Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human. Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit.
Rules are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard.
Phase one is practically unreachable with their spreads on majors, which are 1.3 pips at the London open versus the 0.6 their marketing shows. Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later.
Daily drawdown resets at exactly 5pm NY time and does not sneak forward on daylight savings weekends. Finally hit a payout cycle where the processing time matched the time quoted in the contract.
Firm respects their own posted rules which sounds trivial until you have been burned by one that did not. Risk desk sent me a short loom video on why my hedge was flagged and how to structure it next time.
Weekly payouts land every Thursday and I have not had to chase a single one for status updates.
After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front.
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.
EA review process is opaque and took eight days for a strategy that is honestly a simple moving average crossover. Honest about the trailing drawdown mechanics in the contract but their landing page glosses over the floating-equity aspect. Risk desk is responsive within a few hours but the answers are often templated and do not address the specifics you asked.
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. A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse. Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric.
Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat. Payout structure of 80 percent base and 90 percent after six requests actually incentivizes staying with them.
Rules themselves are reasonable but they have changed three times during my funded account, which makes planning harder. EA review process is opaque and took eight days for a strategy that is honestly a simple moving average crossover.
A slow but functional KYC process that took four business days for a straightforward US LLC with clean paperwork. Rules themselves are reasonable but they have changed three times during my funded account, which makes planning harder. Rules on EA usage are clear but the review takes a week, which is painful if you want to start on a Monday.
Passed the 50k evaluation in six trading days using NQ scalps and the payout landed in my wallet within 48 hours. Three payouts of between $2k and $7k processed without a single clarifying email on my end.
Clear escalation path on their support page meant my rule breach appeal reached a senior reviewer the same day. Reasonable commission schedule on micro NQ at 50 cents per side meant I could actually scalp the 10 point moves profitably.
Challenge support of 24 hour live chat actually answered a question about trailing drawdown math at 2am before the Tokyo open. Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account.
A workable platform with one odd quirk: pending orders are not displayed on the trailing drawdown preview. Rules are reasonable and the risk team is responsive, but the firm itself is small enough that you worry about payouts in a bad month.
Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up. Risk desk explained that my breach was a stop placed inside the news window and showed me the server timestamp.
Spent a week reading the trailing drawdown explanation and once it clicked, risk management actually became simpler. Verification call was 12 minutes with a human who actually understood what a prop account is.
After pushing through three failed challenges elsewhere I finally cleared this one on the first try.
Second phase blew by in three sessions once I accepted their lot sizing rule as a sanity check.
Risk team gave me a 10 minute call to explain why a weekend hold was risky even though technically allowed.
Dashboard shows every tick of my drawdown live, which killed the anxiety of logging in each morning.
Payout invoice generated automatically for my LLC with the right business address pulled from KYC. Scaled across three accounts of 50k, 100k, and 200k simultaneously with a single consolidated payout statement each month.
Instant funding tier at 10k let me skip the two-phase evaluation and start trading futures the same evening. Simulated feed on the evaluation account matched my broker's live feed close enough that my setups still worked.
Risk desk ignored my three appeals on a weekend hold that was explicitly allowed in the version of the rules I signed up under.
News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release. Risk desk ignored my three appeals on a weekend hold that was explicitly allowed in the version of the rules I signed up under. Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight.
Three month payout streak intact and the firm added a new 500k tier that I actually qualify for. My EA was approved within one business day after I sent the backtest and the strategy description.
Running a copy trading mirror between my personal and funded accounts was approved after a short compliance call.
Objective targets on both phases, no mystery metrics, no sudden consistency checks after I had already passed.
After blowing one challenge on an EA I did not fully test, their 30 percent reset discount got me funded on attempt two. Risk team gave me a 10 minute call to explain why a weekend hold was risky even though technically allowed. Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number.
Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account. Daily drawdown resets at exactly 5pm NY time and does not sneak forward on daylight savings weekends.
After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30.
Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied.
Allowed hedging between correlated futures contracts after a short call explaining what my mean reversion book looks like.
Risk desk sent me a short loom video on why my hedge was flagged and how to structure it next time. After two failed attempts elsewhere, their 25k evaluation finally felt winnable without stunt-sized risk.
Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight.
Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed. Fast challenge turnaround with phase two unlocked within an hour of hitting the phase one target. My EA was approved within one business day after I sent the backtest and the strategy description.
Portal is actually usable on mobile, which matters when a daily loss alert pings during lunch.
Finally found a firm where the swing account allows overnight holds on indices without a stealth closeout. Payout invoice generated automatically for my LLC with the right business address pulled from KYC.
Decent for day traders only, since the swing version has a lower drawdown and a higher profit target that cancel each other out. Phase two was harder than described because the consistency rule is only enforced at the end, not during.
Rules documentation is a 14-page PDF, not a vibe, and every edge case I asked about was already in there. Found a firm that calculates trailing drawdown on closed equity instead of floating equity, which fits my style.
KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply. A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range. 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.
Hedging between gold and the dollar index on their platform was allowed, which fit my macro-driven approach. Allowed hedging between correlated futures contracts after a short call explaining what my mean reversion book looks like.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy.
Trailing drawdown stopped at my initial balance plus 10 percent, exactly as the contract described, so I knew where I stood. Risk desk emailed me a chart showing exactly where my trailing drawdown stood, which I have not seen anywhere else.
Weekend holds are allowed on the swing version but blocked on the standard account with no obvious way to upgrade mid-cycle. Honestly, the challenge was fine, phase two was fine, the payout was fine, and nothing was better than fine anywhere. A slow but functional KYC process that took four business days for a straightforward US LLC with clean paperwork.
Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit.