Payout structure of 80 percent base and 90 percent after six requests actually incentivizes staying with them. Simulated feed on the evaluation account matched my broker's live feed close enough that my setups still worked. Reasonable 10 percent profit target on the swing version made the lower drawdown feel like a tradeoff worth taking.
Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches.
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.
Challenge was passable with a conservative swing approach on indices, not just high-frequency scalping.
Phase one took four days on their 100k challenge using ES contracts and I kept risk at 0.5 percent per trade.
After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain.
Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved.
Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed. Found a firm where the daily loss limit is calculated on closed equity only, which fits a trend-following swing style perfectly.
Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying. Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up. Scaled across three accounts of 50k, 100k, and 200k simultaneously with a single consolidated payout statement each month.
Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week. 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.
Risk desk is responsive within a few hours but the answers are often templated and do not address the specifics you asked. Consistency rule bit me when a single news day did 42 percent of my total profit and reduced my first payout accordingly. Fills on gold futures were decent during London but slipped noticeably in the thin Asian session right before Sydney open.
Payout invoice generated automatically for my LLC with the right business address pulled from KYC. Weekly consistency reports from the risk team actually helped me tighten my position sizing on NQ. Challenge was passable with a conservative swing approach on indices, not just high-frequency scalping.
Low commissions on NQ at $1.80 round-trip meant my scalping edge survived onto the funded account.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy. 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. 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.
A workable platform with one odd quirk: pending orders are not displayed on the trailing drawdown preview. Phase two was harder than described because the consistency rule is only enforced at the end, not during.
Platform fine for discretionary trading, but the journal integration misses copy-trade entries, which skews my stats.
Instant funding tier at 10k let me skip the two-phase evaluation and start trading futures the same evening.
Weekly consistency reports from the risk team actually helped me tighten my position sizing on NQ. Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements.
Reasonable firm overall but their marketing suggests a much better experience than you actually get at the funded account stage.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release. Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric. Suspended for a copy trading disclosure after I truthfully answered a question about whether I run a signal service on the side.
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 processor rejected my bank with no explanation and they offered no alternative beyond trying the same bank again next cycle.
Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week. After blowing one challenge on an EA I did not fully test, their 30 percent reset discount got me funded on attempt two. Low commissions on NQ at $1.80 round-trip meant my scalping edge survived onto the funded account.
News trading violation was never explained beyond a one-line notice; I was in the position 20 minutes before the release. 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.
Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere.
Reasonable minimum trading days of three let me take payouts on actual market weeks instead of forcing filler trades.
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. Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L.
Journal integration syncs trades to a Notion template they publish, which saved me a weekend of plumbing. Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything.
Mixed feelings on the trailing drawdown model since it locks at initial balance only once you hit a 10 percent profit buffer. Daily loss resets at midnight server time which is 7pm NY, meaning a bad close can bleed into the next session uncomfortably.
My EA was approved within one business day after I sent the backtest and the strategy description. Dashboard flagged my daily loss at 65 percent of the limit, which is a feature not a lecture.
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.
Trailing drawdown stopped at my initial balance plus 10 percent, exactly as the contract described, so I knew where I stood. Three payouts of between $2k and $7k processed without a single clarifying email on my end.
Challenge was reasonable at the 50k tier but the reset fee of $89 after a near miss felt steep for a one-percent overshoot.
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. Honest about the trailing drawdown mechanics in the contract but their landing page glosses over the floating-equity aspect.
After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front. Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit. Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders.
Consistency rule capped my best day at 35 percent of total profit and honestly it kept me from blowing up twice. Hedging between gold and the dollar index on their platform was allowed, which fit my macro-driven approach.
Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number. Scaled from 50k to 200k over four payout cycles and the scaling criteria were spelled out before I started.
EA review process is opaque and took eight days for a strategy that is honestly a simple moving average crossover. Challenge was reasonable at the 50k tier but the reset fee of $89 after a near miss felt steep for a one-percent overshoot. Portal shows pending payouts clearly but gives no estimated delivery window, so you refresh the page a lot.
Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes.
Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit. 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.
EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding. Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it. A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy.
Payout number four arrived two hours after I requested it, and the 90 percent split showed clearly on the statement.
Objective targets on both phases, no mystery metrics, no sudden consistency checks after I had already passed. After reading six prop firm comparisons I picked this one for the swing rules and have not regretted it.
Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window.
TradingView plug-in syncs orders without the usual two-second delay I had with another firm's bridge.
Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded. Risk desk ignored my three appeals on a weekend hold that was explicitly allowed in the version of the rules I signed up under.
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. Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders. Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days.
Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it.
Weekend hold rule was enforced retroactively on a Friday EURUSD position that I had held open since Tuesday without warning.
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.