Ylos Trading review

Ylos lists brokerage fees by instrument in its FAQ. Common E-mini index futures such as ES, NQ, RTY, and YM are listed at $2.18, while common Micro E-mini index futures such as MES, MNQ, M2K, and MYM are listed at $0.65. Other futures products vary by exchange and instrument. Ylos does not clearly state whether the listed fees are per side or round turn, so traders should review the official fee table for full details at the link below.
https://help.ylostrading.com/portal/pt/kb/articles/quais-s%C3%A3o-as-taxas-de-corretagem-cobradas-pela-ylos-para-operar-minis-e-micro-contratos-22-10-2025

Ylos offers Standard, No Activation Fee, Instant Funding, and Freedom accounts.

Standard / No Activation Fee / Freedom accounts have a Challenge phase. Instant Funding skips the Challenge and starts directly in the funded-style account.

Challenge accounts can be completed in as little as 1 trading day, but funded activation is not immediate same-day trading after passing. The Upgrade button is enabled at midnight Chicago time after the trader meets the requirements.

Standard accounts require an activation fee after passing. No Activation Fee accounts and Freedom accounts have no activation fee.

Ylos uses BlackArrow as the trading platform.

Standard, No Activation Fee, and Instant Funding accounts use real-time intraday trailing drawdown once funded. Freedom uses EOD funded drawdown.

News Trading: Restricted in Funded/Master accounts. Traders must be flat before news releases and cannot hold positions during the announcement. Trading may resume after the news event. Ylos also specifically prohibits exploiting news through bracketing with pending orders on both sides. The exact consequence for a news-rule violation is not clearly stated in the available FAQ text. Please contact their support for more information at [email protected].

Prohibited Trading Styles:
Ylos prohibits strategies that exploit simulated/demo conditions or cannot be consistently replicated in live markets. Prohibited strategies include latency arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, gap exploitation, server/platform glitch exploitation, liquidity fraud, microscalping, all forms of arbitrage, hedging between accounts, group hedging, reverse trading, collusion, external copy trading, challenge-passing services, account sharing, martingale or aggressive grid systems, all-in progression strategies, duplicate-pattern third-party EAs, news bracketing with pending orders on both sides, and any strategy that only works in a demo environment.

Standard / No Activation Fee: 40% consistency rule
Instant Funding / Freedom: 30% consistency rule

Ylos does not list a DLL for any of their accounts. It is up to the trader to manage risk and not allow their account to reach the Maximum Loss Limit to avoid a hard breach of their account, which will result in account termination.

Standard and No Activation Fee use EOD drawdown during Challenge and real-time intraday trailing drawdown in Funded. Instant Funding uses real-time intraday trailing drawdown. Freedom uses EOD funded drawdown.

Intraday Trailing Drawdown Explanation

For Standard, No Activation Fee, and Instant Funding accounts in the funded/Master stage, Ylos uses a real-time trailing drawdown. This means the account’s loss limit moves upward intraday as the trader makes new unrealized or realized profits.

The drawdown trails the account’s highest balance/equity point in real time until the trader builds the required buffer, which is the account’s drawdown amount plus $100. Once that buffer is reached, the drawdown stops trailing and becomes fixed/static.

In plain terms, the trader must first grow the account enough to create the required cushion. Until that point, profits can cause the drawdown threshold to move up, reducing the room available if the trader gives back gains later in the same session.

Example using a 50K account

Starting balance: $50,000
Drawdown / total loss limit: $2,500
Initial drawdown level: $47,500
Required buffer: $2,600
Buffer target balance: $52,600

If the trader grows the account to $51,000, the trailing drawdown can move up with the account’s new high. If the account then drops below the updated drawdown level, the account can be breached even if the trader is still above the original starting balance.

Once the trader reaches $52,600, the trailing drawdown stops moving and becomes static. At that point, the trader has established the required buffer.

Minimum withdrawal is $500.

Before requesting a payout, traders must establish the required buffer/mattress.

Buffer equals total loss / drawdown amount + $100.

Traders may withdraw up to 50% of the established buffer, while the other 50% must stay in the account.

Payout caps apply to the first 4 withdrawals:

25K: $1,500
50K: $2,000
100K: $2,500
150K: $2,750
250K: $3,000
300K: $3,500

Standard / NAF payout eligibility: 10 trading days, 7 winning days of $50+
Instant payout eligibility: 5 profitable days of $200+
Freedom payout eligibility: 10 profitable/qualifying days of $50+