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Traders must record at least one trade on an active account during each calendar month—the first through the last day of the month. If no trades are recorded across a trader’s accounts during a calendar month, all of that trader’s accounts will be closed. No exceptions apply.

Effective November 6, 2026, at 10:51 PM CST (November 7, 2026, 04:51 UTC). Genuine manual scalping is allowed. A trade lasting five seconds or less is not automatically a violation. Never hold a losing trade open just to satisfy a timer. Manual review distinguishes legitimate trading from prohibited activity, such as automation, delayed-price exploitation or unrealistic simulated-fill exploitation. For each account’s payout cycle, divide winning profit from trades held five seconds or less by all winning profit, after commissions and fees. Losing trades are excluded from both totals. This calculation does not use profit above the $2,100 target. Below 30%: no short-duration percentage warning. From 30% through 50%: advisory warning only, with no penalty. Above 50%: manual review. Crossing 50% alone does not cause profit forfeiture, payout denial, a trading-day restart or account closure. The first confirmed finding of prohibited activity results in a written warning identifying the trades and prohibited behavior, with no profit forfeiture. If the same prohibited activity continues after that warning, profits attributable to that continued activity are forfeited and the affected account is closed. Unrelated profits are not automatically forfeited; any remaining payout must satisfy the account’s other requirements. An advisory percentage warning is not a confirmed-violation warning. You receive the identified trades and an explanation of any finding or penalty, and may appeal through a support ticket. Drawdown limits, position limits and the separate 30% per-trade funded-risk rule remain in place. Account sharing, prohibited hedging, automation and system exploitation remain prohibited. This replaces the short-duration payout rule for accounts originally purchased on or after November 1, 2026. Earlier original purchases remain exempt, including resets. The revised measurement applies only to trades closed from the effective time onward.

Current Black Vault evaluation and Simulated Funded Accounts are simulated. Any future live trading program will be a separate program governed by separate eligibility, onboarding, agreements, disclosures, and the account documents and requirements of the outside broker and other providers established for that program.

Use the searchable Country Availability directory for the current Black Vault status of every listed country and territory. Country status is not an automatic approval, and identity, sanctions, payment, market-data, provider, region-level, or restricted-party controls can override a country result.

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Genuine manual scalping is allowed. A trade lasting five seconds or less is not automatically a violation. Never hold a losing trade open just to satisfy a timer. Manual review distinguishes legitimate trading from prohibited activity, such as automation, delayed-price exploitation or unrealistic simulated-fill exploitation. Below 30%: no short-duration percentage warning. From 30% through 50%: advisory warning only, with no penalty. Above 50%: manual review. Crossing 50% alone does not cause profit forfeiture, payout denial, a trading-day restart or account closure. The first confirmed finding of prohibited activity results in a written warning identifying the trades and prohibited behavior, with no profit forfeiture. If the same prohibited activity continues after that warning, profits attributable to that continued activity are forfeited and the affected account is closed. Unrelated profits are not automatically forfeited; any remaining payout must satisfy the account’s other requirements. An advisory percentage warning is not a confirmed-violation warning. You receive the identified trades and an explanation of any finding or penalty, and may appeal through a support ticket. Drawdown limits, position limits and the separate 30% per-trade funded-risk rule remain in place. Account sharing, prohibited hedging, automation and system exploitation remain prohibited.

Genuine manual scalping is allowed. A trade lasting five seconds or less is not automatically a violation. Never hold a losing trade open just to satisfy a timer. Manual review distinguishes legitimate trading from prohibited activity, such as automation, delayed-price exploitation or unrealistic simulated-fill exploitation. For each account’s payout cycle, divide winning profit from trades held five seconds or less by all winning profit, after commissions and fees. Losing trades are excluded from both totals. This calculation does not use profit above the $2,100 target. Below 30%: no short-duration percentage warning. From 30% through 50%: advisory warning only, with no penalty. Above 50%: manual review. Crossing 50% alone does not cause profit forfeiture, payout denial, a trading-day restart or account closure. This replaces the short-duration payout rule for accounts originally purchased on or after November 1, 2026. Earlier original purchases remain exempt, including resets. The revised measurement applies only to trades closed from the effective time onward.

No. There is no minimum profit amount or percentage for an individual trade. Evaluation consistency is measured by profitable trading day—not by individual trade—and the best profitable day may not exceed 50% of total net evaluation profit at pass review. Simulated funded and Vault Direct accounts have no daily-profit consistency rule, but their separate published payout requirements still apply.

There is no fixed daily trade-count limit for ordinary manual trading. Every order must remain within the account’s product, contract, drawdown and risk limits. Short duration or trade count alone does not establish prohibited activity. Genuine manual scalping is allowed. A trade lasting five seconds or less is not automatically a violation. Never hold a losing trade open just to satisfy a timer. Manual review distinguishes legitimate trading from prohibited activity, such as automation, delayed-price exploitation or unrealistic simulated-fill exploitation.

Each account is eligible for a maximum of five completed payouts. After the fifth payout, that account is retired and the trader is invited to a live trading account. The invitation begins the separate live-account onboarding process; it does not itself open a live account or replace the applicable live-account agreements and eligibility checks.

Yes. Account results and rule progress use net provider-reported profit and loss after applicable trading commissions. For newly provisioned accounts, the current commission schedule is $1.89 per contract per side ($3.78 round turn) for minis and $0.61 per contract per side ($1.22 round turn) for micros. The commission schedule assigned to the specific provider account controls, and any prospective change will be disclosed.

Vault EOD recalculates its trailing floor after the session closes and requires 2 qualifying days. Vault Intraday follows high-water equity during the session and requires 2 qualifying days. Both evaluations use the 50% CONSISTENCY RULE.

The Daily Loss Limit is a soft session guardrail. Reaching it pauses trading until the next session. It does not replace maximum drawdown and is not by itself an account breach.

After Black Vault verifies the target, required days, rule compliance, and provider record, the account moves to the same-size simulated funded stage. There is no activation fee and evaluation consistency does not carry forward.

The funded trail follows intraday high-water equity, including realized and unrealized results. The funded buffer is maximum loss plus $100. At the size-specific lock milestone, the trail stops and the permanent floor remains $100 above starting balance.

During an evaluation it is shown only as a preview and is not enforced. On a simulated funded or Vault Direct account, one trade—including related scale-ins—may place no more than 30% of the current funded buffer at risk. A violation denies the affected payout request; it is not an automatic liquidation or hard breach.

Vault Direct skips the evaluation and begins at the same-size simulated funded stage. Its payout cycles have no daily-profit consistency rule and require 5 days with at least $150 net profit each, the funded buffer and drawdown milestones, and the published initial or later payout objective.

Daily Payouts coming soon. Until this feature is activated, the current payout-cycle requirements continue to apply. The dashboard must show every applicable requirement as qualified, including the funded buffer, profit above buffer, minimum balance, 5 days with at least $150 net profit each, the payout objective, and at least the $500 minimum request. After Black Vault receives a complete and eligible first Vault Payout request, allow up to 21 business days for review and payment release. This window may include identity and KYC verification, required tax or agreement review, trade-log and rule-compliance review, fraud or security review, and bank-account linking. Business days exclude weekends and U.S. federal bank holidays. After release, the receiving bank or payment network controls deposit and transfer posting speed, which may add delivery time. Subsequent complete and eligible requests are generally processed faster after initial verification and bank linking are on file, but a shorter processing time is not guaranteed. Any request may require additional review when information changes or cannot be verified. A Vault Payout is a company-funded contractual program payment—not a withdrawal of simulated funds.

Eligible breached or liquidated evaluations can enter the reset checkout at the current size-specific reset price. Eligible simulated funded lineages may use up to 3 resets. A reset creates a new attempt while preserving the prior account, trade history, accepted rules, identity, and lineage.

Yes. The secure checkout shows program selection, identity, market-data classification, terms, the original and current price, reset terms, and the exact total before payment.

WealthCharts is the current Black Vault platform path. Rithmic and all connected third-party platform choices remain labeled Coming Soon until Black Vault receives and activates production access for them.

A Private Beta Access Credit is a high-entropy, single-use code assigned to one approved tester email and eligible program. When activated for an invited test, it makes the order total $0.00 and records NO_CHARGE_BETA; it is not recorded as a paid transaction.

No. Attribution and eligible price adjustments never change the selected account size, objectives, drawdown, contract limits, or accepted rules. The exact total and any eligible credit are shown before confirmation.

Current permitted futures are equity-index contracts ES/MES (S&P 500), NQ/MNQ (Nasdaq-100), RTY/M2K (Russell 2000), and YM/MYM (Dow), plus Micro Gold (MGC) and Micro WTI Crude Oil (MCL). Standard Gold (GC) and standard Crude Oil (CL) are not permitted. Your account’s contract limits still apply. See the complete permitted-contract list.

You may purchase and hold unlimited evaluations. You may have at most five concurrent funded accounts; pending funded activations reserve capacity. A verified pass waits when no funded slot is available. Once a funded slot is offered, you have 30 days to activate it. There is no monthly fee to hold a waiting pass. Existing activation fees, identity checks, account rules, and trading restrictions still apply.

Your verified pass waits without a monthly holding fee. No funded account is created while you wait. When a funded slot is offered, you have 30 days to activate; your dashboard shows the offer and its deadline. Existing activation fees and onboarding requirements still apply.

You may copy your own manually initiated trades across unlimited accounts owned by you and linked to your verified identity. You may have at most five concurrent funded slots, including pending reservations. Cross-trader copying remains prohibited.

Yes. Repeat qualifying purchases are permitted during the published event window after the prior bundle is fully delivered. The offer still creates exactly two matching free evaluations, and the published prices, exclusions, and trading rules remain unchanged.