Prop Firm Rule Changes Tracker (2026)
Every verified futures prop firm rule change from 2025-2026 in one dated, sourced feed — newest first.
Tradeify 3.0: subscriptions eliminated, one-time pricing, instant funded activation
| Old | Evaluation plans billed as monthly subscriptions; funded accounts activated after passing through a separate step. |
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| New | Every plan is a one-time purchase with no recurring billing. Select and Growth prices rise up to ~3%. Funded accounts activate instantly from the dashboard. Rithmic and Tradesea platform support added, plus an integrated trading journal and the Elite Live performance reward pool. |
Impact on traders: No more subscription renewals to manage mid-evaluation. Instant activation cuts the eval-to-funded gap to minutes, so an automated strategy can resume on the funded account the same session it passes.
Source: Tradeify blog — “Tradeify 3.0 Is Here” (June 21, 2026) · Tradeify Help Center — 3.0 Program Updates
Builder plan added: 1-day pass option, 48-hour payout cadence
| Old | Plan lineup was Core, Rapid, Pro and Flex — no plan offered a first payout inside a week. |
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| New | Builder plan ($50K) documented in the official help center in June 2026: pass in as little as one day, first payout available 48 hours after your first funded trade once payout criteria are met, then a fast sim-payout cycle before transitioning to live. |
Impact on traders: Fastest documented route to a first payout at MFFU. For automated strategies the cycle is measured in days, not months — size conservatively from trade one because there is no time to grind back a drawdown.
Source: MFFU Help Center — Builder Plan: A Comprehensive Guide
Flex plan relaunched; original Flex terms retired to Legacy
| Old | “Flex Plan — The Path Forward” — the original Flex parameters, now explicitly labeled Legacy in the help center. |
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| New | Relaunched Flex at $25K and $50K sizes with end-of-day drawdown ($2,000 max loss on the $50K per the current official guide, updated May 14, 2026). |
Impact on traders: If your bot was tuned to the original Flex parameters, those only apply to grandfathered accounts. New Flex purchases follow the current guide — re-verify drawdown type and limits before redeploying automation.
Source: MFFU Help Center — Flex Plan $50,000 Guide (updated May 2026) · MFFU Help Center — Flex Plan: The Path Forward (Legacy)
Per-payout caps published for Express Funded Accounts
| Old | Higher per-payout caps on Express Funded Accounts (third-party trackers logged $5,000–$6,000 caps on new 50K/100K No-Activation-Fee Combines before late April 2026). |
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| New | Topstep's published payout policy caps each XFA payout request at 50% of account balance, up to: $50K → $2,000 Standard / $3,000 Consistency; $100K → $3,000 / $4,000; $150K → $5,000 / $6,000. Live Funded Account payouts remain uncapped. |
Impact on traders: Payout velocity on an XFA is bounded by the cap, not just by your P&L — factor it into how fast profits can be de-risked off the account. The uncapped Live Funded Account is the real target.
Apex 4.0: legacy Evaluation/PA retired, new EOD and Intraday product lines launched
| Old | Single product line: monthly-subscription Evaluation accounts and Performance Accounts (PA) under one rulebook. |
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| New | Two new product lines — EOD Trailing Drawdown and Intraday Trailing Drawdown accounts. As of March 1, 2026 the previous Evaluation and Performance Accounts are no longer available for new purchase and are designated Legacy; existing Legacy accounts continue and can renew under the old rules. |
Impact on traders: Apex now runs two separate rulebooks. An automated strategy must target the exact product type — EOD vs intraday trailing completely changes how unrealized P&L consumes your drawdown buffer during the session.
Source: Apex Help Center — Status Updates (Legacy accounts notice)
Payout consistency requirement: 30% on Legacy PA vs 50% on new accounts
| Old | Legacy Performance Accounts are governed by the 30% consistency (“windfall”) rule at payout. |
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| New | New EOD and Intraday accounts apply a 50% consistency requirement at payout time, per the official EOD Payouts documentation. The evaluation phase carries no consistency requirement. |
Impact on traders: A looser cap on new accounts: one outsized algo day is less likely to block a payout than under the legacy 30% rule — but a front-loaded equity curve still needs additional profitable days before a payout request clears.
Source: Apex Help Center — EOD Payouts (50% Consistency Requirement) · Apex Help Center — Legacy PA Payout Parameters (30% rule)
New-product payouts: 100% payout split, $500 minimum per request
| Old | Legacy PA payout parameters, including the safety net requirement (trailing drawdown amount + $100) on the first three payouts and a $500 minimum payout. |
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| New | On the new EOD accounts, approved payouts are issued at a 100% payout split — you receive 100% of the approved amount. Minimum payout stays $500 per request for all account sizes; eligibility depends on account size, type, trading activity, balance thresholds and the 50% consistency requirement. |
Impact on traders: Withdrawal planning changes more than execution: model the $500 minimum and the balance thresholds into your equity plan so the account never drops below its post-payout floor while automation keeps trading.
Source: Apex Help Center — EOD Payouts · Apex Help Center — Legacy PA Payout Parameters
Express Funded Account splits into Standard and Consistency payout paths
| Old | Single XFA payout path: 5 winning days of $150+ net P&L per payout cycle. |
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| New | Two selectable paths. Standard: 5 winning days of $150+ (non-consecutive). Consistency: 3 winning days of $150+ AND your largest single day cannot exceed 40% of total net profit; days lock in at 4:00 PM CT, and the day you request a payout does not count toward the next cycle. |
Impact on traders: Steady algos reach payouts roughly 40% faster on the Consistency path. Strategies with occasional outlier days should stay on Standard — one big day over the 40% cap delays eligibility.
Source: Topstep blog — Express Funded Account consistency path · Topstep Help Center — Payout Policy
Profit split moves to 90/10 from the first dollar
| Old | Traders received 100% of their first $10,000 in lifetime profits, then the 90/10 split applied. |
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| New | Accounts created after January 12, 2026 are on the 90/10 split from dollar one. Traders who joined before that date keep the legacy 100%-of-first-$10K treatment (confirmed in the current payout policy). |
Impact on traders: A straight ~10% haircut on early profits for new traders — adjust the breakeven math on any eval-cost-vs-payout ROI model your automation plan depends on.
Growth accounts: Daily Loss Limit no longer removed at profit thresholds
| Old | Growth accounts purchased before September 12, 2025: the Daily Loss Limit is permanently removed once balance reaches the profit threshold ($53K on a 50K account, $106K on 100K, $159K on 150K). |
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| New | Accounts purchased after September 12, 2025 keep a DLL for the life of the account — at the threshold it increases to match the max drawdown amount instead of disappearing. |
Impact on traders: Automated strategies on newer Growth accounts must enforce a daily stop forever. Do not port risk settings from an older Growth account that had its DLL removed — the same code can breach the newer account.
Source: Tradeify — Consistency Rule Guide (DLL policy by purchase date)
Core/Scale/Pro lineup replaces Starter and Expert; activation fees dropped to $0
| Old | Starter and Expert plan structure with activation fees and 3 sim-funded accounts on the $50K tier. |
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| New | Core, Scale and Pro plans go live: one evaluation format across plans, $0 activation fees, a $100K payout cap, 5 sim-funded accounts for $50K (was 3), and no DLL or consistency rule in sim-funded — per MFFU's launch announcement. |
Impact on traders: More parallel sim-funded accounts means more simultaneous copies of the same algo, and $0 activation changes the cost-per-attempt math for eval farming.
Source: MyFundedFutures — official X launch announcement (July 22, 2025)
Balance caps enforced on all Funded Accounts
| Old | No balance caps enforced on Funded Accounts (caps took effect April 28, 2025 per the official help page). |
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| New | Effective April 28, 2025: $25K account → $2,500 cap; $50K → $5,000; $100K → $10,000; $150K → $15,000; $250K → $25,000. Balance above the cap is paid out. |
Impact on traders: Profits can no longer accumulate in the account as a drawdown cushion — a funded Bulenox account trades permanently close to its cap, so your algo's risk sizing must assume thin headroom at all times.
Source: Bulenox Help — Funded Account (balance caps, effective April 28, 2025)
Mandatory transition to a single Funded Account after 3 Master payouts
Under the updated Master Account terms: after three successful Master Account payouts, and subject to risk-department review, traders transition to a Funded Account with real capital. All active Master Accounts are consolidated into a single Funded Account; declining the transition closes the Master Account with no payout issued.
Impact on traders: Multi-account copy-trading setups get collapsed into one funded account at transition. If your edge depends on running the same algo across parallel Masters, that stops at the funded stage — plan position sizing for a single account.
Source: Bulenox Help — Funded Account (transition and consolidation terms)
Daily loss limits removed on new Test and PRO accounts
| Old | Test accounts carried a daily loss limit alongside the end-of-day trailing drawdown. |
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| New | Daily loss limits removed on new Test and PRO accounts — the EOD trailing drawdown becomes the single hard loss constraint. TPT's site banner in early February 2025: “Daily Loss Limits Are Now Gone!” (archived snapshot). |
Impact on traders: One less intraday tripwire, but the EOD trailing floor still catches a bad day at settlement — keep a kill switch anyway. Automation warning: TPT's PRO Account Rules list “No Trading bots/Algos”, so this firm is a manual-trading play, not an automation target.
Source: takeprofittrader.com — archived snapshot, February 5, 2025 · TakeProfitTrader Help — PRO Account Rules
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Did Apex change its rules in 2026?
Yes. On March 1, 2026 Apex Trader Funding retired its legacy Evaluation and Performance Accounts for new purchases and launched separate EOD Trailing and Intraday Trailing product lines. New accounts use a 50% consistency requirement at payout instead of the legacy 30% rule, with a 100% payout split on approved payouts and a $500 minimum per request.
What is the Topstep consistency rule in 2026?
Topstep's Express Funded Account offers two payout paths. Standard requires 5 winning days of $150+ per payout cycle with no consistency target. Consistency requires only 3 winning days of $150+, but your largest single day cannot exceed 40% of total net profit. Days lock in at 4:00 PM CT.
Why do prop firm rule changes matter for automated trading?
Automated strategies encode rules as hard parameters: daily loss limits, trailing drawdown type, consistency caps, and contract limits. When a firm changes a rule, a bot tuned to the old rule can breach the account without any change in market behavior. Track changes here and keep guards like a daily kill switch in your script.