This is the part most sites put at the bottom in small gray type. We are putting it first, because it is the part that decides whether this makes sense for you. The short version: you do not need to expose your own money to run TSOPEN. Funded accounts exist, they are legal and ordinary, and with one you buy yourself, your real outlay is an evaluation fee rather than your savings.
There are firms (proprietary trading firms, or "prop firms") whose entire business is putting their own capital behind people who can prove they follow rules. They are not lending you money and they are not an investment scheme. They are running an audition, you sign up for it yourself, and the audition costs about the price of a nice dinner.
Roughly $100 for a 50k account, about $250 for a 100k and around $400 for a 250k, depending on the firm and whatever promotion is running. That fee is the only money of yours that goes anywhere. It buys you a simulated account with a profit goal and a set of rules you are not allowed to break.
TSOPEN runs on that evaluation account exactly as it would anywhere else: one window a day at 8:30 AM ET, stop and target placed with the entry, nothing held overnight. You are not sitting there trying to behave. The rules are already in the code.
Hit the profit target without breaking a rule and the firm moves you to a funded account backed by their capital. Your own money still never enters the market. Depending on the size, the system trades one micro contract on a 50k, up to two on a 100k and up to five on a 250k. The backtest is the 50k, one-contract case.
Profits are split with the firm, most of it to you, and paid out on their schedule once you request a withdrawal. The capital stays theirs. If a funded account eventually hits its drawdown limit it is closed, and starting again costs another evaluation fee, with nothing else of yours in the market.
We support Apex Trader Funding, Lucid Trading, My Funded Futures and Tradeify, all of which run US futures evaluations on platforms the system can talk to. We do not sell, supply or fund those evaluations, and you open the account yourself, directly with the firm. Every firm has its own fine print (how the drawdown is calculated, whether there is a consistency rule, how often you can withdraw) and those details change what the same results are worth to you. Read them before you pay anybody, and run your own case in the calculator instead of taking an average from a sales page.
Most people do not fail an evaluation because they cannot read a chart. They fail it because on day nine they take a trade they had no reason to take, or they move a stop, or they double the size to make back what they lost on day eight. The rules are not hard to understand. They are hard to obey for thirty days in a row.
That is the whole case for automating this. A bot does not turn a bad plan into a good one. It turns a good plan into one that actually gets followed: on the boring days, on the annoying days, and on the day after a loss.
On the funded route, the money you can lose in the market is the evaluation fee. That is the cap, and it is known before you start. If the account goes badly, the firm closes it and the story ends there: nobody sends you a bill, no broker calls you for more margin, and your bank balance was never in the trade.
Where the arithmetic gets interesting is that fees are repeatable and small. In the last 7 months of the backtest the system produced $43,322 gross while consuming about 7 accounts, roughly $700 in evaluation fees. That is the real shape of this: a running cost, not a catastrophe.
Those are backtested figures on historical data, with no real money at risk. Your own numbers depend on the firm, the account size and the period you actually trade.
Everything above is the good news. This is the rest of it, written the way we would want it written if we were the ones about to spend money.
Every figure on this site ($274,406 gross, 4,557 trades, 7+ years) comes from a simulation over historical data. No real money was at risk in it and no order was ever actually filled. A simulation is built knowing how the period turned out, which is an advantage no live account has ever had. It is strong evidence that the rules had an edge over that history. It is not a forecast, and it is not a promise about next month.
The system wins 46.2% of its trades. That means losing streaks are normal, not a malfunction. The worst peak-to-trough stretch in the whole backtest was $4,379. The ugliest detail is the one nobody advertises: the curve can start red. If your first weeks happen to land inside a drawdown, that is within the range of ordinary behavior for this system, and quitting there is the most expensive decision available to you.
A futures contract controls far more value than the margin it takes to hold it. That works both directions. And a stop is an instruction at a price, not a guarantee of that price: in the violent seconds after an economic release, a market can jump straight past your level and fill you worse than you asked. It is uncommon and it is bounded, but it is real, and any system that tells you otherwise is not describing this market.
The fee is small compared with the capital it unlocks, but it is not free and it is not refundable when an account fails. Accounts do fail. That is why the backtest counts about 7 of them consumed in its last 7 months. If you cannot comfortably spend a few hundred dollars on fees over a stretch without it affecting your life, this is not the right time to start.
Not the rent. Not the emergency fund. Not money that has a job in three months. This rule is older than every system ever sold and it has never once been wrong. If following it means you start smaller or start later, start smaller or start later. The market will still be open at 8:30 AM ET whenever you are ready.
The capital is not yours and it never becomes yours. It belongs to the prop firm, and you are trading it under their rules, in their account. What is yours is your agreed share of the profits once you request a payout and they approve it. That is the trade you are making: you do not get to keep the capital, and in exchange you never had to risk it.
You lose the evaluation fee and nothing else. The account is closed, your own money was never in the market, and if you want another attempt you pay for another evaluation. This is a normal outcome, not a disaster: in the last 7 months of the backtest roughly 7 accounts were consumed, around $700 in fees in total. Budget for the fees as a running cost, not as a one-time purchase you expect to keep forever.
The stop is placed in the market in the same instant as the entry, so the loss on a trade is bounded before anything happens. In the backtest, trading one micro contract on a $50,000 account, the average losing trade was $193 and the average winner was $354. The honest caveat is that a stop is a price, not a promise: in a violent move right after a data release it can fill worse than where it was placed, which is called slippage. The size of the loss is controlled, not guaranteed to the dollar.
You can, and some people prefer it because the profits are entirely theirs and nobody imposes a consistency rule on them. The trade-off is that your own capital is now exposed to every loss instead of a fixed fee, and you need whatever margin your broker requires for the contracts the system trades. If you go that route, size it so that a bad run the shape of the $4,379 drawdown in the backtest would be uncomfortable rather than ruinous.
The stop and the target are sent to the market as working orders, not held on your desktop, so they normally stay live at the broker if your machine loses power or your internet drops. Confirm how your specific broker or prop firm handles resting orders before you rely on that, because the detail varies. If the computer is simply off when the window opens, nothing happens at all: the system does not trade that day. If leaving a machine on is inconvenient, a small VPS runs it around the clock for a few dollars a month.
If something on this page does not add up, or your situation is not covered here, send it through the contact form. It becomes a support ticket with a reference and somebody on the team answers it. There is no phone number, no chat app and nobody who is going to push you into buying today. That is deliberate.
And if you have already read the full backtest report and run your own case in the calculator, you know as much about this as we do.