Earn2Trade review: Trader Career Path and Gauntlet Mini rules

Overview

Earn2Trade describes itself as an educational company headquartered in Sheridan, Wyoming, United States, and its home page marks ten years of funding traders since 2016. It runs two simulated evaluations, the Trader Career Path® (TCP25, TCP50 and TCP100) and The Gauntlet Mini™ (GAU50 to GAU200). Traders who pass are offered a LiveSim® or Live account by a partner proprietary trading firm. Earn2Trade says it does not need a licence from any financial regulatory authority. You trade CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX futures, not stocks, options, forex, crypto or CFDs, on platforms including NinjaTrader, Finamark, R | Trader Pro, Tradovate and TradingView. It reports that 8.89% of candidates passed in 2025. Facts were checked on Earn2Trade’s official pages on 14 October 2026.

Programs and prices

Both evaluations are monthly subscriptions, first rebilled 30 days after purchase. Earn2Trade does not give refunds, including for automatic renewals; active subscribers get one free reset after each monthly rebill.

• Trader Career Path: $150 (TCP25), $190 (TCP50) or $350 (TCP100) a month. After funding, the account can grow step by step to $200,000 (TCP25) or $400,000 (TCP50 and TCP100).
• Gauntlet Mini: $170 (GAU50), $315 (GAU100), $375 (GAU150) or $550 (GAU200) a month, with a fixed account size after funding.

There is no subscription once funded. Non-professional traders pay a one-time LiveSim® activation fee of $139, which is deducted from their first profitable withdrawal.

Rules

• Profit goal: $1,750 on TCP25 (7%), $3,000 on the 50K accounts, $6,000 on the 100K accounts (6%), $9,000 on GAU150 (6%) and $11,000 on GAU200 (5.5%).
• Drawdown: an end-of-day trailing drawdown of $1,500 (TCP25), $2,000 (50K), $3,500 (100K), $4,500 (GAU150) or $6,000 (GAU200) that stops at the starting balance; open losses count during the day.
• Daily loss limit: 2.2% of the account size ($550 to $4,400), measured from the balance you start the day with, open trades included. Hitting it fails the evaluation.
• Consistency: no single day may reach 30% of total profit, so passing takes at least four profitable trading days.
• News: no restrictions on trading around economic announcements.
• Overnight: not allowed; positions must be closed by 3:50 PM CT.
• Copy trading: trade copiers are not allowed on any program.

Payouts

The profit split depends on the size of each withdrawal: 50% below a threshold and 80% from it. The threshold is $1,500 on TCP25, $2,250 on the 50K accounts, $3,000 on the 100K accounts, $4,000 on GAU150 and $5,000 on GAU200. Withdrawals are processed weekly, on Wednesdays, from $100. Rise and Deel charge $50 per withdrawal for traders outside the US.

Countries

Citizens of 25 countries cannot be funded, including Nigeria, Kenya, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, Ukraine and Russia. Users from a country newly added to the list cannot continue or reset their evaluation.

Before you buy a challenge

• Plan for the monthly rebill until you pass.
• Treat the daily loss limit as a hard stop.
• Remember that smaller withdrawals keep only 50% of profit.
• Check that your citizenship is not on the list.

We have not tested this company with our own account yet; this review will be updated when we do.