AO
Akira Oishi
Oct 15, 2026
Consistency rule used as excuse
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.
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 pushing through three failed challenges elsewhere I finally cleared this one on the first try.
Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human.
Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account. Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number.
Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog. A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range.
Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying.
Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number. Simulated feed on the evaluation account matched my broker's live feed close enough that my setups still worked.
Challenge support of 24 hour live chat actually answered a question about trailing drawdown math at 2am before the Tokyo open.
Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements.
Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L. EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding.
Passed the 50k evaluation in six trading days using NQ scalps and the payout landed in my wallet within 48 hours. Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week.
Trader portal shows pending payouts, cleared payouts, and the exact scaling trigger I need to hit next.
KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply. Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse.
Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it. Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric.
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. Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes.
Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later.
Scaled from 50k to 200k over four payout cycles and the scaling criteria were spelled out before I started.
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.
Portal is actually usable on mobile, which matters when a daily loss alert pings during lunch. Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday. Dashboard flagged my daily loss at 65 percent of the limit, which is a feature not a lecture.
Reinstated an account that was flagged for a late news trade after I sent timestamps and the risk team agreed. Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed.
Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window.
Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight. Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
Soft breach notice arrived in my inbox after a drawdown touch that my own broker and TradingView never registered on their feeds. Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150.
Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number. News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release.
Mediocre futures routing meant my NQ fills were a tick worse than my personal account during Fed days, which added up. Platform fine for discretionary trading, but the journal integration misses copy-trade entries, which skews my stats. Scaling plan is clear on paper, but in practice the firm adds a verification trade requirement that is not mentioned up front.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days. Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded.
Scaling plan is clear on paper, but in practice the firm adds a verification trade requirement that is not mentioned up front. Scaling plan is clearly written but requires you to maintain a specific win rate, which is a strange ask for strategies that depend on big winners.
Average experience overall with no major complaints but also nothing I would call out as better than three other firms I have used.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy.
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. Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
After blowing one challenge on an EA I did not fully test, their 30 percent reset discount got me funded on attempt two. Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session.
Added a 50k account on top of my existing 100k with no requirement to pass another evaluation first.
Allowed news trading on majors as long as I was already in the position before the release window.
Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse. Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair.
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. 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.
Payout processor options are limited to wire or stablecoin and the wire fee of $35 bites small withdrawals noticeably. A slow but functional KYC process that took four business days for a straightforward US LLC with clean paperwork.
Journal integration syncs trades to a Notion template they publish, which saved me a weekend of plumbing.
Hit three months of consecutive payouts and the firm sent a 5 percent bump on my split as promised. Reliable execution during Fed days which is honestly the only test that matters for a futures scalper.
Finally hit a payout cycle where the processing time matched the time quoted in the contract. After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30.
Scaling targets are moving goalposts in the sense that the next tier requirements change based on your current size, not posted up front.
TradingView plug-in syncs orders without the usual two-second delay I had with another firm's bridge. Dashboard flagged my daily loss at 65 percent of the limit, which is a feature not a lecture.
After two years with another firm I switched over and the first payout here landed quicker than any of their last six. Honest about leverage limits of 1:30 on majors on the funded, which is actually sensible for the drawdown they offer.
A moderately useful dashboard that shows your trailing drawdown but does not alert you when you cross a key threshold.
Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session. Allowed overnight gold holds through CPI week provided I kept size below the news-trading cap, which was clear.
Found a firm where the daily loss limit is calculated on closed equity only, which fits a trend-following swing style perfectly.
Second phase blew by in three sessions once I accepted their lot sizing rule as a sanity check. My phase one target of eight percent took nine trading days and I never came within half of the daily loss limit.
Allowed EA use after a short review of my backtest, with a clear list of which parameters they cared about. Trader portal shows pending payouts, cleared payouts, and the exact scaling trigger I need to hit next.
Portal has decent trade statistics but misses commission costs, so you have to export to CSV to see your real net. A workable platform with one odd quirk: pending orders are not displayed on the trailing drawdown preview.
Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric. Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity.
Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches.