Black Vault Programs
Review every program and continue to secure checkout when ready. Current Black Vault programs are simulated. Any future live trading program will be separate and governed by its own agreements and applicable broker or account documents.
The Black Vault Account Guide
Use this guide to understand the programs. When you are ready, checkout shows every available size, option, and current price from the approved catalog.
Compare the programs
| Feature | Vault EOD | Vault Intraday | Vault Direct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation required | Yes | Yes | No |
| Starting stage | Evaluation | Evaluation | Simulated funded |
| Drawdown | EOD trailing | Intraday trailing | Funded intraday trailing |
| Minimum evaluation days | 2 | 2 | Not applicable |
| Evaluation consistency | 50% | 50% | None |
| Optional DLL | Yes | Yes | Direct rules |
| Activation after pass | $0 | $0 | Not applicable |
See the difference
These examples show how each program works without turning this guide into another price list. Checkout contains every available size, option, and current price.
Evaluation · end-of-day drawdown
01Built for: traders who want the trailing floor recalculated after the session closes.
Evaluation · intraday drawdown
02Built for: traders comfortable managing a trailing floor that follows intraday high-water equity.
No evaluation · simulated funded
03Built for: traders who want to begin at the simulated funded stage under payout-cycle rules.
Daily Loss Limit · optional daily guardrail
Without DLL, you keep more session flexibility at the standard current price. Add DLL for a lower purchase price and a daily soft stop. If the DLL is reached, trading pauses for the session; the account's separate maximum-loss rule still applies.
| Account | 25K | 50K | 100K | 150K |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DLL | $600 | $1,200 | $1,800 | $2,700 |
After a verified pass
Vault EOD and Vault Intraday traders move to the same-size simulated funded stage after verification, with no activation fee. That funded stage has no daily-profit consistency rule. Its payout cycle requires 5 days with at least $150 net profit each, at least a $500 request, the published buffer and drawdown milestones, and the 30% current-buffer risk rule.
Consistency rule
All evaluations
No single profitable trading day may account for more than 50% of the total net profit used to satisfy the evaluation profit target.
Example: a $1,500 best day needs at least $3,000 total net profit. Above 50% means continue trading; it is not a breach.
All funded-stage accounts
Earned simulated funded accounts and Vault Direct accounts use the published funded qualification rules without a daily-profit consistency percentage.
5 days with at least $150 net profit each are required for payout qualification.
Reset options
Evaluation reset prices are size-specific and generated from the same catalog as checkout. An eligible simulated funded account may use no more than 3 resets in its lineage. A reset restores the applicable rule state; it does not create a new identity or change the accepted program terms.
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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.