OneUp Trader Rules: Payouts, Resets & TradingView Automation

OneUp Trader changed its lineup on September 16, 2026. A new Pro Evaluation lets you qualify in as few as 5 trading days instead of 10, at about 1.5 times the monthly price. Express Funding now needs 3 trading days, but only within 24 hours of losing a funded account.

Underneath sits a rulebook that’s easy to misread when a bot trades. The drawdown stops trailing at your starting balance, and the first $10,000 of payouts is yours in full. Funded accounts, though, start with as little as a quarter of the contracts the evaluation allowed.

This guide covers the rules as they stand on September 18, 2026. Then it turns to the question that decides everything else for a bot: does OneUp allow TradingView automation at all, and how do you set it up if the answer’s yes? For the Rithmic side of that setup, our TradingView to Rithmic automation guide goes deeper.

Key Takeaways

• Pro Evaluations, new on September 16, 2026, cut the minimum to 5 trading days.
• Funded traders keep 100% of the first $10,000, then 90%.
• Funded scaling starts a $100K account at 3 contracts, not the evaluation’s 12.
• OneUp’s rules don’t mention bots. Get a written yes before automating.

OneUp Trader is a futures evaluation company. You pay a monthly fee, pass a one-step evaluation on a simulated Rithmic account, and get placed with one of its funding partners. OneUp calls itself a recruitment company rather than a funder, so your funded account and its trader contract come from that partner.

Editorial note: PickMyTrade isn’t affiliated with OneUp. We checked every rule, price and date below against OneUp’s help center, homepage and blog on September 18, 2026.

What changed on September 16, 2026?

Three things changed on September 16, 2026. OneUp added a Pro Evaluation with a 5-day minimum and cut Express Funding from 5 trading days to 3. Express eligibility also shrank, from 30 days after a funded termination to 24 hours, while Standard prices, targets and drawdowns stayed the same.

We analyzed the archived June 2026 versions of OneUp’s rules pages against the live ones on September 18. Every row in this table comes from that side-by-side check and OneUp’s launch announcement.

Express got pricier on four of five sizes. The $250K Express account jumped from $425 to $570 a month, and the $100K went from $200 to $265.

Is the Pro Evaluation worth 50% more?

Pro buys speed, not savings. At the prices on OneUp’s plan cards, one Pro month plus its activation fee costs the same as two Standard months plus activation. Both plans bill every 30 days, and 10 trading days fit inside one cycle for any bot that trades most days.

So for an active strategy, Pro costs 50% more to reach funding about a week sooner. Does your bot usually need more than 10 trading days to make its 6% target? Then the minimum was never the bottleneck, and Pro buys nothing.

Would a week matter to you? If payouts are the goal, maybe. If cost is, Standard wins.

What are OneUp Trader’s evaluation rules?

Every OneUp evaluation asks for a 6% profit target, from $1,500 on the $25K to $15,000 on the $250K. You stay above a trailing drawdown of $1,500 to $5,500, trade at least 10 days (5 on Pro), and pass an 80% consistency check. There’s no daily loss limit on evaluations or funded accounts.

Ratio is the profit target divided by the trailing drawdown, and Max is the most contracts you can hold at once. Check the ratio before you pick a size for a bot.

The target stays at 6%, but the drawdown shrinks from 6% of the account to 2.2%. A $250K evaluation wants about $2.70 of profit for every dollar of room, while the $25K wants $1. If your backtest’s worst drawdown is large next to its monthly gain, the smaller sizes are far more forgiving.

What else is in the evaluation rulebook? Not much.

• The trading day runs from 5:00 PM to 3:15 PM CT. You must be flat by 3:15 PM CT, or earlier if your product closes first, and you can’t trade again until 5:00 PM.
• Nothing’s allowed from 3:15 PM CT on Friday until the Sunday open.
• The max counts every open position across all products at once. Micros count one-for-one during the evaluation, so a $50K can hold 6 MNQ, not 60.
• Simulated fees of $2.50 per side on standard contracts and $1 on micros come off your balance in real time.
• Evaluation accounts can trade straight through economic releases. That changes at funding.
• There’s no deadline. Billing recurs every 30 days, and your balance and day count carry over at renewal.

How does the 80% consistency rule treat a bot?

The consistency rule only applies to evaluations. It compares your best day with your next three, whose net profits must add up to at least 80% of the best day’s. You can also clear it in two days if your second-best day alone reaches 80% of the best.

For example, say a trend bot makes $1,800 on day 3 of a $50K evaluation. Now the next three best days have to total $1,440. If they add up to $1,200, you’ve hit the $3,000 target without passing, so the bot keeps trading, drawdown risk and all, until another decent day fills the gap.

A daily profit cap is the simplest guard. PickMyTrade’s daily loss and profit caps can stop new trades once the day’s profit reaches a level you choose, such as $900 on a $50K. That keeps one outsized day from setting an impossible bar.

How does the trailing drawdown lock work?

OneUp’s trailing drawdown follows your balance up by a fixed distance, $1,500 to $5,500 by account size, and stops once it reaches your starting balance. On a $50K account the floor starts at $47,500 and locks at $50,000 the first time your balance touches $52,500. It never moves back down.

The trailing drawdown is that moving floor. OneUp calculates it in real time during the session and counts commissions and fees, but it ignores pullbacks: when your balance drops, the floor stays put. Touching it ends an evaluation’s eligibility and terminates a funded account.

You can watch it live in R|Trader Pro, where it appears as the Auto Liquidate Threshold Value. If Rithmic ever flattens you with an AutoLiq message, our guide to Rithmic AutoLiq, access denied and entitlement errors explains what each one means.

Why does the lock matter for automation? Until it happens, your cushion is only the drawdown distance, whatever the account size says.

A 2-contract NQ bot with a 40-point stop risks $1,600 plus commissions on a single loss. That’s more than the whole $1,500 cushion on a $25K. One bad trade on day one would end the evaluation.

After the lock, the floor sits still at your starting balance and every dollar above it is room. As a result, it’s sensible to run a bot small until the lock and larger after it. OneUp’s four-minute explainer walks through the same mechanics:

How do OneUp Trader payouts work?

The first $10,000 of funded profit is 100% yours, and 90% of everything after that. You can withdraw from your first funded day once profit clears a threshold of $1,500 to $5,500 by account size. The minimum request is $1,000 of your share, there’s no maximum, and OneUp says requests are processed the same day.

To request one, you email your funding provider the amount on any weekday. Bank wires usually post in 1 to 3 business days.

Crypto payouts in BTC or USDT are capped at one request a week and $3,000 per request. They also carry a 5% processor fee and can take up to 14 business days.

The withdrawal threshold is the profit you have to leave in the account, and only the amount above it can come out. OneUp’s worked example is a $100K account with $6,500 of profit, which can withdraw $3,000 because the threshold there is $3,500. OneUp treats funded traders as independent contractors, so payouts count as ordinary income.

One detail changes how you plan payouts: the threshold equals the trailing drawdown on every size, from $1,500 on the $25K to $5,500 on the $250K. So by the time you’re eligible for any payout, your floor has already locked at the starting balance. A maximum withdrawal always leaves exactly one drawdown’s worth of room above a floor that can’t move.

That design protects the account. However, there’s a side effect. A max payout also lowers your contract limit, as the scaling section shows.

Is the split really 90%? Only in the long run. At $20,000 withdrawn you’ve kept $19,000, or 95%, and the blend only nears 90% after six figures.

If a request ever stalls, our rundown of why prop firm payouts get denied after you pass covers the usual causes.

What do resets, activation fees and Express Funding cost?

OneUp bills evaluations every 30 days, from $65 to $325 a month on Standard, and charges an activation fee equal to one month’s price when you pass. Resets are unlimited, but OneUp’s pages disagree on what they cost: $50 or $100 in the help articles, and $100 on every plan card.

We found three versions on September 18. The help articles say $50 for the $25K and $50K and $100 for larger sizes. The Standard and Pro plan cards show $100 on every size, and the homepage only says “Unlimited Balance Resets.”

Which one’s right? We can’t tell from the outside, so check the price on the Reset My Balance button before you click it.

Plan prices are per month, and the Reset column follows the help articles. Pro prices come from OneUp’s homepage, while its help-center plan cards list $97.50 to $487.50. Each plan’s activation fee equals one month of that plan’s price.

A reset restores your starting balance and rules. It processes right away, can take up to 30 minutes to show up, and doesn’t move your renewal date.

The activation fee is really the second half of a split payment, since OneUp describes paying half up front and half on approval. It’s charged automatically, and if the card fails you get 7 days before the account rolls back to evaluation status.

Express Funding and the free test

Express Funding is OneUp’s fast way back in after losing a funded account. You have 24 hours from the termination to buy one, at the same size you lost. It uses the normal evaluation rules with a 3-day minimum.

You can hold one at a time and buy at most two in any 30 days. Cancel it and you lose the offer; from then on only a regular evaluation is available.

OneUp’s homepage also advertises a free 7-day test. It’s handy for learning R|Trader Pro, but don’t plan your automation testing around it. PickMyTrade’s Rithmic setup guide notes that Rithmic’s API doesn’t accept temporary free demo or trial user IDs, so a paid evaluation is the safer test bed.

Which funded rules does a bot usually break?

Most funded-account trouble for a bot comes from rules the evaluation never tested. Dynamic scaling starts a funded $100K account at 3 contracts, a quarter of the evaluation’s 12. News blackouts, a weekly trade minimum and a 15-day net-positive check all begin at funding too.

Dynamic scaling cuts your size twice

Dynamic scaling is OneUp’s funded contract limit. OneUp sets it at each session open from the Cash On Hand value in R|Trader Pro. What matters is how far that sits above your starting balance.

The limit then holds all day, whatever your open P&L does. On a $100K account, the tiers are 3 contracts up to $2,000 of profit, 4 up to $3,000, 6 up to $5,000 and 12 above that.

We ran every account size through OneUp’s scaling tiers to see what a bot actually gets on its first funded day. A bot that passed a $100K on 12 contracts starts funded at 3, and a $250K bot drops from 25 to 6.

Where does the second cut come from? Payouts. OneUp resizes your limit to the new balance after each withdrawal, and a max withdrawal leaves profit exactly at the threshold.

On the $250K that’s $5,500, the 12-contract tier rather than 25. On the three largest sizes, a full payout roughly halves what your bot may trade the next session.

The fix depends on the alert type. An indicator alert carries a fixed quantity in its PickMyTrade JSON, so edit that number when the tier changes. A strategy alert takes its size from the strategy, so change the order size in TradingView and recreate the alert.

That last step matters because existing TradingView alerts keep the settings they were created with. Skip it and the bot keeps sending its old size.

Funded accounts can also ask the funding provider to allow micros at 10 per standard contract, which gives a bot finer steps between tiers. Our micro futures contract sizing explainer walks through that math.

News windows, the clock and the 10-second rule

The 3:15 PM CT flat rule carries into funding unchanged. News rules are new: funded traders must be flat from one minute before a listed release until one minute after it. The funding partners use the Forex Factory calendar, and the list depends on what you trade.

• FOMC statements, minutes, press conferences and speeches apply to every product.
• Index, currency and metals futures add CPI, payrolls and ADP, unemployment and jobless claims, GDP, ISM, JOLTS, PPI, retail sales and flash PMI.
• Rate futures add that same US data plus Treasury auctions.
• Crude products add the weekly EIA petroleum report, natural gas adds the EIA gas report, and grains add crop production reports.
• Currency futures also add their own central bank, GDP and jobs releases.

OneUp also bans trading activity shorter than 10 seconds, naming micro scalping, HFT, latency arbitrage and tick scalping. Around a news event, any trade under 10 seconds is banned outright.

Bots rarely scalp on purpose. However, a tight stop on a spike can close a trade in 3 seconds, so keep stops wide enough that a normal entry can’t round-trip that fast. Our breakdown of prop firm bot rules and what gets flagged covers the patterns firms look for.

Trade counts, the 90-day check and account limits

Two more funded rules run on the calendar. Each week you must place at least 50% of your weekly evaluation average, so a bot that fired 20 trades a week to pass needs 10. For a planned break, you ask the funding partner for an account hold first.

The other is a net-positive check in your first 90 funded days: at the end of every 15 calendar days, your balance should sit above the starting balance. Falling short brings a discretionary warning.

You can hold up to three funded accounts, only one of them Express. Copying your own trades across them is allowed for risk management and diversification. Copying to anyone else’s account, group trading and hedging across your funded accounts are all banned.

Running one signal across several accounts? Read our guide to copying trades across prop accounts and our explainer on why prop firms ban cross-account hedging first.

OneUp’s two-strike policy decides what a slip costs. For some funded rules the funding partner may warn you first, while others can end the account on the first breach. Either way, it’s discretionary.

Notice where the automation risk sits. The rule a bot is most likely to break by accident is holding past 3:15 PM CT because an exit alert never fired, and that one’s in the no-warning group.

Does OneUp Trader allow TradingView automation?

There’s no clear yes in writing, and OneUp’s current rules pages don’t mention bots or EAs at all. Its only written statement is a 2021 blog post, still live, which says “OneUp Trader does not allow algo trading.” Until OneUp tells you otherwise in writing, treat automation there as unconfirmed.

That post is old. Its embedded price table still shows the daily loss limits OneUp dropped in 2023 and the 80% split it replaced in 2022.

The current rules ban specific behaviors instead: trades under 10 seconds, exploiting data errors, hedging across funded accounts and copying between different people. We don’t think that silence is enough to risk a funded account on.

TradingView isn’t on OneUp’s list of more than 20 supported platforms either. OneUp’s TradingView tutorial pairs TradingView charts with R|Trader Pro’s order book for placing the trades. TradingView only draws the chart.

So what should you ask? Email [email protected], keep the reply, and cover three things:

• Are automated strategies allowed on evaluation accounts, funded accounts, or both?
• Does that include TradingView alerts sent through a third-party Rithmic bridge such as PickMyTrade?
• Does the funding partner’s contract say anything different?

Funded accounts come with a contract from the funding partner, so read that too. If the answer’s no, don’t automate a OneUp account. Plenty of firms put a yes in writing, and our list of the best prop firms for algo traders is a good place to start.

How do you connect TradingView to a OneUp account?

With OneUp’s written yes in hand, setup is short. TradingView can’t trade a Rithmic account directly, so a bridge like PickMyTrade holds your Rithmic login and turns each alert into an order. And since OneUp puts all your evaluation accounts under one Rithmic user ID, a single connection covers up to 3 of them.

New to webhook alerts? Our TradingView webhook alert JSON guide covers the payload, and the PickMyTrade Rithmic setup guide shows each connection screen. For the step 3 flatten, our Apex auto-flatten walkthrough and session-window guide use the same Active Hours setting.

Setup, step by step

1. Log in to R|Trader Pro once with your OneUp username and password. Choose Rithmic Paper Trading as the system and the gateway nearest you (Chicago in the US), then sign both CME market data agreements as a non-professional. OneUp says other platforms won’t connect until you do.
2. Create a PickMyTrade account for Rithmic, which is separate from a Tradovate login. Open Broker Connections, choose Rithmic, click Add Connection, and enter your OneUp username, password and the system name Rithmic Paper Trading. The status should read Connected; if it stays Disconnected with the right credentials, ask PickMyTrade support before going further.
3. In Active Hours, add a window that ends at 16:10 ET, which is 3:10 PM CT, with Close Positions/Orders set to Yes. Windows run in Eastern Time, and when one ends PickMyTrade closes positions and cancels working orders on the accounts you picked. If your strategy also trades the evening session, give it a second window.
4. Before funding, add a news rule. Set it to stop trading a few minutes before each release, restart a few minutes after, and close positions. Then compare the events PickMyTrade pauses for against OneUp’s list for your product, especially EIA reports on crude and Treasury auctions on bonds.
5. Set a daily loss cap well inside your drawdown cushion, plus a daily profit cap during the evaluation if your strategy has big days.
6. Generate the alert in PickMyTrade and paste the webhook URL and JSON into your TradingView alert. Size it to your evaluation max or funded tier, in the JSON for an indicator alert or in the strategy’s settings for a strategy alert. Webhooks need a paid TradingView plan, Essential or higher, with two-factor authentication turned on.
7. Run one contract on the paid evaluation for a few sessions, and confirm every fill and the 4:10 PM ET flatten in R|Trader Pro.

After you pass

When you pass, the funding partner sends new login credentials, usually within 3 business days of approval. That’s a new Rithmic login, so it goes in as a second connection, and each extra Rithmic connection costs $50 a month. Drop the size to your funded tier before the first session, in the alert JSON or in the strategy.

PickMyTrade itself costs $50 a month after a 7-day free trial with no card required, and the pricing page lists the quarterly and annual plans. For the product side of this setup, see TradingView to Rithmic routing.

Frequently asked questions

The short version

On paper, OneUp Trader’s rules are simple: a 6% target, a trailing drawdown that locks at your starting balance, no daily loss limit, and payouts of 100% up to $10,000, then 90%. The September 16 changes add a faster Pro path and a much tighter Express window. For a bot, the risk sits in the funded rules, above all scaling, news windows and the 3:15 PM CT flatten.

Get OneUp’s answer on automation in writing first. If it’s yes, guard the clock and the contract size before anything else.

Questions about the setup? Contact the PickMyTrade team, or read more about PickMyTrade and how it routes TradingView alerts.

Disclaimer:
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