r/PropFirmTester

What could be the last three words of a trader on his deathbed?

Mine would be:

“Buy the dip.”

What would be yours?

I purchased an account through Upcomers, completed everything and was funded, I’ve never had an issue following rules before and have gotten payouts from other firms. I followed these guys rules to a ridiculous extent, and even went back and my trade history and double checked. I was eligible for my first Upcomers payout and go figure not even an hour later I’m getting a denied email for “tick scalping” and “excessive lot sizing” yet every trade I made I made with 1 lot an below.. their lot limits are 50 & 100 (depending on the market)

I will admit one trade I made closed instantly and I’m not even sure how that happened, it hit my order limit and instantly closed the position (funny enough my very last trade to pay out) it never hit my stop loss, I didn’t max out on daily or overall loss, I lost money on that trade, albeit $2 but still, I didn’t profit and there claiming I have multiple instances of tick scalping totaling to $6 but my trade history shows all of my trades being 4+ minutes compared to their 2 minute rule.

Now support is dodging me like crazy and the money I spent on this bs might as well have been thrown away. I figured they were, lots of people complained and lots of people said they did pay out, but by god they will accuse you of everything under the sun and refuse to converse about it with you, as soon as they see your ticket has anything to do with payout they end the chats before you can type your first message or just flat out ignore you till the chat closes. I have all of my proof and they refuse to look.

These guys are gonna end up in legal trouble.

Quick update: they reset my account and now I cannot see all of my trading days like I could if they marked it as breached, I also have a permanent 50% profit cap now, so now half of what I make I don’t get and it doesn’t go towards a buffer.. little do they know I already screenshotted everything before I requested the payout

Was looking at the $150k accounts for both these programs and it's not worth it regarding the profit to payout ratio.

For these programs, in order to be eligible for your first payout, you must reach a profit of $9k while only working $3k worth of daily drawdown....And even then, the maximum amount you are aloud to withdraw is only $3k.

So if you request to be paid the $3k, then they split that 80/20 and only pay you $2,400.

And if you are in a country that has taxes, that's yet another 20%-30% taken away from that payout, so now it's roughly $1,700-$1900 that you made.

And the initial price to buy the account was around $480 if you use the discount code, so subtract that as well and your left with $1,300-$1,500 total profit.

Profiting $9k just to ultimately walk away with only $1,300-$1,500 in actual profit isn't worth it at all.

This one cost me a few accounts when started with prop firms. A lot of traders don't actually understand how intraday drawdown works. Or they do, but they ignore it because intraday products are usually cheaper and are now being offered with daily payout plans. Don't take the bait!

With intraday trailing drawdown, your drawdown trails your UNREALIZED P&L. Not your account balance. Every tick price moves in your favor creates a new "account high" even if you never took profit on that trade.

So let's say you have a 50k account with a 2k drawdown. Price moves $2,000 in your favor. Your drawdown floor just moved up. If it comes back to BE, your account is failed.

That's the part most people miss. The strategy that worked great on EOD breaks the second you switch to intraday. Most traders who pick intraday accounts blow them not because they're bad traders, but because their strategy was never designed for that drawdown type. The setup is the same. The rules are the same. The drawdown does something completely different in the background though.

My advice is to always choose EOD unless you've specifically built a strategy around intraday and proven it works.

The cheaper product isn't cheaper if it's harder to pass and keep!

Anyone here use intraday accounts consistently? Curious about how you manage them. 👀

What has your experience been like?

I'm looking at the Select eval the instant funded account. But I want to hear about other people's experience with this firm first.

Questions:

1. How fast is their payout process?

2. Which account types have you traded? (Select? Instant? etc)

3. Has anyone gone live with them?

4. How is support?

5. Have you ever been rejected for a payout?

I've traded with Apex and MFF but looking for something different. They don't have real time dash and and the payout structure on apex is a bit too long for my liking. I've been lurking in their sub and on other socials for a while but haven't pulled the trigger.

If you have insights. Please Lmk 🙏🏽

I’m not affiliated with Vanquish. I’m a happy and grateful user. I started trading options with the intention to make it my income just 3 months ago. I have studied and worked really hard in the same time. I love trading and the opportunities that trading provides. The following review is my personal experience. Happy to answer all the questions you may have hoping that my experience is helpful to someone else. I requested my second payout today as my consistency went under 30% after the first one, will gladly share when it hits my account. As I have an advance options plan it is not automatic as the simple options one. If you do simple options, it is processed right away. I hope this post is under the guidelines, I’m new around, if it is not please just let me know :)

I started using Vanquish on Feb 2nd 2026, I had never used any other prop firm account before Vanquish and decided to take a chance after reading all Trustpilot and Reddit reviews I could find and spending some time in the Discord chats. I started trading full time in January and so far Vanquish has been a life changer for me and my family. Before Vanquish I had the skills, knowledge and tools to be consistently profitable, but my capital was limited. I failed several evaluations until I got my discipline and risk management under control. After passing my second evaluation, dialing in my strategy and excelling at risk management, I’ve been able to build my account and took my $5000 first payout last week. The payouts are processed via RISE and hit your bank account in minutes. Before that payout hitting your account, I guess most people, specially new traders that have never used a prop firm before like myself, still have that bug of “is this real” , once that payout is sitting in your bank account, and you realize that you can work hard and be rewarded everything changes.
Vanquish have an A+ support team, the platform is extremely solid, I do really love DXTrades to place my trades and I have experienced a single serious technical issue in more than two months trading every single day. The community and Vanquish team in Discord is also amazing.
If you are an experienced trader, or a newbie who can be consistently profitable, give Vanquish a chance and see how does it work for you. In my personal case, I’m very grateful and happy I found Vanquish and can provide a better future for my family.
Also, if you are serious about trading and not YOLOING accounts, the rules in the prop firms FORCE YOU to become a more risk aware discipline and by default a better trader. Regardless of the capital provided, I owe Vanquish turning me from “capable to be profitable” to “CONSISTENTLY PROFITABLE”.
Spend some time in the Discord chats, check the payout room, talk to the folks that have made it, and take a chance, it is worth it. As long as you follow the rules you will get paid.

For the Vanquish team, keep the good work, you are changing lives and creating a new generation of profitable traders. God bless you all.

There are so many things to check: rules, drawdown model, payout structure, platforms, fees, and reviews.

But I’m curious what people actually focus on first when deciding whether a prop firm is worth trying or not.

What’s the first thing you personally look at before buying a challenge?

I have been reading about the5ers not paying anymore and I was wondering if anyone has recently requested a payout and if you received it?

When I first discovered the prop firm industry 2 years ago I was like "wow, they give me 200k for just 1k fee lol — I'll go there and rob the casino." Had a normie job for years, but trading on the side was where 90% of my actual income came from — which is exactly why I thought I could waltz into prop firms and dominate.

200k was not enough — I thought — I needed SIZE. So I researched the top 5 firms and took 200k accounts in each of them. Now I had 1 mil of challenges connected through copytrader.

Long story short, obviously, I breached all of them in the next few months. The reason is plain simple: trading prop firm capital (and especially many accounts simultaneously) is not the same as trading your own. Your edge may simply not work in these frames, and even if it does, you still always have the firm rules in mind — which affects your decision making on every entry.

I know I'm not the only one like this, so if you just discovered prop firm space — keep this in mind. Don't go big. Try one small account first and scale from there. Leverage here is abundant; skill rules.

If I started today: 1 challenge, small size, treat it like a skill assessment — not a payday. Anyone scaling to multiple challenges before proving they can pass one is just paying the firm to teach them this lesson.

Now I run a similar multi-account setup, but my own-funds account is the main one. Prop accounts run on small risk only, and I close all positions before news, weekends etc.. Different rules for different capital.

Looking for advice:

I’m searching for a futures prop firm that supports order flow trading.

I specifically use:
- Footprint charts (Cluster charts)
- Delta
- Volume Profile
- VWAP

My main question is:

Which prop firms actually allow these tools to work properly for free (without needing separate NinjaTrader OrderFlow+ licenses or extra paid platform add-ons)?

Also, what is the best setup you recommend in 2026 for order flow traders using prop firms?

I want a realistic answer from people who actually trade with these tools, not marketing claims.

Thanks.

I have been waiting for a 5ers payout for 20 days now, and whenever I ping support they just say it's been approved and their finance team will process in due time , no explanation for such a long delay, it's my first payout and a mere 3 digit amount, anyone able to shed more light on why the long wait?