68 tiers · 4.3 to 20.0 points
More contracts means less room to be wrong
Every futures firm publishes a maximum position and a maximum drawdown, in different rows and different units. Put them together and they answer the question neither answers alone: with a full position on, how far may the market move against you before the account is gone?
A bigger contract limit makes that number smaller. Elite Trader Funding allow 14 contracts on the $100,000 against $3,000 of drawdown, which is 4.3 points — the largest position at that size on this list, and the least room of any tier here. At the other end, Tradeify’s $25,000 allows 1 against $1,000, which is 20.0.
The same $100,000 account at 17 firms
One account size, so nothing here is explained by buying more. The spread is still 2.3×.
| Firm | Contracts | Drawdown | Points of room |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elite Trader Funding · 1 Step (Live Trailing) | 14 | $3,000 | 4.3 |
| Take Profit Trader · Test Account | 12 | $3,000 | 5.0 |
| Bulenox · Qualification (trailing model) | 12 | $3,000 | 5.0 |
| OneUp Trader · 1-Step Evaluation | 12 | $3,500 | 5.8 |
| Earn2Trade · Trader Career Path | 12 | $3,500 | 5.8 |
| Topstep · Trading Combine | 10 | $3,000 | 6.0 |
| Tradeify · SELECT Evaluation | 8 | $3,000 | 7.5 |
| Apex Trader Funding · EOD Evaluation | 8 | $3,000 | 7.5 |
| Apex Trader Funding · Intraday Evaluation | 8 | $3,000 | 7.5 |
| Alpha Futures · Direct Qualified | 8 | $3,000 | 7.5 |
| Hola Prime Futures · 1-Step Challenge | 7 | $3,000 | 8.6 |
| Tradeify · Growth Evaluation | 8 | $3,500 | 8.8 |
| Blue Guardian Futures · Futures Evaluation | 8 | $3,500 | 8.8 |
| FundedNext Futures · Flex | 5 | $2,500 | 10.0 |
| UProfit Trader · Evaluation | 6 | $3,000 | 10.0 |
| Lucid Trading · PRO Eval | 6 | $3,000 | 10.0 |
| The5ers Futures · Futures Evaluation | 8 | $4,000 | 10.0 |
Points of room is the maximum drawdown divided by what a full position loses per point, on the E-mini S&P at $12.5 a tick and four ticks to the point. Trade something else and every figure scales by the same factor, so the order of this table does not change.
22 tiers land on exactly 10.0 points
Of 68 tiers, 22 give the same answer to the point — far and away the most common figure on the list. On those, the contract limit carries no information the drawdown does not already carry: it is the same constraint in another unit. Firms whose pricing pages look nothing alike are identical on the measure that combines the two.
That makes 10.0 a useful landmark rather than a standard. It is where most of this field sits, so a row well below it is worth a second look — not because the firm has done anything wrong, but because a position sized to the limit there runs out of room sooner than the same trader would expect elsewhere.
Micro limits are the same rule twice
On all 42 tiers here that publish both, the micro limit is exactly ten times the mini limit — and a micro contract is a tenth of a mini. Every one of them permits precisely the same maximum exposure by either route, with no exceptions. Micros buy finer sizing, not a different amount of risk, and a firm advertising a large micro allowance is advertising its mini allowance in another unit.
What this does not say
It does not say the tight rows are worse accounts. A firm that allows a large position is not forcing anyone to take one, and a trader who sizes at a quarter of the limit has four times the room this table shows. The figure is a ceiling on the worst case, not a description of anyone's trading.
What it does say is that the ceiling differs by 4.7× across otherwise similar accounts, and that no firm publishes it, because it lives in the gap between two rules each of them publishes plainly. The same is true of the daily loss limit against the same drawdown, and of the minimum trading days a consistency rule forces. Three rules that only exist when you multiply.
Where these limits were read
Elite Trader Funding — Evaluations — read 2026-08-31
Take Profit Trader — account sizes and parameters — read 2026-08-31
Bulenox — Accounts and pricing — read 2026-08-31
OneUp Trader — funded account pricing — read 2026-08-31
Earn2Trade — Trader Career Path — read 2026-08-31
Topstep — What is the Maximum Loss Limit — read 2026-08-31
Tradeify — Select and Growth Evaluation Accounts — read 2026-08-31
Apex Trader Funding — EOD and Intraday evaluations — read 2026-08-31
Alpha Futures — Direct Qualified accounts — read 2026-08-31
Hola Prime — Futures trading rules — read 2026-08-31
Blue Guardian — Futures evaluation parameters — read 2026-08-31
FundedNext Futures — challenge rules — read 2026-08-31
UProfit Trader — evaluation plans and disclaimer — read 2026-08-31
Lucid Trading — PRO Eval accounts — read 2026-08-31
The5ers — Futures parameters — read 2026-08-31
Questions
- How far can the market move against a maximum futures position?
- Divide the maximum drawdown by the position value per point. At $100,000 it runs from 4.3 ES points at Elite Trader Funding to 10.0 at The5ers Futures — 2.3 times as much room for the same account size.
- Is a higher contract limit better?
- Not against a fixed drawdown. Elite Trader Funding allow 14 contracts on the $100,000 against $3,000 of drawdown, which is 4.3 points — the largest position at that size on this list and the least room of any tier here. The contract limit and the drawdown are published separately and only mean something together.
- Do micro contracts change the risk?
- No. On all 42 tiers here that publish both, the micro limit is exactly ten times the mini limit, and a micro is a tenth of a mini. Micros let you size in finer steps, not carry different risk.
- Why measure in points rather than dollars?
- Because dollars of drawdown mean nothing without the position they are spent at. This page uses the E-mini S&P at $12.5 a tick, four ticks to the point. The absolute figures depend on that choice; the ranking does not, because every row is divided by the same tick value.