Clarity Traders review
The sales page labels the charge a Refundable Fee on all three plans. The terms and conditions say, in capitals, that all payments are final and non-refundable regardless of outcome, performance or early termination. Both statements are published by the same company on the same site.
| Verdict | caution |
|---|---|
| Regulators | not verified |
| Platforms | TradeLocker |
Two documents on this site describe the same payment, and they do not agree.
Refundable, and non-refundable
Every plan on the sales page prices itself under the heading Refundable Fee: $95, $59 and $55. The terms and conditions, on the same domain, say this:
ALL PAYMENTS ARE FINAL AND NON-REFUNDABLE, regardless of outcome, performance, or early termination.
The capitals are the document’s own. It also treats a payment dispute as a breach: any chargeback, dispute or reversal is “a material breach”, carrying forfeiture of profits and permanent restriction.
There is a reading that reconciles them. In this sector “refundable” usually means the evaluation fee comes back attached to your first payout, not that you can reclaim it by changing your mind or by failing. That is a real and common arrangement. The problem is that the reconciliation is not written anywhere we could find, while the flat contradiction is written twice, in the two places a buyer looks.
If you take one action before paying here, make it this one: ask support, in writing, under exactly which condition the fee is returned, and ask them to point at the clause.
The plans, and what the dearest one buys
| Instant | One Step | Two Step | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fee | $95 | $59 | $55 |
| Profit target | none | 10% | 8% |
| Max daily drawdown | 3% | 4% | 5% |
| Max overall drawdown | 5% | 6% | 8% |
| Consistency rule | 10% | none | none |
| Trader rewards | up to 100% | up to 100% | up to 100% |
Account sizes run $5,000 to $200,000 on all three, with no minimum trading days and no time limit.
Read the first and last columns together. The Instant plan costs 73% more than Two Step and gives you a smaller allowance to work with: on a $50,000 account, $2,500 of total drawdown against $4,000, which is 62% of the room. Daily, $1,500 against $2,500, or 60%.
That is not hidden and it is not unreasonable: you are paying to skip the assessment, and the firm prices the risk it is taking by tightening the rules. It is worth stating plainly because the intuitive reading of a price list runs the other way.
The two rules that need a definition
Two figures in the table do more work than their size suggests, and neither is defined on the sales page.
The 10% consistency rule on the Instant plan. Consistency rules generally cap how much of your total profit may come from a single day, so that one lucky session cannot carry an account to a payout. At 10% the arithmetic is demanding: to withdraw a given sum, no single day may contribute more than a tenth of it, which in practice requires at least ten profitable days spread out. Whether the cap applies to the payout, the profit target or the whole account is the difference between a mild rule and a binding one, and only the rules document says which.
“Trader rewards: up to 100%” on all three plans. The words “up to” are carrying the meaning. What matters is the condition under which the split reaches 100%, and whether it applies to the first payout or to later ones. Ask for the schedule rather than the headline.
Who is selling it
The terms name Clarity Traders LLC, incorporated in the State of Delaware, at 8 The Green, Suite B, Dover, Delaware 19901. No company registration number appears in the document.
That address is a registered-agent address used by a large number of Delaware companies, so it identifies the agent rather than an office. It is not a red flag by itself; it is the normal arrangement for a Delaware LLC and tells you nothing about where the business actually operates from.
An earlier version of this page said the firm did not name a state of incorporation. That was wrong, and the reason is worth recording: we read the site and the legal disclosure but not the terms and conditions, which is where companies put this.
What the disclosures get right
The legal wording is careful, and several competitors say none of it.
Clarity Traders LLC provides simulated trading programs solely to evaluate trading proficiency and risk management.
Clarity Traders LLC is not a broker or investment advisor and does not accept client funds.
The terms repeat it: all challenges, evaluations, verifications and funded accounts operate in a simulated environment. The site also carries the CFTC Rule 4.41 wording about simulated results having inherent limitations and being influenced by hindsight.
Profit sharing is described as “a contractual reward, not an entitlement or investment return”, subject to compliance, KYC and discretionary review, and payments may be delayed, denied or adjusted where a violation is suspected. Prohibited conduct is defined more narrowly than at some competitors: exploiting system errors or latency, hedging or coordinating across accounts, and market manipulation. The firm retains sole discretion to determine violations. Governing law is Delaware; no dispute forum is named.
The placeholder is gone
On 12 August this site shipped a live purchase button reading “Get dsfdf Account”, next to three unlabelled percentages. We wrote about it, and on 28 August it is no longer there.
We are recording the fix because a review that only prints defects is not a review. A sixteen-day turnaround on a front-page error is the ordinary behaviour of a maintained site.
What the front page claims
The homepage states 80,000+ users and $10M+ processed, and runs a scrolling ticker of around fifty named traders with amounts from $999 to $68,890. None of those figures is sourced, dated, or accompanied by the denominator that would make them mean something: how many people bought, and how many were paid.
A payout ticker is a selection, and the selection is made by the firm. Compare TradeDay, which publishes individual payouts, and our page on prop firm pass rates for what these numbers can and cannot support.
Registers we hold in full
| Register | Result |
|---|---|
| ASIC (Australia), 6,525 licensees | Clarity Traders not found |
| CySEC (Cyprus), 248 investment firms | not found |
| FCA register, including unauthorised firms | no entry, checked 28 August 2026 |
Expected, and not a mark against the firm. The contract states the product is not a regulated financial service, and a register of licensed firms is therefore the wrong place to look.
The platform is TradeLocker, the same one behind Super Funded.
What we checked, and what we didn’t
We read the terms and conditions, the account plans and the legal disclosure on 28 August 2026, and searched the ASIC and CySEC registers we hold locally. The drawdown arithmetic is ours, applied to the firm’s published percentages on a $50,000 account.
We have not bought an evaluation, traded one, or requested a payout, and nothing here reports on whether Clarity Traders pays. The contradiction over the fee is a documentary fact, not an allegation about conduct: both statements are published, and only the firm can say which governs.
Sources
- Clarity Traders: terms and conditions
- Clarity Traders: account plans and legal disclosure
- CFTC Rule 4.41: hypothetical performance disclosure
- ASIC Financial Services Licensee Register