Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account. Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed. After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30.
Fine firm, nothing special, and after three months I probably could not tell you one thing it does better than competitors.
Portal supports two-factor auth but the backup codes system is clunky and I locked myself out for a day during a payout. Instant funding tier at 10k feels thin once you realize the trailing drawdown is 4 percent and the profit target is 8 percent.
Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere. Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human.
My EA was approved within one business day after I sent the backtest and the strategy description. Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy. 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 are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard.
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.
Mixed feelings on the trailing drawdown model since it locks at initial balance only once you hit a 10 percent profit buffer. 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.
Daily loss resets at midnight server time which is 7pm NY, meaning a bad close can bleed into the next session uncomfortably. Challenge was reasonable until I realized the 10 percent target in phase two includes commissions, not just gross P&L. Decent risk desk but you have to escalate twice to get a senior reviewer, and the junior staff mostly read from a script.
Reinstated an account that was flagged for a late news trade after I sent timestamps and the risk team agreed. Allowed hedging between correlated futures contracts after a short call explaining what my mean reversion book looks like.
Dashboard flagged my daily loss at 65 percent of the limit, which is a feature not a lecture. Consistency rule capped my best day at 35 percent of total profit and honestly it kept me from blowing up twice.
After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30.
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. Payout processor rejected my bank with no explanation and they offered no alternative beyond trying the same bank again next cycle. 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.
Payout structure of 80 percent base and 90 percent after six requests actually incentivizes staying with them.
Instant funding tier at 10k let me skip the two-phase evaluation and start trading futures the same evening. Firm respects their own posted rules which sounds trivial until you have been burned by one that did not.
Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session. After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30. Clear escalation path on their support page meant my rule breach appeal reached a senior reviewer the same day.
Scaling from a 25k account to a 100k allocation after three green months felt earned, not promotional. Reasonable minimum trading days of three let me take payouts on actual market weeks instead of forcing filler trades.
KYC took five days instead of the advertised 24 hours because they wanted a utility bill I did not have in my own name.
Spread widening at news releases is sharper than their simulator suggested, which cost me the first phase on a payroll day. Scaling plan is clearly written but requires you to maintain a specific win rate, which is a strange ask for strategies that depend on big winners.
Rules documentation is a 14-page PDF, not a vibe, and every edge case I asked about was already in there. Reliable execution during Fed days which is honestly the only test that matters for a futures scalper. 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 on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday. After blowing one challenge on an EA I did not fully test, their 30 percent reset discount got me funded on attempt two.
Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window.
Scaling to 200k came with a letter from the risk team outlining what to avoid in the next cycle.
Phase one took four days on their 100k challenge using ES contracts and I kept risk at 0.5 percent per trade. Objective targets on both phases, no mystery metrics, no sudden consistency checks after I had already passed.
Payout processor rejected my bank with no explanation and they offered no alternative beyond trying the same bank again next cycle.
News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release. Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L.
Simulated feed on the evaluation account matched my broker's live feed close enough that my setups still worked.
Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity. Soft breach notice arrived in my inbox after a drawdown touch that my own broker and TradingView never registered on their feeds.
Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements. Three payouts of between $2k and $7k processed without a single clarifying email on my end. Scaled across three accounts of 50k, 100k, and 200k simultaneously with a single consolidated payout statement each month.
Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse. Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week.
Scaled from 50k to 200k over four payout cycles and the scaling criteria were spelled out before I started. Payout structure of 80 percent base and 90 percent after six requests actually incentivizes staying with them. Passed the 50k evaluation in six trading days using NQ scalps and the payout landed in my wallet within 48 hours.
Soft breach notice arrived in my inbox after a drawdown touch that my own broker and TradingView never registered on their feeds. Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric.
Allowed hedging between correlated futures contracts after a short call explaining what my mean reversion book looks like.
EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding. Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog.
Allowed news trading on majors as long as I was already in the position before the release window. Hit three months of consecutive payouts and the firm sent a 5 percent bump on my split as promised. 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.
TradingView plug-in syncs orders without the usual two-second delay I had with another firm's bridge.
Found a firm where the daily loss limit is calculated on closed equity only, which fits a trend-following swing style perfectly. Risk desk emailed me a chart showing exactly where my trailing drawdown stood, which I have not seen anywhere else.
Spent a week reading the trailing drawdown explanation and once it clicked, risk management actually became simpler. Instant funding tier at 10k let me skip the two-phase evaluation and start trading futures the same evening.
Challenge was passable with a conservative swing approach on indices, not just high-frequency scalping. Reliable fills on futures contracts even in the first minute of the cash open, which is where I live or die. Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements.
Hedging between gold and the dollar index on their platform was allowed, which fit my macro-driven approach.
Trailing drawdown never stopped trailing even after I hit a 15 percent profit buffer, which is not what the contract page describes. 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. 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.
Reasonable commission schedule on micro NQ at 50 cents per side meant I could actually scalp the 10 point moves profitably. After two years with another firm I switched over and the first payout here landed quicker than any of their last six. Risk desk sent me a short loom video on why my hedge was flagged and how to structure it next time.
Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it.
Firm respects their own posted rules which sounds trivial until you have been burned by one that did not. Dashboard shows every tick of my drawdown live, which killed the anxiety of logging in each morning. Allowed overnight gold holds through CPI week provided I kept size below the news-trading cap, which was clear.
Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
Risk desk emailed me a chart showing exactly where my trailing drawdown stood, which I have not seen anywhere else.
Reasonable 10 percent profit target on the swing version made the lower drawdown feel like a tradeoff worth taking. Found a firm where the daily loss limit is calculated on closed equity only, which fits a trend-following swing style perfectly. Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number.