How Many Tradeify Accounts Can I Have?

If you are dealing with the question “How Many Tradeify Accounts Can I Have?”, you are not alone, a lot of traders who want to scale or get started with Tradeify have this.

You can hold up to 5 funded accounts at Tradeify at any one time, with no cap on the number of evaluations you can run alongside them. The longer answer has more shape to it, and that’s where most people get tripped up.

If you’re new to Tradeify or thinking about scaling beyond a single position, this guide walks through every rule, restriction, and weird edge case worth knowing.

We’ll cover how the 5-account limit actually works, what counts and what doesn’t, what happens when you mix account types across your 5 accounts, and how all of this interacts with payouts.

The 5-Account Cap, Plain and Simple

Tradeify lets you hold a maximum of five accounts at once on the funded side. This is the hard ceiling. It applies to simulated funded accounts across every family the firm offers, currently Growth, Select (both Flex and Daily payout variants), and Lightning Funded.

The Tradeify rules spell this out clearly: a trader cannot hold more than 5 funded accounts at any given time, and the cap covers every funded type the firm offers. So if you’ve already got 3 Lightning positions and 2 Growth ones, you’re at the top. You’d need to close one before adding another, even if you’ve technically passed a new evaluation.

This also means your total exposure can hit a meaningful ceiling. With the max account size being $150k, running five 150k growth account slots gives you $750k simulated funds spread across your portfolio. That’s the theoretical upper bound. Most traders never get close to it.

Evaluations Don’t Count, Funded Accounts Do

Here’s where people often get confused. The cap only applies to funded positions. Evaluation accounts are completely separate.

You can run as many evaluations as you want. There’s no cap on that side. You could theoretically have 10 or 15 going while already holding the maximum funded positions, and Tradeify won’t stop you from buying more. What it will stop is the activation step. The moment one passes, if you’re already at the cap, you can’t promote that new one and trade it as funded until you free up a slot.

There’s one related limit worth flagging: Tradeify caps evaluation purchases at 15 per 30-day period, counting from your first purchase. That’s a separate rule from the main cap, and it exists to keep the system fair for everyone.

Each can also be reset up to 10 times within a 30-day window if you breach a rule, which gives you decent room to recover from mistakes during the pre-funded phase. Funded positions, on the other hand, cannot be reset. Blow one, and you start over from scratch.

The Limit Applies Per Household

This catches a lot of people off guard. The cap isn’t just about you as an individual trader.

Official policy states that it operates on a per-individual and per-household basis. So if you live with someone who also does futures trading at this firm, their positions and yours count toward the same cap. Two people in the same house can’t each have five. The household collectively gets five.

This exists for risk management reasons. Tradeify monitors all activity linked to a single address, and if the firm spots multiple traders at the same location stacking accounts to bypass the cap, expect consequences.

Creating extra profiles to dodge the rule is a prohibited activity, and Tradeify reserves the right to terminate anyone trying to game the system. KYC checks tie everything to your identity, so the workaround usually fails anyway.

Mix and Match Account Types

Within your 5 slots, you have complete flexibility. You can hold any combination of sizes and families.

Some examples of valid setups:

• Five $150k Growth positions (maxing out at $750k total)
• 3 Lightning + 2 Select
• One each of Growth 50k, Growth 100k, Lightning 50k, Select Flex 100k, Select Daily 25k
• Any mix in any proportion

There’s no requirement to stick to one family. Each slot is treated independently. Whatever combination fits your strategy is fair game, as long as the total active count stays at or below the five accounts threshold.

The same flexibility extends to payout policies within Select. If you pass multiple Select evaluations, you can put some on the Flex payout schedule and others on Daily. You’re not locked into one choice across all your Select positions.

Account Families and Their Quirks

Quick refresher on what each family actually does, since the choice affects how you stack them:

Growth Funded

The classic eval-to-funded path. A growth eval can be passed in as little as one trading day if you hit the profit target. It includes a daily loss limit during that phase (varies by size: $1,250 for 50k, $2,500 for 100k, $3,750 for 150k). No consistency requirement, which makes Growth the fastest route to active funded status at any account size.

Select (Flex or Daily)

A Select eval takes a minimum of 3 trading days and includes the 40% consistency rule during the pre-funded phase (no single trading day can be more than 40% of the total profit). Once you pass, you pick your path: Flex requires 5 profitable days minimum and has larger per-payout caps, while Daily gives you faster cash access with smaller individual amounts. The consistency rule drops once you’re funded.

Lightning Funded

Straight to SIM funded. No eval, you buy and trade. Faster, but typically more expensive upfront. A Lightning-funded account has a daily loss limit (except the 25k version, which doesn’t have DLL protection) and follows its own payout structure.

All three families use End-of-Day Trailing Drawdown on the eval side, which recalculates only at session close and gives you breathing room for intraday volatility. It only locks in improvements when you finish a profitable day, and EOD drawdown rules are something to internalize early.

Failed and Expired Positions

A funded position that fails or expires no longer counts toward the cap. The slot opens back up.

What this means: if you’re at the top and one breaches a rule, it’s gone, but you now have room for a new one. The same applies to positions that expire due to inactivity (SIM-funded accounts need at least one trade per week to stay active, Monday through Friday).

There’s no resurrecting a failed or expired position. You’d need to purchase a fresh eval and pass it. The upside is that your active count drops, and you can rebuild from there.

Live Accounts Work Differently

Once you hit the Elite program (typically after consistent performance and a payout track record), you may transition to a live account. A few things have changed.

A live-funded account is the real money version of a sim-funded account. Drawdowns become fixed rather than trailing, contract limits expand, and the daily loss restriction gets removed entirely. The maximum is still five, but with a critical restriction: you cannot have SIM and live positions active at the same time. It’s one or the other.

If you have a Legacy Live account from earlier program versions, you’d need to close it before starting new evals to qualify for Elite Live again. The cap still applies to your live trading slots; you just can’t double-dip across sim and live simultaneously.

How Account Count Affects Payouts?

Each funded position gets treated independently for payout purposes. Tradeify processes each one based on its own profit, drawdown room, and minimum thresholds. The 5-account structure doesn’t pool earnings or share profit across positions.

What this means in practice:

• You can request payouts on each position separately
• A successful payout on one doesn’t affect another
• Each follows its own payout window depending on type (Lightning, Growth, Select Flex, or Select Daily)
• The first payout on each often has different requirements than later ones

For Lightning, traders receive 90% of the requested payout amount. For Growth and Select, the percentage and structure depend on the specific payout policies. Daily payouts (available on Lightning, Growth, and Select Daily) get processed faster than the 5-day or weekly cycles on Flex variants.

There’s a buffer to remember on most setups: you can’t withdraw your full balance down to zero. Each size has a minimum balance you must maintain to request a payout, and that balance reaches a specific threshold before you’re eligible. If your account drops below the minimum between submitting a payout request and approval, the payout will be denied.

Also worth noting: once you submit a payout request, you can’t edit or cancel it. You can still place trades after submitting, but if you fail or fall below the minimum before processing completes, that payout disappears. Getting paid only happens when conditions are met at approval time.

Should You Actually Run Five?

Just because you can hold the maximum doesn’t mean you should jump straight to it. There’s a real argument for starting with one account, getting funded on a growth account or similar entry-level setup, getting paid out once or twice, and only then scaling.

Running five means tracking 5 separate drawdown floors, 5 sets of consistency scores (if applicable), 5 DLL thresholds, and 5 payout schedules. The cognitive load scales fast. A single bad day across all of them can be brutal in a way that a smaller portfolio simply can’t replicate.

If you’re going to scale, do it in phases. Master a single setup first. Add a second once you’ve proven you can manage risk consistently. Build up from there. Trying to handle 5 funded positions on day one is a recipe for rule violations.

For traders who do go multi-account, copy trading via platform-native features (like Tradovate Group Trading) or third-party tools (TraderSyncer, Replikanto) can make the management piece more workable. Just know that each setup has tradeoffs around execution speed and platform support.

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Final Takeaways

The 5-account rule is straightforward on the surface, but has enough wrinkles that it pays to understand the full picture before scaling. Important notes:

• Five funded positions max, total, across all sim-funded types
• The cap applies per household, not just per person
• Evals don’t count (just the 15-per-30-day purchase cap)
• Mix any combination of Growth, Select, and Lightning within your slots
• You cannot hold SIM and live positions at the same time
• Failed or expired slots free up automatically
• Each is treated independently for payout purposes

The futures prop trading space has gotten crowded, and Tradeify’s structure rewards traders who can demonstrate consistency across multiple positions without overextending. Five is a real opportunity if you’ve earned it. It’s also a real risk if you haven’t.

For the most current version of any rule mentioned here, the Tradeify help center is your source of truth. Payout policies, program details, and account specifics get updated as the prop firm evolves (Tradeify 3.0 was a recent overhaul), so checking the official frequently asked questions before making big decisions is always smart.

Start with a single position. Trade carefully. Get paid. Then think about scaling.