Earn2trade

Earn2Trade – Trading Conditions

News Trading

● News trading is allowed — no explicit ban in the T&C

● All positions & working orders must be closed by 3:50 PM CT until 5:00 PM CT — the market closure window applies daily across all accounts

● Daily PnL limit → no single trading day can exceed 30% of your total PnL over the course of the evaluation

The daily PnL limit is the most significant rule for news traders. A single exceptional news day that generates more than 30% of your total profits can disqualify the entire evaluation — regardless of how well you traded every other day. Plan accordingly.

Forbidden Trading Practices

● Employing strategies designed to take advantage of platform errors or price display delays

● Engaging in disruptive trading practices including spoofing

● Executing an unrealistic number of contracts in a single day

● Collaborating to manipulate or abuse the trading environment — including trading between connected accounts or hedging across unrelated accounts

● Utilizing software, artificial intelligence or ultra-fast data entry techniques that provide an unfair advantage

● Trading in a manner inconsistent with actual futures market practices

● Using tools or strategies that exploit platform technical flaws

● Bypassing geographical or other technical restrictions

● Trading on behalf of others or sharing incentives through any business arrangement

● Trade copiers — explicitly prohibited across all accounts, including after passing

● Progression Ladder violations — exceeding the allowed number of open futures contracts for your current ladder level

The Progression Ladder rule is unique to Earn2Trade & worth reading carefully before you start. It limits how many contracts you can have open at any time based on your current level — designed to prevent overtrading & encourage disciplined position sizing. Breach it & your account is blocked until the next trading day.

Expert Advisors

● EAs are allowed — automated trading is permitted

● EAs that exploit platform errors or manipulate the trading environment → prohibited

● Ultra-fast execution tools designed to gain unfair advantage → prohibited

● Trade copiers → explicitly prohibited, including to pass multiple accounts simultaneously

Earn2Trade is more permissive on EAs than most firms in this space. The line is drawn at exploitation & manipulation — not at automation itself.

Copy Trading

● Trade copiers prohibited — across all accounts, evaluation & funded

● Using trade copiers to pass multiple accounts simultaneously → results in receiving only one funded account, no refunds on the rest

● Trading on behalf of others → prohibited

● Coordinated trading across connected accounts → prohibited

The trade copier policy is enforced retroactively — if you're found to have used copiers to pass, you keep one account & lose the rest with no refund. Worth noting before running the same strategy across multiple evaluations simultaneously.

Account Models — Overview

Account sizes available across multiple contract levels. Full parameters & pricing available on the Earn2Trade website.

The Progression Ladder

Earn2Trade's Progression Ladder is the most distinctive feature of their evaluation — & the one most traders from forex backgrounds find unexpected.

● Contract limits increase progressively as you advance through evaluation levels

● Exceeding your current level's contract limit → immediate account block until next CME trading day

● Intentional violations → evaluation removed without refund & ineligibility for funding

It's a bit like a driving test that starts you in a car park before letting you on the motorway — the structure exists precisely because futures contracts carry real leverage & real risk, & the ladder is Earn2Trade's way of making sure you know what you're doing before you scale up.

LiveSim® — Maximum Withdrawal

● Maximum withdrawal from a LiveSim® account → $4,000 regardless of account size

● To withdraw the full $4,000 → trader must reach $5,000 profit (20% deducted by partner prop firm)

● Billing → subscription auto-renews 30 days after initial purchase

● Inactivity → LiveSim® accounts inactive for 120 days are disabled

The $4,000 withdrawal cap is the most significant limitation in the funded stage & one most traders don't notice until they're already there. It applies regardless of how much capital was allocated. If your goal is unlimited scaling, check the partner firm's terms before you start.

Subscription Model — What It Means

Unlike most prop firms that charge a one-time evaluation fee, Earn2Trade operates on a monthly subscription:

● Gauntlet Mini™ & Trader Career Path® auto-renew 30 days after purchase

● Rebilling does not reset the Gauntlet Mini™ evaluation

● Trader Career Path® subscribers receive one free reset after every rebill

● No refunds after purchase — all fees are final

The subscription model means you're paying monthly until you pass or cancel. For traders who take longer than one month to complete an evaluation, the total cost adds up in a way that a one-time fee doesn't.

Final Take

Earn2Trade is the oldest & most educationally-focused firm on this list — and the only one built specifically for futures traders. The 4.7/5 on Trustpilot across 4,790 reviews & a Hidden Rules Meter of 2.0/10 reflect a firm that does what it says, pays its traders & responds to every negative review within a week.

The subscription model, the $4,000 LiveSim® withdrawal cap & the Progression Ladder are the three things worth understanding before you commit. None of them are dealbreakers — but all three are different enough from standard prop firm structures that traders coming from forex CFD firms consistently underestimate them.

If futures trading is your market — Earn2Trade is the most established evaluation path available.

Hidden Rules Meter: 2.0/10 — Trust Score: 4.4/5 — Trustpilot: 4.7/5.