By Elena Marchetti · Checked 6 October 2026
Every Take Profit Trader funded account starts as PRO. PRO+ is an optional upgrade, not a separate tier you choose at signup — and the choice between staying on PRO or moving to PRO+ changes the drawdown, the profit split, the buffer requirement, and whether your orders ever touch a live exchange. This page sets the two funded account states side by side, including a mechanic the marketing pages don’t mention.
How Take Profit Trader pays traders: PRO account rules vs PRO+
Coverage of this prop firm, including this site’s own review and payout schedule, keeps coming back to one thing: funded traders get paid from day one, in both PRO and PRO+. The pro account rules and PRO+ trading rules differ on drawdown, split and buffer; the day-one payout promise does not. Among futures prop firms generally, that combination — real payout speed with no minimum trading days — is what Take Profit Trader (takeprofittrader.com, sometimes shortened to TPT) leads with.
PRO vs PRO+ payout, drawdown, buffer and profit split: the funded account differences
| Feature | PRO | PRO+ |
|---|---|---|
| Environment | Simulated (SIM) | Live, via Tradovate |
| Profit split | 80/20 | 90/10 |
| Drawdown type | Intraday trailing | End of day trailing |
| Buffer requirement | Yes | None |
| Daily payouts | Day one, no window | Day one, no window |
| Max withdrawal | None | None |
| Consistency rule | None | None |
| News rule | Yes | Yes |
| Scaling plan | None | None |
| Commissions | $4.50/$1.50 round-turn | Tradovate’s own broker rates |
A PRO account is a pro funded account in every financial sense — the firm pays traders real money on simulated profits — but the orders themselves stay inside Rithmic’s or Tradovate’s simulated environment, governed by the same drawdown rules and trading rules as any evaluation account at a futures prop firm. PRO+ is the one state where an order actually reaches the exchange, on live Tradovate Pro accounts rather than simulated ones. Max drawdown, daily drawdown and intraday trailing drawdown are all different names traders use for pieces of the same mechanic — what matters here is that PRO tracks it intraday and PRO+ tracks it end-of-day only.
Why a trader at this prop firm (TPT) would choose PRO+ over staying on PRO
The 90/10 split and the removed buffer requirement are the headline upgrades: more of each dollar earned reaches the trader, and the full account balance is withdrawable without clearing a buffer first. The drawdown also changes in PRO+’s favor for most trading styles — end-of-day trailing drawdown only moves once per day, rather than tracking every tick intraday the way PRO’s does.
The trade-off is exposure to CME Rule 575, which governs disruptive trading practices on live exchange-routed orders. Take Profit Trader states this applies specifically because PRO+ is a live account: “Because PRO+ is a live account, we are strictly bound by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) regulatory standards… Our compliance systems must enforce these exchange rules strictly to protect both the firm and our traders from regulatory fines.” A detailed Trustpilot complaint described receiving two compliance warnings for fast manual scalping on a single micro contract after a PRO+ promotion, with the second warning citing possible account closure. That specific account termination claim is the reviewer’s own account, not separately confirmed by the firm’s reply quoted above — which addressed the compliance rationale but not the closure threshold directly. Take this as a real risk to weigh for an active scalping style, not a settled fact about how often it happens. It’s worth noting as a category fact: futures trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every personal account or every trading strategy, regardless of which prop firm is funding it — the same risk rules apply whether Take Profit Trader pays out from PRO or PRO+. This is prop trading on a simulated evaluation first; the account only reaches a funded stage, and a balance above the buffer becomes freely withdrawable, after that evaluation is passed.
The pro funded account profit mechanic the marketing pages don’t mention
Promotion from PRO to PRO+ isn’t purely additive. Per Take Profit Trader’s own reply to the complaint above: “The $5,000 transferred acts as a necessary safety margin for live trading… Any PRO profits earned above that $5,000 threshold were fully available for you to withdraw prior to the transition.” Read plainly: Take Profit Trader holds a safety-margin amount from existing PRO profits as collateral for the new live account, while any balance above that margin remains withdrawable before the move happens — profits above the buffer, and profitable days banked before the transition, stay yours either way. A trader who wants to bank PRO profits in full before any PRO+ transition should withdraw first, rather than assume an automatic promotion leaves everything untouched. This is a funded-stage mechanic specific to the PRO-to-PRO+ move, not a general rule about funded futures accounts.
Worked example: a $50K account from Test to PRO+
Take a $50K starting balance account. In Test, the trailing drawdown tracks end-of-day and the profit target is $3,000; the old daily loss limit of $1,100 is now removed, so the EOD trailing figure is the one drawdown rule that matters. Reset up to 3 times if the trading day doesn’t go to plan — a pro reset doesn’t forfeit a NOFEE40 discount already applied. Pass, and the account funds into PRO: drawdown switches to intraday trailing, 80/20 split, buffer requirement in place, first payout available from day one. Choose to upgrade to PRO+ later, and the drawdown switches to an end-of-day trailing figure that moves once a day rather than tick by tick, the buffer zone disappears, and the split moves to 90/10 — on a live Tradovate Pro account rather than a simulated one. This is the same sequence at every account size; only the dollar figures in the pricing table change. The eval itself has no minimum trading days requirement beyond reaching the profit target, which is a meaningful difference from funded futures programs that impose payout windows and a longer minimum before a first request — Take Profit Trader’s payout speed, processed within roughly one business day per its own FAQ, is the comparison point profitable traders usually ask about first.
Risk disclosure: what this prop firm states about simulated results
Take Profit Trader publishes its own pass-rate and risk disclaimers alongside its payout claims, and they’re worth reading in full, not skipped:
“Futures, foreign currency, and options trading contain substantial risk and is not suitable for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment… Hypothetical or Simulated performance results have certain limitations, unlike an actual performance record, simulated results do not represent actual trading… No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown.”
This is Take Profit Trader’s own trading test disclaimer, quoted directly, not paraphrased. None of this page is financial advice, and some links on it may earn a commission if you sign up through them — see About for the full disclosure.
Account size, promo code and account closure risk: does PRO vs PRO+ change the cost?
No. The choice between PRO and PRO+ is a trading-conditions decision, not a pricing one — profit split, drawdown type and buffer requirement all change, but neither the monthly Test subscription (which stops at PRO either way) nor the one-time $130 activation fee depends on which funded state you later choose. The NOFEE40 promo code’s terms, covered on the homepage, apply the same way regardless of account size or eventual PRO+ decision. Full account-size pricing is listed by tier; payout mechanics in more depth are covered on the day-one withdrawal mechanics page.
Live account, daily payouts and payout proof: frequently asked questions
Is PRO+ mandatory once I’m funded?
Take Profit Trader describes PRO+ as an optional upgrade, and staying on PRO — 80/20 split, buffer requirement, no live-exchange routing or CME Rule 575 exposure — is a valid choice. But one Trustpilot reviewer reported being moved to PRO+ automatically within two weeks of hitting the profit target, and the firm’s reply to that review addressed the safety margin without saying whether the promotion was automatic. This site cannot confirm which applies to a given account, so withdraw PRO profits before you expect any transition.
Does PRO+ pay out faster than PRO?
No — both pay from day one with no payout window. What differs is the split (80/20 vs 90/10) and the buffer requirement (removed in PRO+), not the speed of a payout once requested.
What counts as payout proof for Take Profit Trader?
No formal “proof” program was found on the firm’s own site as of this check. Its 10,810 Trustpilot reviews at 4.4/5, with an AI-generated summary citing frequent daily payouts as a theme, function as the closest public record, alongside the firm’s own disclosed 36.22% 2025 pass rate — see the trust-signal breakdown.
Can I go back from PRO+ to PRO?
Not confirmed on the firm’s own pages reviewed for this site — not stated as possible or impossible here.
Independence: the PRO+ transition mechanic above is quoted directly from Take Profit Trader’s own public reply, not inferred. See About for the full disclosure.