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For Traders has added a $200K size to its Pay After Pass ladder, and the two numbers on the card tell the whole story: $9 today, $999 after you pass. The firm's pricing page lists the new tier at $69 with a $9 sale price, and puts the activation fee "only after you pass." PropScorer logged the addition on August 31. Our August 14 census had the firm's Pay After Pass lineup topping out at $100K.

A $999 activation fee is the largest deferred fee on our board. The entry price is a rounding error. Which is the point.

What is For Traders Pay After Pass?

A one-step evaluation where the evaluation fee is small and the activation fee is large, and the large fee is charged only when you pass. The firm describes the structure on its pricing page as paying the small entry fee now while "the activation fee only lands after you pass." We covered the formal Pay After Pass rules when the firm published them on August 19; this post is about the new size.

The full ladder, as captured on September 5:

  • $25K: $9 today (list $29), then $189 activation after passing.
  • $50K: $9 today (list $39), then $329 activation.
  • $100K: $9 today (list $49), then $489 activation. Marked most popular.
  • $200K: $9 today (list $69), then $999 activation. New.

For Traders Pay After Pass page: the $200K card, $9 today, $999 activation only after you pass

How much does the 200K Pay After Pass account cost?

Two prices, in order:

  • Now: $9 under the current sale, $69 at list.
  • After you pass: $999.
  • All-in to a funded $200K account on one attempt: $1,008 at the sale price, $1,068 at list.
  • Cost of a failed attempt: $9. The activation fee is never charged.

The firm's own comparison table on the page frames it this way for the $100K size: $9 down against a "typical" one-step price of $469 paid up front, with the $489 activation charged only on a pass. The $200K row follows the same logic at roughly double the activation.

What are the rules on the 200K account?

The card lists three:

  • 2% profit target, one-step.
  • 80% profit split.
  • No time limit.

That is all the pricing page says. The 2% target is the smallest on the board for a one-step evaluation, and it is the reason the activation fee does the pricing work here. A target that low will be passed by a large share of buyers; the $999 is what the firm collects from them.

Is nine dollars really the price?

For the attempt, yes. For the account, no. Read the card as $1,008.

What the structure changes is who pays. A trader who buys a $469 one-step and fails has paid $469. A trader who buys the $200K Pay After Pass and fails has paid $9. A trader who passes pays $1,008, and pays the bulk of it at the exact moment they are most motivated to keep going. For Traders is not hiding this; both prices are on the card, and the page says "both prices shown up front." But the marketing weight sits on the nine.

Our read, for the record: this is the entry-fee collapse we wrote about in August taken to its logical end. When the attempt costs less than lunch, the firm's revenue moves entirely to the pass. We have no evidence about For Traders' pass rates or books, and we are not claiming any; that is what the pricing model implies on its face.

How does Pay After Pass compare with a normal one-step challenge?

Using the firm's own table for the $100K size and our arithmetic for the $200K:

  • Pay today: $9 (PAP) versus the full price up front (typical one-step).
  • Activation: after you pass (PAP) versus bundled into the up-front price (typical).
  • Failed attempt: $9 versus the full price.
  • Passed attempt at $200K: $1,008 all-in, at the sale price.

If you expect to pass, the deferred model costs more in total than most flat-price one-steps of the same size. If you expect to need several attempts, it costs far less. Which trader you are is the whole decision.

What should traders know about For Traders right now?

Two things from our board:

  • Trustpilot pulled the firm's rating on August 18, citing fake reviews. Trustpilot's notice was about the reviews, not about who wrote them. Our post on it is linked from the firm's page; check the Trustpilot profile for its current state before you buy.
  • A $999 fee due at the pass is a trust product. Traders are being asked to pay the largest single deferred fee on the board to a firm that lost its Trustpilot rating three weeks ago. That is an observation, not an accusation; nothing in this launch is a rule breach.

For Traders' tier position is re-scored nightly from the full sentiment and tracker picture, not from a product launch. Check the firm's page for its current standing.

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