Evaluation and reset fees.
Compare challenge fees, retake fees, activation fees, refund rules, and whether costs fit your expected edge.
Funded Trading
Compare funded accounts by rules, not advertised capital.
The headline account size is not the real product. The real product is the rulebook: fees, drawdown, payout, scaling, instruments, platform access, and prohibited behavior.
This page may include sponsored referral links. Funded-trading evaluations can include fees, strict rules, payout limits, drawdown breaches, account restrictions, and no guarantee of profit. This is educational only and not trading or income advice.
Comparison Framework
The rulebook decides whether a trader has a realistic chance.
Daily, total, trailing, static.
Drawdown rules can decide failure faster than strategy quality. Model the rule before paying.
Withdrawal conditions.
Compare minimum trading days, profit split, payout frequency, consistency rules, and verification requirements.
Prohibited strategies.
Check news trading, copy trading, latency, hedging, scaling, holding over weekends, and platform restrictions.
Product Table
Funded-account decision table.
Journaled traders.
Traders with a defined setup, sample size, position sizing, and rule discipline.
Rule breach and fee loss.
Evaluation costs, drawdown breaches, payout restrictions, platform limits, and emotional pressure.
Challenge, reset, activation.
Check evaluation fees, retakes, refunds, activation fees, data fees, and payout conditions.
Trading and payout trail.
Keep rules, invoices, trade exports, platform statements, payouts, tax records, and journal notes.
No proven process.
A funded account is not a shortcut for traders without risk control, review habits, or emotional discipline.
Verify official rules.
Confirm drawdown, consistency, news, copy trading, payout, and prohibited-strategy rules before paying.
Partner Routes
Open only after comparing the rules.
Sponsored referral
FP Trading route.
Check evaluation fee, drawdown, payout rules, platform, support, refund policy, and prohibited strategies.
Open FP TradingSponsored referralAudacity Capital route.
Check account type, funding model, scaling rules, payout terms, drawdown, platform rules, and eligibility.
Open AudacityGuideHow to choose a funded account.
Use the buyer guide before paying for an evaluation.
Open guideReviewFTMO review framework.
Use the same rule-based thinking for any funded account provider.
Open reviewReadiness Test
Do not pay for an evaluation before these are true.
You have a journaled setup with enough sample size to estimate win rate, average win, average loss, and mistakes.
You know the maximum daily loss, account loss, position size, and recovery math before taking the first trade.
You can explain the firm's rulebook without guessing and know exactly what causes a breach.
You keep fees, invoices, payouts, platform statements, trades, and tax questions organized.
Trading is risky. Funded-trading content is educational only and not financial, trading, tax, legal, or income advice.
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