Earn2Trade rules on the Gauntlet Mini

Earn2Trade rules on the Gauntlet Mini: an end-of-day trailing drawdown that locks permanently once it reaches your starting balance, a 30% consistency cap on the evaluation only, and a profit split set by the size of each withdrawal (80% at or above the tier threshold, 50% below it). Every figure here is checked against Earn2Trade's own program cards and Help Center.

We hold a referral link with Earn2Trade, and it is the one firm on this site whose every published figure we have verified ourselves. Rules last checked July 2026.

The Gauntlet Mini is a single-phase evaluation on a monthly subscription

Hit the profit target without breaching the drawdown and you get a funded account.

The monthly billing cuts both ways: no large one-off fee to lose on day three, but the meter runs until you pass. The evaluation cost calculator prices that.

Earn2Trade rules by tier: a 6% target everywhere except $200K

Account	Profit target	Max drawdown	Daily loss	List price
$50,000	$3,000	$2,000 (EOD trailing)	$1,100	$170/mo
$100,000	$6,000	$3,500 (EOD trailing)	$2,200	$315/mo
$150,000	$9,000	$4,500 (EOD trailing)	$3,300	$375/mo
$200,000	$11,000	$6,000 (EOD trailing)	$4,400	$550/mo

The $200K tier breaks the pattern: its target is $11,000, not the $12,000 a straight 6% would give, which makes it proportionally the easiest on the board. These are list prices, and Earn2Trade discounts most months.

Your loss floor trails your highest daily close, then locks at your start

The floor follows your highest end-of-day balance, not your highest intraday equity. A position that runs $1,500 against you at lunch and closes flat has not moved it by a cent, where an intraday trailing firm would raise the floor on that same trade and end the account weeks later.

And it stops. The drawdown trails until it reaches your starting balance and then never rises again.

On the $50K tier the floor starts at $48,000, climbs with each new daily closing high, and locks the moment it touches $50,000. Run your own balance through it to see how far off that lock you are.

Before the lock is where accounts die. Every winning day pulls the floor up with it, so profit buys you nothing but a higher floor until the lock lands. Reaching it, not the profit target, is the real first milestone.

Earn2Trade's own cards confirm end-of-day on the evaluation and the funded LiveSim. Third-party sites claim funded LIVE accounts switch to intraday trailing; Earn2Trade publishes nothing either way, so we don't state it.

The 30% consistency cap applies to the evaluation, never the funded account

During the evaluation, no single day may account for more than 30% of your total net profit. One outsized winner does not fail you outright, but you then have to keep trading until the rest of your profit grows enough to bring that day back under the cap. Check a day against the cap.

It does not follow you to the funded account: Earn2Trade's LiveSim and Live cards state no consistency requirement. The rule shapes how you pass, not how you get paid.

The profit split is set per withdrawal, not on your total profit

It is not the flat 80% most comparison sites quote. On the $100K account a request at or above $3,000 pays you 80%, and a request below that threshold pays you 50%.

Two $1,500 requests hand you $1,500 total; one $3,000 request hands you $2,400. Same profit, $900 difference, decided entirely by how you clicked.

Model a withdrawal at both splits, then the rest of the terms:

Payouts run weekly, every Wednesday.
Requests are due by 2:00 PM CT the preceding Friday; miss it and you wait a week.
Minimum withdrawal $100.
LiveSim withdrawals are capped at $5,000 per request, on every tier.

Five fine-print rules, from the 15:50 close to the $139 fee

No minimum trading days

Most futures firms gate the evaluation behind a day count. Earn2Trade does not, so passing in a week is legitimate.

Everything closes by 15:50 CT

All positions must be flat by 15:50 Central. There is no overnight hold on the Gauntlet Mini.

A $139 activation fee, deducted later

It comes out of your first successful withdrawal rather than your card.

5 evaluation accounts, 3 funded

You can run up to five evaluations at once and hold three funded accounts, which matters if you plan to buy several tiers and let the odds work.

The Gauntlet Mini is not the Trader Career Path

Everything here is the Gauntlet Mini, the single-phase evaluation. The Trader Career Path is a separate ladder with its own targets, pricing and $25K entry tier; none of the numbers here transfer.

Earn2Trade suits futures traders who want an end-of-day drawdown

It fits an intraday futures trader who lets trades breathe. If your strategy regularly goes underwater before it works, the end-of-day floor is worth more to you than a headline split, because it removes the failure mode that ends most real-time trailing accounts.

It doesn't fit a swing trader, because everything closes at 15:50 CT, or someone who wants to withdraw little and often, because of the 50% small-withdrawal split. On a long grind the subscription works against you: at $315 a month on the $100K, four months is $1,260 before the $139 activation.

If that first paragraph sounds like your trading, the Gauntlet Mini is at Earn2Trade, and the coupon quantproptrader applies at checkout. If it doesn't, the comparison table lines it up against four other firms, two of which pay us nothing.

Common Gauntlet Mini questions

How does the Earn2Trade drawdown work?

The Gauntlet Mini uses an end-of-day trailing drawdown. Your loss floor sits a fixed distance below your highest END-OF-DAY balance, so it only moves when a day closes at a new high. An open trade that runs against you and recovers before the close costs you nothing. Once the floor rises to your starting balance it locks there permanently and stops trailing.

Is the Earn2Trade drawdown intraday or end of day?

End of day, on the evaluation and the funded LiveSim account. That is materially more forgiving than the real-time trailing drawdown used by firms like Apex, which follows your equity tick by tick including open profit. Note that third-party sites claim funded live accounts switch to intraday trailing; we have not been able to verify that against official documentation, so treat it as unconfirmed.

What is the Earn2Trade profit split?

It is decided by the size of each individual withdrawal, not by your accumulated profit. On the $100K account you keep 80% of a withdrawal at or above $3,000, and 50% of anything below that threshold. Requesting two small withdrawals instead of one larger one can therefore cost you real money.

Does Earn2Trade have a consistency rule?

During the evaluation, yes: no single day may account for more than 30% of your total net profit. At 30% it is one of the stricter caps in the futures space. The funded LiveSim and Live accounts carry no consistency requirement at all.

How much does Earn2Trade cost?

The Gauntlet Mini is a monthly subscription rather than a one-off fee, billed until you pass or stop: list prices are $170 a month at $50K, $315 at $100K, $375 at $150K and $550 at $200K. Earn2Trade discounts most months, so the price you actually pay is often lower. Because it recurs, a slow pass costs more than a fast one — which is the opposite of how one-off challenge fees work.

How often does Earn2Trade pay out?

Weekly. Payouts run every Wednesday, and the request has to be in by 2:00 PM CT on the preceding Friday. The minimum withdrawal is $100, and LiveSim withdrawals are capped at $5,000 per request on every account tier.