Take Profit Trader Stocks 2026: No, and What You Trade Instead

Trading futures for a funded account? Phidias Express to Live is the alternative we build. First, exactly what Take Profit Trader lets you trade.

Can you trade stocks on Take Profit Trader?

No. Take Profit Trader is a futures prop firm, and its published permitted products list contains 38 futures contracts. It states on its about page that its program and platforms do not support or facilitate trading in stocks, options, forex, cryptocurrencies or CFDs. Everything on the list trades on one of four CME Group exchanges: CME, CBOT, NYMEX or COMEX.

One nuance worth carrying into the rest of this page: alongside the 38-item list, Take Profit Trader also describes its policy more broadly, saying you may trade most futures products on those four exchanges. The list is what is enabled today, not a closed universe, and there is a documented route to ask for additions.

What to trade instead of the thing you searched for

Start here. Whatever brought you to this page, there is probably a contract that does the job.

The last row is the only genuine gap. If your edge is company-specific, this is the wrong product entirely, and no prop firm in the futures space will serve it. Everything above that row is a substitution rather than a compromise.

The full permitted products list

Take Profit Trader publishes the whole list with symbols and exchanges. Here is the top of it, straight from their help centre.

Grouped by what they actually are, the 38 break down like this.

Two things stand out from that breakdown. Currencies are the largest group, which surprises people who assume a futures prop firm is an index-trading shop. And crypto is the smallest, with exactly two contracts, both micro-sized.

Can you trade forex on Take Profit Trader?

Not spot forex. But currency futures are the single best-served asset class here, with ten contracts.

You get the Australian dollar (6A), British pound (6B), Canadian dollar (6C), euro (6E), Japanese yen (6J), New Zealand dollar (6N) and Swiss franc (6S), plus two smaller euro contracts, E7 and M6E, and a micro Australian dollar, M6A.

If you came from a retail forex background, the practical differences are worth knowing up front. These are exchange-traded contracts with fixed sizes and defined expiries, cleared through a central counterparty rather than faced against a dealer. You pay a commission per round trip per contract instead of a spread mark-up, which is more visible but not free.

The hard daily deadline is not a property of the market either: it comes from Take Profit Trader’s own Rule 4, which is the next section.

What you do not get is the long tail: no exotics, no crosses beyond what the list carries, and nothing quoted against anything other than the US dollar.

Can you trade crypto on Take Profit Trader?

Two contracts, both futures, both micro: MBT for Bitcoin and MET for Ether. There is no spot crypto, no altcoins beyond those two, and no way to hold a coin.

One detail in Take Profit Trader’s own list is worth flagging because it is easy to misread. Those two entries are named Micro Bitcoin Futures and Options and Micro Ether Futures and Options. That is the CME’s product name for the family, not an options permission.

Take Profit Trader settles the question elsewhere, on its own about page, stating that its program and platforms do not support or facilitate trading in stocks, options, forex, cryptocurrencies, or CFDs. So the answer on options is no, and the two product names are simply the CME’s.

When you are allowed to trade them

The permitted list is only half of the rule. Take Profit Trader’s fourth core rule covers approved products and approved hours, and the hours half ends accounts.

Positions cannot be carried from one trading day into the next. The window runs from 6 PM Eastern to 5 PM Eastern, the trading day ends at 5 PM Eastern, and Take Profit Trader automatically closes any open position at 4:55 PM Eastern.

The line that surprises people is the last one: you may reopen from 6 PM Eastern, but any trade opened at or after 6 PM counts toward the next trading day. An evening session is tomorrow’s session, which matters for anything measured per day.

That is a real reason to check the session of anything outside the index contracts before you trade it. The grains and Live Cattle on this list run shorter sessions than the equity index products, which turns an ordinary end-of-day into a liquidation risk that ES simply does not carry. The rest of the rulebook, and what each breach costs, is in our guide to the Take Profit Trader rules.

How many of them you can hold at once

The permitted list tells you what. Rule 2 tells you how much, and it is a static ceiling rather than a margin calculation: a fixed number of contracts you may have open at any one time, set by your account size.

These are the maximums Take Profit Trader publishes for the Test. The PRO rulebook contains no position-size rule of its own, and the Universal Trading Policies say only that you may not exceed the maximum permitted for your account type as displayed to you.

Notice the ratio. You are allowed 10x position size on micros, which sounds generous until you line it up against the commission. Ten micros equal one mini in exposure, so the sizing cap is identical in economic terms, while the commission is over three times higher. The micro allowance buys you granularity, not extra size.

Your instrument choice decides which news can end your day

This is the part of the product list that almost nobody connects, and it is a genuine reason to prefer one contract over another.

First, the scope, because it is narrower than most articles suggest: this rule appears in the PRO and PRO+ rulebooks only. None of the six Test core rules mentions news at all, so on an evaluation account it does not apply. Once funded, Take Profit Trader prohibits open positions and open orders one minute before, during and one minute after certain news events. Three apply to every product: FOMC statements on Wednesdays at 2:00 PM ET, Non-Farm Payroll monthly on Fridays at 8:30 AM ET, and CPI. Fed speakers and FOMC meeting minutes are explicitly allowed.

Then come the instrument-specific ones, and this is where your product choice bites:

So a funded ES or NQ trader carries three prohibited events. A funded crude trader carries four, one of them weekly. That is not a reason to avoid crude, but it is a reason to know your calendar before you pick your product. Take Profit Trader points you to the red-folder USD events on forexfactory.com and to the trader calendar in your own dashboard.

Micros, and why they are not the free option

Five of the seven groups have a smaller version available, and small accounts are pushed toward them for a good reason: a tight drawdown rewards finer position sizing. Note the two that do not: interest rates and agriculture have no micro contract on this list at all, so ZN, UB, ZS and the rest come in one size only.

There is a cost to that, and it is larger than most people price in. Take Profit Trader charges $4.50 per round trip per contract on futures and $1.50 on micros. Ten micros equal one mini in size, but the micro rate is a third of the mini rate, not a tenth.

So the same exposure traded in micros costs 3.33 times the commission. Three minis at $4.50 is $13.50 per round trip; the equivalent 30 micros at $1.50 is $45.00. Use micros where you genuinely need the smaller increment, not as a default. We break the full cost picture down in our guide to what Take Profit Trader actually costs.

What if the instrument you want is not on the list?

Two useful facts here, and the second is better than you would expect.

First, if an order is rejected for a product you believed was allowed, Take Profit Trader says to contact support. Do not read that as a guarantee that every off-list order is blocked for you: trading outside approved products is a rule breach in its own right, with the usual consequences attached.

Second, and this is the part almost nobody knows: the list is not closed. Take Profit Trader states that if you want to trade an instrument that is not listed, you can reach out to Live Chat Support and they will review whether it can be added.

That will not get you Apple shares. But for a futures contract on a CME Group exchange that simply is not on the list yet, it is a real route rather than a brush-off.

Which contract fits what you wanted to trade?

Four questions on what brought you here, where your experience comes from, what drives your entries and when you are at the screen. The check routes you to the contract that does the job, or tells you honestly that none does. No email.

What we offer at Phidias

On instruments there is little to separate us from Take Profit Trader, and we are not going to invent a difference. What we do differently is upstream of what you trade.

Phidias Express to Live converts to a live account at your first payout, and there is no monthly subscription attached to the evaluation, so the time you spend learning a contract is not being billed to you month after month.

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