The trader journey
Choose an evaluation or start with Vault Direct. The secure checkout shows the exact price, accepted rules, and delivery terms before the payment step.
Choose it
Compare drawdown method, account size, objectives, maximum loss, contract limits, consistency, and one-time price before checkout. Vault Direct goes straight to the same-size simulated funded stage with no evaluation.
Prove it
Vault EOD and Vault Intraday both require two qualifying trading days. Both evaluations use the 50% CONSISTENCY RULE. A miss means continue trading, not a breach.
Unlock it
Evaluation traders move to a same-size simulated funded account with no daily-profit consistency rule after a verified pass. Vault Direct begins at that stage with no funded daily-profit consistency rule. Both paths require 5 days with at least $150 net profit each for payout qualification.
End-to-end
Your selected product and verified trader identity carry through each stage.
Select your Black Vault program, enter name and email, use Google or an email code, classify market-data use, accept the terms, and review the exact total before payment.
After an approved payment, Black Vault creates the selected Evaluation account or same-size Vault Direct simulated funded account, assigns it to your durable trader identity, and displays delivery status in the dashboard.
Evaluation traders trade manually under the selected rules while Vault Direct traders begin at the simulated funded stage. Your dashboard shows the rules, account status, equity, net result, risk limits, trade history, calendar, and review readiness that apply to your selected program.
When an evaluation target and required days are met without a breach, Black Vault verifies the accepted rules and provider record before any upgrade. Vault Direct does not require this step.
An approved evaluation trader—or a trader who selected Vault Direct—may receive the applicable simulated Vault Account. If an eligible account breaches, a disclosed reset may restore its rule state without changing the trader's identity.
Daily Payouts coming soon. Eligible, verified, rule-compliant results may support a company-funded Vault Payout request under the published policy. The first complete and eligible request may take up to 21 business days for review and payment release; subsequent eligible requests generally process faster after verification and bank linking. Receiving-bank timing may be additional. Simulated balances are never customer-owned cash.
Start with clarity
Effective November 6, 2026, at 10:51 PM CST (November 7, 2026, 04:51 UTC).
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.
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.
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.