You don't have to race to do it in one month. Say you took two months at $165 a month that is $330 so the same pretty much as Earn2Trade for most people. After two months I think almost everybody will either have reached their target if they are consistent or hit the max loss a long time ago whichever company they are with.



How is doing the test, then trading a demo account before going live, different to doing a TST Test 1 and Test 2 before going live?



I don't know about OneUp but that isn't correct for TST. ( https://help.futures.topstep.com/hc/en-us/articles/220389528-What-is-the-scaling-plan- )
Using the 50K example again one could be up to the full five lots after making $2K in profit. Once $5K is reached one can negotiate increasing size and adjusting the daily loss limit.
Regarding this sentence "The Scaling Plan rule will be evaluated each day when the Trade Report is calculated. You will need to email the Funded Account Specialist to be able to trade the next tier." That is simply so that the automatic risk system can be updated. When a trader starts live the account begins with the minimum number of contracts preset and remains on that figure until the trader asks for that figure to be raised to what ever the Scaling Plan allows them to trade. The system doesn't automatically raise their contract limit at each Scaling Plan threshold as some traders will want to stay at a lower level if that is what they are comfortable with, and still have the security of knowing the risk system will prevent them adding contracts beyond their chosen amount.

On the first point, if you go to 2 months with TST then E2T is the better option since with TST you still have to make 6K (twice the target).

Yes, I was forgetting that.

And for the thread starter, another option not mentioned in the title is https://www.smbtraining.com/blog/futures-trading .

There are 2 new players on the field as well, i have no experience with them.

https://www.speeduptrader.com/
https://dan.com/buy-domain/traderdock.com?redirected=true

How did you even find these two? I've never heard of them before anywhere? They should give introductory webinars.

There are 2 new players on the field as well, i have no experience with them.

https://www.speeduptrader.com/
https://dan.com/buy-domain/traderdock.com?redirected=true

Then there also is Savius, they have been around for a while but little to no information about this firm on the internet.

https://www.saviusllc.com/