Topstep
Topstep sells futures evaluations, not the percentage-based challenges the rest of this section compares. Its rules are read and published in full — in dollars and contracts, which is how the firm states them.
What Topstep publishes
Topstep is futures-only, and publishes its drawdown as a dollar trailing figure per account size — $2,000 behind the high-water mark on a $50,000 account is a different fraction at every equity level. A percentage model cannot express that honestly, so the figures below are the firm’s own dollars and contracts, and Topstep is kept out of every percentage comparison on this site rather than converted into one.
Trading Combine
| Account | Profit target | Max loss | Contracts |
|---|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | $3,000 | $2,000 | 5 |
| $100,000 | $6,000 | $3,000 | 10 |
| $150,000 | $9,000 | $4,500 | 15 |
- The Maximum Loss Limit stops trailing for good once it catches up with where you started: "The MLL is a trailing limit. It rises as your end-of-day balance grows, but never moves down. Once it reaches your starting balance, it locks permanently."
- The Daily Loss Limit is optional rather than imposed, and pauses trading rather than closing the account: adding one "caps how much you can lose in a single session, so one bad day doesn’t turn into a closed account".
- Two prices per size, and the cheaper one is not the cheaper route: $49, $99 and $199 a month on the standard path, against $95, $149 and $229 on the path with no activation fee.
- Consistency is a target rather than a breach: "Your best single day should stay below 50% of your Profit Target to avoid increasing your Consistency Target."
Topstep — What is the Maximum Loss Limit — read 2026-08-31
These figures are compared against every other futures firm read here — the full table is in the futures section, where the drawdown is in dollars because that is how these firms publish it.
The funded account is simulated
Topstep's own materials describe the capital as simulated. You are paid a share of notional profit under a contract rather than trading a funded brokerage account. That is what the product is — worth knowing before you price the fee against it, not after.
Topstep Help Center — Trading Combine parameters — read 2026-08-05
What is not on this page
A pass rate. Two firms publish one for their own evaluation and neither can be checked; every other percentage in circulation comes from firms selling challenges or affiliates earning on sign-ups. A number with that provenance would make this page look more authoritative and be worth less.
Fees are shown as displayed on the date read, and prop firms discount often — treat the figure as a snapshot and check the firm's own page before paying. What this page adds is the part that page does not tell you: what the rules mean at the risk you actually trade, and what the attempt costs once you stop assuming you pass first time. Run them against your own numbers.
Before you buy an attempt
Work out how many consecutive losers the drawdown allows at your risk per trade, and multiply the fee by the number of attempts you honestly expect. Both take a minute and both change the decision.