Lightning $150K
Instant FundingList price, before any code
Instant-funded account, no evaluation. Progressive consistency rule that starts at 20% and rises with approved payout history. No resets -- a failed account must be repurchased.
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This account has no evaluation stage to calculate — it's instant-funded, or the evaluation rules haven't been researched yet.
Trading rules
Funded
- Drawdown type
- EOD Trailing
- Drawdown basis
- Closed trades only
- Max drawdown
- $5,250
- Drawdown locks at
- Starting balance + $100
- Daily loss limit
- $3,000
- Consistency rule
- 20%
- News trading
- Allowed
- Overnight holding
- Not allowed
- Weekend holding
- Not allowed
- Standard limit
- 12
PROGRESSIVE and now fully confirmed (accounts purchased after 12 Sep 2025 8:00am EST): 20% for the first payout, 25% for the second, 30% for the third and every payout after. Existing accounts purchased before that date keep a flat 20% for all payouts. Resets to the first tier after a payout, applying to new profit only (profit goal itself also resets and does not carry over).
CORRECTED 2026-09-06: Tradeify's own "Guidelines for Traders" page states directly, "We do not have any rules against or guidelines around trading news events" -- the prior `true` value on this row was a data-entry error from the original load, contradicted by that same load's own notes ("News trading allowed at own risk"), and is now resolved with the firm's own explicit confirmation.
25K Lightning has no daily loss limit at all (explicitly stated as "None" in the source, unlike the other three sizes). Microscalping rule applies: over 50% of trades AND over 50% of profit must come from trades held longer than 10 seconds, or payout requests are blocked. Legacy accounts purchased before Sept 12, 2025 (or before the "new dashboard launch" for 150K specifically) retain looser, grandfathered position limits and, for 150K, a higher $3,750 daily loss limit and $6,000 max drawdown -- not modeled here, current-purchase figures only. Payout Profit Goal (the profit required to unlock a request, not the withdrawable amount): $9000 for payout 1, $4500 for every payout after. Maximum payout per request (a hard cap, separate from the profit goal): $3000 for payouts 1-3, $3500 for payout 4 and beyond. No minimum trading-day count -- a payout can be requested any time the profit goal and consistency rule are both met.
Lightning payout structure
How you actually get paid on this account — not just the split percentage, but when, how often, and what has to be true first. Why do these vary so much firm to firm?
You keep 90% of the profit you generate once funded. On-demand, no minimum trading-day requirement (once the consistency rule and profit objective are met)
Sim Funded accounts (Growth, Select, Lightning): 90% to trader / 10% to Tradeify. Elite Live accounts use 80/20 and are a separate program, not modeled here.
- Activation fee
- None
- Minimum payout
- $1,000
- Maximum payout
- Not researched yet
- Days before first payout
- Not researched yet
- Payout buffer
- Not required
- Max accounts per trader
- 5
- Scaling plan
- No
Not sure what a payout buffer is, or why one account pays out weekly and another monthly? Read the payout buffer explainer or the full payout structures FAQ.
No account-size scaling plan -- full position-size limit is available immediately from day one.
Hedging is prohibited, including opposing positions on correlated products and positions held across a trader's multiple accounts. Exploiting platform errors and HFT bots are also prohibited. Algorithmic trading is allowed only if the trader exclusively owns the strategy, it is not shared with other traders/firms, is not HFT, and ownership can be proven if requested.
No resets available -- if the account fails, a new one must be purchased (this is a one-shot funded account, not an evaluation). Not eligible for the 5-account bundle discount (bundles only apply to Growth 25K/50K and Select 25K/50K evaluations).
Prohibited trading practices
Every prop firm restricts these in some form. We haven't confirmed this specific firm's exact wording on each one — read the linked explainer, then check the firm's own terms before trading around it.
- What is "account flipping"?
- Can I hedge across my own multiple accounts?
- Are copy trading and EAs (bots) allowed?
- Can I copy someone else's trades, or share a signal with other traders?
- Is arbitrage trading allowed?
- Are martingale, grid, or other "guaranteed-outcome" strategies allowed?
- What if I find and use a bug, glitch, or pricing error in the firm's own platform?
- Can I use a VPN, or let someone else trade my account?
- Can a firm require me to use a stop loss?
- What counts as "gaming the simulation" or manipulation?
- Can a firm require me to hold trades for a minimum amount of time?