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I check lucid monthly earnings every month and every month there are people with crazy good profit factors with a decent enough sample size.
The number 4 guy has 14 profit factor with 290 trades.
Even the number 1 guy has 4 PF with 298 trades.
How is this possible? I have also started to noth 2-3 names that refularly makes it to the top earning boards.
My with 50% win rate only get 1.3-1.4 profit factor
I’m the founder of Duncan Funded, a new prop firm built with clean rules, straightforward execution, and a premium trading environment. I know most of you have seen a lot of firms come and go, and I’m not here to hype anything. I’m here to ask traders to experience DF and give me honest feedback on the trading flow, the rules, and the backend behavior.
To make that worthwhile, I’m offering a one‑time $25 thank you payment to anyone who completes Phase 1 of the Forex $50k challenge, whether you pass or fail. This isn’t a discount and it isn’t a rebate. It’s simply a gesture of appreciation for putting in the effort and trading the account properly so I can gather real user data.
Before purchasing, you’ll need to verify that you can receive payments through Wise. That keeps the process clean and ensures I can send the thank you payment globally without delays or complications.
The offer is available until July 17, and it’s limited to one time per person.
Once you complete Phase 1 either pass or fail, the thank you payment will be sent through Wise within 30 to 40 days, which aligns with our backend revenue cycle. I want to be upfront with the timeline, so expectations are clear from the start.
If you want to try DF, trade the $50k, and give me your honest take on the experience, this is my way of saying thank you for giving the firm a fair shot. ~Duncan
Every trader has that one moment.
The one that completely changed the way they trade.
Maybe it was blowing an Evaluation.
Maybe it was revenge trading.
Maybe it was risking way too much on a single trade.
Or maybe it was realizing that discipline matters more than strategy.
I'll go first.
>Risk management isn't exciting. Neither is blowing an account. I'd rather be bored than start over.
Ab aapki baari. ☕
👇 What's the biggest trading lesson you've learned the hard way?
It doesn't have to be related to Tradeify.
Your experience might save another trader from making the same mistake.
Quick context, I trade DAX40 mostly, indices and forex on liquidity sweeps, MSS and BPR. I built a journaling platform for myself last year because I was tired of Notion templates and bloated tools, ended up opening it up and now there's a small community using it.
The last few weeks I rolled out some AI features and honestly some of them changed how I review trades, so wanted to share what works and what doesn't from a trader perspective, not a product one.
What I added:
AI verdict per trade. After you close a trade and log it (entry, SL, TP, screenshots, notes), an AI gives you a verdict. Was it actually a valid setup, did you respect your rules, did you size correctly. Sounds gimmicky but when you log 30+ trades a month it catches the pattern of "I keep entering before candle close on Tuesdays" way faster than I would.
Coach profile. You define your own strategy (mine is liquidity + MSS + BPR + candle close confirmation), risk rules, instruments, and the coach updates as you log more trades. So the verdict isn't generic, it's against YOUR rules, not some ICT bro checklist.
AI chat with full access to your trades. This is the one I use the most. I can ask stuff like "show me all my losing DAX trades in London session where I entered before candle close" and it actually answers with the data. No more scrolling through 200 entries.
Analytics with confluence breakdowns. Best/worst confluences, profitability per setup combo, session performance, the usual but cross referenced. Found out my BPR + sweep combo is 68% win rate, BPR alone is 41%. Wouldn't have caught that manually.
Not a pitch, more curious if other people here use AI in their journaling or still old school spreadsheet. The verdict thing is what surprised me the most, brutal honesty when you ask for it.
Platform is TradingSFX if anyone wants to check, has a free tier. Happy to answer questions about how the AI is set up or how I trained the coach on my own methodology.
I trade futures on funded accounts, and the pattern that kept killing my evals was always the same. Clean plan the night before, then the open hits and I freelance. Move my stop, chase an entry I never marked, size up to claw back a red morning. My rules were fine. I wasn't following them.
The single thing that helped most was writing down the exact price that makes the trade wrong before I click, and actually stepping aside when it hits instead of widening it. Sounds obvious. Doing it at 9:30 with real money on a funded account is another story.
So I built a tool for my own prep. I save my strategy once, drop a chart screenshot, and get back a structured read in my own rules: directional bias, key levels, an if-then setup, and the exact invalidation price. On a funded account that last line is the whole point. It's what keeps a bad morning from becoming a breach.
Honest about what it is: not a signal service, doesn't predict price, doesn't place trades. It reads the chart you give it in the rules you give it, and on unclear mornings it says neutral. You still make every call.
It's free to try, 3 reads, no card, if anyone wants to poke at it. And as a founder and someone that's pretty new into building, feedback from people trading funded accounts or live accounts is very helpful and every piece of advice or suggestions, frustrations help. Try to break it and tell me where the read is off, or what a prop trader needs it to catch that it doesn't.
wanted to document my experience with the firm, so anyone can go over it and draw their own conclusions.
Over about four months, I passed The5ers' two-phase High Stakes evaluation and traded the funded account up to a $3,000 payout. I requested that payout on June 4th. Roughly two weeks later, it was denied and my account was terminated. The reason they gave me was that during the risk interview, I hadn't disclosed my earlier use of an Expert Advisor, an open-source position-sizing calculator.
It's worth being clear about what that tool actually is. The5ers' own support confirms that on a High Stakes account, a position-sizing tool that sets your lot size and lets you drag visible stop loss and take profit levels is permitted, as long as it doesn't copy trades, or run other restricted automation. Its not prohibited software.
As for the interview itself, I was asked how I execute my trades, and I answered honestly that I trade from my phone, which is how I'd been trading throughout the funded account. I wasn't asked about the methods I'd used on earlier evaluation attempts, and I didn't think to mention a tool that I had stopped using from months earlier, because it didn't seem material to how I was trading at the time. The firm treated that as a failure to disclose. One can reasonably argue I should have volunteered more. But the tool was permitted under their own rules so what this really comes down to is a disclosure judgment about a permitted category of tool. The response to it was anything but proportionate, and that's the part I find hardest to accept.
The way it was handled only made things worse. I requested the payout on June 4th and my risk interview was scheduled for 2 weeks after, a day after which the termination notice arrived. Every request I made for the specific evidence behind the decision went unanswered, the risk team took days to reply and said little when they did. A clearer explanation didn't come until 19 days after my payout request. After a lot of back and forth with the risk team I got an opportunity to get on a call again, the only question they asked was whether I'd used an EA which I answered directly, and I even showed them where the tool came from because I didn't have it setup on any of my devices. No other discrepancies were brought up during the call.
To make matters worse, now that the account is closed, I can't review my own execution data at all. Only their risk team can see the logs the decision rests on. So I've been left in the position of being told my trading history contradicts what I said, while having no access to the very data they're citing, and no reliable way to reach the people who hold it.
When I add it all up, this is what it came to: a terminated funded account, a denied payout I had earned, no refund of my evaluation fees and, above all, 5 months of wasted time.
I’m a 16 year old unprofitable trader with 14 months of experience. In total I have spent exactly $1973 on evals (I work a job btw if anybody was wondering where the money is from).
Passed 4 evals so far and can never seem to get a payout.
I would love some advice if anyone is willing to share.
So guys I just need a yes or no is funded next stellar lite 5k a good option to start with??
I saw this for both lucid & tradify, why is this? They say you get a 90% profit split but basically you get 45%?
Makes no sense, now I get why they are cheaper than cfd firms
So I Passed the 1 step Atmos Funded 100k Plus Account .... Paid the activation fee too and signed the agreement, now waiting for Funded Account details.
They breached my last account last week after paying the Activation fee saying I breached their rules blah blah blah and I never got my $125 refund back .
Now I passed again , didn't violate any rules , same story .. I received the pass email and certificate and activation button was activate ...... So now am waiting for the funded account details or they'll breach it again probably
Let's wait , I'll update here
I’ve been working on a tool called EvalSynk for prop-firm traders.
The idea is not to replace TradeZella or build another full trading journal. I’m trying to build more of a command center for managing prop-firm accounts.
The goal is to track everything in one place:
Basically, instead of jumping between prop-firm dashboards, spreadsheets, payout screenshots, emails, and journals, you’d have one hub showing the state of all your prop-firm accounts.
I’m trying to figure out if this is a real pain or if most traders already solve it with TradeZella, spreadsheets, Notion, or the prop-firm dashboards.
For prop-firm traders managing multiple accounts:
Not trying to spam. I’m genuinely trying to understand if this solves a real problem before building too much more.
Hi there. Im somewhat new into trading and prop firms. I have been doing these since march. I have a medium level of trading. I’ve passed and failed accounts, i am currently using Lucid. I have bought mostly 25k accounts. The most i have made was $1,205 in a trade. I usually scalp, but im getting bored of scalping. I need tips to get better and how to find strategies. (Also; please don’t dm me due to suspicion of fraud or scams etc, please reply to my post unless i ask to dm)
Hi Trader,
I am considering buying funded squad instant account, i need to to know if the firm is trust worthy? i have read a lot of review rrecently that they dont give payouts and all? i mean influencer obviously gets paid, i need to know from the traders. thankss
Let's say I have a wineate that is over 90%. Let's say I over leverage to 4minis or 6 with TPT, and only go for 5-12pts, is there anything wrong in this?
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I recently got moved to a live account at Lucid Trading. I know that's supposed to be a good thing, but honestly I'm feeling pretty disappointed with the timing.
I got a message saying I'd be moved after one payout on my current set of 5 Flex accounts. I only needed 2 more winning days of $100 to request another payout, but then I got moved to live so now I can't request it anymore.
I've had 2 payouts before on 5 other Flex accounts, but blew them right after. I also had payouts on direct accounts, although that was almost a year ago. Total payouts are around $37k with around $20k in expenses.
What also annoys me is having to rebuild my buffer again. And they let me trade these current accounts for 3 days before moving me, which makes it sting more because I was so close.
I know moving to live is an opportunity and I'm grateful for it, but I still feel kinda frustrated. Anyone else had something similar happen?
I'm funded with FTMO and have a question about payouts.
I had two separate periods where I lost around 3–3.5% in 2 separate trade ideas, but I recovered and never violated any FTMO rules. I never exceeded the maximum daily loss or the maximum overall loss.
At one point I was up 6.9% and was planning to request a payout two days later. Unfortunately, my psychology completely fell apart. I got greedy, started revenge trading, and ended up giving back all my profits until I was around -4% overall on the account.
During those two losing days, I lost around 4.7% in a day twice and also had several trades that were over 1.5% risk each. I know this wasn't good trading, and it was purely a psychological implosion that snowballed into more bad decisions.
I'm still on the same $100,000 funded account, and I've now recovered back to roughly breakeven. My plan moving forward is to stick to my trading plan, follow my system, only take A+ setups, and stop forcing trades. I know exactly where I went wrong, and I'm focused on trading with discipline again.
My question is: Assuming I continue trading consistently, make profits, and don't break any FTMO rules, is there any reason FTMO would decline a future payout because of those two bad days?
I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who has had a similar experience and successfully received a payout.
Hey everyone,
I wanted to share a major warning about Alpha Capital Group and how they handle payouts on funded accounts. I just had my $650 payout denied and my $10k funded account completely closed due to a rule that was hidden in the fine print of my onboarding contract.
The Setup
I was trading a standard $10k Alpha Pro funded account. If you look at Alpha Capital’s standard rules, the maximum lot size allowed for this account is 5.0 lots.
I built up a profit of $650 and decided to submit a payout request. My largest trade during this time was a single 3.93, 3.42 lot position on NAS100/US500. Since 3.93, 3.42 is well below the advertised 5.0 lot limit, I expected everything to go through smoothly.
The "Gotcha" during the Payout Review
Instead of getting paid, my payout was rejected and my account was instantly deactivated.
When I reached out to their payments team, they sent me a screenshot of a document titled "Contract - Risk Group 2-4%." They told me that because my account was placed in this specific risk tier from day one, my actual lot limit was slashed in half to 2.5 lots. Because my NAS100 trade was 3.93 lots, they marked it as a hard breach.
Why This Is Highly Deceptive
No Dashboard Warning: My main trading dashboard never showed a 2.5 lot limit. It showed the standard Alpha Pro rules.
Burying Rules in the Fine Print: They advertise a 5-lot capacity to get you to buy the challenge, but then sneak a 2.5-lot restriction into the onboarding paperwork to trap you when it’s time to cash out.
Retroactive Enforcement: They completely ignore the fact that the trader is operating in good faith based on the platform's visible dashboard metrics.
They essentially closed the door on my appeal, stating that "the breach is correct and will remain."
Has anyone else dealt with Alpha Capital sneaky-assigning them to these "Risk Groups" right at the contract stage? Watch out if you are trading indices with them—they will gladly take your challenge fee, but they will dig through the legal fine print to find a reason to deny your payout the second you make money.