Premier Trading League: Step-by-Step Dashboard Walkthrough

This walkthrough follows the Premier Trading League from registration through to your first match, one step at a time. Each step tells you what to do, and where a screenshot exists it shows what you should be seeing at that point. For the full rules — scoring, teams, the cut, resets and the prize breakdown — see the Premier Trading League — Full Competition Guide.

Head to the PTL registration page from Tuesday 8 September at 12:00 PM ET and sign up. Registration is free and takes a couple of minutes. Remember: one entry per person, one per household, and you must be KYC verified.

The registration page. Open 1 registration closes Sunday 20 September at 11:59 PM ET.

Set your display username when you register. You compete under that name on the leaderboard and your real name is never shown. Once confirmed it cannot be changed, so choose carefully.

Setting your display username. Once confirmed, it cannot be changed.

Team selection opens in the Waiting Room the day before the league starts — 20 September for Open 1. Pick one of the 16 creator teams. This step is mandatory: picking a team is how you leave the Waiting Room, and you cannot place a single trade until you have chosen.

Team selection in the Waiting Room. No team, no trading.

After registering, your Tradeify dashboard drops you into the Waiting Room. This is home base until the league starts — you will see a countdown to trading opening on Monday 21 September at 6:00 PM ET.

The Waiting Room right after registration, showing the countdown to Open 1.

Match 1 opens Monday 21 September at 6:00 PM ET (the session runs through Tuesday 22 September, closing at 4:45 PM ET). You are paired with one random opponent from the whole field, and you both start on a fresh $50,000 simulated account on Tradovate.

A match at session open — your fresh $50,000 account and your opponent for this session.

Trade ES, NQ, GC or CL — or their micro equivalents (MES, MNQ, MGC, MCL). Position size is capped at one mini or ten micros across your whole account — one position, one product at a time; Tradovate simply rejects anything over the limit. There is no drawdown limit, and you cannot fail the account. Your opponent's P&L is visible during the match but refreshes only twice a day, so treat it as a checkpoint rather than a live feed.

[Screenshot coming soon] Mid-session. The opponent P&L updates at 8:00 AM and 2:00 PM ET, not in real time.

At 4:45 PM ET on match day, the system automatically closes any open position at market price — you never need to flatten yourself. Whatever the account shows at close is your result for the match.

Your points land on the leaderboard: +3 for winning the head-to-head, +1 each for a draw (within $50), +1 per $500 of profit (capped at +20 per match), and −1 per $500 of loss with no cap. The leaderboard refreshes twice a day at 8:00 AM and 2:00 PM ET, and ties break on matchup wins, then total P&L, then biggest single match.

Had a disaster session? You get one reset per league: a single-match reset ($25) that removes one match from your record, or a full reset ($50) back to zero — full resets only exist in Matches 1–3. Resets work in Matches 1–3 and 5–7 only, never Match 4 or 8, and if you use one you must score points in Match 4 to survive the cut. Fees are non-refundable.

After Match 4 (Thursday 1 October for Open 1), the bottom half of the field is relegated. Survive, and Matches 5–8 are your run at the top 500 cash prizes — and the top 4 seats at the Grand Final in Fort Lauderdale on 11 December.

[Screenshot coming soon] Cut Day. Everything before this was positioning.