Dave Finances covers proprietary trading firms, funded trader programs, evaluation models, payout policies, trading rules, platform changes, disputes, promotions, and developments across the prop trading industry. Our coverage focuses on operational changes, trader conditions, company updates, and issues affecting funded traders and proprietary trading firms.
An FTMO customer says the proprietary trading firm banned him from using its services after he raised concerns about an Evaluation and refused to remove or change a negative Trustpilot…
A retail prop firm can look almost identical to a broker: the same charts, the same forex pairs or futures contracts, the same buy and sell buttons, and sometimes the…
A retail prop firm can look almost identical to a broker: the same charts, the same forex pairs or futures contracts, the same buy and sell buttons, and sometimes the…
A fresh cluster of FundingPips customer complaints is raising a narrower question than whether the prop firm is refusing successful traders: why can some identity, duplicate-account and device-related problems apparently…
Topstep traders are questioning the economics and timing of forced moves from Express Funded Accounts into the futures prop firm’s Live Funded Account structure after a fresh October 10 complaint…
An Orbit Funded trader is challenging the proprietary trading firm’s enforcement of its hedge-trading rules after claiming that some trades identified in a violation notice were separated by approximately 16…
GOAT Funded Trader has imposed a blanket ban on VPNs, VPSs, proxies and other hosted or routing services across all trading accounts, significantly tightening a policy that previously allowed some…
A FundingPips customer says a difference of just $7.07 between the equity captured by the prop firm’s risk system and the balance visible in MetaTrader 5 led to the permanent…
A FundingPips trader says the proprietary trading firm suspended a $10,000 Master Account for alleged copy trading shortly before the customer expected to become eligible for a second payout, raising…
An Equity Edge trader says an approved payout was subsequently treated as a loss in the firm’s account-risk calculations, causing the trading account to show as breached before support restored…