A side-by-side breakdown of Lucid Trading and The Funded Trader — profit splits, payout speed, drawdown rules, platforms, and a clear verdict on which firm wins for which trader profile.
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Data-driven comparison · checked Aug 11, 2026
We track 7 Lucid Trading products and 7 from The Funded Trader that pass the 30-day source-freshness gate, last verified 2026-08-11. These firms sell different instruments — Lucid Trading runs futures products and The Funded Trader runs CFD — so treat the tables below as a fit comparison, not a like-for-like price race. Lucid Trading is cheaper to funded at 2 of the 3 directly comparable tiers. At $25K, the cheapest verified route is Classic 2-Step Challenge at $129 (One-time fee), which needs $161 of profit at a 80% split before the fee is back in your pocket.
Winning value on each row is marked. Ties are flagged. Empty cells mean we don't have that data point yet.
The table above compares the two firms. This one compares the products you actually buy — 14 of them, each with its own price, split, drawdown rule and source date.
We track 7 Lucid Trading products and 7 from The Funded Trader that pass the 30-day source-freshness gate, last verified 2026-08-11. These firms sell different instruments — Lucid Trading runs futures products and The Funded Trader runs CFD — so treat the tables below as a fit comparison, not a like-for-like price race.
Lucid Trading is cheaper to funded at 2 of the 3 directly comparable tiers. At $25K, the cheapest verified route is Classic 2-Step Challenge at $129 (One-time fee), which needs $161 of profit at a 80% split before the fee is back in your pocket.
Lucid Trading's own products disagree on 13 terms. On evaluation steps it is 1-step on LucidPro and LucidFlex and LucidDaily - DLL On / Intraday and LucidDaily - DLL On / EOD and LucidDaily - DLL Off / Intraday and LucidDaily - DLL Off / EOD, versus instant funding on LucidDirect. Which product you buy decides that rule, not which firm you sign with — a firm-level table cannot show this.
The Funded Trader is cheaper within the shared USD one-time class: Classic 2-Step Challenge at $129 — $6 less than Lucid Trading's cheapest route at this tier (LucidPro, $135) — 4% cheaper.
| Product | Cost to funded | Break-even profit | R-multiple | Days @ 1%/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classic 2-Step ChallengeThe Funded Trader · One-time · 80% split | $129One-time fee | $161at 80% split | 0.08vs 8% max DD | 1 |
| LucidProLucid Trading · One-time · 90% split | $135One-time fee | $150at 90% split | 0.15vs $1,000 tier max loss | — |
| Classic 1-Step ChallengeThe Funded Trader · One-time · 80% split | $139One-time fee | $174at 80% split | 0.12vs 6% max DD | 1 |
R-multiple is break-even profit divided by that product's own maximum permitted loss — under 1.00 means you can lose more than you need to make to win the fee back. Day count assumes 1% account growth per day, capped by the product's own daily loss limit. Blank cells are figures the firm does not publish.
Lucid Trading is cheaper within the shared USD one-time class: LucidPro at $185 — $64 less than The Funded Trader's cheapest route at this tier (Classic 2-Step Challenge, $249) — 26% cheaper.
| Product | Cost to funded | Break-even profit | R-multiple | Days @ 1%/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LucidProLucid Trading · One-time · 90% split | $185One-time fee | $206at 90% split | 0.10vs $2,000 tier max loss | 1 |
| Classic 2-Step ChallengeThe Funded Trader · One-time · 80% split | $249One-time fee | $311at 80% split | 0.08vs 8% max DD | 1 |
| Classic 1-Step ChallengeThe Funded Trader · One-time · 80% split | $269One-time fee | $336at 80% split | 0.11vs 6% max DD | 1 |
R-multiple is break-even profit divided by that product's own maximum permitted loss — under 1.00 means you can lose more than you need to make to win the fee back. Day count assumes 1% account growth per day, capped by the product's own daily loss limit. Blank cells are figures the firm does not publish.
Lucid Trading is cheaper within the shared USD one-time class: LucidPro at $285 — $194 less than The Funded Trader's cheapest route at this tier (Classic 2-Step Challenge, $479) — 41% cheaper.
| Product | Cost to funded | Break-even profit | R-multiple | Days @ 1%/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LucidProLucid Trading · One-time · 90% split | $285One-time fee | $317at 90% split | 0.11vs $3,000 tier max loss | 1 |
| Classic 2-Step ChallengeThe Funded Trader · One-time · 80% split | $479One-time fee | $599at 80% split | 0.07vs 8% max DD | 1 |
| Classic 1-Step ChallengeThe Funded Trader · One-time · 80% split | $499One-time fee | $624at 80% split | 0.10vs 6% max DD | 1 |
R-multiple is break-even profit divided by that product's own maximum permitted loss — under 1.00 means you can lose more than you need to make to win the fee back. Day count assumes 1% account growth per day, capped by the product's own daily loss limit. Blank cells are figures the firm does not publish.
Each cell shows every value that firm's current products hold. Where a firm disagrees with itself the products are named — those are the rows a firm-level table has to flatten, and the ones that decide whether your strategy is allowed. 13 of 16 rows split this way in this matchup.
| Term | Lucid Trading | The Funded Trader |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation steps | 1-stepLucidPro, LucidFlex, LucidDaily - DLL On / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL On / EOD, LucidDaily - DLL Off / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL Off / EOD Instant fundingLucidDirect | 1-stepKnight Challenge, Knight Pro Challenge, Classic 1-Step Challenge 2-stepRoyal Challenge, Royal Pro Challenge, Classic 2-Step Challenge 3-stepDragon Challenge |
| Profit split | 90% | Not publishedKnight Challenge, Knight Pro Challenge, Royal Challenge, Royal Pro Challenge, Dragon Challenge 80%Classic 1-Step Challenge, Classic 2-Step Challenge |
| Drawdown method | EOD trailingLucidPro, LucidFlex, LucidDirect, LucidDaily - DLL On / EOD, LucidDaily - DLL Off / EOD TrailingLucidDaily - DLL On / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL Off / Intraday | StaticKnight Challenge, Classic 1-Step Challenge, Royal Challenge, Royal Pro Challenge, Classic 2-Step Challenge, Dragon Challenge Not publishedKnight Pro Challenge |
| Daily loss cap | Fixed $ per tierLucidPro, LucidDirect, LucidDaily - DLL On / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL On / EOD Not publishedLucidFlex, LucidDaily - DLL Off / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL Off / EOD | 3%Knight Challenge, Knight Pro Challenge, Classic 1-Step Challenge 5%Royal Challenge, Royal Pro Challenge, Dragon Challenge 4%Classic 2-Step Challenge |
| Max loss cap | Fixed $ per tier | 10%Royal Challenge, Royal Pro Challenge, Dragon Challenge 8%Knight Challenge, Knight Pro Challenge, Classic 2-Step Challenge 6%Classic 1-Step Challenge |
| Funded drawdown | TrailingLucidDaily - DLL On / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL On / EOD, LucidDaily - DLL Off / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL Off / EOD EOD trailingLucidPro, LucidFlex, LucidDirect | StaticKnight Challenge, Classic 1-Step Challenge, Royal Challenge, Royal Pro Challenge, Classic 2-Step Challenge, Dragon Challenge Not publishedKnight Pro Challenge |
| Min trading days | 2LucidFlex, LucidDaily - DLL On / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL On / EOD, LucidDaily - DLL Off / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL Off / EOD 1LucidPro NoneLucidDirect | 5Knight Challenge, Royal Challenge, Royal Pro Challenge 1Knight Pro Challenge, Dragon Challenge 3Classic 1-Step Challenge, Classic 2-Step Challenge |
| Max trading dayssame | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Consistency rule | 50%LucidFlex, LucidDaily - DLL On / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL On / EOD, LucidDaily - DLL Off / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL Off / EOD 20%LucidDirect 40%LucidPro | None published |
| First payout after | 1 daysLucidDaily - DLL On / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL On / EOD, LucidDaily - DLL Off / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL Off / EOD Not publishedLucidPro, LucidDirect 5 daysLucidFlex | 7 daysClassic 1-Step Challenge, Dragon Challenge Not publishedKnight Challenge, Knight Pro Challenge 14 daysClassic 2-Step Challenge 2 daysRoyal Pro Challenge 30 daysRoyal Challenge |
| Payout frequency | On demand | Bi-weeklyClassic 1-Step Challenge, Royal Challenge, Classic 2-Step Challenge On demandKnight Challenge, Knight Pro Challenge Not publishedRoyal Pro Challenge WeeklyDragon Challenge |
| News trading | ConditionalLucidDaily - DLL On / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL On / EOD, LucidDaily - DLL Off / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL Off / EOD AllowedLucidPro, LucidFlex, LucidDirect | AllowedKnight Challenge, Knight Pro Challenge, Classic 1-Step Challenge, Royal Pro Challenge, Classic 2-Step Challenge Not allowedRoyal Challenge, Dragon Challenge |
| Weekend holding | Not publishedLucidDaily - DLL On / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL On / EOD, LucidDaily - DLL Off / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL Off / EOD Not allowedLucidPro, LucidFlex, LucidDirect | AllowedKnight Challenge, Knight Pro Challenge, Classic 1-Step Challenge, Royal Challenge, Royal Pro Challenge, Classic 2-Step Challenge Not allowedDragon Challenge |
| Overnight holding | Not publishedLucidDaily - DLL On / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL On / EOD, LucidDaily - DLL Off / Intraday, LucidDaily - DLL Off / EOD Not allowedLucidPro, LucidFlex, LucidDirect | Not published |
| EAs / algossame | Allowed | Allowed |
| Copy trading | Conditional | Allowed |
LucidDaily launched with 4 configurable evaluation paths
Confirm that Daily is purchasable and verify the exact DLL, drawdown, price, overnight, weekend, and news-calendar scope at checkout; no stable public Daily price was captured.
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