What does the profit split mean?

The profit split is the proportion of simulated gains recorded on a funded-stage account that the participant may request as a payment under the contract. The remainder stays with the firm. It is expressed as a share of the profit measured above a reference point — usually the highest balance already paid out from, or the starting balance of the stage — so gains that merely recover an earlier drawdown generally do not count toward a new request. The split applies only to the simulated performance the account is credited with; it is not a share of any external trading result and does not describe capital held by the participant.

The headline share describes only the arithmetic once a payment is due. The conditions attached to it determine whether that point is reached. Payments can normally be requested on a fixed cycle rather than on demand, and the clock typically starts from the first trade or from account activation rather than from the day a target is hit. A minimum profit is usually required before a request is accepted, so small gains carry over rather than being paid. Some programmes raise the share after a set number of completed cycles, or condition the higher share on consistency rules — limits on how much of total profit may come from a single day or a single position. Where such rules exist, an account can be profitable in aggregate and still have a request reduced or deferred until the profit distribution is spread more evenly.

Comparison between offers is therefore only meaningful when the split is read together with the cycle length, the minimum threshold, and the rules that terminate the account. A larger share on a long cycle can produce fewer payment opportunities than a smaller share on a short one, and a daily-loss or maximum-drawdown breach ends the account regardless of accumulated profit, cancelling any pending request in most terms. Two further points are commonly misread: the split is applied to profit, not to account size, and the firm's remainder is not a fee deducted from a payment but its retained share defined before any request exists. Terms also permit revision of the split for new accounts, so a published figure describes the contract signed, not a permanent entitlement.