Warm up and work out your trading skills with a no-risk training program. Gain access to our trading coach, experience the Live Squawk Radio, and utilize our trading tools as long as you’d like as you become a confident futures trader.
When you think your performance is at the peak of your game, enter our Scouting Combine where our Scouts will watch and evaluate you. You’ll showcase your skills while we search for the top talent.
Traders who qualify (as determined by our scouts in step 2) receive a fully-funded trading account, keeping up to 80% of the profits, while our equity backers absorb the loss.
If you’ve got what it takes, you’ll move to step 3 and go pro as a fully-funded trader keeping up to 80% of your profits while we absorb any losses.
In the Combine, you’ll trade real-time futures in a simulated, no-risk environment. Those who successfully complete the Combine will begin trading a fully-funded live trading account with the SAME parameters.
Here’s how it works:
Below, you choose either 10 or 20 days of trading evaluation (each to be completed within 30 or 60 days, respectively).
Tools and support for you during the Combine:
Live Squawk Radio
Live Squawk Radio broadcasting live daily from the Chicago Board of Trade trading floor (8:15am - 3:15pm CST, Monday - Friday).
(Monday-Friday, 9am-3pm CST)
Profit greater then $[Choose account parameters]
and adhere to the
Scouting Criteria
Sign up by 3pm CST today to receive your account information before the markets open at 5pm CST, which is the start of new trading day.
Deposit will be refunded at the end of the Combine if the account balance is above the initial balance, daily loss limit was not hit AND 2 out of 4 of the performance requirements* have been met, which are as follows:
- Overall Average Win greater than Overall Average Loss
- Overall Average Win Duration greater than Overall Average Loss Duration
- Largest Winning Day greater than Largest Losing Day
- Total Win % greater than 45%
Deposit will be forfeited at the end of the Combine if any of the following occur: the account balance is below the initial balance, daily loss limit was hit, or if a minimum of 2 out of 4 of the performance requirements* were not met.
Deposit will be refunded at the end of the Combine and you will be extended a live trading account if total account balance is above the profit objective and you have successfully followed the Scouting Criteria.
Performance requirements must be met for ALL product(s), and the product(s) must be traded the required days of the Combine.
Note: The daily trade report is used to determine whether the deposit requirements have been met. An example of a trade report which has met all of the deposit and performance requirements can be found here.
Traders that have profited from trading a software glitch are not eligible for a Combine review or refund. These traders may also be removed permanently from the Combine.
Disclaimer The rollover/deposit requirements are subject to change without notice. Please review this information prior to entering a new Combine.
Recruits who enter the Combine will be evaluated using the criteria below. The daily trade report is used to evaluate whether the scouting criteria was met. The scout team's review is subjective, and you may be asked to repeat the evaluation period. Reasons for not selecting a recruit who completes the Combine with a net equity (P&L after commissions ($1.25/contract) and exchange fees ($1.25/contract) are subtracted) greater than Combine profit objective could be, but is not limited to the following:
Additionally, each product traded during the Combine must meet at least TWO of the performance requirements and be traded all 10 days of the Combine:
Additionally, the recruit must read and understand the Scout Team comments
ALL of these rules and requirements MUST BE FOLLOWED in order to be offered the Live Trader Setup - absolutely NO exceptions.
If ANY of the above occur or if performance requirements are not met during the Combine, although your account balance is greater than Combine profit objective you will not be selected as a live trader. All of the above mentioned will be relayed to the recruit via email (Combine reminder, etc.), scouts in the chat room (NEBRASKA, HOAG or JAYHAWK), chat room broadcaster (EDDIE), and trading software alerts. Software alerts are sent through the system to your trading screen during day and night trading.
Please note, it is recommended by the scout team that recruits do not hold a position into a major economic release (we suggest being flat on economic numbers releases indicated here by a yellow or red star).
As a global scouting agency seeking futures trading talent, we have an obligation to our equity partners to present them with a recruit who we believe will be a person of good character and a reflection of our TopstepTrader Combine program.
Disclaimer: The Scouting Criteria is subject to change without notice. Please review this information prior to entering a new Combine.
Additionally, each product traded during the Combine must meet at least TWO of the performance requirements and be traded all 20 days of the Combine:
If ANY of the above occur or if performance requirements are not met during the Combine, although your account balance is greater than Combine profit objective you will not be selected as a live trader. All of the above mentioned will be relayed to the recruit via email (Combine reminder, etc.), scouts in the chat room (NEBRASKA, HOAG or JAYHAWK), chat room broadcaster (EDDIE), and trading software alerts. Software alerts are sent through the system to your trading screen during trading.
You must have a current TopstepTrader Training, Combine, or Challenge account. Click here to register.