Earn2Trade rules explained: the Gauntlet Mini drawdown and unrealised losses
Earn2Trade’s Gauntlet Mini pairs a forgiving drawdown basis with an unforgiving daily one, and the combination catches traders who read only half the rule set: the floor ignores your open positions and the daily limit does not.
Prop firms change their terms, and rules differ by plan size, phase and promotion. Earn2Trade’s own rules page is authoritative — always check it against the plan you hold before you trade.
Earn2Trade at a glance
Where a row says “set per plan size”, the firm states that limit in dollars per account rather than as a single percentage — read it off your own account and enter it when you set the account up.
Start with the two clocks. The drawdown floor trails your end-of-day balance — it updates once, on the closing balance, so an intraday round trip never moves it. The daily loss limit counts open positions as well as closed ones. One rule looks only at closes; the other looks at your screen right now.
That asymmetry is worth internalising, because it inverts the usual advice. Holding a loser does not protect you here — an unrealised drawdown is spending the daily limit in real time, and the account can be failed on a position you were still planning to be right about. The number the firm reads is your equity, not your realised P&L.
The floor stops rising once it reaches your starting balance, and everything you make above that is buffer you cannot lose back to the trail.
The daily loss limit is per plan, not per percentage
The daily loss limit is a dollar figure that changes with account size rather than a published percentage, so this page will not invent one — read it off your own account and enter it when you set the account up. What is worth knowing generically is that it is measured against the balance you started the day with, so yesterday’s profit does not enlarge today’s allowance.
Ten separate trading days
10 separate trading days is the requirement on this rule set. Any day with a trade on it counts, whatever the result. "Separate" is the operative word: they are 10 distinct calendar sessions, and no amount of activity compresses them. The fastest possible pass is therefore 10 sessions long no matter how well the first one goes.
That constraint is the most useful thing about the rule, because it removes the reason to oversize. If the account cannot be passed in three days, there is nothing to gain from trading as though it could — and a trader who needs outsized risk to pass will not survive the funded account that follows.
Where the account actually dies
The typical Gauntlet Mini failure is not a dramatic one. It is a trader who holds an underwater position through the afternoon believing the loss is not real until it is closed, while the daily limit — reading equity — has already been consumed. The position is then closed by the platform at the worst available moment, on the firm’s schedule rather than the trader’s.
What most often ends an Earn2Trade account
- "It is not a loss until I close it." Against an equity-measured daily limit it is a loss the moment the market prints it.
- Rushing the day count. Ten sessions is a floor on the calendar, not a target to beat, and trading larger does not shorten it.
- Ignoring that the floor ratchets on the close. A good day is banked into the drawdown line permanently, even though the intraday swings were free.
Tracking a Earn2Trade account
The reason these rules are worth reading closely is that none of them are checked by your platform. Your broker shows you a balance; the firm is watching a floor, a daily limit and a share of profit that your balance alone does not tell you about. Edgekeeper loads this rule set onto an account and does the arithmetic on every trade you log: how much daily loss room is left right now, where the drawdown floor currently sits, how many qualifying days you have, and whether one big day has put the consistency rule between you and a payout.
It also warns you before you write the trade, not after. The point is not to be a scoreboard — it is to be the thing that says "this trade takes you inside the last third of your daily loss" while you can still decide something about it.
Prop firms revise their rules regularly, and they differ by plan size, by phase and sometimes by promotion. Everything above is the rule set Edgekeeper loads for Earn2Trade, checked against the firm's own published rules on the date at the top of this page — but Earn2Trade's own page is the authority, and every field is editable on your account, so if your plan differs you can change it and the app will judge you by your numbers rather than these.
Earn2Trade rules: common questions
Does the Earn2Trade daily loss limit include open positions?
Yes on this rule set — it is measured on equity, so an unrealised loss counts against your daily allowance before you close anything. Holding a loser does not defer the breach; it spends the limit in real time.
How does the Gauntlet Mini trailing drawdown work?
The floor trails your end-of-day balance, so it moves only on the daily close and only upward. The floor stops rising once it reaches your starting balance, and everything you make above that is buffer you cannot lose back to the trail.
How many trading days does Earn2Trade require?
10 separate trading days on this rule set. Any day with a trade on it counts, whatever the result. They cannot be compressed, so the shortest possible pass is that many sessions regardless of results.
When does the Earn2Trade trading day reset?
At 5:00 p.m. America/Chicago — the futures session boundary rather than local midnight, which is also the moment the end-of-day drawdown line is recalculated.
Track a Earn2Trade account in Edgekeeper — free
These are the exact rules Edgekeeper loads. Create the account and every trade you log updates your daily loss room, your live drawdown floor, your qualifying days and your payout eligibility — and warns you before a trade takes you past a limit. One prop account is free, forever, no card.
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