Every rule in one place
Your dashboard shows five of the rules you are being measured against. There are seven, and the two it leaves out are the ones that decide the outcome.
The Challenge Details panel on an evaluation account lists five things: the Equity Growth Target, the maximum time, the consistency requirement, the maximum total loss, and the platform.
That is an accurate summary of five rules. There are seven, and the two that do not appear are the one that ends runs unexpectedly and the one that determines whether you finish at all.
Nothing is being concealed — both are in the written rules. But the panel is where people look, and a rule you do not see is a rule you do not plan around. So here is the complete set, in one place.
The seven, on a 50,000 account
| Rule | Value | Shown on the panel |
|---|---|---|
| Equity Growth Target | $5,000 (10%) | yes |
| Maximum total loss | $3,000 (6%) | yes |
| Consistency requirement | none | yes |
| Maximum time | 30 days | yes |
| Platform | prediction markets | yes |
| Daily drawdown | $1,500 (3%) | no |
| Max Profit Per Event | $250 (0.5%) | no |
Scale the dollar figures to your account size; the percentages hold across the range.
Daily drawdown, the one that ends runs
Three percent, measured from where your equity stood at the daily reset, which happens at 5PM Eastern.
The reason this catches people is not the number, it is the interaction with how equity is calculated — which is the next section. A position moving against you during the day counts against your daily limit before you have closed anything or accepted any loss.
Everything is equity, and equity includes what you have not closed
This is the mechanic that explains most surprising outcomes on this product, so it is worth stating plainly.
There is no balance-based calculation and no concept of open versus closed profit. Every rule is measured against live equity, and live equity includes the current mark-to-market on every position you are holding.
Two consequences follow, and the second one is genuinely counterintuitive.
The commission hits your drawdown instantly. It comes out of equity when you open. The position’s own PnL display does not include it, so your account moves before the number you are watching does.
The maximum loss threshold trails your equity high-water mark, and the high-water mark never locks. On most funded-account products the trailing threshold stops moving once you reach your starting balance plus the target. Here it does not. It follows every new equity peak for the life of the evaluation — including peaks made by positions you never closed.
Which produces this, and it is not hypothetical:
Your equity peaks at $110,000 on a position that is running well. The threshold moves up behind it, to $104,000. The position reverts before you close it. Your equity comes back down through $104,000 and the account breaches — on a trade you never took off, and a gain you never realised.
If you take one thing from this page, take that. An unrealised gain is a real gain as far as the rules are concerned, and giving it back is a real loss. The practical response is to treat a large open profit as something to protect rather than something to let run, which is close to the opposite of the instinct most trading education builds.
The tradeable band
Opening orders are restricted to the range between 20 and 80 cents. Closing orders are not — you can exit outside it.
Worth knowing because the market list will quote and display buttons for contracts well outside that band, at three cents, at two, at fractions of one, with nothing marking them as un-openable. They are not tradeable to open. The band exists to keep evaluations away from the tails, where pricing is least reliable.
The other things worth knowing
Buy YES or buy NO. That is the whole instrument set. No short selling, no margin, no leverage. A directional view against a contract is expressed by buying the other side.
Markets must resolve within 60 days to be eligible. Inside a 30-day evaluation, anything approaching that limit is unlikely to be useful to you.
Thirty days of inactivity closes an account. Holding an open position counts as activity.
Withdrawals are all or nothing. When you take a payout you take the full eligible amount — no partial withdrawals — and the account is suspended from trading until the withdrawal has processed. First payout after seven days, then every seven days thereafter.
Why publish this
Because every one of these is discoverable, none of it is secret, and it is still faster to read it here than to assemble it from a rulebook, a panel and a support ticket.
We would rather you started with an accurate picture of the difficulty than found out in week three. Understanding the rules is not the same as passing — but not understanding them reliably prevents it.
Evaluations are conducted on simulated accounts. Not financial advice.