Account was disabled during an active payout request and the only notice I got was a cryptic email about risk review. A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range. Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
Scaling to 200k came with a letter from the risk team outlining what to avoid in the next cycle. Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying.
Payout processor options are limited to wire or stablecoin and the wire fee of $35 bites small withdrawals noticeably.
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. KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply.
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. Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number. Weekend hold rule was enforced retroactively on a Friday EURUSD position that I had held open since Tuesday without warning.
Payout structure is 80 percent which is competitive, but you only move to 90 after your fifth payout, not your third as advertised in older posts. Instant funding tier at 10k feels thin once you realize the trailing drawdown is 4 percent and the profit target is 8 percent. A moderately useful dashboard that shows your trailing drawdown but does not alert you when you cross a key threshold.
Hedge rule triggered a soft breach when I was not even hedging; I had two uncorrelated positions on different symbols.
Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed. Allowed overnight gold holds through CPI week provided I kept size below the news-trading cap, which was clear.
Running a copy trading mirror between my personal and funded accounts was approved after a short compliance call.
After pushing through three failed challenges elsewhere I finally cleared this one on the first try. Honest about leverage limits of 1:30 on majors on the funded, which is actually sensible for the drawdown they offer. Add-on balance of 25k was credited the day after I requested it with the scaling fee I expected.
Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat.
Daily drawdown resets at exactly 5pm NY time and does not sneak forward on daylight savings weekends. Weekly payouts land every Thursday and I have not had to chase a single one for status updates. Trailing drawdown stopped at my initial balance plus 10 percent, exactly as the contract described, so I knew where I stood.
News trading rules are written in a single paragraph on their site, not scattered across six FAQ pages like elsewhere.
Spread markup on majors is around half a pip, which is tolerable for swing but hard to overcome for scalping sub-10 pip targets.
Dashboard flagged my daily loss at 65 percent of the limit, which is a feature not a lecture. Added a 50k account on top of my existing 100k with no requirement to pass another evaluation first.
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. 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. Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side.
Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse. 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.
Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human. Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy.
Weekend hold rule was enforced retroactively on a Friday EURUSD position that I had held open since Tuesday without warning. 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.
My phase one target of eight percent took nine trading days and I never came within half of the daily loss limit.
Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches. Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere. After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front.
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.
Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements. After reading six prop firm comparisons I picked this one for the swing rules and have not regretted it.
Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday.
Payout structure of 80 percent base and 90 percent after six requests actually incentivizes staying with them.
Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
Finally found a firm where the swing account allows overnight holds on indices without a stealth closeout. After two failed attempts elsewhere, their 25k evaluation finally felt winnable without stunt-sized risk. Account mirror feature lets me run my funded trades alongside a personal account one-to-one without a plug-in.
Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150.
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.
News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release. Trailing drawdown never stopped trailing even after I hit a 15 percent profit buffer, which is not what the contract page describes. EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding.
Decent risk desk but you have to escalate twice to get a senior reviewer, and the junior staff mostly read from a script. Honest about the trailing drawdown mechanics in the contract but their landing page glosses over the floating-equity aspect.
Risk desk emailed me a chart showing exactly where my trailing drawdown stood, which I have not seen anywhere else. Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday.
Weekend holds are allowed on the swing version but blocked on the standard account with no obvious way to upgrade mid-cycle. Fine firm, nothing special, and after three months I probably could not tell you one thing it does better than competitors. Risk desk is responsive within a few hours but the answers are often templated and do not address the specifics you asked.
Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded. EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding.
A workable platform with one odd quirk: pending orders are not displayed on the trailing drawdown preview. Challenge was reasonable at the 50k tier but the reset fee of $89 after a near miss felt steep for a one-percent overshoot.
Dashboard showed wrong equity for an entire week after a platform update, and the risk team said the dashboard was advisory. Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse.
Daily loss limit at 4 percent is tight but it kept me from revenge trading after a bad Monday.
Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week.
Dashboard shows every tick of my drawdown live, which killed the anxiety of logging in each morning.
Passed the 50k evaluation in six trading days using NQ scalps and the payout landed in my wallet within 48 hours. Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week.
Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed. Reliable fills on futures contracts even in the first minute of the cash open, which is where I live or die. Firm respects their own posted rules which sounds trivial until you have been burned by one that did not.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying.
Reasonable commission schedule on micro NQ at 50 cents per side meant I could actually scalp the 10 point moves profitably. Simulated feed on the evaluation account matched my broker's live feed close enough that my setups still worked. Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release. 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. 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.
Simulated feed on the evaluation account matched my broker's live feed close enough that my setups still worked. Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up. Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat.
Rules documentation is a 14-page PDF, not a vibe, and every edge case I asked about was already in there. Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number. Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account.
After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30. Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements.
Payout cleared in two days, which is fine, but the dashboard still showed it as pending for 36 hours after the funds arrived. KYC took five days instead of the advertised 24 hours because they wanted a utility bill I did not have in my own name.