How to Pass Vest Capital: A 10% Target on a 6% Floor

How to pass Vest Capital comes down to one ratio. The profit goal is 10% of the account and the maximum drawdown is 6%, fixed from the first trade. On the $5,000 Silver account that means making $500 before losing $300. There is no deadline, no minimum number of days and no published consistency rule, so nothing forces you to hurry. The 50x leverage on the order ticket is the fastest way to fail.

I read Vest's documentation on September 30, 2026. Every number below comes from its account tiers page and risk rules page. If those pages disagree with this one, they win.

Vest Capital evaluation numbers

Vest Capital is the funded program of Vest Markets, a perpetual futures platform with equity, crypto, FX and index markets. It is one step. You pay once, trade a simulated account, and a funded account of the same size is created the moment you hit the goal.

All three tiers carry the same 90% split and the same ratios. A bigger tier does not give you more room in percent terms. It gives you bigger dollars on both sides.

Two things are missing that traders from other firms expect. There is no reset: a breach closes the account for good and the next try costs the full fee again. And the fee can be refunded only within 3 days of purchase and only if you have not placed a trade.

How to pass Vest Capital: size for the floor, not the 50x

At 50x, a $5,000 Silver account can hold $250,000 of notional. A move of 0.12% against that position is $300. That is the whole drawdown, gone on a move an index can make in minutes.

So ignore the multiplier and size from the dollars you can lose.

• Silver: risk $30 a trade. Ten losers in a row before the floor.
• Gold: risk $60 a trade. Same ten.
• Platinum: risk $150 a trade. Same ten.

Then work out the position from the stop. A $30 risk with a stop 0.25% away is $12,000 of notional, about 2.4x on Silver. A 0.5% stop halves that to $6,000. If the ticket shows anything near 20x, the stop has to be so tight that ordinary noise takes it out.

With $30 risk and a 2-to-1 target, each winner is $60. Fourteen winners and eleven losers is $840 minus $330, which is $510 and a pass. Flip it to ten winners and fifteen losers and you are still up $150, not closed. That is what small size buys: a bad month that costs time, not the account.

What does one trade cost in fees and funding?

The evaluation runs on the same markets and pricing as the live platform, so I am assuming the published fee table applies. Check the market page before you trade, because each one shows its own fee.

Read the last row again. A weekend FX round trip at that size costs $60 in fees against a $30 risk. An overnight equity trade pays $12 in and out, which is 40% of the risk before price moves.

Funding is the other cost. Vest's docs give an example rate of 0.01% an hour. On $12,000 that is $1.20 an hour, close to $29 if you hold a full day. Funding premiums are not charged over the weekend.

My rule for the evaluation: trade the no-fee sessions, and close before funding becomes a real share of the risk.

How the daily loss limit and the 8:00 PM ET snapshot work

The daily loss limit is 4% of the account balance, plus 50% of any unrealized profit. The balance is snapshotted at 8:00 PM ET (00:00 UTC during daylight time) and the limit resets then.

On Silver that is $200 at the start. With an open trade showing $200 of profit, the formula gives $300. Unrealized losses do not shrink it. Plan around the $200.

Two practical points.

1. The daily limit is two thirds of the whole drawdown. One maximum-loss day leaves $100 of room. Two losing trades at $30 should end your day at minus $60, not minus $200.
2. Balance means collateral plus realized profit. Bank $300 and the next day's limit is 4% of $5,300, which is $212. It grows slowly. The floor does not grow at all.

If the term is new to you, our explainer on dll trading covers how daily limits work across firms.

A worked Silver pass

• Market: one index or one large-cap equity, regular hours only.
• Risk: $30 a trade, stop placed on the chart first, size calculated second.
• Day stop: two losses, or plus $120.
• Week 1 goal: reach plus $150 so the floor is $450 away.
• After plus $300: risk can go to $45. Never more than one tenth of the distance to the floor.
• No positions through earnings. A gap that carries equity to $4,700 closes the account with no appeal.

Expect three to six weeks. With no time limit, slow is the cheap way. Most failed evaluations come from execution, which is the subject of why traders fail prop firm evaluations.

After the pass: the floor does not move

The funded account starts at the same size with the same two rules. There is no profit goal and withdrawals are on demand, processed within 24 hours, paid in USDC.

The floor stays at $4,700 on Silver. The docs do not say how a withdrawal changes the balance. Assume profit you take out no longer protects you, and leave a cushion: withdraw half, keep half above the starting balance. The full mechanics are in our Vest Capital rules breakdown, and the background on the company is in the Vest Capital review.

Copy-paste playbook

FIRM: Vest Capital (Vest Markets)
ACCOUNT: Silver $5,000 (Gold x2, Platinum x5)
GOAL: $500
FLOOR: $4,700, fixed, equity based
DAILY LOSS: 4% of balance + 50% of unrealized profit, resets 8:00 PM ET
TIME LIMIT: none

SIZE
- Risk $30 a trade. Stop first, size second.
- Stay under 5x notional. 50x is a way to fail in one candle.
- After +$300: risk up to $45.

DAY
- Two losses or +$120, then done.
- No-fee sessions only. No weekend FX. No overnight equity.
- Flat before earnings.

FUNDED
- Same floor, same daily limit.
- Withdraw half, leave half as cushion.

Start the 3-day trial and run it on the chart you already have open.

Related reading

• How to pass a prop firm challenge
• How to pass Topstep
• Vest Capital rules
• Vest Capital review

Nothing here is financial advice. Vest's live documentation wins if it disagrees with this page. Passing the evaluation does not guarantee funded payouts.