Updated as of January 1, 2025
Trading Stages
There is an evaluation stage (henceforth “Breakout Evaluation”) and a trading stage where users are eligible to receive payouts after passing the Breakout Evaluation (henceforth “Breakout Account”).
The FAQs for Breakout Accounts received after passing the Breakout Evaluation can be found here.
Demo Account Goals and Equity Limits for Breakout Evaluation
Breakout Evaluation 1-Step:
Account Size |
Upgrade Target |
Max Drawdown (static) |
Max daily loss |
$5,000 |
$500 |
$300 |
4% |
$10,000 |
$1,000 |
$600 |
4% |
$25,000 |
$2,500 |
$1,500 |
4% |
$50,000 |
$5,000 |
$3,000 |
4% |
$100,000 |
$10,000 |
$6,000 |
4% |
Breakout Evaluation 2-Step:
Account Size |
Upgrade Target (Phase 1) |
Upgrade Target (Phase 2) |
Max Drawdown (Trailing) |
Max daily loss |
$5,000 |
$250 |
$500 |
$400 |
5% |
$10,000 |
$500 |
$1,000 |
$800 |
5% |
$25,000 |
$1,250 |
$2,500 |
$2,000 |
5% |
$50,000 |
$2,500 |
$5,000 |
$4,000 |
5% |
$100,000 |
$5,000 |
$10,000 |
$8,000 |
5% |
Post-Stage Completion Process for Breakout Evaluation
If you pass one stage of a Breakout Evaluation, you will progress to the next stage.
If you purchased a 2-Step Breakout Evaluation, you will receive a new demo account for the second step after you have passed the first step. The new account can be selected via the dropdown menu in the top right-hand corner of the Breakout Terminal (web app). Your balance will be reset to the starting balance and your previous trades and positions will not carry over.
After you have passed the second step you will receive a new demo account (your Breakout Account, which is eligible for payouts). Before trading is enabled, you will be required to pass our KYC check and sign the Funded Trader Agreement. These are accessible in your dashboard. Once your account has been approved, trading will be enabled.
If you purchased a 1-Step Breakout Evaluation, you will receive a new demo account (your Breakout Account, which is eligible for payouts). Before trading is enabled, you will be required to pass our KYC check and sign the Funded Trader Agreement. These are accessible in your dashboard. Once your account has been approved, trading will be enabled.
Time Limits for Breakout Evaluation
We have no minimum or maximum time limits for any of our evaluations.
You can pass the Breakout Evaluation as soon as you meet the demo account goal while adhering to the equity limits and other applicable Terms and Conditions.
Viewing Maximum Daily Loss and Maximum Drawdown Equity Limits
The maximum drawdown and maximum daily loss equity limits are visible and updated in the dashboard.
The login for the dashboard is the email used to purchase the evaluation, and the password is contained in the credentials email (same as the Breakout Terminal password by default).
It is very important to become familiar with the dashboard, as it contains the equity limits for the account.
If the account’s equity reaches or exceeds any of the equity limits – this includes both the maximum daily loss equity limit and the maximum drawdown equity limit – the account will be in breach (all positions closed, the account is permanently disabled, and you must purchase another Breakout Evaluation if you wish to restart).
Maximum Daily Loss in Breakout Evaluation
As a reminder: Maximum daily loss and maximum drawdown are in force at the same time. Reaching or exceeding EITHER of these thresholds will result in a breach.
The maximum daily loss equity limit is 4% for 1-Step accounts and 5% for 2-Step accounts.
This is the daily equity limit for the account.
This is NOT a static $ amount.
This is NOT a daily reset based on your starting balance.
It is a percentage-based calculation from your balance at 12:30AM/0030 UTC.
This calculation takes place every day at 12:30AM/0030 UTC.
Note that your balance excludes open positions.
For example: Your balance (not including any open positions) at 12:30AM/0030 UTC is $105,000. You have a 1-Step Breakout Evaluation. Your maximum daily loss equity limit will be recalculated as $105,000 – 4% = $100,800. That will be your maximum daily loss equity limit for the next 24 hours, until 12:30AM/0030 UTC the following day.
If your equity (including any open positions) reaches or exceeds your maximum daily loss equity limit at any point for any amount of time, the account will be breached.
This means all positions are automatically closed, the account is permanently disabled, and you must restart the Breakout Evaluation if you wish to trade again.
Maximum Drawdown Calculation for 2-Step Breakout Evaluation
As a reminder: Maximum daily loss and maximum drawdown are in force at the same time. Reaching or exceeding EITHER of these thresholds will result in a breach.
The maximum drawdown equity limit for the 2-Step Breakout Evaluation is 8% of your starting balance, deducted from your highest account balance (“High Water Mark”).
This is the maximum drawdown equity limit for the account.
In your 2-Step Breakout Evaluation, the maximum drawdown equity limit is trailing, NOT static.
For example: You have a $100,000 2-Step Breakout Evaluation. The maximum drawdown is 8% of your starting balance. 8% of $100,000 is $8,000. Your maximum drawdown amount in this example will always be High Water Mark – $8,000.
Example continued: You have a $100,000 2-Step Breakout Evaluation. Your High Water Mark is $105,000. Your maximum drawdown equity limit will be $105,000 – $8,000 = $97,000.
The maximum drawdown equity limit trails up with your High Water Mark. This occurs any time your High Water Mark increases, not at a single fixed time of the day.
The maximum drawdown equity limit does not trail down from trading losses.
The maximum drawdown equity limit will not trail past your starting balance.
If your equity (including any open positions) reaches or exceeds your maximum drawdown equity limit at any point for any amount of time, the account will be breached.
This means all positions are automatically closed, the account is permanently disabled, and you must restart the Breakout Evaluation if you wish to trade again.
Maximum Drawdown Calculation for 1-Step Breakout Evaluation
As a reminder: Maximum daily loss and maximum drawdown are in force at the same time. Reaching or exceeding EITHER of these thresholds will result in a breach.
The maximum drawdown equity limit for the 1-Step Breakout Evaluation is 6% below your starting balance at all times – it is static.
For example: You have a fresh $100,000 Breakout Evaluation. The maximum drawdown is 6% below your starting balance. 6% below $100,000 is $94,000. Your maximum drawdown amount in this example will always be $94,000. It does not move up or down.
If your equity (including any open positions) reaches or exceeds your maximum drawdown equity limit at any point for any amount of time, the account will be breached.
This means all positions are automatically closed, the account is permanently disabled, and you must restart the Breakout Evaluation if you wish to trade again.
Trading Fees and Commissions in Breakout Evaluation
Our trading fees are 0.035% per side.
This is equivalent to 3.5 basis points/side = 7 basis points per round trip (opening and closing a trade).
As such, you are charged 0.035%/3.5 basis points when opening a trade, and 0.035%/3.5 basis points when closing a trade.
This is calculated using the notional size of the position.
There is also a swap fee of 0.09% per open position per day. This applies to positions that are open at 12:00AM/0000 UTC. The swap fee will be deducted from your balance at 12:25AM/0025 UTC.
You can see a full breakdown of your fees paid in your trading terminal via My Account > Cash Movements.
Our evaluation environment is intended to replicate a live environment to a very high degree of accuracy. This means that traders should always consider the available liquidity and order book depth when planning their trades, especially if they are trading less liquid instruments and trading during less liquid sessions (overnight, weekend, into news events, and so forth).
Available Leverage
Leverage for BTC and ETH is 5x.
Leverage for all other instruments is 2x.
Leverage is autoapplied and cannot be changed.
Breach Conditions in Breakout Evaluation
A breach event occurs when any of the following conditions are met:
Reaching or exceeding the maximum daily loss equity limit.
Reaching or exceeding the maximum drawdown equity limit.
Use of prohibited trading practices.
Any violation of our Terms and Conditions.
If the account is breached: all positions are automatically closed, the account is permanently disabled, and you must restart the Breakout Evaluation if you wish to trade again.
Exceeding Maximum Daily Loss and Maximum Drawdown Equity Limits
Exceeding the maximum daily loss equity limit will breach the account.
Exceeding the maximum drawdown equity limit will also breach the account.
Both of these equity limits are in force simultaneously, and apply at all times.
If the account is breached: all positions are automatically closed, the account is permanently disabled, and you must restart the Breakout Evaluation if you wish to trade again.
Prohibited Trading Practices
You are prohibited from using any trading strategy that is expressly prohibited by any Liquidity Provider used by the Company. Such prohibited trading (“Prohibited Trading”) shall include, but not be limited to:
- Exploiting errors or latency in the pricing and/or platform(s).
- Utilizing non-public and/or insider information.
- Front-running of trades placed elsewhere.
- Trading in any way that jeopardizes the relationship the Company has with a CEX or MM.
- Trading in any way that creates regulatory issues for Breakout, a CEX, or an MM.
- Utilizing any third-party strategy, off-the-shelf strategy or one marketed to pass evaluation requirements.
- Utilizing one strategy to pass the evaluation and then utilizing a different strategy in the simulated demo Account.
- Attempting to arbitrage your account with another account with the Company or any third-party company, as determined by the Company in its sole and absolute discretion.
- Using trading strategies that are difficult to replicate in the live market, or come at a heightened risk when attempting to do so. This includes but is not limited to: trades that would risk being auto-deleveraged due to Margin Requirements, trades resulting in exceedingly large fluctuations in unrealized gains/losses, and more.
- Executing trade ideas belonging to or inspired by any third-party, including but not limited to copy trading other traders’ and analysts’ ideas and copy trading signals from any type of trading community, social media, research reports, crowdsourced ideas, and more.
- Trading more than one Breakout Evaluation at the same time.
- Account sharing of any nature, including but not limited to sharing credentials with other users and/or trading multiple accounts from the same household, devices, or IP address.
Weekend Position Holdings
We allow for holding positions over the weekend.
All trading is 24/7 (outside of unplanned service interruptions and scheduled maintenance periods).
Multiple Breakout Evaluations
You are limited to only 1 Breakout Evaluation at any given time.
You must wait until your current evaluation is either breached or upgraded before beginning another one.
Trading more than one Breakout Evaluation at a time is prohibited.
Position Size Limits
The maximum position size on any given instrument is viewable in the Breakout Terminal.
Simply right-click on the symbol and select ‘Instrument info’, or click the “i” button at the top of the chart tab. This will show you the maximum position size per instrument.
A list of instruments and their corresponding maximum position sizes can also be viewed on our Symbols page. These limits mirror the limits set by our Liquidity Providers.
Hedging and Copy Trading Rules
Any copy trading must be copying your own trades.
Copying 3rd party strategies including but not limited to copy trading other traders’ and analysts’ ideas and copy trading signals from any type of trading community, social media, research reports, crowdsourced ideas, and similar entities – is prohibited.
Hedging within the same account is permitted (and hedge mode is enabled by default on all accounts).
Trading more than 1 Breakout Evaluation simultaneously will constitute a breach.
Payout Eligibility During Breakout Evaluation
You cannot receive payouts during the Breakout Evaluation.
The Breakout Evaluation is for assessment and evaluative purposes only.
Payment Options
We support payments via a range of credit/debit cards and cryptocurrencies.
User Fund Holdings
We do not hold or trade user funds.
All trading account balances consist entirely of simulated capital.
We will never require you to deposit any of your assets with us.
KYC Requirements
We do not mandate KYC for the Breakout Evaluation.
However, KYC becomes mandatory in order to gain access to a Breakout Account and become eligible to receive payouts.
KYC can be completed at any time via your dashboard.
We recommend submitting your KYC upon registration.
The process requires that you provide one of the following forms of ID: Passport, Driver’s License, ID card, or Residence Permit.
You must also provide a selfie that matches your ID.
You must also provide proof of residence that matches your ID.
KYC is conducted via SumSub.
VPN Usage Policy
We allow the use of VPNs; provided, however, you do not use VPNs in an attempt to conceal or misrepresent the jurisdiction in which you are operating or otherwise evade applicable laws and regulations.
Please note that you must satisfy our KYC requirements if you pass the Breakout Evaluation in order to gain access to a Breakout Account.
Refund Policy
We do not offer refunds except for one (1) specific evaluation upon KYC rejection. We are unable to refund multiple evaluations and/or previous evaluations.
Our full policy is available in our Terms and Conditions.
News Event Trading
We allow trading during all news events, subject to accessibility of data and pricing liquidity information from our third-party Liquidity Providers.
There is no rule or restriction on news trading.
KYC Rejection Process
KYC can be completed at any time via your dashboard.
If your KYC check is rejected, you will be fully refunded for the single, specific evaluation that you passed (if applicable).
This full refund only applies to one evaluation. We are unable to refund multiple evaluations and/or previous evaluations.
For this reason, we recommend submitting your KYC check immediately upon registering an account and logging in to your dashboard (even though KYC only becomes mandatory upon passing a Breakout Evaluation).
We use SumSub to conduct our KYC checks.
If you have good reasons to believe that your KYC was rejected erroneously, please contact us via support@breakoutprop.com.
Ineligible Countries
We are unable to offer any of our services to traders from and/or in the following jurisdictions:
Afghanistan, Belarus, Burma, Central African Republic, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zimbabwe, and the following regions of Ukraine: Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk.
This list may change depending on global regulatory and compliance requirements.
Minimum Age Requirement
You must be 18 or older in order to use any of our services.
New Breakout Evaluation Selection
Your login credentials for new Breakout Evaluations will be the same if they are purchased via the same email.
Your new Breakout Evaluation can be selected via the dropdown menu in the top right-hand corner of the Breakout Terminal (web app) or under the “Menu” option in the mobile apps. You can switch between your accounts using those dropdown menus.
Partial Take Profit Orders
Take profit orders cannot be taken in partials for a single position.
You can replicate partial take profit orders by:
Manually reducing your position size at the desired level(s) by clicking the small ‘x’ in the Positions tab next to your position. Ensure one-click trading is disabled.
Entering your trade using multiple positions and splitting up your take profit orders across those different positions.
Trading Environment
All trading during the Breakout Evaluation takes place in a live environment with simulated capital.
Latency and slippage arising as a result of any additional amount of time it takes for orders to be routed to and executed on the live market, including but not limited to the speed of internet connectivity and order routing, may adversely materially impact execution prices.
Liquidity Providers
For trading data and liquidity in our crypto trading environment, we source liquidity from third-party brokers, market makers, exchanges or other providers of liquidity in cryptocurrency (collectively, “Liquidity Providers”).
If you are looking for the most accurate pair to follow using your own TradingView account, the best proxies are OKX’s and Bybit’s USDT perpetual futures pairs (USDT.P).
These pairs will not always perfectly align with Breakout’s symbols. As such, we always recommend using our trading terminal’s native charting tools.
Trading Platforms
Trading is available via DXtrade.
Trading Hours
Trading hours are 24/7 for all instruments.
The only exceptions are unplanned service interruptions and scheduled maintenance periods, for which advance notice is given via email, our website, and Discord.
Unfilled Limit Orders
Unfilled limit orders may occur as a result of the spread (difference between the bid/ask) and/or insufficient liquidity (market depth) at your limit order price.
Our platform does not support partial fills, meaning that if your order can’t be filled for the full amount at your limit order price, it will not be filled at all.
To remedy this, we recommend splitting up your limit orders and/or checking the depth of market tool in our Breakout Terminal to see the available liquidity at a given price level.
90/10 Split Add-on
The default payout split is 80/20.
Applying the 90/10 split as an add-on will increase the payout split to 90/10.
The 90/10 split add-on cannot be added retroactively and is only available at the time of account purchase.
Breach Insurance Add-on
By default, breached accounts cannot request Trading Withdrawals.
A Breakout Account with the Breach Insurance add-on can request a Trading Withdrawal (and therefore a Breakout Payout) even if it is breached.
You must use the Breach Insurance add-on within 7 days of breaching the account. After 7 days, Trading Withdrawals from a breached account will no longer be available.
The minimum split amount of $50 still applies to this Trading Withdrawal.
The Breach Insurance add-on cannot be added retroactively and is only available at the time of account purchase.