Meritix is The Desk's quality engine. It scores sustainable skill, not lucky trades, and uses that score to determine your profit share, feed your Rating, and automatically grow your funded capital 10% every monthyou sustain it.
Keep up to 100% of your profit.
Earned through quality. Not promised by marketing.
Most prop firms grade you on one number: did you make money?Meritix asks how. The same $10,000 can come from disciplined risk-managed trading, or from a few lucky lottery trades that will never repeat. The behavior tells the difference.
Meritix evaluates every funded trader across 23 quality signals organized into 5 families. Each family captures a distinct dimension of how profit is produced, not just whether profit is produced.
How well you manage drawdown, position size, and exposure. Includes our patent-pending detection of grid martingale behavior.
How consistently you show up. Real edges develop over time and across sessions, not in one panic-fueled day.
Profit factor, Sortino ratio, win rate, but with a twist: outlier "lottery" performance gets penalized, not rewarded.
How spread is your edge? Profit concentrated in one trade, one day, one session, or one news event is fragile by design.
Three behavioral signals exclusive to Meritix. They catch what every other prop firm misses.
Weights are proprietary and tuned over time. The relative emphasis between families reflects what actually predicts long-term sustainable trading, calibrated against years of funded-account data. The signals themselves are stable; the weighting is part of our edge.
Other prop firms reward profit and punish drawdown. That's it. Meritix goes further with three proprietary signals that detect how a trader behaves, not just what they earned.
After a meaningful loss, does the trader stay disciplined, or react emotionally?
Meritix watches the three trades immediately following any significant losing trade. If the trader sizes up, trades faster, or chases new instruments, their Tilt Index rises. Sustained discipline keeps it near zero.
If we remove the trader's top winners, are they still profitable?
A real edge is distributed across many trades. A lottery winner is profitable because of three lucky shots. Edge Robustness measures what percentage of a trader's winners we can mathematically remove before they fall to break-even. The higher, the more durable the edge.
When the drawdown deepens, does the trader pull back, or hit the gas?
Stress Response compares pre-stress and in-stress behavior across position size, trade frequency, and sizing consistency. Disciplined traders moderate their behavior under pressure. Tilted traders try to win it all back, the Hail Mary pattern that precedes most account terminations.
Some traders show one warning sign. Others show three or four simultaneously. The Compound Risk Index detects multi-pattern extraction, when grid pyramiding, lottery wins, single-trade flukes, and extended losing streaks all appear in the same cycle.
The more patterns active, the more aggressively Meritix adjusts the score. A trader showing 4+ extraction patterns may earn 5% of their cycle profit while a clean trader at the same dollar profit earns 65%.
Result: the firm pays for skill, not for survivors of a temporarily lucky strategy.
Every trader's Meritix Score (Q) sets their daily profit share. Higher quality earns higher share, top performers reach 100%. Lottery wins, concentration, tilt, grid martingale, and other extraction patterns are scored down, so the firm can reward disciplined traders more without subsidizing the rest. Each Q band below shows the daily share range for traders at that quality level.
How the bands work: each band shows the share range traders at that Quality Score earn across days. Your exact share moves with your exact Q, better trading raises it, worse trading lowers it. Higher Q always earns higher share. The current rate appears in your dashboard before you request any payout.
A career trader can have a losing month and still be doing everything right. A gambler can have a winning month while building toward inevitable blowup. The dollar number alone cannot tell you which is which. Meritix can.
If your behavior shows distributed edge, controlled risk, and discipline. Meritix pays you up to 100% of your profit. No artificial cap. No discretionary clawback.
Grid martingale, lottery wins, news gambling, single-trade flukes. These produce real profit in the short term. Meritix recognizes that and pays significantly less than the dollar amount would suggest.
When you take a payout, the drawdown reference point adjusts to reflect your new balance, so withdrawals never push you artificially closer to a breach. Industry-standard treatment. Many competitors don't do this, withdrawing brings you closer to breach. We don't.
Every metric is named and explained. Tier thresholds are published. The score formula is transparent. You can see exactly why your Q is what it is, and what to do to raise it.
Funded cycles run calendar-monthly, and each cycle's Meritix Score resets at the start of the next one. This is how real institutional firms run their books: a difficult month lowers that month's payout, but doesn't permanently damage your career or your eligibility for the next cycle. One bad month doesn't disqualify you.
1st of each month at midnight. Q resets and starts recalibrating from your first trades of the new cycle, last cycle's score doesn't carry over.
Q updates daily. See your projected share grow with quality, fall with risk events.
Your daily share is locked at end-of-day. Request a payout mid-cycle and it pays out at the current (yesterday's) calculated share, no need to wait for month-end.
Month-close midnight. Rating updates from the cycle's quality. If your Rating sustains the tier threshold, your funded capital scales +10% toward the tier ceiling. Q resets, the next cycle opens with a clean slate.
Most retail prop firms hold every bad day, every drawdown, every losing month against youforever, through trailing drawdowns that never reset, scaling locks that punish single bad months, or breach rules that end the relationship after one bad day. The Desk treats each month as its own evaluation window, the way an institutional desk handles a trader's P&L. Drawdowns are remembered inside the cycle, not across your career.
What carries forward each cycle: your Rating (the long-term career score) and your funded capital. Both grow with sustained quality.What resets: your Meritix Score (Q) for that month's payout. The career compounds; the monthly judgment doesn't.
Most prop firms treat the score as a one-time payout calculator. The Desk uses Meritix as the engine of a four-stage flywheel: quality scores trading, scoring shapes payout, sustained quality builds Rating, and sustained Rating grows your funded capital 10% every month. Each cycle compounds into the next.
23 quality signals across 5 families. Your Q updates daily. Range 0-1000.
Q 800+ daily share reaches up to 100% of profit. Q 600-799 runs 50-75%. Better trading raises it; worse trading lowers it. Current rate shown in your dashboard.
Cycle-after-cycle quality feeds your ELO-style Rating, the long-term career score.
While Rating holds, your funded capital scales +10% every month, automatically, toward your tier ceiling.
The loop is simple. Daily Q-scores slowly drive your Desk Rating.Sustained Rating triggers +10% capital growth every month, automatically, no requalification. And at Q 800+, you keep up to100% of your profit.Skill earns three things at once: your Rating, your capital, your share.