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 Classic evaluation, trade the scaled account the way a professional would, and when your results qualify you are promoted automatically, at no additional cost, to Grow on 3, 5 or 10 times your account, up to $1M in demo 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, and every size can be promoted. Pass a Classic evaluation, trade like someone who already has a Pro account, and when your results qualify you move up automatically to Grow at no additional cost. Grow runs at least 90 days under the Pro rulebook, and your rewards pay double throughout.

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 balance 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 complete Grow.
• 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 Grow a soft breach does not pause your rewards, which still pay double. Once you have completed Grow, a soft breach pauses rewards until it is resolved. You keep trading, and withheld rewards are deferred, never forfeited.

How promotion works

Promotion is automatic: when your results qualify, you move up to Grow on 3, 5 or 10 times your account, up to $1,000,000 in demo capital. It works at every Classic size, with nothing to apply for and nothing to pay, and the two tracks that qualify you are on the Pro page. Instant Funded accounts are not promoted automatically; their optional Pro challenge is chosen at registration.

When you're promoted

Every promotion starts with a promotion week of up to 7 days from the moment you are promoted. You stay on your scaled account under its rules, rewards are paid as usual, and you can only close or reduce positions: orders that open or add are rejected, and pending orders are cancelled. The week ends as soon as you hold no positions, and anything still open after 7 days is closed. Then Grow starts.

Your Classic fee is not refunded on passing.

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

Grow 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 fail Grow, you return through Classic with a fresh account; pass Classic again and you go back to Grow. If a Pro account breaches after Grow, you return through Classic, and passing again takes you straight back to Pro, skipping Grow.

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 it still follows you to Pro.

What's new: your buying power went up, and at every size promotion to Grow is automatic when your results qualify. If you passed before promotion became automatic, you qualify too, measured from the day you passed. 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.