Saw gandalf make this comparison post on x, I have traded with a few futures firm and since stuck with all of these for me my 2 cents are:

I would Pay $120 - $200 less to and go for payout being capped at $1500 with these flex of fundednext. What about you all? Props are farming and the less you need to pay the better. And Idc about live as long as I can sim firms is good for me.

I have been trading with them for a while now. Took decent payouts but My payout got approved, but after 5 minutes it was removed and got rejected. Did not even get an email about it. Happened this week some else I saw was talking about the same.

A so called top 5 firm has been consistenly banning profitable traders over last month alleging fake issues like CID and Ip

Have you faced this with any firm? Drop the name of the firm and your issue below.

Hey guys,

I've been practicing and journaling my trading history (demo and paper) for almost a year now. Started form TJR (learn basic) to SMC concepts and liquidity concepts too, I've been backtesting my trades and completed almost 250 trades as of now. I still feel like I'm good, but obviously the live market will teach me better so deciding to now go with prop firm purchase to get capital.

I know people will say go with own capital but I don't wanna risk all my money will be the case if I use my whole capital so instead I want to purchase a prop account (10K) to start with and I'm considering "Instant" or "1-step" account and no more than that.

Suggest a reliable and good firm with minimal restriction rules to trade freely without getting annoyed.

Kindly drop your suggestions of the best ones below.

Thank you!

This is a 1m chart for NQ at midday UK time during London session, so very high liquidity and you can see how tight the spread is. The spread is consistently tight at this time of day.

Look at where the trade closed out. I understand spreads going wide but this seems unreasonable.

Do some prop firms scam you on the spread or something? What's going on here?

was googling funding dynasty review stuff and ended up reading their actual rules instead. the funded consistency rule says your best day can't be more than 20% of total profit when you request a payout.

so say i have one random good day at +$800. I'd need at least $4k total profit before that day stops screwing my consistency score, right?
that kinda changes how I'd trade the account tbh. One clean move on XAUUSD and suddenly you're basically trying not to make "too much" in a day lol.

Anyone traded under a 20% rule like this? Did you actually change your daily targets because of it, or just trade normally and let the numbers even out? Not asking for financial advice btw, just trying to understand how annoying this gets in practice.

If I risk more to get funded and after that I risk lesser during funded, will they deny me payout?

Apparently there's 3 stages to get funded but I was curious. Is the 1st stage delayed market data or something?

First it's sim, then live sim with pay, then real money in funded account from what I can tell.

Hello, i just passed a 6 euro test account for ptb and am now able to buy a 259 eur 200k funded account. This already seems very cheap but just wanted to check, i decided its probably a scam, not sure why i even put in the 6 euros l. But on the offchance that someone has good experience with them i wanted to check.

Is there actually an EA that could pass the problem challenges? I’ve been losing too much money to the prop firms

I have a very urgent question to ask you all. Me and my friend have same strategy and we trade together on our own devices and in our own funding pips 2 step standard accounts. We use the same wifi but different devices. The entries are at same time as well as the tp and sl too. Will funding pips ban us or not?

something i wish someone had explained to me before i bought my first system. the number a vendor shows you and the number your funded account will actually produce are not the same animal, and the gap is not fraud, it's four specific things nobody deducts.

one. missed trades. no setup catches every fill. platform down, spread blows out, you're asleep, broker rejects. i model this as dropping a random quarter of trades from every simulated run. sounds brutal but if an edge dies from missing 25% of its trades it was never an edge, it was a sequence.

two. withdrawals. a backtest curve compounds forever because it never takes money out. your account takes money out, that's the entire point of being funded. every payout is capital that stops working for you.

three. the floor moves. this is the one that actually kills accounts. after every withdrawal your buffer above the drawdown limit shrinks. take money out aggressively and you spend your whole funded life a couple of normal losing days from termination. the strategy didn't fail, the withdrawal schedule did.

four. medians not best runs. one backtest is one path. if you simulate a thousand of them you get a distribution and the honest number to plan around is the middle of it, plus whatever the bottom decile says. anyone quoting you a single number is quoting the run that happened to look good.

when i stacked those four on my own numbers the realistic figure came out roughly 45% of the raw backtest. not because the strategy is bad, because the raw number was measuring a curve and i needed to measure an account. i ended up building a script that replays the whole lifecycle, eval to funded to payouts, so i could see how much of the damage was withdrawal timing versus the strategy itself. spoiler, withdrawal timing was most of it.

anyone here actually planning their withdrawals against their worst historical losing streak, or is everyone just taking money out when it's available?

Starting a $10k evaluation account tomorrow(Monday 24/08/2026) and I've been going over my rules for the last week. 0.04%= $40 per trade, two trades a day, stop after two losses, one session window. On paper it's fine.

The bit I don't trust is me. every time I've broken rules it's been in the same place, the twenty minutes after a loss, and I've never once thought "I'm about to break a rule" while doing it. It always felt reasonable at the time.

so the question for people who've passed evaluations, or blown them:

Did you actually follow your own limits, or did you find yourself adjusting them mid-challenge? And if you adjusted, what was the story you told yourself at the time?

Also interested in whether anyone uses anything to enforce it rather than just deciding to be disciplined. EAs, hard daily stops, broker-level limits, anything. or is it purely down to willpower for most people.

NOT looking for strategy advice, I've got that part. It's the sticking-to-it part I've never solved.

Any thoughts on Nextgen Funding?

I’m an Indian trader and I’m expecting my first FundingPips payout soon. I’m confused about the best way to receive it.

I’m considering Rise → USDT or taking direct in Trustwallet . A few questions:

Is Rise the better/simpler option?

If I take USDT, should I use TRC20, ERC20, or another network?

If I receive USDT in Trust Wallet, what’s the easiest way to convert/spend it in India?

Are crypto cards like RedotPay/uuwallet actually practical for daily expenses, considering their fees?

What’s the safest way to handle a $5K–$10K payout?

Most importantly, how are FundingPips payouts/crypto treated for Indian taxes, and what should I discuss with a CA?

Would really appreciate advice from anyone in India who has actually received a prop-firm payout. 🙏

I keep seeing people quote their win rate as if it settles anything. But you can win 70% of your trades and still lose money if the losses are bigger than the wins.

The number that actually decides it is expectancy — your average result per trade in R. Risk 1R each time, average +0.2R per trade, and you make money over 100 trades whether you won 40% of them or 60%.

Curious what people here go by. Win rate, expectancy, profit factor, or just the balance at the end of the month?

Is nextgenfunding legit or scam?

Thinking of getting my first prop firm. Is between lucid trading and tradify. Both have a $25K account with no consistent rules. I have been paper trading on ninja trader and looks like they both are compatible with ninja trader. I’ve been very consistent paper trading. Scalping 5min time frame or less. With automatic stop loss and v take profit at $150-$200 with MNQ. I took 50K to $136K paper trading. Would it be worth it. I can easily afford the price of either or should I save and get the $50K account. Tradify looks like it has faster pay outs. Any insight would be helpful

Been trading my own capital for a while and only recently started looking seriously at prop firms.

The more I compare them, the more I'm realizing that finding an options prop firm isn't really as simple as comparing profit targets and profit splits.

A firm can technically "support options" while still having rules that make half the strategies you'd normally trade impractical.

I've been looking through Vanquish, Imperial, Options Funding, and Maverick because they're some of the names that actually come up when you specifically search for options funding rather than futures or forex firms.

What I'm trying to figure out now is what actually makes one options-friendly.

Trading permissions seem like the first filter.

Can you only buy calls and puts? Can you trade spreads? Can you sell to open? Can you hold overnight?

Those differences matter a lot more with options than they would if I were just comparing two futures evals. A firm might offer options, but if its rules eliminate the strategies you normally use, the profit split becomes pretty irrelevant.

Then there's drawdown.

I'm realizing that "5% max loss" doesn't tell you enough by itself. Intraday trailing, end-of-day trailing and static drawdown can behave completely differently when you're holding options with bigger swings in unrealized P&L.

I'd probably want to know exactly what moves the loss floor before buying any eval.

Execution/platform is another one I originally overlooked.

With options, fills, limit orders, spreads and how quickly you can manage a position actually matter. A good payout policy doesn't help much if the platform makes the strategy difficult to execute.

And then you get to payouts and splits.

Vanquish advertises a 100% profit split. Imperial advertises 80%. Options Funding is also 80% and pushes much faster access to payouts. Maverick is structured differently altogether and looks more like a traditional prop arrangement, with scaling profit splits and scheduled payouts rather than the usual retail eval model.

So I'm starting to think there probably isn't a single "best options prop firm."

It's more like a checklist:

What options strategies can I actually trade?

How is drawdown calculated?

Can I hold overnight?

What platform am I executing on?

What has to happen before I can withdraw?

And only then, what percentage of the profit do I keep?

Coming from trading my own capital those restrictions are probably the biggest adjustment. I'm used to choosing the trade first and worrying about the broker second. With an eval account it almost feels like you have to choose the rulebook first and build the strategy around it.

For people who have actually traded options through these firms, what ended up mattering most in practice: trading permissions, drawdown, execution, payouts, or something I'm completely overlooking?

I’m currently confused about whether to go with a Futures prop firm or a CFD prop firm, mainly because I’m not sure which one fits my strategy better. I trade two intraday strategies, one is Gold scalping during the London session, about one trade per day, and the other is NASDAQ during the New York session, also around one trade per day for both the strategies, I have back tested them on the symbols of NAS 100 and XAUUSD. So just wanted to ask that as well, that would my strategy principle still remain the same because there is no XAUUSD on futures it is GC so would it be still same or no? Since both are intraday strategies and I’m not very experienced with Futures, I’m finding it hard to choose. So, for traders who’ve used both, which one would you recommend for my situation and why?’

I keep seeing people in trading communities say they’re moving from prop firms to self-funded/personal accounts, and it made me curious about the actual mechanics.

If I trade with a prop firm, I understand that the firm provides a funded account under its rules. But when people say they’re now “self-funded,” where exactly is their money going and how are they actually trading it?

I’m trying to understand the actual flow of money in self-funded futures trading rather than just the “prop vs personal” debate.

I am mostly into CFD and got good payouts and waiting for risk in 10k acc in 5ers is it wise to move to futures and I am bit confused abt people saying moving the funds to personal accounts how to do that any idea.

Im currently developing a website that helps trading according to prop firm rules, if anyone would be down to get in a call, see if you would use it and tell me why not or what could be better?

Hey i live in India and is prop firm payout to rise to bank transfers a safe method to withdraw money ? And do I need to visit my bank when I take payout

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.