ES E-mini S&P 500
- Tick
- 0.25
- Tick value
- $12.50
- Front month
- ES Z26
- Rolls
- Dec 14, 2026
Last trading day is the third Friday of the delivery month. Rolls 4 calendar days earlier — the Monday of that week.
Methodology
PassTraq methodology: where every number comes from.
Every number PassTraq shows has one of three sources, and the screen says which: your broker, read from Rithmic verbatim, with the time it arrived; your own trades, worked out and labelled so; or nothing, shown as “—”. Firm rules come from presets for 23 futures prop firms, checked against each firm’s own documentation on Oct 14, 2026. A rule PassTraq has not verified is refused, never guessed.
Broker numbers: Trader and upFrom your trades: Starter
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50K evaluation
End-of-day trailing · Rithmic login connected
- Balance
- $50,730.00
- from your broker:Rithmic · as of 15:04 UTC
- Today, after commissions
- −$510.00
- from your broker:Rithmic · as of 15:04 UTC
- Drawdown left
- $1,490floor $49,240.00
- from your broker:Rithmic · as of 15:04 UTC
- Daily loss left
- $49051% used
- from your broker:Rithmic · as of 15:04 UTC
- Max contracts
- —
- unknown:Needs a data source
- Last trade, NQ long 1
- −1.04R
- from your trades:R from the bracket stop
- from your broker:From your broker
- with its source and time
- from your trades:From your trades
- worked out, and labelled so
- unknown:Unknown
- “—”, never a guess
Where a number comes from
Three sources, and the label each one wears
Each number carries its source label. A worked-out number says so; an unknown one shows a dash.
Your broker comes first. With your Rithmic login connected on Trader and up, balance, day P&L and drawdown floor are Rithmic's own. Once the broker reports a balance, nothing PassTraq imports or computes may overwrite it.
Otherwise, your trades. Without one, each figure is added up from the trades you import, sync or log, and says so: the Starter path.
| Label | What it means |
|---|---|
| from your broker:Rithmic | Live from your broker, on the workbench. |
| from your broker:Rithmic · as of 15:04 UTC | The broker’s last reading, and when it arrived. |
| from your trades:PassTraq rules | A floor worked out from your limits; the broker sent none. |
| from your trades:Journal | Added up from the trades you imported, synced or logged. |
| SimSim · practice ledger | A sim account’s own ledger. |
| RuleFirm rules · verified | Read from a checked firm preset. |
| RuleFirm rules · not verified | From a preset held as approximate or unverified. |
| unknown:Needs a data source | No reliable source yet, such as a firm’s max contracts. |
| unknown:Needs firm data | A firm rule no preset carries yet, such as flatten-by time. |
| unknown:— | Unknown. Nothing is filled in. |
Firm rulebooks
How firm rules are kept, checked and dated
Each firm's rules live in one preset, by plan and account size, copied from the firm's own pages. All 23 were last checked on Oct 14, 2026: 21 are held as verified, FTMO Futures and The5ers Futures as approximate.
- A size without a checked dollar figure reads “Not verified — check the firm’s site”, never an estimate.
- A rule the firm doesn't publish stays empty. The free tools won't simulate an unknown drawdown model, and the Prop Eval Lab withholds odds without a verified rulebook.
- A retired plan keeps its rules for the accounts bought under it, and is never offered to a new account.
- Any other firm works as a custom firm, with your own target, daily loss and max drawdown.
- 15
- sizes marked not verified, across 67 plans
- 13
- retired plans kept for existing accounts
- 10
- firms with a sourced, dated answer on automation
The date moves only with a full re-check; each firm's rules page prints it, with a link to report a change. Compare two firms, try the free tools on the same presets, or see the prop firm rules tracker.
Trailing drawdown
How a trailing drawdown is calculated, one week worked through
The floor is a high-water mark minus the max drawdown, and it never moves down; the model decides which high counts. Of the 67 plans PassTraq models, 52 trail at the end of the day, 7 intraday and 8 are static.
| Day | P&L | High | Close | Floor in force | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intraday | End of day | Static | ||||
| 1 | +$1,200 | $51,200 | $51,200 | $49,200 | $48,000 | $48,000 |
| 2 | −$800 | $51,200 | $50,400 | $49,200 | $49,200 | $48,000 |
| 3 | +$600 | $52,000 | $51,000 | $50,000 | $49,200 | $48,000 |
| 4 | −$1,500 | $51,000 | $49,500 | $50,000Breached | $49,200 | $48,000 |
| 5 | +$400 | $49,900 | $49,900 | $50,000 | $49,200 | $48,000 |
Same five days. The intraday floor rose to $50,000 with day 3's high, so day 4's close at $49,500 broke it. End of day kept $300 of room; static kept $1,500.
Where a firm locks the floor at the starting balance, the Trailing Drawdown Simulator locks it there too.
from your trades: The same week, from a CSV
A CSV holds closed trades, not the highs between them. Through day 4 PassTraq sees a $51,200 peak and $1,700 used: 85%, DANGER, “Drawdown at 85% of maximum — trade with extreme caution”. The intraday firm had already ended the account. With your broker connected on Trader and up, the floor is Rithmic's own.
The other rules
Daily loss, consistency, minimum days and the warnings
Each rule is measured as the firm states it, and every warning uses one set of words and thresholds.
Daily loss limit
Your day's net P&L after commissions, open P&L included, rolling at 17:00 CT. Of the 23 firms' default 50K plans, 7 set one: 6 soft, which pause the day, and 1 hard, which fails the account.
Consistency rule
The Rules HUD sets today's net P&L against the firm's share of the profit target, as an early warning. The Consistency Rule Calculator and payout readiness measure your best day's share of total profit. Neither counts going over as a breach.
Minimum days
Payout readiness counts distinct trading days with a closed trade. The Days to Pass Planner divides the target by your expected day: arithmetic, no probability.
The warnings
One ramp for every meter and alert:
CAUTION 50%DANGER 70%STOP 90%
The dashboard warns “70% of daily loss limit used — consider stopping”, then “Daily loss limit 90% used — stop trading today”.
Rules dashboard: Starter Rules HUD: Trader and up
The trading day
One trading day: 17:00 to 17:00 Chicago
CME futures reopen at 17:00 Chicago time, so PassTraq's trading day runs from 17:00 to 17:00 and takes the date it closes on.
| A trade closes | Chicago | Trading day |
|---|---|---|
| Tue, Oct 20, 21:59 UTC | Tue 16:59 CT | Tue, Oct 20 |
| Tue, Oct 20, 22:00 UTC | Tue 17:00 CT | Wed, Oct 21 |
| Sun, Oct 18, 23:00 UTC | Sun 18:00 CT | Mon, Oct 19 |
The daily loss meter, the journal's grade and payout readiness all count this day. Eval Autopsy uses a firm's own reset hour where its preset states one.
Each day is graded at 17:00 CT on rules you set, never on money made: 7 rules, 6 on by default, in the trading journal. Dashboard times read UTC and say so.
Statistics
Every statistic carries its sample size
PassTraq prints the sample beside every answer about your trades, and holds back what the sample can't support.
The Analyst
Each group shows its trade count, and each win rate its 95% Wilson range: 12 wins in 20 reads 60%, range 39% to 78%. Groups under 5 trades are never compared; under 30 trades the answer says it is not a finding.
Trader and up
The Prop Eval Lab
It walks your backtest through a firm's rulebook, then reshuffles the same trades into 1,000 seeded evaluations, so a run repeats exactly. Its two notes:
Withheld: 8 trades is too few to resample (at least 10).
Resampled from 60 trades over 20 trading days. One stretch of one market — a sketch, not a forecast.
Pro and up
More in strategies and automation.
Market data
Only real market data, from your own feed
Nothing on a chart or in the DOM is filled in or made up.
- PassTraq doesn't sell market data. Plans are market-data neutral: charts, the DOM, replay and backtests run on your own broker or Rithmic login.
- A quiet market is not a dead feed; the order ticket tells them apart.
- With no order book from your broker, the DOM says so instead of drawing one. A gap after a disconnect is filled from your broker's history.
- Backtests and the charts on your trades take bars from your own login only. Anything else is refused: “These bars did not come from this account's own broker feed — refused.”
- FEED LIVE
- Prices are arriving.
- QUIET 4s
- Connected; no new price for four seconds.
- DISCONNECTED
- Your login is not connected.
- MARKET CLOSED
- Globex is not trading.
Contracts
Contract specs, tick values and the roll
Tick values come from the table PassTraq values your fills with; the front month from the roll engine the platform charts with, on the day the page renders.
CL WTI Crude Oil
- Tick
- 0.01
- Tick value
- $10.00
- Front month
- CL Z26
- Rolls
- Nov 16, 2026
Last trading day is 3 business days before the 25th of the month preceding delivery. Rolls 4 business days before the last trading day.
All 26 contracts: contract specs, the futures roll calendar and the Tick Value Calculator.
Payouts
Payout readiness, against the terms you enter
PassTraq ships no funded-account rulebook, so readiness is measured against the payout terms you type in from your firm. A term left empty is measured, with no verdict.
- Trading days
- Distinct CME trading days with a closed trade since your last payout.
- Best-day share
- Your best day’s share of the profit over the same window.
- Buffer above the floor
- Dollars between your balance and the drawdown floor.
- Days since the last payout
- Calendar days since your last payout.
Payout readiness: Starter More on the payout tracker.
Limits
What PassTraq will not do
- Guess. When a value is unknown, PassTraq shows "—" instead of inventing one.
- Promise a pass. PassTraq can't pass a challenge for you, and it guarantees nothing.
- Place an order for you. Every order is a click. No keyboard shortcut places an order, and no AI can.
- Run a model of its own. PassTraq runs no AI model of its own.
The status page publishes what broke and what changed; about PassTraq says why it exists. Report a wrong number to [email protected], or start free.
Questions
Methodology: questions traders ask
How is a prop firm trailing drawdown calculated?
The floor is your high-water mark minus the max drawdown, and it never moves down. Intraday trailing follows your equity high, open profit included; end-of-day trailing moves once a day, off the close; static never moves. One week under all three.
How does PassTraq calculate the drawdown you have left?
With your Rithmic login connected on Trader and up: your equity minus Rithmic’s own liquidation floor, labelled Rithmic. Otherwise PassTraq works the floor out from your account’s limits and highest balance, and labels it PassTraq rules.
How does PassTraq calculate the consistency rule?
The Rules HUD sets today’s net P&L against the firm’s percentage of the profit target, as an early warning. The Consistency Rule Calculator and payout readiness measure your best day’s share of total profit. Neither counts it as a breach.
Where do PassTraq’s prop firm rules come from?
From each firm’s own published rules, one preset per firm by plan and account size, all checked on Oct 14, 2026. FTMO Futures and The5ers Futures are held as approximate. Confirm current terms with your firm.
Why does PassTraq show a dash instead of a number?
When a value is unknown, PassTraq shows "—" instead of inventing one. A firm’s max contracts and a trade’s R with no stop on record are two examples.
When does the trading day start in PassTraq?
At 17:00 Chicago time, when CME futures reopen. A trade at 18:00 CT on Tuesday counts for Wednesday.
Are PassTraq’s pass odds a prediction?
No. The Prop Eval Lab reshuffles your own backtest’s trades with a fixed seed, withholds odds under 10 trades and prints the sample beside every result. The odds repeat your sample back; they are not a forecast.
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Starter is free forever: no card, no trial. Paid plans start only when you choose one, and you can cancel any time and keep your data on Starter.