Bulenox Activation Fee: What It Costs and Which Accounts Skip It

The Bulenox activation fee is a one-time charge you pay after you pass a Qualification account, to activate your Master Account. It runs from $143 on a $25,000 account to $498 on a $150,000 one. It is not a subscription, and it does not apply to every Bulenox product: Fast Track and Momentum accounts carry no activation fee at all.

Bulenox publishes the fee in its Help Center. It is a second payment, due after the Qualification account price, so it belongs in your budget from the start.

How much is the Bulenox activation fee?

Bulenox runs two risk models, Option 1 (trailing, intraday) and Option 2 (end of day), and the Qualification product is priced identically on both. The activation fee varies with account size.

At $25,000 the activation fee is $143 against a $145 account price. At $150,000 it is $498 against a $325 account price. Budget for the account price and the activation fee together.

Which Bulenox accounts charge no activation fee?

Two of the three product lines charge nothing to activate.

Momentum says it plainly. Bulenox describes the Momentum Master stage as "activated free of charge as soon as your Momentum account is approved. No activation fee, no monthly fee." Fast Track is sold without a qualification stage, so there is nothing to graduate out of and nothing to activate. Our pricing data records a $0 activation fee on both lines, across all four account sizes and both risk models.

Every Bulenox program in our database also carries a $0 monthly fee. The account price is a one-time payment, described by the firm as "paid once and expires automatically at the end of its access period, no renewal and no recurring charge."

When you pay it, and what happens next

The ordering matters for planning. You never pay the activation fee on an account you did not pass, because the only way to reach it is by passing. It is paid after the Qualification account's access period and before your first Master Account payout.

What the activation fee covers

Bulenox states that each Master Account requires a separate one-time activation fee, which "includes market data and account maintenance." The Master Account also has its own drawdown behaviour. On the Option 1 Qualification Master Account, Bulenox states that "the trailing drawdown stops moving once it reaches your starting balance + $100. From that point, it becomes permanently fixed."

Our payout data for the Option 1 Qualification Master Account records a flat 90% trader split, a $1,000 minimum withdrawal, and payouts processed on a weekly Wednesday cycle: submit your request by 11:59 PM Eastern Time (ET) on the Friday before. Requests are capped per size for the first three payouts, at $1,000 on $25,000, $1,500 on $50,000, $1,750 on $100,000 and $2,000 on $150,000. From the fourth payout, Bulenox states the requested amount must be less than 50% of the total profit on the Master Account.

The Master stage also has payout conditions the Qualification Account does not. On Option 1 Qualification the Master Account carries a ten-day minimum for payouts and a 40% best-day consistency rule on its reward cycle, where the Qualification Account itself has no minimum trading days and no consistency rule.

The real cost of a payout-ready Bulenox account

The number worth comparing is not the activation fee on its own. It is the total you spend to reach a payout-ready account on each product - the Master Account on Qualification and Momentum, the account itself on Fast Track.

A payout-ready $100,000 Momentum account costs $248, against $463 through Qualification and $648 through Fast Track. At $25,000 the totals are $94, $288 and $338.

The products also differ in their payout conditions. Momentum asks for five qualifying profitable days per payout cycle and applies a 35% best-day consistency cap. Fast Track unlocks payouts on a profit goal instead of a day count, with a consistency cap that is 20% on the first payout, 25% on the second and 30% from the third. On Qualification, the Master Account asks for ten trading days and a 40% consistency rule on each reward cycle; the Qualification Account itself has neither. Compare the payout conditions alongside the activation fee when choosing a product.

Is the Bulenox activation fee refundable or recurring?

It is charged once. There is no monthly component to it, and no Bulenox program in our data carries a monthly account fee. Bulenox's return policy applies once an account has been created and the service accessed.

The $78 Qualification reset is the charge most often mistaken for a second activation fee. It is neither. A reset restores a Qualification account's starting balance and clears your previous profits, losses and trading days, and Bulenox is explicit that it "does not extend your 30-day access period." Because a reset does not extend the access period, the time left in the window is unchanged. The $78 applies to the Qualification stage only: a Master Account reset is arranged through Bulenox Support at a fee calculated individually for each account.

Other Bulenox charges people confuse with the activation fee

Three other charges appear in Bulenox's published material, and only one of them is a single payment.

Connecting to Rithmic through a third-party API or trader composite software carries "a $100 monthly fee", which matters if you run a copier, an algorithm or a bot. Bulenox permits all three for personal use. Traders with non-professional status pay nothing extra for exchange data, while traders with professional status pay a monthly exchange data fee for CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX. The Qualification reset, at $78, is the only one-time item of the three.

None of these is the activation fee, and none of them replaces it. Budget for them separately.

Keeping track of it across accounts

Bulenox lets a trader hold up to five Master-level accounts, all activatable immediately. Five activations at $248 on $100,000 accounts is $1,240 spent before a single payout, and the standing on those five accounts lives in five separate places.

Proplysis pulls trade data from connected accounts and shows the rule standing for all of them in one dashboard, and it warns you as you approach the drawdown floor and the daily loss limit before you breach. It is free, and it is paid for by affiliate commissions rather than by charging you. The Bulenox firm profile carries the current per-size pricing, activation fees and rules for all six programs, kept in step with the firm's live site. If you want to model what a 90% split actually pays across account sizes, the prop-firm income calculator does that arithmetic.

If you are buying a Bulenox account anyway, buying through Proplysis's Bulenox link costs you nothing extra and gets you the dashboard for free.

FAQ

Does every Bulenox account have an activation fee?

No. The activation fee applies to the Qualification product on both risk models, Option 1 and Option 2. Fast Track and Momentum accounts are recorded in our pricing data at $0 activation across all four account sizes, and Bulenox describes the Momentum Master stage as activated free of charge.

How much is the Bulenox activation fee on a $100,000 account?

On the $100,000 Qualification account it is $248, on top of the $215 account price, for a total of $463 to reach the Master Account. On a $100,000 Fast Track or Momentum account there is no activation fee.

Is the Bulenox activation fee monthly?

No. It is a one-time charge for the Master Account. Every Bulenox program in our data carries a $0 monthly fee, and the account price itself is described as a one-time payment that expires at the end of its access period with no renewal.

Do you pay the Bulenox activation fee before or after you pass?

After. You buy the Qualification account, pass it inside the 30-day access window, and then pay the activation fee to switch on the Master Account. If you never pass, you never pay it.

Can you avoid the Bulenox activation fee entirely?

Yes, by choosing Momentum or Fast Track instead of Qualification. Both are priced with no activation fee. The trade-off sits in their payout conditions rather than their price. Momentum asks for five qualifying profitable days per payout cycle at a 35% consistency cap, and Fast Track ties payouts to a profit goal with a consistency cap of 20% on the first payout, 25% on the second and 30% from the third.