Alpine Funded Drops the 21 Trading Days Rule From Alpine Pass, but Its Own Page Still Requires 10 Profitable Days and Caps the Best Day at 30%
Alpine Funded told its list on 12 October 2026 that it has removed the 21 trading days requirement from Alpine Pass, its monthly subscription account, and the firm’s own Alpine Pass page now reads “No minimum trading days”. The change is real. The mailing’s summary of it is not quite right. It says “Reach +10%. and Claim your reward. That’s it.” The firm’s own page, read on 13 October 2026, says a reward also needs at least 10 days with 0.5 per cent profit or more, caps any single day at 30 per cent of the profit required, and states plainly that a trader who reaches +10 per cent early keeps trading until those 10 profitable days are banked. The calendar requirement is gone. The waiting is not. It has changed shape, and the new shape is harder to game and harder to plan around.
What Alpine Funded Removed
The mailing is specific about the before and after. Before, a trader had to complete a minimum of 21 trading days before qualifying for a reward, so it was possible to hit +10 per cent, satisfy everything else and still sit waiting on a day count. Alpine Funded says that requirement is gone, with no extra waiting and no unnecessary trading days, and that claiming a reward moves a trader up a level toward a larger one.
The firm’s own pages support the removal. The Alpine Pass comparison table on alpinefunded.com lists no minimum trading days for the product, while the 5-day minimum that appears elsewhere on the site belongs to the Peak challenge rather than to Alpine Pass. The dedicated Alpine Pass page states “No minimum trading days” and adds that only profitable days count, not how many days a trader trades. The figure 21 appears nowhere on either page. That is consistent with a rule that has been taken out rather than moved, and JoinProp could find no public Alpine Funded page that still carries it. The 21-day figure itself comes only from the firm’s own mailing, which is the firm describing its own previous terms, and no archived public page was available to check it against.
The Requirement That Replaced It
Here is what the Alpine Pass page actually asks for before a reward can be claimed, in the firm’s own terms. The account must have grown by 10 per cent. There must be at least 10 days with 0.5 per cent profit or more. And no single day may count for more than 30 per cent of the profit needed, which is a best day rule under a different name. The page then says the part that matters most: if a trader reaches +10 per cent early, they keep trading until they have their 10 profitable days.
Read against the old rule, this is a genuine improvement for most traders and a clear loss for a few. Under 21 trading days, a trader who hit the target in eight sessions had to log 13 more sessions of some kind, and a session with a tiny loss or a flat result counted. Under the new rule the same trader needs 10 days that each cleared 0.5 per cent, and a flat day counts for nothing. For a steady scalper taking small consistent gains, 10 profitable days will arrive faster than 21 trading days ever did. For a swing trader whose edge is three good weeks and a lot of patience, the new requirement is the stiffer of the two, because days spent holding a position without booking 0.5 per cent do not advance the count at all.
The 30 per cent best day cap compounds that. A trader who makes the whole 10 per cent in two excellent days cannot have more than 30 per cent of the required profit come from any one of them, so a concentrated run does not simply need padding out with profitable days, it needs the profit itself redistributed across them. Alpine Funded has not published worked examples of how the cap interacts with the 10-day count, and it has not said whether a day’s profit counts toward the 0.5 per cent threshold if it is above the 30 per cent cap. Those are the two questions a buyer should ask support in writing before paying a first subscription month. This is exactly the category of term our retroactive rule change playbook tracks, because it decides outcomes while the headline rule gets the attention.
What the Rest of Alpine Pass Looks Like Now
On the firm’s own pages, Alpine Pass is an instant funded account sold as a monthly subscription, with no hard breaches, no drawdown limit, a reward target at every 10 per cent, news trading allowed, weekend holding allowed, scaling up to 10 accounts, and a free monthly drawdown reset included. That reset is the feature JoinProp covered on 3 October, and the Alpine Pass page now adds a condition the earlier notice did not spell out: it applies every month at Entry level, if the month ends in drawdown. Traders above Entry level should not assume it carries up the ladder, because the page does not say it does.
The reward ladder is published in full and the mailing’s biggest number checks out. Levels run Entry, Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4 and Summit, with Entry paying the subscription fee back rather than cash. On the Standard plan the cash rewards per +10 per cent run $500, $1,000, $2,000, $4,000 and $8,000. On Advanced they run $1,000, $2,000, $4,000, $8,000 and $16,000. On Pro they run $2,000, $4,000, $8,000, $16,000 and $32,000. So the mailing’s claim that every level doubles up to $32,000 per +10 per cent is accurate, and it is the firm’s own published figure rather than a marketing round-up. Reaching it requires the Pro plan and five successful claims.
Pricing is in euros. Standard lists at EUR 119 a month shown at EUR 95, Advanced at EUR 189 shown at EUR 151, and Pro at EUR 429 shown at EUR 343. A banner offers 20 per cent off a first month limited to 500 uses, without saying which tiers it covers or whether it stacks with the displayed prices. One inconsistency is worth flagging: the Alpine Pass table quotes a potential payout per month of $2,500 on Standard, $5,000 on Advanced and $10,000 on Pro, in dollars, while the ladder on the same site tops out at $8,000, $16,000 and $32,000 per +10 per cent. Those are different measures and Alpine Funded does not reconcile them anywhere public. The firm prices in euros on its site and uses dollar signs in its mailings, a habit JoinProp has flagged before, so do not merge the two currencies when working out what a reward is worth.
The firm’s own disclosure, repeated in this mailing, is that all trading takes place in a simulated environment, that rewards are issued based on performance, and that no real funds are traded. Alpine Funded GmbH is registered at Sinserstrasse 67 in Cham, Switzerland. Anyone weighing a subscription product should read that disclosure next to the published reward ladder, and should look at the firm’s payout proof record rather than the ladder alone, because a published ceiling is a promise about arithmetic and not about cash arriving.
What This Means for the Broader Prop Industry
Minimum trading day requirements are being retired across the industry, and the reason is not generosity. A calendar minimum produces a specific kind of damage for a firm: traders who have already met the risk conditions keep placing trades purely to tick a box, which adds variance the firm did not want and generates support tickets and refund arguments when an account breaches during the padding. Replacing a day count with a profitable-day count removes that incentive and leaves a requirement that is harder to satisfy mechanically, because a trader cannot fake 10 days of 0.5 per cent the way they can fake 21 days of activity. Several of the programs in our challenge comparison have moved the same way in the past year.
The honest framing is that this is a swap, not a removal, and the swap favours consistent small-gain traders over patient position traders. That is a strategy preference being encoded as a payout rule, and it is worth noticing that the firms making this change are also the ones selling monthly subscriptions, where a trader who trades more often pays more months. The incentives and the rule point the same way, which does not make the rule wrong but does explain why it is spreading. For traders the practical lesson is the one that keeps repeating in this industry: read what the reward requires, not what the subject line says it requires. On this occasion the firm’s own page is the more demanding of the two documents and also the more accurate one, which is at least the right way round.
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