A ruleset built for consistency
TickWise rules focus on one essential goal:
allow traders to perform without risking their own capital.
Once funded, traders operate with significantly fewer constraints, while always respecting a maximum risk of 60 percent of the allocated capital.
Challenge phase versus funded account
Understanding the difference between challenge and funded trading is essential.
Challenge phase
- Structured environment
- Defined profit objective
- Defined drawdown limits
- Focus on discipline and validation
Funded account
- Trade with capital allocated by TickWise
- No unnecessary trading constraints
- Unlimited withdrawals at any time
- Maximum risk limited to 60 percent of allocated capital
What are the RULES?
This structured process guides traders from skill assessment and consistency
validation to real-market trading with clearly defined risk rules.
Final balance
The final balance corresponds to the minimum threshold to be reached at the end of the evaluation phase.
Daily loss
This is the maximum tolerated daily loss. If this threshold is reached, the challenge is automatically failed.
Trading day - amounts per plan
The evaluation requires 10 valid trading days. A day is considered valid if the profit made at the close of the session (17:00 EST) is greater than or equal to:
Minimum trailing balance
If your balance increases by $100, your minimum trailing balance will also increase by $100. If your balance falls, the minimum trailing balance remains unchanged. It moves only with your realized PnL: open positions have no effect on it.
PRO account · $5,000 example
Measured from your starting balance: the threshold trails every new high, and never comes back down.
Why these rules exist
TickWise rules are designed to create alignment between traders and capital.
By keeping rules clear and limited, traders know exactly what is expected from day one.
FAQ
Frequently
Asked Questions
With TickWise, you never risk your own capital. We operate as a futures prop firm with clear rules, unlimited payouts, and full trading freedom once funded.
Yes. The rule structure is identical across STARTER, PRO and EXPERT: a profit target to reach, a minimum number of validated trading days, a minimum trailing balance, a Daily Loss and the 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET closing window. Only the amounts change with the account size: the profit targets, the risk thresholds and the maximum number of contracts (3, 6 or 10). The same 34 futures instruments are available on every plan. If you master the rules of one plan, you master the rules of all of them.
Yes, the Broker Account is more flexible. There is no minimum number of trading days, no Daily Loss, and you can request a payout at any time once your balance is above your starting balance. The trading hours still apply, and the only eliminatory limit is the capped minimum trailing balance: it rises with your profits until it reaches your starting capital, then freezes at that level for good. If your balance touches that threshold, the account is automatically closed, so keep managing your risk with the same discipline as during the Challenge.
Any breach of an eliminatory rule closes the account immediately and automatically: reaching the minimum trailing balance, reaching the Daily Loss, holding a position between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM ET, or engaging in a prohibited practice such as exploiting the simulator, high-frequency trading or sharing your account. The closure is final for that account and no refund is issued. There is no reset: to start again, you purchase a new Challenge, which always begins with the Evaluation Phase. Proven fraud can also lead to a suspension or a permanent ban from TickWise services.
Good news, but the phase is not validated yet. Reaching the target balance and completing the minimum number of validated trading days are two cumulative conditions: 10 days in the Evaluation Phase and 5 days in the Preparation Phase. A day only counts as validated if you close it with at least $100 of profit on STARTER, $200 on PRO or $400 on EXPERT. So if you hit your target in 6 days, keep trading until your 10 days are complete. Our advice: reduce your position size once the target is reached, so you do not give back what you have earned.
Trade with clarity and confidence
Understand the rules, choose your evaluation plan and start trading with TickWise Funding.