Trade The Pool Review

Trade The Pool is a prop firm for US stocks and ETFs. Instead of forex pairs or futures, you trade real tickers (more than 12,000 symbols, long or short) on a TraderEvolution platform, with pre-market, after-hours and overnight sessions available five days a week. It's run by the same company that operates The5ers, and it sells day-trading and swing-trading evaluations from $47.

The appeal is a stock-trader setup with no pattern-day-trader rule and a daily loss limit that pauses you for the day instead of failing you. The catch is in the details: the funded split is 70% on the main programs, withdrawals open only every 14 days, and stock-specific rules (a 10-cent minimum move per share, volume limits, earnings and dividend restrictions) decide which of your profits count. This review covers all five programs with dollar examples, so you know what each one asks of you.

The short version

• Best for: US stock day traders who want to trade momentum names, short freely and hold small overnight positions, plus swing traders who need weekend holding.
• Not for: scalpers who take a few cents per share, traders who want weekly or on-demand payouts, and anyone who wants more than 70% of profits on the main programs.
• Biggest strength: the daily pause. Hitting the daily loss on Flex and Max accounts closes your positions for the day but doesn't end the account.
• Biggest risk: trades that don't count. Profit from positions held under 30 seconds or that moved less than 10 cents per share isn't treated as valid, and that's a recurring complaint in reviews.
• Our score: 3.5 out of 5. Sensible risk rules and fair prices on the day plans, held back by a 70% split, a fixed 14-day payout cycle and no published founding year.

Who runs Trade The Pool

The terms and conditions name the operator as Five Percent Online Ltd., registered at 2 HaTidhar St., Raanana, Israel, with a UK branch at 168 Praed Street in London. The terms are governed by Israeli law, and the courts of Tel Aviv have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes. The version we read was last updated on 20 October 2026.

Trade The Pool doesn't publish a founding year. FX News Group reported its launch on 29 September 2022, describing it as a brand of the company behind The5ers. The firm's own program page has a founder bio saying Gil founded both The5ers and Trade The Pool.

Trading runs on TraderEvolution, branded as Trade The Pool. There's a web terminal, a desktop app and apps for iPhone and Android, but Mac users get the web terminal only. The terms say all trading activity through the company's Hub runs in a simulated environment, while describing funded "Professional" traders as trading the company's capital. Finance Magnates reported on 9 April 2026 that the firm routes orders through Interactive Brokers infrastructure.

The rulebook is split across three pages: the program page (objectives, prices and FAQ), the program terms (the detailed rules) and the general terms and conditions. Read the program terms in full. Most of the rules that cost traders money live there.

Programs and prices

Account sizes at Trade The Pool are buying power, not a cash balance. Targets, the daily pause and the maximum loss are all percentages of that figure. Prices below are list prices from the program page, checked on 28 October 2026, and they're one-time fees.

The site calls Flex the "Beginner" option and Max the "Advanced" one. Max is cheaper because its rules are tighter.

Day Trade Flex

• Profit target: 6%.
• Daily pause of 2%: hit it and your positions close for the rest of the day. The account stays alive.
• Maximum loss: 4% of buying power.
• Best position can't be more than 50% of the profit target. At least 10 positions.
• No time limit. Funded split 70%.

Worked example, $50,000 Day Flex. Your account stops out at $48,000. On a bad day you're paused at $1,000 down, and you start fresh the next trading day. You pass at $53,000, and no single position can supply more than $1,500 of that. You also need at least 10 positions, so two big winners won't get you there. Once funded, the stop-out moves up to $50,000 as soon as your equity reaches $53,000 (three times the $1,000 daily amount).

Day Trade Max

• Profit target: 6%.
• Daily pause of 1%. Maximum loss of 3%.
• Best position can't be more than 30% of the profit target. At least 20 positions.
• 60 calendar days to pass. Funded split 70%.

Worked example, $25,000 Day Max. You stop out at $24,250 and you're paused for the day at $250 down. To pass you need $26,500, with no position earning more than $450, over at least 20 positions, inside 60 days. That works out to an average of $75 per position if you only take the minimum 20. Max suits a trader who takes many small, similar trades. A trader who relies on one big runner a week will fail the 30% rule even after reaching the target.

Swing Flex

Swing accounts hold overnight and over weekends at full size. The sizes are small because swing buying power is spot stock exposure.

• Profit target: 15%.
• Daily pause 3%, maximum loss 7%.
• Best trade can't be more than 50% of the target. At least 5 positions.
• No time limit. Funded split 70%.

Worked example, $10,000 Swing Flex. You stop out at $9,300 and you need $11,500. That's a 15% gain with 7% of room, so your winners need to be much bigger than your losers. No single trade can make more than $750. A stock that gaps 4% against a full-size position costs you $400, more than the $300 daily pause, so the pause will close you out, but the account survives.

Swing Max

• Same 15% target, 3% daily pause and 7% maximum loss as Swing Flex.
• Best trade can't be more than 30% of the target in the evaluation (70% once funded). At least 5 positions.
• 100 days to pass (see the contradiction below). Funded split 70%.

Worked example, $40,000 Swing Max. You stop out at $37,200 and pass at $46,000. With the 30% rule, no trade can make more than $1,800, so you need at least four solid winners. The program page's swing section says you have "100 trading days", while the program terms say 100 calendar days. That's a gap of several weeks, so plan on calendar days.

Edge

Edge is a newer program listed further down the program page. It plays by different rules from Flex and Max.

• One-time fee: $156 for $50,000 and $266 for $100,000.
• Profit target: 6%.
• Maximum drawdown 4%, calculated on end-of-day values.
• Daily loss: 2.5% on the 50K and 1.8% on the 100K, also end-of-day. Unlike the daily pause, breaking it disables the account.
• No consistency rule in the evaluation. Funded "Edge Pro" accounts have a 40% rule.
• Funded split 80%. First withdrawal needs 4% profit, later ones 1% (50K) or 1.5% (100K). Minimum withdrawal $500, maximum $1,500 (50K) or $2,000 (100K). No scaling.

Worked example, $50,000 Edge. You pass at $53,000 with a $48,000 end-of-day floor and $1,250 of daily room. Once funded, your first withdrawal needs $2,000 of profit. Each later one needs another $500, and the most you can take per withdrawal is $1,500, of which you keep $1,200. The FAQ doesn't state a minimum number of positions or a time limit for Edge.

Which Trade The Pool plan should you pick?

For most stock day traders, Day Max is the best-value start. The 25K costs $97, or $3.88 per $1K of buying power, the cheapest of the four main programs. The trade-off is a 1% daily pause, 20 positions minimum and a 60-day deadline. If you take lots of consistent intraday trades, that's not a problem.

Choose Day Flex if you want more room per day (2% instead of 1%), no deadline and only 10 positions, and you're fine with the extra rules at payout time: three days of 0.5% profit per cycle and a 50% consistency check.

Swing accounts are expensive per dollar. The cheapest is the $40,000 Swing Max at $20.00 per $1K, more than five times Day Max. You're paying for full-size overnight and weekend holding. Pick Swing Max over Swing Flex unless you can't finish in 100 days, because it's $440 cheaper at the 40K size for the same targets.

Edge is the cheapest per $1K at $2.66 (100K) and pays 80%, but an end-of-day daily loss that disables the account and small withdrawal caps make it a plan for steady traders who rarely have big red days.

Avoid the $5,000 day accounts unless you just want a cheap test of the platform. At $59 and $47 they cost $11.80 and $9.40 per $1K, and Trade The Pool offers a free two-week demo for that purpose.

Trading rules in practice

Maximum loss and the daily pause

On Flex and Max plans the maximum loss is an equity stop-out: if your account value, including open positions, hits it, the account ends. In the funded stage it moves up to your starting balance once your equity reaches three times the daily pause amount. From then on, you can never lose the firm's starting capital.

The daily pause is not a failure. When daily losses reach the limit, open positions and orders close and you're done until the next trading day. The program terms add that the system "may" offer you a reset of the pause that day, with one more daily limit's worth of losses allowed. No cost or conditions are given.

Edge is different: its daily loss and drawdown are calculated on end-of-day values, and breaking the daily loss disables the account.

Buying power, overnight exposure and leverage

Trade The Pool doesn't quote a leverage ratio. You get a fixed amount of buying power. Day accounts can use the full figure intraday, but at 15:50 ET every day all positions and orders are liquidated. After 16:00 ET you can open new positions for the after-hours, overnight and pre-market sessions, with buying power cut to about 16% of the account:

Swing accounts use the same buying power around the clock. Trading is available 24/5, with sessions starting at 3:00 am ET on Monday and an overnight session (roughly 8:00 pm to 4:00 am ET) through the Blue Ocean alternative trading system. There's no weekend session.

Commissions

Simulated commission is half a cent per share, with a $0.75 minimum per filled order. There's no locate fee on hard-to-borrow shorts.

What that costs you. Buy 1,000 shares of a $40 stock on a 50K Day Flex account and sell them later: $5 per side, $10 round trip. A round trip on 100 shares costs $1.50, because each order hits the $0.75 minimum. Ten 1,000-share round trips a day add up to $100, a tenth of your $1,000 daily pause.

Which trades count

These rules are where stock traders get caught out, and they apply at every stage:

• 30-second minimum hold on Flex and Max (the program terms set 60 seconds as the default for other programs).
• 10 cents per share minimum move. A position must show at least $0.10 between average entry and average exit for its profit to count. On 1,000 shares, a $60 winner doesn't count; $100 does.
• Volume limits. Your opening order can't be more than 5% of the previous one-minute candle's volume. The stock must have traded more than 200,000 shares that day in regular hours (20,000 in extended hours) before you open or add. Swing trades need an average of 500,000 shares a day over the previous 14 calendar days.
• No trading during halts.

Earnings, dividends and splits

• No overnight holds in a stock that reports earnings that night. Positions are liquidated at 15:50 ET the evening before the report.
• Close positions before an ex-dividend date and before a stock split that was announced at least the day before.
• Trading on news before the 9:30 am ET open is allowed. There's no ban on economic releases, though the terms advise you to reduce exposure around them.

Copy trading, automation and hedging

• Copy trading between your own accounts is allowed for two accounts of qualifying sizes (three on Edge). Entering the same position within 30 minutes in another account counts as copying.
• Wash trading, meaning an opposite position in another account within 30 minutes, is forbidden. Hedge arbitrage is prohibited; ordinary hedging isn't otherwise addressed.
• Automation is in beta through a SignalStack integration, capped at about 2 requests a minute, and access can be withdrawn. Third-party expert advisors aren't allowed.

Consistency rules

Every program except Edge has a consistency rule on your best trade, and most keep one at payout time.

Inactivity

This inactivity rule is strict. Flex accounts time out after 14 days without trading, in both the evaluation and the funded stage. Max accounts have the same 14-day timeout once funded, but not during the evaluation. If you know you'll be away, tell support in advance. A Trustpilot reviewer lost an account this way, so take it seriously.

How payouts work

You can request a withdrawal 14 days after your funded account opens, and every 14 days after your last withdrawal or scale-up. You need at least $300 profit ($150 on $5,000 accounts), measured after closing all positions. Payouts go by bank wire, crypto, credit card or Hub credits, and usually take 3 to 5 business days. The terms say withdrawals "may be subject to a processing fee", without an amount, and that you carry any fees from the payment provider.

Before each payout you also need a minimum number of positions in the cycle: 5 on swing accounts, 10 on Day Flex and 20 on Day Max.

Split. 70% to you on Flex and Max, 80% on Edge.

Example. You've made $2,400 on a funded 50K Day Max in your first 14 days, over 22 positions. You request it all and receive $1,680. On a 50K Day Flex you'd also need three separate days of at least $250 profit (0.5% of $50,000) in the cycle, and your best position couldn't be more than half the profit.

Big withdrawals. The terms let the firm set a payout threshold and pay anything above it in weekly instalments of $10,000. That won't matter for most traders, but it's worth knowing if you run a large account.

Scaling. Trade The Pool's scaling plan works like this: every time you reach a validated 10% profit on a funded Flex or Max account, your buying power rises by 5% and your daily pause by 10%. On a $200,000 account that means $210,000 of buying power and a daily pause of $4,400 instead of $4,000. Flex accounts need their three 0.5% profit days first. When you scale, your profit share is posted to the new account as credits, and those credits are used first to cover any losses below the new starting balance. Edge Pro doesn't scale.

What each document says

When the pages disagree, plan on the stricter version.

Refunds and KYC

The evaluation fee is fully refundable within 5 days of purchase, as long as you haven't traded and haven't broken the terms. After 5 days, you can only get Hub credit. Once you've started trading, there's no refund.

KYC can happen at any stage, especially after you pass. Expect to provide government ID. The terms also allow a video interview, which you must attend within 5 business days of the request using the email on your account. Miss it and pending payouts are denied and your accounts are cancelled.

Who can sign up

You must be 18 or the legal age where you live, if higher. The terms list "Forbidden Territories" as any place the service isn't available, including Afghanistan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea, the Palestinian Territory, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, Crimea and more than a dozen others in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The list says "including, but not limited to", so it isn't final.

Israel being on the list is unusual, given the operator is registered there. The United States is not on the list.

You can pay for an evaluation by card, bank transfer or crypto.

Reputation

On Trustpilot, Trade The Pool scores 4.5 out of 5 from 937 reviews, checked on 28 October 2026. Of those, 81% give five stars and 8% give one star. The profile was claimed in August 2022, the company pays for a Trustpilot subscription, and it had replied to 84% of negative reviews, typically within a month. See the Trustpilot page.

Positive reviews mostly mention a stable platform, clear evaluation rules, helpful support and fair value. Negative reviews mostly mention slow or cancelled withdrawals, profits disqualified by the 10-cent rule, accounts closed after 14 days of inactivity, platform glitches and slow support.

We found no regulator actions against Trade The Pool, and no complaints reported by Finance Magnates, FX News Group or FinanceFeeds. Coverage in those outlets is about its launch and its stock-only model.

The firm publishes payout videos and trader interviews on its site, but no audited payout totals.

Mistakes to avoid at Trade The Pool

1. Scalping for a few cents. Any position that moves less than 10 cents per share between average entry and exit doesn't count toward your profit. Size and target so each winner clears that bar.
2. Holding a day account into 15:50 ET at full size. Everything is liquidated 10 minutes before the close. If you want overnight exposure, reopen after 16:00 ET within the reduced buying power.
3. Forgetting earnings and ex-dividend dates. Check the calendar for every swing position before the close.
4. Leaning on one big winner. On Max plans no position can make more than 30% of the target. A $1,000 winner on a 50K Day Max (target $3,000) breaks the rule.
5. Going quiet for two weeks. Flex accounts, and Max accounts once funded, time out after 14 days without trading.
6. Buying size into thin stocks. The 5% one-minute volume rule and the 200,000-share daily minimum can rule out thinly traded names early in the session.

Before you buy: checklist

• Pick Day or Swing based on whether you hold overnight, then Flex or Max based on whether you can meet a deadline and 20 positions.
• Read the program terms, especially the validity rules on hold time, 10 cents per share and volume.
• Check your country against the Forbidden Territory list, which includes Israel.
• Try the free two-week demo to get used to TraderEvolution and the 15:50 ET liquidation.
• Decide within 5 days and before trading if you might want a refund.
• Use code SCOUT at checkout. See our Trade The Pool coupon page for how to apply it.

Our verdict

Trade The Pool is a credible option for stock traders, and one of the few dedicated stock prop firms we track. Day Max at $97 for $25,000 of buying power is fair value, the daily pause is kinder than a hard daily limit, and its operator has run The5ers since 2016, according to FX News Group.

It's a weaker fit if you scalp tiny moves, want fast or frequent payouts, or expect more than 70% of profits outside the Edge program. Learn the validity rules before your first trade. Most of the negative reviews come from profits that didn't count or accounts that timed out, and both are avoidable.