How to pass the Lightning Funded 50K

• Firm: Tradeify (US futures, est. June 2024)
• Program: Lightning Funded
• Account size: 50K USD
• Phase: instant / funded
• Activation fee: none
• Listed one-time price: $295.20 (regular list $492.00)
• Brokers: Rithmic, Tradovate, WealthCharts
• Platforms: NinjaTrader, Quantower, R Trader, Sierra Chart, Tradesea, TradingView, Tradovate, WealthCharts
• Payment: Apple Pay, Credit Card, Crypto, PayPal
• Payout methods: Plane, Riseworks
• Official site: https://tradeify.co

• Profit target: None — instant funded
• Max loss: $2,000 (4% of 50K)
• Max loss type: EOD Trailing
• Max contracts: 4 minis / 40 micros
• Consistency: 20% first payout, 25% second, 30% from the third onward
• Daily loss limit: do not use the DLL as a stop — slippage can still breach trailing drawdown
• News trading: allowed (no listed news restriction)
• Flatten: 4:45 PM ET Monday–Friday. Auto-flatten does not fail the account.

Program notes:

• Lightning Funded skips the evaluation. You are funded immediately and must meet payout profit goals under the 20% / 25% / 30% consistency ladder.

Firm-wide rules:

• Bots / EAs: you must be the sole owner. Do not share the strategy across other firms. HFT bots are prohibited. Tradeify may ask for a live video of you enabling the code.
• Microscalping (funded only): more than 50% of trades must be held longer than 10 seconds, and more than 50% of profit must come from those trades.
• Funded inactivity: place at least one trade per week (Monday–Friday) on each funded account or it can be marked inactive.
• Copy trading: only between accounts you own and manage.
• News, DCA, flipping, and scaling: no listed prohibition. Do not use the daily loss limit as a stop — slippage can still breach trailing drawdown.
• Hedging: minis and micros can be held together if the combined size stays inside the contract cap (10 micros = 1 mini). Opposite or correlated hedges (for example long MES and short NQ) are prohibited across all accounts you control.
• Cap: 5 simulated funded accounts per person and per household.
• Trading day: 6:00 PM ET to 5:00 PM ET the next calendar day. Flatten by 4:45 PM ET Monday–Friday. Auto-flatten at the break does not fail the account, but fills can slip.
• Restricted countries: Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Angola; Bahamas; Barbados; Belarus; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Bulgaria; Burundi; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cote d'Ivoire; Crimea (region of Ukraine); Cuba; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Ghana; Iceland; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jamaica; Kosovo; Laos; Lebanon; Liberia; Libya; Malaysia; Mauritius; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Myanmar; Nicaragua; North Korea; Pakistan; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Syria; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Uganda; Ukraine; Venezuela; Vietnam; Yemen; Zimbabwe. Verify the live list with Tradeify before signing up.
• Commissions: https://help.tradeify.co/en/articles/10468315-trading-commission-fees
• Official rule overviews: https://help.tradeify.co/en/articles/12268167-essential-trading-rules-overview and https://help.tradeify.co/en/articles/10495868-rules-hedging-correlated-products

This is an instant Lightning Funded account, not a pass/fail evaluation. Stay inside the 4 mini / 40 micro cap, respect the $2,000 EOD trailing max loss, and meet the payout profit goal before requesting a payout.

Stay inside the 4 mini / 40 micro contract cap (10 micros = 1 mini).

There is no profit target to pass. Keep any single day inside the 20% / 25% / 30% consistency ladder for the payout you are working toward.

Flatten by 4:45 PM ET each weekday. Place at least one funded trade per week. Do not hedge correlated products across accounts. On funded accounts, avoid the microscalping pattern (most trades or most profit from sub-10-second holds).

This page is educational, not the official rulebook. Verify live terms on tradeify.co before you buy or trade.

• Profit split: 90%
• Payout methods: Plane, Riseworks
• Payments typically issue within 24–48 hours after approval (up to 72 hours outside Mon–Fri 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. EST).
• Lightning Funded. First payout goal 6% of starting balance; later goals 4%. Minimum payout $1,000. First–third payout cap $2,000; fourth+ $2,500. No minimum trading days.
• Listed max payout: $2,000
• Lightning 50K: first goal 6%, then 4%. Caps $2,000 (payouts 1–3) and $2,500 (4+). Lightning typically has no resets.

• Treating a third-party listing price as Tradeify's official checkout terms.
• Using the first-payout 20% cap after you have already been paid. The cap steps to 25% then 30%.
• Using the daily loss limit as a stop.
• Hedging MES vs NQ (or any correlated pair) across accounts.
• Letting a funded account sit a week with no trade.
• Holding through the 4:45 PM ET flatten without planning for auto-close slippage.
• Restricted countries: Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Angola; Bahamas; Barbados; Belarus; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Bulgaria; Burundi; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cote d'Ivoire; Crimea (region of Ukraine); Cuba; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Ghana; Iceland; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jamaica; Kosovo; Laos; Lebanon; Liberia; Libya; Malaysia; Mauritius; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Myanmar; Nicaragua; North Korea; Pakistan; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Syria; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Uganda; Ukraine; Venezuela; Vietnam; Yemen; Zimbabwe. Verify the live list with Tradeify before signing up.

Plan trades so a normal losing day cannot consume most of the $2,000 max loss.

Use Tradeify's live profit target and drawdown, not this draft, to size risk.

This is educational, not financial advice. Verify Tradeify's live rules before you trade.