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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

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. All Benchmarks do not remove funds from the account, do not change your account balance, and are tracked on your dashboard (Light: X / 8; Forge: X / 7, with B7 representing Move Live eligibility).

It will only deduct the balance from the account in the event you have Light or Forge accounts on Benchmarks 2 and above

For more information, clickhere.

Benchmark Rules

For Gladiator Sprint accounts (day-trading only; EOD drawdown — after passing the Sprint Evaluation: Profit Target $1,500 for 25K / $3,000 for 50K reached in ≥1 trading day), all of the following must be true for each payout Benchmark:

  • 3 qualifying trading days (Daily Profit Target: $125 for 25K, $250 for 50K)
  • Net PnL on each qualifying day ≥ Daily Profit Target
  • Consistency requirement met (50%)
  • Account balance ≥ Benchmark Eligibility Threshold ($26,600 for 25K, $53,100 for 50K — i.e., Drawdown Floor + Benchmark Target)
  • No single-trade MAE breach (50% of max EOD drawdown: $500 for 25K, $1,000 for 50K) – first breach fails the account immediately
  • Daily Loss Limit ($625 for 25K, $1,250 for 50K) is a soft breach – positions close + lockout to next session (6:00 PM EST); does not fail the account
  • Max EOD Drawdown not breached
  • No active hedging or compliance flags


Maximum 5 payout Benchmarks per account; after the 5th, Risk-Team review for Move Live.

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.


For more information, clickhere.

Payouts & Signing Bonuses

Payouts are not available during the Gladiator Evaluation Phase in Stocks. Futures accounts are eligible for payouts. Benchmarks are used as the performance metric. Signing bonuses and cash payments occur only after Real Prop transition.

On Gladiator Light: 6–8 Benchmarks on a single account qualifies the trader for Real Prop consideration. RPTA is automatically issued at Benchmark 8 (subject to risk and compliance review).

On Gladiator Forge: 6 Benchmarks on a single account brings the trader to Benchmark 7, which is the Move Live eligibility point. Call-up is at the Risk Team’s discretion based on the trader’s full activity, risk profile, and compliance history. Forge does not have an automatic call-up.

On Gladiator Sprint: 5 Payouts on a single account brings the trader to Benchmark 5, which is the Move Live eligibility point. Call-up is at the Risk Team’s discretion based on the trader’s full activity, risk profile, and compliance history.

  • Signing Bonuses are paid only after Real Prop approval and contract signing for Stock accounts only.
  • 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

20 Max accounts per trader – payout + stock accounts. Sprint Evaluation accounts are unlimited and don’t count toward this limit.

  • Futures — 10 payout accounts total, in any combination of:
    • Gladiator Light
    • Gladiator Forge
    • Gladiator Sprint (PTSA / payout phase)
    • Sprint Evaluations: unlimited — uncapped, not counted; a passed eval beyond the 10-cap waits in Reserve until a slot frees up

  • Stocks — 10 accounts total
    • Maximum 5 Intraday accounts
    • Maximum 5 Swing accounts

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.

On Forge and Sprint there is no warning system – first single-trade MAE breach fails immediately. The DLL is a soft breach: lockout until the next session starts (6pm EST), not an auto-fail. Light/Stocks/Legacy keep the 3-warning system.

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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