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Live accounts: loss floor, cushion and reserve | FuturesElite FAQ
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Loss floor
- Every live account starts at $0 with a loss floor below it ($2,000 on a 50K).
- The floor moves only at the daily close, to sit one floor-width below your best close. Intraday dips below it are safe if the day closes above.
- Once it reaches $0 it stops there permanently.
- If a trading day closes below the floor, the account is lost, including any cushion it holds. There is no daily loss limit.
Cushion
- Half the starting floor ($1,000 on a 50K). Your first profits fill it.
- Profit above the cushion is withdrawable from day one.
- The cushion is released after 15 profitable days, not necessarily in a row. A day counts when realised profit reaches the daily minimum ($150 on a 50K).
- Withdrawals never move the floor.
Reserve
- Unlocks begin after 15 profitable live days and $5,000 of total live profit.
Section: Reserve
− - Then every extra $5,000 of profit unlocks $2,500, processed weekly.
+ - Then every extra $5,000 of profit unlocks $2,500.
- Locked Reserve can't be withdrawn. Released Reserve can be withdrawn or used for margin.
- Gambling, oversizing or reckless trading forfeits Reserve unlocks.
Getting paid
Payouts are daily with a $200 minimum: live profit above the cushion plus any released Reserve. The split is 90%.
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Loss floor
- Every live account starts at $0 with a loss floor below it ($2,000 on a 50K).
- The floor moves only at the daily close, to sit one floor-width below your best close. Intraday dips below it are safe if the day closes above.
- Once it reaches $0 it stops there permanently.
- If a trading day closes below the floor, the account is lost, including any cushion it holds. There is no daily loss limit.
Cushion
- Half the starting floor ($1,000 on a 50K). Your first profits fill it.
- Profit above the cushion is withdrawable from day one.
- The cushion is released after 15 profitable days, not necessarily in a row. A day counts when realised profit reaches the daily minimum ($150 on a 50K).
- Withdrawals never move the floor.
Reserve
- Unlocks begin after 15 profitable live days and $5,000 of total live profit.
- Then every extra $5,000 of profit unlocks $2,500, processed weekly.
- Locked Reserve can't be withdrawn. Released Reserve can be withdrawn or used for margin.
- Gambling, oversizing or reckless trading forfeits Reserve unlocks.
Getting paid
Payouts are daily with a $200 minimum: live profit above the cushion plus any released Reserve. The split is 90%.
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