The published backtest covers more than 7 years. For this calculator we use its most recent stretch, because that is the system's current pace: $43,322 gross in the last 7 months on a $50,000 funded account, about $41,200 net once commissions are out. The performance page has the full period and why the pace changed. The system does not care about account size. A bigger account just fits more contracts, and once it is running you can replicate it across several accounts at once. Move the controls and see what comes out.
On one $50,000 account, x1 contracts, 90% split.
| Backtest gross on the $50,000 account | $0 |
| Contracts (x1) | $0 |
| Accounts replicated (1) | $0 |
| Broker commissions (≈$1 per micro contract, ≈5%) | $0 |
| Net profit | $0 |
| The firm's share (10%) | $0 |
| Yours | $0 |
| Evaluations consumed over the stretch (≈7 × $100 average) | $0 |
Read this before you get excited. Everything here is backtest output, a simulation over historical data. Hypothetical results are prepared with hindsight, carry no financial risk, and cannot fully reflect real execution or slippage. Past performance does not guarantee future results, and the period your account actually trades will not be the backtest's period. The evaluation price is an average: every firm has its own pricing, promotions, drawdown limits, consistency rules and payout calendar, and if an evaluation is not passed that money is gone. The account cost is not a one-off fee either: accounts get replaced as they exhaust their payouts or hit a bad run (the bankroll section below explains it), and the real rate of consumption can differ from the backtest's. Nothing on this page is a promise.
Funded accounts are not immortal, and it is worth saying so plainly. Most firms cap the number of payouts per account, often around five, and cap the amount per payout: on a 50k account a ceiling near $2,000 per payout is common. When an account runs out of payouts it closes and you buy another. And if a bad run takes an account down, that one gets replaced too. Both are part of how this works normally, and neither one is an accident.
To generate the stretch this calculator uses ($43,322 gross on the 50k account over the last 7 months of the backtest), roughly 7 accounts were consumed between accounts that exhausted their payouts and accounts that hit a bad run. At about $100 each for a 50k, that is around $700 in fees across the whole stretch. The calculator above already counts that: the "what you put in" figure is not one fee, it is the estimated cost of the entire period.
The figure of about 7 accounts corresponds to the last 7 months of the backtest on a 50k account. It is a simulation over historical data: the real rate of payouts, bad runs and replacements can be different, and past performance does not guarantee future results.
TSOPEN does exactly the same thing on a $50,000 account as on a $250,000 one. The only difference is how many contracts it puts on each trade. These are the backtest numbers scaled, with commissions out and before the split with the firm.
| Funded account | Contracts | Gross (backtest) | Net (−5%) | Average month, net | Cost in evaluations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $50,000 | x1 | ≈$43,322 | ≈$41,200 | ≈$5,800 | ≈$700 |
| $100,000 | x2 | ≈$86,644 | ≈$82,300 | ≈$11,700 | ≈$1,750 |
| $250,000 | x5 | ≈$216,610 | ≈$205,800 | ≈$29,300 | ≈$2,800 |
Because it is the account the backtest was built on, because the evaluation is the cheapest one, and because the intelligent order is to prove the system on live data with the small account and scale afterwards. Going from 50k to 100k, to 250k, or to several accounts is a one-minute decision once you have watched the system trade your first account. Going too big on day one is the fastest way to turn a good idea into a lost account.
The system does not work harder for trading more contracts: at 8:30 AM it takes its one trade of the day, exactly the same. The only thing that changes is the result per trade, up and down, in the same proportion. So once you trust it, a 250k account at x5 contracts and five 50k accounts replicated are the same idea: the same discipline, multiplied. Put x5 into the calculator and you will see why this changes the conversation.
A proprietary trading firm looks for disciplined trading to back with its own capital. You pay for an evaluation, you show you trade with a plan, and in exchange you get an account funded with their money and keep most of what it makes.
An evaluation costs on average about $100 for a 50k, $250 for a 100k and $400 for a 250k. That is your entire exposure: your own capital never enters the market.
Hit a profit target (around $3,000 on a 50k) without touching the loss limit. Few trades, capped risk, nothing reckless, which is exactly what TSOPEN does by design.
You move to trading the firm's capital. The system keeps taking its one daily trade, now with money that is not yours.
You withdraw on each firm's payout calendar. The four firms below leave you between 90% and 100% of the profits.
There are dozens. We support four of them, meaning the system is built to run inside their rules: they pay, they publish those rules clearly and they do not give you trouble for running an automated system. You buy the evaluation from the firm yourself and pay the firm directly. We do not sell, fund or provide accounts, and no account is included with the software.
The biggest and longest-running in futures. Near-permanent discounts on evaluations, allows many accounts at once and copying between your own accounts: the favorite for replicating.
Transparent rules designed with systems in mind: the loss limit only moves at the end of the day, bots and trade copiers are allowed, and the split is 90%.
Affordable evaluations with simple plans and very little bureaucracy. One of the most popular places to start while putting in the minimum.
A 90% split, straightforward evaluations and a solid reputation for paying without drama. Lets you group several of your own accounts, which is ideal for replication.
Terms as of August 2026 (split, limits, number of accounts, prices). They change often, so check them at the source before you pay for anything, and read how to compare firms first.
The calculator above tells you what the system produces. This tells you what reaches your bank, which is not the same number and never has been. Four $50,000 accounts, one at each firm, run for six months at the pace of the published backtest. Every card shows what was paid in evaluation fees, how many withdrawals came out, and what was left after the fees.
$100 eval · $2,500 trailing · 100/0 to $25k
$99 eval · $2,000 end of day · 90/10
$150 eval · $2,000 end of day · 80/20
$129 eval · $2,000 end of day · 90/10
Four accounts, six months, at the recent pace of $5,800 a month, works out to $139,200 of system profit. What comes out the other end is $46,763, which is about 34% of it. The difference is not a fee and it is not a trick: it is the profit sitting in an account on the day that account hits its drawdown limit. You do not withdraw daily, so some of what the system makes is always in transit, and some of what is in transit never arrives. Anyone showing you the first number and calling it income is showing you half the arithmetic.
A model, not a record. TSOPEN is new and has no year of payout history to show you, so nothing here is presented as one. The trade results come from the simulated backtest on the performance page; the fees, drawdown rules and splits are each firm's published terms as of August 2026, and those change often. Hypothetical performance has inherent limitations and does not guarantee future results.
When TSOPEN has already passed an evaluation and is trading your first funded account, there is nothing new to invent: the same 8:30 AM trade is copied, in the same instant, into every account you hold. Five 50k accounts are five times the result for the same one minute of work a day.
This is the part that genuinely changes people's numbers. Which is why we give you the fine print with it:
The recent stretch of the backtest, on one 50k account, produces more than $43,322 in 7 months (about $41,200 net). Replicated across five accounts that is around $206,000 net, of which a 90% split leaves you roughly $185,000. What you put in over the stretch: with the backtest's rate of account consumption (about 7 per replica), somewhere near $3,500 in fees.
Backtest, not a live account. Every account has to pass its own evaluation and every firm's rules apply to each one separately. Hypothetical results. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
They are the TSOPEN backtest in the NinjaTrader 8 Strategy Analyzer. You can see the whole thing and reproduce it on the performance page, with about 5% taken off for commissions and then scaled by contracts and by accounts. A backtest is a simulation over historical data. It is the honest way to show a system before you buy it, but it is not a live account and it guarantees nothing about the future.
You can. We do not recommend it. The evaluation is considerably more expensive, the profit target is bigger, and you still have not watched the system trade live. Start at 50k, watch it for a couple of months, and scale with what you have seen rather than with what you have read.
On average about $100 for a 50k, $250 for a 100k and $400 for a 250k. It depends on the firm and on whatever promotion is running, and there is almost always one. Count on it not being a single payment forever either: when an account exhausts its payouts or goes down, it gets replaced.
You lose what you paid for that evaluation, and nothing else. On a funded account you cannot lose more than the fee. You can try again whenever you want. That capped, known-in-advance risk is exactly why this route makes sense to start with.
No. You buy a software license, once, and that is the entire relationship. We never see your account, we never touch your money, and we take no share of anything you make. The split in this calculator is the one your prop firm keeps, not ours.