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Samuel ShawVerified
Oct 15, 2026
Lot sizing rules are sensible
After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30.
After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30.
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. EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding.
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.
Reliable execution during Fed days which is honestly the only test that matters for a futures scalper.
Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere. Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair. Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150.
After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front.
News trading window is a tight two-minute lockout, but it extends to five minutes on CPI releases without any prior notice.
Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later. 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.
Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved. Account was disabled during an active payout request and the only notice I got was a cryptic email about risk review. 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 reset was still charged to my card after I had been told via chat that it would be waived for a verified payment issue.
Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric.
Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human. Rules are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard.
Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it. Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit.
Trailing drawdown never stopped trailing even after I hit a 15 percent profit buffer, which is not what the contract page describes.
Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number. Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
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. Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side. Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric.
EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding. News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release. A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy.
Soft breach notice arrived in my inbox after a drawdown touch that my own broker and TradingView never registered on their feeds. Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later.
Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse. Payout processor rejected my bank with no explanation and they offered no alternative beyond trying the same bank again next cycle.
Rules themselves are reasonable but they have changed three times during my funded account, which makes planning harder. Decent for day traders only, since the swing version has a lower drawdown and a higher profit target that cancel each other out.
Rules on EA usage are clear but the review takes a week, which is painful if you want to start on a Monday.
Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L.
Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything. Hedging between gold and the dollar index on their platform was allowed, which fit my macro-driven approach.
Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session. Allowed hedging between correlated futures contracts after a short call explaining what my mean reversion book looks like.
After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain. 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.
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.
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. 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. A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range.
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.
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.
Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair. Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
Account was disabled during an active payout request and the only notice I got was a cryptic email about risk review.
Three month payout streak intact and the firm added a new 500k tier that I actually qualify for.
KYC turnaround was under four hours on a weekday morning, which beat two competitors I had used before. Journal integration syncs trades to a Notion template they publish, which saved me a weekend of plumbing.
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. Risk desk explained that my breach was a stop placed inside the news window and showed me the server timestamp.
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.
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.
A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range.
Allowed hedging between correlated futures contracts after a short call explaining what my mean reversion book looks like.
Found a firm that calculates trailing drawdown on closed equity instead of floating equity, which fits my style.
KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply.
Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number. Hedge rule triggered a soft breach when I was not even hedging; I had two uncorrelated positions on different symbols.
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. 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.
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. Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit. News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release.
Rules are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard. KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply. Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week.
Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight. 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.