EA
Emily AlexanderVerified
Oct 16, 2026
Account grew after two scales
Hit three months of consecutive payouts and the firm sent a 5 percent bump on my split as promised.
Hit three months of consecutive payouts and the firm sent a 5 percent bump on my split as promised.
Honest spreads during London open with EURUSD staying under 0.4 pips most of the window. Payout invoice generated automatically for my LLC with the right business address pulled from KYC. Allowed hedging between correlated futures contracts after a short call explaining what my mean reversion book looks like.
Journal integration syncs trades to a Notion template they publish, which saved me a weekend of plumbing.
Reset of the evaluation after a bad day was processed in under three hours with the same account and the same promo code. Spent a week reading the trailing drawdown explanation and once it clicked, risk management actually became simpler. My phase one target of eight percent took nine trading days and I never came within half of the daily loss limit.
Payout structure of 80 percent base and 90 percent after six requests actually incentivizes staying with them. Reliable execution during Fed days which is honestly the only test that matters for a futures scalper. Trailing drawdown stopped at my initial balance plus 10 percent, exactly as the contract described, so I knew where I stood.
Three month payout streak intact and the firm added a new 500k tier that I actually qualify for. Passed the 50k evaluation in six trading days using NQ scalps and the payout landed in my wallet within 48 hours. Verification call was 12 minutes with a human who actually understood what a prop account is.
Three payouts of between $2k and $7k processed without a single clarifying email on my end. Honest spreads during London open with EURUSD staying under 0.4 pips most of the window.
Phase one took four days on their 100k challenge using ES contracts and I kept risk at 0.5 percent per trade.
Running a copy trading mirror between my personal and funded accounts was approved after a short compliance call.
Risk team let me reinstate after a FOMC breach because the simulator had misquoted the lockout window by 90 seconds.
Allowed news trading on majors as long as I was already in the position before the release window. Second attempt finally funded after I slowed down and treated the phase one target as a soft number.
Objective targets on both phases, no mystery metrics, no sudden consistency checks after I had already passed.
Added a 50k account on top of my existing 100k with no requirement to pass another evaluation first.
Add-on balance of 25k was credited the day after I requested it with the scaling fee I expected.
After blowing one challenge on an EA I did not fully test, their 30 percent reset discount got me funded on attempt two. Honest about leverage limits of 1:30 on majors on the funded, which is actually sensible for the drawdown they offer.
Scaling to 200k came with a letter from the risk team outlining what to avoid in the next cycle. Verification call was 12 minutes with a human who actually understood what a prop account is.
Reliable execution during Fed days which is honestly the only test that matters for a futures scalper. Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account.
Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account. Found a firm that calculates trailing drawdown on closed equity instead of floating equity, which fits my style.
Daily drawdown resets at exactly 5pm NY time and does not sneak forward on daylight savings weekends.
Reasonable minimum trading days of three let me take payouts on actual market weeks instead of forcing filler trades. Allowed overnight gold holds through CPI week provided I kept size below the news-trading cap, which was clear. Scaled from 50k to 200k over four payout cycles and the scaling criteria were spelled out before I started.
Decent risk desk but you have to escalate twice to get a senior reviewer, and the junior staff mostly read from a script. Trailing drawdown took me a week to properly understand because the documentation uses a different formula than the dashboard. 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.
Firm respects their own posted rules which sounds trivial until you have been burned by one that did not.
Fast challenge turnaround with phase two unlocked within an hour of hitting the phase one target. Account mirror feature lets me run my funded trades alongside a personal account one-to-one without a plug-in. Second phase blew by in three sessions once I accepted their lot sizing rule as a sanity check.
Scaled to a 400k allocation after six months, and the fee rebate for consistent payouts was quietly applied. Allowed news trading on majors as long as I was already in the position before the release window. Reliable fills on futures contracts even in the first minute of the cash open, which is where I live or die.
Weekly payouts land every Thursday and I have not had to chase a single one for status updates. My phase one target of eight percent took nine trading days and I never came within half of the daily loss limit.
Consistency rule capped my best day at 35 percent of total profit and honestly it kept me from blowing up twice. Reliable fills on futures contracts even in the first minute of the cash open, which is where I live or die.
Allowed hedging between correlated futures contracts after a short call explaining what my mean reversion book looks like.
Honest execution on the proprietary platform with time and sales matching what my charts showed. Scaling from a 25k account to a 100k allocation after three green months felt earned, not promotional.
Dashboard flagged my daily loss at 65 percent of the limit, which is a feature not a lecture.
Risk desk sent me a short loom video on why my hedge was flagged and how to structure it next time.
Low commissions on NQ at $1.80 round-trip meant my scalping edge survived onto the funded account.
Weekend holds on EURUSD swings were honored every single Friday without a surprise closeout email on Monday. Finally found a firm where the swing account allows overnight holds on indices without a stealth closeout. After two years with another firm I switched over and the first payout here landed quicker than any of their last six.
Honest about leverage limits of 1:30 on majors on the funded, which is actually sensible for the drawdown they offer. Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session.
Weekly consistency reports from the risk team actually helped me tighten my position sizing on NQ. Allowed hedging between correlated futures contracts after a short call explaining what my mean reversion book looks like.
KYC turnaround was under four hours on a weekday morning, which beat two competitors I had used before. Smooth evaluation, smooth funding, smooth payouts across three cycles with the same account manager replying. Consistency rule capped my best day at 35 percent of total profit and honestly it kept me from blowing up twice.
Challenge pricing at $179 for the 50k felt fair when I compared it against three competitors I had already failed.
Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes.
Reasonable commission schedule on micro NQ at 50 cents per side meant I could actually scalp the 10 point moves profitably.
Spread markup on majors is around half a pip, which is tolerable for swing but hard to overcome for scalping sub-10 pip targets. Platform choice is limited to the proprietary platform or MT5, which is fine until you want to run a TradingView-based alert bot.
Risk desk explained that my breach was a stop placed inside the news window and showed me the server timestamp.
Allowed overnight gold holds through CPI week provided I kept size below the news-trading cap, which was clear.
Finally found a firm where the swing account allows overnight holds on indices without a stealth closeout. Clear escalation path on their support page meant my rule breach appeal reached a senior reviewer the same day. Objective targets on both phases, no mystery metrics, no sudden consistency checks after I had already passed.
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.
Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight. Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it.
Daily loss limit at 4 percent is tight but it kept me from revenge trading after a bad Monday. Reasonable 10 percent profit target on the swing version made the lower drawdown feel like a tradeoff worth taking. Risk team gave me a 10 minute call to explain why a weekend hold was risky even though technically allowed.
Challenge discount from a legitimate affiliate was applied cleanly without me having to argue in support chat.
Payout denominated in USDC meant I did not lose four days to a wire bouncing through a correspondent bank.
Rules documentation is a 14-page PDF, not a vibe, and every edge case I asked about was already in there.
My phase one target of eight percent took nine trading days and I never came within half of the daily loss limit. Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything. Risk desk emailed me a chart showing exactly where my trailing drawdown stood, which I have not seen anywhere else.
Payout cycles can be requested every 14 days, which fit my strategy of swing holding through macro events rather than overnight scalping.