Take Profit Trader review

The most expensive parameter at Take Profit Trader is not obvious on the purchase page: the drawdown is not calculated the same way depending on which storey you are on. The Test and PRO+ accounts run on end-of-day trailing, PRO accounts on intraday trailing. The regime changes at the precise moment a trader has just passed their evaluation and believes they are in the clear.

Take Profit Trader: a 2021 company, a founder who did not come from nowhere

Take Profit Trader was created in December 2021 in Florida, under the entity TakeProfitTrader LLC, with a head office in Orlando. Its founder, James Sixsmith, a former professional hockey player, had already built Trade Context in 2015. A name, an address, a track record: that is not the norm in this sector.

Our trust pillar scores it 83 out of 100, high in our database without matching the market’s veterans. Trustpilot shows 4.3 across 10,407 reviews, 12% of them one star — a dissatisfied minority too large to dismiss. The firm also publishes its pass rate, 36.22% of Tests passed in 2025. Few competitors disclose that figure, and it puts the proportions back in place: roughly one candidate in three clears the first step.

Three storeys at Take Profit Trader, and a bill that reassembles at each tier

The Test is a simulated evaluation in a single phase, sold as a monthly subscription: $150 for the $25,000 account, $170 for the $50,000, $245 for the $75,000, $330 for the $100,000 and $360 for the $150,000. The profit target is uniform, 6% of capital, that is $1,500 to $9,000 depending on size. Three minimum trading days since August 2026 — the firm required five before — and no time limit.

That absence of a deadline is not free: the subscription renews every month until the Test is passed. Taking your time is allowed, but billed.

Moving to a PRO account triggers a one-off activation fee of $130. It is at that tier that withdrawals become possible, from the first day, with an 80% profit split. The higher level, PRO+, executes on the live market with a 90% split and is obtained by invitation: it is not for sale.

Evaluation fees are not refunded at the first payout. The entry cost is permanently committed, unlike firms that refund the challenge on success.

Take Profit Trader’s consistency rule does not kill the account

The 50% consistency constraint applies only to the Test, and it is gentler than average: exceeding it does not fail the account, it recalculates the profit target, then set at twice the net P/L. Making most of your gain in a single session therefore does not eliminate you. That is one of the reasons our rule-fairness pillar comes out at 83 out of 100: no time limit, no eliminating consistency rule, and since January 2025 no daily loss limit at all.

Why the big Take Profit Trader account is the hardest

The maximum drawdown does not follow account size proportionally. It is $1,500 on the $25,000, $2,000 on the $50,000, $2,500 on the $75,000, $3,000 on the $100,000 and $4,500 on the $150,000. Relative to capital, that is 6% on the smallest size, but only 3% on the largest.

The target, meanwhile, stays at 6% whatever the size. The consequence is mechanical: on the $25,000 account, you have exactly as much loss room as gain to produce, $1,500 against $1,500. On the $150,000, you have to reach $9,000 with $4,500 of room — half the space for an identical percentage target.

Buying the largest size because it will earn more is therefore counter-productive: the $25,000 is the most forgiving account in the range, and the cheapest.

Take Profit Trader: a double-edged daily freedom

Removing the daily loss limit in January 2025, across all account sizes, is a genuine relaxation: no session ends in elimination because a daily threshold was touched. Only the maximum drawdown frames the risk.

The flip side is that no circuit-breaker is left. A single badly started day can consume the entire envelope — $1,500 on the small account, $4,500 on the large one — with no rule stopping you before the breach. For an already disciplined profile, that is a clear advantage. For a trader trying to win back a loss, it is the opposite of protection.

On PRO accounts, that drawdown is calculated on intraday trailing: the floor follows the equity high during the session, unrealised included. A position that rises then returns to its starting point has consumed room without earning anything. That is the switch mentioned at the outset, and it concerns neither the Test nor the PRO+ accounts, which remain on end-of-day trailing.

Cashing out fast at Take Profit Trader, but breaking expensively

Withdrawal terms are the real commercial argument: the first payout is possible from day 1 of the PRO account, on demand, with no lock-up period, with an 80% split rising to 90% on PRO+. Our payouts pillar scores it 79. We have, however, no verified list of accepted payment methods — the firm does not document them in our sources.

Accidents, though, cost. Resetting a PRO account costs $449 to $1,499 depending on size, with a cap of three resets. A failure at that level costs more than the Test that got you there: a line to budget for before aiming at a big size.

There is no scaling plan and maximum allocation stops at $150,000. The only way to increase exposure is to open several accounts, up to five PRO or PRO+ simultaneously — which multiplies subscriptions and activation fees accordingly.

What the Take Profit Trader rulebook allows, and what it closes

Five platforms are offered: NinjaTrader, TradingView, Tradovate, Rithmic and Quantower. Trading through announcements and scalping are allowed, which removes two classic grounds for elimination.

The structural constraint is strict intraday: positions must be closed before 17:00 ET, no overnight or weekend holding. Any swing approach is out of scope, and the trader has to be at their screen on American hours.

Three points are not documented in our data: Expert Advisors, copy trading and hedging. If your strategy depends on them, that is a question for support before paying.

No excluded countries at Take Profit Trader

The restricted-country list is empty, a rare situation among futures firms, where exclusions run into the dozens. The prerequisites come down to being 18 and passing KYC. For a trader living in a jurisdiction ruled out elsewhere, that is the most decisive element on this profile.

What our Take Profit Trader data does not cover

Our confidence index is medium, for a specific reason: the official pricing page returns an HTTP 403 to automated access. The prices quoted here come from two concordant third-party sources, verified as of 28 August 2026, and not from the sales page. Confirm them at the time of purchase.

The conditions (69), price (68) and support (68) pillars are the profile’s weakest, for an overall score of 76. Price reflects the accumulation of subscription, activation and reset; on support, our evidence is thin and the score primarily reflects a lack of public documentation.

The right profile for Take Profit Trader, and the wrong one

This firm suits the intraday futures trader operating on the American session, who wants to withdraw often and fast, and who accepts managing their own risk in the absence of a daily limit. It suits particularly anyone living in a country excluded elsewhere, and anyone starting on the $25,000 account, the size with the most favourable room-to-target ratio.

It suits poorly the swing trader, anyone who needs a daily guardrail, and anyone aiming above $150,000 of allocation. And it suits poorly, above all, the trader who buys a big size without having taken in two things: that their margin for error there falls to 3%, and that the drawdown changes nature at the very moment the account becomes funded.