Verified rules
Drawdown · what kills you
Trailing drawdown of $2,000 (50K) / $3,000 (100K) / $4,500 (150K), freezing at the starting balance, breached intraday. The intraday-vs-end-of-day method is chosen per account at purchase — Quick Pay is available as either, Fast Pass is EOD-only.
Daily loss
No daily loss limit was found anywhere on the firm's pages — the only loss mechanism is the trailing drawdown — but the absence is not explicitly confirmed.
Consistency
Consistency applies only in the evaluation: no day may exceed 30% (Quick Pay) or 45% (Fast Pass) of total profits to pass; no funded-stage rule was found.
Targets & min days
50K: $3,000 target, $2,000 drawdown, 5-day minimum. Fast Pass: TradeDay's pricing cards say a 3-day minimum; its how-it-works page and rules FAQ say there is none. Plan on 3.
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.
Payouts & split
On-demand payouts processed within 24 business hours, from day one on Quick Pay (minimum $250), at a 50/50 split below $4,000 net profit, 80/20 above it, and 90/10 on Funded Live.
Pricing
50K Quick Pay (intraday): monthly subscription ~$125/month (sometimes 50% off), no activation. $60 reset.
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.
News trading
TradeDay bans trading tier 1 data releases and enforces it mechanically: the platform auto-liquidates all open positions 2 minutes before each tier 1 release and reopens the market 2 minutes after. Named events are FOMC minutes and rate decision, US CPI, US employment/NFP, crude oil and natural gas inventories, and crop production reports. An accidental breach does not fail you, but profits made trading tier 1 releases are forfeited on payout.
Platforms
Change history
Correction: our TradeDay summary did not mention that TradeDay's own pages disagree on the Fast Pass minimum
TradeDay's pricing cards give the Fast Pass a 3-day minimum; its how-it-works page and rules FAQ say there is none. Our record has logged that since 2026-07-23 and the conflict card renders, but the summary beside it described only the 50K and never mentioned the Fast Pass. A minimum is exactly what a Fast Pass is bought to avoid. The summary now states both positions and says to plan on 3 days. No rule value changed. Neither page was re-read today: this run had no network access to any firm page.
SourceThe two different prices we saw on TradeDay yesterday were not a page fault: they are three different 50K products, all live at once under code TDNEW
Yesterday we recorded that two reads of TradeDay's homepage gave different price ladders for what looked like the same product, and for that reason we left the row alone and did not move its date. Today, with three reads that agree, the explanation turns out to be different and simpler: there is no instability, there are three distinct 50K products served in the same table. Quick Pay - Intraday lists at $131 and comes to $59 a month; Quick Pay - End of Day lists at $175 and comes to $79 a month; Fast Pass - End of Day lists at $189 and comes to $85 a month. All three carry "55% OFF" and the same code, USE CODE "TDNEW", and all three are offered on both Tradovate and Rithmic. All three state a $2,000 maximum drawdown, the difference being that on Quick Pay - Intraday it is calculated "Intraday" and on the other two "End of Day". The row we track is Quick Pay - Intraday, $131 → $59, and it is confirmed exactly as it stood. The $175 → $79 Quick Pay - End of Day is a product we did not have covered.
SourceTradeDay introduces a $25K account at $45 — its lowest-priced account ever, with no activation fee
TradeDay's own blog (September 1) introduces a $25K account at $45, described as "The Lowest-Cost TradeDay Account Ever", with "No activation fee", "No minimum trading days once funded" and "No buffer to clear before your first payout", available in QuickPay and Fast Pass variants. Our tracked Quick Pay 50K row is unaffected.
SourceVerifondeo verdict
A score computed from four verified inputs — not an opinion. Weights are shown and it recomputes when the data changes.
Head to head
This firm against every same-market rival, rule by rule, with each one's true cost.