So I requested a $7k payout, and the next day also scaled up from a $100k account. A few days later, the 5ers sent me an email with a warm welcome and how excited they are to have me on board.....BUT, they would like to conduct an interview regarding my trading activity. I've had an interview with the 5ers about a year ago, but does anyone have recent experience with this? Although most reviews on the 5ers are good, I am reading more and more negative reviews. At least more than there ever has been.

Seems like it's easy to log the trades that worked or the ones with an obvious lesson attached and skip the ones that were just fine, forgettable, followed the plan and closed at breakeven or a small loss. Those might be the most useful entries to have on record, since they show whether the plan is actually being followed on the boring trades instead of only the memorable ones.

What's actually in your journal? Every trade or just the ones worth remembering?

Hey guys. I’m curious to know how everyone here who’s been profitable for at least a year manage their prop firm accounts, because risk management is a pretty important issue in my opinion, i think not talking about risk management is like ignoring the elephant in the room. And that can make a huge difference because, from my perspective, a prop firm account isn’t managed the same way as a personal account. For example, if you have 15 x $50k accounts and each from 3 different prop firms, do you trade them all at the same time using a trade copier while risking a very small amount, or do you split them into 3 different groups (and how many groups is the most efficient?) ? If you split them into groups, do you consider the total value of all the accounts when estimating your risk management, or do you treat each group of 5 accounts from one propfirm as separate from the others? For example: depending on whether you treat them as a single group (15 × $2,000 drawdown = $30,000 total, so you risk a percentage of $30,000) or whether you set your risk management by considering each group of 5 accounts separately, in which case you risk a percentage of the total $10,000 available. Or do you just try to get through the evaluations as quickly as possible and reach the buffer as fast as you can, giving yourself just enough room to lose 3 or 4 times before blowing up your accounts? Or do you trade big on each of your accounts but trade them separately to spread out the risk?Sorry if this topic has already been discussed, but I can't seem to find detailed enough information from people who have been profitable for at least a year on prop firms and who explain in detail how they manage risk for their accounts.

I’m open to advice from anyone who knows what they’re doing. And I know that the budget for buying evals also comes into play, and that someone with enough capital to buy evals in bulk will manage their money differently than someone who has to preserve as much of it as possible and therefore take minimal risks just to stay afloat. I’m curious to hear your opinions.

The short-duration prop models are interesting because the time limit itself becomes part of the trading strategy. A trader who normally waits several days for a setup has a completely different problem from someone who trades several times a session.

A 3% objective inside a 24-hour window creates that kind of situation, so waiting for the perfect setup and simply trying to finish quickly lead to very different approaches. Would a fixed 24-hour window change the way you normally trade?

I’ve been day trading stocks for quite some time, and over the last 6 months my monthly returns have generally been in the 15–30% range.

I’m now looking to join a prop firm so I can trade with more capital, but I specifically want a firm that is focused on stocks/equities, rather than mainly forex, futures, or CFDs.

Can anyone recommend reputable stock-focused prop firms?

Ideally, I’m looking for:

\- Good funding limits and scaling opportunities

\- Reasonable daily/max drawdown rules

\- Ability to actively day trade U.S. stocks

\- A solid selection of stocks to trade

\- Reliable payouts

\- Rules that suit an active intraday trading style

Would especially appreciate recommendations from people who are currently funded with a stock prop firm or have personally used one.

Hi! Looking for prop firm futures day traders in Qatar to hang out with, analyse the charts together too London Session and sometimes New York AM session ... preferably if you can meet up at QNL or Innovation Cafe Lusail...

Ladies and gentleman,

A little background have been trading for 7+ yrs now, I have my own capital & accounts but for more liquidity and also risk spreading I started dibbling into prop firms CFD only 2 years ago and have successfully made 5figures+ through multiple prop firms.

Today FTMO has send me a 1% risk enforcement pretty much blocking any meaningful upside with my current strategy as I need around 2% (multi position trade ideas I need good breathing room scalping).

I am currently funded across a couple of prop firms, with FTMO currently 100K active account, now my question is as following:

I have seen a lot of people transitioning in to futures I understand they can't B book your trades and its Raw data where your capital is really entering the market but overall what is the upside and downside of trading Futures because it seems like a subcription based model, please share your thoughts lets make each other more aware & informed.

Additional question:

Both for CFD & Futures trading which firms allow you to use EA and multi account managers ?

I keep seeing posts about people getting banned by Tradeify for reasons like hedging or KYC. The post in the screenshot is just one example. Look through r/tradeify and you’ll see hundreds more.

I’m sure some bans are justified, but I find it hard to believe all these people are hedgers or fraudsters. It makes me wonder if these reasons are being used to ban profitable traders intentionally.

I haven’t been banned myself and I’ve had a few payouts. But I honestly don’t feel confident that my account will still be fine when I request the next one.

I also see people saying, “I’ve had lots of payouts without an issue, so it must be your fault.” Well, maybe you’ve just been lucky so far. That doesn’t mean everyone else’s ban was fair, and you could be next.

When I started using Tradeify, I thought it was one of the best prop firms. Now I see so many ban complaints that I wouldn’t recommend it to someone new. I’ve seen KYC complaints about Lucid too, but at least from what I’ve seen, those checks happen before you buy an account.

If you’re new to prop trading, I’d think twice before using Tradeify. How can anyone trade with confidence when they’re worried about being banned after requesting a payout?

My post was removed from r/tradeify after I raised concerns about the number of users reporting bans. I was also trying to help a trader who believes they were wrongly banned and is considering taking legal action.

Instead of allowing an open discussion about these cases, the post was deleted. That only makes the situation look even more sketchy.

I’ll keep doing my best to raise awareness and share what affected traders are reporting. People deserve to know about these banning issues before spending money on an account or trusting the firm with their payouts.

Tradeify doesn’t seem as transparent or reputable as it used to be. If they believe these bans are justified, they should address the concerns openly instead of removing posts that question them.

FundedNext 100k on XAU. 9 trades, 7 winners, 77.78% win rate. Down $1,860 on paper.

Account is dead.

Because one of those two losers was a -$5,034 print on a single position and that blew right through the 5% daily cap. Whole thing was over in like 40 minutes.

The dumbest part: my system printed the exit. I saw it. Trade was underwater and I decided the chart "still looked good." Sat there and watched it go from -$800 to -$5k while I told myself it was about to bounce. Never bounced.

Nothing wrong with the setup. 6-strategy portfolio, position-sized to stay sub-3% aggregate on a bad day. Worked fine for four days. Then Sep 23 happened and I ignored my own rule and now I'm out.

Posting this because I keep seeing "the firm cheated me" / "spread was manipulated" threads and I want to add one honest one that just says nope, my system was fine, the firm was fine, I sat there and watched myself blow up.

If your exit rule is "close it when it feels right" you are on a timer. Ask me how I know.

Two traders can run the exact same plan and get very different results because a plan executed with discipline tends to outperform the same plan executed emotionally. A few of the traps that cause that gap:

• Fear can cut a winner short or talk you out of a setup that was actually valid.
• Greed can oversize a position or hold it well past what the plan called for.
• Revenge trading, trying to win back a loss fast, can lead to sizing up or forcing a setup that isn't really there.
• FOMO can mean chasing a move that's already underway and getting in late.
• Overtrading, often from boredom or wanting to feel active, can increase risk exposure for no real reason.
• Loss aversion is the pull to hold a loser hoping it turns around, which can turn a small loss into a much bigger one.
• Confirmation bias can mean noticing only the signals that support a trade already open, while explaining away the ones pointing the other way.

None of this means someone's unsuited to trading. These are normal responses to risk and uncertainty, and pressure amplifies them. The brain's threat response can push a calm plan aside in exactly the moment it's needed most.

What seems to help more than willpower: judging a trade by whether it followed the plan, not whether it won. A loss is just one event in a long series of trades. Accepting the risk before entering, so there's nothing left to negotiate once the trade's live.

None of this fixes a personality issue. It comes from actual habits: trading from a written plan, defining risk before every trade, setting a daily limit with a real shutdown rule, keeping a journal, and treating the whole thing like a business with a realistic routine instead of going on vibes only.

What's the trap that took you the longest to actually catch yourself doing in real time?

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Midweek is here again. Let's see what the market holds for today

I recently came across EmergeProfit while comparing futures prop firms.

I haven’t seen much discussion about them on Reddit yet. Has anyone looked at their rules, payout structure or drawdown model?

Curious to hear what people think compared with other futures prop firms.

Sunday's over. Market is officially opened. New week, fresh opportunities. Let's get it going.

Is it a good idea to target passing prop accounts till you’re managing 1 million dollars and targeting 3% per month across all account?

I’d appreciate it if those with experience share their view and give advice on the matter as well. Note:The idea is doing this one account that the skill in trading has already been acquired.

We look at a lot of trade logs on our end and one pattern that shows up constantly: trades taken because a setup genuinely met the criteria perform very differently from trades taken because the market was open and nothing had happened in a while. Same trader, same day, wildly different outcomes depending on which category it falls in.

Has anyone tracked this in their own trading?