Introducing Pro Accounts

Prop firms make money when traders fail. We built Vanta to make money when traders win. Pro accounts are how.

The short version: pass a $50K or $100K Classic evaluation, trade the account the way a professional would, and Vanta can promote you, at its discretion and at no additional cost, to a Pro account of up to $1M in simulated capital. A $100K Classic starts at $549.

That sounds like it can't be a business, and on the old model it isn't. Giving out $1M accounts is not how prop firms make money. Identifying the best traders in the world is worth far more than any evaluation fee. That's what Pro accounts are for.

The old model

You pay a fee to take an evaluation. Fail, and the firm keeps the fee. Pass, and the firm now owes you a share of what you make. Your success costs them money.

This is B-booking: the firm is on the other side of your trades, so it wins when you lose. Think about what that does to every rule they write. Harder rules mean more failed evaluations and more fee revenue. The incentive is to bank on you failing.

Where the industry is going

The industry has a name for the opposite approach: A-booking, where a firm's interests sit alongside its traders rather than against them. That is the model Pro accounts are built for.

Classic is where traders are found. Pro is where they grow.

Classic is open to everyone, but only $50K and $100K accounts can be promoted. Our system watches how you trade a Classic account. Pass a $50K or $100K Classic evaluation, trade like someone who already has a Pro account, and Vanta may promote you, at its discretion, to a Pro account of up to $1M in simulated capital at no additional cost. The Pro challenge that follows runs at least 90 days under a stricter rulebook, and your rewards pay double while you take it.

Price

A Classic account starts at $33, and you build the price yourself on the pricing page. Three choices: account size, reward split and daily loss limit.

Account size. Five sizes: $5K, $10K, $25K, $50K and $100K in simulated capital.

Reward split. This is the dial that sets your price. Spend less up front and you share more of your rewards; pay more up front and you keep more.

On a $100K account with the 3% daily loss limit:

• 60/40$549
• 70/30$599
• 80/20$699
• 90/10$849
• 100/0$1,099

Prices step down with size: a $5K account runs $33 to $67, $10K $64 to $127, $25K $151 to $303, and $50K $288 to $577.

Daily loss limit. 3% by default, or 5% for a higher fee.

Buying power. Every account trades with the same leverage limits, included in the fee.

What the buying power actually buys

Two limits run at the same time, both measured as gross notional divided by equity; longs and shorts add up, they never net off. The first applies to your whole book in each market. The second applies to any single position, set per pair by how much the real market can absorb.

The live limits for Classic and Pro, per asset class and per pair, are on the rules page.

So the top price is $1,299, a $100K account at 100/0 with the 5% daily loss limit, and the floor is $33, a $5K account at 60/40 with the 3% limit. Everything in between is yours to configure.

Your split follows you to Pro. Choose 100/0 on a $100K Classic and you still keep 100% if that becomes a $1M Pro account. You lock in your economics before you are promoted, not after, and the promotion itself comes at no additional cost.

The rules

Classic is one step: a 10% target and two loss limits.

• Static loss limit, 5%. Equity can never be more than 5% below your starting balance. It does not trail your PnL upward.
• Daily loss limit, 3% or 5%. Chosen at purchase, 3% by default. Equity can never drop more than that below your start-of-day equity in a UTC day. It resets every day.

That's it. No time limit, no minimum days, no consistency rule. News trading, weekend holding and your own bots are all allowed.

Pro keeps the daily limit and adds a quality bar, because a Pro account carries up to $1,000,000 in demo capital. A strategy worth more capital has to survive more than one good week.

• Return target, 6%.
• EOD trailing limit, 8%. Replaces the static limit. Your end-of-day equity can never be more than 8% below your end-of-day high.
• Calmar ratio, 1.75. Return divided by max drawdown, since day one. 7% on a 4% drawdown passes. 6% on 4% does not. It scores how you made the money, not just how much.
• Consistency, 20%. No single day can be more than 20% of your total return, with each day counted at no more than 1.5%. It filters out one lucky day, and you need it to pass.
• Martingale detection. Increasing your size on a losing pair three times, each to at least 1.5x an earlier size, gets a warning. A second flag, at least 3 days later, goes to manual review.

A hard breach (the daily 5% or the trailing 8%) ends the account. A second martingale flag goes to manual review and can end it too. A soft breach (a Calmar ratio below 1.75) does not. During the Pro challenge a soft breach does not pause your rewards, which still pay double. Once you have passed the Pro challenge, a soft breach pauses rewards until it is resolved. You keep trading, and withheld rewards are deferred, never forfeited.

How promotion works

After you pass a $50K or $100K Classic evaluation, the system watches how you trade the account and sees if you are already trading like someone who has a Pro account.

System-selected traders are reviewed by a human, and we promote at our discretion. Trading to the Pro rules on one of those accounts makes you a candidate; it does not guarantee promotion. There is no timetable. Some traders will be promoted after a week, others after three months or longer. It depends on how you trade, not how long you have waited. A strong payout record can be fast-tracked. Asking to be considered does not speed the decision up.

Two traders with the same return can look nothing alike to us. Don't measure yourself against someone else's promotion.

When you're promoted

You can start the Pro challenge straight away, or take a one-week grace period in which you can only reduce or close your Classic positions. Anything still open at the end of the week is closed, and rewards earned that week are paid. Your Pro account opens with up to $1,000,000 in demo capital.

Your Classic fee is not refunded on passing.

Rewards pay double during the Pro challenge. Your Pro account's return is applied to your original Classic account size, then doubled. Say you register a $100K Classic and are promoted to a $1M Pro. Generate $20K PnL in a week and your reward is ($20K ÷ $1M) × $100K × 2 = $4K, before your split.

The Pro challenge runs a minimum of 90 days with no maximum. Nothing expires, no clock forces you to trade, and taking longer costs you nothing.

If you do not pass the Pro challenge, you return through Classic with a fresh account; pass it again and you go back to the Pro challenge. If a Pro account breaches after the challenge, you return through Classic, and passing again takes you straight back to Pro, with no Pro challenge.

Payouts

A payout does not reduce your account equity. Withdraw your rewards and your drawdown room is untouched; your breach thresholds don't move. At many firms, a withdrawal shrinks your cushion. Not here.

Paid weekly, at your split, by bank transfer in USD or USDC on-chain.

Vanta is built on Bittensor. The code that scores evaluations is open source, and every reward distribution is listed publicly with its rail, date and transaction reference.

One clarification: eligible PnL is computed after prior losses and rewards. You can't be paid twice on the same PnL. That's netting, not an equity deduction.

If you already trade with us

Nothing is being taken away. Your rules are unchanged: one step, a 10% target, the 5% static limit and your daily limit, no time limit, no consistency rule. The split you chose is still yours, and on a $50K or $100K account it still follows you to Pro.

What's new: your buying power went up, and on $50K and $100K accounts Pro is a real destination rather than an idea. You don't need to do anything.

The markets

One account, every asset class:

• Crypto: 34 pairs, BTC, ETH and SOL down to the alts.
• Forex: 28 pairs, the 7 USD majors and the crosses.
• Commodities: Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum, WTI Crude and Natural Gas.
• Indices: S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and MSCI South Korea futures.
• Equities: 500+ US stocks and 36 ETFs.

Pro trades its own published list: 15 crypto pairs, 733 US equities and ETFs, all 28 FX pairs, all 6 commodities and 3 indices.

Who is Pro for

Traders who already have a strategy and want more capital behind it. We are not here to teach you to trade, and every rule above is designed to filter out the one-lucky-payout approach. If you can trade conservatively, consistently and with control, this was built for you.

What's next

Questions about Pro? Ask them in the AMA questions channel on Discord, and we will go deeper at the next AMA.

All accounts are simulated. Vanta Trading is a technology provider and does not provide financial services. Trading involves substantial risk of loss.