Firm respects their own posted rules which sounds trivial until you have been burned by one that did not. Scaling from a 25k account to a 100k allocation after three green months felt earned, not promotional.
Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight. After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front.
After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30. Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed.
Platform choice is limited to the proprietary platform or MT5, which is fine until you want to run a TradingView-based alert bot. 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 criteria require consecutive profitable months, which is fine until a drawdown month resets the counter without notice.
Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying. Trader portal shows pending payouts, cleared payouts, and the exact scaling trigger I need to hit next.
Daily drawdown resets at exactly 5pm NY time and does not sneak forward on daylight savings weekends.
Account mirror feature lets me run my funded trades alongside a personal account one-to-one without a plug-in. Running a copy trading mirror between my personal and funded accounts was approved after a short compliance call.
Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account.
Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number.
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. Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair. Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later.
Challenge was passable with a conservative swing approach on indices, not just high-frequency scalping.
Scaling to 200k came with a letter from the risk team outlining what to avoid in the next cycle. Reasonable 10 percent profit target on the swing version made the lower drawdown feel like a tradeoff worth taking. Scaled across three accounts of 50k, 100k, and 200k simultaneously with a single consolidated payout statement each month.
Portal has decent trade statistics but misses commission costs, so you have to export to CSV to see your real net. Scaling plan is clear on paper, but in practice the firm adds a verification trade requirement that is not mentioned up front. Instant funding tier at 10k feels thin once you realize the trailing drawdown is 4 percent and the profit target is 8 percent.
After blowing one challenge on an EA I did not fully test, their 30 percent reset discount got me funded on attempt two.
Hedge rule triggered a soft breach when I was not even hedging; I had two uncorrelated positions on different symbols. 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.
Trailing drawdown never stopped trailing even after I hit a 15 percent profit buffer, which is not what the contract page describes.
Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements.
Added a 50k account on top of my existing 100k with no requirement to pass another evaluation first. Risk desk explained that my breach was a stop placed inside the news window and showed me the server timestamp. Reasonable 10 percent profit target on the swing version made the lower drawdown feel like a tradeoff worth taking.
Clear escalation path on their support page meant my rule breach appeal reached a senior reviewer the same day.
Objective targets on both phases, no mystery metrics, no sudden consistency checks after I had already passed.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days. 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.
Allowed news trading on majors as long as I was already in the position before the release window. Scaled from 50k to 200k over four payout cycles and the scaling criteria were spelled out before I started.
Portal looks like it was designed in 2015 but the actual information you need is there once you learn where to click. Mediocre futures routing meant my NQ fills were a tick worse than my personal account during Fed days, which added up.
Risk team let me reinstate after a FOMC breach because the simulator had misquoted the lockout window by 90 seconds. Finally hit a payout cycle where the processing time matched the time quoted in the contract.
Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150.
Running a copy trading mirror between my personal and funded accounts was approved after a short compliance call. Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat.
Hedging between gold and the dollar index on their platform was allowed, which fit my macro-driven approach.
Phase one took four days on their 100k challenge using ES contracts and I kept risk at 0.5 percent per trade. Honest spreads during London open with EURUSD staying under 0.4 pips most of the window. Dashboard shows every tick of my drawdown live, which killed the anxiety of logging in each morning.
Trader portal shows pending payouts, cleared payouts, and the exact scaling trigger I need to hit next. Verification call was 12 minutes with a human who actually understood what a prop account is.
Three payouts of between $2k and $7k processed without a single clarifying email on my end.
After two failed attempts elsewhere, their 25k evaluation finally felt winnable without stunt-sized risk.
Three month payout streak intact and the firm added a new 500k tier that I actually qualify for.
Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything.
Payout structure of 80 percent base and 90 percent after six requests actually incentivizes staying with them.
Payout cycles can be requested every 14 days, which fit my strategy of swing holding through macro events rather than overnight scalping. Risk desk sent me a short loom video on why my hedge was flagged and how to structure it next time.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy. Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
Payout invoice went unanswered for 11 days after I provided the matching business details requested during KYC. 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.
Journal integration syncs trades to a Notion template they publish, which saved me a weekend of plumbing.
Rules documentation is a 14-page PDF, not a vibe, and every edge case I asked about was already in there.
A moderately useful dashboard that shows your trailing drawdown but does not alert you when you cross a key threshold.
Payout denominated in USDC meant I did not lose four days to a wire bouncing through a correspondent bank. Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session. Found a firm that calculates trailing drawdown on closed equity instead of floating equity, which fits my style.
Reasonable firm for day trading NQ but the overnight margin on ES futures is punitive compared to my broker.
Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat. Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed.
Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week. Add-on balance of 25k was credited the day after I requested it with the scaling fee I expected. Dashboard flagged my daily loss at 65 percent of the limit, which is a feature not a lecture.
Daily loss limit at 4 percent is tight but it kept me from revenge trading after a bad Monday.
Finally hit a payout cycle where the processing time matched the time quoted in the contract. Challenge support of 24 hour live chat actually answered a question about trailing drawdown math at 2am before the Tokyo open.
Scaled across three accounts of 50k, 100k, and 200k simultaneously with a single consolidated payout statement each month. Portal is actually usable on mobile, which matters when a daily loss alert pings during lunch. Honest spreads during London open with EURUSD staying under 0.4 pips most of the window.
Hidden rule killed my funded account when they decided copy trading between my own two funded accounts was unauthorized.
After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain. Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side. KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply.