Take Profit Trader

Two steps. (1) Account to wallet: for the majority of Tradovate PRO accounts this is now fully automated and “will take 5-10 seconds” with no manual review; Rithmic PRO, PRO+ and a small number of archived Tradovate PRO accounts remain manual. The trader must be flat with no open positions or working orders at the moment of the request, and the only four denial reasons published are insufficient funds, open positions or working orders, Tradovate maintenance and a Tradovate API fault — each resubmittable immediately. (2) Wallet to bank: “The Profit Team manually reviews payout requests to the wallet for compliance purposes, which takes up to 12 business hours, though usually a lot faster”. After approval, US Plaid payouts are “typically real-time, though in some cases it may take 1-2 business days depending on the bank”, while PayPal and Wise are “processed within 12 business hours”. Dashboard balances update between 8:00 PM and 9:00 PM ET, so same-day profit reaches the wallet the same evening. Withdrawals over $250 from the wallet are free; a request of $250 or less carries a $50 fee deducted automatically. A signed tax form is required before the first payout, and payouts can be blocked if the tax form data is wrong.

Three separate checks. (1) KYC identity verification is mandatory at registration, before any purchase or trading: “All new registrants at TakeProfitTrader must complete a KYC (Know Your Customer) verification before becoming fully verified customers”, usually completing within minutes, with manual review by a 24/5 team where automated screening fails. (2) A tax form must be signed before the first payout, through provider ComplyExchange — W-9 for a US resident, citizen or US-registered company and W-8BEN otherwise; “all PRO Accounts users and affiliates must complete and sign the required tax form before any withdrawal can be processed”. (3) KYB business verification, US companies only and limited to three attempts, is required to trade as a company. Bank, Wise and PayPal payout details must match the registered user or the payout is delayed for manual review or denied; LLC payouts must go through Wise or an LLC PayPal account.

“Trading window: 6 PM Eastern – 5 PM Eastern”, and “any trade opened at or after 6 PM counts toward the next trading day”. Traders are told to know the specific hours of the product they trade: “If the market for your product closes before 5 PM Eastern and you cannot exit before the deadline, the account will be liquidated.” Holiday schedules are the trader's responsibility and “missing a holiday-adjusted close time will result in account liquidation.” Prohibited-news blackout windows (one minute before, during and one minute after FOMC, NFP and CPI, plus Crude Oil Inventories and bond auctions for the affected products) apply to PRO and PRO+ on top of these hours.

“You can maintain up to five active PRO/PRO+ accounts simultaneously” — five in total across both types, not five of each — and “the limit of 5 active PRO/PRO+ accounts is per person”. Evaluations are explicitly uncapped: “Traders can have as many test accounts as they want and trade them simultaneously”. A separate throttle limits activation of passed tests to 10 within any 30 calendar days. The homepage journey table shows the same 5 funded / unlimited evaluation split.

The Terms say an unused, untraded account can be refunded within 72 hours, less a $75 technology/market-data fee. The wording does not clarify whether 72 hours is the request deadline or processing time. Cancelling an ongoing subscription is separate from a refund; Test resets do not move renewal dates.

“To keep your PRO Account active, you must trade at least one day per calendar week (Sunday–Friday)”, where a traded day is a day with at least one round trip on a permitted instrument; the identical rule is listed for PRO+ accounts. The stated purpose is that traders “do not keep capital idle or ‘squat’ on a PRO Account”, and the firm invites traders to contact support for a temporary exception. No weekly trading requirement is published for Test (evaluation) accounts, which instead run as an open-ended monthly subscription.

PRO+ is the live-market stage of the one-step journey (Test → PRO → PRO+): “PRO+ accounts are live accounts that have a $0 margin. Upon transitioning to a PRO+ account, the trader is classified as a professional trader.” It is invitation-only — “Once a trader becomes eligible for a PRO+ upgrade, an official invitation will be sent via email by the Take Profit Trader team” — and “the decision to upgrade a trader to a PRO+ account is made solely at the discretion of Take Profit Trader”. Traders showing higher-risk patterns may instead be placed on PRO+ Development, a live account with reduced contract sizing, a soft-breach daily loss limit and a smaller end-of-day drawdown.

The permitted-products list covers CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX only — “Most products traded on CME Group exchanges (CME, NYMEX, COMEX, CBOT) are permitted” — and a trader may ask live chat to review adding an instrument that is not listed. Commissions on Test and PRO accounts are set by TakeProfitTrader itself rather than a third party: $4.50 per round trip per contract on futures and $1.50 per round trip per contract on micros, identical on both account types; PRO+ accounts move to the broker's own published schedules (NinjaTrader and Tradovate). Maximum position size is a static contract count by account size (3/6/9/12/15 minis at 25K/50K/75K/100K/150K) with 10x that number on permitted micros. Tick sizes and point values are not published in the products article. The PRO+ commission article’s NinjaTrader PDF is now missing. The alternate Tradovate page shows free/monthly/lifetime per-side commissions of $1.29/$0.99/$0.59 standard and $0.39/$0.29/$0.09 micro, with exchange/clearing/NFA fees extra; TPT does not map PRO+ accounts to one of those retail tiers. Market depth is Rithmic-only: one exchange free and $15/month for each additional exchange; CQG market depth is unavailable.