Prop Firm Reviews
A sourced look at Earn2Trade's Trader Career Path evaluation rules, drawdown structure, its own July 2026 profit split restructuring, and the firm's own published data on how many evaluation-passers ever trade real money. Not a recommendation to use Earn2Trade.
Earn2Trade is a futures-only funded-trader program that has been operating since 2017, registered as Earn2Trade LLC in Sheridan, Wyoming. Its flagship product is the Trader Career Path (TCP), a multi-stage evaluation and funding program; it also offers a faster single-stage evaluation called Gauntlet Mini, which is not covered in detail on this page. Earn2Trade updated its evaluation rules and profit split structure on July 6, 2026, which is the main reason it's covered here now rather than earlier. This page summarizes what's publicly documented about its rules, fees, and how the program is structured. It is not a recommendation to use Earn2Trade.
| Stage | Starting Capital | Profit Goal | Drawdown | Daily Loss Limit | Max Contracts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation (TCP25) | $25,000 | $1,750 | $1,500 EOD | $550 | 3 |
| LiveSim® or Live (TCP25) | $25,000 | $1,750 | $1,500 (EOD on LiveSim®, trailing on Live) | $550 | 3 |
| Live (TCP50) | $50,000 | $3,000 | $2,000 trailing | $1,100 | 6 |
| Live (TCP100) | $100,000 | $6,000 | $3,500 trailing | $2,200 | 12 |
| Live (TCP200) | $200,000 | $11,000 | $6,000 static (floor fixed at $194,000) | $4,400 | 16 |
The TCP25 evaluation starts at $150/month. As of the July 6, 2026 rule update, Earn2Trade removed its 10-trading-day minimum, so traders can pass as soon as they hit the profit goal without a floor on how many days that takes. A Maintain Consistency rule still applies during the evaluation only: no single trading day can account for 30% or more of total net profit, which in practice requires at least 4 profitable trading days to pass. A Progression Ladder rule caps contract count relative to account size during the evaluation; exceeding it now fails the evaluation outright and requires a reset, a stricter consequence than before the July update. The drawdown type is end-of-day (EOD) during the evaluation and LiveSim® stages, then switches to a trailing drawdown once an account is funded and live, tightening the calculation the same way it does at other firms that use this two-stage drawdown structure.
Sources: earn2trade.com/trader-career-path (official program page, account sizes, profit goals, drawdown and daily-loss figures, contract limits, and starting price, fetched directly August 2026), earn2trade.com/blog/earn2trade-evaluation-rules-profit-split-update (official Earn2Trade blog post dated July 6, 2026, updated July 10, 2026, fetched directly).
Earn2Trade's profit split used to be a flat 80/20 in the trader's favor. As of evaluations purchased on or after July 6, 2026, the split now depends on how much profit is being withdrawn relative to a threshold set per account size: below the threshold, the split is 50/50; at or above it, the standard 80/20 applies to the full withdrawal. Earn2Trade states this change is not retroactive — accounts funded from evaluations purchased before July 6, 2026 keep the prior terms in effect on their purchase date.
| Starting Funded Balance | Profit Split Threshold |
|---|---|
| $25,000 | 50/50 under $1,500 · 80/20 from $1,500+ |
| $50,000 | 50/50 under $2,250 · 80/20 from $2,250+ |
| $100,000 | 50/50 under $3,000 · 80/20 from $3,000+ |
| $150,000 | 50/50 under $4,000 · 80/20 from $4,000+ |
| $200,000 | 50/50 under $5,000 · 80/20 from $5,000+ |
| $400,000 | Fixed 60/40 (not threshold-based) |
Earn2Trade's stated rationale, posted directly in response to trader pushback in the blog's own comment section, is that the $400,000 tier carries a $12,000 static (non-trailing, non-EOD) drawdown funded with the firm's own capital, and that a 60/40 split reflects the firm bearing more of that fixed-dollar risk at the largest account size. Several commenters on the announcement disagreed publicly, arguing the lower split at that tier removes the incentive to progress that far. Rules stay unchanged for what's not touched by this update: no minimum trading days, weekly withdrawals from as little as $100, no maintenance buffer requirement, no consistency rule once funded, no subscription fee while live or LiveSim®, and no restriction on trading through news events.
Sources: earn2trade.com/blog/earn2trade-evaluation-rules-profit-split-update (official Earn2Trade blog post and its own published reader comments, fetched directly August 2026).
Earn2Trade publishes an exam disclaimer directly on its Trader Career Path page with pass-rate and live-trading figures that are unusually specific for this industry. For 2025, it reports an 8.89% pass rate across Trader Career Path and Gauntlet Mini candidates, calculated as subscriptions passed against new subscriptions. Of the candidates who passed or progressed, only 5.23% went on to trade a Live (real-money) account, while 94.77% traded a LiveSim® (simulated-capital) account instead. Separately, in 2025 only 18.04% of Live accounts and 18.20% of LiveSim® accounts had at least one withdrawal. Read together, these figures show that passing an Earn2Trade evaluation mostly leads to a simulated-capital LiveSim® account rather than one funded with real money, and that even among funded accounts, roughly 4 in 5 never processed a single withdrawal in the year reported.
Source: earn2trade.com/trader-career-path, "Exam Disclaimer" section published directly on the official program page, fetched August 2026.
Earn2Trade is a longer-tenured operator in this space (since 2017) and carries a Trustpilot rating in the 4.7-out-of-5 range across roughly 3,400 to 4,900 reviews depending on the source checked. Independent coverage checked this run did not surface a documented complaint pattern comparable to the payout-denial or account-liquidation clusters found in some other firms reviewed on this site. That absence of a widely reported complaint pattern is not the same as a guarantee of a smooth experience with any individual account; it reflects what turned up in this run's search rather than an exhaustive audit of every trader dispute.
Sources: aggregated Trustpilot rating figures cited across propfirmmatch.com/futures/prop-firms/earn2trade/reviews and trustpilot.com/review/www.earn2trade.com, cross-referenced August 2026.