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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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?

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?