Lucid Trading Prop Firm Review
By Omer Rapaport
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- US futures prop firm (Lucid Trading Group LLC, Delaware) trading simulated futures on platforms including NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView via CQG, or supported applications such as Quantower and R|Trader Pro via Rithmic
- 90/10 base split on every plan — not a paid upgrade, which is genuinely rare
- Pro/Flex EOD trailing max loss that locks at your starting balance plus $100; the daily limit is a soft breach
- The LucidScale daily limit ratchets upward (highest EOD cumulative account profit × 60%, on applicable Pro/Direct accounts) and never shrinks
- No recurring or monthly fee; plan-specific trading permissions; Daily funded restricts high-impact USD news. Real capital only at the LucidLive stage
Pricing snapshot
Futures pricing
| Program | Account size | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro Eval | $25K | USD 135 | One-time | Official Lucid Trading Pro Eval list price before checkout coupon. |
| Pro Eval | $50K | USD 185 | One-time | Official Lucid Trading Pro Eval list price before checkout coupon. |
| Pro Eval | $100K | USD 285 | One-time | Official Lucid Trading Pro Eval list price before checkout coupon. |
| Pro Eval | $150K | USD 370 | One-time | Official Lucid Trading Pro Eval list price before checkout coupon. |
Pricing last verified: 2026-08-10
Updated and verified on 27 September 2026
Drawdown enforcement, plan options, consistency, news restrictions and payout methods checked against official support policies on 27 September 2026.
Table of contents
TL;DR: Lucid Trading in 30 seconds
- What it is: a US futures prop firm (Lucid Trading Group LLC, Delaware) trading simulated US futures on platforms including NinjaTrader, Tradovate and TradingView via CQG, or supported applications such as Quantower and R|Trader Pro via Rithmic. Core plans include LucidPro, LucidFlex, LucidDirect and LucidDaily, from $25k to $150k. Separate LucidMaxx and legacy documentation also exists.
- The split: 90/10 on every funded plan - and it is the base, not a paid upgrade. That is genuinely rare and one of the better default splits in futures.
- The drawdown: on Pro and Flex, an end-of-day trailing max loss on closing balance that locks at your starting balance plus $100 once you trail out. The daily loss limit is a soft breach - a bad day pauses you, it does not fail the account.
- The catch: Flex and Pro offer daily-loss-limit on/off configurations; LucidDaily has separate drawdown and news rules, and buffer and consistency requirements depend on the plan - so the plan you pick changes the rules a lot.
- Cost: a one-off fee with no recurring or monthly charge, no activation fee, and a permanent discount code. Reset fees apply. Real capital only at the LucidLive stage.
- Best for: futures traders who want a 90% base split, a plan-specific drawdown model that locks, and a soft daily limit - and who match the plan to how they trade.
Checked against Lucid Trading’s official website, Terms and support centre. Figures below reflect the products on sale at the time of review; prop firm rules change often, so always confirm on the firm’s own pages before you buy.
Company and regulation
Lucid Trading Group LLC is a US company registered in Dover, Delaware. It is not regulated: its risk disclosure cites the CFTC Rule 4.41 simulated-performance note and states that none of its information is intended as investment advice, and it makes no claim to be a regulated broker or NFA member.
The accounts are simulated throughout the evaluation and funded stages. Lucid’s own risk disclosure describes a “simulated futures trading environment,” and the FAQ explains that only later, at the LucidLive stage, are you moved “to a live brokerage account funded with our capital.” Note the marketing does lean on “earn real capital” language that the evaluation and funded stages do not support - the real-capital part comes only after you graduate.
Real trader reviews - Lucid Trading Prop Firm Review4 real trader reviews for Lucid Trading Prop Firm Review
Giorgio Geloso
Founder of Kairos Capital in Palermo, Sicily, working on quantitative strategies and alternative investments. He has traded with several CFD prop firms and compared them for JoinProp readers.
LinkedIn profileLucid has been my top choice so far. My experience has been extremely smooth, including payout approvals that came through in as little as one minute.
Rohit Bisht
Futures trader based in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, working across AI and machine learning, financial markets and business. He trades Nasdaq futures primarily, with some gold futures alongside, and became consistently profitable after about three years of experimentation.
LinkedIn profileI have traded with Topstep, Lucid and Tradeify. Of those, I particularly like Lucid because of its quick payout process and the number of trading platforms it supports.
Ricky Byren
Professional futures and forex trader based in Stockholm, Sweden, and chief executive of RB99 Tradinglab AB. He studied at Karolinska Institutet, has traded funded accounts full time for about three years, and trades Nasdaq futures, oil, the euro and sterling.
LinkedIn profileHad no issues with Lucid whatsoever.
Rehaan Sharma
Founder of Alverton Capital, a trading software company and proprietary desk, based in India. He has traded since the age of 14 and took his first funded account at 15, after sixteen failed evaluations. He trades index futures, mostly NASDAQ with some S&P, on the terminal his own company built.
LinkedIn profileFor transparency, I am not affiliated with or sponsored by any firm mentioned here. No referral links, no partnership.
Lucid Trading has been strong. I run a 100k account with them and they have been reliable where it counts, including a $3,500 payout. Their drawdown structure suits an intraday NQ trader better than most, and the platform has been stable through the sessions I care about. FundingPips is where I have the longer history, but I would not hesitate to recommend Lucid to anyone looking for a second firm to diversify across.
The split, and the two rules that make Lucid unusual
Start with the best thing about Lucid, because it is genuinely uncommon: the profit split is 90/10 on all funded plans, as the base rate. It is not a paid upgrade and there is no higher tier to buy. After the number of firms in this project that sell you your headline split as an add-on, a real 90% default deserves credit.
The risk model is the other distinctive part, and it is unusually forgiving in two specific ways.
The max loss trails end-of-day, then locks. “At the end of each trading session, the system calculates the account’s highest closing balance… Once your account exceeds the Initial Trail Balance, the [max loss] locks and no longer moves… locks at the initial balance plus $100.” End of day describes when the trailing floor is recalculated, not when breaches are checked. Reaching the existing Max Loss Limit can breach the account during a session. LucidDaily funded accounts use intraday trailing instead.
The daily loss limit is a “soft” breach, and it ratchets up. Hitting it only pauses your trading until the next session - you do not lose the account unless the max loss is hit. On applicable Pro and Direct funded accounts with DLL enabled, once the account closes above its initial trail balance, the flat daily limit is replaced by what Lucid calls the LucidScale DLL: “highest EOD profit × 60%,” a figure that only ever increases. So $4,000 in highest end-of-day cumulative account profit sets a $2,400 daily limit that never shrinks on a drawdown. That is the opposite of the punishing intraday-trailing model most futures firms use, and it is a real, structural kindness to a profitable trader.
The plans differ more than they look
Choose the plan and its configuration carefully:
- LucidFlex - the simplest: optional daily loss limit and no payout buffer requirement, just five profitable days and positive net profit to withdraw. A payout request locks the Flex MLL at starting balance plus $100. Five payouts is the final payout level under the current live structure; live selection remains at the risk team’s discretion and can happen earlier.
- LucidPro - an evaluation that can pass in one day; 40% consistency applies to funded payout cycles, with 35% retained for older accounts under the published purchase/reset cutoff. DLL is selectable on or off, and payouts require clearing a buffer.
- LucidDirect - straight-to-funded, higher upfront cost, a stricter 20% consistency rule and longer payout timelines.
Flex evaluation uses 50% consistency and can pass in two days; its five profitable days relate to funded payout eligibility. Pro can pass in one day. Direct skips evaluation. LucidDaily evaluations offer EOD or intraday drawdown, but all Daily funded accounts use intraday trailing, allow daily eligible payout requests and have no funded consistency rule.
Payouts and rules
- Minimum payout: $500 on all plans, requestable any day once eligible. Lucid’s Terms say funds are disbursed within 2 business days; the homepage markets a “15-minute average,” so treat 2 days as the binding figure.
- Consistency: Pro funded 40% (35% for older accounts under its cutoff), Direct 20%, Flex and Daily none once funded - and it is fully waived at the Live stage.
- News rules depend on the plan. LucidDaily funded accounts must be flat from one minute before through one minute after high-impact USD red-folder events; holding or opening positions in that window is a hard breach. Other permitted strategies remain subject to the prohibited-practices rules.
- No overnight or weekend holding - positions auto-close before 4:45pm EST, which does not fail the account.
- Fees: a one-time fee with no recurring, monthly or auto-rebill charge and no activation fee. Reset fees apply and are not automatic.
Payout methods: Plaid instant bank transfers are for US traders; WorkMarket by ADP supports US and international traders, with bank transfer or PayPal; crypto is offered to international traders. Provider delivery times vary, so the advertised processing average is not a guaranteed arrival time.
Official sources: Pro drawdown, Pro options, Daily funded rules, live transitions, and payout methods.
Verdict
Lucid is one of the more genuinely trader-friendly futures firms in this project. A real 90% base split with no upgrade to buy, an end-of-day trailing drawdown that locks, a soft daily loss limit that ratchets upward rather than punishing you, a clean one-time fee with no rebills, and plan-specific trading permissions add up to a risk model that is materially looser than the intraday-trailing norm. The published, per-plan documentation is detailed and recently maintained.
The caveats are modest and honest ones. The accounts are simulated (the “real capital” language applies only after you reach LucidLive), the plans and their news restrictions differ enough that picking the wrong one matters, and the marketing’s “15-minute payout” is a “2 business days” commitment in the Terms. For a disciplined futures trader who reads the plan differences, this is one of the stronger options we have reviewed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Lucid Trading regulated?
No. Lucid Trading Group LLC is a Delaware company that makes no claim to be a regulated broker or NFA member. Its risk disclosure cites the CFTC Rule 4.41 simulated-performance note and states that none of its information is intended as investment advice. It is unregulated, as most prop firms are.
What is the Lucid Trading profit split?
It is 90/10 in your favour on every funded plan, and this is the base rate rather than a paid upgrade - there is no higher tier to buy. That makes it one of the better default splits in the futures prop sector.
How does the Lucid Trading drawdown work?
Pro and Flex use end-of-day trailing floors that lock at starting balance plus $100. End of day describes recalculation; reaching the current Max Loss Limit can still breach the account during a session. A Flex payout request locks its floor. Daily funded accounts use intraday trailing. A daily loss limit, where enabled, is a separate soft lockout provided the Max Loss Limit is not reached.
What is the LucidScale daily loss limit?
On applicable Pro and Direct funded accounts with DLL enabled, closing above the initial trail balance switches to LucidScale: 60% of the highest end-of-day cumulative account profit. It does not decrease. This uses accumulated account profit, not the profit from the single best trading day.
What is the difference between LucidPro, LucidFlex and LucidDirect?
Pro can pass evaluation in one day; its 40% consistency rule applies to funded payouts, with 35% retained for older accounts under its cutoff. Flex evaluation has 50% consistency and a two-day pass path, while its funded payouts require five qualifying profitable days. Pro and Flex offer DLL on/off options. Direct skips evaluation and requires 20% consistency. Daily is another plan: its funded accounts use intraday drawdown and restrict high-impact USD news.
Are Lucid Trading accounts simulated?
Yes. The evaluation and funded stages are simulated, in what Lucid calls a simulated futures trading environment. Real capital only appears at the LucidLive stage, when you are moved to a live brokerage account funded with the firm’s capital. The marketing’s “earn real capital” language refers to that later stage.
How fast does Lucid Trading pay out?
The minimum payout is $500, requestable any day once eligible, and the binding Terms state that funds are disbursed within two business days. The homepage advertises a 15-minute average processing time, but the two-business-day figure in the Terms is the one to rely on. There is no fixed monthly payout window.
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