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Onyx Futures Onyx Futures
Topstep Topstep
Onyx Futures 5.8 Get Started
Topstep 7.9 Get Started
Overview
Asset Type Futures Futures
Country United States United States
Established - Jan 2010
Technology White-Label Proprietary
Platforms Tradesea, DeepCharts Topstep X
Trading Rules
Profit Split Up to 100% (Ruby and Flex Funded simulated accounts); 85% (Express to Live live account) Best 90%
Daily Drawdown No forced daily loss limit on any Sapphire, Flex, Gold or Platinum account - traders may optionally set their own from the dashboard. Express to Live accounts carry a daily loss limit of $400, $600, $800 or $1,200 by drawdown size. Drawdown itself is end-of-day trailing on Sapphire and Flex, and a static floor on the Gold and Platinum-X tracks. $2,000 max loss limit ($50K) / $3,000 ($100K) / $4,500 ($150K)
Payout Frequency On request, any week (simulated funded); daily on the Express to Live live account
Payout requests are approved in under 24 hours, and ONYX adds $300 to the payout if approval is ever late. Flex Funded requires five winning trading days since the last payout, each with realized profit of at least 10% of the drawdown. Ruby requires the published first-payout buffer for its size. 		On-demand
Direct Path to Funded ✗ No ✓ Yes
Reviews & Reputation
Review Count 0 reviews 0 reviews
Avg. Rating No ratings yet No ratings yet
Pros & Cons
Main Benefits
  • One-time fee with no monthly subscription or recurring billing. No forced daily loss limit on any account. End-of-day trailing drawdown rather than intraday, so an intraday dip that recovers by the close does not fail the account, plus a static-floor track for traders who prefer a fixed limit. Payout requests approved in under 24 hours, with $300 added to the payout if approval is ever late. Up to 100% profit split on the simulated funded tracks. No minimum hold time and microscalping is allowed. Up to five funded accounts tradable at once, with no limit on concurrent evaluations. The Express to Live track routes a passing trader to a real live brokerage account with an 85% split, daily uncapped payouts and a $0 activation fee.
  • 90% profit split, instant payouts, no activation fee, pass in as little as 2 days, Chicago-based since 2010
Main Drawbacks
  • No overnight or weekend holding is permitted on any account. Automated and algorithmic trading is prohibited. Positions must be flat at least two minutes before scheduled tier-1 economic releases. Trading is restricted to CME, COMEX, NYMEX and CBOT futures - stocks, options, forex, crypto and CFDs are not permitted. All evaluation fees are non-refundable once credentials are issued and are not refunded on the first payout. Ruby funded accounts carry a 40% consistency rule at every payout and a first-payout balance buffer. The firm is young - its TrustPilot profile was claimed in April 2026 and carries only 19 reviews - and the linked public rule book at /rules returns a 404, so the full rule set is only available in summary form inside the Terms of Use.
  • Trailing max loss limit (not static daily DD), TrustPilot rating 3.6, monthly subscription billing
Offers & Promo Codes
Active Offers No offers
$20 off No Activation Fee Trading Combine (any size). Up to 5 uses per trader. TONES

Challenge Details

Onyx Futures Challenges

12 challenges
Price Account Size Step Profit Target Max Daily Loss Max Drawdown Profit Split Activation Fee
$114 $68 $25K 1 Step P1: $1,200
 P1: -
No forced daily loss limit on any ONYX account. Traders may optionally set their own from the dashboard.
P1: $1,000 (end-of-day trailing)
 Up to 100% None
$128 $77 $25K 1 Step P1: $1,200
 P1: -
No forced daily loss limit on any ONYX account. Traders may optionally set their own from the dashboard.
P1: $1,000 (end-of-day trailing)
 Up to 100% None
$156 $94 $50K 1 Step P1: $3,000
 P1: -
No forced daily loss limit on any ONYX account. Traders may optionally set their own from the dashboard.
P1: $2,000 (end-of-day trailing)
 Up to 100% None
$396 $103 $1K 2 Steps P1: $2,000
P2: $1,000
 P1: $400
P2: $400
P1: $1,000 (static floor, does not move)
P2: $1,000 (static floor, ratchets up once the evaluation is passed)
 85% None
$178 $107 $50K 1 Step P1: $3,000
 P1: -
No forced daily loss limit on any ONYX account. Traders may optionally set their own from the dashboard.
P1: $2,000 (end-of-day trailing)
 Up to 100% None
$252 $151 $100K 1 Step P1: $6,000
 P1: -
No forced daily loss limit on any ONYX account. Traders may optionally set their own from the dashboard.
P1: $3,300 (end-of-day trailing)
 Up to 100% None
$596 $155 $1.5K 2 Steps P1: $3,000
P2: $1,500
 P1: $600
P2: $600
P1: $1,500 (static floor, does not move)
P2: $1,500 (static floor, ratchets up once the evaluation is passed)
 85% None
$286 $172 $100K 1 Step P1: $6,000
 P1: -
No forced daily loss limit on any ONYX account. Traders may optionally set their own from the dashboard.
P1: $3,000 (end-of-day trailing)
 Up to 100% None
$756 $197 $2K 2 Steps P1: $4,000
P2: $2,000
 P1: $800
P2: $800
P1: $2,000 (static floor, does not move)
P2: $2,000 (static floor, ratchets up once the evaluation is passed)
 85% None
$956 $249 $3K 2 Steps P1: $6,000
P2: $3,000
 P1: $1,200
P2: $1,200
P1: $3,000 (static floor, does not move)
P2: $3,000 (static floor, ratchets up once the evaluation is passed)
 85% None
$438 $263 $150K 1 Step P1: $9,000
 P1: -
No forced daily loss limit on any ONYX account. Traders may optionally set their own from the dashboard.
P1: $4,500 (end-of-day trailing)
 Up to 100% None
$498 $299 $150K 1 Step P1: $9,000
 P1: -
No forced daily loss limit on any ONYX account. Traders may optionally set their own from the dashboard.
P1: $4,500 (end-of-day trailing)
 Up to 100% None

Topstep Challenges

3 challenges
Price Account Size Step Profit Target Max Daily Loss Max Drawdown Profit Split Activation Fee
$49
/month 		$50K 1 Step P1: $3,000
 P1: -
P1: $2,000
 90% $149
$99
/month 		$100K 1 Step P1: $6,000
 P1: -
P1: $3,000
 90% $149
$199
/month 		$150K 1 Step P1: $9,000
 P1: -
P1: $4,500
 90% $149
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