Verdict

Ylos Trading suits Brazilian futures traders who want a cheap single-phase evaluation and a desk with a large, independently verifiable payout record. It does not suit anyone expecting to bank a big sum quickly: the firm markets 100% of the first $15,000 in profit, but its own plan data caps each withdrawal request at $1,500 to $3,500 by account size, and every request needs ten traded days behind it. The biggest caveat is the funded-phase drawdown, which trails tick by tick until profit exceeds the drawdown plus $100.

Key terms at a glance

Figures below were read from Ylos Trading’s own pricing selector and help centre on 9 September 2026. The firm prices promotionally and revises rules often, so treat every fee as a snapshot and verify before paying.

• Account sizes and fees: $25,000 to $300,000. Standard lists at $150–$667 and sells at $30–$133.40 with the firm’s standing discount code; Instant Funding runs $199–$799, per the plan data behind the pricing selector on the Ylos homepage.
• Activation fee: $59 on the $25,000 and $50,000 Standard accounts, $89 at $100,000, $99 at $150,000, $349 at $250,000 and $399 at $300,000, payable after the challenge is passed.
• Profit split: 100% of the first $15,000, 90% from $15,000 to $30,000 and 80% above $30,000, on cumulative profit across all of a user’s accounts, per the commissions article.
• Profit target: $1,500 at $25,000, $3,000 at $50,000, $6,000 at $100,000 and $20,000 at $300,000 — one phase, 30 days to complete.
• Maximum loss and drawdown type: $1,500 at $25,000 rising to $7,500 at $300,000; end-of-day during the challenge, real-time trailing once funded, per the drawdown article.
• Daily loss limit: none published for the Standard, No Activation or Instant Funding plans.
• Payout minimum and maximum: $500 minimum on every plan; maximum per request of $1,500 at $25,000, $2,500 at $100,000 and $3,500 at $300,000.
• Minimum trading days: ten traded days including seven winning days of $50+ net on Standard; five traded days with five winning days of $200+ on Instant Funding, per the payout eligibility article.

The $15,000 headline and the cap underneath it

The payout block on the Ylos homepage is unambiguous. Under the heading “Repasse de 100% até $15k” it promises “Até US$ 15 mil, o lucro é todo seu” — up to $15,000, the profit is all yours — and the panel beside it reads “Saque em 1 dia útil… Sem letra miúda, sem surpresa”: payout in one business day, no fine print, no surprises.

The rate is real. The amount is where the product actually lives. The plan data the homepage’s own account-size selector loads carries a maximum-withdrawal field for each account, and those figures are not printed on the card the buyer reads: $1,500 per request on a $25,000 Standard account, $2,500 at $100,000, and $3,500 at $300,000, the largest account Ylos sells.

The help centre confirms the mechanism without giving the numbers. Its commissions article states that “os saques são calculados por conta, com os primeiros 4 saques limitados pelo tamanho da conta” — withdrawals are calculated per account, the first four limited by account size — and adds that after 60 days “os saques permanecem sujeitos aos limites específicos da conta, a menos que o usuário seja convidado a se tornar um Corretor”: they remain subject to the account’s limits unless the trader is invited to become a Broker.

Collecting the advertised $15,000 at 100% therefore means clearing the cap repeatedly. On a $25,000 account that is ten approved requests, each needing ten traded days with seven winning days behind it — roughly a hundred sessions, about five months, to exhaust the first tier. On a $100,000 account it is six requests and some sixty sessions. None of that is contradicted anywhere; it is simply not where the promise is made.

What the payout record actually shows

This is a firm that pays, and the evidence is strong. Payout Junction, an independent tracker that verifies prop-firm payouts against public blockchain records, reports $5,078,943 across 2,496 verified payouts for Ylos Trading, settled through the Rise payment rail and tracked since January 2026. The most recent was $1,329 on 8 September 2026, and the firm paid $547,335 in the preceding 30 days, ranking 22nd among tracked firms by verified volume.

It is also the best available corroboration of the cap. The tracker puts the median Ylos payout at $1,658 and the mean at $2,035 — figures sitting squarely inside the $1,500 to $3,500 band the plan data specifies rather than scattered across it. The largest single verified payout is $55,000, dated 5 March 2026, consistent with the help centre’s carve-out for traders invited to Broker status.

What the on-chain record cannot show is whether any particular refusal was justified. It counts the payouts that happened, not the ones that did not. On that question the public evidence is mixed. Ylos holds 4.8 out of 5 from 634 Trustpilot reviews, a profile claimed in May 2025 carrying no Trustpilot warning notice; 90% are five-star and 5% one-star. The newest review, posted on 8 September 2026 by a reviewer identified as PVL, is one of the latter:

“I have submitted six payout requests, and four of them have been rejected… Ylos classified that day as ‘Flipping’ and rejected my payout… yesterday, a trade appeared in my Ylos Dashboard that I did not execute. This trade does not appear in my BlackArrow trading history, yet it shows up as a very large losing trade on the Ylos side.”

Two things should be said about that fairly. Flipping is not an unpublished rule: Ylos defines it in a dedicated help centre article as trading purely to register a qualifying day rather than as part of a disciplined strategy, and lists it among its strictly prohibited trading styles. The complaint is not that the rule is secret but that the label was applied without identifying which trades triggered it — and that same article says Ylos may require the trader to produce the exact entry rules used and evidence of matching entries on previous days, a standard of proof the firm reserves for the trader rather than itself. No company reply was attached when this page was checked.

The firm does answer criticism elsewhere, on the record. Responding on 10 August 2026 to a reviewer whose account was suspended with $3,800 in funded profit, Ylos wrote: “account actions are never taken arbitrarily. When an account is suspended, it is the direct result of serious breaches of our risk management rules or compliance terms… The decision on your account remains final.”

One entry warrants a neutral note rather than a conclusion. A review dated 1 September 2026 consists of Lorem ipsum placeholder text. A single such post among 634 proves nothing, and Trustpilot states plainly that it does not fact-check reviews; it is noted only because it sits on the profile whose headline score is the firm’s most-promoted trust signal.

Not verified: Ylos publishes no audited payout data, no approval or denial rate and no pass rate. The per-request maximums are drawn from the site’s own plan data rather than a published payout policy. Whether those caps lift short of a Broker invitation could not be established from published sources.

The rules that fail traders

The drawdown change between phases is the most consequential term on the site, and easy to miss because the challenge is the forgiving half. During the evaluation the drawdown is end-of-day: the limit is recalculated at the close and intraday profit does not drag it upward. Once funded, the same account switches to a real-time basis that trails the balance tick by tick. The firm’s own worked example uses a $50,000 account with a $2,500 drawdown: bank $500 and the failure level rises from $47,500 to $48,000 and never comes back down. Only once cumulative profit reaches the drawdown plus $100 — $2,600 there — does it freeze permanently. Freedom is the exception, keeping end-of-day drawdown in both phases.

The consistency rule bites at the moment it matters most. No single day may account for 40% or more of net profit in the analysis window on Standard and No Activation accounts, or 30% on Instant Funding and Freedom. The window runs from activation to the first request and thereafter from one request to the next, so a good day early in a cycle can block the payout that cycle was for. A separate median rule caps the loss on any single trade at five times the median of the trader’s winning trades.

Three further terms deserve flagging. Being positioned at the moment of a news release is strictly prohibited on funded accounts, though permitted during the challenge. Requests can only be filed between 08:00 Monday and 15:00 Friday Brasília time, because compliance does not work weekends. And if the account breaches maximum drawdown after a request but before payment, the request is cancelled automatically — the firm states that if the account is lost, the balance goes with it and cannot be moved elsewhere.

How the payout ceiling compares

Ylos is not unusual in capping payouts; it is unusual in not publishing the numbers. The table below sets its terms against three firms The Industry Spread has reviewed on the same axis.

Term	Ylos Trading	Apex Trader Funding	Elite Trader Funding	PipFarm
Maximum per payout	$1,500–$3,500 by account size	$2,500 first to $5,000 sixth on a $150k account	No per-payout cap stated	$5,000 hard cap on every payout
Total payout ceiling	None stated; per-request cap persists	Six payouts per account, about $20,500 on $150k	$25,000 lifetime across all accounts	None stated; 6% of balance per payout
Minimum payout	$500	$500	Not published	Not published
Profit split	100% to $15k, 90% to $30k, 80% above	100% of approved payouts	100% of first $12,500, then 90%	70% default, to 99% at Rank 6
Qualifying days before payout	10 traded, 7 winning at $50+	5 qualifying days	8 qualified days on most plans	3–4 days by mode
Consistency rule	40% Standard, 30% Instant and Freedom	50%	Not applied on 1-Step	40% score in Consistency mode
Funded drawdown	Real-time trailing, locks at drawdown + $100	Trailing, end-of-day or intraday variants	Intraday trailing, locks at drawdown + $100	Static 6–9%, never trails

Ylos sits at the restrictive end on payout size and the demanding end on qualifying days, while offering the second-best split structure in the group. The trailing-drawdown-plus-$100 lock is the same mechanic Elite Trader Funding uses, and the ceiling logic is close to Apex Trader Funding‘s ladder. Traders who want a published ceiling rather than one inferred from plan data will find PipFarm‘s single $5,000 figure easier to plan against, and those weighing trailing mechanics should read our note on how unrealised equity can move a drawdown floor.

Regulatory posture and who stands behind the account

The contracting entity is named in the terms of use as Ylos Trading Funding INC. The agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Texas, with arbitration seated in Austin, and the contact address given is Hoboken Riverfront Center, 221 River Street, 9th Floor, New Jersey 07030.

Those three jurisdictions do not resolve to one registration. A search of the Texas Comptroller’s franchise tax taxable-entity register on 9 September 2026 returned a single match — YLOS TRADING FUNDING, INC, taxpayer number 32096085793 — whose mailing-address ZIP code is 32819, in Orlando, Florida. A search of the New Jersey business name register on the same date returned “Ylos Trading” as available, indicating no New Jersey entity registered under it; the Hoboken address appears to be a contact address, not a registered office. A Florida corporate search could not be completed because that register served a bot challenge. Ylos is not a regulated financial firm in any of these jurisdictions and does not claim to be: its help centre says only that the company “declares that it follows all local and American regulations applicable to its business model”.

The firm is straightforward about the trading environment, which is more than many competitors manage. Its FAQ states that the evaluation is simulated and that funded traders “continua operando em ambiente simulado” — continue operating in a simulated environment — with the difference that accumulated profits can genuinely be withdrawn. Only the invitation-only Live account is described as real, and the terms carry the standard CFTC Rule 4.41 disclosure on simulated performance, consistent with that.

Execution runs on BlackArrow, built by the Brazilian software house Nelogica, which the help centre correctly describes as “não é uma corretora, mas um fornecedor de software” — not a broker, but a software supplier. No broker, futures commission merchant, clearing firm or liquidity provider is named anywhere on the site, so a trader cannot establish who, if anyone, stands behind an order.

One housekeeping point undercuts the “no fine print” framing. Every link in the homepage’s Legal footer — terms of use, non-refund, billing, data responsibility, privacy and platform use — points at href="#" and goes nowhere, and the “Ver regulamento” link beside the pricing table has an empty target. The terms are live and readable, but only if a visitor guesses the URL.

FAQ

How much can I withdraw from a Ylos account at once?
The firm’s plan data sets a maximum per request of $1,500 on a $25,000 account, $2,500 on a $100,000 account and $3,500 on a $300,000 account, with a $500 minimum on every plan. These figures are not printed on the pricing cards. The help centre confirms withdrawals stay subject to account-specific limits unless a trader is invited to Broker status.

Is the Ylos profit split really 100%?
For the first $15,000 of cumulative profit across all of a user’s accounts, yes. Between $15,000 and $30,000 the firm takes 10%, and above $30,000 it takes 20%. The homepage payout panel names the 100% and 90% tiers; the 80% tier appears only in the help centre commissions article.

How long before I can request a first payout?
On Standard and No Activation accounts, ten traded days including seven winning days of at least $50 net, with the balance above the drawdown plus $100. Instant Funding needs five traded days with five winning days of at least $200. Requests can only be filed between 08:00 Monday and 15:00 Friday Brasília time.

Does Ylos Trading actually pay?
The independent tracker Payout Junction has verified $5,078,943 across 2,496 payouts on public blockchain records, most recently on 8 September 2026. That establishes that payouts occur and at what size. It does not establish whether any individual rejection was justified, and Ylos publishes no approval or denial statistics.

Are Ylos funded accounts real money?
No. The firm’s own FAQ states that both the evaluation and the funded account operate in a simulated environment, with real withdrawals paid on simulated profit. Only the invitation-only Live account is described as trading in a real environment.

This review is independent editorial analysis and is not financial, investment, or trading advice, and is not an endorsement or solicitation. The Industry Spread has no affiliate or referral relationship with the firms covered. Proprietary trading challenges carry a fee that is generally non-refundable, most participants do not reach a funded account, and funded capital is the firm’s capital, not the trader’s. Terms change frequently — always verify current rules directly with the firm before paying any fee.