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Breakout’s biggest payout month on record, a $186,000 single transfer, and a profit leaderboard where half the top ten had never placed before.
Have you ever wondered things like…
- “How much are traders really earning on Breakout?”
- “Do newbies actually get funded, or is it the same 10 traders over and over?”
- “What was the BIGGEST single payout on Breakout last month?”
- “Which accounts/assets are driving those payouts?”
Well then, curious trader: ‘The Heat Sheet’ is for you.
Every month, we’re breaking down the juicy stuff that happened the month before.
The top traders. The big payouts. The wins, and maybe even some of the alpha on where they came from.
Not only because it’s great reading: it keeps us honest in an industry where many firms are misleading you at best… and straight up rugpulling you at worst.
The Big Story
August was one for the record books in more ways than one:
- Traders took home $7.1M in payouts, the most we’ve ever sent
- We sent our largest single payout of all time: $186,000
- We approved a payout approximately every 8 minutes this month: nights, weekends, whenever.
One guy really put that ‘24/7, on-demand’ payout claim to the test by taking no less than 76 payouts in a 31 day period. It held up beautifully.
The Tape
- $7.1M+ went out to traders in August, pushing 2026 past $29 million total paid with four months still on the calendar.
- 1,400+ traders got funded for the very first time. Congratulations: you never forget your first.
- One payout was rarely the end of the story. Over 60% of everyone paid in August took at least two payouts, with over 300 traders helping themselves to five or more.
The Map
The Top 5 countries by payouts:
- U.S.A
- Türkiye
- Malaysia
- Germany
- Slovenia + Australia (tied!)
August’s top 20 traders spanned seven countries.
U.S. traders led the way by a wide margin, scooping up almost two thirds of the dollars paid out. Türkiye nipped at their heels, with Malaysia edging out Slovenia for third.
Slovenia is maybe the most interesting story here: one single trader holding it down for the whole country and beating out multiple traders from other nations combined.
Meanwhile, Türkiye was home to the most prolific withdrawer, stacking up over 70 payouts, while Mexico’s lone trader went the opposite direction: just 4 withdrawals, but the largest average payout size in the top 20.
The Board
Over on the profit leaderboard, every single trader in the top 10 hit over $100K in profit:
- Private user: $213,352
- Prop Trader: $147,084
- FelixJuggler: $143,159
(P.S. Scope the leaderboard for yourself if you want to see this month’s numbers so far, or check out any past month’s leading traders.)
But what’s perhaps even more exciting:
50% of the top 10 had never hit the leaderboard before, and more than half (11) of the top 20 had never placed.
- 17 traders cleared $75K or more in payouts inside the month.
- The single biggest payout was $186K, sent in one massive transfer to one smart trader who was presumably in one extremely good mood. Individual results vary; this is not typical.
- That wasn’t the only $100K+ payout: we sent at least two more single payouts worth over six figures in August.
It doesn’t matter if you’re new to Breakout or you’ve been here since 2023: there’s always a spot open for you.
The Spotlight
Kai bought his first crypto at 17, watched his altcoin portfolio do what altcoin portfolios do, and spent the years since rebuilding his trading around order flow instead of hope.
Just twelve months after landing on Breakout, he’s taken $115K in payouts (his actual results, not a promise about yours), nearly all of it from trading Bitcoin, which he’ll happily tell you is the only chart he needs.
Somewhere in the interview he also drops the cleanest one-line case for funded trading we’ve ever heard, and no, we’re not going to quote it here. Just press play.
The Last Word
The September board just opened on the 1st with nobody on it, and that lasted about as long as it takes to send a withdrawal request: not long. At all.
The leaderboard holds no grudges and hands out no tenure. It could not care less what anyone did in August, impressive as it might be.
Will September be the month your name makes the list?
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You pass an eval (a trading test that proves you can manage risk), then trade with up to $200K of the firm’s capital and keep up to 90% of what you make, with payouts available on demand, 24/7. For the structure in plain language, see how funded trading works.
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