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Nikhil MukherjeeVerified
Oct 16, 2026
Challenge pricing was fair value
Honest spreads during London open with EURUSD staying under 0.4 pips most of the window.
Honest spreads during London open with EURUSD staying under 0.4 pips most of the window.
Allowed EA use after a short review of my backtest, with a clear list of which parameters they cared about.
Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight. Rules are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard. 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.
KYC took five days instead of the advertised 24 hours because they wanted a utility bill I did not have in my own name.
Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved. Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150.
Platform choice is limited to the proprietary platform or MT5, which is fine until you want to run a TradingView-based alert bot. Rules on EA usage are clear but the review takes a week, which is painful if you want to start on a Monday.
Spent a week reading the trailing drawdown explanation and once it clicked, risk management actually became simpler. Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed. Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday.
Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything. Finally hit a payout cycle where the processing time matched the time quoted in the contract.
Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday.
Added a 50k account on top of my existing 100k with no requirement to pass another evaluation first.
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 plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere.
Payout number four arrived two hours after I requested it, and the 90 percent split showed clearly on the statement. Honest about leverage limits of 1:30 on majors on the funded, which is actually sensible for the drawdown they offer.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed.
Payout invoice went unanswered for 11 days after I provided the matching business details requested during KYC. Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
Reasonable 10 percent profit target on the swing version made the lower drawdown feel like a tradeoff worth taking. Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up. Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed.
Challenge was passable with a conservative swing approach on indices, not just high-frequency scalping. 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.
Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied.
Scaling targets are moving goalposts in the sense that the next tier requirements change based on your current size, not posted up front. Decent risk desk but you have to escalate twice to get a senior reviewer, and the junior staff mostly read from a script.
Spread widening at news releases is sharper than their simulator suggested, which cost me the first phase on a payroll day. Challenge pacing felt rushed on the 30-day version and I would have preferred the unlimited time option they advertise elsewhere.
Clear escalation path on their support page meant my rule breach appeal reached a senior reviewer the same day.
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. Weekend hold rule was enforced retroactively on a Friday EURUSD position that I had held open since Tuesday without warning.
Reasonable minimum trading days of three let me take payouts on actual market weeks instead of forcing filler trades. Scaled across three accounts of 50k, 100k, and 200k simultaneously with a single consolidated payout statement each month.
Hit three months of consecutive payouts and the firm sent a 5 percent bump on my split as promised. Three payouts of between $2k and $7k processed without a single clarifying email on my end. Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied.
After pushing through three failed challenges elsewhere I finally cleared this one on the first try.
Hedging between gold and the dollar index on their platform was allowed, which fit my macro-driven approach. Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied. Added a 50k account on top of my existing 100k with no requirement to pass another evaluation first.
KYC turnaround was under four hours on a weekday morning, which beat two competitors I had used before. Found a firm where the daily loss limit is calculated on closed equity only, which fits a trend-following swing style perfectly.
Scaling to 200k came with a letter from the risk team outlining what to avoid in the next cycle. Allowed overnight gold holds through CPI week provided I kept size below the news-trading cap, which was clear.
Instant funding tier at 10k let me skip the two-phase evaluation and start trading futures the same evening. Reset of the evaluation after a bad day was processed in under three hours with the same account and the same promo code.
Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account. Clear escalation path on their support page meant my rule breach appeal reached a senior reviewer the same day.
Payout cycles can be requested every 14 days, which fit my strategy of swing holding through macro events rather than overnight scalping. After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30. Low commissions on NQ at $1.80 round-trip meant my scalping edge survived onto the funded account.
Low commissions on NQ at $1.80 round-trip meant my scalping edge survived onto the funded account.
Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it. Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity. A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy.
After two years with another firm I switched over and the first payout here landed quicker than any of their last six.
Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying. Passed the 50k evaluation in six trading days using NQ scalps and the payout landed in my wallet within 48 hours.
Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat. Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account.
Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number.
Phase one took four days on their 100k challenge using ES contracts and I kept risk at 0.5 percent per trade.
Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session.
Challenge support of 24 hour live chat actually answered a question about trailing drawdown math at 2am before the Tokyo open.
Finally found a firm where the swing account allows overnight holds on indices without a stealth closeout.
Fast challenge turnaround with phase two unlocked within an hour of hitting the phase one target. Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account. Scaling to 200k came with a letter from the risk team outlining what to avoid in the next cycle.
Trailing drawdown took me a week to properly understand because the documentation uses a different formula than the dashboard.
Second phase blew by in three sessions once I accepted their lot sizing rule as a sanity check. TradingView plug-in syncs orders without the usual two-second delay I had with another firm's bridge.
Scaling plan triggered automatically after my third payout request, so I did not have to open a ticket.
Reasonable commission schedule on micro NQ at 50 cents per side meant I could actually scalp the 10 point moves profitably.
Daily drawdown resets at exactly 5pm NY time and does not sneak forward on daylight savings weekends.
Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week. Dashboard flagged my daily loss at 65 percent of the limit, which is a feature not a lecture.
Scaling from a 25k account to a 100k allocation after three green months felt earned, not promotional.