Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity. Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week.
TradingView plug-in syncs orders without the usual two-second delay I had with another firm's bridge.
Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed.
Challenge support of 24 hour live chat actually answered a question about trailing drawdown math at 2am before the Tokyo open.
Fine firm, nothing special, and after three months I probably could not tell you one thing it does better than competitors. Phase one at a 6 percent target is reasonable but the 10 percent trailing drawdown feels tighter than it should given the target. Portal looks like it was designed in 2015 but the actual information you need is there once you learn where to click.
Hedge rule triggered a soft breach when I was not even hedging; I had two uncorrelated positions on different symbols.
Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side.
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. Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded.
Scaled across three accounts of 50k, 100k, and 200k simultaneously with a single consolidated payout statement each month.
My EA was approved within one business day after I sent the backtest and the strategy description. My phase one target of eight percent took nine trading days and I never came within half of the daily loss limit.
Daily drawdown resets at exactly 5pm NY time and does not sneak forward on daylight savings weekends. Reliable execution during Fed days which is honestly the only test that matters for a futures scalper. Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up.
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.
Payout processor rejected my bank with no explanation and they offered no alternative beyond trying the same bank again next cycle.
KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply.
Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches.
Honest spreads during London open with EURUSD staying under 0.4 pips most of the window. Portal is actually usable on mobile, which matters when a daily loss alert pings during lunch.
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.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved. Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window. 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.
Scaled from 50k to 200k over four payout cycles and the scaling criteria were spelled out before I started.
Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes.
Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number.
Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150. After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain. Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
Dashboard showed wrong equity for an entire week after a platform update, and the risk team said the dashboard was advisory.
Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window. Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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. 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.
Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up. Found a firm where the daily loss limit is calculated on closed equity only, which fits a trend-following swing style perfectly.
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.
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.
Simulated feed on the evaluation account matched my broker's live feed close enough that my setups still worked. After pushing through three failed challenges elsewhere I finally cleared this one on the first try.
Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders. Dashboard showed wrong equity for an entire week after a platform update, and the risk team said the dashboard was advisory. After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain.
EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding.
News trading rules are written in a single paragraph on their site, not scattered across six FAQ pages like elsewhere. After reading six prop firm comparisons I picked this one for the swing rules and have not regretted it.
Weekly payouts land every Thursday and I have not had to chase a single one for status updates. Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed. Reasonable commission schedule on micro NQ at 50 cents per side meant I could actually scalp the 10 point moves profitably.
Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded. Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
Payout number four arrived two hours after I requested it, and the 90 percent split showed clearly on the statement. Finally hit a payout cycle where the processing time matched the time quoted in the contract. Reinstated an account that was flagged for a late news trade after I sent timestamps and the risk team agreed.
After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain.
Soft breach notice arrived in my inbox after a drawdown touch that my own broker and TradingView never registered on their feeds. Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog. 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.
Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human.
Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere. Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later.
My phase one target of eight percent took nine trading days and I never came within half of the daily loss limit. After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30.
Dashboard shows every tick of my drawdown live, which killed the anxiety of logging in each morning. Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session.
A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range.
Scaling plan triggered automatically after my third payout request, so I did not have to open a ticket. Scaling to 200k came with a letter from the risk team outlining what to avoid in the next cycle.
Finally hit a payout cycle where the processing time matched the time quoted in the contract. Simulated feed on the evaluation account matched my broker's live feed close enough that my setups still worked.
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.