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Everything you need to know about the Gladiator program, benchmarks, and your path to a career as a professional prop trader.

 

Stocks Benchmark Structure (Intraday Trailing)

Stocks Benchmark Structure (EOD Trailing)

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Stocks Benchmark Structure

Account Daily
Target		 Benchmark
Target		 Intraday Trailing EOD Trailing
Max
Drawdown		 MAE
50%		 Signing
Bonus		 Max
Drawdown		 MAE
50%		 Signing
Bonus
25K $65 $325 $1,250 $625 $5,625 $1,225 $625 $5,625
50K $125 $625 $2,500 $1,250 $11,250 $2,250 $1,125 $10,125
100K $250 $1,250 $5,000 $2,500 $22,500 $4,500 $2,250 $20,250
Account Daily
Target		 Benchmark
Target		 Intraday Trailing EOD Trailing
Max
Drawdown		 Elig.
Threshold		 MAE
50%		 Signing
Bonus		 Max
Drawdown		 Elig.
Threshold		 MAE
50%		 Signing
Bonus
25K $65 $325 $1,250 $26,575 $625 $5,625 $1,225 $26,550 $625 $5,625
50K $125 $625 $2,500 $53,125 $1,250 $11,250 $2,250 $52,875 $1,125 $10,125

Eligibility Threshold = Max Drawdown + Weekly Benchmark Target. Up to 6-8 Benchmarks required for Real Prop consideration.

Program Basics

PropShopTrader is a multi-asset proprietary trading firm. We provide skilled traders with real corporate capital to trade stocks and futures. You keep up to 90% of the profits with zero personal financial risk.

PropShopTrader uses a Benchmark system.

Benchmarks are performance milestones – not withdrawals or payouts. Performance is measured by your ability to meet trading and risk conditions consistently.

A Benchmark is earned when all required trading and risk conditions are met. Benchmarks do not remove funds from the account, do not change your account balance, and are tracked as X / 8 on your dashboard. Up to 6-8 Benchmarks per account are required for Real Prop consideration. Benchmarks do not expire, cannot be skipped, and are lost if the account fails.

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Benchmark Rules

All of the following must be true:

  • 5 qualifying trading days
  • Net PnL on each qualifying day ≥ Daily Profit Target
  • Account balance ≥ Benchmark Eligibility Threshold
  • MAE warnings < 3
  • No active hedging or compliance flags
  • Minimum account balance not breached.

Benchmarks are evaluated automatically at end of day once all conditions are met.

For more information, clickhere.

To earn a Swing Benchmark:

  • Benchmarks are based on weekly realized profit
  • Only closed trades count
  • Profit can be reached any time during the week
  • No minimum trading days required
  • No daily profit target
  • Benchmarks count in the week the trade is closed


Example: If a position is opened on Wednesday and closed two weeks later, the benchmark counts in the week the trade is closed.

Note: If an account fails due to overnight market gap risk or market open pricing, PropShopTrader is not responsible for losses caused by holding positions overnight.

  • A qualifying trading day requires net PnL ≥ Daily Profit Target.
  • Loss days do not count.
  • Profitable days below target do not count.
  • No-trade days do not count.
  • Any profit below target remains in your account balance.


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Payouts & Signing Bonuses

Payouts are not available during the Gladiator Evaluation Phase. Benchmarks are used as the performance metric. Signing bonuses and cash payments occur only after Real Prop transition.

Up to 6-8 Benchmarks on a single account qualifies the trader for Real Prop consideration. Approval is not automatic – the final decision is made by the Risk & Compliance Team.
  • Signing Bonuses are paid only after Real Prop approval and contract signing.
  • 50% is released at contract signature, and the remaining 50% is paid across the first 2 Real Prop payouts.
  • No signing bonuses are paid during the Gladiator Evaluation Phase.

Account Failures & Resets

An account is considered failed when it breaches its max trailing drawdown or gets 3 MAE flags.

When a failure occurs during the trading day, the failure prevents further trades but the failure email is sent at or after the 6:00 PM EST End of Day report. The reset option becomes available only after that report.

Option 1 – Standard Reset: Issues a new account with no preserved Benchmarks.

Option 2 – Benchmark Reset: Issues a new account with up to 4 previously earned Benchmarks carried over.
An optional Drawdown Preservation add-on is available only with a Benchmark Reset.

Each Gladiator account can be reset a maximum of 10 times over its entire lifetime. This is a hard limit. Resets must be initiated within 48 hours of the End-of-Day report confirming the failure.

You can preserve up to 4 Benchmarks on a Benchmark Reset. If you had 6 or 8 Benchmarks, only 4 carry over.

Multiple Accounts

Traders may hold up to:

Futures

  • 5 Intraday accounts
  • 5 Swing accounts

Stocks

  • 5 Intraday accounts
  • 5 Swing accounts


Maximum 20 accounts total per trader.

All Gladiator accounts are closed (not failed) once you transition to Real Prop. If you fail a Real Prop account, you must restart from the Gladiator phase with a new account.

MAE (Maximum Adverse Excursion)

MAE (Maximum Adverse Excursion) is the maximum unrealized loss allowed per trade. The limit is 50% of the original drawdown.

For more information, clickhere.

1 MAE warning resets your trading days. 3 MAE warnings result in permanent account failure. MAE warnings never reset and cannot be appealed.

For more information, clickhere.

Platform & Data Access

Access to Tickblaze and Rithmic market data is tied to having an Active account (Status: Normal).

If your account fails (Status: Breached), and your profile has no active accounts then access is suspended until you perform a Reset.

Disclaimer: Signing Bonuses are not tied to trading performance, profitability, or future results. Advancement to the Real Prop Phase is based on the completion of defined benchmark and time-based requirements and remains subject to firm risk and compliance review. Signing Bonuses are issued only after execution of the applicable Real Prop Trading Agreement and at the firm’s discretion.

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