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Connor Hughes
Oct 15, 2026
Rules change too often
Challenge pacing felt rushed on the 30-day version and I would have preferred the unlimited time option they advertise elsewhere.
Challenge pacing felt rushed on the 30-day version and I would have preferred the unlimited time option they advertise elsewhere.
Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up. Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L.
Instant funding tier at 10k let me skip the two-phase evaluation and start trading futures the same evening.
TradingView plug-in syncs orders without the usual two-second delay I had with another firm's bridge. After blowing one challenge on an EA I did not fully test, their 30 percent reset discount got me funded on attempt two.
Portal has decent trade statistics but misses commission costs, so you have to export to CSV to see your real net. Phase one at a 6 percent target is reasonable but the 10 percent trailing drawdown feels tighter than it should given the target.
Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L.
Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit.
Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side.
Trailing drawdown never stopped trailing even after I hit a 15 percent profit buffer, which is not what the contract page describes.
Rules are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard. Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity.
Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse.
Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding. Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse.
Account mirror feature lets me run my funded trades alongside a personal account one-to-one without a plug-in. Three payouts of between $2k and $7k processed without a single clarifying email on my end.
Dashboard showed wrong equity for an entire week after a platform update, and the risk team said the dashboard was advisory.
Trailing drawdown stopped at my initial balance plus 10 percent, exactly as the contract described, so I knew where I stood. Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session. Risk desk explained that my breach was a stop placed inside the news window and showed me the server timestamp.
Weekend holds are allowed on the swing version but blocked on the standard account with no obvious way to upgrade mid-cycle. 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.
News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release. Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair.
Scaling criteria require consecutive profitable months, which is fine until a drawdown month resets the counter without notice. Rules clear enough but the execution lagged during a volatile ECB week where my orders filled a full pip off TradingView.
After two failed attempts elsewhere, their 25k evaluation finally felt winnable without stunt-sized risk.
Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it. EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding.
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.
After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain. 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.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy. 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.
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 explained that my breach was a stop placed inside the news window and showed me the server timestamp. Reasonable 10 percent profit target on the swing version made the lower drawdown feel like a tradeoff worth taking.
Reasonable commission schedule on micro NQ at 50 cents per side meant I could actually scalp the 10 point moves profitably.
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. 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.
Weekly consistency reports from the risk team actually helped me tighten my position sizing on NQ. Hedging between gold and the dollar index on their platform was allowed, which fit my macro-driven approach.
Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday.
Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity. KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply.
Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed. Allowed hedging between correlated futures contracts after a short call explaining what my mean reversion book looks like.
Daily loss resets at midnight server time which is 7pm NY, meaning a bad close can bleed into the next session uncomfortably.
Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human. 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.
Reasonable minimum trading days of three let me take payouts on actual market weeks instead of forcing filler trades. Dashboard shows every tick of my drawdown live, which killed the anxiety of logging in each morning.
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. Trailing drawdown never stopped trailing even after I hit a 15 percent profit buffer, which is not what the contract page describes.
Scaling to 200k came with a letter from the risk team outlining what to avoid in the next cycle. Account mirror feature lets me run my funded trades alongside a personal account one-to-one without a plug-in.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release. Risk desk ignored my three appeals on a weekend hold that was explicitly allowed in the version of the rules I signed up under.
Objective targets on both phases, no mystery metrics, no sudden consistency checks after I had already passed.
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.
Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog. Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse.
Three month payout streak intact and the firm added a new 500k tier that I actually qualify for.
Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse.
Honest spreads during London open with EURUSD staying under 0.4 pips most of the window. Hit three months of consecutive payouts and the firm sent a 5 percent bump on my split as promised.
Platform froze at FOMC for seven minutes and my stop never triggered, which pushed me past the daily loss limit by a hair. After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain. Hidden rule killed my funded account when they decided copy trading between my own two funded accounts was unauthorized.
Risk desk emailed me a chart showing exactly where my trailing drawdown stood, which I have not seen anywhere else. Allowed EA use after a short review of my backtest, with a clear list of which parameters they cared about. 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. Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying.
Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window.