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, which makes it fully compatible with TradingView Pine Script automation through TradersPost webhooks.
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 TradersPost, and TradersPost routes the order to a Tradovate or Rithmic 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 — TradersPost + Tradovate/Rithmic
Tradeify explicitly allows automation on both evaluations and funded accounts. TradersPost is the standard middleware between TradingView alerts and a broker account, supporting both Tradovate and Rithmic, and it can route one TradingView alert to multiple Tradeify accounts at once — useful for anyone running several evaluations in parallel.
The alert payload is a simple JSON string specifying action, ticker, quantity, and order type — the Pro plan ships pre-formatted TradersPost payloads for Tradeify's broker connections, which removes most of the setup friction that trips up new algo traders in week one.
Which plan — Starter vs Pro for Tradeify
Starter plan ($19/mo): best for 50k Growth or Select evaluations on MES or MNQ micro contracts (1-2 contracts). Includes the core strategy, bar-close entry, fixed dollar stop, an RTH session filter, and a configurable daily loss kill switch.
Pro plan ($29/mo): recommended for 100k and 150k accounts trading full-size ES or NQ, or for traders running multiple 50k accounts at once. Adds multi-contract scaling, a configurable daily profit cap (needed for Select-path consistency management), and TradersPost payloads formatted for multi-account routing.