Getting funded as a trader, in this market, means passing a paid evaluation and receiving a simulated account you trade under published rules for a published share of the gains. This page describes the route without the marketing around it, including the parts that most accounts end on and that the landing pages do not lead with.
The route, in order
Choose the drawdown shape you can trade inside. Choose the account size by what one contract costs you per point rather than by the headline. Pay the fee, hit the target without breaching the limit and while meeting the minimum trading days. Receive a funded simulated account. Then meet whatever conditions gate the first payout, which are usually a further minimum-day requirement and sometimes a consistency rule. Only then does the split matter, and by then it is 90% almost everywhere.
Where the route usually ends
Most attempts end at the loss limit, and a meaningful number end on rules that have nothing to do with losing: consistency requirements, minimum days, news restrictions and prohibited strategies. This site publishes no figure for how often that happens, because the industry's published data does not support one and we could not verify it. What we can say is that the rules are published, and reading the rules document rather than the plan page is the cheapest improvement available.
What it costs to find out
Entry prices verified here are TradeDay from $45 and Uprofit from $130, both bottom-of-range on the dates shown. The reset price times a realistic number of attempts is the real budget. Decide that total before starting, because it is much harder to decide well after two failures, and the decision to stop is the one part of this process entirely within your control.
Questions people ask about getting funded as a trader
How long does getting funded take?
It depends on the plan's minimum trading days and on reaching the target. Some plans are passable in a single trading day; payout eligibility usually takes longer.
What are the odds of passing?
This site publishes no pass rate. The industry's published figures do not support a claim in either direction and we could not verify one.
What is the most common mistake?
Choosing an account size by its headline rather than by what one contract costs per point against the drawdown distance, and not reading the rules document before paying.