Audited Numbers Only
The stats, with receipts
Every figure on this page carries its exact measurement window and comes from the same audited replay pipeline that gates every product release. No projections, no cherry-picks — and the parts we haven't finished validating say so out loud.
$11,086
audited year, 150K
Audited full-year performance — flagship gold program
Replay window 2025-03-17 through 2026-03-13, full production guard chain, broker-true costs, adverse slippage charged on BOTH sides of every trade, fingerprinted data. Re-audited 2026-08-10: an earlier engine version under-charged slippage, and we corrected every number on this page downward rather than let a kind assumption stand.
| Configuration | Net (year) | Trades | Days | Worst dip | Violations |
|---|
| 1 contract · 50K account | +$3,844 | 494 | 230 | $816 | 0 |
| 2 contracts · 100K account | +$6,964 | 491 | 228 | $1,632 / $3,000 allowed | 0 |
| 3 contracts · 150K account | +$11,086 | 492 | 228 | $2,448 / $4,500 allowed | 0 |
What's deliberately missing: the index-futures program, the Playbook bot, and the New York AM / Asia / London Gold session bots publish no numbers yet. As of v1.9.10 all five bots run on any account type you choose — but a bot only gets a row on this page after clearing the same audit bar as the flagship. A number without an audit trail is marketing, not measurement.
One more honesty note: a later engine correction (August 2026) indicates the flagship figures above are, if anything, understated. We publish the conservative measurement until the full corrected audit ships — numbers on this page only ever move when the audit trail moves.
Monte Carlo — 10,000 alternate years
Daily results block-resampled 10,000 times (5-day blocks preserve streaky weeks), entirely inside the 2025-2026 validation window. Distribution below: 150K · 3 contracts.
Unlucky year (5th pct)
-$6,894
Cautious plan (25th)
+$3,847
Strong year (75th)
+$18,189
Lucky year (95th)
+$28,750
| Robustness check | 1 ct / 50K | 3 ct / 150K |
|---|
| Profitable resampled years | 85.2% | 84.5% |
| Year with its 5 best days deleted | +$839 | +$2,071 |
| Emergency brake trip rate | 7–18% | 7–18% |
The honest fine print: the measured year was favorably ordered — wins arrived early, and its second half was materially weaker than its first. In unluckily ordered years the guards work harder and profit lands below the median. Roughly 1 year in 7 ends negative per account even with the strategy performing exactly as designed, and the emergency brake stands the strategy down in 7–18% of resampled years depending on how losses cluster. Anyone who hides this from you is selling something.
The Scaling Lab — build your road past $10K/month
One validated unit = a 150K account, gold program, Safe mode, guards at defaults. Copy tools (TradeCopia-class) mirror the master account's orders to additional funded accounts — Topstep takes the trade, the copier repeats it elsewhere. Drag the slider; the math updates from the audited distributions.
$3,676
gross / month, all accounts
11
accounts to pass $10K/mo
Source: audited year +$11,086 and Monte Carlo quartiles (median +$11,027), 150K · 3 contracts, window 2025-03-17..2026-03-13, re-audited 2026-08-10 with both-sides slippage. Gross of firm profit splits and payout policies.
Copies correlate. Mirrored accounts take the same trades on the same days — a rough month is rough everywhere at once. Multiplying accounts multiplies the median and the swings; it does not diversify them away. Budget drawdowns fleet-wide, not per account.
The safe way to scale
- Master account on Safe mode, guards at firm defaults — the exact audited configuration.
- Add ONE mirror at a time; run it two payout cycles before adding the next.
- Identical configuration on every mirror — the copier repeats orders, the seatbelt caps size per account.
- Verify each firm's copy-trading and payout rules yourself before mirroring into it. Firms differ and rules change.
- Take payouts on schedule — banked payouts are the only money the market can't take back.
The aggressive way (eyes open)
- Aggressive risk mode raises bet size inside the validated caps — deeper swings, same seatbelt.
- Stack mirrors faster — accepting that a drawdown hits every account simultaneously.
- The brake and drawdown guards stay armed on every account. They are not optional at any risk mode.
- Expect guard-heavy months well below median. Roughly 1 account-year in 20 ends negative; at fleet scale you WILL see losing account-years.
- Never disable the daily lockout to "catch up." That is how accounts die.
Reality check we owe you: per-account-per-instrument $10K/month is not a thing any audited configuration produces — the road past $10K/month is unit multiplication, exactly as computed above. When the index micros and session engines clear validation, they stack additional units on the same accounts.