Target Filled FAQ

A futures prop firm funds an evaluation account with the firm's own capital in exchange for a share of the profits. You pay a fee to attempt a rules-based trading test — usually a profit target alongside a maximum drawdown and sometimes a daily loss limit — and a passing result earns a funded account.

Firms typically keep 10–20% of profits and absorb losses up to the drawdown limit. Well-known names in this space include Apex, Topstep, FTMO, MyFundedFutures, Bulenox, Tradeify, and TradeDay.

No firm requires proof of a track record or runs an interview — anyone can buy an evaluation and start trading immediately. That said, the rules are strict enough that traders without a tested plan, discretionary or automated, usually fail during the evaluation.

If you're new to futures, paper trading on TradingView's replay tool and reading your target firm's specific drawdown rules before spending money on an eval is worth the delay.

Availability depends on the firm and its broker, but most major futures prop firms support the standard CME/CBOT lineup: equity indices (ES, MES, NQ, MNQ, YM, RTY and their micro equivalents), metals (GC, MGC, SI), energy (CL, MCL, NG), currencies (6E, 6J, 6B), and agriculturals (ZC, ZW, ZS).

Micro contracts (MES, MNQ, MGC, MCL) matter most for smaller accounts — they're the only way to size a position without risking an outsized share of the drawdown on a single trade.

An evaluation — sometimes called a challenge or combine — is a simulated trading test run on real market data. You trade against a profit target while staying above a maximum drawdown floor, and some firms add a daily loss limit or a minimum number of trading days on top.

Passing earns a funded account, either simulated-but-payable or, at a handful of firms, real capital directly. Some firms run this as a single phase (Apex); others split it into two, like FTMO's Challenge and Verification stages. Multi-phase evaluations tend to cost less per month but take longer to clear.

It varies widely with the trader, the strategy, and the market. Many firms set a minimum number of trading days, and consistency rules punish trying to finish in one or two big sessions, so plan for several weeks rather than several days.

Very few firms impose a hard time limit on the evaluation itself, though subscription-billed firms cost more the longer it takes — Apex's one-time eval fee removes that particular time pressure.

Many firms allow it, but rules differ and change, so check your firm's current automation policy before you start. The standard pipeline is a TradingView Pine Script strategy firing an alert, an automation platform receiving that alert as a webhook, and the platform placing the order on the trading platform where the account lives.

We recommend CrossTrade for that middle step. It connects TradingView to NinjaTrader 8 and Tradovate.

CrossTrade is trade automation software. It gives you a webhook URL that accepts TradingView alerts and turns them into orders on NinjaTrader 8 (through a desktop add-on) or Tradovate (in the cloud, nothing to install). TradingView can't place an order on a futures platform by itself, so without a bridge an alert is only a notification.

You only need it if you want to automate. Every Target Filled script works on its own in TradingView. CrossTrade is the one we recommend because we built it: Target Filled is made by the team behind CrossTrade. It has a 7-day free trial, no credit card required.

A short list of key=value; pairs in the TradingView alert's message box, for example key=your-secret-key; command=place; account=sim101; instrument=ES1!; action=buy; qty=1; order_type=market; tif=day;. The alert's webhook URL is your own CrossTrade webhook.

Every Pro strategy has its CrossTrade message built in, and fills in the action and quantity on each alert, so you create one alert per strategy instead of writing a payload for every entry and exit.

The pipeline (TradingView to CrossTrade to NinjaTrader 8 or Tradovate) is the same whichever firm you trade, because CrossTrade talks to your trading platform, not to the prop firm. It works with any firm that offers one of those two platforms.

What changes firm to firm is the rule set you have to respect: a daily loss limit (Topstep, MyFundedFutures), no daily limit during the eval (Apex, Bulenox), or a consistency rule (funded Apex accounts, Tradeify's Select path). CrossTrade's Account Manager can enforce a daily loss limit, a daily profit target, and a trailing drawdown per account, which covers most of that list.

Nobody can promise that, including us. It depends on the strategy's edge and how carefully it respects the firm's specific rules. Automation removes execution error, not a bad edge.

The most common reasons an automated attempt fails are oversized positions relative to the drawdown cushion, no session filter for illiquid overnight hours, and no daily limit on a firm that requires one. All three are fixable before the eval starts, not after it fails.

15-minute and 30-minute charts are a common choice. They generate enough signals to matter while staying robust enough to avoid most lower-timeframe noise.

1–5 minute charts can work but carry more spread and slippage cost per trade; 1-hour and 4-hour charts generate few enough signals that results take a long time to judge.

Yes. CrossTrade can place a single alert on several accounts at once, and its trade copier mirrors trades across accounts on NinjaTrader or Tradovate.

Webhook alerts need a paid TradingView plan, and each account has to sit on NinjaTrader 8 or Tradovate. Check that each of your firms allows trade copying before you use it.

TradingView can't fire a new alert without a connection, but any position already open stays open at the broker. It isn't closed automatically. That's why a strategy you automate needs real stop-loss and target orders sitting at the broker, not logic that only exists in Pine Script and depends on a new alert to act.

Send the stop and target with the entry so the broker holds them, and confirm that behavior in a sim account before you run it live.

Trailing drawdown means the loss floor moves up as account equity grows, but never back down. On a 50k account with a $2,500 trailing drawdown, the floor opens at $47,500; grow to $56,000 and the floor moves to $53,500 — drop back to that level and the account is done, even though it's still up from where it started.

Most firms measure this off end-of-day balance rather than intraday highs. A few, including Apex, measure it intraday instead, which is meaningfully stricter since the floor can move mid-session on an unrealized high.

Static drawdown fixes the loss floor at account opening and never moves it, regardless of how much profit accrues. A 50k account with a $3,000 static drawdown always has a $47,000 floor — grow to $60,000 and there's still $13,000 of room before hitting it.

This is generally the more forgiving structure for an automated strategy, since the cushion between balance and floor widens with profit instead of staying fixed. FTMO, MyFundedFutures, and FundedNext all use static drawdown.

A daily loss limit caps how much an account can lose in a single session — Topstep's 50k account enforces a $1,000 cap measured from that day's highest equity point; breach it and trading halts until the next session.

You can handle it in two places. Inside the strategy, a session-scoped variable tracks the day's P&L and stops new entries past a threshold. At the account level, CrossTrade's Account Manager flattens positions and locks the account when a daily loss threshold is hit. On NinjaTrader that runs while NinjaTrader and the CrossTrade add-on are running.

A consistency rule caps how much of the total profit target a single day can contribute — it exists so a pass or a payout can't be carried by one lucky session.

Apex's EOD and Intraday Trailing Drawdown accounts cap a single day at 50% of the profit target at payout (the legacy Performance Account line uses 30%); Tradeify's Select path caps a single day at 40%. A daily profit target, set in the strategy or in CrossTrade's Account Manager, keeps most versions of this rule satisfied without watching the account by hand.

No — Apex has no daily loss limit at any account size during the evaluation, one of the more automation-friendly rules among the major firms. A script only has to respect the overall trailing threshold, not a separate per-session ceiling.

That threshold is measured intraday rather than end-of-day, though, which is stricter than Topstep's EOD-based $1,000 (50k) daily cap or FTMO's 5%-of-balance limit — no daily reset, in exchange for a floor that moves the moment equity makes a new high.

Indicators ($39/mo) is the full indicator library: trend, structure, momentum, and volume tools with alerts on every signal. It works on any market TradingView charts.

Pro ($69/mo) adds every strategy. Strategies backtest in TradingView's Strategy Tester and carry CrossTrade-ready alert messages, so you can automate them on NinjaTrader 8 or Tradovate. Both are subscriptions you can cancel anytime, with every update included.

The entry and exit logic works on any futures contract TradingView charts, since none of it depends on a firm's rulebook.

What you set per firm is the risk layer: position size relative to the drawdown cushion, and whether you need a daily limit. Set those in the strategy's inputs, enforce account-level limits with CrossTrade's Account Manager, and always check your firm's current automation rules.

No. Every script is invite-only on TradingView, so the code stays protected and you always run the current version. You change how a script behaves through its settings panel.

Access covers your own TradingView account. It doesn't cover sharing, reselling, or redistributing the scripts.

We don't publish a win rate as a promise, because a number that holds across every instrument, timeframe, and market doesn't exist. Every Pro strategy runs in TradingView's Strategy Tester, so you can backtest it on your own instrument and settings before trading it.

Backtests are hypothetical. Slippage, commissions, and live market conditions mean live results will differ.

Either. Connect a strategy's alert to CrossTrade and entries and exits place without a manual step.

If you'd rather decide each trade yourself, skip the webhook and use TradingView's normal alert notifications instead. The strategy logic doesn't change either way.

Give us your TradingView username at checkout. Access to every script in your tier is added to it the moment payment completes. TradingView shows an invite notification, and the scripts appear under Invite-only scripts in your Indicators menu.

The username is case-sensitive and isn't your email address. Nothing is emailed except the confirmation.

Your plan renews automatically each billing period until you cancel. Cancel anytime from your account, and access runs to the end of the period you've already paid for.

The scripts run on any TradingView plan. Automation needs webhook alerts, which TradingView only includes on its paid plans.

Yes. Pro includes setup guides for loading each strategy, creating its TradingView alert, and connecting it to CrossTrade on NinjaTrader 8 or Tradovate.

No. Target Filled sells tools, not trade calls, and support is by email at support@targetfilled.com.

Email support@targetfilled.com with a screenshot of the script on your chart and a description of what isn't working. We can help with the script's settings and its TradingView alert.

For questions about your CrossTrade account or its connection to NinjaTrader or Tradovate, CrossTrade's own docs and support are the fastest route.

You can cancel anytime, and access runs to the end of the period you've paid for. Payments, including partial periods, aren't refunded (see the Terms). What we do guarantee is the software: if a script won't compile, won't load on your chart, or doesn't match its description, contact support and we'll fix or rebuild it at no charge.