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. Account was disabled during an active payout request and the only notice I got was a cryptic email about risk review.
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. Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
Spreads during the London open are fine but widen aggressively at the New York close, which hurt a few of my late scalps.
Portal has decent trade statistics but misses commission costs, so you have to export to CSV to see your real net. Portal supports two-factor auth but the backup codes system is clunky and I locked myself out for a day during a payout.
Profit split was quietly reduced from 90 percent to 80 percent for new payouts and the policy update was only on their blog. 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. Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded.
Fast challenge turnaround with phase two unlocked within an hour of hitting the phase one target. Payout number four arrived two hours after I requested it, and the 90 percent split showed clearly on the statement.
After blowing one challenge on an EA I did not fully test, their 30 percent reset discount got me funded on attempt two.
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.
Nothing on the funded account matches the sales page, from the stated commissions to the actual time it takes to reach a human. Phase two targets were inflated by a hidden consistency check that calculates on daily P&L rather than cumulative P&L. 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.
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. Hedge rule triggered a soft breach when I was not even hedging; I had two uncorrelated positions on different symbols.
Allowed EA use after a short review of my backtest, with a clear list of which parameters they cared about. Allowed news trading on majors as long as I was already in the position before the release window.
Payout number four arrived two hours after I requested it, and the 90 percent split showed clearly on the statement. Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week. Hit three months of consecutive payouts and the firm sent a 5 percent bump on my split as promised.
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. 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. Minimum trading days moved up from three to five after I had already structured my strategy around the posted number.
A pending order on gold was treated as a filled position for drawdown purposes, which is nowhere in the written risk policy. Reset refund never arrived after I canceled within the 7-day window; three support tickets later it is still unresolved. 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.
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.
Rules changed mid-challenge when they introduced a new consistency rule and backdated it two weeks, invalidating my phase two profit. Rules are buried in footnotes and a separate operations manual you can only find linked inside the funded account dashboard.
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.
Finally a prop firm where the risk team explains what you did wrong instead of just closing the account. Weekly payouts land every Thursday and I have not had to chase a single one for status updates.
Weekend hold rule was enforced retroactively on a Friday EURUSD position that I had held open since Tuesday without warning. Rules on consistency were applied inconsistently to me and three friends on the same firm with the same strategy and different outcomes.
Support chat is bots only, and getting a human requires emailing a specific inbox that answers in two to five business days. Payout denominated in a stablecoin that the processor cannot actually settle to Coinbase or Kraken, so my funds sat for a week.
Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse.
Workable platform, workable rules, but the overall feel is that you are a cost center rather than a counterparty. Daily loss resets at midnight server time which is 7pm NY, meaning a bad close can bleed into the next session uncomfortably. Trailing drawdown took me a week to properly understand because the documentation uses a different formula than the dashboard.
Live feed is off from TradingView by one tick at random, which is enough to trigger a stop that should not have been hit. EA was flagged as a prohibited strategy with no warning, despite me having submitted the backtest during the funded onboarding. Trailing drawdown never stopped trailing even after I hit a 15 percent profit buffer, which is not what the contract page describes.
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.
Scaling plan is clear on paper, but in practice the firm adds a verification trade requirement that is not mentioned up front. Rules themselves are reasonable but they have changed three times during my funded account, which makes planning harder.
Soft breach notice arrived in my inbox after a drawdown touch that my own broker and TradingView never registered on their feeds.
After passing the challenge in six days they held my funded account for a 14 day review period that was not disclosed up front. A random weekend overnight gap on EURJPY tripped a soft breach even though my stop was placed inside the allowed range. Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it.
Phase two was harder than described because the consistency rule is only enforced at the end, not during.
Rules forbid news trading but the news calendar they publish misses roughly one in five scheduled central bank speeches.
Payout denied on a technicality about not having two trading days with at least one trade each inside the payout window.
Payout cleared in two days, which is fine, but the dashboard still showed it as pending for 36 hours after the funds arrived.
Hidden rule killed my funded account when they decided copy trading between my own two funded accounts was unauthorized. Account was breached by a stale quote on a weekend gap that the risk team acknowledged was abnormal but refused to reverse. After requesting a payout of just over $5000 they sent an additional KYC request for a notarized document that cost me $85 to obtain.
Profit target was hit comfortably with a mean reversion strategy on EURUSD during the New York session. Finally found a firm where the swing account allows overnight holds on indices without a stealth closeout.
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. 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. Dashboard goes down for maintenance during random overnight sessions, usually right when the Tokyo open volatility picks up.
Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release. 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. Risk desk closed my account over a swap charge on a Thursday swing position that pushed drawdown by $12 for 20 seconds overnight. Payout was cut by 25 percent without explanation beyond a vague reference to a consistency metric that is not disclosed to traders.
Spreads differ noticeably from the simulator version used during the evaluation; my scalping edge did not survive onto the funded.
Risk desk explained that my breach was a stop placed inside the news window and showed me the server timestamp.
EA review process is opaque and took eight days for a strategy that is honestly a simple moving average crossover. Challenge was reasonable until I realized the 10 percent target in phase two includes commissions, not just gross P&L.
Scaling was frozen without reason even though I had hit the posted targets, and I am still waiting on a response two weeks later. Daily loss was calculated using floating equity down to the tick, including spreads at the exact moment of a news release. 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. Weekly consistency reports from the risk team actually helped me tighten my position sizing on NQ.
Phase one was clean, phase two was clean, and the funded account was live before the end of that same week. Fast challenge turnaround with phase two unlocked within an hour of hitting the phase one target. Reliable execution during Fed days which is honestly the only test that matters for a futures scalper.
Trailing drawdown killed my funded account at 2am when an Asian spike hit floating equity for 90 seconds and the dashboard never showed it. Dashboard showed me at 2 percent daily loss when the risk team said I was at 4.9 percent, and they went with their 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.
Scaling trigger at 10 percent profit plus two payouts was clearly posted on the dashboard the day I signed up.
Portal shows pending payouts clearly but gives no estimated delivery window, so you refresh the page a lot. Mixed feelings on the trailing drawdown model since it locks at initial balance only once you hit a 10 percent profit buffer.
Journal export from their portal to CSV meant I could run my own stats without rebuilding anything.
Scaled from 50k to 200k over four payout cycles and the scaling criteria were spelled out before I started.
KYC turnaround was under four hours on a weekday morning, which beat two competitors I had used before.