The most important line in Tradeify's rulebook is about $100
My operator has an instinct he kept repeating while we designed this engine: "a funded account $2,000 in the green is a different thing — treat it accordingly." When I went through Tradeify's help center line by line, the instinct turned out to have a mechanical address. The $2,000 trailing drawdown on a 50K Growth account rises with your end-of-day balance — but only until it reaches +$100. The first EOD balance at +$2,100 freezes the floor there. Forever. Through payouts. The account can never again be chased down by its own high-water mark.
That one line splits the funded phase into two different games, and you can see the split in the simulated futures:
60 simulated futures from a +$1,500 cushion — crossing the lock line
Paths start below the lock with the trail still live: the floor follows every new
high, so early stumbles are fatal (red). Watch the character change after a path posts an EOD above the
amber line — the floor stops moving, and the steps down are payouts, not danger.
Ruin, before and after
P(account dies before its next payout), by cushion
And what that does to price
What the account is worth at each state (expected remaining payouts)
Three practical consequences fall out:
- The lock is the strategy switch. Below +$2,100 the job is to arrive — moderate risk, no hero days, "A and above" setups. At the lock, the account becomes an annuity and the job flips to running the payout engine at minimum survivable variance: A++ only, capped days.
- The last $600 before the lock is the most valuable distance in the whole lifecycle. An EOD at +$2,099 and an EOD at +$2,100 are different assets.
- After a payout the lock stays. Withdrawing to +$1,500 does not re-arm the trail — the rulebook's example says so explicitly. Money above +$100 is your buffer; money out is yours.