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Matilda WilliamsVerified
Oct 14, 2026
Phase one passed in four days
Found a firm where the daily loss limit is calculated on closed equity only, which fits a trend-following swing style perfectly.
Found a firm where the daily loss limit is calculated on closed equity only, which fits a trend-following swing style perfectly.
Mediocre fills during CPI week where my NQ orders paid an extra three ticks of slippage versus my broker. Daily loss resets at midnight server time which is 7pm NY, meaning a bad close can bleed into the next session uncomfortably.
Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up.
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.
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.
Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit.
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. Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week.
Risk desk ignored my three appeals on a weekend hold that was explicitly allowed in the version of the rules I signed up under. Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere.
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. Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes.
Challenge was reasonable until I realized the 10 percent target in phase two includes commissions, not just gross P&L. Reasonable firm for day trading NQ but the overnight margin on ES futures is punitive compared to my broker.
Fast challenge turnaround with phase two unlocked within an hour of hitting the phase one target. Found a firm where the daily loss limit is calculated on closed equity only, which fits a trend-following swing style perfectly.
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.
A workable platform with one odd quirk: pending orders are not displayed on the trailing drawdown preview.
After two failed attempts elsewhere, their 25k evaluation finally felt winnable without stunt-sized risk. Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied.
Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150.
Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it.
Reasonable firm overall but their marketing suggests a much better experience than you actually get at the funded account stage. Trailing drawdown took me a week to properly understand because the documentation uses a different formula than the dashboard.
Risk desk sent me a short loom video on why my hedge was flagged and how to structure it next time. 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. Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved. Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit.
Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse.
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.
Account was disabled during an active payout request and the only notice I got was a cryptic email about risk review.
Rules documentation is a 14-page PDF, not a vibe, and every edge case I asked about was already in there.
Instant funding tier at 10k let me skip the two-phase evaluation and start trading futures the same evening. Consistency rule capped my best day at 35 percent of total profit and honestly it kept me from blowing up twice.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
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. Weekend hold rule was enforced retroactively on a Friday EURUSD position that I had held open since Tuesday without warning.
Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L. Hedge rule triggered a soft breach when I was not even hedging; I had two uncorrelated positions on different symbols. Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog.
Hidden rule killed my funded account when they decided copy trading between my own two funded accounts was unauthorized. Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair. Payout invoice went unanswered for 11 days after I provided the matching business details requested during KYC.
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.
Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere.
Reset of the evaluation after a bad day was processed in under three hours with the same account and the same promo code.
Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human. Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight.
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.
After pushing through three failed challenges elsewhere I finally cleared this one on the first try.
After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain.
Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit.
Allowed news trading on majors as long as I was already in the position before the release window. Payout denominated in USDC meant I did not lose four days to a wire bouncing through a correspondent bank.
Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything.
Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week.
Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week. 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. Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches.
Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded. Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog.
News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release. Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up. Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later.
Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up. KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply.
Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy. Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window.
Three payouts of between $2k and $7k processed without a single clarifying email on my end. Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up.
Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric.
Reliable fills on futures contracts even in the first minute of the cash open, which is where I live or die. Low commissions on NQ at $1.80 round-trip meant my scalping edge survived onto the funded account.
EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding.