Verified rules
Drawdown · what kills you
In the Gauntlet Mini and Trader Career Path evaluations, an end-of-day trailing drawdown that adjusts at close, is breached intraday against open equity, and freezes at the starting balance (GAU50 = $2,000). Funded Live accounts switch to a continuous intraday trailing drawdown, and the largest Trader Career Path funded accounts use a FIXED minimum balance ($194,000 on the $200K, $388,000 on the $400K) that never trails.
Daily loss
A hard daily loss limit including open P&L and commissions — touching it for an instant, even without closing the position, fails the evaluation. In the Gauntlet Mini it runs $1,100 (GAU50) to $4,400 (GAU200); the Trader Career Path starts lower (e.g. $550 on the $25K).
Consistency
A 30% rule in the evaluation only: no day may be 30% or more of total PnL (it never fails you, just delays passing); funded accounts have no consistency rule.
Targets & min days
50K: $3,000 target against a $2,000 drawdown, no minimum days.
Payouts & split
Weekly Wednesday payouts from $100 minimum net; the split is set by EACH withdrawal's size against your account tier's threshold: TCP 25K–200K switch from 50/50 to 80/20 at $1,500/$2,250/$3,000/$4,000/$5,000 (TCP 400K is a fixed 60/40), and Gauntlet Mini funded accounts GM50–GM200 at $2,250/$3,000/$4,000/$5,000.
Pricing
Gauntlet Mini 50K (GAU50): $170/month on Earn2Trade's Gauntlet Mini page. Their own homepage advertises the same programme "From $68", and we do not treat that gap as settled. Earn2Trade states "No Upfront Activation Fee" — upfront is their word, and a separately reported $139 LiveSim activation deducted from your first withdrawal is consistent with it, so we do not publish this as having no activation fee. Retries come with the monthly renewal.
News trading
Earn2Trade explicitly permits trading through economic releases, with no blackout window and no excluded events. The permission is stated for the Evaluation phase and is marked as an included feature on the Evaluation, LiveSim and Live accounts alike.
Change history
Correction: Earn2Trade says "No Upfront Activation Fee" and we dropped the word carrying the meaning
Our Earn2Trade pricing summary said "Gauntlet Mini 50K (GAU50): ~$170/month, no activation." The $170 is right and it is primary, from their own Gauntlet Mini page. The "no activation" is where it goes wrong. Earn2Trade's own wording is "No Upfront Activation Fee", and upfront is the word carrying the meaning: our record also holds a second-hand $139 LiveSim activation deducted from the first withdrawal, and notes explicitly that the two statements are consistent rather than contradictory. A fee taken out of your first withdrawal is not an absent fee. Dropping one adjective turned a precise claim into a wrong one, on the field a trader is trying to budget. The price also carries an open disagreement between two Earn2Trade pages that the summary did not mention: their homepage advertises Gauntlet Mini "From $68" while the Gauntlet Mini page says "starting at $170/mo". Both are recorded with their URLs and neither is resolved, and unlike some of our firms this row has no conflict card rendering beside it, so the summary was the only place a reader would have learned of it. The summary now gives the $170 with its page, states the homepage figure beside it, and reproduces the activation wording with upfront intact. No structured value changed and the verification date did not move.
SourceEarn2Trade added the BlackArrow platform to all evaluations at no extra cost
Earn2Trade's own blog, dated 17 August 2026, announces: "BlackArrow is now available for all evaluations at no extra cost, offering smart tools, quick execution, and a highly customizable workspace across desktop and mobile." The firm describes it as "a multi-asset trading platform developed by Nelogica, Latin America's leading investment technology provider trusted by more than 2 million traders worldwide." We have added BlackArrow to Earn2Trade's platform list, which previously held Tradovate, NinjaTrader (Legacy), Rithmic, TradingView and Finamark. The announcement states no pricing or rule change, and we found none when we checked: the Gauntlet Mini 50K is still served at "starting at $170/mo", with a 30% consistency requirement, "No Minimum Trading Days", and a funded split of "50% under $2,250 / 80% over $2,250". One note on our own timing: the post was published on 17 August and we are recording it on 9 September, because it sat behind a fetch block on earlier runs and only became readable today.
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