Three month payout streak intact and the firm added a new 500k tier that I actually qualify for. After two years with another firm I switched over and the first payout here landed quicker than any of their last six.
Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L. Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number. Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity.
Scaling to 200k came with a letter from the risk team outlining what to avoid in the next cycle. Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything. Payout invoice generated automatically for my LLC with the right business address pulled from KYC.
After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30. Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session.
Consistency rule capped my best day at 35 percent of total profit and honestly it kept me from blowing up twice. Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account.
Low commissions on NQ at $1.80 round-trip meant my scalping edge survived onto the funded account.
Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse.
Allowed overnight gold holds through CPI week provided I kept size below the news-trading cap, which was clear. Add-on balance of 25k was credited the day after I requested it with the scaling fee I expected.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days. 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.
EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding. Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders.
Found a firm that calculates trailing drawdown on closed equity instead of floating equity, which fits my style.
Dashboard showed wrong equity for an entire week after a platform update, and the risk team said the dashboard was advisory.
Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved. 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.
Verification call was 12 minutes with a human who actually understood what a prop account is.
Second phase blew by in three sessions once I accepted their lot sizing rule as a sanity check.
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. 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.
Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit. Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side. Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week.
Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week. Low commissions on NQ at $1.80 round-trip meant my scalping edge survived onto the funded account.
A completely routine daily loss touch on a Wednesday was flagged as a hard breach because of a dashboard sync delay to the risk team. Dashboard showed wrong equity for an entire week after a platform update, and the risk team said the dashboard was advisory.
Risk team let me reinstate after a FOMC breach because the simulator had misquoted the lockout window by 90 seconds. Risk desk emailed me a chart showing exactly where my trailing drawdown stood, which I have not seen anywhere else. Reliable fills on futures contracts even in the first minute of the cash open, which is where I live or die.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy. After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain.
Reasonable minimum trading days of three let me take payouts on actual market weeks instead of forcing filler trades. Found a firm that calculates trailing drawdown on closed equity instead of floating equity, which fits my style. Fast challenge turnaround with phase two unlocked within an hour of hitting the phase one target.
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. Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity. Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window.
Risk desk sent me a short loom video on why my hedge was flagged and how to structure it next time.
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. Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release. Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later.
Fine firm, nothing special, and after three months I probably could not tell you one thing it does better than competitors. A workable platform with one odd quirk: pending orders are not displayed on the trailing drawdown preview.
Hedge rule triggered a soft breach when I was not even hedging; I had two uncorrelated positions on different symbols.
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.
Passed the 50k evaluation in six trading days using NQ scalps and the payout landed in my wallet within 48 hours. My EA was approved within one business day after I sent the backtest and the strategy description.
Account was disabled during an active payout request and the only notice I got was a cryptic email about risk review. Payout invoice went unanswered for 11 days after I provided the matching business details requested during KYC.
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.
Spent a week reading the trailing drawdown explanation and once it clicked, risk management actually became simpler. 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.
Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session.
Payout invoice generated automatically for my LLC with the right business address pulled from KYC. Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account.
Finally hit a payout cycle where the processing time matched the time quoted in the contract. Three payouts of between $2k and $7k processed without a single clarifying email on my end. Risk desk sent me a short loom video on why my hedge was flagged and how to structure it next time.
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. Phase one went smoothly on NQ scalps, but phase two targets felt tuned to force a few extra trading days of commissions.
Running a copy trading mirror between my personal and funded accounts was approved after a short compliance call.
Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog. Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150. 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.
Daily drawdown resets at exactly 5pm NY time and does not sneak forward on daylight savings weekends. Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday.
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.
Hidden rule killed my funded account when they decided copy trading between my own two funded accounts was unauthorized. 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.
Payout queue slowed noticeably in the second week of the month, which suggests they are matching payouts to their cash cycle.
Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric. Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
Reasonable firm for day trading NQ but the overnight margin on ES futures is punitive compared to my broker. Honestly, the challenge was fine, phase two was fine, the payout was fine, and nothing was better than fine anywhere.
Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window. Rules are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard.
Hedging between gold and the dollar index on their platform was allowed, which fit my macro-driven approach. Trader portal shows pending payouts, cleared payouts, and the exact scaling trigger I need to hit next.
Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements.
Account mirror feature lets me run my funded trades alongside a personal account one-to-one without a plug-in. Reasonable minimum trading days of three let me take payouts on actual market weeks instead of forcing filler trades. Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account.
Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account. My phase one target of eight percent took nine trading days and I never came within half of the daily loss limit.