Rules where a firm's own pages disagree with each other. Instead of hiding it, we flag it — and don't publish a number until it's resolved. The humbler read always wins.
Why it matters: a value the firm's own pages disagree on is exactly where you can get blindsided. Affiliate sites hide it because it breaks the buy funnel. We don't.
Pricing · Are Legacy accounts still on sale
What it costs you: Both are Apex pages. The sales page is treated as current and was re-checked 2026-07-27, but the help centre still contradicts it on the live site.
Drawdown · E8 One default max drawdown
What it costs you: On a $100K One account this is $2,000 of drawdown room. Trade believing 6% when it is 4% and you breach $2,000 earlier than planned.
News trading · Is there a news rule at all?
What it costs you: The May ToS did NOT contain the clause: the rule was added between May and July and the FAQ was never updated. Worse, the ToS says the covered events are listed here and links to a page with no list at all - no FOMC, no CPI, no NFP. You cannot know which event breaks your account.
Targets & min days · Diamond Hands minimum trading days
What it costs you: Request a payout on day 6 believing it is 5, get refused, and capital stays locked another week. Both pages captured the same day.
Daily loss · What the daily limit is calculated on
What it costs you: Decides whether a floating loss counts. Under closed-balance you can sit down unclosed and think it does not count; under balance-or-equity you already broke the rule without seeing it.
Payouts · Profit-split ceiling
What it costs you: You buy on the 100% headline and the only documented path stops at 90%.
Payouts · Does the 95% reward tier exist
What it costs you: Secondary sources tie the 95% to a paid Lifetime 95% Reward add-on. Buying on the 95% headline means paying for something the help centre says the plan does not include.
Targets & min days · Stellar Lite minimum trading days
What it costs you: Hit target on day 3 believing it is 2 and the payout does not come. Both fetched the same day.
Daily loss · Instant account daily drawdown
What it costs you: The difference between having a daily limit and not having one. Believing None and trading without a brake kills the account in one session.
Drawdown · 1-Phase max drawdown
What it costs you: Four percentage points of room across the whole account. The same disagreement repeats on size ranges.
Targets & min days · Lightning plan window
What it costs you: Two days of runway on a timed target. Plan for 7 when it is 5 and you fail on the calendar, not on trading.
Payouts · Payout processing time
What it costs you: 24 hours and 48 business hours are not the same thing: requested on a Friday, the second version can mean the following Wednesday.
News trading · Are Instant accounts exempt from the news rule?
What it costs you: The FAQ is more specific, but the T&C is the document that governs a dispute. Trading the news on an instant account trusting the FAQ leaves you with no argument when they answer with the contract.
Consistency · Which evaluations the consistency rule covers
What it costs you: Decides whether on a Builder you can make all your profit in one day, or whether that blocks the payout.
Consistency · How the consistency target is computed
What it costs you: $2,200 of difference in how much must be made before withdrawing. The firm does not say which one its dashboard enforces.
Targets & min days · Fast Pass minimum days
What it costs you: It is precisely what a Fast Pass is bought for: with a 3-day minimum the product does not do what its name says.
News trading · Are there news rules?
What it costs you: The overview points to the full news trading policy - which is the very article saying there is no policy. A trader reading the overview waits for rules that do not exist, or the reverse.
Pricing · Is there an activation fee on passing
What it costs you: Probably a stale FAQ after the 2026-05 relaunch, but it is still published and still a TradeDay page. $139 per evaluation passed if that is the one that governs.
Daily loss · 150K daily loss limit
What it costs you: $750 of daily room. Purchases 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.
Pricing · Evaluation pricing
What it costs you: Recorded as VERIFIED-SECONDARY because the reviews disagree with each other. Until captured from the firm own evaluations page, no figure is published as verified.
Pricing · 200K account price
What it costs you: Affects the 200K size only; the rest of the table is verified against the app itself. Flagged, not resolved.
Trust signals · Review score and volume
What it costs you: Direct Trustpilot is live but blocks automated reads. Aggregator vs aggregator, not the firm against itself.
Trust signals · Review count
What it costs you: The 4.9 is secondary: direct reads are blocked. Without a manual capture the figure is not published as verified.
Pricing · High Stakes pricing structure
What it costs you: An X announcement is not product documentation. Recorded as secondary with the structure in conflict, pending a capture of the firm own pricing page.
Payouts · First $10,000 at 100%
What it costs you: Not Topstep against itself: a third party asserting a change the firm site does not reflect. Shown unresolved and excluded from the self-contradiction count.