Finally hit a payout cycle where the processing time matched the time quoted in the contract. Trailing drawdown stopped at my initial balance plus 10 percent, exactly as the contract described, so I knew where I stood.
Running a copy trading mirror between my personal and funded accounts was approved after a short compliance call. Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
Dashboard flagged my daily loss at 65 percent of the limit, which is a feature not a lecture. Honest about leverage limits of 1:30 on majors on the funded, which is actually sensible for the drawdown they offer. Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied.
Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse. A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy.
Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150. Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side.
Risk team gave me a 10 minute call to explain why a weekend hold was risky even though technically allowed. Payout structure of 80 percent base and 90 percent after six requests actually incentivizes staying with them. My phase one target of eight percent took nine trading days and I never came within half of the daily loss limit.
Platform latency during the first minute of the cash open cost me my funded account on a trade that would have been profitable at my broker.
Trailing drawdown never stopped trailing even after I hit a 15 percent profit buffer, which is not what the contract page describes.
Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders. Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight. A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range.
Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side. Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders. Payout processor rejected my bank with no explanation and they offered no alternative beyond trying the same bank again next cycle.
Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded.
Rules documentation is a 14-page PDF, not a vibe, and every edge case I asked about was already in there. Weekly payouts land every Thursday and I have not had to chase a single one for status updates. Risk team gave me a 10 minute call to explain why a weekend hold was risky even though technically allowed.
Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human.
Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L.
Account was disabled during an active payout request and the only notice I got was a cryptic email about risk review.
Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number.
Risk team was openly hostile over a gold trade on the day of a central bank meeting, even though gold news was not on their calendar. Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity. Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog.
Challenge reset was still charged to my card after I had been told via chat that it would be waived for a verified payment issue.
Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity. Challenge was priced attractively at a holiday sale but the reset fee is permanent at $179, so a single bad day cost more than the entry.
Payout invoice went unanswered for 11 days after I provided the matching business details requested during KYC. Platform latency during the first minute of the cash open cost me my funded account on a trade that would have been profitable at my broker.
Hedge rule triggered a soft breach when I was not even hedging; I had two uncorrelated positions on different symbols.
Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up. Reliable execution during Fed days which is honestly the only test that matters for a futures scalper.
Workable platform, workable rules, but the overall feel is that you are a cost center rather than a counterparty. Spread markup on majors is around half a pip, which is tolerable for swing but hard to overcome for scalping sub-10 pip targets.
After I passed phase two with an EA, they demanded a manual verification trade of a very specific setup, which is not in any rule I signed.
A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range. Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window. Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes.
Consistency rule capped my best day at 35 percent of total profit and honestly it kept me from blowing up twice. Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number.
An entire payout cycle was skipped because they moved the cutoff date by 48 hours and my request landed on the wrong side of it. After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front. Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it.
Challenge was priced attractively at a holiday sale but the reset fee is permanent at $179, so a single bad day cost more than the entry.
Dashboard showed me at 2 percent daily loss when the risk team said I was at 4.9 percent, and they went with their number. Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it. Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair.
Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy. Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse.
Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week.
After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain. Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse. Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches. Risk desk told me gold was a prohibited symbol only after I had opened a position, despite the firm not listing any prohibitions on the signup page.
Decent for day traders only, since the swing version has a lower drawdown and a higher profit target that cancel each other out.
KYC turnaround was under four hours on a weekday morning, which beat two competitors I had used before. Account mirror feature lets me run my funded trades alongside a personal account one-to-one without a plug-in.
Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it. A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range. Risk team was openly hostile over a gold trade on the day of a central bank meeting, even though gold news was not on their calendar.
Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window.
Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying. Reinstated an account that was flagged for a late news trade after I sent timestamps and the risk team agreed.
Slippage ate my profit target on NQ during a CPI release when their simulator showed a fill at 15 and the actual fill was at 23.
Consistency rule was used as an excuse to pay out only 60 percent of my first withdrawal with no clear math on how they got there. Hidden rule killed my funded account when they decided copy trading between my own two funded accounts was unauthorized.
Reset of the evaluation after a bad day was processed in under three hours with the same account and the same promo code. Risk team let me reinstate after a FOMC breach because the simulator had misquoted the lockout window by 90 seconds. Scaling plan triggered automatically after my third payout request, so I did not have to open a ticket.
News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release.
Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair.
Weekly consistency reports from the risk team actually helped me tighten my position sizing on NQ. Allowed EA use after a short review of my backtest, with a clear list of which parameters they cared about.