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Mark DonovanVerified
Oct 15, 2026
Hedging allowed without penalty
Hedging between gold and the dollar index on their platform was allowed, which fit my macro-driven approach.
Hedging between gold and the dollar index on their platform was allowed, which fit my macro-driven approach.
EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding. Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150.
Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric. Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved.
Risk team gave me a 10 minute call to explain why a weekend hold was risky even though technically allowed.
Scaling plan triggered automatically after my third payout request, so I did not have to open a ticket. Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied. Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat.
Spreads during the London open are fine but widen aggressively at the New York close, which hurt a few of my late scalps.
Added a 50k account on top of my existing 100k with no requirement to pass another evaluation first. Lot sizing cap was tied to a percent of balance, not a fixed number, which actually scales with the account.
Dashboard shows every tick of my drawdown live, which killed the anxiety of logging in each morning. Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat. Simulated feed on the evaluation account matched my broker's live feed close enough that my setups still worked.
Trailing drawdown stopped at my initial balance plus 10 percent, exactly as the contract described, so I knew where I stood.
Reasonable commission schedule on micro NQ at 50 cents per side meant I could actually scalp the 10 point moves profitably. Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week. Account mirror feature lets me run my funded trades alongside a personal account one-to-one without a plug-in.
Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human. Scaling plan is marketing fiction; after my second payout they added a six-month holding requirement that was not posted anywhere.
Payout invoice generated automatically for my LLC with the right business address pulled from KYC. Daily loss limit at 4 percent is tight but it kept me from revenge trading after a bad Monday.
Hidden rule killed my funded account when they decided copy trading between my own two funded accounts was unauthorized. 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.
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.
Daily drawdown resets at exactly 5pm NY time and does not sneak forward on daylight savings weekends. Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up.
Account was disabled during an active payout request and the only notice I got was a cryptic email about risk review. Dashboard showed wrong equity for an entire week after a platform update, and the risk team said the dashboard was advisory.
Payout number four arrived two hours after I requested it, and the 90 percent split showed clearly on the statement. After five payouts the firm bumped my base split to 85 percent and extended the maximum trading days by 30.
Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse. 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. 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.
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.
After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front. 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. Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit.
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.
Payout denominated in USDC meant I did not lose four days to a wire bouncing through a correspondent bank.
Weekly payouts land every Thursday and I have not had to chase a single one for status updates. Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying.
Journal integration syncs trades to a Notion template they publish, which saved me a weekend of plumbing.
Scaling from a 25k account to a 100k allocation after three green months felt earned, not promotional. Daily drawdown resets at exactly 5pm NY time and does not sneak forward on daylight savings weekends.
Payout cycles can be requested every 14 days, which fit my strategy of swing holding through macro events rather than overnight scalping. Reliable fills on futures contracts even in the first minute of the cash open, which is where I live or die. Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up.
Trailing drawdown never stopped trailing even after I hit a 15 percent profit buffer, which is not what the contract page describes. Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog. Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders.
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.
Trader portal shows pending payouts, cleared payouts, and the exact scaling trigger I need to hit next. TradingView plug-in syncs orders without the usual two-second delay I had with another firm's bridge.
Hedge rule triggered a soft breach when I was not even hedging; I had two uncorrelated positions on different symbols. Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes. Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded.
Running a copy trading mirror between my personal and funded accounts was approved after a short compliance call.
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.
Found a firm that calculates trailing drawdown on closed equity instead of floating equity, which fits my style. Payout invoice generated automatically for my LLC with the right business address pulled from KYC.
Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week. Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight.
Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later.
Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit.
Pro trader discount of 20 percent on the 200k evaluation was honored after I sent two prior payout statements.
Rules themselves are reasonable but they have changed three times during my funded account, which makes planning harder.
Phase one at a 6 percent target is reasonable but the 10 percent trailing drawdown feels tighter than it should given the target. Trailing drawdown took me a week to properly understand because the documentation uses a different formula than the dashboard.
After two years with another firm I switched over and the first payout here landed quicker than any of their last six.
Challenge was passable with a conservative swing approach on indices, not just high-frequency scalping.
Risk desk explained that my breach was a stop placed inside the news window and showed me the server timestamp. Trailing drawdown stopped at my initial balance plus 10 percent, exactly as the contract described, so I knew where I stood.
Scaling plan is clear on paper, but in practice the firm adds a verification trade requirement that is not mentioned up front. 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.
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.
Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes. Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release.
Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number.
Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150. Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week.
Dashboard showed wrong equity for an entire week after a platform update, and the risk team said the dashboard was advisory. Hedge rule triggered a soft breach when I was not even hedging; I had two uncorrelated positions on different symbols.
After reading six prop firm comparisons I picked this one for the swing rules and have not regretted it. Reasonable 10 percent profit target on the swing version made the lower drawdown feel like a tradeoff worth taking.