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Matthias AckermannVerified
Oct 15, 2026
Pro trader discount honored
Reinstated an account that was flagged for a late news trade after I sent timestamps and the risk team agreed.
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Reinstated an account that was flagged for a late news trade after I sent timestamps and the risk team agreed.
After reading six prop firm comparisons I picked this one for the swing rules and have not regretted it. Challenge support of 24 hour live chat actually answered a question about trailing drawdown math at 2am before the Tokyo open.
Challenge was reasonable at the 50k tier but the reset fee of $89 after a near miss felt steep for a one-percent overshoot.
Portal is actually usable on mobile, which matters when a daily loss alert pings during lunch. Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat. Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session.
Spent a week reading the trailing drawdown explanation and once it clicked, risk management actually became simpler. After two years with another firm I switched over and the first payout here landed quicker than any of their last six.
Risk team let me reinstate after a FOMC breach because the simulator had misquoted the lockout window by 90 seconds. Low commissions on NQ at $1.80 round-trip meant my scalping edge survived onto the funded account. Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed.
Allowed overnight gold holds through CPI week provided I kept size below the news-trading cap, which was clear. Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account.
Reasonable firm for day trading NQ but the overnight margin on ES futures is punitive compared to my broker.
Portal has decent trade statistics but misses commission costs, so you have to export to CSV to see your real net. Reasonable firm overall but their marketing suggests a much better experience than you actually get at the funded account stage.
Scaled from 50k to 200k over four payout cycles and the scaling criteria were spelled out before I started. Hit three months of consecutive payouts and the firm sent a 5 percent bump on my split as promised.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release. Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L. A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy.
Add-on balance of 25k was credited the day after I requested it with the scaling fee I expected. My EA was approved within one business day after I sent the backtest and the strategy description. TradingView plug-in syncs orders without the usual two-second delay I had with another firm's bridge.
Daily loss limit at 4 percent is tight but it kept me from revenge trading after a bad Monday. Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied.
Reasonable firm overall but their marketing suggests a much better experience than you actually get at the funded account stage. Platform fine for discretionary trading, but the journal integration misses copy-trade entries, which skews my stats. A reasonable instant funding option at the 25k tier, except the profit target is 10 percent instead of the standard 8 percent on evaluation accounts.
Scaling to 200k came with a letter from the risk team outlining what to avoid in the next cycle. Running a copy trading mirror between my personal and funded accounts was approved after a short compliance call.
EA review process is opaque and took eight days for a strategy that is honestly a simple moving average crossover. Rules themselves are reasonable but they have changed three times during my funded account, which makes planning harder.
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. Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse.
Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account. Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday.
Payout invoice went unanswered for 11 days after I provided the matching business details requested during KYC.
Spread markup on majors is around half a pip, which is tolerable for swing but hard to overcome for scalping sub-10 pip targets. KYC took five days instead of the advertised 24 hours because they wanted a utility bill I did not have in my own name. A slow but functional KYC process that took four business days for a straightforward US LLC with clean paperwork.
Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side. Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches.
Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything. Honest spreads during London open with EURUSD staying under 0.4 pips most of the window.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days. 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.
Firm respects their own posted rules which sounds trivial until you have been burned by one that did not.
Fine firm, nothing special, and after three months I probably could not tell you one thing it does better than competitors. Payout queue slowed noticeably in the second week of the month, which suggests they are matching payouts to their cash cycle. Phase one went smoothly on NQ scalps, but phase two targets felt tuned to force a few extra trading days of commissions.
After two years with another firm I switched over and the first payout here landed quicker than any of their last six. Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number.
Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied. Risk team let me reinstate after a FOMC breach because the simulator had misquoted the lockout window by 90 seconds.
Payout structure is 80 percent which is competitive, but you only move to 90 after your fifth payout, not your third as advertised in older posts. Portal has decent trade statistics but misses commission costs, so you have to export to CSV to see your real net. Risk desk is responsive within a few hours but the answers are often templated and do not address the specifics you asked.
Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes.
Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up. A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy.
Scaling plan triggered automatically after my third payout request, so I did not have to open a ticket.
Daily loss resets at midnight server time which is 7pm NY, meaning a bad close can bleed into the next session uncomfortably. 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.
Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed. Found a firm that calculates trailing drawdown on closed equity instead of floating equity, which fits my style.
Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements.
Finally hit a payout cycle where the processing time matched the time quoted in the contract.
Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved. Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit.
Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric.
Risk desk is responsive within a few hours but the answers are often templated and do not address the specifics you asked. A fine 50k challenge for the price, but the add-on 25k purchase doubles the effective profit target in ways not shown up front.
Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday. Allowed news trading on majors as long as I was already in the position before the release window.
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. EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding.
Journal integration syncs trades to a Notion template they publish, which saved me a weekend of plumbing. Reliable fills on futures contracts even in the first minute of the cash open, which is where I live or die. Payout invoice generated automatically for my LLC with the right business address pulled from KYC.
Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity. Hidden rule killed my funded account when they decided copy trading between my own two funded accounts was unauthorized. 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.
Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying. Scaling from a 25k account to a 100k allocation after three green months felt earned, not promotional.
Rules on EA usage are clear but the review takes a week, which is painful if you want to start on a Monday.
Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse. Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders.
Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up.
Three payouts of between $2k and $7k processed without a single clarifying email on my end. Finally found a firm where the swing account allows overnight holds on indices without a stealth closeout. Scaled across three accounts of 50k, 100k, and 200k simultaneously with a single consolidated payout statement each month.
Reasonable commission schedule on micro NQ at 50 cents per side meant I could actually scalp the 10 point moves profitably.
Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account. Allowed hedging between correlated futures contracts after a short call explaining what my mean reversion book looks like.
Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches.