Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches. Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
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. KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply.
Phase one went smoothly on NQ scalps, but phase two targets felt tuned to force a few extra trading days of commissions. Daily loss resets at midnight server time which is 7pm NY, meaning a bad close can bleed into the next session uncomfortably.
Account was disabled during an active payout request and the only notice I got was a cryptic email about risk review. Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window.
News trading rules are written in a single paragraph on their site, not scattered across six FAQ pages like elsewhere.
Scaling to 200k came with a letter from the risk team outlining what to avoid in the next cycle. Hit three months of consecutive payouts and the firm sent a 5 percent bump on my split as promised. Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session.
Dashboard showed wrong equity for an entire week after a platform update, and the risk team said the dashboard was advisory.
Account mirror feature lets me run my funded trades alongside a personal account one-to-one without a plug-in.
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.
Scaling criteria require consecutive profitable months, which is fine until a drawdown month resets the counter without 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.
Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number. Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit.
Scaling targets are moving goalposts in the sense that the next tier requirements change based on your current size, not posted up front. Risk desk is responsive within a few hours but the answers are often templated and do not address the specifics you asked.
Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere. Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150. Risk desk ignored my three appeals on a weekend hold that was explicitly allowed in the version of the rules I signed up under.
Risk desk ignored my three appeals on a weekend hold that was explicitly allowed in the version of the rules I signed up under. 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.
News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release. EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding.
Three payouts of between $2k and $7k processed without a single clarifying email on my end. Daily loss limit at 4 percent is tight but it kept me from revenge trading after a bad Monday.
Low commissions on NQ at $1.80 round-trip meant my scalping edge survived onto the funded account. My phase one target of eight percent took nine trading days and I never came within half of the daily loss limit.
Soft breach notice arrived in my inbox after a drawdown touch that my own broker and TradingView never registered on their feeds.
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. 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.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
Trailing drawdown stopped at my initial balance plus 10 percent, exactly as the contract described, so I knew where I stood. Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account.
Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair. Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes. Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit.
Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it.
Allowed overnight gold holds through CPI week provided I kept size below the news-trading cap, which was clear. Reasonable 10 percent profit target on the swing version made the lower drawdown feel like a tradeoff worth taking. KYC turnaround was under four hours on a weekday morning, which beat two competitors I had used before.
Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying. Payout invoice generated automatically for my LLC with the right business address pulled from KYC.
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. Honest about the trailing drawdown mechanics in the contract but their landing page glosses over the floating-equity aspect.
Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded. 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 breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse.
Spent a week reading the trailing drawdown explanation and once it clicked, risk management actually became simpler.
Journal integration syncs trades to a Notion template they publish, which saved me a weekend of plumbing. Add-on balance of 25k was credited the day after I requested it with the scaling fee I expected.
Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window. Soft breach notice arrived in my inbox after a drawdown touch that my own broker and TradingView never registered on their feeds.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy. Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved.
A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range. 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.
Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity.
Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit.
Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150.
EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding. Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
Added a 50k account on top of my existing 100k with no requirement to pass another evaluation first.
Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit.
Risk desk is responsive within a few hours but the answers are often templated and do not address the specifics you asked.
Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes. 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.
Finally found a firm where the swing account allows overnight holds on indices without a stealth closeout.
Rules are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard. 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.
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. Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight. Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side.
Spreads during the London open are fine but widen aggressively at the New York close, which hurt a few of my late scalps. Challenge was reasonable at the 50k tier but the reset fee of $89 after a near miss felt steep for a one-percent overshoot.
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. 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.
After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain.