During the Trader Evaluation Program, everything points toward one goal: graduating to a Live Desk Account. Apteros uses the Trader Evaluation Program as a fantastic 'stepping stone' to the Live Desk, where you can earn substantially and build up a great Starting Balance to give yourself a real runway on the Live Desk.
The real career begins when you're trading live capital in an environment where your growth and the firm's success are fully aligned.
Our mission is to help you make that transition and build not just profits, but a sustainable career as a professional trader, where you trade real firm capital with real oversight and a real path to scale up — where you develop into a trader who can not only win, but endure, with no artificial limits, conflicting incentives, and full support from a team invested in your long-term success.
Graduation Process
- •Trigger: We help you set a goal during the Evaluation Program of what you want your risk limits to look like on the Live Desk. Generally we suggest pick out a DLL you'd like to have. Once you've made 20x that DLL in PL, it's time to graduate.
- •Early Consideration: If you feel you are ready to graduate to the Live Desk, you can apply for graduation at any time.
- •Discretion: Additionally, Apteros reserves the right to Graduate any Account to the Live Desk at our discretion as we see fit.
Graduation Details
Starting Balance on Live Desk
Your starting balance is calculated from the sum of all your Evaluation Program Accounts PL post Milestone Day. That Starting Balance will also be your Max Drawdown (static, no trail) for the account. You can have up to $3 million starting balance on the Live Desk carried over from Evaluation Program Accounts PL. A $3 million starting balance would come with a $3 million static Max Drawdown, and a $150,000 DLL.
Could you withdraw the full amount instead of joining the desk? No. Apteros offers this generous program for one reason- to develop elite traders and share in their success as Live Desk traders, and to help them sustain a career as professional traders. Withdrawing the PL from the Evaluation Program would destroy the very reason we offer this program.
Account Features
- •Max Drawdown: fixed, based on Starting Balance
- •Size: Full; may scale up size/limits with success
- •DLL: up to 5% of balance
- •Environment: Live
- •Profit Split: 80% to trader
- •Desk: Professional trading environment with full firm support
Oversight & Work
- •Full firm oversight - here to help you succeed
- •Daily review is required for any day traded
- •Risk manager supervision - help you with guardrails as you trade to keep you in the game
- •Coaching/mentoring - experienced professionals who have seen a thing or two, fully supporting you
- •Accountability - nowhere to hide bad habits. This environment helps bring out your best.
- •Path to scale up - Our shared goal is to continue to size you up, then help you broaden your scope. As Dr. Steenbarger says, "First get better, then get bigger, then get broader."
Trader Rules
- •Use a stop for every open position
- •Availability - Be available for communication and oversight
- •Put in the work - for any session traded, complete and share a daily review.
- •Oversight - Follow firm guidance and risk permissions
- •Integrity - Follow all rules and guidelines, respect firm capital, and act with integrity