Tradeify
Tradeify Eval Rules: Growth vs Select, EOD Trailing Drawdown & Automation
Tradeify built its growth around trader-friendly terms: an EOD trailing drawdown, a 90% funded split, and two distinct evaluation paths for two different trading styles. Picking the right path for a script's P&L pattern is the first decision that matters — here's the full breakdown.
Tradeify overview
Tradeify is a futures-only prop firm that scaled quickly on the strength of trader-friendly evaluation terms: an end-of-day trailing drawdown, so intraday volatility doesn't work against you, a 90% profit split on funded accounts, and two evaluation paths built for different trading styles. As of 2026, Tradeify supports both Tradovate and Rithmic, and on Tradovate, TradingView Pine Script alerts can be automated through CrossTrade.
What sets Tradeify apart from single-path firms like Apex or MyFundedFutures is that flexibility — Growth and Select carry different rule sets suited to different P&L profiles. Picking the right one for a given script is the first real decision when approaching a Tradeify evaluation.
Growth vs Select evaluation paths — full comparison
| Rule | Growth Best for algos | Select |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum trading days | 1 day | 3 days |
| Consistency rule | None | No single day > 40% of total profit |
| Daily loss limit | Soft limit (pauses trading, doesn't fail the account) | No hard daily loss limit |
| Drawdown model | EOD trailing drawdown | EOD trailing drawdown |
| Profit split (funded) | 90% | 90% |
| Best for | Variable daily P&L, strong single-day moves | Consistent daily P&L, traders who want no daily limit |
Account sizes and typical pricing
| Account | Profit Target | Max Drawdown (EOD Trailing) | Eval Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50k | $3,000 | $2,000 | $99–$149 typical |
| 100k | $6,000 | $3,000 | $179–$249 typical |
| 150k | $9,000 | $4,500 | $259–$349 typical |
Drawdown type
EOD trailing
Explicit for both the Growth and Select paths: "advances based on your closing balance at end of day — not intraday peaks."
Daily loss limit
Growth: a "soft limit" that pauses trading for the day rather than failing the account — no official $ figure published (the source page’s own recommended -$1,500 kill-switch on a 50k account is an author suggestion, not a firm rule). Select: no hard daily loss limit at all.
Sep 12, 2025 rule change: Growth accounts purchased before this date had the daily loss limit permanently removed once balance hit a profit threshold ($53K on 50K, $106K on 100K, $159K on 150K). Accounts purchased after that date keep a DLL for the account’s life, which increases to match the max-drawdown amount at that threshold instead of disappearing.
Consistency rule
Growth: none. Select: 40% cap — no single trading day may exceed 40% of the total profit target (e.g. max $1,200 on a $3,000 target).
Min trading days
1 day minimum
Growth path: 1 day. Select path: 3 days.
Payout split
90%, on both the Growth and Select paths.
Automation policy
Explicitly permitted on both evaluations and funded accounts.
EOD trailing drawdown explained — the key structural advantage
The end-of-day trailing drawdown is the same mechanism Topstep popularized, now common across the industry — and it's one of the more significant advantages a prop firm can offer an algorithmic trader. Here's the mechanic: the drawdown limit trails up based on the account's balance at the end of each trading day, not the intraday peak.
On a volatile day where the account touches $53,000 intraday before pulling back to close at $51,500, the trailing drawdown only advances based on that $51,500 closing balance — the $53,000 intraday high never counts. For a script, that means ordinary intraday noise — a position that goes against you before reversing and closing green — doesn't permanently eat into the drawdown cushion the way an intraday-trailing model would.
Growth eval — best choice for systematic strategies
Growth is the stronger default for most algorithmic traders for one reason: no consistency rule. A script can post $500 on Monday, $0 on Tuesday, $2,000 on a strong trend day Wednesday, and $500 on Thursday, hitting the target in an irregular but entirely valid pattern — nothing caps how much of the total can come from one session.
The soft daily loss limit is another algo-friendly feature. Rather than a hard limit that ends trading for the session outright, the Growth soft limit just pauses — the account isn't failed. For a script with a properly configured kill switch this is mostly academic, since the script should stop well before the firm's own limit anyway, but the pause-rather-than-fail design reduces the cost of any edge case where the two interact unexpectedly.
Select eval — the 40% consistency rule for a Pine Script
Select adds Tradeify's 40% consistency rule: no single trading day can account for more than 40% of the total profit target at evaluation completion. On a $3,000 target, that's a $1,200 ceiling for any one session.
That can be a real constraint for discretionary traders — a single strong day can easily produce $2,500 of a $3,000 target. For a systematic script, it's easier to satisfy than it sounds: 2-4 signals per session with fixed dollar risk naturally spreads P&L across multiple days without special configuration. The one edge case is an unusually strong session very early in the eval — after that, the remaining balance needs to accumulate across enough sessions that no single day exceeds 40% of the growing total.
Select also has no hard daily loss limit, which helps a strategy that occasionally has a larger drawdown day — as long as it stays inside the EOD trailing maximum, an $800-1,200 loss session doesn't automatically fail the evaluation.
How Pine Scripts work with Tradeify
The automation setup mirrors other US futures prop firms: a Pine Script strategy on a continuous-contract chart (ES1!, NQ1!, MES1!, MNQ1!) generates alerts on bar close, TradingView sends them as webhooks to CrossTrade, and CrossTrade places the order on your Tradovate account.
On Growth, the daily kill switch can be set conservatively — halting at, say, -$1,500 on a 50k account — leaving real cushion above both the soft daily limit and the EOD trailing maximum. On Select, adding a daily profit cap alongside the loss limit keeps any single session's contribution under 40% as the remaining balance accumulates across future sessions.
Automation: CrossTrade and Tradovate
Tradeify explicitly allows automation on both evaluations and funded accounts. CrossTrade connects TradingView alerts to Tradovate in the cloud, with nothing to install, and one alert can place on multiple accounts at once, which is useful for anyone running several evaluations in parallel. Its trade copier can also mirror trades across accounts.
Its Account Manager holds a max daily loss, a max daily profit, and a trailing drawdown on each account, and flattens and locks the account when one is hit. On Select, a max daily profit is one way to cap how much of the target a single session can supply.
The alert message is a short list of fields: account, instrument, action, quantity, and order type. Pro strategies have the CrossTrade alert message built in, so setup is a paste. Confirm Tradeify's current automation rules before you go live. CrossTrade offers a 7-day free trial, no credit card required. Target Filled is built by the team behind CrossTrade, the automation platform we recommend.
Which tier: Indicators vs Pro for Tradeify
Indicators ($39/mo): the full indicator library, with alerts on every signal, for traders who take Tradeify entries by hand from the chart.
Pro ($69/mo): everything in Indicators plus every strategy, backtestable in TradingView's Strategy Tester, with CrossTrade-ready alerts and setup guides for automating on Tradovate. Neither tier is tied to account size or eval path: you choose the contracts (MES or MNQ on 50k, ES or NQ on 100k and 150k), and daily limits live in your own inputs or CrossTrade's Account Manager.