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The Big Story
Oh what a difference a year makes! Rewind twelve months: it’s October 2025, and Breakout just paid traders $3.4M. This October, that number skyrocketed to $7.31M, and that’s still not the whole story:
- Dollars paid to traders more than doubled year over year (+113%).
- New funded accounts more than tripled (+212%).
- First-time funded traders were up 43%.
October wasn’t even our biggest month for payouts this year. The three largest payout months in Breakout history just happened back to back to back: August, September, and October.
And while this month was slower than the past two record-breakers, we were still approving payouts roughly once every seven minutes. Not bad. Not bad at all.
The Tape
- $7.3M+ went out in October, pushing 2026’s total past $46 million paid with two months still on the calendar, and catapulting Breakout past $80 million paid to traders all-time.
- 9,000+ new funded accounts were approved, and over 1,100 traders got funded for the very first time.
- The people who got paid kept coming back: nearly 63% of traders who got paid took two or more payouts in October.
- Spark found its feet fast. Our newest account type (designed to better serve RWA traders) paid out to 98 traders across 330 payouts in just its second month. It’s sold out for now, but you can join the waitlist to hear first if more Spark evaluations are released.
We also added gold, Brent crude, copper, and natural gas to Breakout, then cut fees on all 8 of the currently available RWA (real-world asset) markets for Turbo, Pro, and Classic accounts.
The Map
October’s story was all about Europe. We’re tempted to call it “Oktoberfest,” but… we won’t. The top 5 countries by payouts included:
- U.S.A
- Türkiye
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- UAE
A first-time trader from Belgium stormed all the way into the top 3 of the payout board in their debut month, stacking up 34 payouts along the way.
Another trader from Latvia cracked the top 20 for the first time. And when the dust settled, ten countries made October’s top 20 in all, with Türkiye settled in as a clear number two behind the U.S., something we’ve seen before. Have they got what it takes to crack the top spot?
In case you forgot, we’ve got traders in 160+ countries. Want to see yours up there? Spread the word to your fellow countrymen.
We’ve even got a referral program for that: $25 credit for every trader you send that buys and verifies.
The Board
Over on the profit leaderboard, G4 Trades went one better than last month:
- G4 Trades: $208,486
- Profits: $168,975
- Uraha: $121,015
G4 Trades sat second in September. Extremely respectable, but apparently not enough. In October, they took the top spot outright: the kind of repeat appearance that’s becoming a theme up there.
(P.S. Scope the live profit leaderboard for yourself to see this month’s numbers so far, or any past month’s leaders.)
On the payout side, things stayed deliciously broad: 864 traders cleared $1,000+ in payouts, 191 cleared $10,000+, and one trader took home $187.6K across eight withdrawals.
(Individual results vary; this is not typical.)
Speed was a major theme this month: half of October’s first-time earners had already earned enough and were getting paid within about six days of getting funded.
It doesn’t matter if you’re new to Breakout or you’ve been here since 2023: with hundreds of traders cashing out four figures in a single month, there’s always a spot open for you.
Or? Dream a little bigger and aim to be like one of the 190+ traders who took home $10K or more. Just another month on Breakout.
The Spotlight
Daniel started trading at 16: careful, risk-averse, doing it right from day one.
Then he discovered leverage, which he says promptly ruined all of that. What followed was years of overtrading and hard lessons, slowly clawing his way back to the discipline he started with.
He’s spent the last three years of that journey on Breakout, and these days, he won’t look anywhere else. The reasons are simple: fast, reliable payouts, and rules that exist to prove he can trade, not to trip him up.
“I don’t even consider using any other prop firm,” he says.
Why would you? His take on failing an eval (and why he’s never once counted it as wasted money) is some of the most clear-eyed advice we’ve put on camera. His challenge to anyone still risking their own savings on an exchange might be even better. Press play.
The Last Word
Every single month is an another set of datapoints that proves traders are progressing, learning, and getting paid. It’s easy to forget that beyond all of the marquee numbers, hundreds of traders are also achieving personal goals: first-time funded, first-time paid, new levels, higher amounts… and it’s all happening here on Breakout.
At the time of this writing, 16/20 of those on November’s leaderboard have never cracked the top 20 before, but it’s very early days. Which means there’s plenty of time for you to knock someone off and claim a spot for yourself.
New to Breakout? We’re a prop trading firm backed by Kraken. 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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