Paid To Trade Review: Plans, Rules, and How It Compares

Paid To Trade

Paid To Trade is a forex proprietary trading firm operating at paidtotrade.net under Mason Ridge Strategic Consultancy Inc. (Company Registration No. 2025050200688-04). Its established date is June 2025, its listed contact address is in the United Arab Emirates, and it is not regulated by a financial authority. The firm sells four account structures on Match Trader and Platform 5: a 2-Step Static evaluation, a 1-Step Static evaluation, an Instant Funding account with no evaluation stage, and a 1-Step Trail evaluation that uses a trailing drawdown. Its stated pitch is a rule set without a consistency requirement, without a profit cap and without a time limit on any evaluation, paired with a weekly payout cycle. It carries a PropFirmMap score of 4.0 out of 10 and a safety grade of D.

Plans and pricing

All prices below were confirmed against the firm's own live product catalogue on 26 August 2026. Every account type is a one-time payment and the evaluation fee is not refunded on the first payout.

The Static and Instant lines use a static drawdown anchored to the starting balance, so the loss limit is a fixed dollar amount that does not trail upward as the account gains. The 1-Step Trail line uses a trailing drawdown that follows equity highs and resets after each withdrawal. Both Static evaluations require a minimum of 4 trading days; Instant Funding and 1-Step Trail have no minimum trading day requirement at the evaluation stage.

Four paid add-ons are sold separately and are priced by account size. Extended Drawdown ranges from $30 to $300 and raises the 1-Step Static limits from 3% daily and 6% maximum to 4% and 8%. An 80% profit split upgrade ranges from $20 to $110 and a 90% profit split upgrade ranges from $30 to $220, both applying to the 1-Step Static line, which starts at a 70% split. A No Minimum Trading Days add-on ranges from $50 to $90. On the $10K 1-Step Static account specifically, Extended Drawdown is $70, the 80% split upgrade is $30 and the 90% split upgrade is $50. No add-ons are sold on the 2-Step Static line.

Reading the two Static lines side by side is worth doing before buying. At $10K the 2-Step Static costs $109 and includes an 80% split, while the 1-Step Static costs $120 with a 70% split and needs a further $30 to reach the same 80%. The 1-Step Static removes the second evaluation stage and in exchange applies a tighter 3% daily and 6% maximum loss limit rather than 4% and 8%.

Rules

The daily loss limit resets at 00:00 EET or EEST, and the reference point is the higher of balance or equity at the previous end of day. The maximum loss never resets. There is no time limit on any evaluation, and there is no consistency rule on the 1-Step Static, 2-Step Static or 1-Step Trail evaluations. On funded accounts, Static and Instant carry no consistency rule, while 1-Step Trail Performance applies a 20% rule: any single trade or single day's profit must be no more than 20% of total cycle profit. The 1-Step Static evaluation carries a 30-day inactivity rule.

News trading is prohibited on all Static and Instant accounts, defined as opening or closing a trade within 5 minutes before or after a high impact event on the FXStreet economic calendar. Breaching it voids that trade's profit but is not a hard breach, and losses still count. News trading is permitted on 1-Step Trail accounts. Expert advisors are allowed and weekend holding is allowed, with standard rollover and swap charges applying. Hedging is banned in any form on Static accounts, including across multiple or related accounts. Copy trading and martingale are not permitted. Ordinary scalping is not prohibited, but tick scalping and asymmetric scalping designed to manufacture consistency are prohibited on every account type.

Position size is capped at 1 standard lot per every 2,500 of account balance. Leverage is 1:40 on forex, 1:20 on indices, 1:10 on gold, 1:5 on other metals and commodities, and 1:2 on crypto. Tradable instruments are forex, indices, metals, energy and crypto.

On payouts, Static and Instant accounts open their first request 7 calendar days after the first trade and then every 7 calendar days. The 1-Step Trail cycle opens after 21 calendar days and then runs every 14 days. The firm states approval is instant and that payments are processed within 5 minutes to 2 hours after approval. KYC verification and a signed Performance Agreement are required before the first payout. The minimum payout request on Static accounts is 1% of the account size. There is no profit cap and no per-cycle withdrawal cap on Static or Instant accounts, while 1-Step Trail caps withdrawals at 6% of the account per cycle and additionally requires 5 minimum trading days per cycle plus a minimum profit per day of $100 at $25,000, $200 at $50,000 and $400 at $100,000. Withdrawals are sent only by bank transfer or crypto on the TRC-20 network; the firm states it does not use PayPal, Payoneer, ERC-20 or Ethereum. Funded accounts scale through a program that doubles funded capital at each tier up to a $1,500,000 maximum.

What the public record shows

This matters when set against the firm's own marketing. The firm's /reviews/ page claims a 4.8 TrustPilot rating, which the TrustPilot profile does not support, and a separate on-site widget shows 4.7 from 312 reviews described as "sourced from our trader community" rather than from TrustPilot. The same /reviews/ page also states account prices that its own live checkout contradicts: $899 and $1749 for Instant Funding sizes that the live catalogue sells at $949 and $1849, and $69 for a 1-Step Static size the live catalogue sells at $60. It further describes 1-Step Static accounts at $25K and $50K, which do not exist in the live product catalogue at all. We resolved each of these in favour of the live checkout.

The firm self-reports $6.27M or more paid to 3,594 or more traders with zero denied payouts since launch, and publishes a per-payout ledger. Those figures are the firm's own unaudited claims and we have not verified them against an independent source.

The PropFirmMap score of 4.0 out of 10 breaks down along the same lines. Transparency scores 100 out of 100, because the full rule set including leverage caps, prohibited strategies and the daily loss reset time is published in a public help centre. Payout structure scores 87.5. Trust and reliability scores 16.4, which is what pulls the overall grade to D.

Pros

• No consistency rule and no profit cap on Static and Instant funded accounts, and no time limit on any evaluation.
• Weekly payout cycle on Static and Instant accounts, with the first request opening 7 calendar days after the first trade and processing stated at 5 minutes to 2 hours after approval.
• Rules are documented publicly in detail, including leverage caps by instrument, the daily loss reset time and the full prohibited strategy list, which scores 100 out of 100 on our transparency pillar.

Cons

• TrustPilot has withheld the company's rating for a breach of its guidelines and states it removed a number of fake reviews.
• The firm's own /reviews/ page publishes a TrustPilot rating its profile does not support, and prices and account sizes its own live checkout does not sell.
• Hedging is banned outright on Static accounts, news trading is prohibited on all Static and Instant accounts, evaluation fees are not refunded on the first payout, and the firm is not regulated.

How it compares

Three established CFD firms sit in the same entry price band. The comparison below uses each firm's $10K entry evaluation.

Firm	$10K entry price	Profit target	Daily loss	Max loss	Split	TrustPilot	Grade
Paid To Trade	$109	10% then 5%	4%	8%	80%	Rating withheld	D
The5ers	$78	8%	5%	10%	80%-100%	4.7 from 35,844 reviews	A+
FTMO	$79	10%	3%	10%	90%	4.8 from 49,993 reviews	A+
FXIFY	$59	$500 or 5%	5%	5% trailing	Up to 90%	4.3 from 6,193 reviews	A+

On price, Paid To Trade's $109 entry at $10K is above all three: $31 more than The5ers at $78, $30 more than FTMO at $79 and $50 more than FXIFY at $59. On drawdown headroom it sits between them, with a 4% daily limit against FTMO's 3% and The5ers' and FXIFY's 5%, but an 8% maximum loss against 10% at both The5ers and FTMO. Its static drawdown anchored to the starting balance is more forgiving in structure than FXIFY's 5% trailing limit. On profit split its 80% matches The5ers' floor and is below FTMO's 90%, though The5ers and FXIFY both scale higher.

The clearest separation is not in the plan mechanics but in the public record. All three comparison firms carry live TrustPilot ratings between 4.3 and 4.8 built on review counts from 6,193 to 49,993, and all three hold an A+ safety grade. Paid To Trade has been trading since June 2025, has 89 reviews listed, and has had its rating withheld.

Verdict

Paid To Trade publishes an unusually complete rule set and a payout structure that is fast on paper: weekly cycles on Static and Instant accounts, a first request 7 calendar days after the first trade, no consistency rule and no profit cap on those lines, and no time limit on any evaluation. Those are real, documented terms and they are the reason its transparency and payout pillars score 100 and 87.5.

The counterweight is the trust pillar at 16.4. TrustPilot has withheld the rating for a guidelines breach and states it removed fake reviews, and the firm's own marketing page carries a TrustPilot figure the profile does not support alongside prices its own checkout does not charge. A trader evaluating this firm is therefore relying on the firm's self-reported payout ledger rather than on independently verifiable evidence.

The account structure may suit traders who want a static drawdown anchored to the starting balance, no consistency rule, no profit cap and a 7 day payout cycle, and who are willing to pay $109 at $10K rather than the $59 to $79 charged by longer established firms in the same band. Traders who weight an independently verifiable public record heavily, or who need to trade news events or hedge, should note that news trading is prohibited on every Static and Instant account, hedging is banned on Static in any form, and the TrustPilot rating is currently withheld.

Sources: paidtotrade.net, the firm's live product catalogue, its public help centre at help.paidtotrade.net, its company policies page, and its TrustPilot profile. Prices and TrustPilot status confirmed live on 26 August 2026.