Alpha Futures drops the activation fee on Advanced accounts

Alpha Futures dropped the $149 activation fee on Advanced accounts bought after its July 8, 2026 announcement.

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By PYE Markets • Published 2026-10-20 • 1 min read

Key points

The firm’s page does not give a date for the change. We confirmed it on the firm’s own page on October 20, 2026; a change we confirm can have taken effect earlier.

What changed

Before and after, as we recorded them from the firm’s pages.

  • Before: $149 one-time activation fee per Advanced Qualified Account
  • After: No activation fee
  • Applies to: Advanced (accounts bought after Jul 8, 2026)

How we checked

A person at PYE Markets read the firm’s own page before this change went into our rule change log, and this article is built from that log entry. The firm’s page is the authority: if it now says something different, the firm’s page wins. The firm’s other rules are at /firms/alphafutures, and every logged change is at /prop-firms/rule-changes.

Sources

  1. The firm’s own page (accessed 2026-10-20)
  2. PYE Markets rule change log (accessed 2026-10-20)

Tags: rule-change · alphafutures · activationFee

General market information, not investment advice. Figures are from the primary sources listed at the end of the piece, with the date of each.