Accounts & Evaluations
Live Account
A funded account trading real capital in the live market. Usually reserved for traders who have proven themselves in sim funded accounts first.
In plain English
On a live account your orders actually hit the exchange, filled against real liquidity with the firm's capital at risk. Some firms advertise a clear path to live: perform well in the sim funded stage and your account transitions, sometimes with better terms like fewer rules or a higher ceiling on withdrawals.
Live accounts matter for traders who want to scale beyond what sim funded payout caps allow, and they signal that a firm has real capital behind its program.
- A firm moves any sim funded trader who reaches $10,000 in profit to a live brokerage account, transferring up to $10,000 per account as the live balance.