Weekend hold rule was enforced retroactively on a Friday EURUSD position that I had held open since Tuesday without warning. After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain.
Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders. Rules are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard.
Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up. Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week.
Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying. Account mirror feature lets me run my funded trades alongside a personal account one-to-one without a plug-in.
Reliable execution during Fed days which is honestly the only test that matters for a futures scalper. Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied.
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. Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight.
Average experience overall with no major complaints but also nothing I would call out as better than three other firms I have used. Spread markup on majors is around half a pip, which is tolerable for swing but hard to overcome for scalping sub-10 pip targets. Fine firm, nothing special, and after three months I probably could not tell you one thing it does better than competitors.
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 cycles can be requested every 14 days, which fit my strategy of swing holding through macro events rather than overnight scalping.
Honest spreads during London open with EURUSD staying under 0.4 pips most of the window. Scaling plan triggered automatically after my third payout request, so I did not have to open a ticket.
Portal has decent trade statistics but misses commission costs, so you have to export to CSV to see your real net. EA review process is opaque and took eight days for a strategy that is honestly a simple moving average crossover. Average experience overall with no major complaints but also nothing I would call out as better than three other firms I have used.
Instant funding tier at 10k let me skip the two-phase evaluation and start trading futures the same evening. After reading six prop firm comparisons I picked this one for the swing rules and have not regretted it. Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat.
Risk desk explained that my breach was a stop placed inside the news window and showed me the server timestamp. Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed.
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. After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front. Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number.
Payout invoice went unanswered for 11 days after I provided the matching business details requested during KYC.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy. Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes.
Mediocre fills during CPI week where my NQ orders paid an extra three ticks of slippage versus my broker. Risk desk is responsive within a few hours but the answers are often templated and do not address the specifics you asked.
Rules on EA usage are clear but the review takes a week, which is painful if you want to start on a Monday.
Weekly payouts land every Thursday and I have not had to chase a single one for status updates. Challenge support of 24 hour live chat actually answered a question about trailing drawdown math at 2am before the Tokyo open. Instant funding tier at 10k let me skip the two-phase evaluation and start trading futures the same evening.
After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front. 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.
Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit.
Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number.
After blowing one challenge on an EA I did not fully test, their 30 percent reset discount got me funded on attempt two. News trading rules are written in a single paragraph on their site, not scattered across six FAQ pages like elsewhere.
Clear escalation path on their support page meant my rule breach appeal reached a senior reviewer the same day.
Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches. Dashboard showed wrong equity for an entire week after a platform update, and the risk team said the dashboard was advisory. Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight.
Trader portal shows pending payouts, cleared payouts, and the exact scaling trigger I need to hit next.
Challenge is priced like a scam at $249 for a 50k account when competitors offer the same product for under $150. Spreads doubled at every scheduled release, turning what should have been a 2 pip trade into a 5 pip trade with no recourse.
Phase one at a 6 percent target is reasonable but the 10 percent trailing drawdown feels tighter than it should given the target.
Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week.
Scaled from 50k to 200k over four payout cycles and the scaling criteria were spelled out before I started.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days. Hidden rule killed my funded account when they decided copy trading between my own two funded accounts was unauthorized.
Reasonable commission schedule on micro NQ at 50 cents per side meant I could actually scalp the 10 point moves profitably. Reliable fills on futures contracts even in the first minute of the cash open, which is where I live or die. Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed.
Mixed feelings on the trailing drawdown model since it locks at initial balance only once you hit a 10 percent profit buffer. A slow but functional KYC process that took four business days for a straightforward US LLC with clean paperwork. Mediocre fills during CPI week where my NQ orders paid an extra three ticks of slippage versus my broker.
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. Challenge was reasonable until I realized the 10 percent target in phase two includes commissions, not just gross P&L. Portal supports two-factor auth but the backup codes system is clunky and I locked myself out for a day during a payout.
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. Portal shows pending payouts clearly but gives no estimated delivery window, so you refresh the page a lot.
Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed.
Verification call was 12 minutes with a human who actually understood what a prop account is.
Fast challenge turnaround with phase two unlocked within an hour of hitting the phase one target.
KYC was stuck for three weeks because my passport photo had a glare, and support kept sending the same automated reply. Account was closed one week after I passed phase two, with an email saying I had violated an undisclosed internal risk metric. 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.
Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account. Risk desk explained that my breach was a stop placed inside the news window and showed me the server timestamp.
Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number. 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. Fills were missing on my evaluation account for an entire session and the firm said the dropped orders were my local connectivity.
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. Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L.
Scaling targets are moving goalposts in the sense that the next tier requirements change based on your current size, not posted up front. Payout cleared in two days, which is fine, but the dashboard still showed it as pending for 36 hours after the funds arrived. Challenge pacing felt rushed on the 30-day version and I would have preferred the unlimited time option they advertise elsewhere.
EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding. Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human.
Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded.
Journal integration syncs trades to a Notion template they publish, which saved me a weekend of plumbing. After pushing through three failed challenges elsewhere I finally cleared this one on the first try. Dashboard flagged my daily loss at 65 percent of the limit, which is a feature not a lecture.
Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat.
Risk desk emailed me a chart showing exactly where my trailing drawdown stood, which I have not seen anywhere else. After two years with another firm I switched over and the first payout here landed quicker than any of their last six.
Rules are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard.