Today’s prop firm roundup covers Tradeify removing an allowance for up to eight simulated funded accounts, FundedNext Futures raising its affiliate commission withdrawal minimum fivefold, Blue Guardian clarifying automatic seven-day payouts for 1 Step Nano traders, and Funded Futures Family confirming that live-account traders must pay for market data seperately. The revisions affect different stages of the funded-trading business, from evaluation purchases and referral earnings to payout eligibility and live execution costs.
Tradeify removes eight-account exception for Select 300K
Tradeify has removed a special allowance that previously permitted certain Select 300K traders to operate as many as eight simulated funded accounts simultaneously, bringing the largest Select accounts under its standard five-account limit.
A November 4 comparison of the firm’s documentation identified the removal of the exception, which had permitted Select 300K Version 2 funded accounts to be held in addition to five other simulated funded accounts.
The revised policy establishes a maximum of five active simulated funded accounts per person and household, including a maximum of three funded Select 300K accounts per user.
Five accounts now, even if three of them are the larger 300K kind.
The change represents a reduction of up to 37.5% in the number of simultaneous funded accounts available to traders who previously qualified for the eight-account arrangement.
Tradeify’s help center confirms that the limit applies across Growth, Select Flex, Select Daily and Lightning Funded accounts. Failed or expired accounts do not count toward the cap.
The household restriction also prevents two customers living at the same address from separately maintaining five funded accounts each. The revised documentation makes no exception for Select 300K accounts when calculating the household total.
Tradeify allows traders to pass additional evaluations and hold those completions until funded-account slots become available. Its documentation does not clearly establish whether this banking arrangement covers every version of the Select 300K product.
The firm simultaneously relaxed restrictions on purchasing Select 300K evaluations. Previously, traders were limited to three purchases over the lifetime of their account, including failed and closed evaluations.
The new permanent Select 300K plan permits up to five evaluation purchases during a rolling 30-day period, measured from the first purchase. These evaluations remain excluded from the general allowance of 15 Select evaluation purchases per 30 days.
Tradeify also confirms that Select 300K evaluations cannot be reset. A trader who fails must purchase another evaluation rather than pay a reset fee.
That is a wider retry window, but a smaller funded portfolio at the same time.
The company’s revised permanent-plan documentation lists a $570 evaluation price, compared with $349 for the earlier limited-release Version 2 account. Other pricing displays have shown different amounts, making the actual checkout price and any available discounts relevant when comparing the cost of repeated attempts.
The November 4 documentation comparison confirms the revised funded-account limits, but it does not establish how Tradeify will handle customers already maintaining six, seven or eight accounts under the previous exception. Nor does it identify a formal effective date for applying the new cap to existing customers.
Tradeify’s account-management policies have drawn attention before. In September, Tradeify introduced additional fraud and identity checks following an increase in suspicious activity, while some traders complained about restrictions imposed after earlier verification approvals.
Those complaints concerned a different policy. The latest funded-account revision introduces a numerical limit whose application to existing portfolios remains unclarified.
FundedNext Futures raises affiliate withdrawal minimum to $500
FundedNext Futures has increased the minimum withdrawal balance for affiliate commissions from $100 to $500, according to a documentation change detected on November 4.
The revised Affiliate & Partner FAQ confirms the $500 threshold, requiring partners to accumulate five times the previous minimum before requesting their commissions.
The firm has also replaced its previous indication of usual 24–72-hour withdrawal processing with a scheduled disbursement arrangement.
Under the new terms, affiliates can submit withdrawal requests at any time, but commissions are distributed during two monthly payment windows: the first three working days of each month and between the 15th and 18th.
Requests enter the next scheduled payment cycle rather than necessarily being processed within three days of submission.
A partner with $400 accrued is over the old line, under the new one, and not withdrawing yet.
The change could be particularly restrictive for smaller affiliates who generate occasional referrals rather than a steady monthly commission stream. They must now accumulate at least $500 before becoming eligible to withdraw.
The firm’s updated policy supports bank transfers, Rise and cryptocurrency withdrawals. Affiliates must also complete identity verification before submitting a request.
FundedNext retains the ability to withhold or reverse commissions where partner terms have been violated, including cases involving self-referrals or fraudulent sign-ups.
The company has not specified whether affiliates with previously accrued balances below $500 retain the earlier withdrawal rights or whether pending requests submitted before the revision will be processed under the former schedule.
These changes apply to affiliate and referral commissions, not the performance rewards earned by funded traders. The two payment arrangements have different eligibility rules and should not be treated as interchangeable.
Blue Guardian confirms automatic seven-day Nano payouts
Blue Guardian has updated its CFD payout documentation to specify that 1 Step Nano funded accounts operate on a seven-day payout cycle by default.
The clarification, detected in documentation updated around November 3–4, states that traders using this account model do not need to purchase the optional seven-day payout add-on.
The add-on is not available for 1 Step Nano accounts because the accelerated cycle is already included in the account’s standard conditions.
The seven-day clock is there already, no extra add-on to buy.
Under Blue Guardian’s general funded-account terms, traders typically become eligible for their first payout after 14 calendar days, subject to minimum trading-day and other requirements.
Subsequent standard payouts follow a 14-day cycle, while eligible accounts with the paid acceleration option can request withdrawals every seven days.
The 1 Step Nano arrangement therefore provides the shorter schedule without requiring traders to incur an additonal charge for payout acceleration.
The firm’s documentation also requires funded accounts to meet minimum trading-day conditions, remain profitable, avoid active rule violations and have all positions closed before a payout request can be submitted.
Blue Guardian lists an 85% default profit split for standard funded accounts, while Nano products have their own optional profit-split arrangements. The shorter payout cycle does not remove the other eligibility requirements.
The new wording confirms the current seven-day benefit, although the documentation comparison does not establish whether Blue Guardian introduced the arrangement during November or merely clarified a condition already applied operationally.
The clarification follows another recent adjustment to the firm’s withdrawal policies. DaveFinances reported that Blue Guardian imposed a $1,000 cryptocurrency payout ceiling, requiring customers seeking larger withdrawals to use Rise Works.
The payment-method limit continues to apply independently of a trader’s payout cycle. Blue Guardian also lists a 3% processing fee on withdrawals, so receiving payout eligibility after seven days does not eliminate the costs or restrictions associated with settlement.
Funded Futures Family makes live market-data costs explicit
Funded Futures Family has revised its Live Stage Structure documentation to state explicitly that market-data subscriptions are not included when traders transition to live execution.
A November 4 documentation comparison identified new wording confirming that live accounts operate on Rithmic infrastructure and that traders must arrange the required market-data services through their broker or another provider.
The firm states that data availability, pricing and billing depend on the external provider and may change. Traders are responsible for selecting and maintaining their subscriptions, although assistance is available through Funded Futures Family’s Live Desk.
The data bill is outside it, and a trader has to sort that out.
The arrangement creates a seperate cost consideration for traders progressing from the simulated and Professional stages to live-market execution. The firm’s published documentation does not specify a fixed subscription price, making the actual expense dependent on the services and market-data entitlements selected.
Funded Futures Family’s Live Stage Structure also sets out the conditions under which traders may be reviewed for advancement.
One route involves accumulating at least $5,000 in approved Professional Stage payouts. Another allows consideration after an initial Professional Stage payout where the trader demonstrates sufficient consistency, account progression and risk management.
Neither condition guarantees immediate access to live trading. The firm’s Live Desk and Risk Management Team review applications individually, and activation depends on completing documentation and broker onboarding.
The documentation describes the Professional Stage as a single account lifecycle progressing through two execution environments. When an account enters live execution, its performance metrics and account continuity are maintained rather than reset merely because the execution environment changes.
Funded Futures Family has previously faced questions about account-stage transitions. In September, a Funded Futures Family trader alleged that a forced Professional upgrade affected accumulated simulated profits before a second payout became eligible. The individual allegations were not independently verified and concerned an earlier stage of the firm’s progression system.
The distinction between simulated funded trading and actual market execution has also attracted regulatory attention. Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority explained in its warning about proprietary trading firms that many retail funded-trading arrangements involve simulated transactions, with compensation depending on the firm’s contractual rules rather than direct ownership of profits from live-market positions.
Funded Futures Family’s latest documentation concerns traders who have progressed beyond those simulated arrangements into its Live Market Execution Environment. The new wording confirms who is responsible for market-data subscriptions, but does not establish whether the expense itself is newly introduced or simply newly disclosed.
Taken together, the November 4 revisions affect several different elements of prop-firm participation. Tradeify has reduced the maximum number of funded accounts while allowing more frequent Select 300K evaluation purchases. FundedNext Futures has increased the earnings threshold and changed the disbursement schedule for affiliates. Blue Guardian has clarified a faster payout cycle for Nano accounts, while Funded Futures Family has made a recurring live-trading expense explicit.
The remaining uncertainties are concentrated in the application of revised terms to existing customers: Tradeify has not explained how accounts above its new cap will be treated, FundedNext Futures has not clarified the treatment of accrued affiliate commissions, and Funded Futures Family has not confirmed whether live-account data subscriptions were previously required under the same arrangement.
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