Plutus Trade Base

Plutus Trade Base, which brands itself as PTB, is a proprietary trading firm headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus. Plutus Trade Base funds traders through simulated evaluations. You pay a one-time fee, reach a profit target without breaching a drawdown rule, then trade a simulated funded account and keep up to 95% of the profit as a performance reward. Plutus Trade Base has operated since 2024 and states on its own site that it has funded more than 50,000 traders and paid into more than 140 countries.

Plutus Trade Base runs through two registered companies. Triple Edge Group LTD (Cyprus, Company No. HE465348) runs the evaluation business and operates TradeLocker, cTrader, Match Trader, DXtrade and TradingView. PTB Plutus TradeBase LTD (Saint Lucia, Reg. No. 2025-00638) owns the brand and operates MetaTrader 5 only. Both entities, both registration numbers and both registered addresses appear in the legal disclaimer at the foot of every Plutus Trade Base page.

Plutus Trade Base describes its own product as a simulated proprietary-trading evaluation for educational purposes. No live capital changes hands, you never deposit trading funds, and Plutus Trade Base never places a real-market order on your behalf. Payouts are performance rewards funded by Plutus Trade Base itself and calculated from simulated account performance. That is the standard model across the challenge-based prop firm industry. New to the format? Start with the prop firm glossary.

Plutus Trade Base sells five CFD plans plus a separate Crypto Challenge. Freedom is the flagship one-step challenge and the simplest rulebook. Lightning is a one-step challenge with a split payment, so the bulk of the cost lands only after you pass. Adventure is a single $500,000 one-step account. 2 Step Challenge is the classic two-phase format and runs up to $200,000. Instant skips the evaluation and funds you immediately. The Crypto Challenge trades forex, CFDs and crypto directly on Bybit rather than through the same simulated environment as the other five.

Prices below are the live Plutus Trade Base checkout prices as of August 11, 2026, before the FT40 discount.

Plutus Trade Base charges in euros while sizing accounts in US dollars, so your card issuer may add its own conversion fee on top of the listed price. Plutus Trade Base also runs frequent promotions, so the figure you see may already be discounted before you apply a code.

Every Plutus Trade Base plan uses a static or a trailing drawdown. Static is measured from your fixed starting balance and never moves. Trailing follows your account's highest point and rises as your balance grows, so a winning streak raises the floor you must stay above rather than giving you room underneath it. Breaching either one is a hard breach and ends the account immediately.

Freedom

Freedom is the plan Plutus Trade Base documents most clearly and the one worth buying. No daily loss limit at either stage is unusual among prop firms, and no minimum trading days once funded means nothing forces you to trade a setup you do not like. The 7-day rule on the challenge is not consecutive: a profitable Monday and a profitable Wednesday both count, and you can spread those seven days across as many weeks as you want.

The buffer works like this. On a $20,000 account you need $600 of profit, which is 3%, before anything above that line becomes withdrawable. Below the buffer the profit exists on paper and nothing is cashable. Once you cross it, withdrawals do not shrink the buffer, so the account keeps trading normally after a payout.

The mechanic most Plutus Trade Base reviews skip is the Skill Score. Plutus Trade Base recalculates it on every trade and resets it after each payout, and it caps the maximum you can withdraw in a single payout based on how evenly your profit is spread across trades. Plutus Trade Base is clear that the Skill Score does not block approval, only the amount. In practice a payout can auto-approve exactly as advertised and release a fraction of the balance sitting in the account, because most of the profit came from two outsized trades rather than a spread of smaller ones. Trade for consistency and the Skill Score stops mattering.

Lightning

The 2% maximum risk per trade is the rule worth reading twice. Risking more than 2% of the funded balance on a single trade is a soft breach the first time, a warning that leaves the account open, and a hard breach the second time, which ends the account outright. One oversized position on a volatile print can close a Lightning funded account that never came near the 4% drawdown.

The 40% Best Day rule applies at payout, not during the challenge. No single trading day may account for more than 40% of your total profit when you request a withdrawal, so one huge day early on can lock up the payout until the rest of the account catches up. Lightning's default profit split starts at 70% and reaches the headline 95% only with the paid Profit-Split add-on, so budget for the add-on if the split is why you picked Lightning.

2 Step Challenge

Neither phase has a time limit, leverage runs to 100x on both, and scaling is available once funded. At $200,000 the 2 Step Challenge matches Instant for the largest account Plutus Trade Base offers outside Adventure, and its 10% trailing drawdown is the most room any Plutus Trade Base challenge gives you.

Adventure

At €59, Adventure is the cheapest route to a half-million-dollar account of any firm in the FundedTrading directory. The 30-day minimum matters more than the price. You must trade on at least 30 separate days to pass, so Adventure is a month-long commitment even if you hit the 8% target in the first week. Once funded the drawdown switches from 5% trailing to a $10,000 static floor, which on a $500,000 account is 2% of the balance and the tightest funded drawdown in the Plutus Trade Base lineup.

Adventure also carries a 5% stable daily average, which caps how much of your total result any single trading day can produce. Combined with the 30-day minimum, that pushes Adventure towards a steady grind rather than a few large wins. News trading and DCA are both allowed on Adventure, and copy trading is banned.

Adventure is the only Plutus Trade Base challenge with a time limit. Every other plan lets you take as long as you need. You must fit 30 trading days inside that window, so check the exact deadline on your dashboard the day the account opens. Plutus Trade Base is clear that "no daily loss limit" on Adventure does not mean the account is unrestricted: the drawdown and the trading rules still apply, and a breach ends the account the same way it would anywhere else.

Instant

No evaluation phase. You are funded from the moment you pay. The trade-off is the widest drawdown at 10% trailing plus the tightest rulebook Plutus Trade Base offers: no news trading, no EAs or bots, no high-frequency trading and no holding positions over the weekend. Any of those ends the account. Leverage caps at 50x, half of what Lightning and Freedom allow, and Plutus Trade Base applies a 3% daily drawdown and a 20% Best Day rule on top. The first payout request opens after 7 trading days and processes within 24 to 48 hours, then payout requests run every 14 calendar days after that.

Alongside its five CFD plans, Plutus Trade Base runs a separate Crypto Challenge that trades forex, CFDs and crypto directly through Bybit rather than the simulated environment used on Lightning, Freedom, Adventure, 2 Step Challenge and Instant.

Account sizes run from $5,000 to $500,000, seven sizes in total, starting at €69 for the $5,000 tier. The split is a flat 95% with no add-on required to reach it, unlike Lightning. No daily loss limit, no consistency rule and no weekend close apply, and Plutus Trade Base permits DCA, news trading, scalping, copy trading and EAs on this plan. You get access to Bybit's full spot and perpetual markets, over 700 pairs, at leverage up to 100x. Payouts go out in USDT or USDC. If you fail the challenge, Plutus Trade Base offers a 20% discount on the retake with no cooldown period.

Plutus Trade Base bans hedging on every plan, on one account or across your accounts. Plutus Trade Base bans automated high-frequency trading through an EA or bot everywhere, though normal manual higher-frequency trading is allowed. Plutus Trade Base also bans coordinated group trading, price-feed exploitation and VPN use to bypass country restrictions. Each is a hard breach that ends the account.

Plutus Trade Base offers a scale-up on request. Reach double your initial profit target, for example 12% against a 6% target, while staying fully compliant for seven consecutive days, and Plutus Trade Base will raise your balance with new drawdown and targets. Instant accounts are excluded unless Plutus Trade Base agrees in writing.

Plutus Trade Base sells three paid add-ons at checkout, and two of them change rules most traders assume are included. Buy them with the account, because they are selected at checkout rather than added later.

Plutus Trade Base supports six platforms: TradeLocker, cTrader, Match Trader, DXtrade and TradingView, all operated by Triple Edge Group LTD, plus MetaTrader 5, operated separately by PTB Plutus TradeBase LTD in Saint Lucia. You choose your platform at checkout, and platform choice does not change the rules of the plan. Six platforms is one of the widest lineups in the market and it puts Plutus Trade Base on our best MT5 prop firms shortlist. Freedom is the one exception, offering MetaTrader 5 or TradeLocker only. The separate Crypto Challenge does not use any of these six, it trades directly on Bybit instead.

MetaTrader 5 is not available to traders in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Belgium, Brazil, Japan, Israel or Spain. Traders in those eight countries use TradeLocker, which also carries stock CFDs.

Tradable instruments cover forex majors and minors, indices including NAS100, SPX500, GER40, US30, UK100 and JP225, commodities including gold, silver, US oil and UK oil, major crypto CFDs including BTC and ETH, and stocks on TradeLocker. Plutus Trade Base allows EAs for ordinary non-HFT strategies on Lightning, Freedom and Adventure, and bans them on Instant.

Plutus Trade Base pays through Rise, a bank transfer in local currency covering more than 140 countries and 17 currencies with a provider fee up to 2.75%, or in USDT on the TRC-20 network, which arrives in minutes at network-fee cost. Other providers charge up to 4%. The minimum withdrawal is $100 on both rails and on every plan. KYC is completed once before your first payout, not on every withdrawal.

The Crypto Challenge on Bybit pays out separately, in USDT or USDC, and Plutus Trade Base advertises processing in under 4 hours rather than the under-24-hours figure quoted for Freedom.

Payout timing runs by plan. Freedom pays daily with automatic approval and no manual review queue, ordinarily inside 24 hours. Instant pays within 24 to 48 hours, with the first request opening after 7 trading days and later requests every 14 calendar days. Adventure allows withdrawal anytime once funded. Lightning runs on a 14-day cycle unless you add the Withdraw-Anytime add-on, which covers Lightning and Freedom only. The 2 Step Challenge runs on a 14-day cycle with no add-on available.

Plutus Trade Base refunds the fee you paid to unlock the funded account after your third payout, which is the activation fee on Lightning and the one-time entry fee on Freedom, Adventure and Instant. That is one rebate per account and it is a genuinely trader-friendly term most firms at this price do not offer.

Plutus Trade Base publishes a rolling list of Freedom payouts from the previous seven days on its own site, showing trader name, country, account size, approval time and amount. The week we checked showed $501,938 released to 146 Freedom traders, with approval times clustered between one and three hours and individual payouts running from $123 to $9,941.

Best for

Intraday traders who want no daily loss limit and same-day payouts should take Freedom, which is the strongest plan Plutus Trade Base offers on both rules and documentation. Traders on a tight budget should take Lightning, where a failed attempt costs €29 because the activation fee lands only after you pass. Experienced traders who can commit 30 trading days should look at Adventure for the $500,000 account at €59. Not sure which fits? Run the challenge finder.

Avoid if

Avoid Freedom if you swing trade and will not pay for the overnight-hold add-on, because positions close at the end of the daily session by default. Avoid Lightning if the profit split is your main reason for choosing a firm, since the default sits below 95% and the add-on costs extra. Avoid Instant if you trade news or run an EA, because Instant bans both outright.

Plutus Trade Base is a legitimate, operating prop firm. Plutus Trade Base runs through two registered companies whose names, registration numbers and registered addresses are published on its own site, publishes full Terms and Conditions, runs KYC before payouts, pays through Rise and USDT, and publishes a rolling seven-day payout log with named traders and approval times. Plutus Trade Base holds an "Excellent" rating on Trustpilot across more than 1,400 reviews as of August 2026, plus 4.9 stars from 56 Feefo reviews.

Prop firms do not need a financial licence, so the absence of one is not a red flag here. What is worth knowing is that Plutus Trade Base describes itself as "Cyprus-licensed" in its site footer while the only Cyprus identifier it publishes is Triple Edge Group LTD's company number HE465348, which is a Registrar of Companies registration rather than a financial services licence. Read that line as "registered in Cyprus," because that is what the number supports.

The FundedTrading score sits at 7.0 out of 10 under our review methodology. Plutus Trade Base earns marks for payout speed, payout evidence and the Freedom rulebook. Plutus Trade Base loses marks for add-ons that gate rules most traders expect to be included and for figures that vary between its pricing pages, which makes the checkout screen the only price you should trust.

Plutus Trade Base does not serve residents of Cuba, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus or Myanmar. Plutus Trade Base accepts US traders on TradeLocker, TradingView, Match Trader and DXtrade.

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Plutus Trade Base scores 7.0 out of 10. Buy Freedom, skip the rest unless you have a specific reason. Freedom gives you a 5% target, no daily loss limit, no time limit, a 4% trailing drawdown once funded and payouts auto-approved and paid in under 24 hours from your first funded day, which is the fastest payout mechanic at this price. Add the overnight-hold add-on if you hold positions past the session close, because Freedom closes them by default. Lightning is the cheapest way to test the firm at €29 for a failed attempt, and Adventure gets you a $500,000 account for €59 if you can commit 30 trading days. Confirm your price and split on the checkout screen rather than the plan page, and apply code FT40 before you pay.