One-time-fee evaluations for U.S. stocks and ETFs: FLEX and MAX (Day and Swing) from $2K to $200K buying power, plus Edge
Checked 8 October 2026
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Trade The Pool sells evaluations for traders of U.S. stocks and ETFs. Its Terms and Conditions say the brand is operated and owned by Five Percent Online Ltd., with a registered office in Raanana, Israel. The website footer says all trading through the Company Hub is executed in a simulated environment.
The programme page lists FLEX and MAX evaluations, each in a Day Trading and a Swing version, plus a separate Edge programme. FLEX and MAX pay a 70/30 split (trader/firm). Edge pays 80/20. The evaluation fee is a one-time fee. Day Trading accounts run from $5,000 to $200,000 of buying power and Swing accounts from $2,000 to $40,000.
This review uses only Trade The Pool’s own website, its Program Terms and its Terms and Conditions. We could not load the purchase pages in the firm’s Hub, so the prices below are those shown on the public programme page.
Everything in this review comes from Trade The Pool's own web pages, saved on 7–8 October 2026. Rules and prices change, so check the firm's site before you buy.
| Highest profit split | Up to 80% 1 Firm's wording: “What is the profit split? You keep 80% of your profits. Trade The Pool retains the remaining 20%.” |
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| Cheapest account | $47 (list price) 1 |
| Markets | Stocks 1 |
| Platforms | Trader Evolution 1 |
| Allowed / offered on at least one account type | Rules can differ between account types — check the linked page for the account you want. |
| Not allowed, or rules that apply (firm says so) |
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| Restricted countries named | Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Cuba, DR Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Yemen 1 Countries the firm names. Its list may also refer to sanctions lists or other countries — check the linked page. |
The Terms and Conditions describe a “one time fee for the Evaluation” that varies by programme, and say that once you select a programme “it is not possible to change it”. The programme page shows a FLEX price and a MAX price for each account size. Prices are in U.S. dollars. Check the final price at checkout.
| Buying power | FLEX price | MAX price |
|---|---|---|
| $5,000 | $59 | $47 |
| $25,000 | $120 | $97 |
| $50,000 | $285 | $230 |
| $100,000 | $545 | $435 |
| $200,000 | $1,475 | $1,100 |
| Buying power | FLEX price | MAX price |
|---|---|---|
| $2,000 | $87 | $69 |
| $10,000 | $420 | $297 |
| $20,000 | $670 | $447 |
| $40,000 | $1,240 | $800 |
| Buying power | One-time evaluation fee |
|---|---|
| $50,000 | $156 |
| $100,000 | $266 |
The Terms and Conditions say the firm may change fees and parameters at any time, but a change “does not affect the Services purchased before the change is notified”. Buying several evaluations is allowed, but the Program Terms cap the total base buying power of all accounts at $450K before scaling.
Each user may open one free Demo Day Trading account and one Demo Swing account. The FAQ says demo accounts last two weeks from creation.
The table shows the evaluation rules printed on the programme page cards. Percentages are of the account’s buying power.
| Rule | FLEX Day | MAX Day | FLEX Swing | MAX Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Profit target | 6% | 6% | 15% | 15% |
| Daily Pause | 2% | 1% | 3% | 3% |
| Max Loss | 4% | 3% | 7% | 7% |
| Minimum positions | 10 | 20 | 5 | 5 |
| Time to pass | Unlimited | 60 days | Unlimited | 100 days |
| Best position cap (evaluation) | 50% | 30% | 50% | 30% |
The “best position cap” is the consistency rule: your best position cannot make up more than that share of the profit target. For example, on a $3,000 target with a 30% cap, the best position cannot exceed $900. The Program Terms say the 50% FLEX cap applies to evaluation and funded accounts. For MAX Day it is “eval only”; for MAX Swing it is 30% in evaluation and 70% when funded.
The MAX Swing period is described in two ways. The programme page text says “100 trading days”, while the Program Terms say “100 calendar days”. We used the Program Terms. MAX Day evaluations last 60 calendar days. If you buy a MAX account on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, the Program Terms add 3, 2 or 1 extra days. An evaluation can be extended by buying a renewal on the Hub in its last 3 calendar days.
Daily Pause and Max Loss. If the day’s loss exceeds the Daily Loss Limit, the Daily Pause closes all positions and orders and blocks new trades until the next trading day; the account stays active. The Program Terms add that the system may offer a reset of the Daily Pause, allowing trading to resume that day with one more Daily Loss Limit of room. Breaching the overall loss limit ends the account permanently. The Program Terms also say that once equity reaches three times the daily loss limit, the max drawdown moves up to the initial balance.
Day Trading accounts. All open orders and positions are liquidated at 15:50 ET. After the 16:00 ET close you may open new positions, but exposure drops to an overnight limit: $800 on a $5,000 account, $8,000 on a $50,000 account and $32,000 on a $200,000 account.
Swing accounts. You may hold positions overnight and over weekends in all tiers, and exposure stays the same in pre- and post-market sessions. To open a position you plan to hold overnight, the stock must have traded an average of at least 500,000 shares a day over the previous 14 calendar days.
Inactivity. The Program Terms list a 14-day inactivity timeout on MAX funded accounts (not evaluations) and on FLEX evaluation and funded accounts.
Commission. The Program Terms say the firm charges commission of 1/2 cent per share, with a minimum of $0.75 per filled order.
Minimum move and duration. For profit from a position to count, the average exit must be at least 10 cents from the average entry, and on MAX/FLEX there must be at least 30 seconds between each opening execution and the next closing one.
Volume rule. Opening trades must not exceed 5% of the volume in the previous one-minute candle for that instrument. Trades that break this rule may be invalidated.
Earnings, splits and dividends. You may not hold an overnight position in a company reporting earnings, or in related products such as single-stock leveraged ETFs. The FAQ says trades are liquidated at 3:50 PM ET on the day of a scheduled earnings report, for both day and swing accounts. Positions must be closed before a stock split announced at least the day before, and before a stock trades ex-dividend. Trading is not permitted during a trading halt.
Prohibited conduct. The Terms and Conditions list banned practices, including arbitrage trading, high-frequency trading “in which the majority of trades duration span is measured within a few seconds or less”, placing buy and sell stop orders around high-impact news, tick scalping, hedge arbitrage, and account sharing or reselling. Wash trading between accounts is forbidden under the Program Terms.
News trading. The 24/5 FAQ says “news trading is permitted”. The Terms and Conditions still ban the bracketing strategy around high-impact news described above.
Copy trading. The FAQ and Program Terms allow copying your own trades between a maximum of two accounts, in set sizes: Day Trading $5k, $25k and $50k (a $50k account can only be paired with a $25k or a $5k), and Swing $2k and $10k. Manual copying is allowed on evaluation and funded accounts; the TraderEvolution copy feature is allowed only on evaluation accounts. External or automated third-party copying tools are prohibited. However, the Terms and Conditions list “Trade coordination or copy trading with other traders or accounts” as a breach. The Program Terms say the Terms of Use prevail in a contradiction, so confirm with the firm before copying trades.
Automated trading. The Terms and Conditions say you “may not use any custom, algorithmic, or other automated trading software” to execute trades. The Program Terms describe automated trading, including a SignalStack integration, as “currently in a beta state” that the firm can revoke. The pages conflict here too.
Split. On FLEX and MAX funded accounts the split is 70% to the trader and 30% to the firm. The Funded Phase page puts it as “up to 70% of the gains”.
When you can withdraw. The FAQ says you can request a payout 14 days after the funded account starts or after your previous withdrawal, with at least $300 in profit ($150 on $5K accounts). The Program Terms state the $300 minimum without the $5K exception. FLEX accounts also need at least 0.5% profit on 3 separate trading days within any 14-day period; the FAQ says this does not apply to MAX (one programme card, the $20,000 Swing MAX, lists 3 profit days for MAX as well). Minimum trades for a payout or scale-up are 5 on Swing accounts, 10 on FLEX Day and 20 on MAX Day.
How you are paid. Payouts go by wire transfer, cryptocurrency, Hub credits or credit card, and “usually take 3 to 5 business days”. The Program Terms say withdrawals “may be subject to a processing fee”. The Terms and Conditions let the firm split payouts above a threshold it sets into weekly instalments of no more than $10,000.
Scaling. A funded FLEX or MAX account scales each time you reach 10% validated profit on its buying power. On scaling, buying power rises by 5% and the Daily Pause by 10%. Funded FLEX accounts also need at least 3 profitable days of 0.5% or more to scale. At each scaling event the 70/30 split is applied and your share moves to the new account as credits, which absorb losses below the initial balance first. The old account is disabled, and the new one can take up to 3 business days to arrive. The 14-day wait for a withdrawal restarts after scaling, so the FAQ suggests withdrawing before you reach the target.
| Rule | $50K | $100K |
|---|---|---|
| One-time price | $156 | $266 |
| Evaluation target | 6% | 6% |
| Max drawdown | 4% | 4% |
| Daily Loss (end of day) | 2.5% | 1.8% |
| First withdrawal target | 4% | 4% |
| Later withdrawal target | 1% | 1.5% |
| Minimum / maximum withdrawal | $500 / $1,500 | $500 / $2,000 |
| Pro consistency rule | 40% | 40% |
| Profit split | 80/20 | 80/20 |
There is no consistency rule during the Edge evaluation. After you pass and a risk review succeeds, a Pro account is created. On Pro accounts drawdown is calculated on end-of-day values. The Daily Loss on Edge is a hard limit: reaching it disables the account permanently, unlike the Daily Pause on FLEX and MAX. The 30-second, $0.10 and 5% volume rules also apply. You may copy trades across up to 3 Edge accounts, but not between Edge and other account types. The Edge Pro account does not scale.
Platform. Trading is on TraderEvolution, customised for the firm. The Program Terms call the Windows desktop client the flagship, with Android, iOS and web clients also available. The FAQ says the desktop platform does not support Apple Mac computers, which must use the web terminal.
Markets. The FAQ says you can trade more than 12,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs, including penny stocks and IPOs. The Program Terms describe instruments “tradeable on Nasdaq”, including stocks, warrants, ETNs and ETFs. Options are not offered, and index futures such as NQ or ES are not offered, though their ETFs (such as QQQ and SPY) are. The FAQ says there is no extra locate fee for “Hard to Borrow” stocks; the Program Terms add that some assets that can be shorted in evaluation may not be available to short when funded.
24/5 trading. The active session runs from Monday 3 a.m. ET to Friday 8 p.m. ET, with no weekend session. Overnight trading runs through Blue Ocean, an alternative trading system, with around 3,500 tickers. Only limit orders work in standard pre- and post-market hours unless the “Overnight Execution” toggle is on, and then other order types work only on Blue Ocean-supported symbols.
Data. The programme cards list real-time market data as free and the PDT rule as “No Restriction”.
Operator. The Terms and Conditions say Trade The Pool is a brand operated and owned by Five Percent Online Ltd., with its registered office at 2 HaTidhar st., Raanana, Israel. The footer lists a UK branch at Enstar House, 168 Praed Street, London, and the site says it is “Part of 5% group”. The team section says “Gil is the founder of The5ers & TTP”, and the home page quotes Michael Katz as CEO. The Terms are governed by the laws of Israel.
Simulated or live? The footer disclaimer says all trading in the Company Hub is simulated and does not reflect real trading outcomes, and the Terms and Conditions say Evaluation trading “is entirely simulated and is not real”. The Funded Phase page, however, talks of trading “the live pool account” and committing “real funds”. We rely on the disclaimer and the Terms; ask the firm if this matters to you.
Eligibility and checks. You must be at least 18 (or the legal age where you live), a retail trader, and not resident in a Forbidden Territory. Accounts are for personal use only. KYC is required after your first evaluation target, and the firm may request a video interview, which must be scheduled and completed within five business days.
Refunds. The evaluation fee is non-refundable once you start trading. If you have not traded and have not breached the Terms, you can request a full refund within 5 days of purchase; after 5 days, a refund is given only as Hub Credit.
Public statements. The Terms and Conditions allow the firm to terminate accounts, without refund and with profits forfeited, for “defamatory, disparaging, or harmful statements” about the company on public platforms, including review sites, and for publishing private correspondence with its teams.
Restricted countries. The Terms list Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cuba, Congo Republic, Crimea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, Palestinian Territory, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Vanuatu, Venezuela and Yemen, and say the list is not exhaustive.
Trade The Pool is built for traders of U.S. stocks and ETFs, not forex, futures contracts or options. Swing traders can hold positions overnight and over weekends. Day traders who want to hold overnight face much lower overnight buying power. Traders who do not want a deadline can choose FLEX, which has no time limit but a 50% best-position cap and a profitable-days rule for payouts. MAX has a lower price and stricter evaluation consistency (30%), with a 60-day (Day) or 100-day (Swing) limit. Traders who want an 80/20 split can choose Edge, but its withdrawals are capped per request and the Pro account does not scale. A trade’s profit only counts if it lasts at least 30 seconds and moves at least 10 cents, so very short-term scalping does not fit.
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Its pages name the operating company with its Israeli company number, state plainly that all trading in the Hub is simulated, and say the prop trading industry is not yet regulated. The Terms have a 'Refund' section with clear conditions (full refund within 5 days if no trading, Hub Credit after that), but another clause in the same Terms says there is no refund if you cancel the account or request cancellation by email, so the two conflict. The homepage 'Hear It From Our Funded Traders' carousel shows trader first names with amounts, but none is dated, so we could not check how recent they are.
Its Transparency Index score is 63/100 (Good). We do not verify payouts or test accounts; this is what the firm’s own pages show.
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Trade The Pool offers one-time-fee evaluations for U.S. stocks and ETFs, with FLEX and MAX programmes for day and swing trading and a separate Edge programme. FLEX and MAX pay 70/30 and scale funded accounts at each 10% of validated profit; Edge pays 80/20 but caps withdrawals and does not scale. The rule set is detailed, with minimum hold times, price-move and volume rules and earnings restrictions, and the firm’s pages conflict on copy trading, automation and whether funded accounts are live, so read the Terms and Conditions before buying.
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Find my matchOne-time. The Terms and Conditions describe a one-time fee that varies by programme, and say funded accounts need no further purchase, renewal or subscription.
70/30 (trader/firm) on FLEX and MAX funded accounts, and 80/20 on the Edge programme.
Not on FLEX. MAX Day evaluations last 60 calendar days and MAX Swing 100 days (the Program Terms say calendar days).
On Swing accounts, yes, including weekends. Day Trading accounts are liquidated at 15:50 ET and can reopen after 16:00 ET with reduced overnight buying power. No account may hold through a scheduled earnings report.
The site’s disclaimer says all trading in the Company Hub is simulated, and the Terms say evaluation trading is not real. The Funded Phase page describes a live account, so the pages disagree.
No. The FAQ says the platform supports equities, including ETFs, only. Index futures are not offered, but ETFs such as QQQ and SPY are.