Taurus Arena - Prop Firm Review

Pricing snapshot

Company and regulation

Taurus Arena is the trading name of DALCIA LTD, registered in the Republic of Cyprus under company number HE 480293. The firm was founded in September 2025 and its terms are governed by Cypriot law.

DALCIA LTD is not licensed or regulated by any financial regulator. The firm states plainly that it is not a broker, an investment firm or a custodian of client funds, and that it provides proprietary trading evaluation services only. There is no client-money segregation and no investor compensation scheme behind a Taurus account.

On the question of whether the capital is real, Taurus gives a more layered answer than most firms in this sector, and it is worth reading carefully. Evaluation accounts are entirely simulated. When you pass, you move to a Sim Profit Account, which is also simulated. Only after that, and only on the firm’s own internal assessment and risk criteria, may a trader be moved to an account trading live market capital. In practice this means the account you buy is a simulated one, the account you are funded into is a simulated one, and progression to live capital is discretionary rather than automatic. There is no fixed maximum capital allocation per trader, and allocation is decided case by case.

The rule that defines it: a drawdown that follows your open trades

Taurus was asked which rule most often ends an account at the firm, and it answered without hedging: the maximum drawdown, and specifically the default real-time trailing drawdown.

Here is why it catches people. The trailing drawdown tracks the account’s highest equity in real time, which includes unrealised profit on positions that are still open. If a trade runs $600 into profit, the drawdown floor moves up with it immediately. If that trade then gives the $600 back, the floor does not move down again. You can close a trade for a profit and still finish the session with less room between you and the loss limit than you had when you opened it.

The firm’s own advice, which we are quoting because it is unusually direct for a prop firm: treat the available drawdown as the account’s real risk budget rather than the headline account size, watch the live drawdown level on the dashboard before every trade, size positions against the available margin rather than the nominal balance, set a personal daily loss limit well above the firm’s floor, and do not let a strongly profitable open position retrace too far.

The alternative is the EOD Drawdown Add-on, at $19 or $9.50 with the current promotion. It swaps the real-time trailing calculation for one based on the highest closed end-of-day balance, so intraday spikes in unrealised profit no longer drag the floor upward. Bought during the evaluation, it carries across to the Profit Account at no extra cost. For most traders this is the most consequential ten dollars on the checkout page.

On Profit Accounts the drawdown trails until it reaches $25,100, $50,100 or $100,100 depending on account size, at which point it locks and becomes static permanently. FREES Max behaves differently in one respect worth knowing: it also locks the moment a payout is requested, even if the normal lock level has not been reached yet.

Once locked, the floor never changes again, including after a payout. On PRIME, Direct Prime and FREES Safety the drawdown is already locked before a payout becomes available, so there is no post-payout floor reset to worry about.

Programmes, fees and the split

Every route at Taurus is one step. There is no two-phase ladder, and there is no daily drawdown on any programme, which removes a failure mode that ends a lot of accounts elsewhere.

Evaluations carry no minimum trading days, no consistency rule and no daily loss limit. A trader can pass in a single day if the target is hit. What evaluations do carry is a 30-day subscription: the account is billed monthly, can be extended for another 30 days, and expires permanently if it is not manually renewed before the displayed expiry date. That is a time limit by another name, and it is the detail most easily missed.

PRIME is the cheapest way in, from $21 a month, but it is the only route that charges a $119 activation fee after you pass. FREES Safety and FREES Max cost more up front and charge nothing on activation. Direct Prime skips the evaluation entirely for a one-time $223 to $406 and carries no time limit at all.

Taurus Arena plans at a glance

Prices shown include the current promotional discount. Evaluation fees are billed as a monthly subscription; Direct Prime is a one-time purchase. Position limits scale with size: 2 minis or 10 micros on 25K, 4 or 20 on 50K, 6 or 30 on 100K.

Fees are not refundable. There is no refund on request and no rebate paid with any payout. If you fail, the fee is gone and is not credited toward another account. An Evaluation reset costs $85, or you can buy a new evaluation.

The profit split is 85/15 in the trader’s favour, and it is flat. There is no paid split upgrade, no plan tier, no scaling milestone and no performance gate. It applies from the first payout onward and does not vary by payout frequency. Taurus states that it cannot reduce the percentage after funding; rule breaches can affect whether a payout is eligible or how much of it is, but they do not push you into a lower split band. In a sector where “up to 90%” routinely means “80% unless you pay extra”, a flat 85% that needs no upsell is a genuine advantage.

Add-ons available at checkout

Add-ons must be purchased either when the evaluation is bought or when the Profit Account is activated. Nothing can be added after a Profit Account is live, so the reset add-ons in particular are a decision you make before you need them.

Payouts

This is the part of the Taurus rulebook that takes the most reading, because all four programmes gate payouts differently. The split is the same everywhere; almost nothing else is.

PRIME and Direct Prime carry a Safety Threshold of $1,600, $2,600 or $3,100 by account size. The threshold is a cushion that is never withdrawable and must stay fully intact. The first payout needs 8 trading days including at least 5 positive days of $150 or more each, the threshold exceeded, at least the $500 minimum sitting above it, and the consistency rule met. Later payouts need 5 new positive days each time. Direct Prime works identically except that its consistency is fixed at 20% with no add-on available.

FREES Safety has a larger threshold of $2,500, $3,000 or $4,000, but a materially better rule attached to it: once the threshold has been completed, payouts can be taken from inside the cushion as well as above it. It needs 5 positive days of $150 or more, a fixed 35% consistency rule, and, for each subsequent cycle, the threshold reached again plus at least 50% of the requested amount generated as new profit.

FREES Max strips out the threshold and the consistency rule entirely. Five profitable days of $150 or more and the $250 minimum, and you can request. The trade-off is a hard rule that no more than 50% of the profit generated can be taken in any one request, and, as noted above, requesting early locks the drawdown permanently.

Payments go out through RISE or USDC on the ERC20 network, with RISE offering local bank transfer in some countries. Taurus takes up to 48 hours to approve or decline and up to 48 hours more to send. There is no fixed payout fee, though network and processing fees can apply. There is no paid add-on to shorten any payout cycle, which is worth noting given how commonly that is sold elsewhere.

Payout minimums and per-request caps

Monthly payout caps were removed on 1 June 2026, so multiple requests per month are allowed subject to completing a new cycle each time. Profit above a per-request cap is not deducted; it stays in the account and can be requested in a later cycle. FREES Max requests are additionally limited to 50% of profit generated. Figures supplied by the firm on 30 July 2026 and not independently audited.

Before the first payment, Taurus asks for a government-issued ID and a proof of residential address such as a recent utility bill, and may ask for payment-provider verification depending on the method and country. A payout can be declined after a formal review, on grounds including unmet eligibility requirements, rule breaches, fraudulent activity, security violations or incomplete compliance information. If a request fails purely on eligibility, the trader can qualify again and resubmit.

Taurus did not supply payout volume figures, so this review carries no payout table. We have asked; we publish those figures when firms provide them, and we mark them as self-reported.

Trading rules and conditions

Taurus trades exchange-listed CME Group futures only, across CME, CBOT, COMEX and NYMEX: equity indices, currencies, rates and Treasuries, energy, metals, agriculture and livestock, in both Mini and Micro contracts. There are no forex CFDs, no stocks, no options and no cryptocurrency. Commissions are charged per contract round-trip at $5.00 per Mini and $1.20 per Micro, deducted automatically from the balance.

Platforms are the Volumetrica and DeepChart ecosystem, covering DeepChart Web, DeepChart Desktop, the mobile app and the VolBook tools, with compatibility for ATAS and Quantower. Problems originating in an external platform are that platform’s support job, not Taurus’s.

The rules that matter most in day-to-day trading:

• No overnight or weekend holding, anywhere. Positions must be closed at least five minutes before the relevant market close, in evaluations and Profit Accounts alike. If one is left open, the system may close it automatically: any profit from that trade is not counted, any loss stands, and the account survives.
• Five-second minimum trade duration. Scalping is allowed, but a trade closed inside five seconds has its profit voided while its loss remains. One-tick strategies are prohibited outright.
• No EAs, bots, algorithmic strategies, AI-driven execution or HFT. The one carve-out is the native Volumetrica Trade Copier, which may mirror trades only across accounts belonging to the same registered trader.
• News trading is fully allowed, with no blackout window. Traders can be in the market before, during and after announcements, subject to the five-second rule and contract limits.
• No profit cap per day or per trade, and no “excess” profit that gets deducted.
• Inactivity applies to Profit Accounts only: at least one trade per week, or the account may be cancelled. Tell Support in advance if you will be away and it stays active. Evaluations have no weekly requirement, but do expire with the 30-day subscription.
• Prohibited outright: Martingale and progression-based sizing, HFT, algorithmic or AI trading, EAs, one-tick strategies, gambling-style trading, arbitrage, exploiting platform glitches, hedging, third-party copy trading, coordinated execution between different traders, account sharing, and any use of VPNs, VPS services, proxies or IP masking. Standard DCA is allowed within contract and risk limits; exponential loss-recovery sizing is not.

On consistency, Taurus does something better than most: breaching it does not disqualify the account and does not remove the profit. It simply blocks payout eligibility until profits on other days bring the percentage back inside the threshold. The calculation is the highest net-profit day as a share of total accumulated profit, applied per trading day rather than per trade. Evaluations have no consistency rule at all.

What to watch

• The default drawdown is the aggressive one. Real-time trailing on equity, including open trades, is what you get unless you buy the EOD add-on. The firm names it as the main cause of failed accounts.
• Evaluations are a subscription with a hard expiry. Miss a renewal and the account is gone permanently.
• Four programmes, four different payout rulebooks. Thresholds, consistency percentages, day requirements and caps all differ, so read the gate that applies to the one you buy.
• PRIME’s $119 activation fee is charged after you pass, which makes the headline $21 entry price misleading if read alone.
• No overnight or weekend holding on any account. Positions close five minutes before the market close, which rules out swing trading.

What changed in the last twelve months

Taurus disclosed six changes, and several of them matter enough that older reviews and comparison tables are likely to be wrong:

• 2 January 2026: Direct Prime introduced, letting traders start on a simulated Profit Account without an evaluation. Its consistency rule is fixed at 20%.
• 1 June 2026: monthly payout limits removed. They had been $2,000, $3,000 and $4,000 by account size. Per-request caps remain.
• 17 July 2026: the soft Daily Loss Limit was removed from the EOD Drawdown add-on. No Taurus account type now has a daily loss limit.
• 19 July 2026: FREES Safety’s first-payout requirement was cut to 5 positive trading days of $150 or more. The 8-day requirement now applies only to PRIME and Direct Prime.
• 19 July 2026: FREES Safety consistency fixed at 35%, with no add-on required or available.
• July 2026: FREES split into two programmes. FREES Safety keeps the Safety Threshold and the 35% rule; FREES Max drops both but caps each payout at 50% of profit generated. The former FREES Standard was renamed FREES Safety rather than withdrawn.

Verdict

Taurus Arena gets the two things right that traders complain about most. The 85/15 split is flat and needs no upsell, which is rarer than it should be. And consistency breaches do not kill accounts here; they delay payouts until the numbers even out, which is a proportionate response to a rule that most firms treat as a disqualifier. Add no daily drawdown anywhere, no minimum trading days on evaluations, unrestricted news trading, and an honest answer about which of its own rules ends the most accounts, and the rulebook reads as better thought through than the average.

The cost is complexity and defaults. Four routes with four different payout gates is a lot to hold in your head, and the differences are not cosmetic: a Safety Threshold you can never withdraw on PRIME, a threshold you can withdraw from on FREES Safety, no threshold but a 50% ceiling on FREES Max. The default trailing drawdown is the punishing configuration, and the gentler one is a paid add-on that must be bought before you need it. The $119 PRIME activation fee sits behind a $21 headline. Evaluations expire permanently on a subscription clock that is not described as a time limit.

Then there is the evidence problem. Taurus has been trading since September 2025, has revised its rules six times in twelve months, and declined to disclose any payout figures at all: no totals, no counts, no public log. Its terms are considerably more trader-friendly than most, but terms are promises, and this firm has not yet published anything that would let a trader check whether it keeps them.

7.6. A well-constructed futures offer with a genuinely fair split and a humane approach to consistency, held back by an aggressive default drawdown, a four-way rulebook that demands careful reading, and a complete absence of published payout evidence. Read your programme’s specific payout gate before you buy, and budget the $9.50 for the EOD add-on.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Taurus Arena regulated, and is the capital real?

No. Taurus Arena is the trading name of DALCIA LTD, registered in Cyprus under company number HE 480293, and it is not licensed or regulated by any financial regulator. It states that it is not a broker, investment firm or custodian of client funds. Evaluation accounts are fully simulated, and passing traders move to a Sim Profit Account which is also simulated. Only selected traders may later be moved to live market capital, at the firm’s discretion under its internal risk criteria. Payouts themselves are real money.

What is the Taurus Arena profit split?

A flat 85% to the trader and 15% to Taurus. It applies from the first payout onward, does not change with payout frequency, and cannot be increased by a paid add-on, a plan tier, scaling or performance milestones because 85% is already the maximum. Taurus states it does not reduce the percentage after funding.

What is the drawdown rule at Taurus Arena?

The default is a real-time trailing drawdown measured on equity including unrealised profit from open trades, so the floor rises with an open winner and does not fall back when that winner retraces. An End-of-Day Drawdown add-on at $19, currently $9.50, switches the calculation to the highest closed end-of-day balance instead. On Profit Accounts the drawdown trails until it reaches $25,100, $50,100 or $100,100 by account size, then locks permanently. FREES Max also locks the moment a payout is requested. There is no daily drawdown on any Taurus programme.

How do Taurus Arena payouts work?

Payments go out via RISE or USDC on ERC20, with up to 48 hours to approve and up to 48 hours more to send. Minimums are $500 on PRIME and Direct Prime and $250 on both FREES tiers. PRIME and Direct Prime require 8 trading days including 5 positive days of $150 or more for the first payout, then 5 new positive days per cycle, with a Safety Threshold of $1,600, $2,600 or $3,100 that must stay intact. FREES Safety requires 5 positive days and a threshold of $2,500, $3,000 or $4,000, but allows withdrawals from inside the cushion once it is completed. FREES Max requires 5 profitable days with no threshold, but caps each request at 50% of profit generated. Per-request caps run from $1,000 to $2,500; monthly caps were removed in June 2026.

Is there a time limit on Taurus Arena evaluations?

Not a conventional one, but effectively yes. Evaluations run on a 30-day subscription that can be extended for another 30 days, and the account expires permanently if it is not manually renewed before the displayed expiry date. There is no minimum trading day requirement, so an evaluation can be passed in a single day. Direct Prime accounts carry no time limit at all.

Is Taurus Arena trustworthy?

The terms are better than most, but the evidence is thin. The 85/15 split is flat with no upsell, consistency breaches delay payouts rather than closing accounts, and the firm volunteered which of its own rules ends the most accounts. Against that, DALCIA LTD was founded in September 2025, is unregulated, has revised its rulebook six times in twelve months, and declined to disclose any payout totals, payout counts or a public payout log. There is currently no published record to verify its payment behaviour against.

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