Got my payout denied from atlas funded because I allegedly have 51 other trading accounts on my ip address. They’re saying all 51 accounts are from different people. Like What? I somehow concocted 51 other people together, make them ALL buy atlas accounts and trade off my ip address? No idea how to even defend myself. What should I do here
I have a funded 400k account with FTMO and I risk 0.5% per trade.
FTMO has limited my risk to 1% per trade idea, and one day I lost slightly more than 1% because of splitting the position (the two trades on XAUUSD), resulting in a loss of around 1.2%.
I’ve seen quite a few posts about people getting their payout denied or even losing their account because of this.
I’m ready to accept that FTMO could refuse a payout if I end up profitable, but could I actually lose my account just because of this small position-splitting mistake?
Or would I simply receive another warning?
I blewed too many accounts now I don't have anything to buy a fucking account i can show how much I spent on accounts 😞 I am broke right now ,
Don't know what to do , where to go.
Can anyone blessed me with an account?? 😭🙏🏻
How many accounts before I give up? I am wondering if this is just an addiction of some sort.. Those who are actually profitable I'd like to know your perspectives.
After working on a eval for almost 2 months i passed and i almost blew it after being funded on day 1. I thought I went over draw down so i purchased 2 25k flex evals. Looking to connect with others who may be in the same boat looking to get a payout. Currently have these balances but deleted the Tradesea app to get off of it. Happy trading ! Any advice would be appreciated
Hi there. Recently started investing/trading around march. Been rocky but i love it. I want to make it into a job for me. I found out about prop firms a couple weeks ago, and im really interested. Tried a couple, nothing but failed attempts. Really struggling, i just want to see my first payout. What do you guys suggest i do? Im used to trading stocks, but i explored a little with crypto and futures on prop firms. But yeah nothing but bad luck and id like to make it work.
I’ve noticed some prop firms focus only on funding and rules, but others seem to have active trader communities where people actually share ideas, setups, and feedback.
That part feels underrated. A good community can make a big difference, especially when you’re trying to stay consistent or improve your trading.
Which crypto prop firm do you think has the best trading community around it?
Gotta love FTMO! Just received my fifth payout on the 100k account. Will request payout on my 200k in a few days as well. Ending the month strong. Good luck everyone!
So here's the thing nobody tells you. Most of these rules prop firms have aren't there to protect you or make you a better trader. That's the marketing. They're there so that the second you actually start winning, there's always something sitting in the terms they can use to not pay. Once you notice it you can't stop noticing it.
The ones that get people:
Consistency rule. You can't have one day be more than like 30-40% of your total profit. Sounds fine for about two seconds, until you have ONE good day (which is the whole point of trading??) and now your withdrawal is locked because you were "too profitable too fast." make it make sense.
Trailing drawdown. sneaky one. Your max loss level follows you up but never drops back down, and half these firms calculate it off your peak floating equity instead of closing balance. So you take a trade that's green, it pulls back a bit, you still close in profit, and somehow you breached. Most people who fail this never even work out what happened to them.
Max risk per trade. Go over by 0.01%, even on a trade that won, payout gone. pure bullshit rule. Even if the reason you went over is the spread
Mandatory stop loss on every order. Forget one and the account can be voided no matter your P&L. A lot of valid strategies don't put a hard SL on every entry. Doesn't matter, rule's a rule.
Minimum trading days plus inactivity rules. You have to trade at least X days, but not too much, not too little, and not on the wrong days. It's a maze, and mazes are built with dead ends.
Manual payout review. Ok think about this for a second. Their system flags a rule break instantly, the platform knows the moment you breach drawdown or trip a limit. So if you'd actually done something wrong, they'd deny you in seconds, automatically, no human even needed. So why does a clean payout, where you followed every single rule, sit in "manual review" for 3 days? what is there to even review? the system already knows you're clean.
Worst case, those 3 days are just the window where they go combing the T&C for any line to void you on. Your KYC name is spelled a hair off from your card, some "irregular trading pattern" they suddenly don't like, a clause on page 9 nobody read. You did everything right and still walk away with nothing, because the "review" was them shopping for a reason to keep your money the whole time.
And like, individually none of this looks evil. But stack it all up and you've basically got a system where the average funded trader trips on something before they receive a payout. By design. A firm that makes its money when you blow up has every reason in the world to write a rulebook you can fail.
Reason I ended up at Paid To Trade is honestly just that they don't do any of this. There's basically one thing to actually watch, the drawdown, and that's it. No consistency rule, no per-trade cap, no minimum-days maze.
And the payouts are near instant, way more like a futures prop firm than the forex ones that sit on your money for 3 days "reviewing" it. mine usually land in about 13-19 min. Grain of salt since I'm affiliated, but that's genuinely what hooked me, just not having to cross a minefield to touch my own money.
It's honestly like trading my own account.
Anyway, what's the dumbest rule any of you have been busted or denied on? I'll go first: Definitely the time I went over Max risk per trade rule in FTMO. Makes no fucking sense.
Disclaimer before anyone jumps on me: yeah, I'm affiliated with Paid To Trade (paidtotrade.net), so take this with whatever grain of salt you need. Honestly though this post isn't really about them. It's about something that cost me like 4 accounts to actually understand and I'm still a little bitter about it
🚨 AquaFunded payout denial warning – my documented experience
I purchased a $400,000 Instant Funding Pro account with AquaFunded. I traded the account, became profitable, and had over $35,000 in profit.
When I requested my payout, AquaFunded refused to pay me and later disabled/blocked my account.
Their stated reason was an alleged “maximum allocation rule” issue. In my experience, this was extremely misleading because their own platform allowed the account setup and activity, then only after I became profitable and requested payout, they used internal rule excuses to deny the payment.
The worst part is their reward/loyalty system. Their own dashboard allowed me to redeem and activate a reward account, but later they used that same reward account against me to claim I breached their rules.
In my opinion, this looks like a payout trap: take the payment, let the trader trade, wait until the trader becomes profitable, then use internal rules to avoid paying.
Their support only gave generic responses and refused to resolve the issue properly.
I have already posted my review on Trustpilot, filed a complaint with Consumer Rights UAE, and opened a chargeback dispute with my bank.
My warning: be very careful with AquaFunded. Based on my documented experience, I would not recommend them to any serious trader.
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.
not going to pretend i'm some genius trader. i'm not.
i bought a prop firm challenge. passed all 3 phases. got funded on a $20K account.
week 1 — ran it up to +$932. needed $68 more to hit the withdrawal threshold. sixty-eight dollars.
instead of being patient i started firing trades without analysis. pure impatience. burned $520 of profit in back-to-back trades chasing that $68.
week 2 — reset mentally. came back focused. built it back up to +$732. four hours left before the window closed. same thing happened. quick unplanned orders. lost everything down to $233. missed the threshold completely.
after week 2 i sat with it honestly for the first time.
my setup was fine. my entries were fine. my SL and TP placement was fine.
the problem was purely psychological — revenge trading and greed at the finish line. that specific moment when you're close and you start thinking "just a little more" is the most dangerous state a trader can be in.
what i changed:
i built one hard rule around profit protection. once i hit a certain threshold during the week, that amount is mentally locked — i treat it as already withdrawn. i don't touch it. if i lose the rest trying to push further, fine. but that locked amount never gets touched.
simple concept. hard to do manually. so i automated it.
the account right now: $20,226 equity. withdrawal button is active. profit recognized: $226.
small number. but it's clean. and for the first time i'm actually going to withdraw it instead of burning it trying to make it bigger.
that's the real story. not glamorous. but if you've ever been $68 away from something and blown it — you know exactly what i'm talking about.
anyone else been close and burned it? what was yours?
Ftmo. Considering challenge on £70k account. Have a few questions.
I'm new to prop firms.
I've gone through 3 FTMO trials to get my head around the rules. All passed. (Only 3.5k profits target on the trial).
My latest trial, 2k profit each day and passed hit target. From memory my max daily loss was £1000, I risked 0.5-0.7% on trades. A total of 63 trades over the two days.
Im confident of passing the full eval but as I understand, there are hidden rules, during it and once funded. Can anyone give me a heads-up on what to be careful of.
I hear nightmare stories of payouts across the industry being refused etc.
For example. £2k profit a day is this pushing my luck with these types of firms? 😄 I trade indicies, generally 25 lot size.
Appreciate any help you can give.
Retail trader from Italy. Got tired of the SMC/ICT crowd repeating "bigger FVG, better setup" without anyone actually checking it. So I checked.
4 years of M15 data on EURUSD, USDJPY, USDCAD. About 60,000 FVGs detected and analyzed.
Finding 1: gap size alone is essentially a coin flip. The biggest gaps (20 to 50 pips) had negative net edge in my sample.
Finding 2: the impulse (size of the candle creating the gap) is a much cleaner signal. Filtering for impulse ≥ 10 pips survives walk-forward where the baseline busts.
Three configs backtested with FTMO style caps (5% daily, 10% total, $10k, 0.5% risk, costs included):
Also did Monte Carlo, statistical significance tests, and a null benchmark with randomized trade directions (random gave 58% bust rate vs 1.1% for the filtered version).
Caveats are in the article: small walk-forward sample, mild data snooping on threshold selection, mixed results across symbols.
Full writeup with charts, methodology, and limitations: Article
Critique welcome.
2 days in a row the exact same model with very little drawdown has presented itself👀👀
Join the free discord if you have any questions or just want to talk about the markets! : https://discord.gg/aZCTCwZEp
I’m curious how many people actually managed to get payouts and how long it took so I thought I’d do a poll
Also if you voted no, how many have you tried already?
I am trying to figure out if Bullwaves is a legitimate prop firm or just another scam in the trading world. I have been seeing some mixed reviews online and it is making me really hesitant to commit any capital.
I have noticed some people praising their Discord support and the smooth experience, but then I also see warnings about their Trustpilot profile and reports of fake reviews being removed. Some reviews even mention dead links on their website, which is a huge red flag for me. It is tough to know who to trust when the information is so conflicting, and I really want to avoid any high-risk situations.
I want to make sure I am not putting my money into a black hole or dealing with a company that will make it impossible to get my earnings back. So, has anyone actually used Bullwaves and had a genuinely good or bad experience? What are the real red flags or legitimacy signals I should be looking for? Any honest feedback on their payout process, customer service, or overall trustworthiness would be incredibly helpful.
It's not that I was ever blowing up trying to recover — it was subtler than that. Just a slight urgency that crept into the next trade after a stop out. A barely noticeable lowering of the bar on the next entry.
Took me an embarrassingly long time to even recognise it was happening. The fix wasn't discipline exactly — it was genuinely accepting the loss as closed business the moment it was realised.
How long did it take you to detach from a loss within the same session?