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TradersYard Best-in-Market Plan

A two-tier futures challenge (Standard / Premium) designed against the full 163-row competitor sheet — cheaper, higher-split, and faster-paying than every firm we researched on the metrics that get marketed, while keeping the same structural risk controls every sustainable prop firm relies on to keep payout exposure bounded.

Sizes $25K – $125K Tiers Standard / Premium Benchmarked against 11 firms, 163 plans

Cheapest entry price

$55

vs. $69.99–$140 at competitors' $25K tier

Best directly-purchasable split

90 / 10

most firms gate 90% behind invite-only tiers

Fastest reward cadence

3 days

matches the fastest firms in the sheet

Payout caps

Finite, not "uncapped"

deliberately — see risk controls below

Plan Standard vs. Premium, by account size

	$125K		$100K		$50K		$25K
	Standard	Premium	Standard	Premium	Standard	Premium	Standard	Premium
Price
Price (one-time)	$219	$349	$179	$289	$99	$159	$55	$89
Rules
Profit Target	5% ($6,250)	4% ($5,000)	5% ($5,000)	4% ($4,000)	5% ($2,500)	4% ($2,000)	5% ($1,250)	4% ($1,000)
Max Drawdown (EoD) Base	4% ($5,000)	5% ($6,250)	4% ($4,000)	5% ($5,000)	4% ($2,000)	5% ($2,500)	4% ($1,000)	5% ($1,250)
Consistency	< 40%	< 50%	< 40%	< 50%	< 40%	< 50%	< 40%	< 50%
Min. Profitable Days	3 days	1 day	3 days	1 day	3 days	1 day	3 days	1 day
Reward Split	80%	90%	80%	90%	80%	90%	80%	90%
Reward Frequency	Every 7 days	Every 3 days	Every 7 days	Every 3 days	Every 7 days	Every 3 days	Every 7 days	Every 3 days
News Trading Allowed?	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Max. Contract	10 mini / 100 micro	15 mini / 150 micro	8 mini / 80 micro	12 mini / 120 micro	4 mini / 40 micro	6 mini / 60 micro	2 mini / 20 micro	3 mini / 30 micro
Payout Cap (per request)	$3,500	$7,500	$3,000	$6,000	$2,000	$4,000	$1,500	$2,500
Min Payout	$50	$25	$50	$25	$50	$25	$50	$25
Scalping Allowed <15s	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

Method What we competed on vs. what we protected — read this before shipping it

Levers we made aggressively competitive

Price — $55 at $25K undercuts every one-time-fee competitor's list price we found (cheapest researched was FundedNext Legacy at $79.99).
Reward split — 90% on Premium is directly purchasable; most competitors only offer 90%+ on an invite-only or funded-stage-only tier (Take Profit Trader PRO+, FundedNext Rapid).
Reward frequency — 3-day cadence on Premium matches the fastest payout schedules in the market (Tradeify, FundedNext Rapid).
Min. profitable days — 1 day on Premium matches the "pass in a day" firms (Apex, Bulenox) without touching drawdown discipline.
Contract size & min payout — sized to feel generous per account size while staying proportionate to drawdown, so max loss per trade stays bounded.

Levers we deliberately kept disciplined

Payout caps are finite on both tiers — no "uncapped" claim. A few competitors market uncapped payouts; that's open-ended tail risk, not a real advantage. Ours scales with size but never opens fully.
EoD drawdown that locks up — same mechanism TradersYard already runs: the floor trails to a fixed lock point and never regresses, bounding max loss per account regardless of tier.
Consistency rule on every plan — prevents a single lucky trade from qualifying an account for reward eligibility; this is the single biggest lever against adverse selection.
Scalping <15s banned on both tiers, no exceptions — this is the one axis we did not compete on. Ultra-short scalping is the most common exploit vector against prop firms (latency arbitrage, feed exploitation); every firm in the sheet restricts it in some form, and Premium pricing doesn't change that math.
Premium's looser rules are funded by price, not by removing controls — the extra fee revenue plus the same drawdown/consistency mechanics is what makes the better headline numbers sustainable.

Honest framing

"No risk" isn't literally achievable for any funded-account business — someone eventually passes and gets paid, and that's the product working as intended. What this design does is keep exposure bounded and predictable the same way every sustainable firm in the comparison sheet does: finite payout caps, a drawdown mechanism that locks rather than resets, a consistency rule, and a ban on the trading style firms lose the most money to. Everything marketed as "best in the market" here — price, split, speed, min days — is funded by those controls, not by removing them.

These are proposed figures for review, not confirmed rules — before this goes live it needs a pass from whoever owns TradersYard's actual risk/payout economics (expected pass rate × average payout at these targets, against the fee revenue at these prices) to confirm the unit economics actually hold at your real volume.