The profit split is your share of what the account produces. Here it is set by the plan: on the CFD line 70% to 80% to start, rising up to 95% as the account scales, and 100% on Prime after 30 days funded; 90% on every futures plan. The headline number is only half of what determines what you are actually paid; the profit split calculator works out the other half.
The other half is the account size
A split is a percentage of a result, and the result depends on how much capital produced it. A higher share of a smaller account can pay less than a lower share of a larger one, which is why comparing firms on the advertised percentage alone is close to meaningless.
Scaling ladders move both at once. Clearing a milestone raises the split and increases the account, so the compounding is on both terms rather than one.
What a milestone requires
Milestones are earned by producing a defined return without breaching, not by time served. That distinction matters for how you trade toward one: there is no benefit to reaching a milestone quickly, and a substantial cost to breaching on the way.
The ladder rewards survival above pace. A trader who takes eight months to reach the top rung and one who takes four arrive at the same terms; the one who breaches in month three arrives nowhere.
The ladder rewards survival, not pace. Two traders reaching the top rung at different speeds arrive on identical terms.
Reading a split honestly
- Ask what the base is, not the maximum. The advertised ceiling is often reachable only through a paid upgrade or a long ladder; the base is what you are on for your first payout.
- Ask what raises it. A split that only moves with a paid add-on is a price, not a progression.
- Ask what the payout cycle is. A high split paid monthly is worth less to a working trader than a slightly lower one paid weekly, because the cycle governs how much of your own capital is tied up waiting.
- Ask what happens to the split after a payout. On some structures the account resets in ways that affect the next cycle's ceiling.
The part people underrate
The split is negotiable in one sense only: by producing. Every structure of this kind pays its best terms to the people who have already demonstrated they can be paid at all, and no amount of choosing between firms substitutes for a payout history.
The first payout is worth more than its cash value for exactly that reason. It moves you from an applicant to a trader with a record, and every subsequent term follows from it.