Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later. EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding.
Dashboard showed wrong equity for an entire week after a platform update, and the risk team said the dashboard was advisory. Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed.
Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse. Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human.
Added a 50k account on top of my existing 100k with no requirement to pass another evaluation first. Fast challenge turnaround with phase two unlocked within an hour of hitting the phase one target.
Payout denominated in USDC meant I did not lose four days to a wire bouncing through a correspondent bank. Account mirror feature lets me run my funded trades alongside a personal account one-to-one without a plug-in. Payout cycles can be requested every 14 days, which fit my strategy of swing holding through macro events rather than overnight scalping.
Payout invoice went unanswered for 11 days after I provided the matching business details requested during KYC. After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front.
Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied.
Spread widening at news releases is sharper than their simulator suggested, which cost me the first phase on a payroll day.
KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply. 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. After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front.
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. Hidden rule killed my funded account when they decided copy trading between my own two funded accounts was unauthorized.
Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair. Weekend hold rule was enforced retroactively on a Friday EURUSD position that I had held open since Tuesday without warning.
Objective targets on both phases, no mystery metrics, no sudden consistency checks after I had already passed. Honest about leverage limits of 1:30 on majors on the funded, which is actually sensible for the drawdown they offer.
Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat.
Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number. Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded.
Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric.
Account was disabled during an active payout request and the only notice I got was a cryptic email about risk review. Hedge rule triggered a soft breach when I was not even hedging; I had two uncorrelated positions on different symbols.
Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week.
Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L. 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 completely routine daily loss touch on a Wednesday was flagged as a hard breach because of a dashboard sync delay to the risk team.
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.
Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human.
Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit. Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair.
Risk team gave me a 10 minute call to explain why a weekend hold was risky even though technically allowed. Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week. Finally hit a payout cycle where the processing time matched the time quoted in the contract.
Challenge was reasonable at the 50k tier but the reset fee of $89 after a near miss felt steep for a one-percent overshoot.
Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded.
Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it. Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders.
Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side. Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L. A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range.
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.
Risk team let me reinstate after a FOMC breach because the simulator had misquoted the lockout window by 90 seconds.
Scaled across three accounts of 50k, 100k, and 200k simultaneously with a single consolidated payout statement each month. My EA was approved within one business day after I sent the backtest and the strategy description.
Trailing drawdown never stopped trailing even after I hit a 15 percent profit buffer, which is not what the contract page describes. Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week. Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved.
Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches. Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it. Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit.
Passed the 50k evaluation in six trading days using NQ scalps and the payout landed in my wallet within 48 hours. Clear escalation path on their support page meant my rule breach appeal reached a senior reviewer the same day. Trailing drawdown stopped at my initial balance plus 10 percent, exactly as the contract described, so I knew where I stood.
Risk desk emailed me a chart showing exactly where my trailing drawdown stood, which I have not seen anywhere else. Dashboard shows every tick of my drawdown live, which killed the anxiety of logging in each morning.
Rules are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard.
Payout number four arrived two hours after I requested it, and the 90 percent split showed clearly on the statement. Portal is actually usable on mobile, which matters when a daily loss alert pings during lunch. Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything.
Running a copy trading mirror between my personal and funded accounts was approved after a short compliance call.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy. 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 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 breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse. 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.
Reasonable minimum trading days of three let me take payouts on actual market weeks instead of forcing filler trades.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
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. Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight. Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit.
Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere.
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.
Payout processor rejected my bank with no explanation and they offered no alternative beyond trying the same bank again next cycle. KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply.
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.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days. Payout processor rejected my bank with no explanation and they offered no alternative beyond trying the same bank again next cycle.
Daily drawdown resets at exactly 5pm NY time and does not sneak forward on daylight savings weekends. Hedging between gold and the dollar index on their platform was allowed, which fit my macro-driven approach.
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.
Portal has decent trade statistics but misses commission costs, so you have to export to CSV to see your real net.