Tradeify Select, 2026
On a 100K Select you trade 8 minis during the evaluation. The moment you pass, your funded account starts you on 3.
Select is the only Tradeify plan with no consistency rule once funded. Here is everything that comes with that, including the parts that surprise people.
Want a funded account that does not shrink when you pass? Here is Phidias Express to Live. First, how Select really works.
What is a Tradeify Select account?
Select is Tradeify’s unified evaluation plan, sold in 25K, 50K, 100K and 150K sizes from $109 as a one-time purchase. Everyone sits the same evaluation: a 40% consistency rule, a three-day minimum, and no daily loss limit. What makes it different is that you choose your payout policy after you pass, either Daily or Flex, and it is the only Tradeify plan with no consistency rule once funded.
Check the 50K number you read elsewhere. Several guides still list a $2,500 profit target on the 50K Select. Tradeify’s current figure is $3,000. The help center is explicit that “accounts purchased before the new dashboard launch retain their original $2,500 profit target, including on reset”, so $2,500 is a grandfathered number for older accounts, not what you buy today.
Tradeify Select in 30 seconds
The evaluation: one rule set for everyone. 40% consistency, three days minimum, and no daily loss limit, which is rare.
The funded account: no consistency rule at all, on either payout path. No other Tradeify plan does that.
The catch: you start on fewer contracts than you had in the evaluation, and the Daily or Flex choice is permanent for that account.
Our verdict (William G.)
Select is the best-designed account Tradeify sells, and I do not say that lightly about a competitor. No daily loss limit in the evaluation, no consistency rule once funded, and a drawdown that actually stops trailing are three genuine wins. What the marketing skips is that passing makes your account smaller before it makes it bigger, and that the payout path you pick in a single click cannot be undone.
How much does a Tradeify Select account cost?
Select is a one-time purchase with no activation fee and no monthly subscription. Tradeify runs a fresh discount code most months, so treat the promo column as indicative and check the live price at checkout.
One limit worth knowing: Tradeify allows an evaluation to be reset up to 10 times within any 30-day period, and caps you at 15 evaluations purchased in the same window. The reset fee is charged per attempt, so your true cost of entry is the purchase price plus a reset fee for every retry. Note that Tradeify quotes two different figures for a 25K reset: the account widget shows $75 while the pricing reference lists $60, so budget for the higher one and check at checkout.
What are the Tradeify Select evaluation rules?
Every Select trader sits the same evaluation, whatever they plan to do afterwards. Three rules define it.
No daily loss limit
This is the headline advantage and it is real. During a Select evaluation there is no daily loss limit at all. A bad session cannot end your account on its own; only the trailing drawdown can. Growth, by contrast, carries a daily loss limit throughout.
A 40% consistency rule, and the three-day minimum it creates
No single day’s profit may exceed 40% of your total profit when you pass. Tradeify is unusually direct about the consequence: the minimum trading day count is three days precisely “due to the consistency rule”. You cannot clear a 40% cap in fewer than three profitable days, so the rule sets the timeline.
The arithmetic is worth internalising before you start. Divide your best day by 0.40 to get the total profit you need before that day stops blocking you.
Biggest day ÷ 0.40 = total profit required
On a 25K the target is $1,500, so any single day above $600 becomes the binding constraint rather than the target itself.
An end-of-day trailing drawdown
The drawdown is calculated on your closing balance, not intraday equity, so an unrealised swing during the session cannot fail you. On a 25K it is $1,000, so your floor starts at $24,000 and rises with your closing balances. What happens to it after you pass is the most useful thing in this guide, and we come to it below.
How to pass a Tradeify Select evaluation
Because there is no daily loss limit, only the trailing drawdown can actually fail your account. Tradeify is explicit: “your only risk limit during evaluation is the End of Day trailing drawdown”, and an account is never failed for being too consistent. What the consistency rule does is delay you, and it delays you on your best day, not your worst.
Work backwards from the target. On a 25K you need $1,500, and no day may exceed 40% of your total. So if you intend to finish at the target, your ceiling for any single session is $600.
A clean three-day pass on a 25K looks like $500, $500, $500. Total $1,500, best day is 33% of it, target met on the minimum number of days.
A big first day is what costs you time. Make $900 on day one and you have done 60% of the target in one session, but you now need total profit of at least $2,250 before that day drops to 40%. In other words a great day did not shorten your evaluation, it added $750 of extra profit you must earn before you can pass. The rule punishes the outlier, not the loss.
The practical approach: size so that a strong session lands near your ceiling rather than far above it, and treat the ceiling as a stop-trading trigger. Because Select has no daily loss limit, you have room to be wrong intraday. What you do not have is room to be spectacularly right in one sitting.
Daily or Flex: the choice you make after passing
Passing a Select evaluation does not drop you into a fixed funded account. You pick one of two payout policies, and Tradeify states plainly that this decision is permanent for that account. It sets your payout rhythm, your withdrawal formula, your daily loss limit and, on the larger sizes, your drawdown.
Look at the bottom two rows together, because that pairing is easy to miss. On the 100K and 150K, choosing Daily does not only add a daily loss limit, it also shrinks your maximum drawdown, from $3,000 to $2,500 and from $4,500 to $3,500. Your payout preference is quietly also a risk setting. Accounts bought before September 1, 2026 keep the older caps; our Tradeify Select payout rules guide compares both, size by size.
Daily vs Flex calculator
Pick your account size and how much profit you have made, and see what each payout path actually lets you withdraw. The choice is permanent for that account.
Select Flex
Every 5 winning days
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Select Daily
Daily eligibility
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You receive 90% of any approved request. Figures follow Tradeify's published Select payout policies and are an illustration, not a quote.
How each Tradeify Select payout path actually works
Select Flex: five winning days, half your profit
Flex pays every five winning days, and a winning day only counts if it clears a floor: $100 on a 25K, $150 on a 50K, $200 on a 100K, $250 on a 150K. Five flat or losing sessions do not move you toward a payout.
When you qualify you may withdraw up to 50% of your total profit, meaning current balance minus starting balance, subject to the cap for your size. And here is the part that separates Flex from every other Tradeify plan:
Select Flex has no minimum balance requirement. Tradeify’s words: you can request a payout immediately after achieving 5 winning days, regardless of your account balance. Compare that with a Growth account, where a 25K has to reach $26,500 before you may ask for anything.
Select Daily: the buffer and the 2x rule
Daily lets you request a payout on any day, but two mechanisms govern how much.
First, a buffer of profit above your starting balance that you can never dip below: $1,100 on a 25K (a $26,100 floor), $2,100 on a 50K ($52,100), $2,600 on a 100K ($102,600), $3,600 on a 150K ($153,600). Only profit above that line is withdrawable.
Second, the Daily Continuity Rule: you may request up to twice the profit you have earned since your last payout, capped by size, with a $250 minimum per request.
Tradeify’s own worked example on a 50K makes it concrete. Earn $250 since your last payout and you may request $500. Earn $700 and 2x would be $1,400, but the 50K cap holds you to $1,000. Earn only $100 and 2x is $200, below the $250 minimum, so you are not eligible yet.
Read the 2x rule carefully, because it is not free money. Withdrawing twice what you just earned means the difference comes out of the cushion you had already built. Neither path pays you more than you make: across a full account life, total withdrawals are bounded by total profit. What Daily buys is speed of access, and what it costs is a daily loss limit, a tighter drawdown on the big sizes, and a balance that erodes toward the buffer if you keep withdrawing at the maximum.
One rule applies to both paths after your first payout: you must have positive net profit during the payout cycle. Lose money after a withdrawal and you have to earn it back before you can request again.
The Tradeify Select drawdown that stops trailing
Most trailing drawdowns in this industry follow you forever. Tradeify’s do not: on all its simulated funded accounts the drawdown eventually stops trailing. What makes Select’s version the most valuable is when it stops, and that you can trigger it yourself.
Your drawdown locks permanently at $100 above your starting balance. On a 50K that means it freezes at $50,100. Once locked, the floor sits above where you started: the worst case on that account is breaching at $50,100, which is $100 more than your starting balance, no matter how high you climb afterwards.
Two ways it locks, whichever comes first
1. Automatically, at end of day, once your closing balance clears the trigger Tradeify publishes for your size and payout policy. On a 25K it is $26,100, on a 50K $52,100. On a 100K it is $103,100 (Flex) or $102,600 (Daily), and on a 150K $154,600 (Flex) or $153,600 (Daily). Select locks earlier than Growth or Lightning at every size above the 25K, which is the real advantage. (Tradeify’s own pages disagree on the 25K Flex trigger: the drawdown rule page says $26,100, the Select payout policy says $26,600. Assume the higher one.)
2. Immediately, the moment you request a payout, whether or not you have hit that balance.
Why that second trigger matters: on Flex there is no minimum balance, so you can request a payout as soon as you have five winning days. Doing it early locks your floor sooner. The decision to take a first modest payout is not only about cash, it permanently caps your downside on that account.
Why a funded Select account starts you smaller
This one catches almost everybody. On every size above the 25K, you spend the evaluation trading a certain contract limit, you pass, and your funded account hands you fewer contracts than you just had. The 25K is the exception: it starts on the same 1 mini and scales up to 2.
On a 150K the drop is 12 minis to 3, a quarter of the size you qualified with. Tradeify does not hide it, and even answers it in its own FAQ: “Why do I start with fewer contracts in my funded account than I had during evaluation?” The stated reason is risk management, and limits recalibrate at end of day as your closing balance passes each scaling threshold.
The practical consequence is that the strategy that passed your evaluation may not fit your funded account. If your plan depends on size, you will be trading a materially smaller version of it for a while, on an account whose payout cap is already fixed.
What happens after: the path to Tradeify Elite
Select, Growth and Lightning all feed the same live programme, Tradeify Elite, and the qualification criteria are identical whichever plan and payout policy you hold. You become eligible for consideration once you reach one of two thresholds:
3 payouts on a single account, or
10 total payouts since your last live transition, across all plan types.
Now the part that decides how you should read those numbers. Tradeify states, in its own words, that these thresholds are “the minimum requirements for consideration, not automatic qualification”, that “most traders will not be transitioned to live immediately upon hitting these thresholds”, and that “our team will reach out directly when a trader is selected”.
That is an honest disclosure and worth crediting. It is also the single most important sentence in the Select proposition: hitting the target does not get you live capital, being chosen does. Elite is a genuine live programme, described on Tradeify’s own homepage as “real, live capital”, and it puts Tradeify ahead of firms offering no live route at all. But the last step is a selection, on a timetable you do not control.
One more line from the same page belongs here, because it makes the Daily or Flex decision heavier than it looks: there are no refunds or exchanges. If you later decide you picked the wrong payout policy, Tradeify’s stated remedy is to purchase and pass another evaluation.
No shrink, no permanent choice, no cap
6 hours 18 minutes.
That is the Phidias record from buying the evaluation to receiving a payout. With Express to Live the entire cycle, buy, pass, get funded, get paid and convert to a real LIVE account with our brokerage partner, can happen the same day.
Select and Phidias Express to Live ask the same $1,500 profit target on a 25K, so the comparison is unusually clean.
Select asks you to clear it under a 40% consistency rule across a three-day minimum, then hands you a funded account with a permanent payout choice, a capped withdrawal, and, on the larger sizes, fewer contracts than you just traded.
Express to Live asks for the same $1,500 on an evaluation with no consistency rule and no minimum trading days, on a $500 static drawdown that sits at $24,500 and never trails at all, locked or otherwise. Your first payout converts the account to LIVE, where withdrawals are daily and uncapped.
If you want a well-built simulated account with fair rules, Select is a good buy and the honest recommendation among Tradeify’s three plans. If what you want is real capital in your own name, fast, Select is still a simulated account with a selection process at the end of it, and Express to Live is a product rule that runs in a day.
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Which Tradeify account is right for you?
Tradeify Select vs Growth vs Lightning
Select only makes sense next to the other two plans, and the differences are sharper than the pricing page suggests.
Put simply: Growth is the cheapest and fastest to pass, but of the two evaluation plans it is the more conditional to withdraw from, and Lightning’s 20% first-payout rule is tighter still. Select costs $10 more and reverses that trade completely. For $10 on a 25K you swap a one-day pass for a three-day one, and in exchange you drop the 35% consistency rule from every future payout and gain a drawdown that stops trailing. For most traders planning to hold the account and take repeated payouts, that is the better side of the trade.
Frequently asked questions
Does Tradeify Select have a consistency rule?
Yes during the evaluation, at 40%. Once funded, no. Select is the only Tradeify plan with no consistency rule on a funded account, on either the Daily or the Flex payout path.
What is the profit target on a Tradeify Select 50K?
$3,000 on accounts bought today. Older accounts purchased before the new dashboard launch keep a $2,500 target, including after a reset, which is why some guides still quote the lower figure.
Can you change from Select Daily to Select Flex?
No. Tradeify states the choice is permanent for that account. If you want the other policy you need a separate account, so decide before you click.
How many days does it take to pass a Tradeify Select evaluation?
A minimum of three trading days. Tradeify attributes the minimum directly to the 40% consistency rule: no single day may carry more than 40% of your profit, which cannot be satisfied in fewer than three profitable sessions.
Is there a minimum balance for a Select payout?
On Flex, no: you can request a payout after 5 winning days regardless of balance. On Daily, you must stay above a buffer of $1,100 (25K), $2,100 (50K), $2,600 (100K) or $3,600 (150K).
Does the Tradeify Select drawdown stop trailing?
Yes, and so does every other Tradeify simulated funded account. It locks permanently at $100 above your starting balance, either automatically once your closing balance clears the published trigger ($26,100 on a 25K, $52,100 on a 50K), or immediately when you request a payout, whichever happens first. That second trigger is unique to Select, and Select also locks earlier than Growth or Lightning on the 100K and 150K.
Why does my funded Select account have fewer contracts?
Funded accounts use progressive scaling. A 100K trades 8 minis in the evaluation but starts funded on 3, scaling back to 8 as your closing balance clears each threshold. Tradeify cites risk management as the reason.
How do you qualify for Tradeify Elite from a Select account?
You become eligible for consideration after 3 payouts on one account or 10 total payouts since your last live transition. Tradeify is explicit that these are minimum requirements for consideration, not automatic qualification, and that most traders are not moved to live immediately on reaching them.
What is the biggest day allowed in a Select evaluation?
If you plan to finish at the profit target, 40% of it: $600 on a 25K, $1,200 on a 50K, $2,400 on a 100K and $3,600 on a 150K. Exceed it and you must keep trading until your total profit is large enough for that day to fall back under 40%.
Is Tradeify Select better than Growth?
For most traders who intend to take repeated payouts, yes. Select costs about $10 more on a 25K and removes the 35% consistency rule and the minimum balance that gate every Growth withdrawal. Growth wins only if your priority is passing in a single day.
Useful resources
Tradeify: Select Evaluation Accounts, the official rules, targets and drawdowns by size.
Tradeify: Select Flex and Select Daily Payout Policies, the source for buffers, caps, scaling and the drawdown lock.
Phidias Express to Live, the same-day path from evaluation to a real LIVE account.
Related guides
Which Tradeify Platform Should You Choose? 2026, the three broker connections and the checkout choice you cannot undo.
Tradeify Growth vs Select vs Lightning 2026, which of the three accounts to actually buy, and what failing each one really costs.
Tradeify Review 2026, the full breakdown of the firm, its three plans and its live program.
Tradeify Growth Account 2026, the rules and costs, and why the payout threshold sits above the cap.
Tradeify Payout Rules 2026, every payout condition across Growth, Select and Lightning.
Is Tradeify Legit? 2026, who owns it, who actually pays you, and the red flags worth weighing.
Tradeify Discount Code: the rate, the use cap and the end date, read from their own banner.
About the author
William G.
William G. is a futures trader and prop firm analyst at Phidias Propfirm. He tests competitor rule sets against their own published documentation, and writes about what actually happens between passing an evaluation and being paid. Every figure in this guide is taken from Tradeify’s own pricing page and help center, checked in August 2026.
