribers receive one free reset after every monthly rebill. The Gauntlet Mini is a single-phase evaluation in GAU50, GAU100, GAU150 and GAU200. Both evaluations list No Minimum Trading Days, Can Trade News, Approved Times (Trade until 15:50 CT) and Max Concurrent Accounts 5; where the sizes overlap (50K and 100K) the profit goal, EOD Drawdown, Daily Loss Limit and contract limit are the same.
Key rules on 50K
On 50K (TCP50 or GAU50) the profit goal is $3,000, the EOD Drawdown is $2,000, the Daily Loss Limit is $1,100 and the Progression Ladder allows up to 6 Contracts. The Maintain Consistency rule is 30%. The evaluation price is $190/mo for the TCP50 and $170/mo for the GAU50, before any promotion. Once funded, the 50K LiveSim or Live account keeps the $2,000 drawdown (LiveSim EOD / Live Trailing), the $1,100 Daily Loss Limit and up to 6 Contracts, and pays 50% under $2,250 and 80% over $2,250.
How the drawdown works: EOD, trailing and fixed
End of Day Drawdown applies to evaluation accounts and LiveSim accounts. It is pegged to your end-of-day balance: Earn2Trade's example is a $100,000 account with a $3,500 Maximum Drawdown, which starts with a $96,500 minimum account balance; after a day ending at $102,000 the minimum moves to $98,500, stays there after a day ending at $101,000, and moves to $99,500 after a day ending at $103,000. It stops rising once it reaches the $100,000 starting balance. Open equity losses count, so an open position that dips below the minimum account balance fails the evaluation. Trailing Drawdown applies to Live accounts and rises dollar for dollar during the trading day: in a $50,000.00 account it starts at $48,000.00 and stops at $50,000.00. Fixed Drawdown applies only to the $200,000 and $400,000 Trader Career Path funded accounts: $194,000 for traders who came from the TCP25 and $388,000 for the TCP50 or TCP100. The $200,000 account reached through the Gauntlet Mini does not use a fixed drawdown.
Daily Loss Limit
Daily loss is based on your Profit and Loss, including open and closed trades and commissions, and is calculated daily from 5:00 pm to 5:00 pm (Central Time). If your PnL ever hits the limit, even with the position still open, the evaluation fails and you need a reset to try again. Funded accounts also have a daily loss limit that must not be breached.
Maintain Consistency rule
Over the evaluation, no single trading day can account for 30% or more of your total PnL. Going over does not fail the evaluation; you keep trading until the big day is below 30% of total profits. Earn2Trade's example: with a $3,000 profit target, 30% is $900; a $1,200 day is 40% of $3,000, and 1,200 / 0.3 = 4,000, so total profit must be over $4,000. Because of this rule there is no minimum number of trading days, but a trader will need at least four profitable trading days. The rule does not apply on LiveSim or Live accounts.
Progression Ladder
The maximum position size is the total number of contracts open across all positions, and traders must self-regulate it by account balance and profit levels in real time. Exceeding the allowed contract limit is a hard fail. Up to ten micro contracts (MES, MNQ, MYM, M2K, MGC, MCL, M6B, M6E, MHG) count as only one standard contract toward this limit.
Trading hours, news and prohibited products
Trading opens with the exchange, generally 5pm CT. All positions and working orders must be closed by 3:50pm CT until 5pm CT, so no overnight positions; GF/HE/LE must be closed by 1:05pm CT, and grain contracts have extra windows. You are allowed to trade during news events, with no restrictions around economic announcements, on evaluations and funded accounts. Only futures on CME, COMEX, NYMEX and CBOT are allowed, micros included. There is no Forex trading on any Trader Career Path or Gauntlet Mini product, Bitcoin futures (BTC) do not count towards completion and are not allowed on live accounts, and Earn2Trade disallows Ether Futures; on funded accounts Forex, BTC and Ether Futures remain prohibited. Trade copiers are forbidden on funded and evaluation accounts.
Pricing, billing, resets and account limits
Subscriptions are monthly (the first rebill comes 30 days after purchase): Trader Career Path $150/mo (TCP25), $190/mo (TCP50) and $350/mo (TCP100); Gauntlet Mini $170/mo (GAU50), $315/mo (GAU100), $375/mo (GAU150) and $550/mo (GAU200), as shown on the product pages before promotions. Reset prices are dynamic for TCP25, TCP50 and GAU50 (they adjust with active promotions and are always set below the current price of a new subscription) and fixed at $100 for TCP100 and GAU100, $130 for GAU150 and $155 for GAU200. A reset does not restart your billing period. Trader Career Path subscribers also get a free reset after every monthly rebill, available only after the first rebill and lost if you cancel; the Gauntlet Mini pages do not list a free reset. You can run up to five evaluation accounts and up to 3 funded accounts at once (3 LiveSim, or 2 LiveSim and 1 Live).
Funded accounts and withdrawals
After passing, Earn2Trade forwards the results to a proprietary trading partner, such as Helios Trading Partners or Appius Trading Limited, which offers a LiveSim (simulated, real-time data) or Live account; depending on your performance the partner may decide to provide a Live account instead of a LiveSim. Funded accounts have No Monthly Subscription, No Minimum Trading Days, No Consistency Requirement and No Buffer Requirement, with Weekly Payouts. The profit split is based on the single withdrawal size, not accumulated profit; on the Trader Career Path the TCP 400 split is a Fixed 60/40 Split. LiveSim Max Withdrawal is the total you can withdraw from a LiveSim account before you are automatically moved to a Live account. Withdrawals are processed weekly on Wednesdays; requests must be emailed by 2:00 PM CT on the preceding Friday, and the minimum net withdrawal amount is $100. Withdrawal fees: Rise $50 per withdrawal for non-US customers or 1.5% for US customers, Deel $50, Bayzat $5-$40, Direct Crypto 0.735%. Rise does not support payouts for traders in Iowa, Minnesota, South Carolina, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands or Haiti. LiveSim traders with non-professional CME status pay a one-time $139 activation fee, deducted only from the first profitable withdrawal; professionals pay $140 per month per exchange. Live accounts have no activation fee listed but pay data fees of $140 per month per exchange on Rithmic or $156 on NinjaTrader. Traders also pay commissions; micro contracts range from $0.82 to $1.20 per contract per side.
Trader Career Path growth plan
You unlock larger accounts by hitting the profit goal at each step and withdrawing. On the TCP25 the steps are a $25,000 LiveSim or Live account, then Live accounts of $50,000 (Profit Goal $3,000, Trailing Drawdown $2,000), $100,000 (Profit Goal $6,000, Trailing Drawdown $3,500) and $200,000 (Profit Goal $11,000, Drawdown fixed to $194,000, Daily Loss Limit $4,400, Max Contracts 16). The TCP50 grows to $100,000, $200,000 (Trailing Drawdown $6,000) and $400,000 (Profit Goal $40,000, Drawdown fixed to $388,000, Daily Loss Limit $8,800, Max Contracts 30). The TCP100 grows to $150,000 (Profit Goal $9,000, Trailing Drawdown $4,500), $200,000 and $400,000. Only TCP50 and TCP100 traders are eligible for the $400,000 account.
Earn2Trade's own pass-rate disclosure
The product pages carry this exam disclaimer: In 2025, 8.89% of candidates passed the Trader Career Path / Gauntlet Mini examinations, based on subscriptions passed against new subscriptions. Of candidates who passed either exam or progressed in the Trader Career Path, 5.23% traded a Live account and 94.77% a LiveSim account, and 18.04% of Live accounts and 18.20% of LiveSim accounts had at least one withdrawal.
Where Earn2Trade's own pages differ
1. GAU150 price: the Gauntlet Mini page shows $375/mo for the GAU150, while the help center's package cost article lists the subscription as either $150, $170, $190, $315, $350 or $550, with no $375. 2. Minimum days: the product pages say No Minimum Trading Days, and the evaluation rules article agrees but adds that the 30% consistency rule means at least four profitable trading days. 3. Activation fee: funded cards say No Upfront Activation Fee; the fee articles explain there is a one-time $139 LiveSim activation fee for non-professionals, deducted from the first withdrawal rather than paid up front. 4. Gauntlet Mini LiveSim Max Withdrawal is $5,000 at every size, while the Trader Career Path figures are $1,750, $3,000 and $6,000. 5. $200K fixed drawdown: two help articles say the $200K and $400K Trader Career Path accounts use Fixed Drawdown, but the TCP50 and TCP100 pages show Trailing Drawdown: $6,000 at their $200,000 step; the fixed drawdown article and the TCP25 page apply the fixed $194,000 only to TCP25 traders at $200,000, and $388,000 to TCP50 or TCP100 traders at $400,000.
What this guide leaves out
Promo code discounts are listed on our Earn2Trade firm page, not here. Platform setup guides and the full commission charts (shown as images) are in the help center; the Beginner Crash Course is on earn2trade.com. Rules change; confirm on earn2trade.com before buying.
Sources
- https://www.earn2trade.com/trader-career-path
- https://www.earn2trade.com/gauntlet-mini
- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/5941958-what-are-the-evaluation-rules
- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/3849975-what-is-the-maintain-consistency-rule
- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/3395926-how-is-my-daily-loss-calculated
- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/5372687-how-does-end-of-day-drawdown-work
- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/8117088-drawdown-types
- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/3292356-what-is-a-trailing-drawdown
- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/8129235-what-is-a-fixed-drawdown
- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/3292351-what-is-the-progression-ladder-in-the-gauntlet-mini
- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/3320460-what-assets-can-i-trade
- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/3224526-are-there-any-restrictions-on-when-i-can-trade-in-my-evaluation-account
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- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/5452472-what-is-the-withdrawal-policy
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- https://help.earn2trade.com/en/articles/3313030-what-is-the-livesim
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