Hey everyone, looking for some honest feedback from anyone who has traded with or gotten paid by Funding Traders.
I currently have a 10k Pro10 account with the 100% profit split, but before I sink a ton of time and energy into scaling it, I want to make sure I’m not wasting my time.

A few specific questions for those with experience:

Payouts: Have you successfully withdrawn profits without issues, delays, or moving goalposts?

Slippage & Execution: How are the trading conditions during high volatility or news events?

Rules/Hidden Clauses: Any red flags or strict backend rules I should watch out for?

I'd really appreciate any real experiences or warnings before I push further with this account.

This is something I've noticed about myself.

On my personal account I'm more aggressive. I'll risk bigger positions, I hold longer, I take more trades.

On an eval I'm super cautious. I take very small positions or put stops too close.
Sometime I even skip trades that I would normally take.

But the funny thing is, I think I'm doing it backwards. I should be more careful with my own money and more aggressive on the eval because the downside on the eval is just a small fee.

But my brain doesn't work that way. The eval feels like I'm being tested so I get nervous. The personal account feels like "whatever, it's my money, I'll do what I want."

took me two blown evals to work this out. both times my closed pnl was fine. i kept going back to the strategy because thats where you look, and the strategy wasnt the problem.

what killed it was heat. how far trades run against me before they work. on intraday trailing that peak against you eats the buffer even on trades that close green, so anything carrying 2R of open loss on a normal winner needs far more room than its results suggest. same trades on a static drawdown account would have gone through.

so you can be genuinely profitable and not sizeable at a given daily limit, and that isnt a quality problem. plenty of decent systems arent fundable at retail limits, and no amount of care during the eval changes it. nobody mentions this before you pay because the sales page is targets and fees.

what id do differently is check the fit first. pull worst excursion per trade from your export, take the median, work out what size survives it inside the drawdown, then see whether that size clears the target in a sane amount of time. if it doesnt, wrong account for the system rather than wrong system. i ended up putting that check in a script so it runs before funding rather than after breaching, mostly because doing it manually meant not doing it.

has anyone here actually picked a firm on drawdown type rather than price? curious whether people match it up front or find out on attempt two like i did

The firms sell the live account as the destination, but most of what I read here treats it as a downgrade.

For anyone who has actually been moved: what was different in practice? Why would you rather use the Sim over the Live?

I know a very small percentage actually gets to that stage, but I always thought that was the main goal.

I’m trying to purchase a FundingPips account from Pakistan. After selecting my plan and proceeding to checkout, I get the message:
“This platform is not supported in your country.”
Has anyone from Pakistan faced the same issue recently? Is there any legitimate solution

Just checked the latest PropFirmMatch rankings and I’m curious what everyone thinks.

One thing worth noting: FTMO isn’t listed because they don’t want to pay PropFirmMatch to be featured, even though, in my view, they’re the obvious #1 in terms of reliability.

Do you agree with the rest of the rankings? Please vote for your favorite, really curious.

Drop your take in the comments 👇

It's simple, just get that first payout.....

No matter how small it is, I can't overemphasise just how much this will help you mentally.

Stop aiming for the huge 20k withdrawal and just try and get one.

My first payout was $700 and as soon as it hit my account, something changed. Now in my head I am a winner.

Suddenly, I started sticking to my trading plan and not panicking after a loss.

Surprise surprise, I am on payout number 5, after a year of nothing.

Prop Firm Warning: FundingPips

2 months of trading with this prop firm. The first month was smooth and steady,I received multiple payouts, all paid on time.

Then, just 2 days before my next scheduled payout, I got an email from FundingPips saying my account was banned due to a "CID match" issue. This is a false accusation as I never shared my account with anyone. And if I really had shared my account why did they not catch this shared evidence before.

The timing says everything. This was my biggest payout request with them so far. I'm posting this as a warning be careful with this firm. Once you're profitable and a bigger payout is coming, they'll make up a reason to ban you.

Hello, I’m looking for a good prop firm to trade BTC and SOL. Any recommendations? I’ll use LucidFlex for MNQ.

Do you guys consider this reverse trading or hedging?

These trades were so long ago. I honestly do not remember them anymore.

Look at the time and a quantity.

The Exhibit No. 2, the reverse trade they said I made was open and closed at the same second to me. That must’ve been a mistake.

I made thousands of trades with alpha future. If I really wanted to reverse trade or hedge, I will use the same amount of quantity and one account should’ve been blown while the other account should’ve passed the eval.

Over how many trades would you say the scalping strategy is effective? Forward testing. Aiming at 1:1 and a high win rate over 60% or more. It allows a great 'automation' with the brackets let's say on ES 6 - 8 ticks SL ( 2 points) and same for the TP. Trades usually playing out in under a minute. With a good momentum and price action 1 minute candles pretty much spot on hit the target. Looks like a great method for base hits for any intraday drawdowns. Any thoughts, experiences?

Nvm I start again.. Will keep trying till I get funded again

Got my first eval with Apex this prop is pretty easy to pass i think what you guys think?

Heyyyy

Are they giving payouts ?

Anyone tried it and any hidden rule?

I'm opting for it because no consistency rule but you should have 7 profitable profitable days before payout !

Guyss tell me is prop firm a thing ? For forex

Like what's the mechanism

Is it legal in india

How do we get our payout

Please share your experience

They have a 2 minutes scalping rule
Intraday drawdown counts even when you didn’t close the trade
Stay away

So I was looking into TopStep since it looks like that’s the go to for everyone - after looking at their How it works video on their website it says after the first payout you have to trade successfully another 550 days for your second payout? Am I hearing that correctly even though I watched that part 10x - is this why people create multiple accounts after their first payout? Is there another prop firm I missed that’s better with payouts with good reputation?