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Fabien Aubert
Oct 16, 2026
Phase two targets inflated
Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog.
Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog.
Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat. Verification call was 12 minutes with a human who actually understood what a prop account is. Allowed EA use after a short review of my backtest, with a clear list of which parameters they cared about.
Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week.
Soft breach notice arrived in my inbox after a drawdown touch that my own broker and TradingView never registered on their feeds.
Risk desk explained that my breach was a stop placed inside the news window and showed me the server timestamp. Reliable execution during Fed days which is honestly the only test that matters for a futures scalper.
Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse. Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair.
Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed. Scaling from a 25k account to a 100k allocation after three green months felt earned, not promotional. After blowing one challenge on an EA I did not fully test, their 30 percent reset discount got me funded on attempt two.
Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit. Hidden rule killed my funded account when they decided copy trading between my own two funded accounts was unauthorized. Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded.
Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday.
Phase one at a 6 percent target is reasonable but the 10 percent trailing drawdown feels tighter than it should given the target. Rules clear enough but the execution lagged during a volatile ECB week where my orders filled a full pip off TradingView.
Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed. Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week. My EA was approved within one business day after I sent the backtest and the strategy description.
Consistency rule capped my best day at 35 percent of total profit and honestly it kept me from blowing up twice. After pushing through three failed challenges elsewhere I finally cleared this one on the first try.
Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied. Passed the 50k evaluation in six trading days using NQ scalps and the payout landed in my wallet within 48 hours.
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.
After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front. EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding.
Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account. Hit three months of consecutive payouts and the firm sent a 5 percent bump on my split as promised.
Rules are reasonable and the risk team is responsive, but the firm itself is small enough that you worry about payouts in a bad month. A slow but functional KYC process that took four business days for a straightforward US LLC with clean paperwork. Honestly, the challenge was fine, phase two was fine, the payout was fine, and nothing was better than fine anywhere.
EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding. Payout processor rejected my bank with no explanation and they offered no alternative beyond trying the same bank again next cycle. Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity.
Objective targets on both phases, no mystery metrics, no sudden consistency checks after I had already passed. Reasonable commission schedule on micro NQ at 50 cents per side meant I could actually scalp the 10 point moves profitably.
After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain. Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
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.
Account was disabled during an active payout request and the only notice I got was a cryptic email about risk review. Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150. News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release.
Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150.
Honest spreads during London open with EURUSD staying under 0.4 pips most of the window. Portal is actually usable on mobile, which matters when a daily loss alert pings during lunch.
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 closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight. Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders. Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L.
Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up. Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side.
Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit. Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded.
Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere.
Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved. Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human.
Risk team gave me a 10 minute call to explain why a weekend hold was risky even though technically allowed. Reset of the evaluation after a bad day was processed in under three hours with the same account and the same promo code. Fast challenge turnaround with phase two unlocked within an hour of hitting the phase one target.
My EA was approved within one business day after I sent the backtest and the strategy description. Journal integration syncs trades to a Notion template they publish, which saved me a weekend of plumbing. After two years with another firm I switched over and the first payout here landed quicker than any of their last six.
Simulated feed on the evaluation account matched my broker's live feed close enough that my setups still worked. Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements.
After pushing through three failed challenges elsewhere I finally cleared this one on the first try. Allowed overnight gold holds through CPI week provided I kept size below the news-trading cap, which was clear. Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied.
Platform fine for discretionary trading, but the journal integration misses copy-trade entries, which skews my stats.
Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account. Payout structure of 80 percent base and 90 percent after six requests actually incentivizes staying with them.
Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches. Payout invoice went unanswered for 11 days after I provided the matching business details requested during KYC.
Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying. Trailing drawdown stopped at my initial balance plus 10 percent, exactly as the contract described, so I knew where I stood.
Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number. Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
Challenge support of 24 hour live chat actually answered a question about trailing drawdown math at 2am before the Tokyo open. Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied.
Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements.
Decent risk desk but you have to escalate twice to get a senior reviewer, and the junior staff mostly read from a script. Platform choice is limited to the proprietary platform or MT5, which is fine until you want to run a TradingView-based alert bot. A moderately useful dashboard that shows your trailing drawdown but does not alert you when you cross a key threshold.
Passed the 50k evaluation in six trading days using NQ scalps and the payout landed in my wallet within 48 hours.
Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later. Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes.
Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything.
My phase one target of eight percent took nine trading days and I never came within half of the daily loss limit.
Payout denominated in USDC meant I did not lose four days to a wire bouncing through a correspondent bank.
Daily loss limit at 4 percent is tight but it kept me from revenge trading after a bad Monday.
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 desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight.
A slow but functional KYC process that took four business days for a straightforward US LLC with clean paperwork.