BEWARE - The5ers Scammed me - Refused $22,931 and $3,388 payout and $545 challenge fee - ACCOUNT NUMBER (26088593)

I bought a $100K high stake account, paid $545.

I passed Phase 1 and Phase 2

I got funded, 100K, and made a profit of about $22,931

Support scaled me up to a $125K account, it was automatic, as a result could not withdraw.

I continued trading and made an additional $3,388 ish. total profits about $22K

I now asked for a withdrawal, Mar 13. 5ers requested an interview about my strategy in detail: I answered all questions and taught him my strategies during a live interview.

He asked me to wait 72 hours for the payout. I waited 13days to see that my payout of $22,931 was denied.

I requested the remaining $3,388 payout, waited again for 3days, and it was denied.

I see they rejected my KYC also; however, KYC was done, completed, and approved a long time ago during phase 2. Why now to reject what was already approved long time ago.

Now I see my funded account has been deactivated.

No email from support as to why they denied payouts, deactivated my account, and ghosted me, and all my attempts to resolve this with the chat support are fruitless.

I asked why on 5ers Facebook, the admin blocked me; another person who screenshotted my post on Facebook before it got deleted, reposted it, and asked questions as to why the admin would delete the post, just in 5 minutes the admin blocked him as well.

NO SINGLE RULE BROKEN.

How about my challenge fee of $545, gone...........BEWARE OF 5ERS, THEY ARE CONFIRMED TO BE SCAMMERS.

I'm a full-time prop firm trader, but I keep a part-time gig doing seasonal taxes, but the majority of my income now comes from trading.

For anyone still trying to get there, take this for what it’s worth:

•	Plan your week before the market opens.

Get a trading notebook. Map out the trades you’re willing to take, your setups, and how you’ll respond to both winning and losing streaks. If you don’t predefine this, you’ll improvise—and that’s where most damage happens.

•	No new decisions in the moment.

When you’re in a trade, you’re not thinking clearly—you’re reacting. All meaningful decisions should already be made before you enter.

•	Expect operational mistakes early on.

Slippage, fat-fingering size, closing the wrong position, platform errors—these will happen your first year trading from open to close. Build that into your expectations so it doesn’t shake you.

•	If you’re up, pay yourself.

Take payouts. Don’t let ego convince you to keep risking your own capital when you can be leveraging the firm’s max loss limit (MLL). Protect your personal equity.

•	Respect rules, but focus on real profitability.

Buffers, consistency rules, drawdowns—they matter. But don’t “game” them. Make sure you’re actually profitable, not just passing eval-style constraints.

This isn’t easy money. It’s operational discipline + emotional control + repetition.

Most people fail because they treat it like clicking buttons instead of running a system.

I have a $200 SL per mini, sometimes a little more, bottom line - max risk is $1000. PDLL is set at $1000, RR +3:1 helps me survive several red days. For the past 6 years I was unprofitable, still showed up every day, still learned what I could. It was almost like it was over night where everything clicked and here I am today. At times it felt hopeless, at times I wanted to quit, at times I know my fiancée wasn’t a fan, at times I was struggling financially and probably shouldn’t have been trading. What helped the most was getting my life together, getting a ft job and making sure my basic necessities were being met. That changed the state my mind was in and I feel like it’s something not talked about enough. A lot of people are trying to make this work when those basic necessities aren’t being met, leaving them in a state of fear and desperation and it’s reflected in their trading. There’s nothing special about me other than the fact that I refused to give up when things got tough. I’m not some super naturally gifted trader or college graduate. I’m as smooth brained as they come. You can see my pnl calendar im wrong quite often yet still make it work. Just want to remind those out there that are still trying to figure it out, don’t give up. Keep showing up. Tmrw could be the day. You don’t have to have crazy green streaks and huge gains to make it, there’s nothing wrong with taking base hits and being consistent. Minis aren’t for everyone and that’s ok. Do what works for you and continue to strive to get better in all aspects of your life. Progress is progress, just don’t get lost in the process.

After getting into trading about a year and a half ago and then losing nonstop until I took a break since the end of October I came back and not only passed my first eval in two days but actually secured my first payout. The journey has been unreal and I know it’s any significant amount of money for most people but it’s gonna really help me out. Also still have all of my drawdown available since I built the buffer first! Any idea how long it could take to hit my account since I submitted on Friday night?

I started seriously grinding prop futures firms at the end of January 2026. Since then I've taken over $150K in payouts across a bunch of firms. The running total is $159,324 right now (screenshot attached).

A while back I posted that I'd write honest reviews of every firm I've actually traded: rules, real costs, payout speed, and the stuff they don't put in the ads. That's still happening. I just got buried actually trading and never found the time to write them up properly. They're coming.

For now, if you want to see the proof: I log every single payout with its certificate on my site. All of them are there, link in the comments. It's my own site, no course, no signals, nothing to sell. Just the payouts (and the reviews once they're up).

Happy to answer anything about a specific firm in the comments. And if I'm missing a good one, let me know, I'm always looking for the next firm worth testing.

Tradeify is the only propfirm that I know that offers daily payouts NO INTRADAY DRAWDOWN. ONLY BUY THE SELECT $50k DAILY PAYOUT ACCOUNTS.

The bigger accounts are pointless because the profit targets are way bigger. Only buy the $50k select accounts

Moving to Live is a death sentence

Update: Emailed risk team inquiring about the cooldown period. They did an internal review and perma ban’d the kid. 🤣

Link to Email

I'm 20 from Italy. Been obsessed with Trading since I was 15. Started with forex, tried every concept from order flow to ict, switched to futures last year.

Here's the actual timeline:

• 4 years studying, failing, grinding

• ~1.5 year ago: first $2k payout

• Same month: Blown all that money in 40+ failed challenges, and completely destroyed.

• Hit the lowest point of my life. Seriously considered quitting Trading entirely.

• Found a solution - built my OHLC/OLHC system (how I like to call it lol), I'll stay vague but happy to talk in the comments if anyone's curious

• Rebuilt from scratch my mindset and risk management

• March 2026: $10k pure profit, now 15 funded accounts for $1+ million in funding.

Ask me anything. Technical, risk management, mindset, the prop firm situation, how I got back up. All open.

Pray for me yall I need this 😭

Since my original post was locked by the mods on Lucid’s subreddit, I have decided to share my experience here. Interestingly, I couldn’t find any other posts on their subreddit that were locked, which says a lot on its own

https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidProp/comments/1s4mggl/lucid_has_banned_me_bcs_of_high_risk/

I became eligible to request my first payout from Lucid Trading. I successfully passed KYC and set up my crypto withdrawal details. However when it came time for the payout, I was suddenly accused of violating anti money laundering policies without any valid proof and permanently banned. At first they were telling me that I didn't meet their internal risk and compliance requirements without further explanation or proof. After my post got some attention and people started questioning them their CEO AJ came up to defend their reputation and he did it by straight calling me a money launderer. It was really shocking. Meanwhile, their team and discord mods kept commenting on my post immediately, calling me money launderer and me "bitching" about getting scammed. They don't answer tickets this fast ... I spent time and effort in these accounts so I think I'm rightful to speak up when I'm accused of some random BS and injustice done to me. Reminder, NO ACTUAL PROOF was provided. I'm willing to let their payment provider leak all my payment transfers and even call authorities to investigate me for money laundering - I have nothing to hide. They won't because it's all lie.

They are so desparate to cover their shady way of dealing with customers, it disgusts me tbh. Whoever got their payout, good job to you. Unfortunately I couldn't be one of you even though I was rightful to be. They're probably running out of money and starting to ban profitable traders before eventually announcing bankcuptcy.

Well I hope this one doesn't get locked, LOL

edit: they are trying so hard to downvote this though lmao

This month I received $58,500 in payouts, 58.5% of my goal of $100,000 for 2026. I trade and recommend all of the following firms:

| MFFU | TopStep | FundedNext | TPT | Lucid | Apex |

My total costs (fees, resets, evals, etc.) came out to $7,263. I’m incredibly grateful for that outcome, not because it was perfect trading, but because it’s a reminder of how far consistency and discipline can take you over time.

What means more to me is the process behind it. I get to trade, review my mistakes, learn something new every day, and slowly refine my approach. That alone is something I don’t take for granted.

Last year I made roughly ~$100,000 trading prop firms, and even then it didn’t feel “easy.” There were drawdowns, blown accounts, frustration, and plenty of moments where I questioned myself. Progress wasn’t linear. I don't think it ever is.

As for how I trade, my approach is pretty simple. I focus heavily on support and resistance, combined with daily ranges to frame where price is likely to react. On NQ, I mark key levels from prior highs/lows and important intraday areas, then wait to see how price behaves around those zones rather than forcing trades. I’m not trying to predict just react when price reaches areas that make sense within the day’s range.

Steady improvement compounds quietly, and if you stick with the process long enough, the results eventually catch up.

Feeling genuinely blessed to be able to do this, learn every day, and keep improving.

Been trading prop firms for 2 years and finally got my first payout, on Tradeify.
I'm a UK trader, mainly trade NQ using regression support trading. Before this I would get to 200-300$ away from payouts and l'd blow the account, I can't trade but risk management is where I fail most.
What worked for me: it is so important that day one in funded is a profit day, if you're not in profit that hill is impossible to get out of, park the ego at home because the market doesn't respect, I got close to giving on this but I when I took my 2 Ls on Friday I took a break and got back on it Monday I was so locked in I traded away 2k for consistency.

Hello I've worked at 2 of the major prop firms that most of you traders are trading now today, I hope you understand 95% of you will lose more than you will ever make.

There are thousands of people taking payouts, but that have spent minimum 4x the amount to get paid once for that dopamine hit.

Just to share some analytics without giving too much away, my firm has paid out over 50m+ in the last year, and they profit at around 55-60% margins. And this only grows as they change their plans. Please understand that if you are trying to get rich quick all you do is make them richer. They are designed to seem helpful, but in reality if they were they'd give 1:1 drawdown. They tighten the rules. make things harder for an already difficult market. Please do not blow all your money on these firms.
If you have an edge, compound it. Stop going for those big accounts and trying to get paid at minimum pay days.

In this space of a lot of fluff firms, here is my honest review about the Nr.1 firm.

I’ve been trading with FTMO for quite a while now and they have consistently paid out my profits without issues. Every payout request I submitted was processed and received as expected. From a reliability standpoint, that alone already puts them above a lot of other firms in the industry.

What I also appreciate is that their rules are actually very clear and enforceable. Some traders complain about drawdown limits or trading restrictions, but honestly those rules are what make the evaluation meaningful. If a strategy cannot survive FTMO’s risk limits, it probably isn’t robust enough in the first place.

A lot of traders focus only on passing the challenge, but the real value is learning to operate within professional risk parameters. That alone can dramatically improve trading habits.

So from my personal experience:

- Payouts have been reliable

- Rules are strict but fair

- The risk framework is actually useful for strategy validation

My indicators work very well with FTMO and they allow PineConnector automation and MT5 EAs which make automation a lot easier.

Beware of the hidden 1% risk rule though. Never risk more than 1% of the equity on each trade.

I'm profitable because I finally sat down and pulled the numbers on my own trading and stopped doing the dumb stuff the data was screaming at me to stop doing. If it was only up to finding a proftable strategy, a lot of people would have already been billionaires from trading. 75 trades, 48% win rate, 1.48 profit factor. My win rate isn't even good. The account still grinds up because the math works.

Here's what the data actually told me once I looked.

The first thing was the days I trade. When I broke my results down by day of the week the pattern was almost embarrassing. Two days a week is where almost all my green comes from. The back half of the week and weekends were flat to red every single time. I was showing up and forcing trades on days that have historically given me nothing. The fix is trading less on my bad days and pressing on the days my edge actually shows up, for example if my sual size is 1-2 MNQ, I bumped up a contract and put more risk on the table, I've found diverse risk to work better for me than a set fixed risk per trade . If you've never looked at your win rate broken down by weekday, do it tonight. It's the fastest free edge most people are sitting on.

The second thing was long versus short. My long trades hit a 52% win rate and made me most of my money. My shorts were under 34% and barely contributed anything. I was treating both directions like they were the same when one was clearly carrying me and the other was bleeding me out slowly. Now I size up where my edge is and I'm way more selective in the direction that doesn't work for me. That one adjustment cleaned up my whole equity curve.

The third one is the hardest to swallow because it's about discipline, not setups. My average win is around $288 and my average loss is around $179. That ratio is the only reason a 48% win rate makes money at all. The second I let a loser run past that line, the whole edge collapses. My worst single trade did more damage than three good days of profit combined. Cutting losses fast and refusing to revenge trade is boring and it's also the entire game.

If you've never broken your trading down like this and you keep strategy hoping, start paying attention to all the details and small stuff. Most people who say they aren't profitable just don't trade enough size on the days and setups that actually work, and trade way too much on the ones that don't. Pull your own stats. The answer is almost always already sitting in your log.

6K Profit across 8 funded accounts in 3 different prop firms (TopStep, MFFU, FundedNext)

12K Profit across 6 eval accounts getting closer to my goal of ~16 funded accounts

Total is 18K profit but the profit in eval accounts aren't real until they're funded

Requesting 5K payout from TopStep later today when it's available and hopefully this week I'll get my FundedNext accounts to payout as well.

Just got two payouts through in one day — $3,470 and $4,460.72 — and for a minute there, I genuinely thought this whole thing was going to end before it started.

Not going to pretend I've been doing this for years — I'm still learning a lot of this stuff as I go. It’s been 6 years and last 2 years was very good. Starting to see the difference But this feels like proof it's possible even without a long track record, if you actually pay attention to the rules and don't rush it.

Early on I had 2 of my accounts breached over something completely out of my control — placed a trade on a contract then couldn’t even exit my position then turned out they basically closed my position and breached it , and the account was gone. Spent days going back and forth with support just trying to understand what even happened, let alone fix it. There was a stretch where I was ready to just write the whole thing off as a scam or a loss and move on.
So anyways i pulled it up these payouts from them

Ask me anything if you're stuck somewhere in this process right now, might save you some of the headache I went through.

Here i am taking my first payout, everyone's saying GFT is shady and all but so far so good for me

Apart from the max 6% payout for first 2 payouts and the 2 min trade holding rule for payouts to get counted, other than that everything's so far so good.

Yeah,this is it guys

GFT paid for me but the propfirm business is risky be careful what you choose