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Five dollars. That is now the activation fee on every DayTraders account, according to the firm's own homepage, which since the end of August has carried a one-line pricing manifesto: "One standard price. A flat $5 activation fee. No codes, no gimmicks." Our August 14 census recorded DayTraders activation fees around $99. PropScorer logged the change on August 31.

For a futures prop firm, the activation fee is the second price tag, the one that lands after you pass and before you can take a payout. Cutting it to $5 across the board is a bigger move than any evaluation discount, and it comes with a catch the firm's marketing does not lead with: the discount codes are gone too.

What did DayTraders change about its pricing?

Three things, per the homepage as captured on September 5:

  • Activation fee: a flat $5 on every account size. The 25K EOD card shows "Activation Fee $5" with a "New" tag on it.
  • Code pricing: retired. The pricing block says "No codes, no gimmicks." The price you see is the price.
  • Rules up front. The same line promises every rule visible before you buy, and the account card does list them (below).

DayTraders homepage pricing block: one standard price, a flat $5 activation fee, no codes

PropScorer's August 31 entry logs the same change and adds a new DT Wallet for store credit and payouts. We have not seen the firm's own wallet page, so that part is PropScorer's report.

How much does a DayTraders 25K EOD account cost now?

$80 per account, plus $5 to activate after passing, per the homepage card:

  • 25K EOD: $80, starting capital $25,000, end-of-day trailing drawdown.
  • Activation: $5.
  • All-in to a funded account on one attempt: $85.

The account-size picker also lists 50K, 150K and 300K, and account types EOD, Trail, Static, Instant and Live. We captured the 25K EOD card only; the other sizes are in the next census pass.

What happened to DayTraders discount codes?

The firm says they are gone. That is not quite what the rest of the internet says yet. On September 5, PropScorer's site banner was still advertising a DayTraders deal at 90% off EOD and Trail accounts under an affiliate code. Whether that code still works at checkout we did not test, and a tracker banner can lag a firm's pricing change by days. What we can say is that DayTraders' own page and a major tracker were, for at least a few days, telling traders two different things about codes.

If you are pricing this account, take the firm's page as the authority. That read is ours.

What is the DT Wallet?

Per PropScorer's August 31 log, a wallet inside the DayTraders account that holds store credit and receives payouts. The firm's homepage does not describe it, and the help centre entries we captured do not either. Attributed to PropScorer until DayTraders publishes its own page.

Why does a flat activation fee matter?

We wrote in August that the entry fee is collapsing across the industry while the activation fee is not. DayTraders has now moved the second number, and the interesting part is which way.

A $99 activation fee on an $80 evaluation means the pass costs more than the attempt. At $5 it is a rounding error. The firm's revenue from a passed trader now has to come from the split and from resets, not from the activation gate. That is a real change in how the firm gets paid, and it is the only reason to pay attention to a five-dollar line item.

The cost, from the trader's side, is that the old code pricing could take a 25K EOD well under $80. If the codes really are dead, the sticker price is the floor.

What are the rules on the 25K EOD account?

From the homepage card, as captured:

  • Total drawdown: $1,000, EOD trailing.
  • Daily loss limit: $800.
  • Profit target: $1,500.
  • Contracts: 6, or 60 micros.
  • Minimum days to pass: 2 qualifying days.
  • Minimum daily profit to qualify: $100.
  • Consistency rule: 50%.
  • Max total EOD accounts: 5.
  • Activation fee: $5.

A $100 minimum daily profit and a 50% consistency rule on a $1,500 target are the two lines that decide how fast this account can be passed, and they did not change. Only the fee did.

DayTraders' tier position is re-scored nightly from the full picture, not from a fee change. Its Trustpilot score slipped from 4.6 to 4.4 in our August 27 run. Check the firm's page for its current standing and live pricing.

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