Take Profit Trader at Prop Firm Expo London 2026: What Traders Should Know

Most futures prop firms ask a trader to clear an evaluation, then trade a "funded" account that is actually a simulation environment indefinitely. Take Profit Trader is built on a different idea. The firm runs a three-stage progression: Test, Pro, then Pro+, where the goal is not just to pass an evaluation, but to graduate from simulated trading to a live exchange-routed account. That structural choice is what makes the firm worth understanding properly, especially in person.

Take Profit Trader will appear at Prop Firm Expo London 2026 on June 27 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre as a Gold Sponsor. For traders who want to understand how the three-stage model works in practice, and which stage to aim at given how they trade, the event is a useful place to do that work.

The Gold package gives attendees a few different ways to engage with the firm: a 3x4m booth on the floor, a secondary stage speaking opportunity, and supporting content across Prop Firm Match and Prop Firm Expo. For a trader trying to evaluate the firm, that means more than one setting in which to test what the team says.

Take Profit Trader is a US-based futures prop firm led by CEO James Sixsmith. The firm was founded in March 2021 and has been operating for five years, which makes it one of the more tenured firms in the futures prop space.

The trading environment is built for serious futures traders. Take Profit Trader uses CQG, Rithmic, and Tradovate as brokers and supports a deep platform lineup including ATAS Orderflow Trading, Bookmap, Finamark, Investor/RT, Jigsaw Daytradr, MotiveWave, MultiCharts, NinjaTrader, Quantower, R Trader, Trade Navigator, TradingView, Tradovate, and VolFix. The asset focus is futures only. Payouts are processed through PayPal, Plaid, and Wise.

The architecture of Take Profit Trader is the thing worth understanding before anything else. Rather than offering a single challenge that ends in a "funded" simulation account, the firm runs three sequential stages, each with a different role.

Test is the evaluation phase. It runs in a simulated environment, applies an end-of-day trailing drawdown, and includes a 50% consistency rule under which no single trading day may exceed 50% of total profits during the phase. There is no daily loss rule. Commissions are $5 round-trip per contract and $0.50 per micro. The minimum is five trading days. Traders pass when they hit the profit target while staying within the rules.

Pro is where the firm's trader-friendly design choices become visible. Once a trader passes Test, they enter a Pro account that pays out from day one, applies an 80/20 profit split, and removes the consistency rule entirely. The drawdown shifts to intraday trailing, a tighter rule than Test or Pro+, but the trade-off is real: traders can withdraw on the first profitable day with no minimum number of trading days, no maximum withdrawal amount, and no waiting for a "payout window." Profits above the buffer are available immediately. The firm describes this on its own pages as "Day-One Payouts," and the rule structure backs that up.

Pro+ is the stage that genuinely separates Take Profit Trader from some of its peers. Once a trader has either consistently withdrawn meaningful profits from Pro over time, or hit $10,000 profit in a single trading day, they are promoted to Pro+. Pro+ is a live account, not a simulation where trades route directly to the exchange. The profit split moves to 90/10. The drawdown returns to end-of-day. The buffer requirement is removed. There is no consistency rule, no daily loss rule, no payout restrictions, and copy trading is permitted across up to five accounts.

That progression is the editorial point. Most firms present "funded" as the destination. Take Profit Trader presents it as the second of three stages, with live exchange routing as the actual end goal.

Account sizes range from $25K to $150K, with maximum contract sizes scaling proportionally: 3 contracts or 30 micros at $25K, 6 or 60 at $50K, 9 or 90 at $75K, 12 or 120 at $100K, and 15 or 150 at $150K. Profit targets and trailing drawdown levels scale with account size as well. The drawdown stops trailing once it reaches the initial account balance across all three stages, which gives a clear ceiling on how the rule behaves once a trader is in profit.

The platform setup is split between a CQG data feed (NinjaTrader Prop, TradingView, Tradovate Prop) and a Rithmic data feed (R|Trader, Quantower, MotiveWave, and others). CQG is marked as the firm's recommended option, but the Rithmic side is fully supported.

The starting question is which stage you are realistically aiming at, and how the rules in each stage shape your trading.

If you are evaluating whether the Test phase suits you, focus on the 50% consistency rule and the end-of-day drawdown. There is no daily loss rule, which is unusual at the evaluation stage and worth confirming with the team. Pass-through to Pro requires hitting the profit target with at least five trading days completed.

If you are thinking about life on the Pro account, the practical questions are around day-one payouts, the buffer zone, and the intraday trailing drawdown. The firm uses a buffer-zone profit-share model where withdrawals at 50% are available within 60 days of account opening and 90% beyond that point, alongside the standard 80/20 split. Worth asking the team to walk through how the buffer works in practice, and how traders typically pace withdrawals across the first few months.

If you are thinking about Pro+, the conversation worth having is on what live exchange routing changes about your trading. The end-of-day drawdown is structurally different to Pro's intraday trail, the 90/10 split is among the higher splits in the futures space, and the absence of consistency rules and daily loss limits in a live environment is unusual. The promotion path (consistent meaningful withdrawals or a single $10,000 profit day) is also worth understanding before a trader plans for it.

• Which stage should I plan around: am I evaluating you for Pro, or already thinking about Pro+?
• On Pro, how does the buffer zone interact with day-one payouts in practice during the first 60 days?
• Pro+ is a live account rather than SIM. What changes about execution and order handling once a trader is promoted?
• The promotion path to Pro+ requires "consistent meaningful withdrawals" or a $10,000 single-day profit. What does "consistent" look like in practice?
• The drawdown is intraday on Pro and end-of-day on Test and Pro+. What is the design reason for that difference?
• Across your platform lineup, which is most commonly used by Pro and Pro+ traders, and why?
• For someone comparing Take Profit Trader against firms with one-step or two-step models, what is the strongest argument for the three-stage approach?

Use the secondary stage session and content exposure to test how the team explains the three-stage architecture. The firm's structure is more layered than most, and the useful signal is whether the team can articulate cleanly what each stage is for and how a trader should plan their progression. The Gold package gives Take Profit Trader a podcast episode, a short-form video, integrated social posts, and a dedicated email blast, enough public material to test whether the messaging stays consistent across formats.

Use booth time to narrow the decision around your own trading. Bring your account-size range, your platform preference, and a sense of how you want to use the firm, purely for evaluation, for ongoing day-one payouts, or with a longer-term view toward Pro+. The firm's lineup is broad enough that a careful conversation should produce a specific recommendation rather than a generic answer.

Take Profit Trader will appear at Prop Firm Expo London 2026 on June 27 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre as a Gold Sponsor. For attendees comparing futures prop firms, that is a useful opportunity to evaluate one of the more tenured firms in the space and to test how its three-stage structure fits the way you actually trade.

If Take Profit Trader is already on your shortlist, use the expo to get precise. Focus on which stage you are realistically aiming at, how the rule structure changes between stages, and what live exchange routing on Pro+ would mean for your trading. That is a stronger way to use Gold-level access than relying on visibility alone.

To prepare before the event, you can review Take Profit Trader's full profile, including broker details, supported platforms, payout structures, and verified trader reviews, on the Take Profit Trader page on Prop Firm Match. If you want to compare current pricing and discount codes before you arrive, the latest Take Profit Trader offers are listed alongside the firm's challenge lineup.