Elite Trader Funding vs Tradeify
Elite Trader Funding
Tradeify
Computed verdict
Tradeify costs less per unit of risk: $72.5 vs $98.5 per $1,000 of drawdown. On the overall score, Tradeify comes out ahead (58 vs 52).
The verdict is computed from verified data and recomputes when the data changes. It is not an opinion and no commercial arrangement alters it. Methodology
Rule by rule
Multiple drawdown engines by plan: 1-Step uses live intraday trailing where unrealized peaks raise the floor (the firm does not publish a lock level for it); EOD plans move the floor only at close and lock at starting balance + $100; static plans never move.
All plans use an end-of-day trailing drawdown ($1,000 to $5,250 by plan and size) that updates end-of-day but is enforced in real time. On Sim Funded accounts it locks into a fixed floor $100 above start once you profit past the drawdown amount; evaluation accounts do NOT lock.
Only the EOD plans ($1,100–$2,200) and Diamond Hands ($1,500) carry a daily limit, and it is hard: touching it, open losses included, fails the account unless you buy the TradeShield add-on.
Soft daily limit that pauses the session without failing the account. On Growth and Lightning it starts at $600 on the 25K, $1,250 on the 50K and $2,500 on the 100K; Select Daily funded accounts run lower, at $500, $1,000, $1,250 and $1,750 by size, and Select Flex and Select evaluations carry no daily limit at all. At 6% profit the limit is raised on current accounts; it is fully removed only on legacy pre-Sep-2025 accounts. Tradeify's own pages disagree on the 150K: the Growth evaluation article says “$3,750” and the Daily Loss Limit article says “$3,000”. Accounts bought before 2026-03-31 keep $3,750, so both figures can be true at once for different accounts — the Growth article does not say so. Our planning assumption, not Tradeify's statement: size a 150K to $3,000 unless you bought before that date.
Instead of classic consistency, funded payouts use the ATD system: you need 8–10 active days each earning at least MAX($200, 23% of your best day); the 1-Step keeps a classic rule whose percentage the firm doesn't publish.
Consistency only blocks payouts, never the account: 35% on funded Growth, 40% in the Select evaluation only, and a progressive 20/25/30% by payout number on Lightning.
50K: $3,000 target, $2,000 drawdown, 5-day minimum. On Diamond Hands, ETF's own pages disagree on the minimum: the plan page says 5 trading days, the homepage comparison strip says 10 — plan on 10 until ETF settles it.
50K Growth: $3,000 target, 1-day minimum, no consistency rule in the evaluation.
On Elite sim accounts you keep 100% of only the first $12,500 then 90%, with payouts processed every Wednesday and requiring 15 Active Trading Days for the first two cycles then 10 thereafter. LIVE ELITE (uncapped 80/20, $250 min) triggers at whichever comes first: 5 payouts, 50 Active Trading Days, or the $25,000 sim cap.
A 90/10 split across plans, with payouts every 5 winning days on Growth and Select Flex, daily on Select Daily, and instant on Lightning, always subject to per-payout caps. On Select the cap depends on when you bought: accounts purchased from 1 September 2026 have lower caps on Flex (down to $4,500 on the $150,000, previously $5,000) and higher ones on Daily (up to $1,750 on the $100,000, previously $1,500). Minimum $250.
50K: we publish no verified price. ETF's own April-2026 blog says 1-Step "starting at $197" and End of Day "starting at $347"; a third-party guide puts the 1-Step 50K at $165, and the live plan pages contradict both. Resets and funded-stage fees are recorded as open disagreements, so we settle neither.